God’s Translators

In answer to a comment made on my previous post, I have read the recommended “God’s Translator’s” by Kim Clement. Thanks for that, Jeff. I couldn’t find it on Kim Clement’s website, but I did find it here, http://tinyurl.com/dnx826

Kim is essentially saying there are three stages of translating a truth given us by God. The birth, the death and the resurrection, or Revelation (the discovery of the truth), Illumination (understanding of that truth), and Inspiration (communication of that truth).

During each of these phases, you are given the ability to translate a portion or a piece of God’s script.

What I love about this is we are all of one body and that body is Christ. Christ is an anointing of all that God is, love, mercy, justice, grace, truth, etc. Though no member of the body is made to be identical to another, we are each a representation of His image. Everyone unique and special.

This is why we shouldn’t ever refuse someone just because they come in a different ‘flavour’ than we are used to. We may very well be rejecting the Lord Himself when we do that.

Revelation is the opening up of a new understanding to us. So we can expect many things to be different than what we previously understood. If God should choose to bring that truth aspect of Himself to you through one you were not very comfortable receiving from, what is that? Is it not your flesh that is uncomfortable? We have been crucified, so get over it. Seek to hear, see and know the Spirit of the Lord in all things.

As we go through the process Kim Clement outlines we grow in our knowledge of the Lord. And a true translator of the word and truth of God is the Word made flesh. WE are the translator’s because WE are the message. As His word transforms US into His image, we are the message. This is not what Kim said in his article, this is me translating his message into what I know the truth to be.

I get frustrated with God being preached as ‘out there somewhere’. He is IN US. We are IN HIM. He is transforming US into His image. Jesus is the word made flesh, the firstborn of many brethren. He is the pattern Son. There are yet to be more Sons of God revealed, and they can and will only be revealed when they have come unto the full measure of the stature of Christ. We come unto that full measure by being transformed here and now, before death, before the end, and all in the process of our lives here and now.

There is no other message that gets me more excited than sharing this. We are being transformed into His nature! Out of our nature and into His!

Kim Clement speaks to many people all the time. He is revered as a prophet of God and people follow his ministry. Should he not know yet that he is to be conformed and made into the image of Christ? As a prophet, other than his prophecies, should this not be the message he brings? Should this not be the reason others look to him, because he is an aspect of the Word made flesh? Is that not why the world should look on us (believers) as a wonder?

I think Christendom gets a little too excited about signs and wonders, even prophecies, without realizing God intends for US to be the true sign and wonder that dispels the myth of mortality and death being as grim and morbid as it is. There is an eternal hope, a way and means of overcoming sin and death, which is CHRIST and Him crucified, dead, buried and resurrected.

Unless we translate God’s message of hope, love, grace and salvation with the proof of our lives (our nature, not our bank accounts and tithing record or gifts to charities), it’s just a sales pitch. My previous post about Ted Haggard touches on that. Ted said that he had preached on God coming for the unrighteous, but now he KNOWS He came for the unrighteous. Ted has now become a translation and a living proof of that truth and that word coming from him, now has power. Not a fleshly persuasive power, but the power of the word of God to change one who hears it by the spirit drawing him to God.

There is truly nothing greater, nothing more fantastic and wonderful than God changing us into His image. My spiritual walk is completely preoccupied with this. In submitting myself to Him for this work in every moment of my life, this is my ministry to Him. I live out from there and my life becomes a ministry to anyone and everyone in any way and every way as I am who I am in Christ. To me, this is worship.

I welcome your take on what I’ve shared. It is entirely how I see it and I know others may view things differently. Even if my message is not what you’re used to, I hope you seek the Lord and His Spirit in it anyway. I will seek the Spirit and anything God would have to share with me from your responses.

 

The Truth

Jesus Christ, said He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. As Christians, do we believe He is the Truth or not?

Or do we look around the world and perceive the things and experiences of this world (which we are not to be of) as presenting to us truth? The Life of Christ is above all things in this earth and this world. His truth is also above (greater than) the truth`s we learn in this world.

There are absolutes/laws, such as gravity, in the world and also spiritual laws and absolutes. Things of God and the Spirit that can not be changed no matter our perspective or experience. They simply are. (He is the same yesterday, today and always). But Christ as our Truth is an absolute that rises above all other `truths` (ie:true-isms).

If we call truth whatever someone believes or thinks, then that alone will cause division. I don’t consider what someone else holds to be truth as THE TRUTH. What they believe is a true-ism. So I don’t let it get in the way of a friendship or fellowship. We all have true-isms. If we make the mistake of building any part of our lives around a true-ism we begin to separate ourselves from others.

The Truth that Jesus said He is, is from the tree of Life, not the tree of knowledge of good and evil. So I know that when I am struggling to understand something as good or bad (an experience, a philosophy, or a doctrine, etc) ultimately my decision is still a fruit of the wrong tree, death.

So I seek to know (what only the Holy Spirit can teach) what is greater than good or bad, and is Life instead. Just like Love covers a multitude of sins. We can debate the sin but it still isn’t Love. We need to rise higher.

I am open to hearing what others have to say about truth, but in the context of Christ. (ie: Don’t try to tell me the truth you know is the world is flat, because I know it isn’t.) Truth is not arbitrary. We can not decide what truth is. It already IS, we just need to know it (Him).

The Truth, that is Christ, will ALWAYS set us free, to be who we are and to love others, regardless of our differences.

Wouldn’t you agree?

 

The Great Exchange

To grow IN CHRIST is to give my life that He may live. That it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me.

When a person is struck with the revelation of Christ and salvation through Him (becoming ‘born again’), whether they realize it or not, they have just exchanged something of themselves for the seed of Christ within. That seed must now grow. We are the soil for the seed. The dirt. The burial ground. The Holy Spirit is needed to bring us into the Light and the water of the Word. The seed of Christ grows in us, and this is US growing IN CHRIST. We are shedding our identity as mortal humans and growing up into our identity in Christ. A new creation. As John the Baptist, put it ‘He must increase, but I must decrease.’ Without our decrease, there is no increase.

As I was trying to explain to my daughter recently, you can not have both, exactly. You do have both at the same time, your life and His, but not to the same measure. This is why Paul says we must grow unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. We want to grow in the increase of Christ, and decrease of ourselves.

This isn’t just learning to walk a straighter moral line, give more often, clean up your speech and be a respectable member of society. That is NOT growing unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That is NOT what being a Christian is.

We are to renew our minds and think with the mind of Christ, but our mind is not THE MIND OF CHRIST just because our ‘mind’ is now in a ‘Christian’ body. The true mind of Christ thinks VERY differently than our regular human, carnal mind. (Maybe that’s another post).

Back to my point. The great exchange. Increase and decrease. To decrease is also not something we can do ourselves. We can not crucify ourselves (though it seems like we can, but that’s just a grotesque mutilation, not real crucifixion. Very ugly).

True worship is when we lay down or let go of our wants, needs, hopes, desires and accept His INSTEAD. I don’t just mean letting go of that promotion, bigger home, vacation or puppy dog you had your heart set on. Accept the annoying neighbor as His will for you. Accept the fact that you may not be the smartest, or coolest, or look different than you’d like to, or wish you had a different family, or…this, or…that.

It is here that you learn to renew your mind, learn to think with the mind of Christ, learn the process of decrease and how He increases IN YOU and how you grow unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (how you increase IN HIM). You learn what God actually does want for you in your life and what he wants to remove. Inside of you and out.

This is worship. This is worshipping Him in spirit and in truth. This is laying down your life for Him. This is also where you really learn your new identity and who you really are in Christ, and in the Body.