Everything within the Word originates directly from the Lord and, therefore, embodies Him as the Divine proceeding, Holy Spirit. This imbues the Text with a structure in which every level perfectly corresponds to heavenly realities. It provides representative vessels in the form of concepts and imagery which, when absorbed into the mind, offer a space into which the Holy Spirit can be received and the Lord made known.
This 3-part series explores the concepts of our willingness to lay down our perceived sense of self and to work with the Word as the Lord Himself, so that He might restructure, and recreate us into something new. So that our patterns of thinking and feeling might be formed into something heavenly and that what is opposed to this might move from centre stage.
“Creation is constant coming into being”. The implications of this law for our sense of self is that it is continually being re-created from moment to moment. We explore the means provided by the Lord to bring about this rebirth as we look at an exchange between Jesus and Nicodemus.
Everything in the Word describes
living realities which are continually being played out within every human mind. These have little to do with the actual historical figures and settings. These merely serve as a covering that can both conceal and reveal the regenerative processes within. A deeper look into the transfiguration story.
If we are to experience the transforming power of the Word then the Son of Man must be elevated in our life as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. An exploration into what lifting up the Son of Man looks like in terms of its practical application for our spiritual work.
We tend to think that because the thoughts and feelings we experience are in our mind, that they are in us, or a part of us, or come from us. The Word teaches us that all things flow in but that the issue lies with what we have taken into our life as our own.
