We can see how walking as if through believing "God opens another door when He closes one" is very near to the new age beliefs of chakras. And along with this, it may be very convenient for the powers and principlalities, just as false light offers to be the answer to getting out of darkness, to lead people to run to brotherly love, to make up for lukewarmness, just as going backwards from Laodicea to Philadelphia. Sexual immorality, that is spiritually discerned, as with Thyatira, is found in how whatever we believe or agree to, we become one with. And the letter to Thyatira did say that Jezebel was given time to repent, and whoever did not also repent, would be cast into Great Tribulation. And yet what happened with Jezebel in the OT? She was saying peace and safety, even until the time that Jehu came and killed her. Just as the kings of Israel and Judah were also killed by Jehu, and were claiming peace and safety. And after Jezebel was killed, Jehu continued to kill other people who worshiped Baal. The labyrinth that chakras give, do not have to be so drawn out, as a labyrinth may seem to continually give no way of getting out of the maze. But this would be more in the context of the false door not ever leading into the oneness of God. And yet, at the same time, the chakras may even give people fruit, though it isn't in the oneness of God.
The Bible says that God is going to save those who turn from transgression in Jacob. Firstly this promise shows that Jacob is in transgression. Within the church, there has been a system which seems to offer the church to not have to follow anyone who sins what they think are really bad sins. We are to have no sins, but God can still move through people who are sinning. Paul was doing something wrong, as He preached before coming to Corinth, just as Paul wrote in the first letter to Corinth, that he was in much trembling, fear, and weakness. And this is what 2 Corinthians also referred to, as he spoke about his thorn. Before Paul came to Corinth, as Acts shows, he firstly had a problem with a woman who was following him around. That woman was diving falsely, though she might have been 'saying the right words.' After that, he had also nearly led the people on Mars' hill to believe in Christ and His resurrection, only on the basis of them no longer being sinners. That is why he used the analogy of the unknown God, and this is also what was happening, as they only wanted to hear about the dead being able to rise. One major reason as to why Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2 "to only know Christ and Him crucified," is because through attempting to move people unto Christ, through the motivation of them no longer being sinners, there was given the foundation for his thorn, which he spoke about in 2 Corinthians. His thorn was what Jesus allowed in his life, so that people did not elevate him above God. And God allowed this thorn, so that Paul could keep what God was giving him, though it was getting between him and God, and other people and God. An example of his thorn, is like having a pep rally, and getting people to be pepped up, and then slipping in Jesus. Preaching only Christ and Him crucified gives the foundation by which people may view Christ, not as the way that everyone needs to stop having bad sins, but as the way that gives even the corruption in our lives to be a part of how we are still faithful in God. Just as the cross gives our outward person to perish, as with the rotting of the seed, and therefore the cross is still present, even when we sin. Paul's revelations, as he spoke about his thorn, were contributing to him using them as a means to pep people up, and then slip in Jesus, however, the foundation that was occurring, was given through attempting to bring people to God, by telling them they are sinners. It is not wrong to have revelation, and to turn to God through it, but if the foundation is to attempt to come unto God, just because we are sinners, then we are merely acting as the Pharisees who John the Baptist rebuked, saying "Who told you to flee from the wrath to come?" This meaning that the Pharisees only had the ungoldy sorrow which is caught up in consequences, and things that will not enter into God's oneness. Instead of understanding that the foundation of the gospel is the gift of the Holy Spirit, by which God may continually abide in us. And therefore the foundation of the gospel is not found in the revelation of how we are sinners, or merely in how God is holy. The Holy Spirit was what Jesus promised, just as Jesus also told the disciples to not do anything until they received power from on high. This is true, just as one man told Jesus that he would follow Him wherever He went, and Jesus said that foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head. Through the Promise of the Spirit, who is the Power from on high, we may follow God everywhere. And this is also why Jesus said that He was going to ascend to heaven to the Father, but that He was going to send the Holy Spirit, and this is also why He said that it was better for us, to have Him ascend, though He would not physically be on earth with us. And I have also addressed in an earlier chapter, how at first, the Father was with Adam and Eve, but then after the fall, was no longer visiting the earth, but having His home in heaven. And then Jesus came, and was away from the Father, and conducted His ministry. And then Jesus left, and the Spirit came, and is conducting His ministry. This is an example of the outworkings of each part of the Godhead, not only in the realm of us being sinners, but in the realm of the communion of the Godhead, even each part.
And so just as Jesus told Paul that His strength is made perfect in weakness, we have the true example of the gospel of God, just as the cross may still be in our lives, even as we sin, and that His gospel is not founded on us having revelation of being sinners, but in the continual communion of God being available. This is also what it means to say "Him AND Him crucified," just as Christ is with us in communion, along with us knowing His crucifixion. Therefore having Christ and believing in Him revloves around the truth of the new birth, and not just us confessing how we are sinners, and then attempting to not have 'bad sins' anymore, without even believing that we can have inward incorruption in Him.
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