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Invisible Spirit World

of Yah -- Where Eternal Life Is

     In order for us, the sons of God, to attain unto our destiny of immortality, we must look at the invisible things and not the things we see with our eyes every day.  The Master said that we must worship God in spirit and in truth—not with the outward appearances of earthly things.  God can only be worshipped in the invisible spiritual places of the heart and not in outward visible show.  “Judge not according to the outward appearance, but judge righteous judgement.”

     Visible things of worship such as offering plates, rich church buildings (or any church buildings for that matter), clothing, candles, altars, pulpits, incense, poll-parroting of prayers to be seen and heard of men—all these things will not do the job to obtain immortality, for they are things seen outwardly.  They are the visible things, and we are admonished by the apostle Paul to not look on the things that are seen.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4: 8, NIV. 

The Invisible Spirit Inside Us Must Be Nurtured

     All the trappings of worship according to man’s wisdom, will keep one away from the invisible things, the spiritual things, the needful things, the things that take faith to see and realize.

     It is the “hidden man of the heart” inside of us that must be nurtured and looked unto.  It is that little portion of the Spirit of God within us that must be thought about and believed on.  We must take our eyes off of the mundane   worldly   things   that   only  clog  our  spiritual

arteries and will lead us to a certain death.

     We must meditate on faith, that ephemeral hard-to-grasp attribute of the Great Spirit Father.  Of course, it is hard to grasp, for our worldly minds are crammed full of sensory impressions from this earth, when in reality, the truth lies in an invisible dimension of godly faith and love.

Our Invisible Body Comprised of Spirit in Heaven

     Our Father loves us and has laid up for us in His abode a spiritual house or body.  We now are passing the time of our earthly sojourn here until we fully awake unto that time when He will grant us to be clothed with our invisible spiritual body that is now in heaven.  Through His great love to us do we have these “exceeding great and precious promises.”  Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Corinthians 5: 1, NIV.

     But in order to begin to appreciate this love that the Father has bestowed upon us, we must believe, having not seen the reality first.

     This is only fitting, for God is an invisible Spirit.  And they that worship Him must worship Him in invisible spiritual worship.

     We as His spiritual sons and daughters must hope against hope, believe having not seen, walk in a glorious invisible reality having never laid literal eyes on the heavenly crown.

Only the Pure Shall See God

     It takes a purity to see the invisible.  For it is difficult  for  the natural  man to be rewarded with things that can’t be seen.  Carnal man’s flesh dictates to man’s mind that it needs rewards of a visible nature—food, sex, drugs, music—stimulants to appease the senses.  “Only the pure in heart will see God.”

     Purity means having no fleshly carnal intent.  The intent of a pure heart looks, by belief, to an invisible truth.  A pure heart is not tainted by carnal desires and yearnings for self.  A pure heart believes in the invisible nature of all eternal things.  Having not seen as yet, a pure heart believes without reservation the invisible words of the Spirit—that Spirit that spoke through the prophet Paul of Tarsus and said that God has reserved for us at the Resurrection a new body, an immortal spiritual body, that will at that time swallow up our old earthly bodies.  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Our mortal earthly bodies will be swallowed up by the new spiritual body He has prepared for us.  Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.   II Cor. 5:4-5.

Our Assurance That We Shall Receive Our New Spiritual Body

     We can be assured that our heavenly invisible spiritual body is coming to engulf us at the Resurrection, for He has given us His Spirit as a down-payment, an earnest, a deposit toward the fullness of what He has for us.

     His Spirit has put to death our old carnal spirit and has already taken up His abode in our earthen bodies.  If this has not taken place in your life, then immortality will not come to you.  For we must receive His Spirit first.  This is a  foretaste  of  the  glorification that will come at His coming.  Those that are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

      If we are still living according to our old sensual carnal natures, then we have not taken that first step toward eternal life.

      But it takes faith to receive His Spirit, for it is an invisible change of the heart, of a person’s attitude, of a person’s spirit.  That same belief in the invisible will bring down from heaven our new spiritual body—a body that is invisible now, but will one day shine forth on this earth as the stars of heaven.