Yet you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that God's spirit is making its home in you. Now if anyone has not Christ's spirit, this one is not His.
Paul to the Romans 8: 9, Concordant New Testament
There has been a big push in recent years for people to find out who they are. Someone might identify as one of the opposite sex while another might identify as someone of a different race entirely. There have even been those who have found their identity in different animals. Well, let me present a little bit of truth into this conversation shall we. Wishing something were true DOES NOT mean that it is. Just because you now see yourself as someone of a different sex, you're physical attributes betray who you think you are. For those who are in the know, the Lord created mankind in His own image {Genesis 1:27}. But He didn't stop there, God also formed our flesh body from the dust of the ground and breathed into man the breath of life and the flesh became a living soul {Genesis 2:7}. However, I understand that not everyone sees things from the way they were originally meant to be. I understand that there are those whose eyes have been blinded by the lies of the accuser. I get it. For it is Satan himself who spoke the lie unto Eve in the garden. Adam and Eve knew that eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was forbidden, yet Satan managed to convince them otherwise. The accuser claimed that were they to eat of the forbidden tree that they "Will not surely die" as the Lord had promised {Genesis 3:4}. On the contrary, Satan claimed that were they to eat of the tree, that "Your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" {Genesis 3:5-6}. The rest, as they say, is history. Satan has successfully introduced the lie into Gods children that we can be independent of the Lord. This is, of course, ridiculous thinking. But the mainstream church has taken to speaking this separation lie for thousands of years. Being like God. Getting closer to Jesus. It's all the same lie spoken by the accuser. But here is my question, how is it that one who has ALWAYS had the Father in them suddenly be without Him? It is a well known fact that God never changes {Malachi 3:6}. God is where He has always been, in us. We are the ones who have chosen to identify as someone different.
There is no independent, self-operating self in the universe, except for the One who calls Himself the I AM {Exodus 3:14} and says, "I am the Lord and there is none else, there is no God beside Me" {Isaiah 45:5}.
Norman Grubb ~ No Independent Self
So, who is it that you choose to identify as? Are you a biological man choosing to identify as a woman? Are you an African American choosing now to identify as a different race? Well tell me, how's that working out for you? It is painfully obvious that simply being a man dressing as a woman DOES NOT make you female. Also, believing that you are your own individual does not make it true. You have been created in the Lords image, and that image is not the image which we look upon in the mirror each day. You were created in the Fathers spirit image, that is who you truly are. No woke liberal thinking will ever change that. Remember, God does not change. It might be difficult for many people to accept, but you have been living a lie. Until I came to know the truth of Christ Jesus in me, I lived that very same lie. I saw God as being far away from where I was. I grew up a believer believing the lie which had been taught to me. That is, that as a sinner I could never be close to God. Yet what I failed to comprehend was that through Christ Jesus on the cross my sins was no more. It is Jesus who Himself became sin that it would be nullified {Paul to the Corinthians(2) 5:21}. Jesus took upon Himself the sin of the entire world and put it to death {Paul to the Romans 6:10}. No matter how much we want to believe in the lie of Satan, we cannot escape the truth of who we are.
For the One not knowing sin, He makes to be a sin offering for our sakes that we may be becoming God's righteousness in Him.
Paul to the Corinthians (2) 5: 21, Concordant New Testament
~Scott~
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