Soul Calibur

Instead of letting the devil use you like a pawn you were reborn as God's Heaven Spawn. Once you were made new you knew what the devil and sin really were and could put them out of your life. You've been made Light so partnering with the devil or behaving like sin is really not like you. You're not out to take from the Lord but to give back and the main thing you're offering Him is your own life walked out in peace and holiness with all men. You are Heaven's Spawn capable of reproducing the Glory of God in the earth in your own life or in others.

What the Kingdom of God will be in the earth is not finished. This thing is going to be pure ecstasy to build and piece together with other pirates that have to have what's on God's heart. You have the Kingdom treasure within but what God is expressing when we're together or out taking the world goes beyond even our own definitions. The Kingdom is advancing not only through our own efforts but the Holy Spirit in the earth who is revealing Jesus and what He's done and who He's made us to be to the world around us. It is one big party in the Glory that draws people in despite how well we're doing with things. And what we're experiencing now in the Kingdom in the Holy Ghost is only a taste of how good it's to be when Jesus comes in His Kingdom and the Holy Spirit restores everything.

When Jesus commanded us to leave he was telling us to take up our crosses and not just as His Disciples but as His friends. In the next verse He says there's no greater love than to lay down your life for friends and in the next verse calls us His friends. This is not a cross of shame but following the leader who is love. It's the Cross of being compelled or constrained by love, keeping His Words in our hearts and seeing things through to the end. We're laid down lovers not just because He commanded us to be but because He made us friends and showed us how to be laid down lovers. Taking up your cross and following Jesus is not only loving as one of His disciples but loving as one of His friends and seeing where this thing is going to go and having His same fun about it. We don't have to do anything to make Him love us. he's already put His love in us with the life He lived and gave for us. Now, His love lives through us making us do the same things our friend would do.