Seeing from Heaven

Introduction ‘SEEING FROM HEAVEN’ is a book with a God given purpose of renewing the mind or getting a mind-set so we can have God’s perspective rather than our own earth bound or traditional view. It is not written for the purpose of destroying anyone’s true hope or beliefs, but it may very well cause us to see differently from the Highest point of view, His! So it is not an attempt to get people to believe my way or the way of Pentecost, or Baptist, or Methodist, or the faith movement, or Kingdom, or anything else. It is about seeing God and then seeing through His eyes, which will surely give us greater hope and beliefs than what we might have had before. If it is truly, “I no longer live, but Christ that lives in me”, then it’s not about my religion, or traditional teachings, or my own beliefs. It is all about who He is, and His expression of life in and through me. We would naturally think that what God believes is right, and He has the right belief, but that is not true. Nowhere in the Bible does it say, God believes this, that, and another thing. God doesn’t have a set of beliefs that He follows. That in itself would limit God and place Him under His own laws of a belief system. He only believes His word that comes out of His life-giving spirit of love. No rules, no laws, no set of beliefs, and no need for restraint because His life is pure, holy, and good without any variation or shadow of turning. Jesus never stated that, “I believe God to be such and such.” He knows his Father and is one with the Father. He was God and a partaker of that life. Jesus expressed Himself as knowing the Father personally; therefore, He was not governed by the laws of Moses or even Jewish customs. Jesus had no need to live by such things when He had the life of God dwelling in Him. It was Jesus’ custom to go to the synagogue, but not as a Jew under the law, but as a Son having intimate relations with the Father! He was born a Jew, but He knew He was the Son. And the Son is of a higher order of Life than that of the Jew under the law. He is from above, but the Jews and Gentiles alike are from below, if they still have an unrighteous conscience. But, we are from above, if we are in Christ, for our citizenship is in heaven. Knowing this, Jesus saw the law as not a set of rules to follow in order to please His Father. He saw the law as a revelation of who the Father is and who He is. God does not steal, but He gives. God does not bear false witness, but He is the truth. God does not commit adultery, but He is the faithful marriage partner who will never leave us nor forsake us, even if while in darkness, we forsake Him. As a Son, Jesus fulfilled the law and the prophets, not as a Jew observing the law and under the law, but as a Son. So Jesus lived His life as a divine expression of the Father’s life in Him, and not by certain beliefs established by the law. So, it is not by our beliefs that we live by, but as Christ Jesus lived by the life of God in Him, so do we. Our beliefs should only draw us closer to God, and see Him more clearly so we might freely partake of His life. Then it is according to that impression of His life in us that we live and move and have our being. By this life-giving impression we can say as Jesus said, “I can only speak what I hear my Father speak, and I can only do what I see my Father do.” Why? As He is, so are we in this world. Jesus saw the Father and then saw Himself. How so? He knew He was sent from His Father in His likeness and image as his Son. Whose image does the word of God say you are made in? Whose son are you? Not the son of the first Adam, because he died on the cross, but you are the son of the resurrected Christ man from heaven manifest in the earth! You are the risen Christ! For you are a member of His body, and He is the head! Did Jesus have certain beliefs? Yes, He believed what the Father told Him and showed Him, but not as a hard rule of law to obey or follow, but as an expression of His greater life at that time called the I AM. Jesus ate always from the tree of life and not from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. As one eating from the tree of life, we cannot be a hard-nosed, stiff-necked people who stress our differences in beliefs. There is no partaking of the tree of life when we do such things, only the eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Stating our differences must be as an expression of His indwelling life, or we are only offering to others to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. The expression of, “Our beliefs is better than your beliefs,” is an expression of the law without the Spirit. Even if they truly are better or greater beliefs, they have no power to deliver or help because they did not contain His life of love when we declared them. We have all been at the place where we unknowingly honor and even esteem our own personal beliefs above that of the life and nature of God dwelling in us. It is our pride in our beliefs and traditions that we have that caused us to express ourselves with an attitude saying, “I have my own beliefs, so don’t try to change what I believe!” This seems to be the response of most church going people today. Why is it such a mystery to us who believe in the One Lord Jesus Christ, as to the way God sees and views things? If He is the Head of the Church, let us see with His eyes. Is it the body that has eyes or the head? Jesus is the Head of the body of believers. So let us honor the life of Christ in us above our beliefs. Then we will begin to truly see as He sees. Pride in our set of beliefs seems to be more valuable to us than loving one another. We take pride in being able to defend our beliefs without expressing His life in whom we believe. (Selah) We train up others, even our own children, so that they can defend our beliefs. In doing so, there may be the absence of the presence of God and His love. Therefore, no expression of His higher life is experienced in such training. ‘Seeing From Heaven’ is all about God, and thus seeing all things from God‘s heavenly perspective, so that He may indeed be all and in all. It is my hope and the dream of my heart to reveal the life of Christ in us so we might see His point of view from the throne in heaven as our expression of His life. Our beliefs are extremely important. Our beliefs form our God! If there is something we believe that is untrue about God and what He is saying in His written word, then that untruth forms an image of God in our minds. That particular belief has just made an idol or man-made image of God. That image affects us and how we see ourselves and others. That false image is powerless and speechless to help. It is powerless, because it is a deception. It is speechless, because it doesn’t speak by the Spirit, but only by our lying imaginations. It will also turn us away from the true and living God. So what we believe is of utmost importance because what we believe is what we will partake of and express in this life. A good close look at the Chief Cornerstone is the foundational stone for seeing from heaven’s viewpoint. That point of view is literally the life of Christ, which is the highest expression of life. It is impossible to lay another foundation of truth because the foundation is already laid in Christ Jesus. Christ is the unchangeable foundation. Therefore, we will only be taking a close look at that which is already laid so we might see Him. The right view of God should always point to or reflect Christ Jesus, the Chief Cornerstone of our foundation. If it does not, we should ask ourselves and God what is this view of what was spoken pointing me to? The truth, the kingdom of heaven, the scriptures, and the gospel is not of any man’s private interpretations of the word of God that might intrigue us. But it is seeing God, so that we may see all things the same way He sees them. No one shall see God and live is a wonderful and glorious scripture that tells