Here in the Existential Life Coach Personal Outreach, I use my existing approach via life experience to encourage and exhort Existential Christians to seek personal truth on what it is to understand and live the Kingdom of God within. I teach from various understandings including, but not limited to: experiencing personal truth, affective emotional expression, reflective feeling, observable cognitive resonance, the complete self, and becoming a "Witness Forth" coach, along with faith, hope, and love, as witness before our Holy Most High. The mission of the Existential Life Coach Outreach is to promote the realization of the individual who will not shy away from true self, and yet choose to live rejoicefully toward a responsible struggle before God.
The Existential Way Community Outreach exists to call the chosen out of this world; for truth in abiding knowledge is the faith which exceeds our objective understanding of God. And so each individual is to reach ever so close to the divide which delineates God from man, in respect to discovery of personal truth. As your words are wise counsel and your actions are life, come exist unto the lowly footsteps that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has bestowed upon us, and witness forth.
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Kevin J Meredith
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Intro
//When an individual is born to this world, one is born to a conditioning that says that the self must remain in suspicion of discovery of itself if one is to advance himself to the ideals of society’s acceptance and gain. And so we as individuals play to the tune of avoiding immaterial spirit to accepting forces that define us by the material objectives we are conditioned to accept. Most people today live according to the Hegelian Dialectic of duality, where there exists a predetermined answer to a determined action. If I do this, then this outcome will occur, or if I don’t do this, this outcome will occur. In this way, the system of the dialectic elicits a structure of consequences in a binary dualistic measure that is used to control not only society at large, but also the world en masse. Most people are conditioned to appeal to the aesthetic sphere of outcomes whether they are good or bad. This is the understanding that the general populace will allow for in reasoning itself through this life. What’s even more detrimental is the fact that the Hegelian Dialectic is responsible for all past and continued destruction as planned per the depopulation of humanity down to the outright extinction of the spirit-man.
The Ego
//The ego has such a negative connotation in the western world, that we as society continually ascribe to it the most manufactured and contrived notions that keep it inflated beyond what it should be at its most logical and definitive purpose. The ego is as the false self that has been presumed to be the true self since the common populace lives by the Hegelian Dialectic. The ego as I define it according to the true self exists to exemplify the inverse standard against the self (true self). The bigger the ego, the further one is from his true self. The smaller the ego is, the closer one is to realization of his (true self). The ego can very well be associated in its mode of operation as conditioned by the Hegelian Dialectic through one’s existence; almost to the sole discretion that one’s indoctrination to this system of existing would be by rare chance to discover this truth otherwise. And that is by natural deduction to elicit the question to whether the natural self is dual in nature or singular. The Self The self is the abridgement between the ego and the unknown (relation to the mystery of God) as to the completion of our whole completed self (ego, true self, and God). The false self is unknowing of the mystery of any God, and is minimized to the large part that the ego has when dominating the life of the incomplete self. In this way, the way of the world, the false self is ascribed as normal, although heavily skewed from any true sense of self and devoid of inward essence (true sense in relation to God). The false self (enlarged, empty ego) essentially replaces true self (abridgement) between knowing the spirit of truth (inwardness, inner essence) and the eternal (mystery of relation to God). The true self exists at the center, right of the ego, and left of the unknown (relation to the mystery of God). The true self is largest and most realized when the ego is minimized (true ego that is), and the mystery of the unknown is enlarged. It is in this way that the true self is truly humbled in respect to the ego, and the Kingdom exists/or is envisioned within the metaphorical temple of (true self). The body is the physical temple. The being of the true self is the mind’s understanding toward the unnatural (false self, false ego) and the relation of the unknown to the mystery of God.
God
//The relation to the unknown (mystery of God) exists intuitively to give new life, that the individual never had. The relation to the unknown involves awakening to the awareness of an internal truth, self-empowerment, and a realization (foundation of true self) that is much more resistant for ego and a state of the demonic to impress upon in the lower realm (general state of being ego). It is the state of true self that a relation to the God realm can strengthen a conscious of the eternal within. In this state of being, the true self is revealed as life or the light within to which ego and a state of the demonic want no part. The Holy Spirit is our personal witness and testimony to who Jesus is in ministering our mirror to the man that lived as true self to God. And so Jesus Christ is our example to teach us to carry our cross, and bring us ever so close to the divide that delineates God from man, and our true self into the eternal. It is all too often that what the established order of the Hegelian Dialectic instills in individuals is an escape from true self toward the direction of the dualistic ego. In this way, what we as believers truly come to fear is not God, but fear of retribution if we are to abandon the negative and positive aspects to the realm of the ego (lower realms of fear). This realm is where control is most effective. In comparison to truly knowing thyself, a blind faith like this is more apt to easily be controlled by the established order and be controlled by unknown spirits; since in my understanding, the self is minimized (true self may be not existent at all) and so the individual existing in the state of the ego is further from God, encompassing a bigger blindness in faith instead of a closer relation of self to the intent of allowing God to define the desires of the true self. In truth, Christianity is and has been controlled all along by means of externals. We as individual believers have not defined the culture, but the culture has defined who we are. We’ve had no say, yet we have been corralled at what is allowable and what is acceptable. The externals have controlled us right down to the core in conditioning us to avoid our true selves at the direct cost of our salvation. What a ploy, when you actually think about it, God said, “my people are destroyed for their lack of knowledge”.
The Truth
//God’s true church has always resided in truth and spirit made up of individuals set apart from a group or bodies joined together in a building. The sooner you come to this spiritual conclusion, your fear due to understanding diminishes and that is when you are truly set free and set apart(sanctified). I believe this is what is meant by overcoming the world. This is also when you find out the hearts of men in discovering if they really belong to Christ. May you come to exist in the God-man relationship; with God as man, whole and complete in true-self, presently exhibiting the kingdom at hand, bodily temple of God's thrown room within as protected and directed by the Holy Spirit person with you, a vessel of God's attribute, yet fully man nearest the closest delineation between your (true-self) and God(unseen, Most High) mediated by and mirroring our hope to the perfection of sinless God-man Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior(Messiah) in constant existing communication. Christ really does choose his own out from this world, and we know the sound of our Shephard's voice. Remain with his words, and you will find that comfort of reassurance to exist without fear. It's time that you know that you are chosen for true-self. Witness forth with your God given power as God purposes your true purpose for His Glory. This is about the salvation of humans' being and for our kind as He(God) has planned. If you are free in Christ, you are chosen by Christ.
The Spirit Itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. -Apostle Paul
Rom8:16-18, MEV
Come out of her, my people,... Rev18:4, MEV
Eternal Existentialism
The Stages
Stage 1: Fear of Man
Stage 2: Fear of God
Stage 3: Fear of Self
Stage 4: Peace with Self/ Trust in God
Stage 5: Acts of The Holy Spirit
Introduction
Fear and Trust
//'Fear and Trust' will be used as the concept of measurement per stage. Fear and trust is a concept used as a sliding scale upon a spectrum where fear is on one end and trust is on the opposing end. The 'Fear and Trust' scale will be used as a conceptual measurement throughout this writing in order for the reader to easily digest what is being spoken of when describing the apparatus of each stage. Be of mind, that the stages which I am to speak of are only my observations as to the lens of perception that belong to my rational for eternal existential understanding. Some notions you may recognize as preconceived forethought into each stage in order to give a full propensity of individual stage fulfillment. The nature of my own understanding is continuously ongoing in one or more of the stages; to whether they overlap or not, I cannot concur or deny with resolute affirmation. I will work to best define each stage to my experience, along with example exaggerations to what may meet your experiences within the stages. The idea here is to get you to define the possibilities that your experiences within each of these stages in order for you to gain spiritual insights into where you are in life application of these stages. This; in order for you to gain common ground for relations to your true-self in God. Hopefully this writing will bring about your activity in being empowered by the Holy Spirit, to be more of who God has you to be according to His definition, and less of the opinions of man's definition. The stages here that will be used to define eternal existentialism are not necessarily for a mere believer. One has to "acquire a sense of destitute struggle" with reality in one's experience in order to begin to appropriate the differentiation between fear and trust. The reason these stages are imbued with 'fear and trust' is because if an individual is not able to recognize and acknowledge his fear of the object of the stage; man, God, self, he cannot theoretically have any business beginning to apply the foundation of the 'stage' to himself. He will keep himself in a quandary and the idea of the 'fear and trust' concept will not reside with resolve to him.
//Fear as I define it begins as the unwillingness to face the object, the natural tendency to turn away from it. This fear comes natural to the experience of the crowd, but the individual before the make up of the crowd can receive this sense with understanding. Even if a multitude of individuals were to read through my stages and one hundred percent received this information literally, the individual(auternae existent) in and of himself would still appropriate this teaching differently to acquire the same resulting point. The difference is that the crowd does not appropriate through individual experience, but takes the teaching as if to go by 'word of mouth." Now you see the difference, if I took the commonly accepted belief from the crowd, and the business of the church were to close, the members of the crowd would no longer exist to the commonly accepted ideal of the crow...but be as lost sheep without the experience of the shepherd to lead them to such the resulting point in time. But be as of the individual, if I took this resulting teaching from the individual himself aside from any crowd, who commonly never resonated from a resulting point, his search/experience would still be as of guidance by the shepherd who's being would never stop from ceasing based upon some resulting point. The belief systems here may look eerily similar, but if you looked closely, the mechanism of experience are exactly contrary and in opposition to each.
//Now, 'trust' on the opposing end of the spectrum would be the exact opposite of 'fear.' To begin trust would be to at one point in time to face the object of fear, and struggle with the experience of fear to however one would experience it; if one were serious enough in his nature to provoke with haste trust toward true-self. Trust is to accept the object of the stage into one's endeavor upon the stages journey. In this manner, one brings himself to the sanctity of recognizing, appropriating, understanding, letting go, becoming, and being. Trust on the spectrum of this scale begins with the outward declaration of the object(fear) to the inward/passionate appropriation of the object(trust).
//Subconsciously when recognition brings the object of each stage up to the surface, we as individuals make it conscious in trust that we know it is there. It is then from there that we explore it more by defining the stage to ourselves and then move into the next stage of eternal existentialism. First and foremost, the individual must acknowledge his perception of the human condition unto himself and recognize himself before the world if the 'fear and trust' spectrum is to be engaged in the exploratory process of the stages as a proficient premise.
/ /The stages here are based on 'fear and trust', and the willingness that the individual has to appropriate the stages is one that brings the individual up for examination within application of the stages. The critical premise that I will reiterate beforehand is to for the individual is to recognize with pleading destitution his need for himself to be an individual before the world and before God, to begin the throws of taking the test. Individuality must precede one's own place in this world if one 'dares to decide,' and in so doing, chooses to begin the test of the examined life in Jesus Christ.
//The right things come together when the final yet most desolate place you have avoided finding out has been the search within yourself. It is then when your place in the world is no longer of necessity, and you begin to go inward. All else begins to fade away and the externals fade away. You find yourself because your old self can no longer be replenished, and that well is drying up. It is when you bring your old self before your new self that God makes Himself apparent to not just your need, but your want, and your desiring of His presence. The doubt with witch you hang your most assured truth seems to be the most powering promise of eternal constancy you have ever resided with. His eternal constancy, when you have never been so consciously aware presently as faith declares your true-self to the very subjective nature of God's presence.
Stage 1: Fear of Man
//Fear belongs to the category 'cares and worries of the world' according to scriptures. We are not talking about physical fear, but carnal minded retribution or suffering persecution from the crowd. This also means acquiring a spiritual form of acceptance about oneself, which one did not have previously. This world has a well founded basis for its function upon every man. The individual must recognize this for himself or herself before one can move beyond fear, and finally construe it as the illusion that it has always been. Most people in society will never get past this stage. Everything they do, or don't do, on account of their activity or inactivity remains in a way subservient to cultural norms and societal control. Where there exists a lack of spiritual depth there exists a strong foundation against risking oneself toward true-self. There is no law against what the human spirit wills, but since the spirit of man shows no depth throughout the general populace, it does not know, cannot know, and so the physical man behaves accordingly. And to this, the status quo is maintained and remains. The human is no more than a commodity to a physical slave trade. He just doesn't know it. If one desires to know it, he will seek within himself and will soon find that the spirit of man holds a close primer to the Spirit of God.
//Fear of man and recognition of it is the premier stage for beginning the journey of the stages. This stage begins with the individual defining who he is to this stage in accordance with one's life. I only came to the understanding of the stage of the 'Fear of man' according to my own experience, and as for me: a progression in one's life will occur where an individual will recognize his in-acceptance by the crowd in various forms; whether it be work related, church related, friend related, family related, and overall various group associations one encounters in life. In avoidance of such prompts, he or she will very much seek to fit in, because at this time, it is all one knows to do, 'get in to fit in' or 'go along to get along.' Whether you have experienced it this way or not, subsequently there will come a point in time where you will have to take it upon yourself to decide, and follow through with an action. By this, one will began advancement toward the trust end of the 'fear and trust' spectrum. Trusting of oneself to do so is significant to expand oneself away from machinations in identifying man with the crowd as a form of control. Just as much one chooses away from carnal mindedness, God begins to choose one to His Son. The individual eventually moves to trusting himself in seeing through the illusion of man(the crowd) in exemplifying himself as a new type of man, but with similar defining existence for individuals that make up the crowd. I cannot say at what point in time or period within what stage is the Son residing with the true-self, but at some point in time it does occur, and the Holy Spirit begins His work within an individual believer. I believer the presence of the Holy Spirit in His defining work within the individual is most apparent in the latter stages. When the individual knows it is when he begins to act upon this relation as set forth by the Holy Spirit.
Stage 2: Fear of God
//I see Stage 2: 'Fear of God' much the same as I see Stage 1: 'Fear of Man' in this respect; we as man fear what we do not know. So rationally, I cannot consider this a relationship. This assumes old testament obedience to taking steps to new testament grace relations. This is as if I'm turned away, but I am walking backward towards Him, with much hesitance. I must take the necessary steps to turn and face God in this stage and come into the light of His countenance aiming each step towards trust of the unknown, attempting to make known the unknown each time I focus with cognizance of closure. And with each attempt, I'm making more known about myself(true) and God's cause of existence, which is in light of love...a place where fear gradually begins to lose its grip but yet has much influence. I want to make this observance, especially as I have witnessed in my experience. Within each successive stage, the presence by the enemy has been ramped up even more, like the trickle up fear effect. But with each overcoming and working through of the stages, much more is the power of God's embrace exhibited in relation and protection. From my experience the enemy is ever so present to the degree which the opposition exists to keep one in God's embrace. It's as if the state of the adversary is amplified but so much more is God's presence to show you the battle which you will have to go to war for sooner or later in the spirit and for the Spirit, and vice versa...And this is where the person of Christ will come into play, as witnessed from my experience. Remember, these resulting ends of trust from each stage are compounding unto the successive stages of appropriation.
//As trust is moved toward in Stage 2: 'Fear of God', this is where one is willing to go public with his reverence for Christ. One accepts a greater trust in Him(God). It is here where one may join the crowd for the church experience. Unfortunately this is where the established order wants to nail you down. It is here, at the end of stage two where your fear of God is taught as 'trust in God.' It is here where one is on even keel with fearing man basically as much as he fears God. If one is to supersede such equality in favor of God, one begins to play with fire according to the established order. And there are the one's(chosen individuals) who pushed their luck into trying to fit into a societal structure whom God made much larger plans for, for such were chosen from a long time ago. I see stage two as the stage where God is worshiped through Christ on high.
Stage 3: Fear of Self
//If God is to use oneself, He must sanctify one away from any worldly accommodation as if to return the individual to His own desire for the existence of the human quality, and that is to make the individual unto His own image. I remind you, not unto His own being, but unto the likeness of His nature. And so God has the individual turn to/and then from his own 'fear of self' in order to relate such individual to the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. This is to what I believe is to worship Christ on low, the very much relation for God to bring of Himself by the person of His Son. Unfortunately, the religion of Christianity today as a whole has not exhibited the attributes of this stage.
//The stage of 'fear of self' is not meant to keep oneself in regression from the realization of true-self. 'Fear of self' is to grow away from false self and to the idea that one can trust true self when moving forward. This trust can only be actualized by deciding for personal experience. One can know within himself that by going through such experience/s, the scale from fearing oneself to trusting oneself will begin to move in the direction of solidifying the actualization of true-self. Once again, just as with each stage, one must recognize and identify who he is to his fear. It is in this manner one begins or sets the wheels in motion for personal change. We as individuals can no longer hang our hats on doubting the objective at hand; but that the assurance of the experience brings us trust about the past doubt of previous actionable experience/s. And so with every new attempt(of experience), a new result will build upon furthering the trust experience of 'not-knowing'. If the result of not taking action through experience, the individual has insured self security from not experiencing. The only assurance will follow with identifying one's experience in false-self. It is important to identify and recognize 'not knowing' as an essential outlier to the objective of each stage, not just this one, even though 'not-knowing' plays an important outlier in this stage. Faith is to objectify the subjective nature of not-knowing. If the experience has not resulted in strengthening faith, false-self of the individual will be the rule of the day, and so it is with society at large. The very objective of each stage is to strengthen the outlier when objectifying the subjectivity of each stage; and with this stage, the all important outlier(not-knowing) must be the dominant objective to work through when one is aiming toward true-self.
//The call to the individual is of the utmost of importance to 'fear of self.' One can only prove the 'trust of self' by the activity that follows through by the decision to move forward. It is the step that requires one to move forward alone, alone with God. Remember, that 'important outliers' and certain 'subjective natures' to each stage and each individual's experience will vary. It is important to: identify, recognize with, dare to decide, take action, experience, and conclude with a result of intent your experience. 'Fear of self(false)' will eventually develop to 'trust of self(true)' in answering your life experience. And in this measure, the character of the person begins to be seen in light of the changes made by the genetic manifestation of the Holy Spirit. If appropriating stage 2, 'fear of God' would exemplify good works; then appropriating stage 3, 'fear of self; would include the presence of being, and the trust to be true-self. I firmly believe in this manner, Christ is truly represented among His chosen individuals.
Stage 4: Peace with Self/Trust in God
//In Stage 4: Peace with Self/ Trust in God, this is the stage where a whole new meaning is brought about. 'Peace with self' and 'trust in God' go hand in hand. As a opposed to a scale where ends are polar opposite, Stage four would consist of ends that are mutually beneficial for an Auternae Existent (present believer). To put a restriction like worldly fear into this stage would be uncharacteristic to the premise of 'peace with self' and 'trust in God." It would be a practical observation to exhibit a 'Peace and Trust' scale for Stage four. I believe peace with self(true) will essentially lead to trust in self(self); in order that peace with God can be exhibited and so forth and so on. Keep in mind that 'peace and trust' measures exist within all the stages, but I do believe that a 'peace and trust' scale of concept fits far more conceptually in the latter stages' especially when 'peace and trust' are actualized to the extent that they are recognizable. 'Fear and trust' is exhibited within each stage, but a 'fear and trust' scale exists as a more formidable measure earlier on when beginning the journey of the stages; hence, 'fear and trust' exist to form the individual, by first recognizing it and then applying it as a self-regulatory measure during stage growth, with regression of influence along the way through the journey of the stages..
//The major outlier in this stage as exhibited by the individual would be 'the bigger picture.' It is vitally important to be not of the world, and the mechanism by the realized individual would be to see it with spiritual eyes. The bigger picture is one characteristic that God's chosen operate by in this dimension. While the carnal mind understands the immediacy of this world and is unable to see anything but, the individual god-man must be of the eternal perspective. And with this, the veil is constantly being lifted away for spiritual insights into the machinations of this dimension. Fear should ultimately lead to trust beyond as faith would have it. It is the hope in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that would avail this stage: that one should desire to be eternally constant in and with Christ.
//With the trust in God aspect of stage 4, we become spiritual intellectuals, if you will. Information is tested by the foundational truth/s of Christ. The information is diligently tested over and over by experience in order to see if it has an applicable place in our eternal experience. If not we discard it, if so we hold it with appreciation near and dear...not because we are solely comforted by it, but because this compounding information resonates with our true-self, and so our faith is accredited to us. So there is a rebounding effect of stage 4 for where 'peace with self' seeks co-junction with 'trust in God.' This, not for the sake of replacing true-self with God-being, but for the sole purpose of existing an eternal desire where we as individuals follow Christ(his assurance) in what is not naturally tangible(doe not come natural to man, but supernaturally by God, the unseen). So God holds the synthesis together for true-self to exist. This I believe is what true Christianity is suppose to purpose itself as.
Stage 5: Acts of The Holy Spirit
/ /In Stage 5: Acts of the Holy Spirit, this is the spiritual act in seeking out personal truths to add onto one's spiritual experience/walk in Christ; but it is also the spiritual discernment used in confirmation of/ or denial of actionable experiences while in receipt of information in accordance with one's overall life as an Auternae Existent(existing believer). Such measures cannot be applied with the same means(with objective data) as the scientific approach since information of experience can only be applied in respect to subjective experience, but subjective measures(faith) also cannot be discredited by the scientific method. So it is with the 'man of God" experience that experiences cannot and should not be concrete to this natural world...but our very existence in experiencing our walks is to experience with objectivity(our being, existence) with subjective(spiritual) experience. An example would entail the desire to relate to God in not just one sense, but in every sense of the experience of relating to God...We as individual's relate to God biblically, but we can also relate to Him through various spiritual experiences like praying and doing good works. Remember, the objects themselves are of no salvatory measure, but the 'Act of the Holy Spirit" in the experience is. The result of our experiences then is proved by our being eternally constant(actions taken, experiences) with God. By the choices we make in receiving information, we objectify-how we are to be in and through our subjective experience/s; hence, we attempt to make the unknown more known. And so we act to experience by studying, experiencing; learning, and doing, we exhibit the 'Act of the Holy Spirit' in ascribing the foundation of Jesus Christ as the discerning measure for the receipt of information(upon personal truth) when adding to each our own ever growing relations to God. 'Acts of the Holy Spirit' are witnessed in all of the stages just as objectives which entitle each stage can be witnessed in all previous stages and stages there after. In reiteration, my aim here is to enlighten the reader to my observation of each stage from my own experience about their existence.
//Stage 5 exists to set the precedence of the Holy Spirit in one's life. The Holy Spirit is the identifying marker of a true believer. ..."because small is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." Mt7:14, MEV..."But when the Counselor(Holy Spirit) comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me, And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning" Jn15:26, MEV..."But he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation." Mk3:29, MEV..."But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, neither in this world, nor in the world to come." Mt:12:32, MEV. In light of these scriptural sayings by Jesus, and I quote"...But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you." -Jesus Christ -Jn14:26, MEV. This sums up the finality and the endurance of the saints for the existing believer in this final age. I pose to you now this question with rhetorical emphasis, and that is, can you see now the difference now between the Christiandom of the world(Stage 2: Fear of God) and the Christianity of God(Stage 4/5, Trust in God, Acts of the Holy Spirit)? Please understand, all stages must examine one through such testing,..and by this, "let us run with endurance the race that is set before us...For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and your hearts give up." Heb12:1/3, MEV.
//'Acts of the Holy Spirit' can also be witnessed and exhibited in this way; that trust in God is the trust to grow in God...so we seek out knowledge and like witness by way of book and other like believers which confirm God's existence(omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence) to how he bestows such power to those who believe in Him. This is not a matter which is weighed with light inference, but is the responsibility for those believers who understand that all things given to His chosen are for His glory. The major 'Act of the Holy Spirit' is to do His will, with which at once man's natural spiritual intellectualism is inherently debased by faith(attempting the action of knowing the unknown, even amidst doubt)...in continuing with full realization that amidst the experience of doing is that act of being. God holds the syntheses together: and this my friend is eternal existence, true-man and True-God.
In Conclusion
//In conclusion, my hopes were to briefly outline my experience as compiled through a running theme(fear and trust) to these observed objectives per identified stages. Although brevity of thought was put into these stages, my hope was that I did not over-reach on a lot of the ideas. These are stages that I have experienced for myself in the hope that the reader would be able to grasp in some relation to his or her own experience. There is no fixed notion on exact placement per stage; I do believe the stages are in proper order overall and find overlap to be acceptable(within reason). My interest is in a reasoning into existence such stages for their identifiable nature from my perceived experience. What I deem important for thought is (for the individual) to tarry with some of the experiential aspects that bring about these stages into your life. It can be observed that if a system that is in place does not meet the need for actualization of true-self to be realized by humanity, that a disservice to decline the existence of a spirit-man would be just the beginning. Next would be the abolition of God in the public square which is already well underway. The journey into the stages begins with the acknowledgment of the self, and pursues a course set about through one's experience for the invitation of God to thoroughly be confronted(either accepted or denied) in order that a realization of God is to begin relations with Him(born-again). It is then that 'fear and trust' aim to the workings of 'peace and trust.' Where the old-self(false,ego) is driven from carnal minded machinations inherit to this world, the new-self(true) is taken by the act of the Holy Spirit(in relation to God's grace and the acceptance of His sufficiency).
//In such manner , if we are now to compare Stage 2: 'Fear of God' with Stage 4: 'Trust in God,' there exists a great divide between the two definitions of what Christianity is. There is one idea here that sets the stage for this world and one idea here that sets the stage for eternal life, but only one can plausibly identify with the True Church of Jesus Christ. I think you know where I am going with this. My hope is that you as an individual believer carry your cross from this time forward into a greater understanding and into an even closer relationship with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Every soul will have to stand before God, but it is those who exist with God in this life does He glorify His Son by His chosen individuals(Bride of Christ,Remnant)-does He deem worthy to be raised up at the last day.
Examine yourselves, seeing whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you now know that Jesus Christ is in you?
-2Cor13:5, MEV
"Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord." -2Cor10:17, MEV
Kevin J Meredith
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