Real life superpowers?

Last updated: 05/12/13

Wouldn't it be cool to have real live "superpowers? Fortunately, you don't need to be born a mutant in order to have the superpowers. All you need is the maturity to choose to realize you are not on God's page, confess that you are not on God's page, then get on God's page by accepting Jesus as your highest power (authority), and hen say on God's page. As incentives to get and stay on God's page, He, through His Holy Spirit, will give you, by His choice, any one or more of the following supernatural (metaphysical), seemingly mystical "god-like" hyper-capacities to automatically "on the fly" (taken from 1st Corinthians 12:1-11) be a tiny bit like God.

What are these gifts?

Because God wants us to be like Him , as incentives (enticements), God's "gifts" (proof of His agenda) are the: god-like cognitive superpowers to: comprehend and explain things (amplified authoritative wisdom) learn and teach things (amplified authoritative knowledge) god-like communication superpowers to: speak like God speaks (amplified authoritative speaking skills) hear as God hears (amplified authoritative interpretation skills) god-like observational superpowers to: see as God sees (amplified authoritative discernment) god-like command-superpowers to: rule over physical nature (amplified authority over physical reality) rule over physical heath (amplified authority over bodies) god-like command-superpowers to: rule over metaphysical nature (amplified authority over metaphysical reality) rule over metaphysical health (amplified authority over sanity) These are incentive gifts God gives out freely as invites to join him on His page. He gives them out as he sees fit. Yet you can always seek more by getting more and more on his page by way of "patience, kindness, generosity, modesty, humbleness, meekness, selflessness, joyfulness, trustworthiness, truth-promotional, dignity, faithfulness, looking forward, and endurance" (extrapolated from 1st Corinthians 13:4-8). The "natural" result (fruit) of which are maturity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness, gentleness, and selfcontrol; against such things there is no law (taken from Galatians 5:22). Just like you would never trust a child to preform brain surgery, you can never trust these powers to just anyone. Though you can always purchase generic knock-offs (snake-oil), none of these real powers are for sale. Jeff Rader 1

Real life superpowers?

Last updated: 05/12/13

God expects us to not be feral:

1 John 4:7-8: Dear friends, let us be mature towards one another, for maturity comes from God. Everyone who God allows to become mature has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not grow up (mature) does not know God, because God is mature. Every creature on the face of the earth innately just grows up, except humans. Why is this? Many animals are mature in a matter of months, not decades. It's because animals instinctively know their place. Those that refuse to know their place either taught their place or are abandoned to the wild.

He expects us to terminate the feral?

Deuteronomy 21:18-21: If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard. Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Actually Deuteronomy 21:18-21 sets merely the precedence that God expects us to either grow up or face the consequences. Children are not born feral, they are made that way by the bad examples that irresponsible and feral adults set. To have to stone one's child meant the parents were either irresponsible or not all that grownup themselves. Eli the priest (1 st Samuel) is an example of an irresponsible parent, his sons were examples of feral children.

As an incentive, God grants special gifts:

1 Corinthians 12:1-11: Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says Jesus is accursed! and no one can say Jesus is Lord except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. Jeff Rader 2

Real life superpowers?

Last updated: 05/12/13

We all fantasize at times, and to various degrees, as to what superpower we would love to have. Only to be able to be invisible, cast lightening bolts or be able to read the thoughts of those around us. There are indeed superpowers to be had, not for selfish gain but rather for the benefit of all. To quote Spiderman, With great power come great responsibly. The one thing to note about all those powers, they all come from the same source, the Holy Spirit.

Here is why we need to grow up:

1st Corinthians 13:1-23: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not grown up (matured/Christ-like), I am like a child banging on a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not grown up (matured/Christ-like), I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned (that I may boast), but have not grown up (matured/Christ-like), I gain nothing. Being grown up (matured/Christ-like) means being patient and kind. Being grown up c means you never have envy or be boastful; it means to never be arrogant or rude. It means never insist on your own way; it means to never become irritable or resentful; it means to never rejoice at wrongdoing, but rather instead to rejoice over the truth. Being, grown up (matured/Christ-like) means responsibly bearing all things, responsibly believing all things, responsibly expecting all things, responsibly enduring all things . Being grown up (matured/Christ-like), never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and being grown up (matured/Christ-like) abide, these three; but the greatest of these is being a grown up (matured/Christ-like). Ever notice that children gravitate towards everything that either makes noise or makes them feel powerful? It's because they want both attention and control. Take away that drum or RC car and you risk a temper tantrum. Adults that never learned tend to be loud and obnoxious as well highly abusive and controlling. Give a child some power and watch how quickly it goes to their head. Immature adults are no better and often worse.

How to identify feral vs. grown up:

Galatians 5:1-25: But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, Jeff Rader 3

Real life superpowers?

Last updated: 05/12/13

jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit - being grown up (matured/Christ-like) - is joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. The Bible tells us both what immaturity looks like, as well as what to expect from grownups. The naturally-accruing fruit (results) the Holy Spirit's influence is having become mature. While God may gift anyone of us in any number of different ways, none of those gifts above, as powerful as they are, are of any use to anyone unless in the hands of a Christ-like mature grown up. Because we cannot be completely trusted with them, they are all subject to God's Providence. Nothing happens, period, without God, 1) through His mercy doing it, 2) through His law orders it to be done, or 3) otherwise by grace allows it to happen. Though we may not like it, God, is in control. Taken from Galatians 5:22-23, these are what one should expect from a mature grownup: joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control

Jeff Rader