Orphans will always struggle it seems

This is a terrible thing to say and yet I have found it to be true.

Unless!

We must SEE that the gospel is SPIRIT and not flesh. Not humanism or psychology, but SPIRIT!

God is Spirit

The Gospel is not an earthly solution

The gospel will not fix any of earthly problems especially our desire to be loved, unless we accept, see and believe that God is SPIRIT. Christ did not come so that we can feel happy, have a better life or feel loved. He came to build God a House in the Spirit out of living stones which is the elect. When this becomes your joy, your hope and your vision then you are being saved and then all things will become NEW.

14. For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;15. and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.16. Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17

Building God a House in the Spirit

Christ came to build God a house in the Spirit, a Virgin, The New Jerusalem.

5. you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:5

Adam looks to God like a baboon looks to us

Our Adamic selves are to God like a baboon. You cannot marry a baboon, redeem a baboon or even let it in your house. The only way forward for us is to ACCEPT that the only way forward for the inner baboon is death.

3. Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?4. Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:3-4

18. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

1 Peter 3:18

First comes the natural then the spiritual.

41. There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.42. So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.43. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.44. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.45. And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.46. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.47. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.48. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.49. And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

1 Corinthians 15:41-50

First the earthly father then the spiritual Father

9. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Hebrews 12:9

It is obvious that if we try and see God as some sort of “better earthly father” a sugar daddy of sorts, we will be orphaned again. God is SPIRIT and relates to us on that basis. If we manage to see that He is “the Father of Spirits” we will live. If we keep looking for an emotional soulish step-dad, we will inevitable be disappointed and perish.

The purpose of the gospel and the cross is not inner healing or medicine and miracles for Adam. The gospel is death to Adam and life in Christ Jesus who is now Himself a life-giving Spirit.

45. And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:45

Those who are in the Spirit, have no orphan heart, but regrettably, there are many who do not experience this at all.

14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.15. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”16. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,17. and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

Romans 8:14-17

The Matter of Love

Orphans crave love and self-acceptance and go looking for it in all manner of weird places, not least the church. Few however find “the Spiritual Father” leading to eternal life. Most crave a soulish healing and spend their lives fantasizing about unconditional love, which is a great humanistic delusion.

4. Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,5. you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.6. Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,

“Behold, I lay in Zion

A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,

And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”

1 Peter 2:4-6