Part 2 - The Sermon on the Mount Part Two
There is Kingdom Law which is; whatsoever you strongly desire you will attract to yourself.
The law of attraction is a powerful and daunting law. What you focus upon you will eventually connect with; this is a law of the kingdom. Now, this law has far reaching consequences because the connection you make in the course of what you focus upon is a spiritual connection, you connect with the power behind the object of your focus.
Jesus is saying if you are to be filled with righteousness you have to hunger for it.
If you hunger to be like Jesus you will become like Him. This highlights this Kingdom Law
This
passage of scripture is speaking about those who make Idols, what their
focus was upon determined what and who they became like.
Satan is very aware of this law of attraction with its subsequent power to conform one to into the object of ones focus.
Most of the video games today have a frightening content of violence in them, behind most of these games is a spirit of violence that is just waiting for the player to reach a certain level of absorption in the game, this spirit can at a certain point move into them and from that point on it begins to conform the person to its nature i.e. violence. Whether the player is a Christian or not makes no difference at all. This law of attraction with its consequences is totally impartial.
This law on the negative side is also very apparent in the world of materialism. Advertising agencies know quite well that if they can get you to focus upon a certain consumer item such as cars, clothes, electronic equipment etc, you will be attracted to them. If this attraction becomes a strong desire the spirit realm becomes active in it.
The New Age Movement
The New Age movement spirituality, is basically a combination of Witchcraft and Hinduism packaged in such a away that it is attractive to many westerners. The New Age Movement understands the Law of Attraction better than most Christians. They use quite successfully the practice of focusing in to make a connection with the object of their focus. Many courses on achieving ones goals use this technique. This often goes by the name of visualization, the new age movement lifted this directly from the bible.
Understanding the Difference
We need to understand the difference between New Age practice and Christian practice. We need to mature in our thinking and concepts regarding the practices of the New Age movement. Just because the New Age movement practices certain things does not mean the Christians should not practice the same things. Now before your blood pressure rises and you condemn me to the ranks of the deceived, let me explain.
The New Age movement practices healing the sick, should we stop doing this because the New Age people do it? They also practice the casting out of demons, they operate in giving readings or prophetic words, and the list goes on. You say, yes but they are using the counterfeit! This is true but a counterfeit necessitates the existence if the real thing.
The difference is clearly in what spirit these things are done in. Visualization is clearly endorsed in the scriptures.
When God gave to Abraham the promise that his seed would become so numerous that it would be hard to visualize, so God gave him a visual reference.
Abraham was given a visual reference that would help incubate his faith into reality.
Every time Abraham went outside of his tent at night he was confronted with a dazzling array of stars and in every star he saw one of his descendants.
Hebrews 2:12 tells of that we are to look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.
How do we do that? Well firstly we must not fall into the most common trap of the enemy in spiritualizing everything we don?t understand. Looking unto Jesus means Just that, we are to look at Him.
Note what Paul said in 2 Cor 4:18.
How
do you look at something you can't see? Well you do so by using the
eyes of the heart. If I asked you to close your eyes now and visualize
the house you live from the front street, you can do that, how/by simply
using the eyes of your heart, by visualizing it. How do you look at
Jesus? Simply by using the eyes of your heart.
Imagination is an incredible gift of God which we use often unconsciously continually through out the day.
If
you hunger for righteousness ( to be like Jesus) if your focus is to be
like the Lord and this focus becomes a strong desire, change will occur
in you as the law of attraction comes into play and you connect with
the object of your desire, triggering an impartation of the Lord. This
impartation causes you to become more like Him who is righteous.
This process is one of grace which is triggered by strong desire and clear focus.
True righteousness is the Lords righteousness imparted to us by continuous conscious connections with Him, it is not of works. Remember who you associate with you become like.
Who have you been with today?
God Bless you
N Johnson © 2005
| Matthew 5:6 | Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled |
The law of attraction is a powerful and daunting law. What you focus upon you will eventually connect with; this is a law of the kingdom. Now, this law has far reaching consequences because the connection you make in the course of what you focus upon is a spiritual connection, you connect with the power behind the object of your focus.
Jesus is saying if you are to be filled with righteousness you have to hunger for it.
If you hunger to be like Jesus you will become like Him. This highlights this Kingdom Law
| Mark 11:24 | Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. |
| Psalms 115:8 | They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. |
| Proverbs 23:7a | For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: |
Most of the video games today have a frightening content of violence in them, behind most of these games is a spirit of violence that is just waiting for the player to reach a certain level of absorption in the game, this spirit can at a certain point move into them and from that point on it begins to conform the person to its nature i.e. violence. Whether the player is a Christian or not makes no difference at all. This law of attraction with its consequences is totally impartial.
This law on the negative side is also very apparent in the world of materialism. Advertising agencies know quite well that if they can get you to focus upon a certain consumer item such as cars, clothes, electronic equipment etc, you will be attracted to them. If this attraction becomes a strong desire the spirit realm becomes active in it.
The New Age Movement
The New Age movement spirituality, is basically a combination of Witchcraft and Hinduism packaged in such a away that it is attractive to many westerners. The New Age Movement understands the Law of Attraction better than most Christians. They use quite successfully the practice of focusing in to make a connection with the object of their focus. Many courses on achieving ones goals use this technique. This often goes by the name of visualization, the new age movement lifted this directly from the bible.
Understanding the Difference
We need to understand the difference between New Age practice and Christian practice. We need to mature in our thinking and concepts regarding the practices of the New Age movement. Just because the New Age movement practices certain things does not mean the Christians should not practice the same things. Now before your blood pressure rises and you condemn me to the ranks of the deceived, let me explain.
The New Age movement practices healing the sick, should we stop doing this because the New Age people do it? They also practice the casting out of demons, they operate in giving readings or prophetic words, and the list goes on. You say, yes but they are using the counterfeit! This is true but a counterfeit necessitates the existence if the real thing.
The difference is clearly in what spirit these things are done in. Visualization is clearly endorsed in the scriptures.
When God gave to Abraham the promise that his seed would become so numerous that it would be hard to visualize, so God gave him a visual reference.
| Genesis 26:4 | And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; |
Every time Abraham went outside of his tent at night he was confronted with a dazzling array of stars and in every star he saw one of his descendants.
Hebrews 2:12 tells of that we are to look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.
How do we do that? Well firstly we must not fall into the most common trap of the enemy in spiritualizing everything we don?t understand. Looking unto Jesus means Just that, we are to look at Him.
Note what Paul said in 2 Cor 4:18.
| 2 Corinthians 4:18 | While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. |
Imagination is an incredible gift of God which we use often unconsciously continually through out the day.
| 2 Corinthians 3:18 | But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. |
This process is one of grace which is triggered by strong desire and clear focus.
True righteousness is the Lords righteousness imparted to us by continuous conscious connections with Him, it is not of works. Remember who you associate with you become like.
| Acts 4:13 | Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. |
| Matthew 5:6 | Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled. |
N Johnson © 2005
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