Sanctification and spiritual warfare 3

There are three ways a regenerate Christian provokes spiritual warfare:

1. Engaging the Word of God in a real way, and separating yourself unto it (i.e. taking nothing more seriously than the commands and teachings of Jesus Christ).

2. Being filled with the Holy Spirit.

3. Fearing only God. (Fearing/reverencing only God, and hence not fearing/reverencing man).

What church Christianity - churchianity - doesn't know is all three of these things involve energy. A unique energy that comes from God. The flesh wars with the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not an 'energy', but the Holy Spirit gives energy. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit it is an influence, a level of impressions, that comes from the third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. You are a temple of the Holy Spirit once regenerated, but as a temple you are developing. It is possible for you to grieve the Holy Spirit. That happens when you use His energy to fuel features of the Old Man within you. Resentment, violence, depression, etc. Justified by vanity, worldly pride, and rebellious self-will. When the flesh wars with the Spirit the flesh uses the Spirit that is in you for indulging these lower things.

Struggling against this is spiritual warfare in yourself. You don't learn of it "in seminary." You don't learn of it in Village of Morality churches. You don't learn of it at "conferences" or on "ministry cruises." You learn of it by doing it; and until then you're worthless to God.

Of the three things listed above the second is most confusing to Christians. They've been burned the most on that one. Though the first one is considered by them to be 'not good form' all on their own. "Read the actual Bible complete? What? What are you, a Protestant or something?" Yeah, an old time Protestant, unlike all you modern day establishment Protestants who look and act more like Roman Catholics. But even you churchians who consider yourselves actual Protestants don't actually read your Bibles complete. And not humbly. Even when you affect to value the Word of God it's the defiled manuscripts your friends the atheists and spiritualists of the 19th century gave you allowing you to dictate to God and His Word just what it will be and mean. No, get the whole and pure Word of God - the Traditional Text in a literal translation (Geneva, or, better, the AV1611, expand your vocabulary if you have to, pilgrims) - and engage it humbly as if it is something above you. And stay away from asinine scholars with shallow degrees from modern day seminaries that are worth about 1/80th what an education the original Reformers (and translators) had.

If you don't know how many times you've read the Word of God complete, Genesis through Revelation - if any times - then you aren't serious about the faith.

The second thing listed above, as stated, really confuses (and angers, for various reasons) church Christians. You've either been burned by fools and devils in churches on the subject of being filled with the Holy Spirit or you've mocked them for good reasons. Meanwhile you miss all the truth in the subject. If you're not actively being filled with - accumulating - the Spirit you are not doing anything as a Christian. You're a still pool of water, dead and poisoned. (You'll justify your lack of activity in this area by throwing it all on your 'sacraments.' Yes, your baptism - which happened, what...once? - and your 'Lord's Supper' that asinine ritual where you drink from little plastic cups of grape juice and eat little crackers, all in the presence of a cleric who is pretending he knows what is happening while at the same time not wanting to come across like a priest engaging in priestcraft. Please stop engaging in and infecting others with this asinine behaviour. Really. If anything have a feast with wine and bread included. Put the clerics in a high chair is they insist on being singled out. Just throw the pagan ritual in the garbage can, once and for all. You picked it up from your Papist forebears (who you've never quite completely separated from).

You accumulate - you are filled with - the Spirit by prayer, meditation, reading the Word of God, and engaging in watchfulness, in real time, for duration, depth, and frequency. Based on having the basic level of internal presence every Christian should have. Think of that basic internal presence as the 'I', or the you that is realized when you pray to God, if you pray to God.

You then contain the Spirit within you and are able to use it by fearing only God. When the world, the flesh, and the devil demands that you fear man and get lost in the illusions and demands of the devil's kingdom and indulge all the features and desires of the devil inside you you have to stand your ground and fear only God. Otherwise the Spirit in you is wasted by being used and defiled by these lower aspects of your internal being. If you're not busy getting angry and resentful and indignant and violent on the one hand you lose it by being in a constant state of wide-eyed fascination with the illusions and shiny lights and objects of the devil's kingdom of death on the other.

The fear of God is a state. It makes you contained. It gives you a boundary [look at diagram 3 linked in the right hand margin].

This accumulating and containing of energy, of the Spirit, is how you provoke your limits and then struggle to extend your limits for being able to glorify God. This is spiritual warfare. Whether with yourself, the world, or the devil himself (or any two or all three at the same time). Ultimately you learn to use God's will in this struggle rather than self-will. This is active, progressive sanctification. It is taught in the New Testament. Don't allow churchianity and it's man-fearing leaders and followers to draw you into their Village of Morality where no real Christian resides. Avoid establishment Christianity whatever name it is going by. Avoid formalism, moralism, ritualsim, and clericalism. Read the Word of God, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and fear only God. You'll be in a war, but it is only by being in that war that you can develop as a Christian and glorify God to ever greater degree.