1 John 2

 ‭1 John‬ ‭2:12‭-‬16‬ ‭AMPC‬

[12]  I am writing to you, little children, because for His name's sake your sins are forgiven [pardoned through His name and on account of confessing His name]. 

[13]  I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know (recognize, be aware of, and understand) Him Who [has existed] from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have been victorious over the wicked [one]. I write to you, boys (lads), because you have come to know (recognize and be aware) of the Father.

 [14]  I write to you, fathers, because you have come to know (recognize, be conscious of, and understand) Him Who [has existed] from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong and vigorous, and the Word of God is [always] abiding in you (in your hearts), and you have been victorious over the wicked one. 

[15]  Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

 [16]  For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one's own resources or in the stability of earthly things]–these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].

This is the Amplified version which spells out for example that the two little children references in other translations are different .

Now in a Jewish culture now converted it could be that you can literally write spiritual growth terms much more in line with natural growth age groups .

But they are spiritual growth phrases .

Compare  Jerusalem Gates One and Two .

The Sheep Gate and the Fish Gate .

Spiritually the first two things that happen surrounding us being born again is the exciting knowledge that if we repent before the Lamb that was slain to take away the sin of the world, we won't just be forgiven like some weekly ritual in ab Anglican or Catholic Church , Jesus will actually give us His life in exchange for our former main identity which was always spirit .

If we ask God to be made a new person and be born again Jesus will do it . He delights to do it .

Then it's so good we fish for others . We so long for everybody to know this . Real life is the faith life .

We were not meant to live by widgets alone , devil lies to us . He gets us to do things to be somebody in his mathematical pyramid called the world system .

Faith is outside the whole system . It's " Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God ".

We are living beings . Every day God speaks -psalm 19 .

Learning this new realm we have pastors . I have been writing in the last weeks and years that the shepherd word is used differently in the Bible . They don't run whole churches ....the churches were too big for any one ministry to run , and because Jesus is Head of His Church .

This whole entrance realm to spiritual life is the spiritual child realm ....which we never leave ....we just add to .  We are relearning the whole of life again but this time acknowledging God is here with us .....actually closer ....Galatians 2 20. 

Spiritual life as even New Age people find is organic .

But we are specifying the new and living way of Jesus . His Zoe life from above . A replacement of our old spirit man for His fused to our new created spirit .

If we get hold of these true foundations we will grow more accurately as Christians and our church growth will look more like the Bible and less like a solo rabbi synagogue .

THE BREAKDOWN OF THE WORLD SYSTEM ON US 

For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one's own resources or in the stability of earthly things]–these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].

MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE WITH GALATIANS 2.20.

Everything is .....what is God doing in me as me next . Seeing God only .

To do more than God is doing that's Hamartia or transgressing ..,stepping over the line

To  do less is to refrain from giving , to be lazy , to be cowardly ....this also is the sin of omission. 

The lust of the eyes is seeing what God isn't showing .....it's way more than being covetous  ...it means thinking of plans and infrastructures God isn't in . Unless we are wrong ....I can't think of anything in the New World Order Plans that accurate . The very solutions to what are laid out as problems .....neither are accurate . The lust or desire of the inner eyes is on a totally wrong frequency . Let alone getting to

the subjects of sexual things or the kind of riches to do with pyramid status .

And the reliance on man , on the matrix ,on our own abilities and self powered self strutting soul confidence is a reliance on the Genesis 3 independent self .

But there's also the young man realm in the spirit and the father realm . This is how the Father stage of Growth is described by Norman Grubb.

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