In This World There is Trouble

9/10/2021

Jesus said, “In this world you will have trouble. Behold, I have overcome the world.” 

Trouble is everywhere. Trouble comes in many forms. Predominantly, in the world, right now, it has taken on the form of Covid 19. Hurricane Ida has devastated many.  Earthquakes are in the news. A building collapsed for no apparent reason. Terrorist regimes continue to threaten countries. Immigrants by the thousands are trying to relocate and survive.  Governments are failing. The people of the nations are in upheavals. Businesses are failing. Crops are failing. Fires are bringing great devastation. 

Yet, unless one of these or other troubles directly affects us we stand remotely detached even though many suffer all around us. We must be alert and ask the Lord to reveal to us what He is doing through or in spite of all of it. 

The Lord has said in many places in scripture, men are stiff necked or stubborn and have hearts of stone. The Lord has said what is good and what He requires of us. We’re to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with Him. 

He showed me a vision of someone I love and respect standing upright, head raised to heaven with eyes closed, arms at their side with palms up. For years I perceived him to be in a position of surrender. However, scripture reveals surrender is face down and prone. 

When the Lord questions us do we dare respond with thinking we have an answer?  He knows what we know. We should say, You know, Lord and then listen because He wants to reveal something to us. How can He reveal anything to us, if we cannot receive what He wants to impart?  If man has taught us so thoroughly a twisted truth how can He correct us If we think we know the answer. We are so vulnerable. We have come to trust man and what man has built and taught us over God. How can we be saved if we utterly reject His salvation?

All of mankind’s attempts to fix everything are like bandaids when you’re one of the ones experiencing any of these troubles. 

Jesus has overcome the world. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. One name for the devil is kosmokrator. He rules the kosmos. Kosmos is another word for the world. 

Scriptures reveal many mysteries when read by mankind the way man gains knowledge. To understand scripture one must understand there are two races of people on the earth. There have always been two races. One race carries the glory of the Father Who is the creator of all life. The other race follows their father who is the father of lies. 

God, who created everything, is our Father if we have surrendered in faith to live in Him as part of the many-membered body so He, the head, can direct us. The kosmokrator is the other father who guides and manipulates those who refuse and reject God. The kosmokrator is a delinquent of creation or a fallen angel who rebelled against the plans and purposes of his own creator. 

Mankind is at the center of the saga. Scripture, when revealed by Sons of God, explains how God the Father has interacted with mankind on the earth through His chosen representatives in the earth who are His Sons. A Son is Spirit like His Father and are neither male nor female. While We live on the earth we live in an earthly body that is male or female but unlike mankind, Son’s souls are governed by their spirit that is governed by God’s Spirit. We are chosen representatives of the same family who love and obey and serve our Father in oneness with His heart and mind, provided we have surrendered and He’s been able to bring us to maturity. 

Everyone who follows the kosmokrator follows perversions of the original intent of creation. The same deceiver who deceived Eve continues to deceive anyone who will listen and defy the ways of our Father. The original intent of the Creator was that He would  have Sons who would know Him as their Father, and love Him and obey Him and reflect Him in His glory and love. 

The kosmokrator is a liar. He is a deceiver. He rebelled against the plan of God; therefore, is the enemy of God. He misrepresents who God is. Mankind, out of ignorance, mostly, and deception follows him. All who follow the

Kosmokrator are the enemies of God. This is how he becomes the

father of mankind. We dare not forget that God loved us while we were His enemies and He is not willing that any should perish. Anyone who will turn to God and obey Him and resist the devil can be saved. 

There are two races of people on the earth. They are Sons of God and mankind.  All who live on the earth with many diversities of belief, religions, education levels, social classes, values and anything that can be named fall into one of two races of people on the earth. 

Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. The enemy’s works are lies that perpetuate the idea that the systems he has built are what man needs. These ways of provision imply needs can be met apart from knowing God. All these systems cater to mankind’s needs, desires and lusts. The systems hold out to mankind what appears to be answers to anything that arises. 

The systems include commerce, communication, education, entertainment, governments, medical help and insurance, sociology-economics, religion etc. everything mankind has been able to build that caters to their desires has developed to greater standards throughout mankind’s history. 

The Creator of all that has life in it and the one who holds all life together; however, offers the treasures that mankind cannot see nor build apart from knowing Him. His treasures cannot be seen but are vital for life and godliness. His Kingdom offers the treasures of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. They offer wholeness in Spirit, mind and body and Oneness through the spirit to our Father and the rest of the members of the body. The fruits of living in the Spirit of God are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, meekness and self control. You can not just “do” these things as an act of your will. They come as a result of wholeness produced by the Spirit. 

When the father of the world offers all that man can see that meets their desires and needs through his kosmos for what they believe will make them happy they inherit selfishness, greed, unforgiveness, hostility, bitterness, hatred, sexual perverseness, pride, railings, mental anguish, disrespect and dishonor of parents, etc. these are the fruit of depending on the world offers. 

Sons live in this world but are not to be of it. We live in the consciousness of God's will and plan and we put pleasing Him above and over what the world offers us. The Son lives to please the Father. At this point, we have been allowed to partake of these systems but we are not to depend on them. We are to depend on our Father and He provides all we need for life and godliness. 

Jesus came to present the Father and show mankind the way back to

Him. He is the way, the truth and the life. Jesus is the only way to the Father. He is the only way to know the truth. In order to live, knowing our Father in the glory of God in Spirit and in Truth we must be willing to give up everything the kosmokrator offers us that tempts us not to follow Jesus. There is much temptation the world offers that we do not partake of!!

The desires of our flesh are strong. What we see that appeals to us draws us. Pride in what we can do and achieve has very strong pulls. This part of our being that the Father wants to save is our soul. Our soul experiences emotions through the body's senses. Since the kosmokrator was created to serve mankind he knows what man’s weaknesses are through the soul’s emotions. He uses these to manipulate man. 

When we are willing to follow Christ and let Him reveal to us what the kosmokrator has built that caters to our souls that misleads us we can overcome. Jesus sacrificed Himself and His blood paid the price for “missing the mark” of not choosing God’s way. This is what we refer to as sin. Sin is anything that goes against the mind of and way of God. 

When we turn away from following lies and the father of lies we can be saved by following Jesus. Daily, we examine our hearts and minds for sin or failing to follow and remember Jesus paid the price, repent from having anything to do with the temptation and follow Jesus. 

Because we cry out to Jesus for His salvation Jesus prays to the Father to give us the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot receive Him but He lives in all of God’s Sons.  God’s mature Sons follow the truth that He gives us and shows us, daily. 

In continual obedience we are saved from being misled by temptation that lures us by the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life. This is how Jesus overcame the world. We overcome “in Him” when we obey and follow Him in the truth He presents to us, and daily resist the devil. 

There is no fear of the kosmokrator for the perfect love of Our Father has removed our hearts of stone. We see our Father more clearly every day we live apart from the control and deception of the kosmokrator. The better we see Him the better we know and love Him. 

Until we have matured enough to see clearly our Father gives us surrogate fathers (chosen family members) to watch over our souls until we are equipped to minister with truth. 

In God’s perfect plan a father will be the blood fathers or the husbands who are mature in knowing Him. Until that which is perfect or completed has come he provides substitutes. 

When we have been equipped and function as One Man according to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ we will be able to show the principalities and powers that have usurped God’s authority over mankind our Father’s manifest wisdom. We will actually see the many-membered body of Christ functioning as one with the mind, the purposes and the plans of our Father on the earth. In this way, we rule with our Father. 

Eventually, the kosmokrator will lose all power to deceive and draw immature Sons away from the Father through deception. All followers of the father of lies will be subjected with him to the lake of fire.