Yeshua Jesus is always telling us, teaching about the kingdom of God, that realm that is invisible to our human eyes. When Jesus was with us in a form we could see, it was to verify what was spoken by the prophets, to give us a seen glimpse into that unseen realm, God's kingdom.
Today, Jesus teaches us in the Spirit, the unseen again; as long as you have asked Him in. Jesus' teaching us about God's kingdom is what eternal life is (John 17:3).
This taking Jesus into you may be difficult to understand. Jesus tells us in various ways that this is the only way to be taught, to understand about that which we don't see. One way to to get a picture is when Jesus said, " take and eat, this is my body " when He broke bread and gave it to His disciples (Matthew 26:26). He wasn't saying literally to eat His body nor was He saying that the bread becomes His body. It was a picture of eating food, Why do we eat food? From SciWhys"Just as a power station requires gas or coal to power its turbines and generate energy, so we need fuel – in the form of food".
The Holy Spirit is water. Not literally water, again it's to help us understand what the Spirit does. We need both food and water. The water (blood) gets rid of the bad stuff and it breaks down the food and carries it throughout the body to make the body healthy and strong.
Now let me talk some about that bad stuff in our bodies. Also of the unseen realm are unclean spirits, demons, devils. In another post, I said that I don't know how someone becomes demon possessed but I thought of one scripture that gives us a picture of how that happens.
In this scripture, we see an unclean spirit leaving a person. I don't think that it is leaving willing, it was cast out. It goes looking for a new place to rest; it actively seeks out someone else to take up residence in. If it finds no other person, it goes back to the person it came from. If that person has not filled that cleaned out space with Jesus and the Holy Spirit, then the unclean spirit goes and brings back other evil spirits so, that person ends up worse than the way he was when the first demon was cast out.
Satan is worse than demons. Satan can affect our thoughts, if we don't have Jesus inside. Jesus was about to go through great suffering and He told His disciples what was about to happen.
Jesus' words were directed toward Peter, the one seen, but His words were for Satan, the one unseen.
Satan is powerful, but not as powerful as God and Jesus. I have personally experienced Satan's power. He has anticipated things I am about to do or say and will try to stop me. He has brought down my internet, killed all my email accounts, disabled Facebook, made whole writings disappear or made the cursor jump around to different areas of the writings I was working on so that when I looked up from keyboard to screen, I was typing in a totally different place. Satan and demons are working to keep us from believing in the One True Living God and in Jesus, our Savior, our Teacher, our Counsellor, our Messiah, our King, the Prince of Peace.
Today, Jesus teaches us in the Spirit, the unseen again; as long as you have asked Him in. Jesus' teaching us about God's kingdom is what eternal life is (John 17:3).
This taking Jesus into you may be difficult to understand. Jesus tells us in various ways that this is the only way to be taught, to understand about that which we don't see. One way to to get a picture is when Jesus said, " take and eat, this is my body " when He broke bread and gave it to His disciples (Matthew 26:26). He wasn't saying literally to eat His body nor was He saying that the bread becomes His body. It was a picture of eating food, Why do we eat food? From SciWhys"Just as a power station requires gas or coal to power its turbines and generate energy, so we need fuel – in the form of food".
The Holy Spirit is water. Not literally water, again it's to help us understand what the Spirit does. We need both food and water. The water (blood) gets rid of the bad stuff and it breaks down the food and carries it throughout the body to make the body healthy and strong.
Now let me talk some about that bad stuff in our bodies. Also of the unseen realm are unclean spirits, demons, devils. In another post, I said that I don't know how someone becomes demon possessed but I thought of one scripture that gives us a picture of how that happens.
Matthew 12:43-45Common English Bible (CEB)
Unclean spirit seeking a home
43 “When an unclean spirit leaves a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest. But it doesn’t find any. 44 Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the place vacant, cleaned up, and decorated. 45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself. They go in and make their home there. That person is worse off at the end than at the beginning. This is the way it will be also for this evil generation.”In this scripture, we see an unclean spirit leaving a person. I don't think that it is leaving willing, it was cast out. It goes looking for a new place to rest; it actively seeks out someone else to take up residence in. If it finds no other person, it goes back to the person it came from. If that person has not filled that cleaned out space with Jesus and the Holy Spirit, then the unclean spirit goes and brings back other evil spirits so, that person ends up worse than the way he was when the first demon was cast out.
Satan is worse than demons. Satan can affect our thoughts, if we don't have Jesus inside. Jesus was about to go through great suffering and He told His disciples what was about to happen.
Matthew 16:21-23Common English Bible (CEB)
First prediction of Jesus’ death and resurrection
21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and legal experts, and that he had to be killed and raised on the third day. 22 Then Peter took hold of Jesus and, scolding him, began to correct him: “God forbid, Lord! This won’t happen to you.” 23 But he turned to Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are a stone that could make me stumble, for you are not thinking God’s thoughts but human thoughts.”Jesus' words were directed toward Peter, the one seen, but His words were for Satan, the one unseen.
Satan is powerful, but not as powerful as God and Jesus. I have personally experienced Satan's power. He has anticipated things I am about to do or say and will try to stop me. He has brought down my internet, killed all my email accounts, disabled Facebook, made whole writings disappear or made the cursor jump around to different areas of the writings I was working on so that when I looked up from keyboard to screen, I was typing in a totally different place. Satan and demons are working to keep us from believing in the One True Living God and in Jesus, our Savior, our Teacher, our Counsellor, our Messiah, our King, the Prince of Peace.
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