The Birth Of The Ego
The Alien Inside
There is an alien living inside us and we don’t know it. No not an alien from space but from another dimension. What in the world am I talking about you ask? There is a certain conscience which has made its home in all of us and no one has told you about it. It is in your mind as you read this. This alien is a negative force we will call the Ego. This is the subject we will learn about. What is it, why it has to die and what does this mean. For overcoming this force, having been fully human himself, was the climax of Yahshuah’s (Jesus) example for us which few understand. We need to look deeply at the death of the Messiah and understand what really took place. For then we will understand the dept of his sacrifice.
When Yahshuah died the vail to the Temple leading to the Holies of Holy was torn down. This area is where God would come down and no one but the Levital Priest had access to. Anyone else stepping into this area would be consumed by God’s consuming fire A rope at times was tied to the Priest’s ankle. This way if he happen to be unclean they could safely drag him out with no one else getting hurt. So after Yahshuah died however, this vail was recorded to have been supernaturally torn down. The tearing down of this vail symbolizes the end of the separation between the world as a whole and Aheh Ashar Aheh, the I AM That I AM, the Creator. The whole world had now begun to be reconciled back to God.
Now all man had access to Him thru the death of Yahshuah. Yahshuah’s body as ours was created to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. This is the temple Christ told them to destroy and that he would rebuild it in three days, His physical body (John 2:19). The Ego here is the inner beast that sits inside the seat of your soul, the temple of the Most High God , which is your body. The Ego is the “He” that knowest good and evil and has made a god of itself inside you. It is the self made will that says “I will be what I will be” rather then submitting to the will of He who created all things. It is the inner battle which Paul the Apostle mentioned he struggled with even in his later life(Rom 7:14-25). It is the old man that refuses to come as a little child before God for the renewing of the mind (Rom 12:2).
The Ego is the choice Adam and Eve made at the moment they rebelled and ate of the tree of good and evil. It is evil incarnated. The opposite of good, an alien way of thinking. It is that which exist outside the presence of God, yet of Him given to man to experience for a purpose. It is the lack of righteousness which is easily offended and fights to accept reprove and corrections. It is the deceiving entity full of wickedness, self-centered, pride, arrogance, vanity, you name it, which makes the heart decieveful above all things. It is the inner you which refuses to die so that the Messiah can increase in you. The Ego is you in your present spiritual condition and this is why you must die and be born again.
Root of The Ego
Now where did this Ego come from? Lets understand the birth of the Ego so that we can better understand ourselves. To do this we need to go back to the genesis of life. Back to the garden of Eden meaning Paradise in Hebrew. Here it said Adam and Eve were initially created good. That’s what it says. Not that they knew what good was. For there was nothing that was the opposite of good in their mind to compare it to. All they new was life as it was given to them. Peace, serenity, calmness, fulfillment. An existence incapable of thinking anything else outside from that which they were created. Yet they were created with reasoning faculty and a CARNEL MIND. For example there is light and darkness but if the darkness did not exist we could not imagine it could.
Think about it. It is an experience that is given consciousness. For example if a child grows up naked it has no understanding it is the opposite of not having cloths on. It grows up unknowing of this. Adam and Eve were naked yet like the rest of the beast of the field they were ignorant of thinking otherwise. Knowing good as God created them is all they knew because that is all God created them knowing.
Now some claim that Adam and Eve were fully trained in admistering the Kingdom of God and failed to replace Satan as ruler of the world, this is unscriptural and hearsay. For when it came to recognizing the adversary for what he was, it is clear they did not know who this fellow was. But this is another subject only worthy of mentioning at this time. Another thing I should mentioned is that surprisingly enough not one time did God tell Adam and Eve they would burn in a place called hell for eternity if they disobey. Only that they would die. One would think that the most taught doctrine of Christianity and other religion of the world, if it was true, would have been explained to them by God considering the dire doom they were destined for if they disobeyed. Sounds like God was not being very fair here.
Satan
Before I continued on let me digress and introduce this Satan fellow the adversary. He in fact was the active agent causing their demise. But how did this Satan get Eve to disobey? Ever wonder about that? What tactics did he used? Did not Eve now better? What about Adam who was not deceived but willingly choose to eat? Can we know and learn what really took place as Satan deployed his deceitful conniving tricks to successfully, as some believe, cause them to “fall” from grace? It is important we have a sense of this understanding in order to get to the root of our human condition. In the case of Adam he did not want to be without Eve, knowing that having eaten of the forbidden fruit she would now die. She was bone of his bone flesh of his flesh. The only one comparable to him since none of the animals brought to him were of his kind.
Thinking he would lose her and be by himself again, he conceded in his mind to rather die with her than lose her and be alone again. Here than Adam became clouded in his thinking and he put Eve in place of God as man does with most his choices! As Israel would one day want a human king than have God in any of her business. So they got King Saul, the first King of Israel who ruled them with an iron fist. This Satan is a master salesman and sold our parents heresies and lies in a very crafty manner. He used a tactic used by all retail cooperation and sales gurus today. What is this he used? He used Human Nature which God created within us. He preyed on Eve’s one overwhelming attribute called Vanity.
Have you noticed how every retail store is set up in a specific way to target the human impulse, our vanity. Marketing gurus go to school to specifically study this phenomenon. Some items in stores are called impulse items. These items are placed immediately upon entering the store or as you walk along the isles. There is also what is called cross merchandising when certain impulse items from one department is placed far away in another department. Other such approaches is putting soft silky cloths so as the female passes by it rubs against their skin and triggers the senses. Certain words are used with certain colors at certain season, all with the intention of playing at the senses. Ever see a young teenager wearing a 200.00 dollar pair of Nike sneakers living in mediocre conditions? The tactics are endless and they work as tons of money is spent on advertising every year. Anyway I think you get the picture.
But back to Satan this being who presented himself in the form of a serpent. What he looks like no one really knows, though some speculate he has horns a tail and parted hooves, but this is ferry tail which has become very real in peoples mind. Why did Satan choose the serpent? The serpent is noted to have been the shrewish of all the creatures brought before Adam and Eve at the beginning. This being Satan created a spiritual being with spiritual powers used the serpent as his agent of contact. The cursing of the serpent to eat dust all the days of it’s life is a metaphor for what Satan would continue to do throughout the history of the human race (Gen 3:14). For man is dust and to dust he shall return. Therefore Satan is also known throughout the Scriptures as that old serpent the Devil.
Here is an interjection I believe worth noting. Some promote the theology that the word Satan in the original is “saw-tawn” meaning adversary and enchanter and it does. Base on this this they conclude this Satan which means “adversary” was another human being from the first creation which caused them to sin. The conclusion is than made that we have Satan’s seed, a pre-Adamic human race and Adam’s seed, the children of Adam. That these two have been at war with each other ever since. As a result “Bingo” you have in my opinion the birth of race superiority complex which breeds racism and eliminates this Satan being which Scripture clearly teaches.
The following from an except from a British Israelism website. It is a small sampling of what I consider to be race discrimination springing out of this theology.
” The Negro migration into Egypt resulted in a gradual miscegenation of the remaining people in Egypt, coinciding with the gradual degeneration of the Egyptian society, its fantastic culture, and its dominate Adamic white race.” (emphasis mine)
The Egyptian culture is the reason for the mass of religious heresies and confusion existing today. Also an honest look at history will weight the evidence and shows that dark skinned people were the rule and not the exception biblically. I must conclude that this other race of people knew who God was and had also turned against Him somewhere along the line of their creation indicating God failed the first try. The point is there is no propondence of evidence to make this assumption a provable theology and thus treated as so. It is my opinion clearly Ego centered. But the answer to this is very clear to those with eyes to see. The Scriptures teaches Satan goes to and fro throughout the earth and to the very throne of God doing his mischievous deeds and accusing us humans for our failures to obey Him:
Job 1:7 And Elohim said, unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered Elohim, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
We humans are the “dust” that Satan eats. Here is Scriptural proof:
Man is dust: Gen 3:19″…..You are dust, and you will return to dust.”
Satan was cursed to eat dust: Gen 3:14 “And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou are cursed…..and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life:
So Satan got to Eve simply by using her vanity which we will address later. How beautiful the tree was, pleasant to the eyes, good to eat, good to the touch etc. He also threw another curve which most people are not aware of. One most minister will stand before you and preach to you that you posses. We will see what this is shortly. And so Satan has even gotten thru to and uses most of these gurus you see on TV preaching the so call word of God to get to you. The Fruit
So what happened after eating of the forbidden tree . Something else foreign to their experience entered their mind. It was a strange and foreign revelation that spontaneously materialized in their mind as a matrix and became part of their psychic. They now understood life as God does, knowing good and evil but at a human level for they were created with limited autonomy(Gen 3:22). As a consequence they became afraid and scared. So when God came looking for them they naturally hid themselves as we naturally do if someone accidentally catches us naked (Gen 3:8). We jump and run . Actually when you think about it, their reaction was very comical and stupid. Did they think God did not know where they were? Did not God create them naked knowing every hair on their bodies? Yet they would think to hide from the very source from where they came as though God couldn’t see through the bushes.
What occurred was another dimension entered their mind which did not have a place initially when they were created. What we call the Ego had now rooted itself inside them and they became beings able to think in another dimension. Here you have the birth of the man of sin . They now had their own self made will Satan incocaded in their mind which disconnected them from God as they were initially created. This new two dimensional way of thinking is what has given birth to the world you were born into. The world as it is today with all its illness from which you must come out of. This coming out of the world is the struggle of separation, the reconciliation back to the tree of life. A process which will turn even your own family against you. (Math 10:21/10:34). Man was not created a “spirit being” having a “physical” experience, but rather man is a physical and “mortal” having a “spiritual” experience. The Fall
Adam and Eve’s disobedience is called by mainstream Christianity the fall of man. Well it really is not a fall since a fall is accidental. It was a self willed choice that was committed knowing it was a choice contrary to instructions. But what caused them to err and sin since they were created good? This is a truth not taught by Churches in the world! It was VANITY. But from where did this vanity come from? It came from the source that created them, God Himself! See Rom 8:20. This should be a shocker to many of you. He created them frail subject to the pull of the flesh . Eve had no power against Satan overpowering seduction. She was deceived Adam however was not. The woman thus is the weaker of the two vessel and Satan knew this which is why he attacked her and not Adam. But Adam doubt in God’s word, after seeing Eve did not die overwhelmed his reasoning and he err. Whether he thought she would die or he saw she didn’t in either case the conclusion would be to eat. Adam as we, had the power of “choice” but his flesh was weak as it is with all men. He was however instructed to rule over this pull of the flesh (Gen 4:7 KJV). But this was not possible because Adam had not received the Holy Spirit which men would received later. But hold on to you horses now.
So Adam after waiting so long (we don’t know how long) for someone comparable to him was facing losing Eve. Adam’s love and long for her caused him to want to die with her. His reasoning was misplaced with emotion which overwhelmed his obedience and love to God. Now having a misplaced mind Adam unwillingness to admit the crime put the blame on Eve who put the blame on the serpent and no one was willing to repent. So while they were overwhelmed by the pull of their flesh they did had the capacity to reason and acknowledge their disobedience yet chose not to. They lied as most people do today in every aspect of their life.
As the narrative continues they were exiled from the garden less they should take of the tree of life and continue their existence in sin and live forever(Gen 3:22). There was a penalty attached to this crime. It was a physical death. Yahshuah however had not die for this sin yet. Now to prevent them from entering back into the garden God set a angel with a flaming sword to keep them out (Gen 3:24). You will see the significant of this “flaming sword” as you proceed in this writing and how we will all have to pass thru it to get back to the tree of life. For God s a consuming fire which refines the soul.Free Will
At this point I will interject the other curve I mentioned earlier which is of vital importance. This is the concept of Free Will. This is the secret lie Satan imputed into Adam and Eve which the whole world believes in today. Satan like a master salesman convinced our first parents that they would not die. In short that they were immortal beings and therefore could not. That God was just trying to keep them from having wits like God has. That this thing about dying if they ate was a lie . After all Adam and Eve did not know what death was. They had no concept of death as far as we can see. After they ate guess what, Satan was right, they did not die! God had indeed lied to them so they thought. They had free moral agency and were infact as Satan had said immortal being. Adam saw Eve did not die from the eating and must of thought “Woo Eve you still live, I think I’ll have some too”. It is interesting that at this point they became aware of themselves, not when Eve ate by herself. Otherwise Eve would of hid from Adam. Adam had the ball in his court, he actually decided their fate. God waited to see Adam’s course of action before He acted. And acted he did. Here than is the principle as it goes to say the man is over the woman, in teaching her and guiding her and Christ over the man. I will remind you again that all of this was in accordance with the counsel of God’s will.
Adam and Eve lived for hundredths of years and did not die. Perhaps Satan was right after all, they must have thought, they indeed were immortals. The idea that we have immortal souls which can go straight to heaven or to a burning hell for eternity started early in the history of man. God did say they would die but not when. All religion including Christianity in general teaches that they have it within themselves to mark their destiny. That they can come to God on their own will and that their destiny is decided by them individually. For example some Christian Cabalist will chant the “I will be what I will be “, which is God’s divine name he gave to Moses, and believe they have it within themselves to somehow become one with the Creator and will things to be as they should with God’s karma. The lie of this free will, your ego’s partner in crime, hopefully will become clearer as you go thru this writings. Continuing in Genesis it says that if they were allow to take of the tree of life they would have lived forever. Forever in a sinful state. It is not that they had already eternal souls, but that they would have received an eternal soul by taking of the tree of life if they were allowed. But before this could ever happened God cast them out for their own protection.
But here it is, the magical source of man’s imagined deity then. It is, of course, “HUMAN FREE WILL.” Or, as in the case with Satan, “SATANIC FREE WILL.” And just what is human and satanic free will? It is a fictitious power that Satan and all humans imagine they have, which gives them the power to make choices that have NO CAUSE. Do not mistake what I have said. Choice is not the power to MAKE choices. We all have that power. Choice is a power of the brain, mind, and spirit. It is a logical functioning mechanism contained in its memories. But making choices is not … I repeat is NOT, judging, determining. Even a sophisticated computer can “make choices” based on other data at its disposal or selecting something BASED ON NOTHING!!!
The first edict of the physical universe is “CAUSE AND EFFECT.” There cannot be an effect anywhere in the universe, on earth, in a laboratory under strict controls, or in the mind of a human being that does not have A CAUSE! It is axiomatic! It is not debatable! It is a LAW OF GOD! And therefore, the most lawless of all lawless conceptions possible is that man can make choices and decisions that are NOT BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE BY EITHER INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL CAUSES AND FORCES!!! It is, in fact, an attempt at nihilism of the very laws of physics. And so theologians, philosophers and the world’s greatest wisdom thinkers would have us believe that free will is a power even greater than God Himself, seeing that even God does not think things, or create things from NOTHING! God does NOT operate the universe by decisions based on nothing and therefore have to cause.
“To will” requires a “work” of GOD! We all choose as we choose because there are things and forces and situations by the millions beyond anyone’s control that CAUSE US TO CHOOSE AS WE DO! It matters not that you cannot see or feel the cause. It is there and it does its work on you. And when causes make you choose, then that particular choice could not have ever been otherwise. God is the great CAUSE of all there is. I know Christians by the hundreds of millions deny it and deny God Word that teaches it. That unbelief and lack of faith, however, does not change the facts of God’s Word or the laws of physics. The fact is humans are not self existing. We exist within the confine of creation and as such our choices are based on causes of the creation. We cannot think or bring into existence a cause outside of God’s thoughts. Free Will attempts to do exactly that. It is an attempt to override God’s sovereignty over man. Thus man creates his own abstract religion with his Ego sitting on the Throne.
Few meditate on the thought that everything that exist literally emanates from the source which created it itself. There is nothing that exist outside of God that has not come from Him. The very universe, the trees, out physical bodies, the air we breath, our very minds, you name it comes from God. For nothing exist outside of God. God then has taken of Himself to create all that exist. Everything then is interconnected because it all comes from God. Thus God said “Do not kill” for in killing you violates His very being. The very creation groans in travail waiting for reconciliation of all things. Ever since then we the children of Adam and Eve have been walking around with our cords dangling behind us. Disconnected from our created source, wonderers, plugging our cords into all types of outlets looking to fill that void inside us with our assumed free will
The spiritual life line to God was broken after the forbidden fruit. We now had separation from God. We therefore need to be connected back to the true source from which we came. Back to the Creator. God however, did have a process in motion from the beginning and hopefully you will come to understand this as you proceed. This is what the gospels are about.The Law
The law in the old testament was given as a guide from the beginning to bring man back to physical righteousness for all the law did was revealed sin. The spiritual was to come later. It actually told them what was wrong and right as a child needs to be told. Outside the laws of God man devised all kinds of evil by nature. And all that is beside that which is good as God made it, is evil. So we see all forms of self serving governments established all over the world seeking to create the perfect equitable utopia, yet all failing. They all have their laws and regulations with carnal tenets never defining what is sin and what constitutes true moral edicts in a sound society. There is no such thing as sin without the law. What this means is that if you kill someone it is what it is. There is nothing saying that it is wrong, as a consequence there is no such thing as judgment. The law tells you what is evil and what is good. It brings about judgment. Without it you can’t tell the difference because of the alien way of thinking of the Ego. Without the existence of a lie there is no such thing as truth. There only is what is.
For example the old western shoot out before sundown. As long as both party drew it was “legal”. This was not consider murder. There was no moral law until they started opening the Bible. This is rudimentary and basic but the fact is that unless one accepts the morality of the Bible’s teaching, everyone will have their own mind. Thus opinions become a dime a dozen.
I will emphasize this important point. The keeping of the law does not make one spiritually righteous that it takes one into the Kingdom of God. Some will have you believe this. Here is a very important revelation that makes this point very clear. But remember this is spiritual stuff and adherents of the law of Moses will not see this. Paul having kept the law to the letter was a chief sinner by keeping the law!
Tim 1:15 “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, OF WHOM I AM CHIEF”!! Paul admitted he was “BLAMELESS IN LAW KEEPING” and “the CHIEF OF SINNERS”? AT THE SAME TIME!!!
WHEN PAUL HAD REACHED THE ZENITH OF TOTAL OBEDIENCE AND ZEAL TO GOD UNDER THE OLD COVENANT LAW OF MOSES, IT CAUSED HIM AT THE SAME TIME TO BE THE WORLD’S WORST SINNER!!
Paul was both THE MOST PERFECT LAW-KEEPER AND THE WORLD’S WORST SINNER, AT THE SAME TIME!!! How is this possible?”Who also makes us competent dispensers of a NEW covenant, NOT of the letter, but OF the spirit, for the letter KILLS but the spirit gives LIFE” (II Cor. 3:6).
The Old Covenant written in Ten Commandments on stone tablets was an “ADMINISTRATION OF DEATH” (Ver. 7). And the letter will ALWAYS KILL:
“They shall put you out of the synagogues; yea, the time comes, that whosoever KILLS YOU will think that he does God service [by following the law of Moses under the Old Covenant]” (John 16:2).
To prove to God his GREATEST ZEAL, Paul persecuted and slaughtered the church, which was legal for him to do under the authority of the High Priest, Chief Priests, Elders and Council at the Temple in Jerusalem, of whom Jesus Himself said, “They SIT IN MOSES SEAT.” And it was this very ZEAL FOR GOD that also made him the world’s WORST SINNER! Unbelievable! UNBELIEVABLE!! UNBELIEVABLE THE EGO TRIP OF THIS MAN!!! That was before he was touched by the spirit of the Most High. Retracting back without the Holy Spirit man cannot perceive the spirit of the law. A higher standard to which we are called.
The law then was set up as a tutor, a teacher to assist in distinguishing what is right and what is wrong. This may be strange to you but the mind is carnal, sold under the enslavement of sin. It cannot receive the things that are of God because the carnal mind is enmity with God. The greatest miracle taking place today in the transformation of the human mind into a God mind. Mentioning to the average Christian for example that Christmas is wrong and has nothing to do with God will have a dire repercussion even when you are able to prove this as a historical fact. God said its wrong because it takes their mind away from Him. But it is a slap in the face to the Ego who will fight to keep his pagan worship and run away from God as did Adam and Eve. People do this ignorantly. They don’t know that this is what is happening. They don’t know this is wrong and breaking the second commandment not to have any other God besides YHWH.
So Christ was crucified because he went against the grain of the common thought, yet He said “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”. Are you beginning to understand what is wrong deep down inside each of us. Are you beginning to see we all need to be heal from years of lies and heresies we believed were true. Simply because our religious leaders told us so and more importantly because our parents reinforced this belief or gave us none. Even the 12 step program to alcoholic recovery emphasizes “Letting God and Letting Go” because they realize it is the only ultimate solution to the alcoholic’s problem.Why Yahsuah Died
Now back to the Ego. So what did Jesus Christ actually do by being crucified? He died to Himself and in doing so became the way and the life for us to follow. He died in our place. He served our sentence for us willingly of His own accord. For in God’s reign there is law and order. His death led to the future resurrection for all of us. In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus takes that Ego and that self made will and he lets it die. He voluntarily sacrifices it for the purpose of serving God’s kingdom and God’s larger plan. Don’t kid yourselves Jesus was fully human with all the fleshly pulls which drives us. His dying to Himself eliminated the spiritual separation between God and man which lead to the dying of the Ego and returning to everlasting life which he had before (John 17:5).
What happened through the passion of Christ is not arbitrary, it is not fickle, it is not silly, it is not stupid. It is not disassociated from the real problem. The real problem is sin. The real problem is Ego. The real problem is an incorrect way of understanding, it is a improper focus of the consciousness away from God and upon self. That is the problem with all of us. The redemption of mankind, then, does not go through any secondary or artificial means. It does not propitiate anything. It does not seek revenge, it is not a form of punishment. It is a perfect divine expiation of the problem. I would like you to understand if nothing else that the God which has been served to you is an alien God! A fake God sits on the throne of the Most High which makes you think you are in control. That all you do is of you! Not only that but he is a terrible God who would put people on earth to go through so much havoc and then throw them into a lake of fire for all eternity. Please give this some serious thought how absurd it is. How can anyone serve such a ridiculous outlandish idea. Why is it so ridiculous ? Well consider the following scripture which ministers will not quote but here it is:
Mat 11:27 “All thing are delivered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father, neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and to whomsoever the Son will reveal him”.
John 6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father”.Man is Drawn
Do you see that no one can come to want to know and understand God unless God Himself draws a person to Himself. For no man seeks God of his own free will. God’s perfect plan has been polluted and misunderstood over the years. To see how gloriously and how magnificently God deals with the problem of ego, to see the exact way that the original problem is taken care of is such a magnificent revelation, such a magnificent gift, that it is truly sad to see how the Gospel has become polluted and fallen over the years.
Here however we are beginning to have an organic, wholesome understanding of God. We understand that God loves Adam and Eve and is not trying to seek revenge on them. We see that God is trying to help heal them, and is not trying to vent His wrath on anyone. We see that God is actually, factually, fixing a problem, not merely wanting some form of silly sacrifice in order to appease His capricious anger. Jesus’s passion became the antidote. By that I mean this substance, this divine revelation released to the entire human race a power, which all people have access to according to His will. Forty-nine (49) days after Jesus’ resurrection he poured out the Holy Spirit through Pentecost, so that the very power by which he lived his life became available to all human beings. This mean all human beings will attain salvation contrary to popular teaching that most will go to a burning fire in hell.What to Do
What then has to happen? We must follow the voice of John the Baptist, we must follow the voice of Yahsuah and we must repent, which, which means to think differently. We have to change our way of thinking and recognize that we need to be healed from sin which is holding us captive. We must give up all those idols of the heart which have made their beds in it, making it deceitful above all things. An idol is anything worldly anything that is not spiritual. ” You have to stop saying ” I will be what I will be” for only God can. But we must give up our will and choose to do God’s will, His purpose despite it going against your grain, our better judgment. Jesus has paid the ransom and now we have access to the Father once again. We are children of God and must learn to start thinking as such and become Holy as God is Holy.
As long as we continue in denial, feeling sorry for ourselves, wallowing in we are fallen disgusting sinners, that is how we will live. And if we then justify our continuity as such than we will live hopelessly. So why is this happening? Because we don’t want to face the change we have to make. Its like the alcoholic who drinks to numb and block his low self esteem that he might not face his despicable state but continue in it. It is like the blamer and moaner who fuel their self pity by rallying people around them who agree with them. Thus justifying their continual bragging and blaming someone else for their condition but never acknowledging their own evilness. Once we begin to recognize (by God’s divine intervention) that we are, in fact, children of the living God, and that we are all brothers and sisters under Him, then we will recognize this living out in ourselves and begin to participate in the life for which we are destined. We have personal choices to make however.The Experience
The Ego then is a state of mind living in the abstract. It is the enmity against God we all posses which must go. The vile self centered attitudes we give to others irrespective of the hurt we cause. It is the choice of arguing for a parking space instead of kindly letting it go. This is what has to die inside you that Yashuah may live for you. It is inevitable that we will all reach the same climax of spiritualism where we will have to throw our arms to our side and admit we are just but man. We will all be brought down and hit rock bottom where humility is waiting. Oh yeah, you think you know humility. Some think its reading the Bible and being nice to people. What happens when you have to tell them the truth about themselves? Think about Jesus with all the power of the universe in His hands yet he did what? He “turned the other cheek”. Think about you having such powers and someone coughing something vile from deep inside their chest and spitting it in your face, think in your present state if you would have enough humility to say “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”. Yet that is what Yahshuah did. Give this some thought when you go to bed, because this is where we all need to be.
In Ecc. 1:13 it reads “It is an experience of evil God has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it”.
One way or the other all humanity will be humbled to their knees by trials and tribulations until God has our full undivided attention. We are talking about getting to a point of final submission to His Will. Of submitting in prayer without ceasing because we cannot do nothing of ourselves and answer our higher calling that transcends the physical laws. That we need God like we need air. The rebirth of a new conscious in the human experience. Jews celebrate the Feast of Atonement which is a most humbling feast for them. It however, is not a Jewish feast it is a God feast day. Anyway, in their belief they are allowed throughout the year to amass sin reaching the sky. But at this day they believe all their sins are forgiven them by fasting. The next day its back to their normal routine and they can go back to all the game humanity plays. It is a game we all play amounting to nothing more than being mere human beings. Are you playing the same game in a different manner? Being humble is much more than not eating for a 24 hour period. Why the Pharisees were the backbone of the keeping of the law of Moses yet Christ said to his disciples their righteousness must exceed that of their leaders in order to be right with God. God has wanted to gather all His people under His wings like a chicken gathers her chicks but we are unwilling. So like children He chastised us telling us please turn to me for I love you and know what is best for you.
From the beginning God has said Gen 4:7 KJV says ” If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted and if thou does not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him”
Another version renders it like this “If you do well, is there not acceptance? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should master it”.
We were created in the flesh for a divine purpose. God could of made us rocks, for the very rocks would of cried out during Jesus time if it were possible (Luke 19:40), but he made us flesh. We are to master this fleshly body and in doing so develope spiritual character. Most people do not know the purpose of life. They just wake up, go to work, eat, go to the bathroom, etc, etc, go to sleep and repeat the whole mundane scenario over and over again without no concrete understanding of what’s it all about. Who would want to live forever under such a condition? Yet the Egyptians mummified themselves holding on to the flesh and today rich people are freezing their bodies in hope of future technology waking them up some day in the future. The sign of a puffed up Ego living in an self immortalized abstract driven by what? What drives man to get instead of give, why of course by the hideous coveting GREED.
Greed which plaques a person like an uncontrollable eating habit. It’s just as bad as a drug habit!
Here is a short example before ending. I worked for a large retail store and this man, about 65 comes in and measures a refrigerator which has been marked down from 1,600.00 to 696.00, an excellent deal. I explained he must purchase it for me to hold it until he returns from measuring his existing space at home. For it was a first come first served and it wouldn’t last very long. He refused and left. Someone else shortly came along and excitingly bought it. I tagged it sold and the person was to pick it up that evening. When she returned behold the refrigerator was gone! Apparently the old man had return switched the tag to another refrigerator and walk it out with this customers property. The store took a lost by having to give the customer a free refrigerator. I was stunted. How can anyone with a foot here and the other in the grave sleep with such a conscious is beyond me. What sort of mind drives a person to act in such a way. Greed! Which is nothing more than covertness. Like a child who throws a tantrum and won’t let anyone play with his toys. It is a sick desperate gasping attempt at divinity. A drug feeding the addictive Ego who says this refrigerator is mine cause I said so. I’m in control. I’m in charge and say what goes on around here. It is the way of get not give. This too will be burnt out of everyone’s heart thru God’s consuming fire He has set in motion to humble all man. I ask you how much greed and vanity is in your life?
Vanity
“Vanity of vanity, all is vanity” cries the preacher of Ecclesiastics. For a divine purpose God, “made the creature (man) subject to vanity”-failure, but later in mankind’s development, the creature “shall be”- [future tense]… shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption.” Ah yes, God created man in a condition of “bondage” and “corruption,” and therefore not “immortal” as is taught, but rather in “bondage of corruption.” But thanks to God, in the resurrection of the dead, ‘…this corruption must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality’ (I Cor. 15).
The final solution to the human problem is a humble and contrite heart on our knees (Isaiah 57:15) not another candidate or another party with a new twist on the rules. A broken down heart. Only then will be ready to be brought back up, and this time with God’s love inside us. One way or the other it will be accomplished and fulfilled for it is our destiny. Our personal attitudes in dealing with each other needs changing. Some will need more refining thru God’s consuming fire then others. But all will be changed and saved for Jesus died for the whole world, for that was His purpose. Dig deep down inside yourself and do some stocking of what manner of person you are. For the bigger your Ego is the more refining you will need to get back to the tree of life. In ending I will recommend three movies to watch which I believe, in a small way, will show you what I am trying to convey to you. Watch at the end how the Ego of the main characters is allowed to die and the other cheek is turned. Watch it and see. See if God grants you the spiritual insight to see the beginning of the death of the Ego and what is it you need to personally do. For your Ego must die. It is your destiny.
May I suggest three movies I believe will help you see the point made here. “The Hero” with Jet Lee, “The Kingdom of Heaven”, “Saint and Soldiers”.