Author: Pastor Jean

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THE CHURCH OF MAKE BELIEVE

THE CHURCH OF MAKE BELIEVE

I have met so many people, I have met them by the score, And if I keep on living, I’ll meet a million more. Their souls are tired and weary of what they thought would make them strong, It’s left them brokenhearted, though they try to sing along.
They all are true believers and not easy to deceive, And they’ve heard the Spirit saying, “Leave the church of make-believe!”
This church it speaks of Jesus and they freely use His name While they crucify each other and put the Lord to open shame.
But the church they think they’re part of is one they can’t perceive; It’s built on the blood of Jesus, and not a place of make-believe!
This church of make-believe is rooted firmly in the sand; Its character is of the world, its ideas, all from man.
It boasts of size and numbers and programs for everyone, Its leaders touch the glory for what they think they’ve done.
The Spirit of the Living God would free them if He could, But those who think they serve Him are bound by human good.
This church it runs on formulas of so-called faith and power, It’s got itself believing it will triumph in this hour.It hopes to rule the nations before the Lord it sees, But those who know the truth of God don’t buy this make-Believe
This church has plans and busy-ness which keeps men on the run, Days and hours all consumed with getting so much done.
Seminars and conferences and endless meetings do abound, But years of this can drain your soul and put you in the ground.
The longings of the Saviour’s heart toward those for whom He grieves, Are drowned by all the clamor in the church of make-believe.
This church can be like Martha who lived so ill at ease Trying like the raging tide to make her Master pleased; But there are those like Mary who in stillness did receive The best that Jesus offered men who shunned such make-believe.
This church it loves position and like the Pharisees of old, It lives by much tradition which leaves men dead and cold.
It has a hierarchy spawned of men and not from God, A system of religion that to Jesus must seem odd.
He told them you’re all brethren and this is what you’ll be And if men teach you otherwise it’s simply make-believe!
Now there is a church of Jesus and it’s like a planted seed, It’s not another system, a doctrine, or a creed.
It’s a living organism in which all who do believe Live with one another in this shared reality.
There is a church of Jesus throughout earth’s history That’s recognized in every age by pure simplicity.
Its trademark is devotion to the Master who is Lord, Who is held in honor, is worshipped and adored.
And if we love and serve Him, you know He will be Pleased To keep us free forever from the church of make-believe!
— author unknown

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Let Us Make Man

Let us make Man

The concept of most Christians today is, we were put on the earth today, under a curse of eternal death.   The only way the to escape this judgement is by repenting, receiving Christ as our Saviour.  If we don’t repent we will go to an eternal hell of endless  punishment. Because of these teachings, people will respond to this “Gospel” to avoid this hell. They don’t have a clue that God has a plan for humanity before the foundation of the world.  God’s plan for the ages “That God may be all in all.”

Theologians tell us the human race is dead in their trespasses & sins.  Adam’s sin, which brought sin & death upon all men.  This concept makes God someone to be feared.   We must first understand what God had in mind when he created man.  It is vital for us to understand who we are & why we are here. All this is confusion!!!

As we study the book of Genesis the book of beginnings, we will have a clear vision of who we are & where we came from. The first words of the Bible “in the beginning,” is not the reference to the beginning of God for He is eternal.

Gen. 1:26-28   And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  1. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
  2. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

This is man as he came out of the Creator’s hand, in the “ likeness & image of God.”  Hebrew word for man here is (aw-Dawm)    a generic term for mankind.

Gen. 2:23 the Hebrew word for “Adam” changes to “lysh”  (eesh) as being the one out of whom the woman was taken. This is important because the created man is identified by John as the word or logos.

John 1: 1.  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.    & the woman was not taken out of him, but, out of “man”

formed from the dust of the earth. Gen.2: 7.  And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.   

God’s original man was created as pure Spirit with no mention of any “body” in Gen. 1:26-28.  However he was later, in the fullness of time also to be clothed upon with a flesh & blood body through the virgin Mary. John 1: 14.  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Now, all of mankind is represented in either of these two men.  You are either in the first Adam or you are in the second Adam.

Dominion was given to the man created in the likeness & image of God, no mention of this authority is given to the man of dust.  It was also given to the created man ( the Spirit man) that was told to be fruitful & replenish the earth.  What man has created & replenished is himself.  This is not what the Creator (Elohim or Father God) had in mind.  The man created in the likeness & image of God was to fill the earth with the offspring out of HIMSELF.  God has given us dominion over everything on the earth & the earth itself.  This earth that is spoken of  refers to man who is “the heavens & the earth” There is a spiritual part of man that is invisible (the heavens) & the earthly part of man which we call the body, (from the dust) So the dominion we have been given over the earth & everything in it, is subject to our spirit. Think on this spirit that lives in you.  This spirit that keeps you alive.  When you sleep at night & your heart keeps beating. Your lungs are working, your kidneys, your liver etc.  It’s a driving force within you that acts apart from your consciousness & mine.  Eph 2:10 .  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

James 1: 18.  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.  Psalmist David said it this way. Psalms 8: 5.  For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

All of creation is designed to manifest the Glory of God, for God is in all of His creation.  The highest form of God’s creation is man.  He is in the likeness & image of God & has the ability to manifest His glory.  God Himself to the world.

This is what our elder brother did & showed us the way.  We are to be clothed upon. That is his Glory.  That is our redemption in the fullness Spirit, Soul & body.

1Cor.15: 45.  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

  1. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
  2. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
  3. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
  4. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. (we have borne this image of the earthly long enough, lets go on & become the heavenly our Father intended for us to be.)
  5. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (we are not that body any more of flesh & blood, we have come into the knowledge we are spirit beings. In the image of our heavenly Father.)  We are being birthed into the Spirit of our living God.  This is the new creation of man.
  6. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (We are not in the Adamic sleep anymore, We are waking up to know who we are in HIM.)
  7. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (This word moment, does not mean a moment of time.  The word means in the Atoms, this change will change every cell of your body with new life. At the last trump, the trumpet is sounding, you are hearing a new sound.  This sound is the truth on who you are. a sound that is bringing life to you.  The last trump is the word of truth coming forth  freeing you from all the dead beliefs, all the deceits, we are having a mind change.  Glory to God!) We are coming into His Kingdom, which is in you. A New creation in Christ Jesus.
  8. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (This corruptible that we were, we are now putting on the truth ofwho we are. The incorruptible seed of our Father, the body will take on immortality.)
  1. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. (Overcoming the last enemy Death.  You will never defeat death by dying, you overcome death by living as the Christ & being about our Father’s business.)
  2. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
  3. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.  (We are no more under this curse.  I Live for God.  His Law is forgiveness, Love your neighbor as yourself & Love your God with all your heart, soul & strength.)
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No More Walls

NO MORE WALLS

This ministry is the ministry of Jesus, this ministry flows out of the Most Holy Place.  The ministry is beyond Pentecost, it is after the order of Melchisedec. It has three realms of maturity.  This is the realm  of manifestation of 100 fold.  The realm of the 30 fold is, the realm of the outer court.  The realm of Pentecost is the realm of the 60 fold. As we go on with the Lord we can come into the full inheritance of the 100 fold, realm of perfection, realm of maturity,  the most Holy Place where our Father will tabernacle with us & we are restored back to the place of completeness as ONE.  I Am that I Am.  Glory to God!

Matt.:13:22-23.  He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.  23.  But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.  We can stay in the outer court & we learn Jesus is the way at thirty fold.  As we come into the Holy place, we learn Jesus is the truth.  But, when we come into the hundred fold, Jesus is the life of God.  This is our journey, our learning His ways. This is our vision to be as Jesus was, you see me you see the Father. Remember in the outer court you do not start at 30 you start as one, same for the 60 or 100, this is a journey of progression.  I want to have all that God has for me. You want all that God has for you. Our vision is all the same.

So what hinders us from entering into the fullness of the God head.  We must put all our enemies under our feet. When you start to come into the high realm of God we must put all our enemies under our feet, we need to overcome them.  Now in this 30 fold, we are young ,some babies & on the milk of the word.  Father will treat His young ones a little different, they have some trouble eating on meat of the word, they can’t digest as well.  They need Father to be gentle with them, they are new to the faith message.  Their faith wavers more quickly. But thank God we start to grow & become stronger in the word of the Lord, faith starts to grow strong & we have a hope.  We come into that Holy Place, that Pentecost experience.  This is a wonderful place to be & for many people they believe this to be all there is, maybe because of teachings, doctrines, whatever reason, you can’t stay in this place, there is so much more & we need to climb higher.  We hear the

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voice of the Spirit says, “Come up higher.”  Over the many, years learning & the many years of study, I would like to share this chart, that was so helpful for me to begin to understand the progression of our experiences.

Passover                        Pentecost                                   Tabernacle

Outer Court                   Holy Place                                  Most Holy Place

New Birth                      Holy Spirit (baptism)                Maturity

Jesus (Savior)                Christ ( anointing)                    The Lord

Milk                                 Bread                                         Meat

The Way                         The Truth                                  The Life

Faith                                Hope                                          LOVE

 

The thing that hinders us from entering into  all that the Lord has for us are the walls which we have created by our own thinking, or by teachings we have accepted or by not knowing truth because we have been deceived. We have all built our walls within ourselves & for the most part these walls all come from our fears.  The word tells us Fear is not of God, so it is easy to see we built these walls with our carnal mind.  Walls are a stumbling block & interferes with our walk with God.  Our God understands this, with mercy, understanding, compassion & His love, He leads us through our trials & tribulations.  The result is victory over the carnal nature that we were & we see the walls of all our fears come down, destroyed, we see ourselves in the Holy of Holies. With the nature of the Father.

Everything we go through, if we allow God to have His perfect will all things are exposed & we have the victory.  Another enemy is put under our feet.  Each trial we see God more clearly, our eye becomes single & behold only Him.

To name a few of the walls, fear, hatred,  anger, jealousy, unforgiveness, guilt, poverty, lack of any kind, malice, deceit, unbelief, religious doctrines, lies, false gods, pride, boastfulness, to name a few.  They are our enemies & must be put under our feet. They are of the world of our carnal nature & must be under our feet as we overcome this nature & take on the nature of our Lord and Savior Jesus

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Christ.  We must come higher into the world of Spirit, we must worship Him in Spirit & in Truth. This is where we are the overcomers, all things become subjected to His Kingdom.  We become His way, as we take on His way.  We are His truth as we take on His truth, and now we take on His life, for our life is no longer ours, but His.  As Jesus said, & we will also say,  I Am the way, the truth & the Life.  There isn’t any other way except through our Lord & Savior.  Taking the same mind which was in Him & now we are one as we have the same matured mind.

The word tells us we already have the mind of Christ in us, but, now it is becoming matured. The word tells us the only fall of man is the lie he received from the beginning.  The Spirit of God never left us.  He is in every man, but, buried in our tomb so to speak, that we created for Him.   He wants  out of the tomb within you, He wants resurrection day for the  Christ you buried within yourselves. He is in our clay body & He wants to resurrect & show Himself to a hurting world again.  This is the vision that everyone should have, that your body is the Temple of God.  The Kingdom of God is within each & everyone, crying to manifest Himself in you.  As Jesus said, “If you see me you see the Father.  That is the vision of the Kingdom is for all of us.  God is Spirit & made man in His image.  He wanted a body that would house HIM, so He may walk among His people & show HIMSELF.  That is what Jesus did, the vision has not changed, we must worship HIM in Spirit & in truth. When this body of yours & mine manifests our Father & we speak the words of Life & Spirit, we will do the works of the Father, so all may see Him. The Father is Spirit & He needs a body so He may be seen again to a hurting world, so all may know HIM. It means everything we do will be ordained from the  throne of our God, we will be seated by His right hand, a mighty army of God.  That throne is the matured mind of Christ.

Scripture tells us to be perfect even as our Father is perfect.  How many times I hear, we cannot be perfect but, scripture tells us to be perfect.  I believe love covers a multitude of sin.  When we are all love, when we can say I love the Lord my God with all my heart & strength  & my neighbor as myself, my love has been made perfect & that is the perfection I seek.

 

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Too long we have eaten of the tree of Knowledge of good & evil, one becomes what we eat.  We are told not to eat of that tree, but eat of the tree of life, as we eat of that word & we become that word, we become the Tree of life & everyone that eats of our fruit (words) they will have life also.  We have done this in part, but the full manifestation of the word is coming forth.  It will bring life to His people, the fruit will be good to eat & they will receive life & that which is more abundant .  Glory to God!

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Tabernacle

The Tabernacle

Rev.4:1-2  1.  After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”  Vs.2.  Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

The tabernacle of God is with you, the book of revelation is within you.  In the old testament with Moses the tabernacle was a tent.  The tabernacle in the wilderness had three compartments.  The outer Court, the Holy Place, The Most Holy Place. The outer court is where we had the shedding of blood.  This is the blood sacrifice, The Lava washing of hands, or water baptism.  Today we enter this court by knowing that Jesus paid the price, He shed His blood & we can now enter these compartments of the tabernacle, through the spirit.  As now the tabernacle is within man.  So we have a journey to know our God, that sits on the throne, (which is the mind of Christ) This is the throne which we want to sit with Him & rule & reign with him.

There is a sound, a trumpet, a word saying, “come up higher”, it is always a progressive walk to know our God. Some people have entered into the second compartment, which is the realm of Pentecost, here we have the oil of anointing & the light of the candlestick.  This is the realm of the gifts of the Spirit. The golden alter of incense is here, which is Praise & worship.  The journey to know our God, that abides within.  We have seen this moving of the Spirit. presence of God through different crusades or meetings.  Seen the power of God in healings & signs & wonders.  The experience of the upper room in the book of Acts, when 120 was in one accord & God showed himself in Power. It was wonderful to know the Lord in this way, but, we can’t stay.  It is always the call to come up higher.

When our Brother Jesus died on the cross, He tore the veil, nothing can stop us from going into the Most Holy Place & minister as Jesus, our High Priest did.  This Most Holy Place was also known as the Holy of Holies in Moses Tabernacle. There are many Christians today bringing forth 30 fold, some 60 & others have come higher to bring forth God in the dimension of 100 fold.  That is God in

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perfection.  Perfect Love, Perfect Light, the fullness of the God Head, as Jesus our brother showed us, all things are possible to him that believe.

In this most Holy place, this third dimension in God, is where the Father is bringing us to. No flesh can enter in, it is the place where you and God is one. This is our walk through the book of Revelation.  We had the old testament which is the first book, it was the law.  In the new testament we had a new covenant, by Jesus Christ & we were freed from that curse of the law.  The book of Revelation is the last book of the new testament, but, it is also the first book of the third book in which we are.  This book He is being engrafted in our hearts. In our journey, in our experiences He is writing this book, which you are.  There is only one tree in this garden of the Lord & He is that Tree of life, which we are being engrafted into.  The word tells us the leaves of this tree was for the healing of the nations.  Those leaves that you will produce are the words of life that will heal the nations.  GLORY!  No more man’s doctrines, no more fleshly ways, all that will be seen, will be our Father.  Did not our elder brother say, “I do nothing except what my Father does.”  Zec. 4:6 “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: `Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.

This realm is God alone.  You are in the divine will of the Father, we are learning to lean on Him, we are learning to trust Him in all things.  “Come up hither”.  In the throne room as you come into the Most Holy Place is a throne where there is one seated. On a blood sprinkled mercy seat.  Who is this Jesus Christ.  We can go through all these experiences that were great, in the Outer Court, The Holy Place, the call is always to come up hither or higher into that realm of knowing Him that abides within each of us. I had to learn the experience I had in the Holy Place was great, all the gifts are beautiful, it is God, but it is only a down payment, and in part ministry.  One day in my meditation, I heard that still small voice say, “Don’t seek for the gifts, seek the Giver & you shall inherit all that I promised.”  So, this has been my walk, as it is for a multitude of God’s people.   It is the walk to come Higher!

The outer court, also known as the Feast of Passover, is like our baby walk, first steps, the Holy Place is like our growing years, also known as the Feast of Pentecost.  The Most Holy Place is the Feast of Tabernacle, The Fullness or the mature Sons of God.

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The Seven Churches in  Rev. 2&3 each one God had somewhat against them. After each  one, the Lord spoke & said, But, to him that overcomes, will I grant to sit with me on the throne.  This is the Eighth Church that we are, It is the overcoming Church.  You are that Church & we will overcome all things, as our brother Jesus Christ overcame.  He overcome the world, not speaking of this literal world, He is talking about your world you formed within yourself.  You are the True Church, it’s all within yourself.

1 Thess.vs.16.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

 Vs.17.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.     

We were once dead in Christ, because we did not know Him. But, now we have been made alive. God is coming from a Heavenly Place, a high Place, with a trump, a high word in Him.  He is bringing a word , a message in our hearts.

Heb. 12:1.  Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

We are that cloud of witnesses, you are being raptured into a higher realm in HIM!

We are not going any place. We will be seen of all men.  For we are here to sound this trump, this word of life to the nations & then will He be ALL in ALL!

The Lord’s Prayer tells us, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”  What earth is He talking about, your Earth, you were formed from the Dust of the Earth. The only earth He is talking about is YOU. He wants the fullness of His Kingdom to come to you.  So, He may be seen by all in this world, just as Jesus only showed the Father.   GLORY!    Jean

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Spirit, Soul & Body Salvation

You are a spirit, you have a soul & you live in a body.    This study will help you to rightly divide the word of God & understand the will & purpose of God in your life.  To understand the words of Jesus & many parables which He taught, it is necessary to understand the difference between our spirit & our soul.

Heb.4:12 12.  For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

From this scripture we see the we see the dividing from the soul rests in the bible (word of God) alone.  Many times people will use “spirit & soul” interchangeably.  Being ignorant of there true meaning.  Another scripture which helps us to see the division of these words would be in-   

Matt.10:28  28.  “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. This would indicate the soul & the body , not the spirit, have the possibility of destruction.

1Cor. 6: 19-20  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

  1. For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

This indicates the soul & the body are possessed by God, but, it leaves out the soul as being possessed.  Another scripture which shed light on the difference is in

Ecc. 12:7; 7.  Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Your spirit is what gives all man life, you would not be alive except He gave you the Spirit so you may have life. Your body may go back to the dust of the earth(destroyed) but, the spirit you can not kill it is God, there is no death in Him, it will return back to God who gave it.  So from these three scriptures we see the spirit is eternal: it came from in the first place

John 4:24 24.  “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

1John 5:6  6.  This is He who came by water and blood Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.

Acts 7:59 59.  And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Rom 1:9 9.  For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,

Rom. 8:15-18 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

  1. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
  2. and if children, then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
  3. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Our Spirit is saved, He bear’s witness to this, we have received the spirit of adoption. We are the children of God & if children Heirs of God, joint heirs.  The nest part of the scripture tells us if we suffer with Him, we will be glorified.  This shows us the next progression of salvation, Your soul!

 Eph. 4:4- 5  There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;

  1. one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 

1Thess.5:9

  1. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, even though the Thessalonians were in Church & were already saved, they were still to obtain. (in the future) a salvation that they already possessed. In this one verse we see a present deliverance, yet a future deliverance.

Future Salvation

Some Christians believe that when they went to the alter & received Jesus Christ into their hearts, then their relationship with God was finished & complete at that

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particular point, but we believe the scriptures have many concepts which indicates progressive deliverance, a progressive salvation & progressive sanctification.

One scripture would be….Rom. 5:9 9.  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

This indicates that because of past shedding of blood we are presently justified, but it further indicates that in the future we shall be saved from wrath through Him. Yet, the Romans to whom Paul is writing, were saved in the past, but the scripture further indicates they shall be saved. (future). How is this possible to be already saved & yet to have further salvation ready for us in the future wherein we shall be saved?  Vs. 10 continues this thought “ For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”

Those of us who are already accepted the blood of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our past sins, have already in the past been reconciled to God.  We are already saved, yet we find these scriptures indicating that those who are already saved shall be saved in the future. Scriptures in the Bible which refer to a past tense salvation or deliverance always refer to the fact that in the past Jesus Christ has saved the spirit of man.  The blood of Jesus Christ has become a covering for the past sins of men.  Jesus is the Savior of our Spirit.  “There is one mediator between God & man, the man Jesus Christ.”  & our spirit returns to God who gave them in the first place through Jesus Christ the mediator.

Soul & Mind

We noticed that the salvation of our soul is present tense (not past), in fact is present, progressive tense. The salvation of our soul is being worked out.   The word Soul translated from the Hebrew word,  Psu-Kha, also Feminine, also Psyche, so it is all our mind which is Feminine. This is what is being saved.  The word says every thought will be brought into captivity. Even though the salvation of the spirit has been through the work of Jesus Christ, we will discover the scriptures that the salvation of the soul not the spirit, is through the work of the Holy Spirit.

Heb. 10:39 39. “ But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.”    Here we see the saving of the soul is

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present progressive tense & that it has not already been accomplished but it is being completed.

Carnal Mind

The part of the mind which is not yet changed is our carnal mind. We have read the scriptures that men are carnal.  Carnal is taken from the word “carne”. The word is flesh or meat.

Soul is the mind

In furthering the difference between the words & soul, these are some of the scriptures from the book of Matt. That make reference to the word soul.

Matt.11:29  “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Matt12:18  “Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, my Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased; I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will declare justice to the Gentiles.

Matt.16:25  “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

  1. “For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matt.22-37.  Jesus said to him, ” `You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

  1. “This is the first and great commandment.

Matt. 26-38.  Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”

In these scriptures we see that the soul can be killed, the soul can be destroyed, that you can find rest in the soul & you can be killed & the soul can be destroyed, that you can be pleased in the soul.  The list of words indicates that the soul consistently refers to the mind, the center of thought, rest, pleasure, & sorrow.  All of this is the mind in Matt..  All these scriptures has to do with man’s mind. The word “Psyche” in the Greek further indicates the word “mind” we get our words. Psychiatrist, or psycho & these words refer to the mind of men, or treatment of the

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mind. We see the word soul has to do with thinking & our remembering process, we can magnify the soul.

Luke 1:46.  And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,

The soul can be pierced  Luke 2:35  (yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Luke 2: 19.  `And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ‘

  1. “But God said to him, `You fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
  2. “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
  3. And He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.
  4. “Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
  5. “Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?
  6. “And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
  7. “If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?
  8. “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
  9. “If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
  10. “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.
  11. “For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things.
  12. “But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

 

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In these scriptures, we are shown not to lay up our treasures with our own thinking, but look to God for the saving of your soul, seek the Kingdom & everything else will be added to you.

Rom. 2:9 9.  tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

The soul can have tribulation & anguish ,glory honor, & peace. But, Praise God in the following it tells us we can be purified by obeying truth.

Rom.2:922.  Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

  1. having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
  2. because “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
  3. but the word of the Lord endures forever.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

The soul thinks & remembers

Thus we see that the soul is common to thinking, all the acts of the brain, to teaching & remembering.  You can rest in your soul (mind) Be sorrowful in your soul (mind) You can be merry or happy in your soul (mind) You can magnify in your soul (mind)  You can have fear, anger In your soul (mind).

Spirit use to lead

In the garden, originally, man was led of the spirit.  The spirit which is the inner man, or the true man, was led by the mind or soul of man & his body followed. He was Spirit Soul & Body, in that order.  First a Spirit, for God is Spirit & He was created in His image & likeness.  When man listened to the serpent, it was man’s soul that came into pre-eminence.  At first his spirit had the sensitivity to commune with God.  Later after the fall, his soul became pre-eminent & his soul was the leader.  His spirit became a wee small voice from deep down inside.

Now the soul leads

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Nowadays, most people are led by their mind, their will intellect, their emotion & attitude; but the wee small voice from within their spirit cries out for truth.

Tree of knowledge

Originally, the spirit was in charge & originally the spirit was leading. Originally , the spirit had communion with God, but, man made a mistake & ate of the tree of knowledge of good & evil.  (the world)

Sin in the mind

The center of knowledge is in the soul (mind) & implies that the original sin involved the mind. And in eating of the tree of knowledge of good & evil the soul became pre-eminent& important. Decisions were not made on the basis of what God would say through the spirit of man, but, on the basis of what man would decide of what he could see, hear, taste, smell or feel.  This is why it is very hard for people to be led of the Holy Spirit.  They are naturally led by the soul (mind).

Now we know that Jesus Christ took everyone of us to the cross with Him, He died for us, He took our sins, our sicknesses,  He paid the supreme price for us. Now we have the Way, the Truth & the Life through Jesus Christ. Our Spirit is saved & it will go back to the Father.  That salvation is finished through the blood of Jesus. Now the soul salvation has to be worked out in each of us. We need to come up higher & see.

Word of God divides Soul from Spirit.

Heb 4: 12.  For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The word of God is able to show the difference between soul & spirit.  We look at the word of God to make this division & no other source. The best word we can find is “attitude” to describe the soul of man.

Eccl.12: 7.  Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Spirit came from God & will go back to God, in the event the body should die. We have discovered, according to the words of Jesus Christ, that the soul & body can

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be destroyed, that the soul & body are not eternal.  It is the spirit which is eternal & the spirit part of that man goes back to God who gave it in the first place.

1Thess: 23.  Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This indicates that there is a difference between a spirit, a soul & a body.

Soul- Holy Spirit

The method of the salvation of the soul is given in 1Peter1: 22.  Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

Peter says, purification of the soul is through the spirit in obeying the truth.  The bible tells us that “Thy word is truth”, so obeying truth is obeying God.  We also notice that the word of truth of God must be through the spirit.  The letter kills, but, the spirit gives it life, in obeying the word of truth it must be through the spirit & not through our own understanding.

Save your Soul

James 1: 21.  Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Here is a scripture written to people who are already saved, but it adds that they are to even be more saved.  This scripture written by James was written unto the brethren who were in the Church & received Jesus in their hearts., (into their spirits) & yet he further tells his brethren that the engrafted word is able to save their souls.  This tells us that their souls were not saved but were being saved as they received the engrafted word.

Holy Spirit Engrafts the Word of God

Now we see the importance of having the word of God engrafted into our minds (souls). This engrafting process takes place by the act of the Holy Spirit.  Most of us had experiences where we have read a certain scripture many times & had not received a certain truth, but when it is moved upon by the Holy Spirit we see it.  This explains the grafting process.  The Holy Spirit chisels those words, engrafts,

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burns those words into our minds.  Then we have an attitude change & we are never the same. The result is a changed attitude, a new way of looking at things &

a changed life. Now we see that the instrument to change our souls (attitudes, mind) is the engrafted word of God.

Change our Minds

The engrafted word of God is moved upon by the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit changes our mind, always with the word of God.  This is an important concept & we must see that the next step  in our salvation after the initial experience of receiving Jesus Christ into our mind (soul, intellect, will or attitudes.)

Holy Spirit Teaches

The reference to the Holy Spirit always refer to moving upon man’s mind or psyche.  When Jesus Christ introduced the fat that the Holy Spirit would be coming, He said in John 14:6.  “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 things that I said to you.

The teaching process has to do with the mind, the intellect, the emotions, the will & the attitude.  Likewise, the center for our remembrance is in our mind.  Jesus, is introducing the Holy Spirit, introduced Him to our minds through a teaching process.   Heart belief bring Jesus Christ into our Spirit first, & then head belief brings the Holy Ghost to our mind.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit are for the mind

This is why the Holy Spirit gives “mind” gifts. Gifts of the Holy Spirit listed in 1Cor.12 for the mind. They are tongues, interpretation, prophesy, wisdom. Knowledge. Discerning of spirits, faith & miracles.  These gifts of the Holy Spirit are to change our mind or our attitudes toward life, towards each other & towards the world of god.  Now we see that the first salvation or the one that has already occurred, (the past tense salvation) was when Jesus Christ entered our spirits (heart) & the second major work is when the Holy Spirit enters our souls (mind).

Eternal Salvation

We will now look at two scriptures which seem to be direct contradiction; but with our new understanding of spirit & soul we will see that these scriptures do not

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conflict at all. The first is in Phil.2: 12.  Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;   Paul told the Philippians to work out their own salvation & yet the same author writings to the Ephesians told them they cannot work out their salvation.  Eph 2: 8-9  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  1. not of works, lest anyone should boast.

In Ephesians we see that salvation has nothing to do with ourselves or our works, lest any man should boast.  But, in Phil2:12 the bible tells us to work out our own salvation.  This seems like a contradiction, but it does not contradict when we begin to understand that the salvation referred to concerning the spirit is by grace through the faith of Jesus Christ our Lord & Savior.

The salvation of the spirit has already been accomplished through Jesus Christ, but the salvation of our soul is presently being worked out.  The salvation of our spirit through Him is finished.

As an example of the fact that all of the work necessary for Jesus to do is now finished John 19: 30.  So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

Jesus said, “It is finished” & He bowed his head & gave up the ghost, now He is at the right hand of the Father until every enemy be made His footstool.  That indicated that He is not going to do anything more until someone finished the job.  He said, “I give you power to lay hands on the sick, cast out devils & over all the power of the enemy.” Luke10” 9.  “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.  He is not going to do anymore work here on earth until all kingdoms are  made subject to Him.

So, working out our soul salvation with fear & trembling is the second work.

The scriptures teach us that God gave us Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, pastors & Teachers for the perfecting of Saints, for the unity of the faith until we all come into perfect man. Yet the bible teaches that we have no need any man teaches us, for the Holy Spirit will teach us.  The answer lies in the fact that the body of Christ must hear the word first through our testimony.  “For faith cometh by hearing the word of

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God.   And how shall they hear without a Preacher?”  But, the real learning comes later on, after the person heard the word of God. Through the divine act of the Holy Spirit  that same word is brought to the remembrance because of a situation in life or some activity of the day.  That person remembers the word of God that he formerly heard & then it is worked upon by the Holy Spirit.  This is why that person learns the lesson through the experience of his own life (not learning a lesson by hearing a preacher preach or a teacher teach.

It is important to understand that without having first heard the preacher or teacher, it is not possible for the Holy Spirit to bring anything to our remembrance.  For we cannot remember anything unless we first heard it or read it or studied it. This is how we work out our salvation with fear & trembling. We become familiar with what Jesus taught.  The Holy Spirit then brings these thoughts & words to our remembrance & the words become engrafted, written in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Our attitudes change & our actions change. We should be encouraged & comforted to know, the only thing that is wrong with us, is the Holy Spirit is not finished, with us.

Phil. 1:6 “Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

1John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves & the truth is not in us.” But the opposite seems to be true when we read 1John 5:18, which says, “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not.” The answer  is the fact, the first quote is regarding the soul, but, the second relates to the spirit of man.  Sometimes when you start to have a new way to think, you may challenge it. You may challenge it because of old traditions that have been taught to you. You may have a hard  time leaving those comfort zones..  Put it on a shelf, don’t throw it away.  Down the road if it is God, it will fit, & start to come together, the pieces will fit

Many Evangelists today, their message is to give your hearts to Jesus.  They go all over the world to hundred of thousands of people & they give their hearts to Jesus.  Which is wonderful except their next words are.  “We had a great conference & thousands of people gave their hearts to Jesus & their souls are saved.”  No, we need the Evangelists, Teachers, Pastors to now teach them through the next step of soul salvation.  Many people receive the Holy Spirit & working in the gifts & stop there.

 

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The bible teaches of a progressive walk, as the Holy Spirit changes our mind, will, attitude & emotions, as He engrafts the Word of God from the way we are to the way we ought to be.

Matt.5 :48.  “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

1Pet. 9.  receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls.

  1. Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
  2. searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

The method of becoming Perfect is explained as receiving more & more of the engrafted word of God which is moved by the Holy spirit, which brings us progressively from Glory to Glory!

 

BODY SALVATION

We have the Covenant of Life not Death

Have you ever wondered why in the old testament the 10 generations of man lived over 700, 800, 900 yrs.  In Gen 5:5 & Gen. 5:8 Adam & his son Seth, chose death. For six generations, each died, Adam lived 930yrs.  Enoch did not die, six generations before him did not have to die, God is no respecter of persons.  Enoch was translated not to see death.  What He did for Enoch He will do for all.  The expression by faith, had that same word of promise, but, Enoch sought God with all his heart & he pleased God.   (Remember the scripture in Peter, 1000 yrs. Unto the Lord is one day.  Well man never has lived one day with the Lord. In Revelation it tells us we will rule & reign with HIM for a 1000 yrs.)

Prov.12:28 In the way righteousness is life; & in the pathway thereof there is No death.

John 8:51 Verily, Verily, I say unto you, if anyone keep my word he shall no wise see death forever.  Ampl.

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Duet. 8:5 By every word that preceedeth out of the mouth of God doth man live.

1Cor.15:33 Put on Immortality

Rom. 8:2 Free from the law of sin & death.

(We need to get free from the law, if we don’t we will continue to go by the way of the grave.  Our bodies are the Temple of God & He wants to be seen in His Temple, in the fullness of the God Head. He wants His Glory to be seen on us. If we continue to lose our body by way of the grave. He losses His Temple. Oh how, much He must want to be seen in the World again.  They seen the Father in Jesus, but, Jesus came to show the way back to the Father, so all humanity may know Him in Spirit & in Truth.  So the world may know HIM.)

Jesus said, “Pray Our Father which art in Heaven, Hollowed be your name, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth on earth as it is in heaven. (you came from the dust of the earth, talking about your earth, The Kingdom of God has to be established in your earth or body first. Then His Kingdom can be set up on this literal earth.)

Isa.28:14-18 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye have said, we have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

 

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Rev.21:4 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Rev.1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.  (he has given the keys to us)

Many people will bring up the scripture in Heb.9:27 appointed once to die to all man.  This was under the law. That appointment we do not need to keep. As the Lord disannulled death! GLORY!!

Jesus Christ tore the veil, so nothing hinders us, He gave us access to come into the Holy of Holies.  Making us Kings & Priests & will minister from the throne of the Father.  It is a progressive walk.

John 5:24 4 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

Christ on the mount of transfiguration entered Kingdom of God as His first citizen.  He obtained life, immortality & incorruptibility.  Then He became Savior & gave up His immortality to die our death until they see the Kingdom of God.

Luke 9:27 Some standing here, that shall no wise see death until they see the Kingdom of God.  6 Days later Peter, James & John saw the KINGDOM OF GOD.

Jesus was transformed before them showing them the Kingdom. Glory! this is the day that the lord has made & now we shall show the kingdom of God here on earth. Jesus showed his body was in the kingdom.

He stood there with Moses & Elijah.  He leaves no one out.  Moses stood for the law, which was done away with, when Jesus brought us by grace. Elijah stood for the Prophets, the gifts, which will pass away also when that which is perfect is set up in us.  Peter wanted to make three tabernacles. (He was in an earthly lower realm, still partially under the law.) but, when they looked again they were gone, meaning we need to let the law & the prophets go. The voice of the Father spoke, this is my beloved son, hear HE only. He is the way, the Truth & the Life.  This is what we are walking out, for we must also say, I am the way, I am the Truth & I am the life. Every word we speak will show the way, will give a truth & it will

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bring forth life.  This is the vision, if we do not have it, we will continue to perish (or go by way of the grave). Oh Lord help us to see, to understand, the words of Jesus & bring forth that abundant life. Jesus is our example, He lived for 40 days in his resurrected body, the body of light & divine flesh & had fellowship, ate & drank.  He walked this earth as the 1st. citizen of the Kingdom of God.  The works that He did we will also do, even greater because we will be a many membered body of Christ. WOW such GLORY.

Dwell on these scriptures.

Matt.7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

 11 Tim 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel

John 6: 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

John 11: 25-26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

We have two ways to receive life:

  1. Those who die, your spirit goes back to the Father who gave it.
  2. Those by faith violently enter into the Kingdom of God & overcome death.

Jer. 29:13 Seek me & find me when you search for me with all your heart.  To be defeated for any reason is God’s second best.  All may conquer death as Christ did. John 6: 48-50 I am that bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. VS. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

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57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

He that hears my words & believes Him who sent me, has life eternal & does not come into judgement, but passed on to life.  Doesn’t mean to hear some of Christ’s words but to continue in all that Christ said.  If a man does this & keeps doing it, he will never die of disease old age, never brought to judgement, he will follow Jesus in life.

Study John 8:30-59 Jesus was speaking to the religious order of that day, they lived by the law & Jesus told them you are of your Father the devil.  This is the perfect example in all the gospels of man, religiously rebelling against God.

John 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying,  The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

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24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor.

The Lord is telling us to die to ourselves so He may live.  Most people are looking for the fishes & the loaves, (blessings) not willing to die to the worldly ways, man’s doctrines.  This flesh body of ours has to die a spiritual death in order for it to bare much fruit. Luke 21: 18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish. (this spiritual death) This life we give up. Rev. 12:11 And they overcame him by the

blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

 

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1Cor.15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. vs.51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (sleep means to be in death, Mankind has been asleep or in death state ever since Adam in the garden.  That is why so many scriptures tell us to awake, awake thou that sleepeth.

We have been dead to the things in God. Dead to the reality that we are one in Him, he never meant us to die, we did that & we have been dead ever since, no life in us. Time to wake up & live.  We are creating our life with our tongue, what we speak we create.  It is time to speak a new language, it will be a clear language, we will speak plainly, & the world will hear it.  AMEN & AMEN, SO BE IT!

1Cor. 15: 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  

Rom.8:23.  And not only they, but we also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

When the soul is saved, the redemption of our body will also take place, just as it was for Jesus. He was the Son of man & the Son of God.

Heb.2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Rev.3: 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

 (THE THRONE IS THE MIND OF CHRIST. GLORY)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Revelation 3 Rev.2:1   3:22  Over-comers

 Revelation 2:7 ( KJV )
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

To eat of the tree of life–  the mind of Christ—the wisdom of God— It’s all within you, that beautiful Garden, that place within you.

There is one “who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.  A people who hear His message, surrender to Him for its in-workings & emerge through all the processing ,,, OVER-COMERS.

Romans 8:37-39 ( KJV )
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Acts 1:8 ( KJV )
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 

From this word Power, Greek word :dunamis” from this word English gets “dynamite” (speaks of explosive energy force.  We get the word ‘dynamo”.   this speaks of controlled energy force


Philippians 4:12-13 ( KJV )
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 

greek word for “strengthened”  to make powerful in-wardly.

Colossians 1:27 ( KJV )
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 

footnote—“Through Him who puts a dynamo in me” He in us, is the dynamo.  He is the original over-comer, the trailblazer.

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Hebrews 2:10 ( KJV )
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 

Colossians 2:15 ( KJV )
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

“In_It”  In the Greek text reads “In Himself”  The victory was first wrought in Him.

Revelation 3:21-22 ( KJV )
21.  “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

  1. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ‘ ”

 

1 Corinthians 15:1-2 ( KJV )
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 

Where does He reign, In Us. By His spirit He comes to reign in us, until everything within us, is subject to Him. This is the overcoming.  We are first overcome by Christ before we become over-comers with Christ..

John 16:33 ( KJV )
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 17:15 ( KJV )
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 

He did not pray for our escape, His purpose is to have over-comers.

Hebrews 4:15 ( KJV )
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 

He is now able to empower us likewise face all testings and not miss the mark.

Now He reveals how we are to ever-come  evil with good.

Psalms 92:1 ( KJV )
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, most High:

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106:1 ( KJV )
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Interesting to note that in the scriptures apart from God Himself, who we know is good.  There is only one realm which is spoken of as good.  Praise, giving thanks is in the realm of good.

This is the positive realm just opposite from the negative of complaining, grumbling etc. The situation may be black, dark, a severe trial, but, one begins to Praise and thank the Lord, assured that since he allowed it, He will use it. And make it work for good.


Ephesians 5:20 ( KJV )
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;


1 Thessalonians 5:21 ( KJV )
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 

Much over-coming is wrought by learning to give thanks in and for all things.  Worship Him instead of rebelling.

Two Greek words for evil

  1. Kakon- speaking in the abstract sense
  2. Paneros- refining evil in the concrete sense

In general we all have had evil in our nature.

Ephesians 2:2-3 ( KJV )
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:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

The cure for this is to be born again & receive Christ nature. As Christ is in us there is an overcoming of all evil around us. The concrete evils which we face differ according to our various circumstances, these are meted out to us to overcome them by yielding to the in-workings of the cross   And outwardly we face the expressions of evil from other men, cruelties, back-stabbing etc. They may do us wrong yet though Christ we can forgive.

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1 John 2:13 ( KJV )
I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 
1 John 2:13-14 ( KJV )
I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. 

The inflow of the word of God not in our heads as knowledge.  But dwelling in us to overcome the wickedness that may surround us.

1 John 4:4 ( KJV )
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 

Revelation 2:7 ( KJV )
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

There are rewards, blessings, privileges, promises which are linked to a definite state of being.
Overcoming is a popular word, because it speaks of testings, trials arranged for our coming over them.

Proverbs 3:13-18 ( KJV )
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. 

WISDOM  “Knowing the proper right end of a thing & also knowing the means to get to that end. The wise will eat of the tree of life, for they know that the end is secure in Him. They

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will not try to escape the way of the cross, but, accept it as part of the means to an end in their overcoming they find Christ to be the way, the truth and the life.


John 14:16-17 ( KJV )
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.


John 17:3 ( KJV )
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 


Proverbs 8:12-13 ( KJV )
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. 

This is an attitude not just something we learn.  A behavior that governs our action.  The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.  To hate evil is to righteousness.  No wonder this is a part of the tree of life, promised the over-comers. Fearing God is not a superstitious fear that is born out of ignorance, such as taught in the doctrines of a boogie-man devil.  Nor is it a servile fear which holds one in terror of punishment.  All God’s actions are wrought out of His nature of Love, purposed for our good to bring us into His life.  This is real”fear of the Lord” is in awe and respect. Reverence of God.    We are compelled to seek Him that He might fill us with Himself.


James 3:16-18 ( KJV )
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

No wonder this wisdom which is pure is a tree of life which over-comers need to lay hold of

Wages of sin is death

Where there is no sin

There is no death

 

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Are you being resurrected from your death? No wonder this wisdom which is pure is a tree of life which over-comers need to lay hold of and be filled with.

Peaceable- no warfare, no contention, no argument for truth needs no defense It just is.

Follow thru with all the seven-fold characteristics of wisdom.  Wisdom is not only an attitude and right condition.  It is a person, our Lord Jesus Christ, first among many brethren.


1 Corinthians 1:30 ( KJV )
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 

Proverbs 11:30 ( KJV )
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

Proverbs 10:16 ( KJV )
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

Fruit, the result of one’s life force.  Can either tend toward life or towards death.

Fruit is produced according to the inherent quality and life within.  Christ is that indwelling life and all that is brought forward is the expansion of that life and further revelation of that indwelling life.

Proverbs 13:12 ( KJV )
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Desire signifies you feel a lack.  When all our desires are directed God-ward to be filled by and with Him surely this is a fulfillment of the tree of life.

Proverbs 15:4 ( KJV )
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

When all that flows from your tongue is wholesome, this is the evidence we are truly over-coming.

James 3:2 ( KJV )
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

The word perfect means complete .  To be complete in Him.

Revelation 2:11 ( KJV )
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Death process is a transition, when Adam turned from God to follow his will, he died out to righteousness and entered into death.

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Romans 8:5-9 ( KJV )
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

This offense of the 1st. Adam brought all men under the sentence of death for sin. Our minds to be freed from minding the things of the flesh, to mind the things of the spirit.  The act of disobedience of Adam brought forth death. This one act of disobedience by the last Adam also brought death for everyman.

Thus by our identification with Christ “being made conformable unto His death.  We no longer are under the first Adam,  But, Christ took that death that we were & now we are resurrecting to life.

Now, it is dying out to self will and coming forth in His life.

1 Corinthians 3:14-15 ( KJV )
If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.


Revelation 2:17 ( KJV )
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

The hidden manna is Christ.


Colossians 2:2-3 ( KJV )
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

This is partaking of the tree of Life

John 6:51 ( KJV )
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he

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shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 

1 Corinthians 2:7-8 ( KJV )
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 

This is not to be received for the lust of the flesh. Yet it’s revealed to them whom He apprehends for over-coming who become one in Him.

1.And will give him a white stone. White speaks of acquittal. In their judicial process, coming to a decision.  If the individual was given a black stone it meant condemnation and sometimes a Greek word was written on it. “theto” impying death.  If it was a white stone he was judged not guilty.

To be handed a white stone the over-comer has instant confirmation he was fully justified, acquitted of sin.

Romans 5:1 ( KJV )
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 

Justified “not just as if I’d never sinned.”  Greek word means Not Guilty, never been guilty.


Romans 3:21-22 ( KJV )
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 

So now we can be given a white stone, because there is one life that never did sin.  He knew no sin and comes to dwell within us. To be our new life.  No more I, but Christ lives in me.  Just as He is the hidden manna.  He is also sin- less-ness of the white stone.  WOW!  All of this is more of the revelation of Jesus Christ.

2.White stone was given to the winner of a race or contest.

1 Corinthians 9:24 ( KJV )
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 

We need press forth to the high calling in Christ Jesus.

White stones was given to the victors in the Olympic games, with the names or initials

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engraved.

The name speaks of nature, or character and again it is the revelation of Him in us.

3, The white stone was used in the casting of lots in electiond.

Black stone—nay    White stone—yea

John 15:15-16 ( KJV )
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 


Ephesians 1:4 ( KJV )
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 

4.The white stone was sometimes handed to a guest, a token of hospitality, a right to all that is in the masters house.

John 14:1-2 ( KJV )
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 

We are aware that this is a figurative language, but when He hands us that white stone it is a word of welcome your place is ready.  You are joyfully received to share all the blessings of the Father’s house.

  1. White stones are used for allotting of an inheritance. All these points blend together

Revelation 21:7 ( KJV )
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

What tremendous love is revealed to us in receiving of a white stone.

Revelation 2:26-29 ( KJV )
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:  Satisfied they go no more out.And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
And I will give him the morning star.
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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

How beautiful the revelation unfolds.  An intimate relationship with our Lord. One in Him, He can now share His power with us literally.  Authority to rule over the nations, this privilege comes after we have learned to fully yield ourselves to His authority.

Thus we become a manifestation of His will & purpose in action, an extension of His life in the earth.

Rule Greek word  “to Shepard”

Tenderness of a Shepard, guiding in love, correcting when necessary, yet always the welfare of those in his care and concern


Colossians 1:28 ( KJV )
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 

I will give him the morning star, morning star means first, early,

messenger announces the new day is coming.


Habakkuk 2:14 ( KJV )
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Light bearers, what a glorious message not of gloom & doom and despair.  But the victory of Christ.

John 1:8-9 ( KJV )
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. 

God has clothed them.


Isaiah 61:10 ( KJV )
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. 

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2 Corinthians 5:21 ( KJV )
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

The possession of the righteous one.


1 Peter 1:16 ( KJV )
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Holiness is not by works.  It is inherent in His nature of which we are partakers.  Holy means to be made Whole, complete process of a new birth. Spirit, Soul and body.  Show Christ life.


Revelation 3:12 ( KJV )
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. 

speaks of union to him that abides

Satisfied they go no more out


2 Corinthians 6:16 ( KJV )
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.


Philippians 2:8-11 ( KJV )
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

To find our identity in His identity and to bear His name.  His nature (name) our nature (name).

Revelation 3:21 ( KJV ) To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 

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Psalms 97:2 ( KJV )
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

Righteousness and process whereby all is brought into that state of righteousness.  It is a shared throne.

Father , Son and all who are made perfect in one in Him.

John 17:23 ( KJV )
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

John 5:22-23 ( KJV )
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 

That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 

Son shares this throne with His corporate brethren

Psalms 149:6-9 ( KJV )
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

Psalms 89:14 ( KJV )
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

Luke 6:36 ( KJV )
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

No one dare call themselves genuine over-comers until they learn to be merciful to overcome evil with good.

To the over-comer is given “to eat of the tree of life” they suffer no loss.  All things work for the good to those that love the Lord Jesus Christ.  They eat of the hidden manna, the living bread that satisfies, enriched with all the blessings symbolized by the white stone.  Given authority & privileged to Shepard the nations.  “In thee shall all nations be blessed.”  Clothed with His righteousness, identified in His name identity and blessed to share His throne.  To share His throne, does not rob Him of Glory, but, only expands it more and thus He is exalted


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“The True Church”

The Church

Church is also Democratic The people vote in the Pastor they want. Theocratic gov’t is under God..  He Rules.

Now for this to take over the systems of the world we must allow it to work in our lives first.

This gov’t must control it’s Kingdom which is not of this world.  Since the Kingdom is within each of us.  Guess where it must first start.!!  God is establishing a new Kingdom, a new heaven & a new earth & it is all within this earth, which is our body.  How many Christians really bow down to Jesus our Lord.  How many have made Him Lord over His Kingdom?  Does He direct your every foot step, your every thought, the works of your hands. Is His voice your Master as you awake each day & ask for His will to be done this day in every aspect of your life. If not it is okay, we are a work in progress. It just means, like the caterpillar you are still in the cocoon stage. A transformation is still taking place.

This transformation that is taking place is all in the mind.  You need a mind change.  Once your thoughts start to change, your words change.  When your words change, you change, your world changes & the world of the kingdom arises within, what a beautiful thought! What a transformation.  From that lowly worm made from the dust of the earth, into a new creation in Christ Jesus. He owns all of us, our whole body.  We belong to God, we do not own ourselves.

Christ is in you, you hope & glory, He is invisible.  He must become visible to the world.  We must give Him our will, we must give Him our body. I don’t need to be anything, just allow Him to own me. Lord means owner.

God’s will an purpose for man has not changed.  He wants a people that He can be their God, that will love Him as He loves us. & usher in the Kingdom of God on earth.  Even the Lord’s prayer tells us, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on this earth as it is in heaven. That has been my desire, my vision. God’s people need to have a vision.

From our study today we will take a look into the book of 1 Sam. 8

Israel was at this point a theocratic governing people.  God ruled them.   Unfortunately Israel failed, as we see the story continue.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

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5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them

(Here Israel refused the Lord as there King, to reign over them. They rejected me.  You cannot persuade the Lord to do your will. They wanted a human King, a man to rule over them & The Lord gave them their way..)

8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they . also unto thee.

9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.

11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

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(Many Christians have married the Church & live under this same headship. Unto this day, we have our Kings over us, in the political world, in the physical world of our bodies, in our spiritual world.   People still want this human King a man to tell them what to do.

It is time to be married to the Lord, to become one with Him.  To worship Him in Spirit & in Truth. May He reign over your earth, your body this day.)

 

Chap. 14 Israel received their King, Saul  (Chap. 14 condition of the Church today, under the leadership of humans or man.  Influenced by the carnal mind not the mind of Christ, therefore cannot function as the Kingdom of God.  You learned to praise Him,, when God does something for you.  True worship is because you love Him & know Him & trust Him in all things.

It is time to know we have the authority of this earth.  It is divine authority, the carnal mind is our enemy & has had a stronghold on us. )

 1 Samuel 16

1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.  God has provided Him a King,  (God is looking for Kings today, that will rule & reign with Him. Reign in His anointing.)

King Saul has been our fleshly King, we have had no divine authority, the carnal mind is our enemy. That is our battlefield.. We need the mind of Christ, to walk in the authority He already has given us, to slay our Goliath.  His true Church has not even come on the scene, that has the power over the enemy. There should not be any sickness in the body of Christ, no more tears, no sorrow. Dare to believe this!  Jesus came to give us life & that which is more abundant.  I am ready for that spiritual abundance. It is time to know who we are in HIM!  Christians have married the Church.  We need to marry our Lord Jesus Christ, He is our true husband.  We are one with Him. We must ascend unto the Lord, He is high & lifted up & His train fills the Temple. You are the Temple of the Holy Spirit.  You must ascend unto His Holy Mountain.

We are the Church.  Jesus is sitting by the right hand of the Father, I will guide you & I will be your King. You will be my people. You will rule & reign with me. Not in the hereafter, but here on earth.  This is the body of Christ.  His Church!

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Psalm 133

1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore

(this anointing never touched his flesh, nor can it touch your flesh.  It is not your head being anointed, He is the head, the Christ. The mind of Christ on the body of Christ. Christ is the anointing

Death burial & Resurrection of Jesus Christ was our death. He took our bodies to the cross, the first Adam is dead, “ Reckon the old man is dead”   He took everything that old Adam “was” is now dead.  Our sufferings, our sicknesses “was” nailed to the Cross. Jesus Christ is our resurrection & our life.  We are a new creation in Christ Jesus.  Then you may ask, “Why are we still suffering & still sick.”  Because we have not really believed what He did, because we are still in the consciousness of sin.  We are still double minded & a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. We are still in the process of having our mind changed.

We are still being cleansed from man’s doctrines & way’s.  We have lived in the mentality of the first Adam.  Still seeing ourselves as the sinner, when Jesus freed us from the curse of the law. Our righteousness comes from the Righteousness that He is. Righteousness, right standing with God!  It is nothing we have done, but all that He has done for us!

 

 

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Seven Spirits of God

Seven Spirits of God

 

 Isa. 11: 1-3 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.

2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD—

3 and he will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;

Here we have Jesus, He is the vine, But, we are the branches. We have been engrafted into this. We are all one.

John 15:5 NIV  “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

These same spirits are to be in us.  This is our inheritance.  To bare much fruit. This is what is being worked out in us.  What is happening this day the word of God is being engrafted into us.  So, we will have the same nature as Jesus.  Spiritually we are being transformed by the renewing of our minds.

For this to happen we are going through the fire, the storms, the lightings, the thunder & the earthquakes of Revelation so Jesus Christ can be unveiled in these mortal bodies.  These mortal bodies must put on immortality, a new body, a new creation in Christ Jesus.  You don’t go by the way of the grave for this to happen.  Our last enemy death we will overcome.  You don’t overcome death by dying, you overcome death by living being transformed by the renewing of our minds. Having the power of the endless life, as Jesus did on the mount of transfiguration.  You are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, this is where God wants to reign in your being.  He wants the Temple to be high & lifted up & that His train fills the Temple. He does not want to lose His temple. He wants to sit on the throne (mind of Christ) of His Temple.  I have a vision, I want life & that which is more abundant.  Glory!  My Full inheritance.

We need to walk this out! Come into the full mature mind of Christ. Know HIM in Spirit & in Truth.  You don’t die & go into the Kingdom of Heaven.  The Lord’s prayer tells us, “Thy Kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.”

He is not talking about the earth or round ball we call earth.  He is talking about you earth that your formed from. Glory to God!

The ones that have passed on, their spirit goes back to the Father, who gave it, until resurrection time. God’s love is so great, one cannot imagine such love, He does not forget anyone.

Rom. 8:23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

1Cor. 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

 55 “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”

 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. We are no longer under sin, the law was taken away by Jesus. The strength of the law is SIN to us.

In this study I want to show what God is doing in our lives.  Everything lines up in the scriptures, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little.

The seven Spirits of Isa.11 & the 7 spirits around the throne in Rev. the rainbow around the throne in Rev. is all God & His people that are becoming mature Sons of God, the overcomers. Let us bring some of these scriptures to light.

Ezekiel 1:28 NIV

28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking. The Lord appeared to Ezek. In a rainbow in the clouds. It was the Glory of the Lord.

 In Heb12: 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about* with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 

We are the great cloud of witnesses, what does clouds & rain bring? A Rainbow!

In Rev. it tells us where this rainbow shines, around the throne.

Rev. 1:1-5 1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.

3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne.

4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. (The 24 elders are the Priests, dressed in white, purity, their crowns were gold, wisdom of the Lord.  Did He not tell us He will make us Kings & Priests?)

5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. 

Now let us tie this all together from Isa 11 The seven spirits of God. In front of the throne, seven lamps are blazing, (fire of God.) These are the seven spirits.

We know that according to Eph. 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; (But, out of the one spirit, manifests the other six Spirits.)

In Isa. 11:1-3 vs.2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD— each one of these spirits has a color, they are the rainbow around the throne of God. Let us look at the allegory that the Lord is showing us in the rainbow & the seven spirits of God.

If you would take a pure white light & put it under a prism, you would see the colors of the rainbow manifest itself from that white light.  God is all light & one spirit, but from that light of God manifests itself into the other 6 spirits. They manifest in the beautiful colors of the rainbow which is also around the throne.

White is the purity & all light of God, from that spirit we have the

Spirit of Wisdom.  Wisdom is the color of Gold.  Every instruction that was given for the tabernacle was given by the wisdom of God & it was made from pure gold.  Now we are the temple of God.

Prov.2:2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

He tells us to in

Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.

The Spirit of Understanding is Red, we come through the blood of Jesus, Jesus our elder brother, our example. Commissioned by Jesus to do the same works as He did & even greater.

Proverbs 4:7  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

The Spirit of Council is orange.  To be able to minister to God’s people you must have the wisdom of God (Gold) & understanding of God (Red). Mix these to colors & you have orange. Council

The Spirit of Might is blue.  We have the heavenlies, which is a high realm in Spirit or a high consciousness of your mind. To have the Power of God working in our lives as the first son of God did, Jesus Christ.  You will set God’s people free from the bondage of corruption of this world & bring them into His marvelous light. Setting them free from their captivity, by the word of the Lord.

John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from (your) the earth, will draw all men unto me.  This is the Power of God.

The Spirit of Knowledge is green.  Look all around you in nature, the trees, plant life is green which is living, it is life. For us to seek the ways of the Lord it is life to us.

Proverbs 9:10 NIV The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

The Spirit of Fear of the Lord is purple (fear reverence of the Lord) Majesty, Royalty, Praises to my Lord. He is my God, my Love, My redeemer. I Am one in Him.

Genesis 9:16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

We are the cloud of witnesses & the rainbow will appear. We will speak & walk in wisdom of our God & with it we will have understanding, we will council in His name.  The power of God will work through us, as we will be that mighty Army, as we go about doing the Father’s business.  We will have a heart of Praise, gratitude & love & serve His people & our Father.

He is still working on us to come to this Glorious place. The seals are still being opened.  The work that He started in us, He will surely finish.

Revelation 3:18  (King James Version)

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.

What an awesome God!

 

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12 Gates to enter into the Kingdom of God

 

The book of Revelation needs to be spiritually discerned. The whole book is the revelation or (unveiling) of Jesus Christ in YOU. The book of Revelation is showing us the path that is personal to each of us, that we must follow to become the overcomers.  Jesus overcame this world & so shall we. Jesus showed us the way, the book of Revelation show’s us the truth, so we may also become the life. The only way into this city of God is the path of the overcomer.  This book is not a history book, it is not about county’s, it is about you & your overcoming this world & ascending to the world of the spirit, not by dying but by living.  Jesus showed us the way in His ascension, death could not hold Him.  Death is our enemy & in 1Cor.15:13  The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.  In order to posses this City we must become this City,  THE CITY OF GOD!  GLORY!

Heb.11:10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God

Matt.5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. That is our destiny to become that City of Light.  To be that lighthouse, to bring the world out of their darkness & into His marvelous light.

12 Gates, 12 Tribes 12 Names 12 Pearls  to come into the City

Rev.21:12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.

13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.

14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (We will build on the 12 foundations.)

15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. (We will be as pure gold, come through the fire of our afflictions.)

16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.

17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick.  (Another lesson, 144,000. God’s govt. number is 12×12, talking 2.

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about the city. His highest, Perfection, His perfection is LOVE.  Oh, that is what we will be , there is not any limit here, Our Destiny.)

18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.

19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,

20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. (We are precious gems unto the Lord.)

21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

 (In order to come through each gate there is a pearl, pearl means we will do some suffering to come through each gate as it is an attribute or personality trait that must be formed in us.)

(As formed in the natural in an oyster.  Sand gets into the oyster & starts to irritates, continues to rub & the pearl is formed.  This pearl is formed in us as we go through each gate to come into the Kingdom of God or City.)

22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. (the Lord God & the lamb is in the Temple. You are the Temple of God.)

23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. (this city that we are doesn’t need natural light because our God is all the light we need.)

24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. (He is making us the Kings & Priests of this whole earth. We will show our light to the whole world so all nations will walk by its light.)

25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. (Everyone will be welcome into this city, they shall know the way.)

26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. (This city is for all).

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27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.  (nothing impure, no flesh, no double mindedness, only as we learn to love the Lord thy God with all our heart soul & strength & to love your neighbor as yourself, the new creation in Christ.) GLORY!! 

(We must allow the Holy Spirit to do a work in us, change our nature, transform our mind, that it is not a fleshly mind but only the mind of Christ.  No more double minded, no more eating from the tree of Knowledge of good & evil.  Coming into that Higher consciousness.  Not of the world any longer, that mentality is gone.  You are lifted up, you came up higher or ascended & living in the world of Spirit, what a beautiful anointing.  Partaking only of the Tree of Life, for we are the branches, Christ is the Tree & God is the ground in which we are planted.)

 

1st. gate Reuben- means Behold a Son-My Baby

(As you come into this gate, it is your new birth, the Spirit in you is quickened to life.)

John 10: 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

(This is an excellent thing God has done.  It is a miracle, People when they first come to Jesus are as unstable water. (water seeks the lowest place.) We need to help the Reubenites  to enter another gate.  They cannot excel, because they are still unclean.  (ways are not changed) the flesh is there, they are still in the outer court.)

2nd. Gate- Simeon-Means- Hearing.

(Gate of Simeon & Levi are very close together.  We start to hear the word of God & it takes on meaning, takes on life.  We want to hear more, a hunger takes place).

3rd. Gate-Levi- Means Joined- United.

(Levi was the tribe from which the Priest was taken, leaving to minister from the Spirit, spiritual service.  Minister to people’s needs, ministering unto the Lord also, waiting on Him.  Looking to Him, fellowship with Him.  We minister to others, for we know our needs are met.)

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4th Gate Judah- Means- Praise- Reverence.

(In the natural we start to praise Him, raising hands, worship with our lips.  But here we learn true worship is in the spirit & in truth.  Judah always was first in battle & always has the victory.)

5th. Gate – Zebulan- Means- Dwelling Place- Habitation.

(Within us we start to see a change, Father starts to show us He has taken up His habitation in us.  We long for more of God & His ways.)

6th. Gate- Issachar- Means- Reward- From the root word Hired, Compensation.

(We have been bought with a price by our Lord & we must sell out to Him.  He is our reward, so we are under contract to Him.  He has exclusive rights to us.  Selling out to God.  He is the first & last to us.. He is everything to us, you don’t belong to yourself or to man.  We will obey Him, letting Him have total will in our life.  Jesus prayed this in the garden, when He prayed for the will of the Father.  We learn to do His will.)

Gen. 49:14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

(The word is telling us we are a strong people, we are willing to take on the burdens of the world. We can see He is bringing us to a pleasant place. We learn to rest from our labor & we labor in His rest.)

7th. Gate- Means- Umpire- Put things in it’s proper perspective- executes judgment – ministers Judgment.

(In this gate we come into pureness, righteousness a wisdom of judgment, to set the captives free.)

Matt. 7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

 

 

3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye?

5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

(Most people judge by the appearance of things & not righteous judgement, which you should judge by the spirit.)

John 5:22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, (that is the son in us.)

Vs.24 24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

(His judgement only brings life.)

(We can not judge anyone with the wrong kind of judging, wrong for us to have a condemning fault finding attitude toward anyone.  You will reach them by love, understanding, tolerance & encouragement. It is by prayer that changes you & by prayer they will be changed.)

Matt.12:20 20 A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench, Till He sends forth justice to victory;  (When we meet some one who is bruised & hurt, we will not put salt in their wounds, but, we will not put the fire out of their life, when God is doing a work in that fire.  We will pray them through the fire but not out of the fire.  Dan shall judge the people. except for the grace of God, we could be in the same situation.)

(One who passes through the gate of Dan, will become a judge.  A judge unto Victory!)

8th. Gate Gad- Means -troop – Company – Army – Overcomers

We will be armed & prepared.  Through God’s choice & much disciplined training & equipping we become the overcoming army.

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Joel 2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the Lord is coming, For it is at hand:

2 A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.

3 A fire devours before them, And behind them a flame burns; The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, And behind them a desolate wilderness; Surely nothing shall escape them.  (going back to Eden, restoration, we left the wilderness.)

4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; And like swift steeds, so they run.

5 With a noise like chariots Over mountaintops they leap, Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, Like a strong people set in battle array.

(Man’s day is over, everything that can be shaken will be removed & this is why they are trembling.  # of the beast 666, man was created on the sixth day.  We have made man God! Man has come to his fullness, man, man, man, or 666 & this beast sits on the throne the mind in man. But, the Lord’s day is the 7th. Perfection in HIM, Sabbath Day.  The day the Lord has made.  This day we are learning to rest in Him. Cease from our own labor.  Being a willing vessel that He may flow through us.  We no longer look to the arm of flesh.  We know no man after the flesh any more.  We look to know man. This is the day the Lord has made & be glad in it.  A great people, a strong people.  This is the army coming forth, the overcoming army. This is God’s Army!)

6 Before them the people writhe in pain; All faces are drained of color.

7 They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like men of war; Every one marches in formation, And they do not break ranks. (They do all they are called to do, led by the Spirit of the living God that dwells in them!)

8 They do not push one another; Every one marches in his own column. Though they lunge between the weapons, They are not cut down. (they will not

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hurt one another, stay in line & do their job.  Fall on the word they will not be wounded, will just be set free.)

9 They run to and fro in the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter at the windows like a thief. (Behold I come as a thief in the night.)

10 The earth quakes before them, The heavens tremble; The sun and moon grow dark, And the stars diminish their brightness. ( natural light will not suffice, even the night time lite goes out.  We are going through the gate of Gad now & becoming that Army.)

2 Tim 2:3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (We are on maneuvers now. He is training us through our experiences, becoming disciples.  We will not go around the mountain anymore.  We will say yes & endure.)

9th. Gate – Asher – Happy -means – Level – Be Blessed – Prosper

(Asher speaks of happiness & contentment in every circumstance of your life.  In this gate you have learned to be able to come into the silence of God.  Complete knowing all is well, trusting HIM, it is a knowing everything will work for the good. You have a peace that passes all understanding. That is the gate of Asher.  Coming though this gate we learn to be content.  Happy if we have a lot, happy if we don’t.  They are Asher (happy ) if they do , they are Asher (happy) if they don’t.  Asher when the south wind blows & Asher when the cold north winds come.  As you enter this gate, Asher will minister, anointed with the oil of gladness.)

Phil. 4:11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:

10th. Gate – Naphtali – Means – wrestling – root word struggle – twist

(Speaks of the long dark night of our soul & the wrestling that one goes through in this dark night.  Coming into the new day, from child to adult.  Coming into high places, speaking living words.

In Gen. 32 We read the story of Jacob.  Jacob’s name means deceiver. As you read the scriptures with Jacob, he was running from his brother Essau.  Essau was

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coming after Jacob with 400 men. Jacob was scared & greatly afraid.  Jacob tried to get out of his difficulty. Jacob schemed a plan as the story goes on, he was trying to deceive his bother.

There is a struggle going on in us as well.  We are wrestling with the old man & our old ways & the new man or the new creation man that is being formed in us.  We are doing this in our night season, known as the dark night of our soul.  But the dawning is breaking forth, the new day is here.  The day star is arising in our hearts.  Until that day star arises in our hearts, you will be in struggle & turmoil with the old man.  That bright & morning star will mature in us. Jacob wrestled all night & so do we.

Vs. 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. (Jacob saw as we will see the hollow of his thigh.  His leg was out of joint.   God will change the way we walk, the way we live. This will cause pain, Naphtali never gives up.)

26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” (let me go as the day breaketh, the wrestling is over Jacob lived in the blessing realm, now he was coming into judgement. Judgement starts in the house of the Lord. Judgement leads to blessing.)

27 So He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.” (Jacob received a revelation of himself in this experience.)

28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.” (Prince of God.)

29 Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.” And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there.  (after his long dark night he received his blessing.)

30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”  (We shall know Him as we shall see Him face to face.)

 31 Just as he crossed over Penuel the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip.  ( Sun rose upon him, a new day arose, he limped, God altered his walk, no

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longer self sufficient Jacob, but trusting limping ISRAEL, his new name. his new nature.  Israel  means Prince of God). Naphtali is a great soul, but the spirit wants to come into authority.)

11th. Gate Joseph – means to Add – continue to do a thing

Gen.30:22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

24 So she called his name Joseph, and said, “The Lord shall add to me another son. “She saw another son.  Jesus first son, God was seeing another son, a many membered son.

Isa 62:10 Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples!  (This gate speaks of being chosen of God, to be an overcomer & go on to reign, making us Kings & Priests. To be a preserver of life, to family & nation, even to the world. The first fruit company.  This gate of Joseph will bring you from one who has caught a vision, to one that is fulfilling that vision.  It is not enough to tell our brothers of our dream, we must experience the dream.  Telling them of our dream makes them envious & hate us.)

Study (Chap. 13:5 & in chap. 5 of Duet. Chap4 in Acts, chap 1 in Heb.  All dealing with the man Joseph.  God is using him to teach us many things.  We will experience some things that Joseph did, not in the same way, but in type & figures.

Coming through the gate of Joseph you will come through a stripping, strip you of your fellowship, make you naked, expose you to shame if possible.  This can come through family, friends, church, but it is a stripping. A separation.

Gen. 37:36 JOSEPH WAS SOLD AGAIN. HERE WE SEE God is already getting him prepared for down the line.  Putting him in place to the throne of Pharaoh.  But, it doesn’t look like it.  Coming through this gate we are being put in line for the throne, but, it doesn’t look like it.

Rom. 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

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12th. Gate Benjamin – means – Son of my right hand.

Gen. 35:16 Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.

Vs.18 And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; (son of my sorrow) but his father called him Benjamin. (son of my right hand)( speaks of sitting on the throne with the Father. Authority  this is our adoption, our redemption of our body.  Benjamin does not go through any processing, except he is hid & preserved until God’s time.  Processing is in Joseph, everything hinges on Benjamin.  Joseph would not feed them corn until Benjamin was in their mist.  This is when the feeding takes place.  We are the Benjamin Company this day, that will feed the nations the word of truth so they may have life & that which is more abundant. Joseph gave the silver cup of redemption & turned it over to Benjamin.  Just as Jesus told us we would do the works that He did & even greater works. Why?  Because we have entered the gates into the City & have become the City.  The many membered body of Christ. The City that is full of Light. No more darkness in us).

Rev. 21: 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

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 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8  

Glory to God

 

Pastor Jean

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God is a Consuming Fire

 

Heb. 12:29  “For our God is a Consuming Fire”

Heb. 1:7  “ And of the Angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits & His ministers a flame of fire.”

Acts 2:1-19 Tells us the Church was established, they had the power, the anointing, the fire. 120 in the upper room, on fire with the Glory of the Lord, Baptism of Fire! VS. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as fire & it sat upon each one. (anointing of there tongue to speak in the authority of God) vs.4 filled with the Holy Ghost & began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Matt.3:11 John said, “ I baptize you with water, but there is one coming that will baptize you with the fire.

Vs.12 Burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (burn the ways of the flesh until we are conformed to HIS will.)

Only God can produce this fire! The devil or darkness can counterfeit anything, but, cannot produce the fire of God.  He can speak in tongue, he knows the word, can prophesy, but cannot produce the fire.

We seen this work in the chasmatic movement, the fire fell, people were slain in the spirit, people were delivered & supernatural healings took place. We felt the energy, the fire, the power of God & it was beautiful.  The gifts were operating in the Churches & it was something to behold. Out of that move of God, many tasted,  the goodness of God, we were given a word to seek HIM with all our heart, to love Him with all of our heart & to love our neighbor as ourselves.  Then we were sent into the wilderness, set aside & to know the fire a different way.  A way of loneliness, set aside, like the caterpillar that we were, we had to enter into our cocoon.  Like the caterpillar though the sheer determination to know we are more then the lowly worm.  Like the caterpillar we will emerge into something beautiful & free from the world of limitations, free from the world as we have known it.  We are in the world but we are not of the world.  We found a new world, HIS world, He gave us a foretaste & it is good. HIS world, HIS Kingdom come in earth as it is in heaven. What earth is HE talking about, you were formed from the dust of the earth.  He is restoring you back to where you were before the fall of man.  The mind of Christ is already in you, but the seed needs to be nourished & come

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Into full maturity, to know HIS ways. That is our wilderness experience, but, HE doesn’t keep us there, HE will bring us forth victoriously.

We live in two worlds, the one is the way of carnality, this is the world we have lived out of, but the world of Christ is another higher consciousness, it is from the mind of Christ.  The word always bids us to come higher, come out of the world as we have known it & enter in the Kingdom of God which has always been within us. We are the Temple of God.  Now let HIS train fill the Temple.

Oh there is something great coming on the scene, we have been set aside, we have come through a great cleansing of the Lord, we have known HIM in the fire, HE was always in the fire with us.  At times we could dance in the fire, for we knew HE lives in us.  In the fire we learned HIS ways & still learning, learning to take the authority HE gave us in the beginning before the fall of man.  Before man decided to do it his way & not the way of the Spirit or the way of the tree of life.

Matt. 3:24 We Live in HIM

Where we move in HIM & Have our being in HIM.

MATT. 16:33 The fire consumed our outer world which is our tribulation & we are no longer in the world, because Jesus overcome the world. 1 Cor. 2:12 1 Cor. 6:2-4

You will not judge this world from the 5 fold ministry.   We are called to minister from the Holy of Holies where the Glory of God abides.  This Glory we must BE & know who we are in HIM.  Minister means to serve & we must serve HIM.

How will we judge the world?  By telling them they are sinners, NO! Jesus took the sins of the world. We will teach them by showing the Father as Jesus did. Teach them the same spirit that lives in me, or you, also lives in them. Encourage them as they go through the alter of sacrifice that the Father accepts.  But, this fire is not unto death, but to life & that which is more abundant.  Don’t be afraid of the fire, trust HIM, the fire is only to burn out everything that is not HIM.  When you come through this fire, you will be able to be Ministers of Fire.  As a minister of fire we can call down the fire to any situation you are walking through or anybody else that may be walking through that does not line up with the word of God.  You can change their world.  Asking God the I Am that I Am to burn & consume the negative dark thing that is upon HIS people that are under the curse.  Like Jesus, let us be that instrument in the hand of the Father. Let us be that minister of fire,

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like Elijah to show our God lives in us & we are one with HIM like Jesus.  Let them know the same Father that lives in me or you is the same Father that lives in them.  The seed is just dormant for a season, just love it, give it care, seek it & feed it & it shall grow & mature & bring forth fruit of like kind Glory!

Now the story of Elijah

What is this consuming fire.

1Kings 18:21-29  Story of Elijah told Israel, how long before you halt between two opinions?  Elijah said “put your sacrifice on the alter & put no fire to it.  Then told  Elijah the same to the 450 prophets of Baal & put no fire to it. The prophets of Baal cried all day, NO voice came no answer.

Now Elijah took 12 stones, put them on the alter, made a trench, put the wood & the bullock on the alter. Pored 4 barrels of water over it all & in the trench.  Then told them to do it 3 times. Elijah prayed, the fire fell & consumed the burnt sacrifice.  We also have laid on the alter & it consumed our world as we know it.  Reading about Elijah’s life you will find the preparation the sacrifice he had to make to come to the place that he was able to call down the fire.  He knew his God & He knew He would answer him.

James 5:17 Tells us Elijah was a man with a nature like ours.  He suffered the same things we do.

I want you to know, you may be in the fire, you may be on the alter at times in your life, but God is always teaching us to believe & to take authority over our situations.  He is making us believers.  The things that easily would discourage me at one time, don’t even phase me. Something happens in my life, maybe my family’s life, fear tries to rise up. I recognize it & stop it by the word.  We are learning to take our power back.  Sickness can’t stay, poverty, suffering, old age it all has to go in the name of the Lord, who I AM. We are no longer under the curse.

You can change situations, it’s a matter of believing you can!

We are the body of Christ which Jesus spoke of.

Elijah new how to send the fire, to burn everything up that was not God.

We can send the fire also, asking God the consuming fire to burn out everything that is not of Him.

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Elijah also new how to stop the rain for three & a half years & then open the heavens & let it fall.  But, that is another good story.

This is the anointing!  Old people will have their youth restored, It’s restoration time.  The whole earth will be burned, purified, cleansed by the Fire of God.

This literal earth is not going to get any natural fire & be destroyed.  It will be a work of the fire of God, to bring peace on earth good will toward man. His Kingdom as it is in Heaven, will be here on earth. What a wonderful time to be living, to be a part of ushering it in! Use me Lord to Bless your people. So I Am The way, The Truth & The Life.  That is the prayer for all of us.  Pastor Jean