New For Old – Sons of Issachar

505. A Royal Priesthood | Embracing Our Identity as Sons

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Let’s recognise our identity as sons, and our position in heaven, seated in heavenly places, functioning in the order of Melchizedek.

We are functioning as priests and kings, and as oracles and legislators. We are close to the Father’s heart. We know the Father’s heart. We establish the Father’s heart through government. We work that as an oracle. We call it into being creatively, and we legislate for its function on the earth. These are the outworkings of our sonship through the order of Melchizedek.

We are a royal priesthood. We are oracles and legislators. We found things on truth. When we become the word made flesh, effectively, Jesus is the Word of God made flesh, dwelling among us, full of grace and truth. In the same way, we are to operate as sons of God, having the power of speaking for God, as his voice. When we speak with his voice, creation responds. The quantum realm collapses into reality. We change the reality of things. Quantum wave functions collapse into choices that are aligned with the heart of God. That is our sonship. That is what we are called to do. That is who we are.

We establish it in heaven because we are seated in heavenly places, aligned to the Father’s heart in heaven. Then we begin to bring heaven to earth, to outwork heaven on earth through our lives, and corporately through those who are together with one mind, the mind of Christ. Our sonship identity comes out of love. We need to know our origin in God. We need to know who we are, who we were and who we are going to be, so that we can outwork our identity as those made in the image of God in a creative way. We are created in God’s image to be creative, to establish co-heirship in everything.

Therefore, we need to know who we are. But we are only going to know who we are if we know who God is. In knowing who God is as love, the way we do things will change, so that we do everything aligned to love. That changes the whole way we respond to the world’s situation and how we outwork government, not in a controlling or warfare-type way, but in a legislative, loving way that brings peace and rest.

It can seem like utopia. It can seem like it is a million miles away from where we are. But you do not know what is going on underneath. You only see what is on the surface. Things are beginning to shift. People are beginning to awaken. Enlightenment is taking place. The balance is beginning to shift. You do not see it until enough weight is added to the other end of the balance. If you keep adding weight, it only takes one feather to tip the whole thing.

What we are seeing is people becoming enlightened to their identity in sonship, adding weight to God’s kingdom. Once the balance tips in favour of God’s kingdom, everything begins to flow. At the moment it can feel like everything is going uphill, going against the tide, against the stream. It feels like hard work, as though darkness has the upper hand and we are trying not to slip back into it. But actually it is not like that anymore. It does not take much to tip it. Then everything begins to flow from heaven to earth, as it was designed to do.

This requires us to see with the eyes of the spirit, the eyes of our heart, and not to panic by only looking at the world and its symptoms. We need to recognise that God is at work. The kingdom is expanding and increasing. God’s government is increasing. People are becoming enlightened to the true nature of who God is and to their true identity. Enlightened people will shift things. Enlightened people will tip the balance.

It does not require equal numbers, because enlightenment is exponential. Twelve enlightened people operating at the level of Jesus would tip the whole world. At present there may not be people fully enlightened as Jesus was, but even getting halfway there would make a huge difference. If people reach eighty per cent, it would make an even greater difference. Enlightened people can change things significantly. I believe that is what is happening.

You may not see it. Those who are not wise or discerning look at the world and panic and become fearful. But if you look with the eyes of faith and the eyes of enlightenment, you see what God is doing. There is far more going on than people generally see, and it is preparing the way for changes that are coming. Enlightened people will establish God’s government, not narcissistic, power-hungry people with agendas that are not God’s kingdom.

Trying to make better versions of the world’s failing systems is not the answer. They are still fundamentally flawed. We need a new government, a new kingdom, established on earth as it is in heaven. As sons, we are responsible for that, in alignment with the Father’s heart. People are beginning to awaken. Some are awakening who do not even call themselves Christians, yet they know God, even if they do not yet know him as Jesus. Sometimes their relationship is more truthful than religious relationships.

People are awakening, and ultimately they will discover that Jesus has made a way to the Father. Our sonship is found in coming to the Father and discovering who we are. Jesus opened the door to the Father so that we could have relationship with him. People are beginning to discover that relationship and awaken to the truth.

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498. Trapped In Fear: Evangelical Mind Control Exposed!

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We don’t know to what degree we have been programmed until God starts to deprogram us. And I would say that evangelicalism is very cult-like in the way in which it uses guilt and shame and condemnation to control people, and keep people in line; get people to toe the denominational line or the church line or whatever those beliefs are. Because, “You can’t belong unless you believe like us,” which is the fear, “Oh, I’m going to be on my own!”

And how many have been told, “Well, if you leave the church, or you’re coming out from under the covering, then Satan will get you!” And all of those fear-based things that we have all been told.

Well, God is love and God loves us unconditionally. And he wants us to enter into the fullness of that. And that will change our thinking.

And we will find that we get deconstructed from all of those belief systems, if we cooperate with him and we don’t keep resisting and fighting to hold on to our previous beliefs, which, you know, I discovered most of them were warped at least, if not completely wrong.

363. Deconstructing the Pillars of Your Mind

287. Unconditional Love, Grace, and the truth about salvation

441. Unconditional Love – NO BUTS | God definitely IS Love!

496. When Love Rewired My Mind, Goodbye Religion!

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There is a new reality: that love now frames my thinking; that God frames my thinking from a totally different perspective. That religion has been removed.

Now, I am not saying that there are not still things to do, and God still did things along the way, but He could do things because my mind was now open to him.

So when the whole hell issue came up, my mind was open to him. And when he started to challenge my understanding of old covenant and my old covenant thinking of trying to be obedient to God and trying to please God and trying to earn… (really again by being obedient).

“I am not under the Law. Oh! Oh, yeah! Why am I trying to be obedient to a law when I’m not under a law?”

Because I was framed that way by evangelicalism.

So I had to realise that there are layers and layers of thinking that still needed renewing. Even when the system of belief was removed, there were still neural pathways that took me to beliefs that needed to be renewed and undone. And deconstruction has continued.

444. NO FEAR OF HELL – Unconditional Love

440. Unconditional Love – NO LIMITS

492. Evangelicalism Unravelled: The Fall of ‘Sola Scriptura’

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They didn’t believe it in the early church. There was no penal
substitutionary atonement. The atonement, or what Jesus did on the cross, was Christus Victor, mostly. Christ victorious over what? Our lost identity, our death, over everything. A very different view of what Jesus did.

But Protestantism very quickly picked up on penal substitutionary atonement and it became the cornerstone of Calvinism and lots of other streams of thought. When that got removed, and when that evangelical pillar crumbled, all the other pillars started to wobble.

So sola scriptura was the second pillar. Well, without evangelicalism holding it up, that went over, which is why it changed my whole view about the Bible, the way I see the Bible, and the Bible being ‘the word of God’ and all that stuff: “It’s got to be in the Bible!” and all the challenge that came
with that, because God totally took me to task over it.

363. Deconstructing the Pillars of Your Mind

299. PSA Sounds Nothing Like Jesus! (Penal Substitutionary Atonement [1])

403. So you think the ‘Word of God’ is the Bible? Think again!

491. When I Let Go Of Penal Substitutionary Atonement

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Penal substitutionary atonement (PSA) was the first to go. When I began to express my doubts about it to others, one woman involved in mystic and mentoring groups emailed me, saying I was trying to take away ‘the cornerstone of her faith’. She was serious and angry at me because she wanted to hold onto PSA as the cornerstone of her belief.

I told her that if that’s where she wanted to remain, that was her choice, but I was moving on. Naturally, that upset some people, but many others resonated with the idea that it didn’t make sense for God as Father to kill or punish His Son. And when you investigate further, you find that PSA is actually a doctrine that only emerged in the tenth century…

299. PSA Sounds Nothing Like Jesus! (Penal Substitutionary Atonement [1])

304. Wrath is not the solution | Penal Substitutionary Atonement [2]

490. Can Changing One Belief Change Everything?

Mike Parsons

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“Do you want me to remove these pillars from your mind?” asked the Father.

I believe six of them were religious pillars, and three were cultural or scientific. It was then that I realised these pillars were framing how I viewed the world and understood reality around me.

The first and strongest pillar was evangelicalism. He removed that one first, shaking me to the core by taking it away. Every evangelical thought I had was challenged, especially the idea of penal substitutionary atonement, which was the first belief to be questioned. God didn’t just take the pillar out; he shook it, challenging my beliefs and creating instability in my belief system around those topics. And penal substitutionary atonement was the first to go.

363. Deconstructing the Pillars of Your Mind

299. PSA Sounds Nothing Like Jesus! (Penal Substitutionary Atonement [1])

250. Pillars In My Mind

304. Wrath is not the solution | Penal Substitutionary Atonement [2]

488. Do You Only See What You Expect To See?

Mike Parsons

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All those people who say they have been in hell for ten minutes, or whatever, are framing their experience through their theological understanding of hell rather than the truth. They see what they expect to see. That is the problem. We can be confirmation-biased and create our own scenario around what God is really trying to show us.

This is why we need to let God renew our minds and trust him in that process, rather than resisting him. At the same time, we should not be naive enough to think that everything we are thinking is already correct, because we are all still in the process. Even so, I would rather err on the side of love in everything I think than lean towards anything else. If I interpret everything through love, I will not go far wrong.

243. Not Counting Their Trespasses

434. God’s Fiery Love

253. Framing Your Reality

487. My First Hand Experiences Of Hell

Mike Parsons

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So between 2005 and 2010, I had a number of experiences which I described at the time as hell-like, simply because I had no other reference point in my life. I thought I had encountered hell, and so my framework for understanding was the usual concept of hell. That’s what I believed the experience meant, because I couldn’t see it any other way; I had no other frame of reference.

Once I actually encountered God and encountered love, I was able to revisit those experiences and see what he had really been showing me through them. I came to realise that I had completely misunderstood and misinterpreted what had happened, just as many others do when they claim to have been in hell for a few minutes. They are framing their experience through their theological understanding of hell.

404. Framing Hell in a New Light

244. The Hell Delusion

485. Having Our Minds Renewed

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We’re all in a process of having our minds renewed so that we won’t be moulded and shaped by the upbringing, conditioning and programming we’ve received. Our minds are renewed so we’re not pressed into that mould, but instead transformed into who He said we were from the beginning.

That process is relational. By experiencing Him, our minds are changed. We can’t make it happen by trying to use the Bible as a tool, since misunderstanding it was what created the problem in the first place. Our minds are changed when we let Him do it, as we submit ourselves to the relationship He gives us—always weighing everything with love as our measuring stick.

287. Unconditional Love, Grace, and the truth about salvation

431. Breaking Free from Deceptive Teaching | Rediscovering God’s Love

483. Is God Bored? A New Perspective on Church Practices

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Bored with this church stuff

God spoke to me and said, “I am really bored with this church stuff.” And I thought, you cannot say that. That cannot be you. How can you be bored with people worshipping you? But he was not saying he was bored of people, or of their desire to worship. He was saying he was bored of the format, the same things, week after week.

So I pressed him. “What do you mean, bored?” He said, “Why do you not ask me what I would like you to do?” I said, “We do. We ask you every week.” And he replied, “Yes, but you are only giving me a menu of five things to choose from. What you are really asking is: what order do you want to do those five things?”

I had to admit he was right. We claimed to be led by the Spirit, but only within the boundaries of those five things. That realisation shocked me. I kept quiet at first, because I knew it would cause an uproar. Instead, I began teaching the Engaging God programme in my office on Sunday mornings. The main meetings had to stay at a basic level for the newer people and those from the rehabilitation unit, so others handled that.

I would spend the first part of the service downstairs teaching, then went upstairs to join the main gathering. And when I did, I felt the same as God had said. This is really boring, is it not? I enjoyed myself more in the office than in the service. It was not the people—I loved the people. But while we were on the cutting edge of engaging God, with angels and portals into heaven, we were still doing everything in the same tired format. Someone would say something, we would sing, there would be ministry, and perhaps something else—but always within the same framework.

What is church?

I began to understand what God was saying, and I felt it too: this is not it, is it? He took me out of that scenario and began to press the deeper question: what is church? Why do we run a meeting? Because church is not a meeting. Church is people in relationship—with each other and with God. But what we had built, with worship, a preach and the rest, was the very thing God was challenging. “Why are you doing this? Who said I wanted you to?” And that challenge shook us.

It challenged people. What was this going to look like? So then we did not do any of that. We turned up on a Sunday and asked, “Oh, what does God want to do then? What do you want to do, God?”

God said, “If you had asked me before you got here, I would have told you I did not want you to come and do this today.” Ah. So it is not about meeting this way and turning up in a building then? No. Not every Sunday. No. If you had asked me, I would have told you I wanted you to go and do something yesterday, to go for a walk and enjoy the beautiful fresh air.

That was a very different challenge to our thinking. This was not just, “Oh well, we will turn up in the building and then ask you what to do.” This was actually, “Do you even want us to meet this way this week?” People struggled with that because they were so conditioned to being told they had to turn up on the day to do whatever was going to happen. That was ‘church’, and they were expected to be there if they were part of church.

What is the way forward?

So it was very challenging, and we got to the point where those who were meeting together began saying, “Well, let’s just seek God and ask Him to show us the way forward. What is the way forward?” This was November–December 2019. Then God used COVID to show us the way forward, because suddenly we could not meet anymore anyway. We had all the technology to meet online, but we asked God, “Do you want us to meet online?” No, because all you would be doing is recreating something online that you cannot do in person.

Eventually, people were weaned off church — the meetings, the format, the structure that we called church. They were still relating to one another, still building relationships, still pursuing the mission God had given to care for people. Some people could not cope with not having a church service, so they went off and found one that made them feel comfortable. Great. If that is what they want to do, no problem. They were free to do that. But some people were so free that they realised they did not have to go to a meeting on a Sunday — or two meetings, or whatever it might have been. They would never want to go back to that. They discovered that being church is very different to going to a meeting that we call church.

That deconstruction took place in people’s understanding of church over quite a long period. I did not turn around and say, “You can’t do this anymore.” I did not say, “You can’t meet this way anymore,” because that would have been forcing them. I said, “Okay, I am not making these decisions. I am not going to be a leader anymore who tells you what God might be saying or not saying. You are responsible to hear God for yourself. So you decide what you are going to do.”

An everyday relationship

When COVID came, with all the restrictions, we could not meet the way we had been meeting, and for a time, we could not even meet together individually. People realised their relationship with God was just as strong, if not stronger, after they stopped doing Sunday church meetings than it had been before. They found their relationship with God was an everyday relationship, not based on the structure we had put in place to ‘help’ them.

Some people struggled. Some wanted the fellowship of meeting together in a bigger setting, and they found that elsewhere. But others found their relationship with God growing anyway. They discovered that their relationship with others, if genuine, is not dependent on meeting on a Sunday. They still had relationships and friends.

It is very interesting to see the process God takes us through to challenge our preconceived ideas about the Christian life, about what church is, about what we ‘should’ or ‘should not’ do. And when we are free from it, we find freedom. Now, I am free to go, free not to go, free to do whatever I feel in God. And I know God enjoys me watching the football just as much as He enjoys it if I went to a home group!