The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
“Alien Invasion”
The alien invasion of earth began 2,000 years ago, when the God of Heaven took upon Himself physical and human substance. “God was manifest in the flesh” (I Timothy 3:16).
After the Lord’s return to Heaven by way of death, resurrection and ascension, the invasion continued, this time in multitudes of beings originally born of the earth, but born again of spiritual being and nature. Believers are not of this world in the innermost essence of our being, having been spiritually birthed by the Lord of Heaven in the moment we believed. “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:6).
As the old hymn sings, “This world is not my home.” Or, as the saying goes, “Believers are in the world, but not of it.” Once aliens to Heaven, we are now aliens to earth. Of course, we still bear its remnants in our fleshly souls and bodies, and are thus susceptible to live as if we are citizens of the world. Moreover, we still must and should function in a manner whereby we are of proper earthly good in this present realm. However, as was our Lord, we are alien to the present world in the innermost spiritual being of our Christ-indwelt selfhood. “Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you” (Romans 8:9).
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God” (Romans 12:2).
Every born again believer in the Lord Jesus must seek God to discover how we may be “conformed to the image of His dear Son,” as opposed to conformity to the world (Romans 8:29). How do we live as the aliens we are, while influencing unbelievers to discover the Alien, and also helping fellow aliens - believers - to not “walk according to the course of this world?” (Ephesians 2:2). Just now would be a good moment for us all to seek God’s leading in so vital a matter, asking for confirmation whereby we grow in the awareness that we serve as members of our Lord’’s alien invasion…
“Our conversation (citizenship) is in Heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior.”
(Philippians 3:20)
“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from Heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the Heavenly, such are they also that are Heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the Heavenly.”
(I Corinthians 15:45-49)
Weekly Memory Verse
Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.”
(Romans 8:9)
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