Bill Brady   (Edited 11/28/2018)

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;  old things have passed away;  behold, all things have become new.”

A sculptor was asked how he was able to carve an angel out of a block of stone. 

• The sculptor said, “It’s easy.  I just carve away everything that’s not angel.”
• The sculptor separated the angel from all of the stone surrounding it.
• This left just angel.

When we are born again we are like that stone angel.

• We are a new creation inside an old creation.
• We are a new creation needing to be separated from our old creation.

We still need to be separated from three things.

• We need to be separated from the way that we have always done things.
• We need to be separated from being in charge of our own life.
• We need to be separated from a sense of self.
• That is separate from our experience of oneness with God.

We need to be separated from the way that we have always done things. 

• Without faith it is impossible to please God.
• Anything that we say or do that is not like God won’t please Him.
• Anything that we say or do on our own apart from Him won’t please God.

The Bible calls things that we say or do “works”. 

• We are to stop saying or doing anything on our own.
• How can we do this?
• We can try to stop doing things on our own by doing something about it.
• But then, that is doing something on our own to try to stop doing things on our own.
• There is a better way.

“For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.”

• God created the heavens and the earth is six days.
• On the 7th day God rested from all His works. 

We come to rest from our works by entering into His 7th day rest from His works.

• The works that we are to turn away from are any works that we do on our own.
• As opposed to works that we do with Him.

Anything that we do or say apart from God does not have His life in it.

• God is alive.
• He is living.
• What He does has His life in it.
• God only does living works.
• Anything that we do apart from God is a dead work.

Works that we do with God are living works.

• They come from the flow of Holy Spirit.
• They also reflect our blueprint which is our destiny scroll.
• They are works of co-building with the Master Builder of the universe who is Jesus.
• And of flowing with the Holy Spirit.
• They are living works because Jesus is the Life.
• They are living works because Holy Spirit is the River of Life.

We are told, “Labor to enter into this rest.”

• We work to enter rest from our own works.
• And we come to enter His rest.
• How can we work to enter rest from our own works?

Jesus was once asked a question about this.

“What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”

•  Here is Jesus’ answer.

“This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

• The work that we do to come to rest from our own works is the work of faith.
• It is the work of believing in Jesus’ work for us on the cross.

We can experience coming to rest from works that we do on our own.

• It is a being set free from doing and saying things on our own.
• It is a separation from doing and saying things on our own.

Death is a separation. 

• When a person dies they are separated from the living.
• The person who has died is separated from their body.
• We know that this is only a temporary separation.

We need to be separated from doing and saying things on our own.  

• The Good News is that we already have been separated.
• We were separated when Jesus was separated.
• We died when Jesus died.
• We died once with Jesus when He died.

“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?”

• We were baptized with Jesus when He was baptized.

“…one Lord, one faith, one baptism…”

• We became one with Jesus in this one death when we were baptized.
• Now we know this truth.

We can simply chose to believe it.

• Sin is doing anything apart from faith.
• Believe that you have already been separated from sin.
• When you believe you experience a separation.
• You are now free from sin.
• You enter into God’s rest.

Once we enter into God’s rest then we can enter into New Jerusalem.

• We can visit New Jerusalem many times before we enter into it.
• Entering in this sense is not the time that we first visit.

Think of Jesus.

• He visited Jerusalem many times.
• Jesus entered Jerusalem the week before His crucifixion.
• His entering in as the acknowledged Christ.
• It was His Triumphal Entry.

Our own triumphal entry into New Jerusalem is the end of us being our own king.

• Up until then we had two kings:  ourselves and Jesus.
• Now we have one King.
• During our triumphal entry there will be a crowd cheering us on.
• We now enter into the beginning of our sonship.

This is one of the key steps on the way up to NJ.

• You can step into this by the word as I have here on this page.
• And / or you can step into it by encountering the 9 fire stones.
• Let them do their work of preparing you for NJ.
• Brings increase in fruit of the Spirit.

Love is the fulfillment of the law.

• And a result of the work of the Holy Spirit in out lives.
• Love does no injury to another.

Perfect love casts out all fear.

• And is complete separation from dead works.
• The more that we are filled with love the more living works flow out of us.

Separation from dead works is also living from the tree of life.

• It allows for a full flow of life.
• Any work that we do that is from a flow of life is a living work.