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Dead Men Cannot Die
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John Fenn, Quantum Physics and Jesus, Are Thoughts Solid? #3
Hi all,
Continuing our discussion pondering if thoughts have substance. But to do so we must turn back to light - and Light.
God is light and there is no darkness in Him. God is love.
These
statements in I John 1:5 and 4:8 respectively are given as blank
statements. God is love and light, therefore love and light are
synonymous. Love brings light into any situation, any relationship, and
light (higher ways) bring love into any situation, any relationship.
James says it this way in 1:13,
16-18, warning people not to think his statement in v2-3 about counting
it all joy when troubles come says that God is doing it to them (no!):
"Do
not let anyone say when he is tested/tempted/tried that God is doing it
to him...Do not make a mistake beloved brethren: (Only) Every good and
perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no
variableness nor hint of turning. And of His own free will He birthed us
with the Word of truth that we should be a kind of first harvest of His
creation."
The alphabet of God
The
Spirit realm created the natural realm, which means the natural laws
are like letters in an alphabet to God. Think about how we use letters.
We use letters in an alphabet as containers of our thoughts, emotions,
and intentions of our heart. We form a thought, a motive, a plan, then
we use the letters to form those thoughts into something material -
words - and those words can then be made into something even more
substantive. Words are like blueprints - not the building itself, but
the plans for the building which can be seen. Letters are building
blocks.
That
is how the natural laws like gravity and light and energy and mass are
to God - they are His letters, His alphabet, which when properly
arranged form an ordered natural world. He planned the natural world and
us. He invented that alphabet of the natural laws, it came from His
mind, His imagination, and the exertion of His will. Then He spoke His
intentions into existence and the natural world was.
Therefore
light and love and life is the true and first substance. Light is a
process therefore, and as such can transfer energy - think about that
for a moment. Within the Bible's simple definition of God as Light and
Love we see in our modern studies of light, that light is substance,
light is a process, and light can transfer energy. The physical world is
a reflection of God's ways and being...amazing.
Our thoughts are after all, solid, substance, and have weight first in the spirit realm and then outward to the physical.
When
Paul said (as mentioned last week) that our inward man is renewed while
we look at the unseen eternal realm, that 'looking at' the unseen means
our thoughts 'look' towards the unseen, and that 'look' renews our
spirit man. Our thoughts when placed on the higher, transmit energy (for
lack of a better term) or Life into our spirit man to renew it. Our
thoughts do have substance, can be carriers of good and Life and Light.
Isiah
55:7-9 tell us God's ways and thoughts - thoughts - are higher than our
ways and thoughts. It is therefore revealed that God in the unseen
realm and moving according to higher ways and thoughts, when thinking of
creating something would just extend those higher ways downward so to
speak, to create the natural. That means the natural world is like a
mirror, as Paul said in Romans 1, that the invisible things of Him can
be clearly seen in creation.
There is One who is higher than thoughts of substance
Hebrews 4:12
has been studied extensively, by myself as well. I have a nice chart I
like to use showing a human heart with a sword dividing the heart in
half from top to bottom. Then I divide based on the grammar of the verse
the list it includes:
"The
Word of God is living and powerful and able to divide between soul and
spirit, joints and marrow, and discerns (critiques) the thought and
intentions of the heart."
If
you look at the list you find that soul, joints, and thoughts come
first and are therefore under one column, while spirit, marrow, and
intentions form the other column.
The
soul, the human source of will, intellect, emotion, is as a joint
linking two parts, the body and spirit. The spirit column includes the
marrow and motives. The marrow is where blood if manufactured in the
body - it is the core, the root, the source of life for the life is in
the blood - that is the human spirit. Together, spirit and soul make the
heart. In scripture you'll see verses using the word 'heart' and
depending on what the author is trying to say, that word can mean both
spirit and soul together, or just the spirit, or just the soul. Context
reveals the subtle differences.
And
many have been taught that Word of God - and by that most preachers
mean the written document that starts with Genesis and end with The
Revelation - the Bible, and many sermons have been preached telling how
the Word of God will critique your thoughts and motives...that's
great...except that isn't what the verse says. So you have to throw all
thet understanding out the window.
For
verse 13 makes it clear what the author meant by saying the Word of God
discerns/critiques the thoughts and intents of the heart: "Neither is
there any of creation that is not open to His sight, for all things are
naked and open before Him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we
have a great high priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son
of God..."
Hebrews 4:12
when speaking of the Word of God is talking about the Person called the
Word of God - the Lord Jesus - He is the one who bridges the gap
between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and critiques the thoughts
and intentions of the heart. Not the paper and ink, but the Person of
the Word.
So
when you look on a woman to lust, change that thought, that substance
to thinking of her as a creation of God who Jesus died for - and say a
prayer for her. When you want to be angry with someone without cause,
change that thought to love, that Jesus died for them and loves them in
spite of their nasty self. Pray for them. Jesus is looking, Jesus is
critiquing our thoughts and intents. Our job is to realize our thoughts
are equal to our actions, so the work of the Spirit is on our hearts, in
our thoughts, and that is how we renew the mind, how we change our
lives...
New subject next week...until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com
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There
is a common thread woven throughout the kingdom of God yet most
Christians have never heard of it. In fact any study of the kingdom of
heaven is incomplete and misses the point without it. This element of
kingdom culture permeates everything from ‘God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son’ to ‘Jesus…went about doing good and
healing all that were oppressed of the devil’ and all that Jesus did and
said. It is the way the Father is, the reason we love one another, the
reason we open our lives and homes to others, and even why we give to
others. This study will fill in some big blanks in your understanding of
the Father and the kingdom of heaven in many ‘oh that is why’ moments –
a must have!
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Sabtu, 17 Juni 2017
The Saints Conference
To the Saints Conference
July 20-23 Austin, Texas
Website for more information:
this would definitely benefit you and anyone you know who may be serious about the organic expression of the church.
I hope that you can make it and we can meet at the event!
you brother in our all glorious Lord,
Milt Rodriguez
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Kamis, 15 Juni 2017
New doors opening for LK10!
Imagine a church with the following characteristics:
Go to LK10 Website
- A vibrant small-group ministry that includes hundreds of active participants, where members gather in each others' homes weekly to build each other up, challenge each other, and listen to the Lord on each others' behalf.
- Holistic training and support for the volunteer leaders, to the point where it is normal for these leaders to believe that their relationship with Jesus and the church is better because of volunteer work in the church.
- Almost 600 people receiving the message of this church on a weekly basis, being encouraged by the stories and experiences of others in the church while also being challenged to more deeply engage in their own faith.
What would you guess the annual operating budget of that church is? One million dollars? Two-million? More?
Try $90,000. Welcome to the LK10 community.
Try $90,000. Welcome to the LK10 community.
Since
it's inception almost 10 years ago, the LK10 Community has experienced
steady growth. With new doors opening all the time, we recently found
it necessary to hire three people part time in order to capitalize on
these opportunities. In this video, John White (Team Leader) and Jim Mellon (CFO), explain these exciting developments. (See below the video for more details.)
As the result of a generous grant, we have been able to hire three members of the LK10 community part-time to help the organization grow in more intensive ways:
1. Kent Smith is wearing several hats for the organization. First, curriculum. Kent is helping with the research and development team as they begin the revamp of Leader 101, while working with Laura and Rosten Callarman to rebuild Church 101 for college freshman/sophomore, and is in the beginning stages of developing what he calls "Life Together 101." Second, broader partnerships. Kent has started liaising between LK10 and several larger organizations that are interested in partnering with LK10, which has the potential to bring the LK10 practices to an exponentially increasing number of people who are connected to these groups. This includes taking a variety of denominational/organizational leaders and missionaries (in places like Chicago, Philadelphia, Hawaii, and more) through the LK10 materials.
2. Hilary Klein, Church 101 Coordinator. Interest in Church 101 is exploding. Just since the first of the year, more than 50 people or groups have signed up on the LK10 website for the Course. Hilary has played a key role in sending out the Lessons, answering questions, and praying for these new folks that are diving in to the LK10 way of life.
3. Rosten Callarman, Communications Coordinator. The articles and videos in our newsletter tell the story of the LK10 community. In a community that is so focused on experimentation and following God's lead, exciting stories are always popping up, and our hope is that these stories will inspire more joyful experimentation. Our newsletter currently reaches almost 600 subscribers, and the Facebook group is up to almost 100 members.
So, we need your help! The grant we received will pay part time salaries for these people through the summer. But, by the end of the summer we need monthly commitments of $2000. Would you consider a monthly commitment of $50 or $100 or more to keep these vital ministries going? Obviously, any amount helps, so if you don't have $50, $25 per month is great. If you don't have $25, $10 helps. We aren't asking you to be richer than you are or to give money that you don't have...we're asking you to ask God what God wants you to give, and then to follow God's desires.
Regardless of how much you're able to offer, keep in mind how small our operating budget is (see 3:20 in the video). When you donate to LK10, your money is going directly into building the capacity of the organization to reach more people and support a broader network. If you are feeling led to make a monthly or one-time donation, see the instructions in the right margin for details on how to contribute. Thank you!
P.S. As a bonus, check out from 4:00 to 4:10 on the video for one of the best/worst puns I've heard in a long time.
As the result of a generous grant, we have been able to hire three members of the LK10 community part-time to help the organization grow in more intensive ways:
1. Kent Smith is wearing several hats for the organization. First, curriculum. Kent is helping with the research and development team as they begin the revamp of Leader 101, while working with Laura and Rosten Callarman to rebuild Church 101 for college freshman/sophomore, and is in the beginning stages of developing what he calls "Life Together 101." Second, broader partnerships. Kent has started liaising between LK10 and several larger organizations that are interested in partnering with LK10, which has the potential to bring the LK10 practices to an exponentially increasing number of people who are connected to these groups. This includes taking a variety of denominational/organizational leaders and missionaries (in places like Chicago, Philadelphia, Hawaii, and more) through the LK10 materials.
2. Hilary Klein, Church 101 Coordinator. Interest in Church 101 is exploding. Just since the first of the year, more than 50 people or groups have signed up on the LK10 website for the Course. Hilary has played a key role in sending out the Lessons, answering questions, and praying for these new folks that are diving in to the LK10 way of life.
3. Rosten Callarman, Communications Coordinator. The articles and videos in our newsletter tell the story of the LK10 community. In a community that is so focused on experimentation and following God's lead, exciting stories are always popping up, and our hope is that these stories will inspire more joyful experimentation. Our newsletter currently reaches almost 600 subscribers, and the Facebook group is up to almost 100 members.
So, we need your help! The grant we received will pay part time salaries for these people through the summer. But, by the end of the summer we need monthly commitments of $2000. Would you consider a monthly commitment of $50 or $100 or more to keep these vital ministries going? Obviously, any amount helps, so if you don't have $50, $25 per month is great. If you don't have $25, $10 helps. We aren't asking you to be richer than you are or to give money that you don't have...we're asking you to ask God what God wants you to give, and then to follow God's desires.
Regardless of how much you're able to offer, keep in mind how small our operating budget is (see 3:20 in the video). When you donate to LK10, your money is going directly into building the capacity of the organization to reach more people and support a broader network. If you are feeling led to make a monthly or one-time donation, see the instructions in the right margin for details on how to contribute. Thank you!
P.S. As a bonus, check out from 4:00 to 4:10 on the video for one of the best/worst puns I've heard in a long time.
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John Fenn, Quantum Physics and Jesus, Are Thoughts Solid? #2
Hi all,
I ended last week asking the question:
Do thoughts have mass?
Scripture
is full of references linking the spirit realm to the natural realm,
perhaps the most definitive statement is from Hebrews 11:3:
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were made by things which are not seen."
Things
seen were made by "things that aren't seen" means 'things' exist in
that realm: The spirit/Spirit realm DOES have mass, meaning our thoughts
and motives do too...
The
Greek word 'framed' in the King James Version of the English Bible is
in Greek, 'katartizo', meaning to frame, to knit together, to prepare,
to form - in other words all the seen universe and how it all works
together from gravity to molecular and nuclear laws of physics, to the
turning of the seasons to creation of the basic elements, all started in
the invisible realm of the spirit, and more precisely, Spirit. The
Person of the Word, Christ Jesus, framed the universe.
The example I use of teamwork between the Father, the outflow of His Spirit who Jesus said 'proceeds from the Father' in John 15:26,
and the Son is this: The Father decides the car needs washed, so
delegates that job to the son, who uses water to wash the car. We can
say the Father did it, but he was more the planner, while the son did
the work. And yet the agent that actually cleaned the car was the water.
That is a snapshot of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
"God
(Father) who in times past spoke in many different ways to the fathers
through the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,
whom He appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds." The Father used the Son to make the worlds. (Worlds is also translated 'universe', and 'ages' or epochs of time)
While we outwardly age, inwardly we become more vibrantly alive
"....though
our outward man perishes, our inward man is renewed day by day...while
we look not at the things which are seen, but at the unseen. For the
things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are eternal." II
Corinthians 4:16-18
How
do we go through life looking at the unseen? We then are a bridge
between the unseen spirit realm which renews and strengthens our spirit
man, and the natural world which causes our bodies to age and decay. It
is the spirit of man which has been recreated by the Holy Spirit that
bridges that gap between the unseen and the seen, and as we dwell on the
things of the spirit/Spirit, we are inwardly renewed. It is a bit of a
paradox, that outwardly I am aging and going the way of the earth, yet
inwardly I am more strong, more virile, more alive now than I was when I
first came to the Lord over 43 years ago.
Somehow
that life in the Spirit realm has substance that affects this realm.
Somehow spiritual thoughts have the ability to create things in this
lower realm of creation.
I
can say this but it is merely a thought, an idea, an observation. But
when I was given a tour of heaven I came away under the impression that
the molecular structure of heaven functions at a much higher rate than
molecules on earth. I would be compare it to a helicopter idling as the
blades move slowly around, which is like earth's molecules, versus when
the helicopter is taking off and the blades move very quickly which
lifts it off the ground - which is what heaven's speed is like compared
to earth (My observation, I have no way of proving it)
Knowing that which is beyond knowing
In
Ephesians 3:17-19 Paul says that he is praying for them, and that if
they are rooted and grounded in unconditional love (agape') they will be
able to comprehend and to know the love of Christ which is beyond knowledge. How can a person know something that is beyond knowing?
He
is talking about knowing Him in your spirit and knowing His great love
for you, which cannot be comprehended in the mere mental realm of the
brain.
'Mental'
or 'cerebral' Christians will never know His love until and unless they
learn to be in touch with and flow from their spirit. They will never
experience the feeling of His love, for God is a Spirit, not a brain.
People who keep God in the brain don't know how to flow or even be in
touch with their spirit man, and therefore have great difficulty quite
often praying in tongues - they operate from the brain, not the spirit.
He flows out of the spirit to this natural realm, that is the bridge.
Without
a doubt the greatest bridge between the unseen spirit realm and this
realm is the person of Jesus Christ - all man, all God. Hebrews 1:3 says
it this way:
"Who,
being the brightness of His (Father's) glory, and the exact
representation of His (Father's) image, and uphold all things by the
Word of His (Father's) power, when He had by Himself purged our sins..."
"Have I been such a long time with you Philip and you don't know: If
you have seen me you have seen the Father." John 14:9
Science says...
In
the natural our thoughts are nothing more than neural pathways in the
brain, having no more mass nor substance than the electrical and
chemical impulses that already exist in the brain. Thoughts are nothing
more than electrical and chemical arrangements in the brain. Yet those
thoughts manifest in action, which are quite solid. From thoughts come
plans, buildings are designed and constructed, relationships begin and
end - all that our lives are started in the thought processes.
We
go back to our discussion of light and quantum physics, for God is
light, and His thoughts are light, which carry good thoughts and plans
for us that flow into our spirit and then upward to our soul and out to
our bodies and physical world...and I've run out of room for today.
Until next week, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com
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In
English and other languages we read in the Psalms and Prophets words
like 'bless', 'thanks', and 'praise' and we group them all together. But
in the original Hebrew the authors used very specific words. For
instance, some words specify kneeling, others shouting, others praise with
the extended hand, and another with accompaniment by a stringed
instrument, and many more. This series studies many of the Psalms and
prophets in their context, understood as they were written, with these
very specific words reflecting and in some cases, instructing us who to
offer worship and praise to the Lord. You'll never read familiar Psalms
the same way again, and by following the author's intent, you can
greatly enhance your own worship and time with the Lord!
Just a word about our On-line Video Bible School
- these classes, so far; Old Testament I & II, Righteousness and
Our Authority in Christ - are a go-at-your-own-pace, no test, investment
in your own faith and understanding of the Word and Lord. Once
registered, your password is good for a whole year so you can take your
time, but as I'm hearing from students, once they start they have a hard
time stopping! Each class is about 45-55 minutes long, so they are in
easy to receive segments...consider investing in a deeper study of the
things of God!
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