The Realm of Appearance
1 Thess. 5:22 “Abstain from the appearance of evil.
The word evil comes from a Greek word paneros meaning hurtful,diseased, guilt, devil & sinner. All these are referred to as being in appearance.
What an amazing thought! The thing that creates pain & grief are only appearance. The fruit of good & evil produces death which is a part of our duality.
Psalms 139:12
Only man lives in the consciousness of light & darkness. God tells us they all look the same. Treat people as they appear to be & they will remain so. Treat people as they are to become, in the light pf understanding & knowledge & they will become whole & complete—not according to the standards of the world, but, according to God’s standards.
John 7:24 1Sam 16:7.
We have insisted on working our way into the Kingdom through external means instead of being in the Kingdom. Paul tells us in Corinthians that the realm of appearance is temporal. 11Cor. 4”18.
Temporal means worldly, earthly its physical consciousness. Another word would be illusion. Illusion means perception of something existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of an actual nature. We are Spirit, the offspring of God.
When we can look past physical conditions & see the reality of Spirit, we will change the world. Each person that comes into the world has come under some hypnotic spell. We perceive the external physical manifestations as reality. This spell comes in many forms. It is known as poverty, disease. Drug & alcohol abuse & so on. In order to remove this spell we must put the axe to the root of the tree. What tree? The tree of the knowledge of good & evil.
It does not serve us to engage in a little healing here or there; we must get to the root of the problem & know we are dealing with an inner condition & not just the outer actions of the individual. Behind every fault & failure there is a cause.
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By learning how to activate any given situation with a creative word By learning how to activate any given situation with a creative word, we can transfer it from one glory to another & change the nature or character of that situation. This will never been done by the external appearance; in that realm, things to be hopeless & impossible , LIMITATIONS BECOME UNREAL FOR THOSE WHO STEP BEYOND THE BOUNDRIES OF LIMITATIONS.
How many times have you experienced sickness or some other situations in your life in which you refused to acknowledge it with your words, but, the situation did not get better?
When you are sick & you say, “I am whole”, when you have a financial need & say, “I am prosperous”. The confession is not reality. It will not bring deliverance until you know you are speaking out of the true essence of your being, not from the carnal mind of your being. It is knowing who you are & living in that consciousness.
The spirit impregnates the mind with the thought, “I am healed, “I am whole.” These thoughts are the vehicle of the spirit your thoughts become that which the spirit is radiating.
You think God’s thoughts. Tuning your thoughts to a high frequency & in a twinkling of an eye, you think as God. This is reality! Illusions & appearances are transformed & become reality! Not by the works of the flesh or mind (ego), but, by the effectual working of the Christ consciousness within.
Awakening to reality is to awake from our slumber in the realm of appearance.
We experience the miracle of transformed living when we awake from the dream of our physical existence.
11 Cor. 5:16 Wherefore, henceforth, know we no man after the flesh.
Sometimes we do not hear the truth of the scripture Word flesh comes from the Greek word, sarx meaning the body, what is external, human nature, carnally minded.
“ For to be carnally minded is death.” Rom. 8:6
The word carnally comes from the same Greek word as flesh. We have thought of the carnal mind as something unclean, wicked, evil & lustful. This is a religious interpretation. The carnal mind is simply a mind that is effective by the external, physical realm of body consciousness.
Flesh & carnal mind are symbols of the external.
To live in this consciousness brings death. As long as we know ourselves after the flesh, we are carnally minded.
The death we experie4nce, whether it is sickness, poverty, dysfunctional relationships or addictions, is a lie, expressing itself in the physical realm.
How do we change this? By awakening to the truth that we are spirit, made in the image & likeness of God.
As we look past the physical appearance & see us ourselves in the reality of our true essence, we will begin to project that kind of thinking.
The mind no longer projects itself through the body, but, projects itself through spirit.
“When Christ who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye appear with Him in glory”. Col.3:4
When He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.” 1 John 3:2.
The appearance of Christ takes place as we recognize our union with Him. As the Christ appears, we appear.