Repentance from Dead Works Part 6: How Do We Repent from Dead Works
Greetings Sons of God:
John 6:27-29: Labour not for the
meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life,
which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father
sealed. Then said they unto him, What
shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is
the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Romans 6:6-8: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Now there are two distinct
mindsets presented in both Scriptures that we must understand in order to know
what we are repenting from. Now Jesus in
John 6 calls out the disciples when they find Him in stating they were seeking
Jesus for the fact that they got full off of the loaves not not the
miracle. Jesus had to transition their
thinking and perception and verse 27-29 is that transition. He tells them not to labour or work for the
food that perishes (physical) but for the food (spiritual) that leads to
everlasting life. For so many of us we
will stress and claw and struggle just for physical bread but God said do not
do that, repent, change your mind. Jesus
said the Son of man shall give you food that shall lead to everlasting life. The food that leads to everlasting life is
the Word of God and the person that shall give it to us are the sons of God
that the Father sends to us.
The two mindsets are the carnal
(soulish) mindset and the spiritual mindset.
To repent from dead works is to transition from works lead by the soul
to works lead by the Spirit. Because it
is in hearing the Word of God and believing that we are fed and allow the
eternal to impact the physical.
Understand that everything that was made for us came from the
eternal. This is why we pray for His
will to be done in earth as it is in heaven.
And this brings me to our second Scripture in Romans.
It says to be carnally minded is
death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. The soulish mindset is always limited in it’s
view. The soulish mindset cares for
itself and how it may protect itself.
The scriptures say that this mindset to a son of God is enmity or
hostile against God. So the soul can act
independent of God. It is your free will
center. Our goal in repenting from dead
works is to submit the will of the soul to the will of the spirit because in
the Will of the Spirit there is peace and life.
We are not our source, God the Father is our source and we live because
of Him and through Him for everything.
I encourage you to read Romans
8:6-17 this is a absolute wonderful passage describing the need to transfer
from being lead by the soul to being lead by the Spirit and the consequences of
being lead by each. Understand that this
is where spiritual fathers play a vital role because they will help correct
behaviors that have been instilled in us for so long that are works that lead
unto death. They help train us to hear
the Spirit and in the midst of the situation they teach us to defy reason and
obey the spirit. In order to mature
effectively we must repent from works that lead to death to work the works that
lead unto eternal life. This why we as
the sons of God take no thought saying what shall we eat, drink or wear but we
know the Father knows we have need of all these things but we as the sons of
God should seek first, the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all of
those things shall be added unto us (Matthew 6:31-33 Paraphrased)
In the next message we will
examine the second elementary doctrine, faith toward God
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
