Only One Boat Out of Here

Just as Noah's boat had three stories/decks salvation has three distinct phases in 1 John 2.
It was NEVER MEANT to be a one or two level gospel.
Or to be more specific, thinking back to Noah...
YOUR ONLY ESCAPE ON PLANET EARTH (OR ELSE YOU DROWN) IS A THREE STOREY BOAT.
PERIOD.
Nothing else works.
We are not meant to be in the independent self at all.
Not a smidgen.
Because we have remaining "independent self" bits, the fruit is the 30,000 denominations in America.
ONLY the independent self is divided.
GOD IS ONE.
THE THIRDLEVEL IS ONE THING
There are no 12 tribes shewbread in the Holiest Place
ONLY ONE JESUS
Head and Body.
We DON'T enter into a theology course to get it, because theology courses are leftbrain affairs and leftbrains cannot handle what THEY CALL PARADOX
Do you know that in the Spirit there is no PARADOX
ONLY ONE DOX AT ALL
Spirit is its own doctrine.
On earth it looks like a whole series of opposites as described in Ecclesiastes....there is a time for...and a time for.....
But in the Spirit it is not divided. It's all pure Spirit.
It doesn't need defending.
How do we tell an immature person?
They are still leftbrain locked.
You say FREE WILL and they SAY sovereignty of God
You say Sovereignty of God and they say FREE WILL.
Their politics is one sided.....Labour Conservative
Republican Democrat
Imagine going into a traditional house before women worked.
Who do you support the man? the means of earning wealth and production?
Or the one who distributes the wealth so that people are cared for and needs are met?
Chris I support the woman.
Chris I support the man, down with the woman
This is the sort of rubbish leftbrain stupidity we live in continually.
WE ARE NOT MEANT TO BE LEFT OR RIGHT BRAIN WE ARE MEANT TO BE BALANCE BRAIN
WE ARE MEANT TO KNOW GOD IN THE SPIRIT AND BE ABLE TO ARTICULATE WELL WITH OUR TINY LEFTBRAIN SHRIVELLED FRONT CORTEX BY WHICH WE SPEAK....
WE ARE MEANT TO BE THIRD LEVEL BY THE TIME WE ARE 30 LIKE JESUS WAS.
WE ARE MEANT TO BRING UP OUR KIDS LIKE ABRAHAM...
talking at all times of the day, sharing our own thirdlevel life in their context as they are growing up.
Because people only come to Christ late
Because many never even get baptised in the Spirit
Because those that do are like the tribe of Dan and never ever relinquish the devilish hold of their leftbrain....
we get malformed adults trying to educate kids using LAW to try to bring them into maturity.
By the teenage they have seen through our emptiness and then have the long struggle of having to find out most of it from scratch again whereas if they were brought up in thirdlevel communities
well as we see with most fabulous singers like Whitney Houston and Mavis Staples and Elvis......all raised in pentecostalism....
AT LEAST THEY WILL SING WELL
But by 20 they will be well through the young man phase which is learning Spirit flow in their own lives and well through confronting Romans 6 and 7 in their lives so that by 30 like Jesus they are grounded in consciousness.
INstead we don't get fathered at all.
Rothschild has arranged for them to be absent
Now the mothers too.
In Germany they used to start kids at school at age 7 and we in the UK thought they were a backward nation.
Excuse me Britain
Which nation has produced the greatest number of genius musicians and philosophers and engineers and scientists?
In Germany engineering is so revered you actually get paid a living wage!!!!!
Please please hear me
Secularism is crap because they don't recognise spirit.
Buddhism is crap because otherwise they would be a unified set of people by now.
Zero level Christianity (Christianity without the living Christ inside them) is crap.
First level (Evangelical )Christianity never moves an inch from the tiny leftbrain front cortex, so can never make a whole human being It is crap.
Secondlevel Christianity is great until you are a teenager, but as Maslow's Developmental Laws show, as M Scott Peck's Psychological stages of growth show, as 20th century Christianity shows......stop there in the 1 John 2 young man stage and you have a half built tower, only fit for the world to laugh......although they do like the Black gospel choirs!!!
BUT NO....HUMANS DON'T STOP AT TEENAGE SO WHY SHOULD BORN AGAINS STOP AT LEVEL 2. THIS SORT OF CHRISTIANITY DOESN'T FULLY WORK EITHER.
THE ONLY Christianity that works is the one a thirty year old taught having learned His Father consciousness as a carpenter......and AS HE IS SO ARE WE IN THE EARTH....
Only because there are more of us
And because He was promoted to Lord of the whole Universe
WE GET TO DO GREATER THINGS NOW.
THERE IS ONLY ONE BOAT OUT OF HERE AND IT HAS THREE STORIES. Exactly what do you think you are playing at people?????

The Aliens Have Landed by Ralph Harris

“Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.” (1 Peter 2:11)

God’s purpose for our Christian kids is far greater than whether they get along in class, do well in school, find good jobs, or become upstanding citizens in a world in need of role models. Because His purpose and plan is much higher than those things, he has already changed them. They won’t “get there” sometime after middle school, high school, or college—they’ve already arrived! And they’re in a nasty, very confusing storm. By His grace and through the truth, our daughters will know the nature of the storm in which they live. Your kids should too.

Our kids are aliens (John 17:16; 1 Peter 2:11). That is an incredible fact, and it’s going to hurt, which is why they have a built-in need for us. Intimacy with my daughters does not come from the daily Bible-teaching I’m supposed to do with them, and it does not come out of any moral instruction I may have for them either. I achieve intimacy with them by sharing in their uncomfortable and impossible fit in this world. I know the terrible struggle, I know the tempting lure, and now they do too.

It hurts. But the pain keeps us from depending on the false comforts and techniques of this world that would cover up and diminish our “alienness.” Knowing why our fit in this world hurts makes the pain understandable and perhaps tolerable. The pain Sarah and I have is the very same pain Ellen and Emma have, and it’s there for a reason. When I forget who I am, that pain eventually gets my attention so that I repent and go back to God for a reminder.

I can’t simply treat my kids as God would. I must think of my kids as God does. When I see what He sees, I fit with Him and feel it! When I do not, I give Him some work to do—on me. Our Christian children are aliens, and we live together in a land that’s not our own. If we can get that, our approach to them will be vastly different and uniquely invigorating, and it will keep us living on the edge of the visible world and invisible. And for us, that’s pretty normal.

The devil wants our “alienness” to seem impractical. If we fall for that, we will remain undetected to ourselves, deceived from knowing how incredible and valuable we are. That’s the scheme against us and our children. As soon as we’re born again, our new identity marks us for the grace of God, but it also marks us as targets for the enemy—and he is merciless. The best strategy of the devil is the one least noticeable, the one which slowly ensnares its victim. It’s even better if the victim likes the fit.

While the Holy Spirit, Sarah, and I work to raise our girls in the knowledge of God so they can really live, there is a carnival of activity vying for their attention and allegiance. The big attractions are which television shows to watch, which fashions to wear, which recreational activities to choose, which cell phones to have, which foods to eat, and which boys to like. That’s because visible life all around them demands their attention.

The more opinionated my girls become about visible life, the less opinionated they become about invisible life. The more Ellen and Emma grow passionate about how to clothe themselves, the less they care about the clothing they have already in Christ (see Galatians 3:26-29). The more engrossed they become in what makes up the right boy, the right food, and the right cell phone to have, the more deeply they dive into the pursuit of trivial nobility (Chapter 2). That’s the snare. If the visible world becomes my girl’s dominant passion-lighter of life, they will exchange true life for a fake. And the cover-up will be complete. Getting them to make the proper exchange later can prove terribly difficult because their expectations will have been lowered. They will try to appease their appetite for the bread of life by stuffing themselves with bread that does not satisfy. I have; haven’t you?

We won’t win by dressing them in frumpy duds, forbidding them to like boys, or throwing the television into the trash. We believe we are working in concert with the Spirit when we are building them up in Christ by reminding them who they are and pointing out what friction with this world really means. They are incredible aliens! We don’t want that covered up. They’re not only human—they’re alien. It takes discipline to remember their “alienness” because the devil daily lies to them about their identity.

(Excerpted from my book, “God’s Astounding Opinion of You,” chapter 12: “Aliens Have Landed—The Proper Care and Feeding of the Everyday Foreigners in Your Family. For more information and to read reviews by Steve McVey, Andrew Farley, David Gregory, Malcolm Smith and more, go to http://lifecourse.org/Ralphs_Book.html, to amazon.com, or you can find it at your local bookstore.)