Upside Down Kings

Running on the Supernatural Operating System

• Joshua Wilson

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We keep trying to fix a broken operating system — living by the earthly, physical one, then wondering why the fruit it produces is faulty. What if the problem isn't the output, but the whole system we're running on?

In this solo episode, Joshua opens John 14 and John 16 and sits with a question he's still walking out himself: which operating system are we actually running? He shares the picture that keeps surfacing — that there's a supernatural operating system, the Spirit of truth, available to us, and that most of us are stuck trying to patch the earthly one that was never meant to be fixed. This isn't teaching from arrival. It's a brother saying "I don't fully know how to do this yet — but I know the path." The Helper who abides forever, teaches all things, brings to remembrance, and guides into all truth is the one who runs the system we were made for.

What We Cover:

  • Reading John 14:16-17, 26 and John 16:13-14 (NKJV) slowly, letting the text set the frame
  • The Helper Jesus promised — the Spirit of truth who abides forever
  • Why the world "cannot receive" Him, but those who know Him can
  • The "operating system" picture: earthly vs. supernatural, and why we run both
  • Why patching the earthly system keeps producing fruit we don't like
  • What it looks like to be taught, reminded, and guided by the Spirit
  • The honest posture of "I believe now — help me see"
  • Why the Spirit doesn't speak on His own, but glorifies Christ
  • Learning to walk in it while still figuring it out

About the show: Upside-Down Kings is a publication of One Iron Network. Learn more at oneironnetwork.com.

Upside Down Kings, let's dig into some scripture this morning. John fourteen, sixteen through seventeen and twenty-six. This is in the New King James Version. Check this out."And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, and He will abide with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all the things that I said to you." Now let's go to John sixteen, thirteen to fourteen. "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth, for He will not speak on His own authority; but whatever He hears He will speak. And He will tell you things to come. And He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you." So I think a lot of times we're living in this physical world, and we're trying to operate in the physical, but there is a supernatural operating system that we are living by. That's the true operating system that occurs. And we try to install this virus operating system of earthly physical, and we live by the earthly, and then it produces the fruit that we don't like. So the programming that spits out on the other side is faulty, and we know something's broken about it, but we keep trying to fix the earthly operating system which just cannot be fixed. So check this out. If we can learn, and I'm trying to figure this out too, and I'm walking in this, but if we can learn to walk in the supernatural operating system, the Spirit of truth, then He will guide us into all truth. He will bring to remembrance all things. He will teach you all things. He will teach us all things. So this is a which operating system are we, are we working through? Are we trying to kind of work on both operating systems, switching from macOS to, you know, PC OS? Like this is a computer reference. It just doesn't work. So I wanna encourage us, myself included, to learn to operate in the supernatural operating system.