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Chapter #23 |
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As read by Kenneth B Visscher |
The Agate Stone - Forgetting In Four
Realms
MANASSEH.... Means forgetfulness; to be restored; to have
no part of the old nature left within....The putting together of many nations.
AGATE.... Even layers.... beauty of many colors. Where the river flows.....
JEHOVAH KEDDESH....TO be sanctified or separated.... The
LORD who separates us from our old nature. He will divide the words in
our mind from the spirit that gives them life.
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I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet];
but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies
behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to
which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.
So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature and full-grown have
this mind and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a
different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also.
Only let us hold true to what we have already attained and walk and order
our lives by that.
Brethren, together follow my example and observe those who live after the
pattern we have set for you.
Phillippians
3:13-17 AMPLIFIED
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We have seen how the Sword of the Lord will divide bone and marrow, soul and
spirit in us through the topology of the Agate Stone. We have seen how the Lord
moves in us in such a way as to reveal the things in us {The Giants} He must
cleanse us of. The walk we are in is getting narrower and narrower as the days
roll by. Straight and narrow as never before. God
reveals in us these things so we can have them dealt with by His Love and
Forgiveness and then be cleansed of them by the Blood of Christ. In the next
study of the Amethyst Stone we will see how God cleanses us from intoxications
left by the influence of demonic spirits and personal iniquity. Now we will see
how to get past all those things so we can walk CLEAN and HOLY before the Lord
as relates still to The Agate Stone.
We have been told many times in our past to “forgive” those who trespass
against us. Also we have been taught to “forgive” ourselves for shortcomings
and for things that we feel are sinful in our own lives. Not just that, but we
have learned to “forgive” those who hold the Lord in a different light than we
do. Those who’s doctrine in our opinion may be an
offense to our personal walk. By formula and by ritual we have forgiven the
many offenses that have come. But we need wisdom to realize that the Lord has
ordered our circumstances to reveal in us the “giants” that we need to
overcome, realms of iniquity in our individual hearts that we need to conquer
by becoming obedient to the calling of God on our lives. But forgiveness is
only half the equation. It is merely one part of what the Lord desires of us in
our daily walk with Him and with our fellow companions in tribulation. The
other half of the equation is to “forget” what we have come through!
That is not to say that we forget what we have been taught. We forget the
slights, the misalignments with our individual purposes, the offenses of a
multitudinous variety which afflict us in our walk. We are to learn by the
Agate upon the Royal Ephod that not only do we have our inward parts discerned
by the Lord, but that offenses will come because of that exposure. That along
with the offenses will come the lessons taught by forgiving one another and
that by these offenses we learn to FORGET the past and reach forth unto the
things which are before.
We know that the Lord is coming to manifest His fullness in His company of Overcomers. But the Overcomers must first learn
to FORGET their former sorrows.
One thing I have personally learned about forgetting is this. That I cannot
be totally obedient to the calling of God upon my life UNLESS I forget the
past! Not forget the “lessons” but the “slights”, the “failures”, the “offenses
against me”. That I forgive and forget all that realm.
Forgetting sets me free to OBEY the Lord in whatever new steps He has placed
before me. In word of fact, by forgetting those things which are behind, we are
able to go on to overcome all obstacles that come before us. God’s Spirit must
work “forgetfulness” into us. This cannot be done by our own choice but my His
Purposes being fulfilled in our lives though our chastisements as Overcomers.
So with that being said I want to share 4 realms where we are to “forget”.
1} FORGET SORROW:
- Over our hopeless condition when we awake to
it in this world.
- That we live in a world that God has cursed
because of Adam’s Fall.
- The Mystery of Iniquity is increasing, not
decreasing in the World.
- We remain in trials and tribulations when we
would rather see them completed.
2} FORGET GRIEF:
- That there may be areas in our lives that are
at enmity against God.
- Bearing sinful men or even our own sin as
those who desire Holiness instead.
- That there are some who we walked with in
fellowship that have turned aside in deception.
- We have removed from us any personal ambition
by God who desires our lives to be laid down before Him.
3} FORGET ANGER:
- We may have anger towards God Himself for
creating our lives in this sinful fallen world.
- We can be angry at ourselves over our
inability to know and to do the Will of God.
- We can be angry at our fellow man because of
conflicts and divisions, political or religious.
4} FORGET THE CURSE OF GOD:
- The 1st and 2nd World
will be remembered no more.
- We will forget the completed work of the
Mystery of Iniquity in us.
- We will also forget this realm of 1st death,
a further extension of the 1st and 2nd World.
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Forgetting the realm of this world is necessary
to overcoming a typical human response to negativity, and that is one of
self-preservation. By self-preservation I do not mean the provision needed for
living in this world, but rather the preservation of that which we are TO
FORGET. Self preservation that would cause a person to
envelop themselves with a protective barrier to any outside influence, so much
so that even the Holy Spirit can be quenched because of it.
Self preservation is a FALSE form of forgetting.
It is a masked effort to rid oneself of the pain of their life in this world
which can bring much conflict to anyone who desires to do the Will of God in
it. A true forgetting must be worked into us by the Spirit of God alone who
removes remembrance of the pain of past suffering from us. This is also part of
the Sword of Jehovah in our lives, to remove from us past pain by causing us to
forget. MANESSEH, a child of Jacob, who was named thus so that the pain of this
world can be forgotten and joy can be it’s
replacement. So that the joy of the Lord can be our strength.
If forgetting is not successful in us we do
commit gross sin. We take the tribulation of our lives, the circumstances that
surround us, and we build a “requiem” to them. A “shrine” is developed. A place of idolatrous worship. Dwelling so much so on these things of negativity is to worship them as a
source of hurtful pride.
By dwelling on hurtful trials, we build out of
the slime of Shinar, a new tower of Babel.
We build a tower to make a name for ourselves.
That our tribulation becomes the center point of our reasons to exist apart
from God’s Grace. Making a name for our idolatrous worship becomes prominent in
our purposes and in our quest to be “like gods”. The very
same temptation that the serpent placed upon Adam and Eve in the original
creation. That we would know “good and evil”.
This all comes because of a lack of “forgetting”. God never intended for us to
dwell on the negative testings that come our way. And come they will, for our
correction and encouragement. But then we are to go past them and move on to a
deeper and more fuller walk with God, not to stop and build a requiem that
denotes personal suffering when in fact personal suffering is not what God
wants us to “remember”.
Then in this sinful act of building again the
tower of Babel, we end up with a communion of like minded souls who are doing
the same thing. They all become one in their language and in their thoughts of
making a name for themselves. The tower they build is to preserve their
testings and their pride rather than to forget them. It becomes an association,
a communion of soul to soul rather than of a created child of the King to their
Creator. When soul to soul communion is created by this idolatry, the Lord is
forgotten, and man’s self preserving nature is protected and reinforced.
So rather dear
Overcomers, readers of these pages. Forget those things which are behind you and
press forward towards the mark of the prize of the High Calling of God in
Christ Jesus. Lay aside the sin which so easily besets you, that desire to
build your requiem to your sufferings. Forget your sufferings. Remember instead
the joy that is set before you and go on in God and Overcome.
To be continued................. Kenneth B
Visscher