Bible Study The Purpose Of Tutors And Governors

[Soul man]

The believer does not have any control over tutors and governors (circumstances and situations) while under the jurisdiction of tutors and governors,
Galatians 4:1–2.
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

However, the believer does have a choice while under the control of tutors and governors. The believer can choose to-yield their mind to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit will bring revelation to the believers mind at that point. When revelation comes to the believers mind the believer loses control in the area of Revelation and can only yield (accept or reject) to it, if they choose to do so. When the believer loses control in their mind, the Holy Spirit then brings compatibility between the mind and the "Christ in you" nature to the degree of Revelation received. Bringing compatibility between the believers mind and the "Christ in you" nature is the great ministry of the Holy Spirit.

The control factor does not exist in compatibility between the believers mind and the "Christ in you" nature of the believer. The whole purpose of tutors and governors is to gain control of the believers mind so the believer will relinquish control and allow the Holy Spirit to bring compatibility between the believers mind and the "Christ in you" nature. When tutors and governors gain control of the believers mind the believer is at the point where they can yield their mind to the Holy Spirit. At this point the Holy Spirit can bring revelation into the believers mind because revelation need not be controlled! Tutors and governors ( situations and circumstances ) lose control over the believer when the mind begins the yield process and revelation is received in the believers mind through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Most Christians are under the same circumstances as were those under the law. They attempt to use the soul/mind to live their lives for God, and as we know this will not work. Life in Christ is lived by a nature (Son Nature) and not by attempting to use the soul mind. This is critical because the born-again believer cannot afford to ignore the soul/mind just because they attempt to live by the nature with in them. The believer needs the mind of Christ so that they can live in total compatibility with the Son-nature within them. Our Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not controllers. It is our incompatible minds that are the controllers. It is very important for the believer to understand that the Holy Spirit is not a controller. He does not control revelation but He does share it with those who are willing to yield their minds to Him. If the mind is not compatible with the nature then the mind becomes a controller of that nature.

The mind can control the learning process but the mind cannot control the revelation process, Galatians 1:12. The mind may fail to comprehend revelation but this is due to the minds previous relationship with the sin nature. Although revelation is contained within the mind it is not a controllable component as is other facets of the mind. Why is this? Revelation needs not to be controlled because it perfectly fits the "Christ in you" nature in the born-again believer. Revelation functions in perfect harmony with the Son-nature in the born-again believer. There is no law to regulate revelation it is free to all born-again believers who will receive it. The reason religion has rejected revelation knowledge is because religion cannot control revelation. When religion loses control of its members religion rejects whatever is causing it to lose control. This is why commingling law and grace is so prevalent in religion because religion needs to maintain control so that religion can continue to exist. When religion loses control what remains is Grace/revelation in its fullness, which is Christ in the believer.

 

[smaller]

The 'governors' are adverse elemental spirits. No choice of the believer effects what an elemental adverse spiritual governor does.

Gal. 4:
3 So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.

Which Paul terms enslaving, miserable weak forces (elemental spiritual) forces:

9 -to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

For a closer look at those forces, Paul gives us an inside look, here:

Romans 11:32
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

The basic error we entertain, in our minds, is that disobedience, by our choices, becomes obedient. That doesn't and never happens.

Here Paul shows us that the elemental spiritual forces is actually a spirit of disobedience. That IS the elemental spiritual force that Paul is referring to in the scripture you cite in Gal. 4. It is the spirit of disobedience in the flesh:

Eph. 2:
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

There is the adverse governor, the elemental force, of bondage. It is the spirit of disobedience.

Mark 4:15 shows us how this adverse governor, the spirit of disobedience, operates.

Where the Word is sown, THE LAW for example, the ADVERSE GOVERNOR in the flesh, the spirit of disobedience, RESISTS the law.

This is how God has set up His System. There are actually TWO separate parties in play. The believer and the spirit of disobedience in the flesh.

The two should not be mixed, or mistaken, one for the other. The unbeliever is BLINDED to this reality, by that spirit of disobedience. 2 Cor. 4:4, Acts 26:18.

It is and will continue to be a HOPELESS CASE to think that we, by decision making, can make the spirit of disobedience, OBEY or BE LEGAL because that's not possible nor is it going to happen. That's why Paul berates the Galatians. They are putting indwelling sin under the law, and it WILL rebel every time, AS Paul shows us for himself in Romans 7.

 

[Soul man]

The 'governors' are adverse elemental spirits. No choice of the believer effects what an elemental adverse spiritual governor does.

Gal. 4:
3 So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.

Which Paul terms enslaving, miserable weak forces (elemental spiritual) forces:

9 -to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

For a closer look at those forces, Paul gives us an inside look, here:

Romans 11:32
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

The basic error we entertain, in our minds, is that disobedience, by our choices, becomes obedient. That doesn't and never happens.

Here Paul shows us that the elemental spiritual forces is actually a spirit of disobedience. That IS the elemental spiritual force that Paul is referring to in the scripture you cite in Gal. 4. It is the spirit of disobedience in the flesh:

Eph. 2:
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

There is the adverse governor, the elemental force, of bondage. It is the spirit of disobedience.

Mark 4:15 shows us how this adverse governor, the spirit of disobedience, operates.

Where the Word is sown, THE LAW for example, the ADVERSE GOVERNOR in the flesh, the spirit of disobedience, RESISTS the law.

This is how God has set up His System. There are actually TWO separate parties in play. The believer and the spirit of disobedience in the flesh.

The two should not be mixed, or mistaken, one for the other. The unbeliever is BLINDED to this reality, by that spirit of disobedience. 2 Cor. 4:4, Acts 26:18.

It is and will continue to be a HOPELESS CASE to think that we, by decision making, can make the spirit of disobedience, OBEY or BE LEGAL because that's not possible nor is it going to happen. That's why Paul berates the Galatians. They are putting indwelling sin under the law, and it WILL rebel every time, AS Paul shows us for himself in Romans 7.

Converging powers in this world are there to bring the sinner to Christ.
They remain in a believers life until the time appointed of the father.
Converging powers, tutors and governors bring the believer to Christ, in time they bring the believer to see Christ as their only life, Gal. 2:20.
This world is perfect for what the Father wants, He wants children birthed out of this world.
Religion and man have so fixed in their minds the evil that is in this world, they cannot see the perfect design of creator God to create a place to get sons like unto His only begotten Son.
It will remain a mystery until the day it is all summed up, no man can understand the deep things of God on their own, it takes the HolySpirit to reveal to them the mystery, which is Christ in you the hope of glory.

 

[iLOVE]

Who are the tutors and governors? Are they Laws of the universe or Watchers (Angels) or Spirits?

 

[Soul man]

Who are the tutors and governors? Are they Laws of the universe or Watchers (Angels) or Spirits?

Circumstances and situations, have you ever noticed how they have a way of making us dependent on our Father.
They also are instructors, if we listen we learn the family spirit.
There not evil, they are built into creation, it's like suffering it is built into creation, you don't have to pray they come, hope they come, they are there.
No one is exempt, the way we look at them is the difference.
The things we have in Christ for example do not fall in the lap of the believer, some do most don't. Not the deep things, they have to be taught by the HolySpirit.
The one thing the Father reserves for Himself is "the revelation of Jesus Christ," Gal. 1:12,15-16.
You can get alot of things from the Father, not 'the revelation it comes in His time, Gal. 4:2. You will know it, no man will have to confirm to you, Paul conferred not with flesh and blood, Gal. 1:16.
Most do not know a revelation of Jesus Christ as their only life even exists, Gal. 2:20, regardless He is the only life of the believer.
Religion can't teach-preach what they don't possess.

 

[smaller]

Converging powers in this world are there to bring the sinner to Christ.
They remain in a believers life until the time appointed of the father.
Converging powers, tutors and governors bring the believer to Christ, in time they bring the believer to see Christ as their only life, Gal. 2:20.
This world is perfect for what the Father wants, He wants children birthed out of this world.
Religion and man have so fixed in their minds the evil that is in this world, they cannot see the perfect design of creator God to create a place to get sons like unto His only begotten Son.
It will remain a mystery until the day it is all summed up, no man can understand the deep things of God on their own, it takes the HolySpirit to reveal to them the mystery, which is Christ in you the hope of glory.

If we just throw up our hands and whine that it's all an understanding that is entirely beyond our grasp and comprehensions, you'd have a point. But it's not.

We are meant to come to grips with some very difficult concepts and conveyances of information in the scriptures that are quite factual, such as I noted in my first response.

I agree with you, that God made this adverse world for GOOD reasons. Very good even. And cited the same in my first post.

We think for example that having evil and wickedness in this world is a bad thing. But God actually did put us all in an adverse environment, helpless, weak, bound for death, precisely to show both Divine Providence/Superiority and Divine Mercy, with a side helping of HOPE.

In these types of equations then, evil serves greater Divne purposes and is in fact Gods Own temporal servant. I coined my own little scripture/synopsis for this many years ago:

All things serve The Maker of all things.

It's a shortcut version of Rev. 4:11.

In Romans 11:32, we're advised that God Himself bound everyone to disobedience precisely to demonstrate DIVINE MERCY. We are put into a state of needing same. It's NOT a bad thing, in the long term perspectives anyway.

And yes, that spirit of disobedience IS exactly the governor that Paul is discoursing in Gal. as prior noted.

So, there is no need to toss up our hands and cry mystery and "we'll figure it ALL out later when we die" when the plain statements of fact stare us in the face in order to come to grips with those facts.

We technically have more hard data/information than what we can even use/deploy, in the scriptures.

 

[Soul man]

If we just throw up our hands and whine that it's all an understanding that is entirely beyond our grasp and comprehensions, you'd have a point. But it's not.

We are meant to come to grips with some very difficult concepts and conveyances of information in the scriptures that are quite factual, such as I noted in my first response.

I agree with you, that God made this adverse world for GOOD reasons. Very good even. And cited the same in my first post.

We think for example that having evil and wickedness in this world is a bad thing. But God actually did put us all in an adverse environment, helpless, weak, bound for death, precisely to show both Divine Providence/Superiority and Divine Mercy, with a side helping of HOPE.

In these types of equations then, evil serves greater Divne purposes and is in fact Gods Own temporal servant. I coined my own little scripture/synopsis for this many years ago:

All things serve The Maker of all things.

It's a shortcut version of Rev. 4:11.

In Romans 11:32, we're advised that God Himself bound everyone to disobedience precisely to demonstrate DIVINE MERCY. We are put into a state of needing same. It's NOT a bad thing, in the long term perspectives anyway.

And yes, that spirit of disobedience IS exactly the governor that Paul is discoursing in Gal. as prior noted.

So, there is no need to toss up our hands and cry mystery and "we'll figure it ALL out later when we die" when the plain statements of fact stare us in the face in order to come to grips with those facts.

We technically have more hard data/information than what we can even use/deploy, in the scriptures.

Right and that is what I'm saying, we can know now.
The coining of the term you mentioned reminds me of the scripture, 2nd Corinthians,

18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

"All things are of God" it may be we are saying alot of the same things, from different angles.
I see spirit-nature-life-Christ, all meaning the same thing.
Birthed in spirit, expressed by soul, soul being the organ of expression.
Complete in spirit, being completed in soul, and will be completed in body.
When I say Christ as our only life, I'm saying for Christ to express Himself, the only way He can do that now is through you, you're expression, you're creation.
We are not little gods, we're not jesus, we can be an expression of Who He is. He is our life.
That takes revelation to know something about it, it's not the norm of every day theology I know that.
But regardless, it was planned before the foundation of the world, and it has nothing to do with religion or this world, it's spiritual.
We are seated in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, in the world, but not of it.

 

[iLOVE]

Circumstances and situations, have you ever noticed how they have a way of making us dependent on our Father.
They also are instructors, if we listen we learn the family spirit.
There not evil, they are built into creation, it's like suffering it is built into creation, you don't have to pray they come, hope they come, they are there.
No one is exempt, the way we look at them is the difference.
The things we have in Christ for example do not fall in the lap of the believer, some do most don't. Not the deep things, they have to be taught by the HolySpirit.
The one thing the Father reserves for Himself is "the revelation of Jesus Christ," Gal. 1:12,15-16.
You can get alot of things from the Father, not 'the revelation it comes in His time, Gal. 4:2. You will know it, no man will have to confirm to you, Paul conferred not with flesh and blood, Gal. 1:16.
Most do not know a revelation of Jesus Christ as their only life even exists, Gal. 2:20, regardless He is the only life of the believer.
Religion can't teach-preach what they don't possess.

Out of 603,550 men who were readied for war that came out of Egypt under the power of God (Numbers 1:44-46), only two took their inheritance; Joshua (a type of Christ) and Caleb (a type of the body of Christ) (Matthew 7:14). There is only one message that changes the body of Christ into the image of Christ, and that is Jesus Christ and Him Crucified (Romans 8:2, 29, 30, 1 Corinthians 1:17-18, 23, 1 Corinthians 2:2, Galatians 6:14, 2 Peter 3:18 ).

God's prescribe order of victory over the world, the flesh (self), and the Devil is Faith exclusively in Lord Jesus Christ and His Finished Work, i.e., The Cross, i.e., The Blood of Jesus. This is called "The is called "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2)." This can only be accomplished by believing from the heart. This gives the Holy Spirit the legal means to help us in every capacity of life and transforms us into the image of Christ.

If a Christians faith is not maintain exclusively in Christ and His Finished Work, i.e., The Cross, i.e., The BLOOD of Jesus, the works of the flesh will manifest.

Paul tells us this in the 5th Chapter of Galatians. The entire Book of Galatians, but especially the 5th Chapter, is a warning from Paul to the Church at Galatia, which is also meant for us. The warning is that if they place their faith in anything except “Christ and Him Crucified,” that “Christ shall profit you nothing” (Gal. 5:2).

The Apostle goes on to say that if the Believer doesn’t adhere to the Way of the Spirit, which is the Way of the Cross, then works of the flesh will manifest themselves. He said:

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God” (Gal. 5:19-21).

Now let me say it again, because it is so very important:
If the Believer doesn’t understand the Cross of Christ, as it regards Sanctification, then, in some way, one or more of these “works of the flesh” are going to manifest themselves in his life. As stated, such is inevitable! The first four, “Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, and lasciviousness,” are obvious and easily understood. But the modern Christian quickly dismisses “idolatry, witchcraft, and heresies,” thinking they do not really apply today.

Pastor Jimmy Swaggart