When I was a child I loved the story of the three little pigs. My mother would read it whenever I asked her. Like any small child, I enjoyed the story because of the colourful characters, the exciting conflict between the pigs and the wolf, and the death of the evil wolf at the end. Eventually I learned "the moral of the story" and the lessons it taught. Don't be lazy....You'll be sorry if you don't do the best job possible....etc. I read the story again and again but I never stopped and scrutinized the truth and validity of each sentence. I never said "Mom, Pigs can't talk can they? Mom, How can a pig build a house? Mom, Where do the pigs live today? Mom, What about the wolf's brother and wife and children. Even a young child realizes that the story is not real. The older child soon learns fictional stories like these are told to children to teach the child a lesson. It is much easier for the mind of the child to remember the story than to remember the lesson.

I suggest to you now that The Holy Bible, both the old and the new testament was written in the same way with the same purpose. In scripture's case however, the lessons are much more important. Scripture imparts to man the lessons of God. Among other things, they tell of a person called Jesus. The story has Jesus walking the earth like a man and healing people and teaching people and huffing and puffing and blowing the moneychangers out of the temple. The lesson it teaches the man or woman reading it is often missed completely or not given the correct significance.

In addition to the "parables of Jesus" in the new testament I would again suggest to you that the entire 66 books of the Holy Bible are parabolic. When various characters in the bible ask to "see the Lord" they are always told they do not understand scripture for if they did they would know the Lord. Statements like this make no sense to our rational mind until we accept the symbolic nature of scripture. When we read a passage and ask ourselves; "What was the writer getting at? What lesson is he trying to impart? then everything becomes clear.

The main lessons the writers of scripture want us to learn are:

1. God is an internal not external being. He is in you and me and will awake in the form of Jesus.
2. Until God awakes within you, you can make your life much easier and happier if you know his promises and know how to pray to the God with in you when you ask for the things you desire.

Saul was taught and believed in an external God. When he found the truth, God changed his name from Saul to Paul. The change in name symbolizes the change of mind. In Corinth.5:16 Paul said "Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh; but now we know him so no longer" Paul could no longer accept the Lord Jesus as being a man...instead he was a spirit (The Holy Ghost).

John tells us: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the word was God. And the Word became flesh and dwells within us."

Choose this day whom you serve. If you choose the Lord, then serve Him. If you choose man, then serve him.

The Lord God in Jesus in you is the true Glory of God. His name is I AM.

You ask the question of Paul: “Was he or Christ once really a man?” If you asked that of Paul, he would say: “Was?” “He is the heavenly man.”Well, does that answer you? You are asking the question: “Was he really ever a man?” and you’ll reply: “Not was - he is the heavenly man.” “As we have borne the image of the man of dust, so shall we also bear the image of the heavenly man.” That still doesn’t satisfy. “Was he really a man as we understand a man?” He doesn’t respond, in time. Then you read his words: “From now on we will regard no one from a human point of view, even though we formerly regarded Christ from a human point of view, we regard him thus no longer.” (2 Corinthians 5:16) Then he makes the statement in the same chapter: “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not counting any trespasses against them, and entrusting us with the message of reconciliation.” (v. 19) You will see later on what Paul is trying to tell us, if I would substitute the word “imagination” for “God,” and “imagining” for “Christ.” Imagining means the activity of imagination - that imagination was imagining, reconciling the world to himself and not counting any trespasses against them, and then entrusting to us this message of imagining.

Now we will go to this great Book of Galatians, 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Bear in mind imagining being that son, imagination being God the Father. Now let us go to the first two verses of the 3rd chapter: “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?” Listen to the words carefully: “Before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.” Do you know what “portray”means? I think we all know, but let me refresh your memory: “To depict in a drawing or painting; or in some verbal description; or as an action on a stage,” a play on the stage. “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?” Answer me only this: “Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?” “Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you ending with the flesh?”

Do you get it? The whole vast world has fallen victim to believing in the flesh of Jesus.

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