Month: October 2012

We just completed a 14-part series on “Getting to Grips with the Fullness of JESUS CHRIST”.

In this series on “Becoming a Bride for the LAMB”, we will identify some prophetic keys to the development of the Bride of the LAMB. The central Key to becoming a Bride arises in the Key of David which we will discuss in the course of developing this series on the Bride.

There are many in the Body of MESSIAH who are expecting a Global Revival in the near future.

This series is being developed so that the coming revival will not only be a display of the power to evangelize with signs and wonders flowing from a full array of the power gifts; but, necessarily the revival will concurrently be rooted in the consecration and the maturing of a people of GOD who understand that they need to be set apart unto the LORD to be a Bride for the LAMB.

As YESHUA warned us in Matthew 7:21-23 _[NKJV], < ²¹ “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders _{[NASB: miracles]} in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Something pivotal takes place at the sounding of the seventh trumpet during the period of the tribulation. Revelation 14:15-19 declares: < ¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded … ¹⁹ And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple …. >

Prior to the sounding of the seventh angel, Revelation 10:7 declares: < ⁷ but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets. >

[Please be reminded that in 1 Corinthians 4:1 we are called servants _[ministers] of CHRIST and stewards of the Mysteries of GOD. Developing into stewards of the Mysteries of GOD is part and parcel of the fulfillment of the Prophets.]

The Mystery of GOD being finished _{[just before the 7th angel sounds]} is tied to the Ark of the Covenant appearing in the Temple in heaven _{[after the 7th angel sounds]}.

How do we understand the Mystery of GOD being finished?

Colossians 2:1-3 _[NKJV] gives us insight on the Mystery of GOD:< ² that their _[our] hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, ³  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom _{[that defines every application of the Word of GOD that YHWH Fulfills prophetically – see Jer 1:11-12]} and knowledge _{[that opens in revelatory insights manifested in a prophetic people sealed to be a Bride for the LAMB]}. >

The Mystery of GOD being finished is tied to a people “whose hearts are knitted together in love, attaining to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding _{[Prov 9:10 declares that understanding is knowing the HOLY ONE; this is a knowing in the intimacy of His love perfected and completed into us]}, to the knowledge of GOD, both of the FATHER and of CHRIST, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom _{[unveiling the application]} and knowledge _{[unveiling insight]}.”

This is why Revelation 11:15 reads: < ¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying _{[proclaiming and declaring prophetically]}, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms _{[NASB: the kingdom]} of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” >

When a Bride is consecrated in a unity of love _{[love for the brethren actualized from the heart of YESHUA and, consecrated for a Marriage Union with the LAMB, because of our love for the brethren]} then YHWH will destroy evil and will then manifest His rule over the nations with the 2^nd coming of the MESSIAH. The 2^nd coming of ADONAI YESHUA will herald the actual establishment of the Kingdom of GOD amongst the nations of the earth.

As Revelation 11:16-18 declares: < ¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying: ” We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, because You have taken Your great power and reigned. ¹⁸ The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth.” >

The sounding of the 7^th Trumpet will herald the destruction of evil as evidenced in the ‘Bowl Judgments’ that follow after the 7^th trumpet. The Mystery of GOD being finished prior to the sounding of the 7^th Trumpet proclaims the sealing of the Bride of the LAMB. The appearance of the Ark of Covenant in heaven unfolds an event of humongous prophetic significance: the sealing of a leadership of priests, prophets and kings, in fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant.

The implications of this prophetic event to us, is that we must choose to develop a desire to become a Bride for the LAMB.

But, how exactly do we become a Bride?

The 1st prophetic key to becoming a Bride of the LAMB is to actualize a revelation of YESHUA’s love in our hearts; specifically in hearts of flesh that are circumcised by the HOLY SPIRIT, to manifest the fragrance of YESHUA from our hearts – before the FATHER.

The 2^nd prophetic key to becoming a Bride for the LAMB is to express the love of YESHUA towards our brethren in the Body of MESSIAH.

Actualizing YESHUA’s love and then expressing it towards our fellow Christians, across the many barriers of our many divisions, even towards those we have separated from in the past, is the necessary prerequisite to becoming a Bride.

The Law of CHRIST defines some of the demands of JESUS CHRIST over His Bride.

• In Matthew 5:21-24 [NASB], YESHUA declares: < ²¹ “You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not commit murder‘ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’ ²² “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. ²³ “Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. > YESHUA is declaring that there is no justification for our offences with/towards our brethren, because we are (definitively) members one of another. In 1 Cor 11:29, we are commanded to “discern the LORD’s Body” prior to the celebration of the LORD’s Supper.
• In Matthew 5:43-48 [NASB], YESHUA declares: < ⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, ⁴⁵          that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. ⁴⁶ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ⁴⁷ And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? ⁴⁸ Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. >

 

Please do not see these verses on the Law of CHRIST through Law; but understand that these realities unfold as CHRIST is formed in us – in substance and witness, perfected and completed into us – by the HOLY SPIRIT.

The Law of CHRIST points to what YHWH can accomplish with us as CHRIST is formed in us, through the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT _{[Ex 31:18; 32:16; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Jer 31:33-34; Eze 36:25-27]}.

Shalom Brethren. Be blessed to be a blessing! Amen!

 

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

We have in Part 12 and 13 of this series on the fullness of JESUS CHRIST, established that the Ark of YHWH is YESHUA MASHIAH.

The Ark is carried through the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA being manifested in the inward parts of the Body of MASHIAH (CHRIST), the work of the HOLY SPIRIT in fulfillment of the FATHER’s will.

In fact, Ephesians 1:22c-23 _(KJV) defines the Body of CHRIST as being of MASHIAH YESHUA’s fullness: < ²² … the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. >

Colossians 1:19-20 _(KJV) declares: < ¹⁹ For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; ²⁰ and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. >

Ephesians 3:18-19 (NKJV) declares: < 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. >

These three verses give prophetic perspective to YESHUA MASHIAH being the Ark of YHWH.

The Body of CHRIST carries the Ark so as to communicate the fullness of YESHUA MASHIAH, which belongs to us by grace, through faith, fashioned and formed in Blood Covenant – to communicate His fullness into all in all. This realm of fulfillment is predestined for a Bride.

The Body of MASHIAH carrying the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA has to make the choice to put on CHRIST, to become a Bride for the LAMB, by being overcomers _{[see Rev 2-3]}.

Revelation 12:11 declares prophetically that we overcome by: (i) the Blood of the LAMB _{[alive in us by Witness (see 1 John 5:10a, 8) declared to be faithful and true (see Rev 3:14b)]} and, (ii) the Word of our Testimony _{[which, gives specific functional expression to the Epistle of CHRIST in each one of us (see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV)]}.

The testimony that stands in the inward parts of the overcomer declares: < and they loved not their lives unto the death > _{[see Rev 12:11c]}.

In Part 13, we came to understand that the contents of the Ark _{[see Heb 9:3-4]} are personal to every disciple of JESUS CHRIST, who is being uniquely defined as an Epistle of CHRIST _{[see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]}.

The contents of the Ark of YHWH that unfold the Bride are described _{[in Hebrews 9:3-4]} as:

1. the Jar of Manna
2. the Tables of the Covenant; and,
3. Aarons Rod that Budded

The prophetic, functional manifestation of the fullness of CHRIST JESUS in the inward parts of the Bride _{[see John 1:16-17, NASB/NKJV/KJV]} unfolds as:

1. The revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST _{[prophetically symbolized by the Jar of Manna in the Ark – see John 6:49, 48-51]} unfolds in hearts of flesh that define us each as unique Epistles of CHRIST. In the Marriage of the LAMB the ‘two’ shall become one flesh [see Gen 2:22-24; Eph 5:31-32]. This will be a knitting together of two hearts – the LAMB and the Bride – ‘in one flesh’, which is, the flesh of the LAMB _{[see John 6:51-58]}. Ephesians 5:25-32 _[NKJV], declares: < ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, ²⁶ that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. ³⁰ For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. ³¹ “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” ³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. >
2. The formation of Blood Covenant _{[from revelation received as prophetically symbolized in the Jar of Manna]} in hearts of flesh, establishes us as unique Epistles of CHRIST _{[prophetically symbolized by the Tables of Covenant in the Ark]} able to function in Blood Covenant – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS _{[see Rom 8:2]} before the FATHER _{[see Gen 17:1-2, 7-10a, 13c]}.
3. The capacity of functioning in Blood Covenant is brought to fulfillment _{[through revelation and Covenant formation]} through the Witness of JESUS CHRIST _{[Rev 3:14b; 1 John 5:10, 7-8, NKJV]}, faithful and true, in Spirit, Water and Blood _{[prophetically symbolized by Aarons Rod That Budded in the Ark]} being progressively developed in functional terms within us and amongst us _{[John 17:13-14; 20-23, 24-26]}.

This entire plan of development in the inward parts of the Body of CHRIST is exclusively the work and ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT _{[John 16:14-15; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Ex 31:18c; 32:16]}.

[Note: the Finger of GOD mentioned in Ex 31:18, points to the exclusive work of the HOLY SPIRIT. Compare Luke 11: 20 with Matthew 12:28 to understand this.]

There is a great revival coming and may even now be upon us. The intent and design of this revival is not merely experiential but it is meant to be definitive in the inward parts, unveiling a Bride sold out on YESHUA from its inward parts, being created out of His fullness – the work of the HOLY SPIRIT.

This Bride, the wife of the LAMB _{[see Rev 21:9c]}, will be fully functional by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in a freedom and liberty from the Law of Sin and Death _{[see Rom 8:2]}.

Brethren a spotless and blameless Bride must stand and testify among the nations to prove the Testimony of YESHUA _{[Rev 19:10c]}. We are after all the Body of MASHIAH brethren!

The heart of the prophetic that unfolds the ultimate purposes of YHWH is the Testimony of JESUS that unveils the Bride for the Glory of the FATHER.

Hence Revelation 21:11 declares: < ⁹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” ¹⁰ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. >

We have now defined the prophetic building blocks of the wife of the LAMB from the contents of the Ark of YHWH.

We will speak of the development of the Bride of the LAMB in the next segment of this series on the Fullness of JESUS CHRIST.

Glory be to YHWH in the Highest! Amen!

Be blessed to be a blessing! Amen!

 

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

Part 12 introduced the prophetic reality that: the Ark of the Testimony; the Ark of the Covenant; the Ark of the Name; and, the Ark of YHWH’s Might, fulfilled in JESUS CHRIST, are all prophetic expressions of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST.

In this light, what John 1:16 declares: < Of His Fullness we have all received grace upon grace > points to awesome prophetic potentials opened to the Body of MASHIAH, as we progressively actualize (by the HOLY SPIRIT – John 16:14; Rom 8:2) the fullness of JESUS CHRIST, in substance [Gk: ‘hupostasis’] and witness [Gk: ‘marturia’], hardwired into our inward parts according to the call of YESHUA over us, in fulfillment of the FATHER’s Will [Heb 1:3b].

[The easiest way to actualize this hardwired reality in our inward parts is to learn to pray the Word of GOD, by the SPIRIT, into our inward parts. An understanding of the Word in the Testimony of YESHUA is a prerequisite to realizing this prophetic potential in our inward parts. See the sequence of Scripture in Ex 25:16, 21-22; Ex 31:18; 32:16; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Rev 19:10c; 1 John 5:7-8, 10-12, 13-16, 20, NKJV that unfolds the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets in hardwired specifics manifested in our inward parts in the Mystery of JESUS CHRIST specific to our state of being.]

How exactly is the fullness of JESUS CHRIST opened to, and developed in, the Body of CHRIST?

In the substance and witness of YESHUA’s fullness actualized in our inward parts, by the HOLY SPIRIT [John 16:14; Eph 3:3, NKJV; 1 Cor 2:10] we are created and developed to become the growing, Body of YESHUA’s Fullness. Amen [see Rev 3:14b; John 1:16-17; 2 Cor 3:17-18; 4:6-7]!

What is communicated in substance and witness into us is prophetically (and dynamically) symbolized by the contents of the Ark of YHWH. The contents of the Ark give dynamic, prophetic expression to the limitless provision of YHWH that is to be channeled through the Body of MASHIAH into the creation in the Testimony of JESUS.

The contents of the Ark explain the prophetic depth to the actualization and development of the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA in our inward parts; in the collective of the Body of MASHIAH becoming a Priesthood of Believers, called to exercise faith in YESHUA and progressively actualize the reality of becoming Priests of the Order of Melchizedek, entrusted with stewardship of the Mysteries of YHWH [1 Cor 4:1], in the power of an indestructible life [see Heb 7:11-19; 2 Cor 12:9] actualized from YESHUA [John 1:16-17].

The fullness of JESUS CHRIST defines the functional prophetic dynamic of the Church as the Body of MASHIAH created to function in the Name of YESHUA MASHIAH [see Eph 1:22-23; 2:10 and Eph 3:19, 16-21].

• Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:10 declares: < ²² … the church, ²³ which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. … ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. >
• Eph 3:16-19 declares: < ¹⁶ that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, ¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. >

The “breadth and length and height and depth” mentioned in Ephesians 3:18 describes the prophetic dimensions of the Ark of YHWH that the Body of MESSIAH is appointed to carry and express – in and through the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA progressively developed and expressed in its being – in eternity.

In the fullness of MASHIAH manifested in us as Epistles of CHRIST [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV] we are appointed to be filled up to all the fullness of God and actualize every promise of the Scriptures in fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.

The ultimate expression of this is described in Revelation 21:9-11, < ⁹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” ¹⁰ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. >

This Bride is the Ark of YHWH.

The contents of the Ark of YHWH that unfold the Bride is described [in Hebrews 9:3-4] as:

1)    the Jar of Manna

2)    the Tables of the Covenant; and,

3)    Aarons Rod that Budded.

1)    The Jar of Manna represents revelation knowledge manifested in the flesh of the LAMB. In John 6:48-53, YESHUA declares: < ⁴⁸ “I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. ⁵⁰ “This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.” > The flesh of the LAMB communicate revelations that stand behind the Veil of YESHUA’s Flesh [Heb 10:19-20]; unveiling the stewardship of the Mysteries of GOD [1 Cor 4:1; Rev 10:7; Deut 29:29; Mark 4:22] to the Body of MASHIAH. The principal revelation that opens the Mysteries of GOD to the Body is the Mystery of CHRIST [Col 1:26-27; Eph 3:3-4, 8-11; 1 Cor 4:1] manifested in living Epistles of CHRIST [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV] who are called to be Servants (Ministers) of CHRIST [1 Cor 4:1].

2)    The Tables of the Covenant represent Blood Covenant framed from revelation knowledge into circumcised hearts of flesh that GOD is developing in our inner man [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Rom 2:29]. In the creation of our hearts of flesh we become Ministers of CHRIST, Ministers of the New Covenant [2 Cor 3:6, 3-6] who operate through the Veil of YESHUA’s Flesh [Heb 10:19-20]. The formation of the tablets of our heart are the exclusive work of YHWH [Ex 31:18; 32:16; Jer 31:33-34; Eze 36:26; 2 Cor 3:3]; the actualization of the dynamic of the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets [Matt 5:17; Deut 30:6] in deeply personal terms in and from our inward parts.

3)    Aaron’s Rod that Budded is the Faithful and True Witness of YESHUA [foreshadowed in Num 17:7-10, where Aaron’s Rod budded in the Tabernacle of Witness (see 1 John 5:10, 7-8, NKJV)], the Amen, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD [Rev 3:14b]. The Faithful and True Witness of YESHUA stands in the inward parts of every born-again child of GOD in Spirit, Water and Blood [1 John 5:10a; 7-8, NKJV; John 17:26c] so that we can minister from the Secret Place of the Most High GOD, through the Veil of YESHUA’s Flesh. This prophetic reality was foreshadowed in Numbers 17:3-8 when Aaron’s Rod Budded in the Tabernacle of Witness (Testimony). Numbers 17 reads: < ³ And you shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each father’s house. ⁴ Then you shall place them in the tabernacle of meeting before the Testimony, where I meet with you. ⁵ And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose will blossom; thus I will rid Myself of the complaints of the children of Israel, which they make against you.” ⁶ So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and each of their leaders gave him a rod apiece, for each leader according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. ⁷ And Moses placed the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness. ⁸ Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses went into the tabernacle of witness, and behold, the rod of Aaron, of the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth buds, had produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds. >

We can clearly see that the contents of the Ark of YHWH belong to the Body of MASHIAH through the communication of the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA, prophetically foreshadowed in the contents of the Ark, into our inward parts.

Now we have insight into Revelation 11:15-19 which reads: < ¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” ¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying: ” We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned. … ¹⁹ Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail. >

The Ark of the Covenant appearing in the Temple in Heaven points to YESHUA and His Bride [see Matthew 25:1-13 and compare with Luke 12:35-40]. We are living in very exciting times. There is a revival coming that will yield a rich harvest and unfold a Bride for the LAMB. Amen!

 

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

The fullness of JESUS CHRIST – expressed in substance _{[Gk: hupostasis]} and witness _{[Gk: marturia]}, by the HOLY SPIRIT [John 16:14] – is the prophetic conduit of all fulfillment, in the FATHER’s will [John 16:15]:

• Colossians 1:17-20 [NKJV] declares: < ¹⁷ And He [YESHUA] is before all things, and in Him all things consist. ¹⁸ And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. ¹⁹ For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, ²⁰ and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. >.
• Ephesians 1:23, points to the fullness of JESUS CHRIST _{[defining His Body &]} filling all-in-all.
• Ephesians 4:13 [NKJV], points to the necessity that: < ¹³ … we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ >.

The Old Testament points to prophetic realities of the Ark of YHWH [2 Sam 6:2] that the fullness of JESUS CHRIST brings into fulfillment – progressively. In the Old Testament the Aaronic priesthood was appointed to carry the Ark [Deut 10:8].

Hebrews 7:11-17 points to a change in the priesthood according to the power of an indestructible life actualized by YESHUA MASHIAH. It follows that with the change of the Order of Priests, the New Testament is declaring that a priesthood of the Order of Melchizedek (arising out of the Body of MESSIAH) is appointed to carry the Ark of GOD – by the SPIRIT, CHRIST JESUS [Rom 8:2].

We participate in carrying the Ark of YHWH (2 Sam 6:2) in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST actualized in our inward parts (John 1:16; 17:6a, NASB/KJV; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Jer 31:31-34)!

The Old Testament points to four prophetic realities of the Ark of YHWH that the fullness of YESHUA MASHIAH unveils and expresses, to achieve the prophetic intents of the FATHER’s Heart. The prophetic scope of the FATHER’s Heart is unveiled as the Ark of YHWH by the HOLY SPIRIT (1 Cor 2:10), in and through the fullness of the only begotten SON ‘prophetically expressed’ in the bosom of the FATHER (John 1:18; Heb 1:3b; Jer 1:11-12)]:

• The Ark of the Testimony: YESHUA MASHIAH is the Ark of YHWH’s Testimony [Ex 25:16; Col 2:9; Eph 3:19, 16-19]. Hence the declaration [in Rev 19:10c] that the Testimony of YESHUA is the Spirit of Prophecy. We are partakers in and expressions of the Testimony of YESHUA as Epistles of CHRIST [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Ex 25:16; 31:18; 32:16] and, as Ministers [Servants] of CHRIST [1 Cor 4:1; Deut 10:8; 2 Chron 6:41], stewards of the Mysteries of GOD [1 Cor 4:1; Rev 10:7]. The life-giving Spirit of YESHUA MASHIAH [1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c] is the Spirit of Prophecy that gives fulfilled expression to the Testimony of YHWH [Heb 1:3b, 3; Isa 49:8, 1-8]. The Spirit and Life of YESHUA communicates the Testimony of JESUS as the basis and framework of the prophetic; unveiling us as _functioning Morning Stars in the fullness of YESHUA the Bright Morning Star [2 Peter 1:19; Rev 22:16].
• The Ark of the Covenant: YESHUA MASHIAH is the Ark of YHWH’s Covenant [Deut 10:8; Luke 22:20; Gen 14:17-19; Heb 1:3b, 3]. Hence the declaration [in Isaiah 49:8] that the MESSIAH is given as YHWH’s Covenant to restore the earth [John 3:16; 1:16-18; Isa 49:6-8]. The Covenant is formed and written [Exodus 32:16; 2 Cor 3;3, NKJV] into _{[circumcised]} hearts of flesh [Jer 31:33-34; Eze 36:25-27; Deut 30:6, 8; Rom 2:28-29] sealed in the Blood of the LAMB [Luke 22:20; Col 1:19-20]. This Covenant progressively unfolds as we develop as Epistles of CHRIST [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]. This Covenant expresses the FATHER’s love inscribed in the SON so that we can be filled to all the fullness of GOD [John 3:16; Eph 3:19] and give actual expression to the functional dynamics of Blood Covenant.
• The Ark of the Name: YESHUA MASHIAH is the Ark of YHWH’s Name [2 Sam 6:2, 9; John 17:6, 26]. Hence the declaration by YESHUA that He has and will manifest the Name of GOD [YHWH] to those whom YHWH had given Him [John 17:6a, 26]. He would accomplish this as: < I in them > [John 17:26c] through Testimony and Covenant fashioned into our inward parts; and, made operational by the SPIRIT in a functional Witness [in Spirit, Water and Blood – 1 John 5:8, 7-10, NKJV] faithful and true – the Beginning of the Creation of GOD [Rev 3:14b].
• The Ark of YHWH’s Might: YESHUA MASHIAH is the Ark of YHWH’s Might [2 Chron 6:41, NASB]. YESHUA was raised from the dead in the strength _{[Gk: Ischus]} of the FATHER’s Might _{[Gk: Kratos]} [Eph 1:19-20, NASB] and is seated at the right hand of the FATHER. Solomon [in 2 Chron 6:41, NASB] proclaimed the prophetic reality in which YHWH arises to His Resting Place, together with the Ark of His Might – His SON [Ps 110:1-7; Prov 30:4]! Ephesians 2:4-7 declares: < ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), ⁶ and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. > Where YESHUA is, is where we are positioned [Ps 91:1; Heb 12:22-24] according to the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA we have actualized in our inward parts [John 1:16-17] in accordance with YHWH’s predestined will and purpose for each one of us.

The fullness of YESHUA points to awesome realities that the Body of MASHIAH is appointed to progressively actualize in the merits of the LAMB.

[All of the prophetic unfolds its abiding realities in and through the fullness of YESHUA (Heb 1:3b; Col 1:17-20)].

The prophetic is not just a position, a promise, an anointing, a gifting or, on outpouring; it is [and must be] YESHUA unveiled in us to actualize appointed positions, promises, anointings and, gifting’s in the eternal and the abiding [John 15:4-11, 16].

The prophetic is YESHUA expressed [in His fullness, in substance and witness] that is the outpouring _{[and outworking]} of the SPIRIT that expresses the FATHER’s Heart; because Scripture declares that YESHUA’s fullness must fill all-in-all [Eph 1:23] and, He must fill all things [Eph 4:10] in fulfillment of the FATHER’s Will!

Scripture declares [in Col 1:17, NKJV] that YESHUA is before all things and in Him all things ‘consist’ [NASB: ‘hold together’].

[Clearly, YESHUA is the Gift _{[we are called to actualize and express]} that fulfills the Law; defines biblical principle (through substance and witness); defines by Witness and Testament every function in the HOLY SPIRIT and, YESHUA is the exclusive basis of the prophetic that unfolds the eternal and the abiding (John 14:6; Rev 19:10a).]

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

Colossians 3:17 instructs us: < ¹⁷ And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. >

To do all things in the Name of the LORD JESUS, we must be a creative construct in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST. This progressive construct is in the substance (Gk: hupostasis) and witness (Gk: marturia) of YESHUA MASHIAH [Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-18a].

And, this progressive construct flows out of all that the FATHER has predestined in the fullness of YESHUA: < ¹⁶ For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. > [John 1:16, NASB; see also Col 1:17-20; John 16:15]

YESHUA’s fullness is meant to be manifested in our inward parts of spirit, heart and soul [our inward parts of spirit, soul and heart being identified in Heb 4:12] – the Mystery of CHRIST revealed [progressively] in our inward parts [see Col 1:26-28].

As discussed previously, one of the building blocks of the construct of our inward parts, is in our new born spirit being [being progressively] configured in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST [1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c] so that we actualize the capacity to do all things: (1) through CHRIST who strengthens us [see Phil 4:13, NKJV]; and, (ii) by CHRIST JESUS [see Phil 4:19, NKJV].

Another building block of the construct of our inward parts, in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST, is the construct of a circumcised, heart of flesh in us [Eze 36:25; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Deut 30:6; Rom 2:28-29; Col 2:11]. The construct of a heart of flesh is of the substance of YESHUA’s fullness that forms the New Covenant [Isa 49:8b] in the tablets of our heart [Jer 31:33-34]. This New Covenant construct makes us Epistles of CHRIST [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Ex 32:16]. We have discussed this in earlier articles.

The third building block involves the re-engineering of our soul – our mind, our will, our emotions, [in the composite expression of] our nature, our character and our personality – in the image of JESUS CHRIST [Rom 8:29]. The fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT give functional expression to the HOLY SPIRIT’s re-engineering of our soul in the image [progressively reflecting the nature, character and personality] of JESUS the MESSIAH in fulfillment of the Law [Gal 5:22-23].

The re-engineering of our soul, which is the actualization of our new man in the image of MESSIAH, flows out of the renewal of the spirit our mind:

• Proverbs 23:7a [YLT] reads: < ⁷ For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he … >
• Ephesians 4:20-24 [NASB] reads: < ²⁰ But you did not learn Christ in this way, ²¹ if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, ²² that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, ²³ and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and put on the new self, which in the likeness of* God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. > [*I have deleted the translator inserts to give clarity to this verse.]
• Romans 12:2 [NASB] reads: < ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. >

These Scriptures point to the fact that if our thinking changes, we will be changed – be transformed [Gk: “metamorphoo”].

We will be transformed into what the FATHER has predestined [“which in GOD has been created”] in the kind intentions of His will!

Our thinking is changed as the spirit of our mind is renewed [see Eph 4:23; Rom 12:2]. The spirit of our mind is renewed by the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA [being energized by the HOLY SPIRIT into our soul, beginning in our mind and, from the mind into our will and emotions]. Prayer by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [Romans 8:2] enables renewal and regeneration.

[Note: Please understand that what is pursued in prayer must be (progressively and continually) verified in the reality of our thoughts, words, deeds and relationships. It is in our living that our personal prayer life is proven.]

Titus 3:5 declares: < ⁵ He [YESHUA] saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing [see also Eph 5:26-27] of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit >.

This washing of renewal [the old being made new] and regeneration [the dead being brought to life] is through the Rhema Word [Eph 5:25-27] of YESHUA’s power [Heb 1:3b; Eph 3:20b] energized by the HOLY SPIRIT in the Amen of YESHUA’s faithful and true Witness – of Spirit, Water and Blood – resident within us [Rev 3:14b + 1 John 5:10a, 8, NKJV; Rom 8:2].

The end product of this renewal and regeneration of the mind is the mind of CHRIST [1 Cor 2:16].

The mind of MESSIAH is the product of the HOLY SPIRIT’s ministry [John 16:14].

The growing mind of MESSIAH gives growing expression to the fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT as our will and emotions are progressively re-engineered by the HOLY SPIRIT, through the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST [1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 4:13c].

The fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT expresses our soul [re-engineered through renewal and regeneration] in the image of CHRIST JESUS [Eph 2:10; Rom 8:29].

Now we can understand how all of our inward man – in spirit, soul and heart – is meant to be creatively re-engineered in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST [John 1:16 + 2 Cor 4:16]! Amen [Rev 3:14b].

In summary:

• Our spirit is configured in the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA MASHIAH [see 1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c].
• Our heart is developed as a heart of flesh, as the Word becomes flesh in us as we receive and actualize the Word, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in the Testimony of JESUS, in fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. In our heart of flesh we find progressive expression of ourselves as Epistles of CHRIST [see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV].
• Our soul is re-engineered as our mind is renewed, transforming our will and emotions so that we stand in the image of YESHUA MASHIAH [see Rom 8:29] – in actualities of His Nature, Character and Personality being perfected and completed in us by the HOLY SPIRIT.
• Our spirit, heart and soul created and re-engineered in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST is eternal and everlasting and transcends physical death [see Heb 12:23; 2 Cor 4:16]. Our outer man dies but our inward man will actualize our abode with CHRIST JESUS in the Mount of the LORD (Mount Zion)! Amen.

 

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School Of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

In Part 9, we made the statement that “operating the gift mix out of our spirit is flawed function”.

Undoubtedly, all spiritual function involves our spirit; but, our spirit must [be objectively focused to] receive and develop all function [in and] through the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST [1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c]:

• Hence, the declaration [in Philippians 4:13, KJV] that we can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us
• Hence the declaration [in Colossians 1:26-27] that CHRIST in us is the hope of glory
• Hence the declaration [in Revelation 21:9-11] that the Bride of the LAMB will have the glory of GOD
• Hence the declaration [in Colossians 1:28, 26-28] that every man is to come forth “perfect in CHRIST JESUS” [KJV] fulfilling the demand of the Law of CHRIST [in Matthew 5:48]: “be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

YESHUA remains the Way, the Truth and the Life – absolutely [see John 14:6]. The life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is the Spirit of Prophecy [see Rev 19:10c].

Given all that YESHUA declares in Matthew 7:21-23, about the failing away of some very gifted ministers, we need to understand the root cause of the ‘lawlessness’ that the LORD points to, in verse 23, in declaring: “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”

This practice of lawlessness comes about by us persistently doing ‘our own thing’, using our spirit to operate our gift-mix, to fulfill our carnal desires and agendas.

The life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST stands in the fulfillment of the Law [Matt 5:17-18; Rom 1:3-4; Col 1:28-29]; and, opens us to the promises [in the Prophets] that flow [in progressive fulfillment] as a consequence of the fulfillment of the Law [2 Cor 1:20; Col 3:17; John 14:12-15; 15:7-10; 16:23-27].

The life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST – progressively – enables us to function [to live] in accordance with the demands of the Law of CHRIST. The capacity of function [of living] – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – is carried in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST.

We actualize the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST by prayer; by praying in the understanding [see Heb 1:3b; Prov 9:10b] of the Word of GOD, in the context of the Testimony of JESUS [Luke 24:44-45; Matt 5:17-18; 2 Cor 1:20; Rev 19:10c].

The true understanding of the Word of GOD unveils in an intimacy with the Holy One, MASHIAH YESHUA [see Prov 9:10b].

This true understanding unveiled in an intimacy is entirely a construct of the Spirit and Life of JESUS CHRIST [see John 6:63].

We pray in the SPIRIT to energize the contents of the Word of GOD, in the Spirit and Life of YESHUA [this is what the HOLY SPIRIT does with the Word – John 6:63], appropriating [actualizing] the realities of everything definitive and functional in the Word [for example: righteousness, holiness, obedience, love, faith, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, character, nature etc.] in, from and through the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST!

While pursuing the realities of the Word of GOD in prayer, we must put into practice the realities of the Word in every function of our being in thought, word, deed and relationship.

[Understand that the Spirit and Life of YESHUA communicate the fabric of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST – into us and through us!]

Prayer energizes the (Logos) Word of GOD – by the HOLY SPIRIT – into Rhema [or, into quickened, energized] realities that become operational [functional] in the fabric of the Witness [1 John 5:10a] – in us, in Spirit, Water and Blood [1 John 5:8].

[By this we put on CHRIST: progressively actualizing the fulfillment of the Law in our being; progressively actualizing capacities to do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us; progressively actualizing the promises of GOD opened to us by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS; progressively actualizing the ‘fatness’ of the inward anointing [Isa 10:27, KJV+NASB; 1 John 2:20,27].]

The Witness in us – as the Logos Word of the Cross [see 1 Cor 1:18; Eph 3:20c] – is energized, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in the power that works within us. Now we are in a position to function by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in thought, word, deed and relationship – in our personal, social, work place and ministry functions.

We can now understand that every one of us who is born again has the inherent capacity to be fully functional in GOD – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – in conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious terms. This is the Amen of YESHUA’s Witness [Rev 3:14b] alive and operational in our inward parts by the HOLY SPIRIT [John 16:14b] – in Spirit, Water and Blood [1 John 5:10a+8].

We need to understand that we must move towards doing all things in MASHIAH YESHUA. For this purpose the HOLY SPIRIT indwells us. To facilitate this entire operating reality within us, YESHUA went to the Cross, to manifest the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD – in Spirit, Water and Blood, in us!

This is the inward reality through which we operate our gift mix. The finished work of the Cross is not ‘history’ but, is the ever present [operating] reality of all that YHWH has provided in the only begotten SON [John 3:16; Gen 22:14] by Witness opened in our inward parts [1 John 5:10a, 7-8, NKJV; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV] by the HOLY SPIRIT[Romans 8:2].

The Amen of YESHUA’s Witness [see Revelation 3:14b] progressively unveils us – by the HOLY SPIRIT – as a people being perfected and completed; being made perfect as our heavenly FATHER is perfect [see Matt 5:48; Heb 12:23c; Col 1:28, KJV]. Amen!

We are a people whose spirits are being made perfect [see Heb 12:23c] as our spirits are configured in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST.

It is function in the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA that destroys the poisoned waters of lawlessness that permeates the fabric of human reality, in sin, sickness, disease, iniquity, transgression, decay and death.

In functioning in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST, our inward parts are clothed with the ‘fatness’ (the inward anointing) of the Spirit of MESSIAH to fulfill the Peace Offering [see Lev 3:3-5; 23:16-19; Isa 10:27 (NASB+NKJV)].

Intimacy with YESHUA through the ‘fatness’ of His Spirit is missing from those mentioned in Matthew 7:21-23!

The result was lawlessness, the ‘prophetic’ ingredient of the spirit of the anti-CHRIST, the spirit of lawlessness, the ‘prophetic’ ingredient of the apostasy that is in our midst [see 2 Thess 2:7-14].

 

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School Of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

We have [in Part 8 of this series] introduced the fact that actualizing the fullness of JESUS CHRIST [see John 1:16, KJV+NKJV+NASB] involves our spirit being configured in the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST. So that, all things [functionally] – in thought, word, deed and relationship – will be defined, enabled and empowered in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT [see Rom 8:2; John 16:14].

We are defined [for all things (see Phil 4:13)] as CHRIST is formed in us [see Gal 4:19; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV].

The enabling [to do all things] is expressed in the specifics of the inward anointing revealed and developed by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, as we are perfected and completed in the life-giving Spirit of MASHIAH YESHUA [1 Cor 15:45+Phil 1:19c].

We are perfected and completed [enabled] in functions of thought [Prov 23:7; Eph 4:22-24], word and deed [Col 3:17], and relationship [John 17:20-22]. We are perfected and completed by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [Rom 8:2] as we actualize freedom from the Law of Sin and Death.

The empowering [to actually function] is in the power that works within us [Eph 3:20], in the release {by the HOLY SPIRIT) of the ‘power factor’ [Rom 1:3-4] inherent to the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST.

The actuality of being defined [as CHRIST is formed in us], enabled [via the inward anointing] and, empowered [via resurrection power] – in MASHIAH YESHUA – is part and parcel of the revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST to our inward parts [see Col 1:26-27; Eph 3:3-4, 7-11; 2 Cor 4:6-7].

This defining, enabling and empowering is actualized in prayer [Eph 1:17-19] by the SPIRIT, through the Word of GOD understood in the Testimony of YESHUA [Prov 9:10c; Rom 8:2]. The Testimony of YESHUA [His Words communicated in His Spirit and Life – John 6:63] is the conduit through which the Mystery of CHRISTisworked [and communicated] into our inwardparts [Luke 24:44-45].

The Logos Word in the Testimony of YESHUA [what YESHUA calls ‘My (Logos) Words’ in Luke 21:33] and the Rhema Word in the Testimony of YESHUA [what YESHUA Calls ‘My (Rhema) Words’ in John 6:63] communicate the Spirit and Life of YESHUA into our being, by the HOLY SPIRIT – creating us as Epistles of MASHIAH [see Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-18a, NASB] with functional capacities in CHRIST.

We are peculiar Epistles of CHRIST: defined in Logos terms and, enabled to operate in Rhema terms by the HOLY SPIRIT. And, the revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST progressively unfolds us as (growing) Epistles of CHRIST, who are Ministers of CHRIST [1 Cor 4:1] and Ministers of the New Covenant [2 Cor 3:6, NKJV].

All this unfolds in a prophetic growth continuum that unfolds us as Morning Stars [2 Peter 1:19]. In this prophetic growth continuum, we actualize the fullness of the Bright Morning Star, as YESHUA becomes our BELOVED in the Root of David [growing in us]; and, as we become the fruit of the BELOVED, the fruit of His Body, as [we grow as] the Offspring of David [Rev 22:16; Ps 132:11].

This inward creative formation in CHRIST JESUS is the necessary fabric of function and reality that governs the 5-fold ministry and, the body ministries; which, involve the operation of the gift-mix that YHWH is developing in our inward parts [see James 1:17-18; 1 Peter 4:10-11].

We must clearly understand that YESHUA is absolutely the Way, the Truth and the Life [John 14:6]. We must also clearly understand that the Light of the World is absolutely of YESHUA [John 8:12]. And, we must clearly understand that the spiritual DNA that ensures this outcome is absolutely of the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST.

[Operating the gift mix out of our spirit is flawed function operating out of the tree of good and evil!]

[And, all this flows from the fact that the fullness of YESHUA is to fill all-in-all and fill all things (see Eph 1:23; Eph 4:10); and, the fact that: He is before all things and, in Him all things hold together (Col 1:17, NASB) and by Him all things consist (Col 1:17, KJV)!]

This is why the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA is exclusively the Spirit of Prophecy, the basis of all of our potential through the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets [see Matt 5:17-18; 2 Cor 1:20; Rom 3:21-22, KJV] – through faith in YESHUA MASHIAH, that actualizes the faith of YESHUA, through the substance of His fullness [which defines true function] in our inward parts [John 1:16, KJV+NKJV+NASB].

Galatians 2:16 [KJV] expresses this [reality of a faith exchange] with clarity: < ¹⁶ Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ [see also John 1:16; 16:14], even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. >

[For a fuller discussion on the faith of YESHUA, please download a free copy of my book: “Having the Faith of GOD” from our website: www.thetabernacleschool.com.]

The faith of YESHUA is the faith that He personally authors and perfects (and finishes) into our hearts [see Heb 12:2a] even as HE mediates the New Covenant into the tablets of our heart [Heb 9:15a], as He responds to us as the Apostle and High Priest of our confession [see Heb 3:1]. Hence our potential to do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us [see Phil 4:13] as His life-giving Spirit is perfected and completed into the fabric of our being. Amen [Rev 3:14b].

 

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School Of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

Of His Fullness we have all received – grace upon grace [John 1:16, KJV+NKJV+NASB].

YHWH has predestined the provision of the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA in each one of our lives.

The actualization of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST is in substance [the substance of YESHUA, which defines us uniquely in MASHIAH YESHUA] and witness [the witness of YESHUA, which opens the functional realities and capacities of MASHIAH YESHUA in us].

In the substance and witness of JESUS CHRIST perfected and completed into us by the HOLY SPIRIT [John 16:14-15] we meet the demands of the Law and, we are positioned to actualize the Prophets vis a vis the promises of YHWH [2 Cor 1:20].

The fullness of JESUS CHRIST is developed in our [inward parts of] spirit, heart and soul [Heb 4:12]. In this segment we will speak of the development of our [new born] spirit.

Our spirit is developed through the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST.

YESHUA’s Words communicate His Spirit and Life into us [John 6:63]. YESHUA’s Words communicate His Testimony. We should understand all of the Scriptures through the Testimony of JESUS. And, this is because the Scriptures open in fulfillment in the Testimony of YESHUA (Luke 24:44-45; Heb 1:3b; Jer 1:11-12; Matt 5:17).

We can understand the reality of the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST as a living expression of the Spirit and Life of YESHUA. The Spirit and Life of YESHUA is the essential medium through which the eternal Word is communicated (see Luke 21:33).

We can understand the composite expression of the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST by combining two verses:

• 1 Corinthians 15:45 [NASB] declares that: < ⁴⁵ … “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam [JESUS CHRIST] became a life-giving spirit. >
• Philippians 1:19c [KJV] speaks of: < the supply [NASB: provision] of the Spirit of Jesus Christ >
• The life-giving Spirit [mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:45] is the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST [mentioned in Philippians 1:19] that equips us for life in accordance with the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.

The life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is also described [in Romans 1:3-4, KJV+NKJV+NASB] as: < the Spirit of holiness >.

The Spirit of Holiness fulfills the Law and positions us to actualize every promise that YHWH has given us in MASHIAH YESHUA [2 Cor 1:20].

In Romans 1:4 [NASB] we are told that JESUS CHRIST: < ⁴ … was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness … >.

Resurrection power [that empowers and enables new life within the inward fabric of our being in spirit, heart and soul (see 2 Cor 4:16)] is invested in the life-giving Spirit of MASHIAH YESHUA; and, this is why the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is ‘life giving’, as the Spirit of Holiness [see Isa 11:2c+2 Cor 7:1]!

The resurrection gives us a new life-form in and by and through the Testimony of JESUS [see Rev 19:10c; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]. It follows that the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA MASHIAH is the Spirit of Prophecy.

The Spirit of YESHUA MASHIAH is the ‘spiritual DNA’ for the fulfillment of all of YHWH’s promises in Scripture in and through the Body of MASHIAH [see 2 Cor 1:20; John 6:63; Heb 1:3b].

The ‘spiritual DNA’ that is the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is the exclusive basis of Jew and Gentile becoming one new man in YESHUA [see Eph 2:10-22].

In addition to the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST being the Spirit of Prophecy, it is also the Spirit of Adoption since it is the Spirit of the SON [see John 19:30].

We see this from two verses:

• Romans 8:15 [NASB] declares: < ¹⁵ For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” >
• Galatians 4:6 [NASB] declares: < ⁶ Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” >

The Spirit of JESUS CHRIST defines our every capacity of function in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT [in accordance with Romans 8:2]. In the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST the Law of Sin and Death is destroyed.

We are revealed as sons of GOD as the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST, the Spirit of the SON, is perfected and completed in us by the HOLY SPIRIT [John 16:14; 1:16-18].

[We can actualize the Spirit and Life of YESHUA in our inward parts when we understand and pray the Word, by the SPIRIT, in the Testimony of JESUS. Tongues are a powerful tool in actualizing this reality that is prophetically addressed as the Mystery of CHRIST (see 1 Cor 14:2; Col 1:26-28; Heb 1:3b; Eph 3:20).]

YESHUA MASHIAH came to manifest perfect capacities of function by the HOLY SPIRIT, in fulfilling His position as True Man, so that through MASHIAH YESHUA’s Spirit we will each be [definitively] enabled to function by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS; and, progressively actualize – through the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST – the reality of having been set free from the Law of Sin and Death [see Romans 8:2].

The life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is the inward anointing that defines us each as Epistles of CHRIST, disciples of JESUS CHRIST in fully functional terms. Through the inward anointing we are enabled and empowered to do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us in the fabric of His life-giving Spirit.

The life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST communicates resurrection power as an inward anointing that progressively [and definitively] enables our every function in thought, word and deed [including the gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT and the 5-fold ministry gifts and their derivatives in the Body], in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT.

This is why we can do all things through CHRIST, who strengthens us [see Phil 4:13].

So we see that resurrection power potentially flows into every reality of function in our being as the inward anointing that is the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST, is perfected and completed into the fabric of our inward man!

It is the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST that is the ‘one Spirit’ that connects [and joins us] each [the diversity of individuals in the Body of CHRIST] with the LORD who is the SPIRIT [1 Cor 6:17+2 Cor 3:17-18, NASB/NKJV].

The Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is the inward anointing through which we are functionally and definitively connected with the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [see Romans 8:2].

Through the functional DNA of the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST we grow to operate our gift mix, in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT, to fulfill the FATHER’s will.

Functioning by the HOLY SPIRIT can’t be merely experiential through the ‘lawless’ use of our own spirit [see Matt 7:21-23]. JESUS CHRIST functioned by the HOLY SPIRIT – perfectly and completely [see John 5:19, 30] in fulfillment of the Law.

And, this witness of perfect and complete function in GOD is coded into the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST, so that we all can do all things through CHRIST JESUS, in the same manner [in the same Spirit] as YESHUA did in fulfillment of the Law! Amen [Rev 3:14b]!

 

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School Of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com