On Being Filled With the Spirit

They who are filled with the spirit are sons of God (Rom.8:14) Their outlook/viewpoint/worldview is from the throne of God, for they have been caught up to God and to His Throne (Rev:12:5) They have overcome and taken their seat (a condition of being at rest) with Jesus in His throne as He overcame and sits with Father in His (Rev3:21). The throne is not a literal chair as men think, but is rather a position/sphere of authority; a state or condition of being which gives one the ability of seeing things as they really are, not as they appear to be through viewing from earth, using reason and logic and emotion.

These sons have paid the price laid down by the Pattern Son, Jesus. The scripture verse quoted above, Rev 12:5, is not just referring to the Jesus of history; ie, the human that God sent to show the way to Himself, but is, because it occurs in time, a continuous-on going occurance, experienced individually in those who have been chosen from before the foundation. The "catching up to God and to His Throne", because it occurs in time, is a process. Time, being Spirit "stretched out" or "expanded", is where spiritual realities are "played out".

The sons, being joint heirs with the Pattern Son, Jesus, go through what He went through. They are dispised and rejected by family members; they are accused of being crazy and fanatics; of having "gone off the deep end" or "gone round the bend", etc. They keep their mouth shut and suffer it all without defending themselves, for they know this is part of their "chosenship"-it is the pattern. They experience death (the loss of all things) while yet in their physical body. The death they endure is the "first death", so they experience the "first resurrection"(Rev20:5) while yet alive in their physical bodies.

There is a strong bond which is a "power" operating in families and is similar to that we know as gravity. People call it "family ties". In order for an individual to become a son, family ties are broken because those ties are of the earth and cannot be "taken into the Kingdom of God". To be a mature son, one cannot "bow the knee" to familial expectations. Familial expectations blind one to truth. The example/pattern is Jesus" relationship" to His earthly family. See also see Lk 14:26-27 and other related passages.

Heb 10:38 talks about living by faith and then says,"If any man draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him" To draw back is to withold onesself from God. The following is how this occurs. Math13:20-21, "and he on the rocky places sown, the same is he that hears the word and straightway with joy receives it; yet he has no root in himself, but is only for a season-and there arising tribulation or persecution because of the word, straightway he finds cause of stumbling".

This is why most christians stay babies and never mature(to mature is to become spiritual). Some having professed their "christianhood" for decades. They believe in the Jesus of history and say they are going to heaven when they die, but know not that heaven and hell are not places like the preachers and theologians say, but rather are conditions or states of soul or being, and the "mansion" or dwelling place they are to inherit when they leave their body is determined by their level of maturity (or babyhood) that they have lived in their earthly life. In other words they are "building their mansion" in this life. The Lord continually knocks on their door in this life saying, "come up here", but they refuse to do so because they are tied to this earth through the family tie of earthly expectations, so reason and logic come to the fore and faith goes out the door.

These are of the "church in the wilderness"; ie, the "woman arrayed with the sun (the light of THIS world-reason/logic) and with the moon at her feet(conscience working in conjunction with reason and logic)". God is with her and feeds her in this world /wilderness of reason/logic/conscience, but she never matures to the realm where she can see from God's perspective; ie, be filled with the spirit.
To understand what it means to be filled with the spirit, one must mature and become a son being filled with spirit. A concept, to be understood fully, must be experienced and this takes faith. Reason and logic cannot go here.

Reason comes to "reason away" that which is sown in the heart. When this occurs they then are "pitching their tent toward sodom" as Lot. Their door is opened to the thinking of this world and faith becomes foolishness to them. Their sensory perception is black, for one who supposedly confesses Jesus as savior and that heaven is his or her destiny and lives by reason/logic/conscience, thereby forsaking faith, is in for a surprise when he or she departs the body.