Open the Eyes of Your People 1-12-26

I am continuing with the messages about who we are in Christ from God’s perspective. Unless one understands from God’s view, it is impossible to know the Lord the way He desires for His children to know Him.

In the natural, our parents taught/trained us; therefore, we knew them and we also what they expected of us. The more time we spent with then, the better we got to know them and became more intimate with each other. This principle is the same both natural and spiritual. How much time we spend with our heavenly determines how intimate we are with Him.

We have a new identity (transformation) through Christ, our conduct is different, we are to bear fruit (Galatians 5:22) and carry the light of Jesus (Matthew 5:13-16).

What do I mean by

“Open the eyes of Your people?”

God’s people must be yielded and open to the truth; He doesn’t force us! The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,  and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power  which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:18-20).

The only way to walk worthy of our calling [salvation] (Ephesians 4:1), is understand the Lord Even when you don’t understand, His people are told, not asked to:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear [respect and reverence Him] the Lord and depart from evil.  It will be healthy for your flesh, and strength to your bones (Proverbs 3:5-7).

When people are not using God’s Word as the spiritual prescription and formula, they are double minded. That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting (Ephesians 4:14).

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;  he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways (James 1:5-8).

How can you be a sinner and saved at the same time? We sin but that’s our flesh-  – our inner man (spirit) is perfect because God’s perfect Spirit lives in us.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6:19).

The Spirit of God and the demons cannot dwell in the same place, and: You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

There is no sin in us, because The Holy Spirit lives in us; however, we sin because we live in flesh bodies that are sinful.   For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. (Romans 7:18).

Many professed believers are double minded because of improper teaching, including some leaders who think they are mature, but they should go back and start off doing what God has called them to do, not what some person or even if they feel that’s their call.

To be continued.

Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org