*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary How do we respond to everything around us? Are we responding from what we know or past experiences, or are we responding by the Holy Spirit within us? Who do we reveal when we respond to those around us and to the circumstances we are confronted with in our daily lives – ourselves or Christ? Show Notes • How do we respond to life's circumstances and those around us? • Our human nature must be gone so that we respond with the nature of Christ. • Christ resounded to His circumstances and those around Him by the Holy Spirit. References Genesis 3: 1-6 Expulsion from Eden. John 8:1-11 A Woman Caught in Adultery. Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. I kings 3:16-28 Story of two women and the baby. Quotes • When Satan went to Eve and asked her about the apple, “hath God said,” he got an opinion out of Eve. And that right there is the thing that we cannot have. • Our human nature has to be so gone from our soul and our flesh, as God inhabits us, that when a question comes our response, our response is mute. Because it's by His appearing, the answer comes. • Not responding to doctrine, not responding to your conditioning's. • He became the fulfillment of the law by taking it into a Kingdom Principle, or how the Kingdom functions. • He was king. It was His kingdom. His response was to bring the kingdom. Take Away We die to our human nature and take on Christ's nature. We like Christ must respond to our everyday circumstances and those around us with His nature

Dale

When Satan went to Eve and asked her about the apple, “hath God said,” he got an opinion out of Eve. And that right there is the thing that we cannot have. It has to be a word from God. Our human nature has to be so gone from our soul and our flesh, as God inhabits us, that when a question comes our response, a response is mute. Because it's by His appearing, the answer comes.

Ron

Not responding to doctrine, not responding to your conditioning's. If Christ was sitting there, and the Pharisees bring up this lady, and they say she's been caught in adultery. Christ was a rabbi; He knew the word. He knew what the Torah said about that. Did he respond by what He knew? Or did He respond by the Holy Spirit? By what the Father spoke to Him at that moment, at that time, at that specific situation?

Ron

Because He knew what they were looking for. They're trying to trap Him because they know He's a rabbi. They know that He knows what they know about what's in the Torah. So they're expecting some sort of response that they can trap Him in. But instead, He comes back with the wisdom of God. He comes back by the Spirit of God. They couldn't trap Him in that.

Dale

He used that opportunity to create a principle of the Kingdom. He created the Kingdom by His response to what that situation was. He didn't condemn those guys; He gave them the opportunity. When He said, “the first among you without sin, cast the first stone,” that was an opportunity for them to change. And that's what He came to do. He came to bring change, not condemnation. They all knew what was expected of Him. They were trying to trap Him In the law, and they couldn't do it, because what He did is He became Matthew 5:17, He became the fulfillment of the law by taking it into a Kingdom Principle, or how the Kingdom functions. He opened the door for forgiveness, He opened the door for turning away a repentance. That parable is so all about what He was sent to do. And that was to bring forth not only salvation but open the door. He was king. It was His kingdom. His response was to bring the kingdom.

Ron

And talking about that scenario, what comes to mind is what Solomon did about the child that was brought to him. You know the story. The two women bring the child, you know, they're fighting who's the child whose child is it? Because all right, bring me a sword. And he's going to cut the child in two. Again, it's the same principle it's, it's the wisdom of God that comes through.

Dale

Did it also reveal the love? What is true love? You giving yourself up? Here's this child that says, the focus of this woman's life and she loves her more than life itself, was willing to give it up, that it might live. What was her motivation? That's Christ.