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by Bob Hamp | Blog Posts | 6 Comments »“Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” So simple, yet so many ways we can misunderstand. I think the key to understanding this phrase, is understanding who it is is that spoke it and how He might be thinking.
Men and women who have spent a lifetime, (or even a day) in church are so bent towards connecting Scripture with behavior control, otherwise known as “The Knowledge of Good and Evil”, that almost all our experience and perception comes through that lens.
Repentance is much more about the blind seeing, than it is about bad people trying to be good.
Jesus never really met a man who was not blind. At least not in light of His way of seeing. Jesus could see all things, including the hearts and minds of men, and the swirling activity of the spiritual realm around us. Because He saw clearly, He could look at every man in every situation and see every aspect of both. Motives, hidden thoughts, fear, and even the spiritual forces lurking within each exchange, all were as visible to him, as traffic signs are to us. Such was the vista in the Kingdom to which He was accustomed.
Crippled as we are, we try to perceive reality through a singular set of “senses”. Sight, sound, touch, taste, fragrance. All these are senses which apprehend a single realm; the physical. Perhaps within this arena we could perceive clues, signs and symptoms of other arenas, but we could not see them. Like seeing tree branches move, while not seeing the wind that moved them.
Walking through a dark room, we would trip over furniture and obstacles we could not see. Turn on the light, the natural result is a different set of responses. Step around the table, stop and turn when solid objects are in our path.
Repentance is about changing the way we see. The natural result is a different set of responses. Repentance is about using a set of senses beyond the physical. Intuition, wisdom, revelation, faith (yeah, you remeber, the assurance of things NOT SEEN!) Operating by these senses, behavior change is a natural result of seeing clearly, as opposed to the application of will power. When we try to produce behavior change without repentance (Seeing Differently; with different senses) this is called, “The Knowledge of Good and Evil”
Repent for the Kingdom of the Heavens is at arms reach.
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I am so gald that it is not linked with will power because that can be such a weak area in my life. Thanks for the insight friend.
Tobey,
Website: nacdb.comIn esence is to “cling” to something greater than us, is to jump out of the lighten dweeling of will power onto the uncertainty of Divine wisdom. To stop feeling terrible for such a wavering solutions of us being by ourselves, and to dust off, and stand still and trust on His direction. He will always, and only, be there. Without fail!!!!
Good days, Bad days….so what! Life is more than what you can see. Blessings!! (save me some cake…thanks.)
Mirian Del Carpio Q.,
Website: grazzya.blogspot.com“Operating by these senses, behavior change is a natural result of seeing clearly, as opposed to the application of will power.” Briliantly Revelational!
I love how you’re expanding on the trees in a series of blogs, and I especially love this particular one!
Repentance makes so much sense, that is the ability for true behavior change, when seeing from the filter of Life instead of Knowledge. Gosh, it’s almost like a DUH moment. How come I didn’t SEE that before? Well, because I still had the filter of Knowledge covering my eyes.
Who’d have thought learning about trees would be life changing?
Babs,
Website:Matthew 7:1-5: “Judge not, that you be not judged. [The fruit of being aware of others' evil (tree of the knowledge good and evil) is judgment] For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. [The seed of the fruit of judgment grows more judgment] Why do you see the speck [“speck” could also be translated "twig" - why do you see the twig on the branch of other's evil on the branch of the knowledge of evil on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil] that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log [much more connected to the tree than a twig] that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? [As you said, we are blinded because we are staring at the wrong tree and producing bad fruit] You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly [aah...the Light coming on] to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Mark 8:22-25: “…And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” And he looked up and said, “I see men, but they look like trees, walking.” [Here his spiritual sight was given. He saw the spiritual state of other’s condition – tree of the knowledge of good and evil] Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. [aah…the Light coming on!]
Michael Bradford,
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Website: deepbreathministries.com/blog/?p=778People are in the natural. They can’t help it. Things that are felt but not seen, things of the Spirit of God, like the wind blowing the tree branches, can be missed or dismissed by the Christian in the natural, in the flesh. God is in the supernatural, showing us the things we do not perceive in our flesh but only through the Spirit of God: Intuition, wisdom, revelation, faith…those are good words. Thank you Lord for helping me to “change the way I see” and for showing me things I could never see in the natural, only through you, in the supernatural. Amen.
Lisa,
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