Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second
time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered,
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and
the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is
born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you,
‘You must be born again.’ John 3:3-7
As we approach the closure of this immortal discussion, I seek to emphasize on the peculiarity of the change that I believe the LORD would have you believe in. It is not the same kind with that sponsored by the world (for instance, by politicians, psychologists, medical doctors, nutritionists, motivators, a romantic
associate, a sales agent, a parent, friend, bank manager, stock broker, or any such categories of people). The change I have labored in divine love to share here is far greater than any such change. Its motive and results far outclass any change this world can ever promise.
To be sure, CHANGE YOU MUST BELIEVE IN is not in the least about the desires of the flesh as much as it is all about the aspirations of the spirit.
Consider this book as a torch shining into the infinitely gifted possibilities inherent in your inner man. Therein are to be found treasures untold, wonders beyond mortal ponder, nothing less than wealth of incredible glory. Inside you, to be sure, the real you (because that is what you really are- spirit, and not flesh and blood) is a story of glory that God Almighty wrought in eternity intending that you would unveil in time. It is a most amazing episode of miracles, signs and wonders.
Awaken to it, seize it, draw it out, and reveal to all and sundry the immense love God has for you and for all men. Switch from the limited confines of mortality,
adjust from the frail abilities of the flesh, and manifest in this day and age a light so bright that will shine blessings, joy, peace and fortitude to a world lost from God’s love.
You are a wonder: Fearfully and wonderfully made, God assigned you the grandest of all duties- you are destined to reveal HIM and therein, reign with HIM in a dominion of supernatural power and authority. HE made you sufficiently able to preside over heaven and earth, over all angels and animals, to be preeminent, distinguished, a first fruit of all creation (James 1:18). This most noble of intentions is duly and articulately defined and sealed in your innerman.
What is more is that it was never considered that you would ever fail. Omissions and commissions of failure, mistakes, or disappointments were never designed to be your portion. You were made and commissioned as
a creature of fortune and never considered to be a subject of fate. Any negative eventuality is the result of living
In your proper essence, there is nothing you cannot do; there is nothing you cannot achieve. Beloved, you can do, and be, and have more than the finite impressions your mortal mind can ever imagine. This ability is inherent in you; it was determined for you before the foundation of the world and was packed in you when you were born. You were born with it; you live with it everyday of your life. It is your blessed inheritance from your Father in heaven.
No one has taken it away from you; no one can take it away from you. Not even God has ever considered taking it away from you:
For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. Romans 11:29
And if God cannot take it away from you, guess what? Satan, nor his coteries, associates, and all the gates of hell, CANNOT, CAN NEVER, ever take it from you either. He will never master that ability.
But this is what he has done: He has deceived the nations. Men have been deceived from considering
who they really are to presuming false impressions wrought in evil fancy. Since Adam pondered on the profit of the forbidden tree, evil has succeeded in causing God’s most glorious creation to assume failure, decadence, fear, loss, danger, sickness, oppression, and every other presentation of darkness.
The means by which this has occurred rests upon the power of deception. Men have been deceived to overlook their innerman, their true identity, and consider themselves in finite measures.
To be sure, this has been Satan’s worst and most irredeemable act: When he rebelled against God, even deceiving a third of the angels in heaven, he was not destroyed. He was just cast out of heaven onto the earth realm (Isaiah 14:12; Luke 10:18; Revelation 12:9). However, for deceiving men, for deceiving the nations, for deceiving God’s most precious creation, he will be cast into the fire (Revelation 20:10).
Satan will be destroyed for deceiving men from their rightful heritage; he will be cast into the bottomless pit for deceiving men from being who God has
predestined that they should be; he will be completely and irrevocably obliterated for deceiving men from living the revelation of Christ.
My friend, the most heart wrecking tragedy on earth and in all eternity has been how immortality has been hidden in mortality. When men lost the marvelous plot written and sealed in their spirit, glory was submerged in carnality.
To be sure, even the finest achievements in this paradigm stand far less than the least abilities pertaining in the spirit. Once Satan’s lie was embraced by Adam (the first man), the entire human episode from the least to the greatest fell headlong from glory to grass:
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23
Instead of living in kindred fellowship with God in a realm superior to every other experience, men succumbed to ways, thoughts, and methods infinitely below glory that it became incredibly difficult, and
many times impossible, for God to fellowship with him (Isaiah 55:8-9).
You have to grasp the weight of this tragedy from God’s perspective: HE made man for fellowship and
partnership that is why HE made HIM synonymous with divine deity. Man, in his true format, is the
essence of God, a sovereign spirit, nothing less than the express image and likeness of supreme divinity.
However, with man losing knowledge of this; once he ceased considering himself as a spirit being but covetously assumed himself to be merely flesh and blood, the possibility of partnering with God became an impossible matter.
God is spirit and cannot partner with flesh. In HIS immortal words:
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or as His counselor has taught Him? With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him?
With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of justice? Who
taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the
scales………All nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted by Him less than nothing
and worthless. Isaiah 40:13-15, 17
Incredibly superior to all flesh, HE further qualifies the extent to which partnership with fallen man is indeed an impossible affair:
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than
your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9
Fallen man, flesh conscious man, is so far removed from his original position from whence God visited and interacted with him in the Garden.
As a result of succumbing to the deception of Satan, man ceased being intimate with God, he ceased being aware of God’s love as he declined to a cocoon of guilt
and fear. He became progressively estranged from God, even afraid of HIM as was well demonstrated with Adam hiding in the Garden after eating fruit from the forbidden tree (Genesis 3:8).
Subsequent generations since have suffered this enormous loss. God HIMSELF pondering on it laments the fate:
The voice said “Cry out!” And he said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is like grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.
Isaiah 40:6-7
And like I said, this fate included even the best of men. When King Nebuchadnezzar, the reigning emperor over the nations of the world at one point, thought himself to be of great measure within the context of flesh and blood, God cut him down to size to make this immortal point: HE unilaterally removed the kingdom from him and banished the king to be like wild game for seven years (Daniel 4:28-33).
After the sobering ordeal, the point had been made: Mortality acknowledged its frailty in the face of immortality as was well captured in the worship Nebuchadnezzar rendered God. Following his restoration after the seven years, humbled and subdued, the emperor revealed:
And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me,
and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever:
For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation. All the inhabitants
of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants
of the earth. No one can restrain His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?” Daniel 4:34-35
Having said that, it is of incredible importance that we define the change we advocate for in this book. As such, it is important that we appreciate that this