🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 26 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 24) 🔥

Mike Balloun teaches today. 11-09-24

🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 26 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 24) 🔥
Understanding the Spirit of Sonship

VERSES: Philippians 4:11-13; Matthew 10:38,16:24-27; James 1:23-26, 3:9-12, 4:7

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Isaac lived in sonship. He is an alien and sojourner among those not like-minded. He will not wander far from that promised place of inheritance. He is a living witness of God in the Earth of what is true Covenant intimacy blessing. Yet he treads softly in meekness. The Philistines, as said before in an earlier lesson, represent those worldly religious who have the knowledge of God, and are interested in knowing about God, but do not know God. They represent those who endeavor to attain unto the ‘heavenly things’ by knowledge, not by the spirit/Spirit. This religious mind and its reasonings is the carnal nature that remains within after being redeemed. It’s the default nature of man (the flesh) that we are to resist.

Isaac, a son of God with the heart of sonship, goes down and dwells with the Philistines for a while. They are those who dwell half-way between the World and the Promised land. And Isaac lives with them until they push him out… due to their envy and strife/self-seeking lusts that warred in their members. One minute they are befriending him, the next minute they are threatening him. Finally, after acknowledging and declaring that God was mightily with him, yet pushing him far enough away, because he threatened them in their way of thinking and in what they were doing. And having him swear he would not do them harm, they left him alone, in order that he would now leave them alone.

Isaac’s life, just as a Christian’s life, is paradoxical; we are ‘to go’ into the World and live in the World, but not be of the World. To be a testimony of Who God is, and reflect Him in His Character in the midst of religious spiritual darkness. To touch the things of the world, but not be touched by the World. To be as harmless as a dove but as wise as a serpent. To be like God, not to return evil for evil, but to return good for evil, at the cost of ‘self’. Being wise, pure, longsuffering, peaceful, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy, abundant fruit, and without partiality or hypocrisy. We are to be heavenly-minded, not having our hearts set on earthly things. These principles are set forth in this Chapter in typology/shadows for the follower of Christ in this World.

New Testament Truth revealed…
Paul told the Corinthian believers, “But this I say, brethren, the time is short (especially so in these Last Days): it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. But I would have you without carefulness…” (its heart and time-consuming anxieties, fears, passions, stress). [1st Corinthians 7:29-32a] The inward principle for the follower of Christ is the same for ‘…they who have… be as not having...’ and those who have not of this World’s things be content… “And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.” [1st Timothy 6:8]

Paul said to the Philippian followers of Jesus… “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” [Philippians 4:11-13]

Only a follower of Christ, one who intimately knows Him, can walk in this life’s paradox… ‘as having this World’s things or not having this World’s things’ yet with a heart in full loyalty to Jesus in that they do not have their identity in any way attached to the things of the World (even the legitimate things in the World), being His witness in the World, light and salt, walking in that ‘paradox.’

A religious man who is controlled by the flesh/Old Man cannot live in the spirit/the New Man (the paradox); he either finds his identity in the things of this World and is controlled and manipulated by them, knowingly or unknowingly. Or he completely separates or divests himself of them in a sort of ‘out of site out of mind’ kind of spirituality, closing the door on one form of the ‘flesh’ and opening the door on another.

But the way of the spirit/New Man in knowing Christ is to naturally overcome the flesh/the Old Man by losing his identity with things of the World while in the midst of them. Overcoming anything of the Old Man’s that would have a grip...