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Receiving The Kingdom (Part 4)

Hebrews 12:27-29 [NASB] declares: < 27 This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is a consuming fire. >

Given the declaration that there will be a removing “of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain” we are in this series of articles on ‘Receiving the Kingdom’, addressing the issue of actually receiving the Kingdom of GOD so as to be able to function in the Kingdom in conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious terms!

Acts 17:28 [NKJV] proclaims the all-encompassing reality that: < 28 … in Him we live and move and have our being … >. And, the Kingdom of GOD is absolutely ‘of GOD’ – in whom we live, move and have our being.

The Kingdom of GOD unveils ‘the realities of GOD’ [everything that derives from YHWH] that enable us to live, move and have our being in Him.

The capacity to live, move and having our being in YHWH ADONAI is the essential fabric of Kingdom reality that we want to come to actualize and take possession of – in conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious terms.

We actualize [see the evidence of] and take possession of the realities of the Kingdom of GOD from our inward parts [see Luke 17:20-21, KJV] – by faith.

Faith [in YESHUA] facilitates the righteousness of GOD coming into operation in our hearts [see Rom 10:10; Matt 6:33] through YESHUA [see John 17:6a; Heb 11:1, NKJV] in what Scripture calls the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON [see Col 1:13, NASB].

The righteousness of GOD is what GOD does sovereignly in response to our faith in Him through YESHUA.

The Mystery of the Faith – specific to YHWH and His MESSIAH – unfolds the righteous works of GOD into our heart and into our lives [see 1 Tim 3:9; Rom 10:10] in the fullness of YESHUA MASHIAH [see John 1:16-18, NASB+NKJV].

The Law declares that a man can know GOD in an intimacy; so as to actually come to love GOD with all of his heart, soul, mind and strength. This is the reality of YHWH that unveils to us through YESHUA [see John 17:6a, 26] which positions us behind the veil of YESHUA’s flesh in the Mount of the LORD [see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV; 12:22-24].

In His manhood, YESHUA MASHIAH fulfilled this capacity – to love YHWH and be set apart unto YHWH. And, this is evidenced in His sacrifice, death and resurrection – on behalf of all mankind. In rising from the dead, by overcoming sin and death, we have clear evidence, by Testimony, that YESHUA fulfilled the demands of the Law on our behalf – perfectly and completely.

And, through the Testimony of YESHUA – communicated through His Spirit and His Life into us [see John 6:63] by the HOLY SPIRIT [see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; John 17:26c], – we each stand justified by the steadfastness of our faith in Him [see Gal 3:22-27] and, in our faith in all that YESHUA did for us [see Rom 5:9; 10:8-13].

Scripture also declares that in His resurrection, YESHUA’s Spirit was declared to be the Spirit of Holiness [see Rom 1:3-4, NASB]. In YESHUA’s Spirit being declared the Spirit of Holiness, the highest demand of the Law [see Lev 19:1-2] was fulfilled. In this fulfillment YESHUA’s Spirit is declared in Scripture as being a life-giving Spirit [see 1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c].

In YESHUA’s life-giving Spirit is described the functional capacity to relate to GOD – in every aspect of life. In this manner of living we are purely and perfectly set apart unto YHWH.

It is the love for GOD – realized from YESHUA through the communication of His life-giving Spirit into us by the HOLY SPIRIT [see John 16:4c] – that causes us to want to be set apart unto Him.

This relational and functional fabric of the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA is the absolute basis and expression of all Kingdom function [see John 14:6].

The capacity for us to love YHWH with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength flows out of MASHIAH YESHUA’s Spirit clothing our inward parts in a ‘fatness’ that is the inward anointing [see  Lev 3:3-5, NASB; Isaiah 10:27, NASB+NKJV].

This is why Galatians 3:27 [NASB] declares: < 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ [see Rom 6:3, NASB] have clothed yourselves with Christ [see 2 Cor 4:16 + Lev 3:3-5 + Phil 4:13 + Phil 4:19, KJV/NKJV]. >

This is the Mystery of CHRIST unveiled [revealed in the specifics of the Epistle of CHRIST (see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV) within each one of us]. The Mystery of CHRIST revealed in us is evidenced in ‘spiritualities’ [Greek: ‘pneumaticos’] or ‘spiritual realities’- in us and amongst us that enable our Kingdom functions [see 1 Cor 2:9, 12-13, 14-15a NASB].

These spiritual realities [or, ‘spiritualities’] are derived from GOD who is SPIRIT; and, these spiritual realities [spiritualities] are expressions of the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA; given the fact that the fullness of YESHUA is to be the spiritual fabric that fills all-in-all [see Eph 1:23; Col 1:19-20].

This complex of spiritualities, is the revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST that Colossians 1:26-28 [NASB] declares: < 26 … the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints [see 1 Cor 2:9, 12-13, 14-15a NASB], 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. 29 For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me. > See also Col 2:8-10, NASB.

Out of this revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST, Philippians 4:19 [NKJV] declares: < 19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. >

Out of this revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST, Philippians 4:13 [NKJV] declares: < 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. >

Out of this revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST, we can progress into actualizing the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven [see Eph 1:3-10] that YESHUA speaks of in Matthew 13:11. YESHUA declares: < it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven >.

Out of this revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST, the Kingdom of GOD is also pointedly addressed [in terms of its prophetic implications] as the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON [in Colossians 1:13, NASB]. It is in the revelation of YESHUA as the BELOVED in a heart of flesh within us that all Kingdom function finds its development and fulfillment – in eternity.

The BELOVED is the unfolding revelation [the Mystery of CHRIST manifested to the saints] of “the Only-Begotten” SON in the Bosom of the FATHER [see John 1:18, NKJV], into our inward parts and amongst us in our inward parts [see 2 Cor 4:6-7, 16, NKJV] that is the fulfillment of the Prophets.

This is why Scripture declares that the Kingdom of GOD, the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON, is in us and amongst us [see Luke 17:20-21, NKJV + NASB] as YESHUA is unfolded as ‘our Husband’ – the Well-BELOVED, in the Kingdom reality of Him being the High Priest [in whom we operate as priests because we are members of His Body], of Him being the Prophet [in whom we operate in the prophetic as members of His Body having the Oracles of GOD in our mouth (see 1 Peter 4:11)] and, of Him being the King [in whom we operate as princes (see Isa  32:1-2) as members of His Body having the Authority that flows through the Witness of the Scepter of the King which is in us and amongst us (see Heb 1:8, NASB; Matt 28:18-20)] in Spirit, Water and Blood [see 1 John 5:10a,8, NKJV].

And all this will flow in fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant [see Isa 9:6-7; Ps 89:3-4; Rev 3:7-9, 12; Rev 22:16] in a Kingdom explosion that is imminent.

John 1:18 [NKJV] reads: < 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared [NASB: ‘explained’] Him. >

The Dynamic of the Kingdom of Heaven is prophetically explained through two passages of Scripture. One passage involves Jacob [see Gen 28:13-17, 19a], whose name was changed to Israel; and, the other passage involves Nathanael, whom YESHUA called an Israelite [see Rom 2:28-29; Eph 2:14-18] with ‘no-guile’ [see John 1:47; see also Matt 18:3-4].

YESHUA has declared that the fundamental requirements to being in the Kingdom of GOD is our being born again – described as being born of Water [see Eze 1:24; Rev 1:15c] and SPIRIT [see 1 Cor 2:9-10; Rom 14:17] – so as to see the Kingdom of GOD [see John 3:3, NASB] and enter the Kingdom of GOD [see John 3:5, NASB].

All of us have been given access to receiving the Kingdom and choosing to operate in the Kingdom – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS in a freedom and liberty from the Law of Sin and Death [see Rom 8:2, 1-4].

YESHUA upholds all things by the Rhema Word of His Power [see Heb 1:3b, NASB] which carries the prophetic potential to actually work mightily in us and amongst us [see Col 1:29; Eph 3:20].

The inward reality of being without guile [see Isa 66:2; Matt 18:3-4], manifested through the Fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT, in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, is the prophetic key to us standing in the Kingdom, in the heavenly places [see Eph 1:3-10]. This is the Passover actualized in the Mount of the LORD.

The prophetic Key to this Passover into the secret Place of the Most High GOD, is the Key of David [see Acts 13:22c] that describes the spiritual state of the Witness we choose to carry [see 1 John 5:10a, NKJV]. Amen!

 

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James Niles

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Receiving The Kingdom (Part 3)

The Kingdom of GOD is within us and it is amongst us [see Luke 17:20-21, KJV+NASB]. We can function [potentially in every reality of life] in the Kingdom of GOD – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [see Romans 8:2, 1-4].

Functioning in the Kingdom of GOD – by the SPIRIT in CHRIST JESUS, actualizes the freedom and liberty [from the Law of Sin and Death (see Rom 8:2c)] that YHWH has predestined – to manifest, grow and develop – in us [individually] and amongst us [corporately].

The freedom and liberty from the Law of Sin and Death operates by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – in the Witness of Spirit, Water and Blood [see 1 John 5:10a+8, NKJV] – through the Veil of YESHUA’s flesh [see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV].

The Veil of YESHUA’s flesh is opened – by circumcision – in and through the heart of flesh that the HOLY SPIRIT is developing in us [see Eze 36:26; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]. This circumcised heart of flesh is the pure heart that YHWH is creating so that we will each see GOD [see Matt 5:8].

The Veil of YESHUA’s flesh – being opened – is a circumcision progressively developed in a [in an increasingly circumcised] heart of flesh [see Eze 36:26; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV].

Our circumcision [see Rom 2:28-29; Phil 3:3; Col 2:11; Deut 30:6; Matt 5:8] opens the specifics in which we progressively function in the Name of JESUS (YESHUA) – by the HOLY SPIRIT. And each reality that we appropriate by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS progressively opens the Veil of His flesh in us [see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV] so that we actualize functional realities – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – behind the Veil in the Mount of YHWH.

These Kingdom realities stand by Covenant Word perfected and completed in us.

Our circumcision unveils YESHUA as our BELOVED [see Deut 30:6] – in a heart of flesh that is the Epistle of CHRIST in us; and, we will as a consequence of the BELOVED alive in us, in a circumcised heart of flesh [see Ps 24:3-4; 15:1-2], increasingly grow to operate in the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON [see Col 1:13, NASB].

Freedom and liberty from the Law of Sin and Death is the atmosphere of the Kingdom opened in us by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS. This is the “spiritual air” [Hebrew: ‘ruach’ meaning the ‘breath’ of GOD; Greek: ‘pneumaticos’ meaning the ‘spiritual’ atmospheres of GOD derived realities – see 1 Cor 2:9,12-13] we breathe [and live in] that facilitates the dynamic of Kingdom function.

It is this spiritual atmosphere in our inward parts that we stand and operate in the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH. The Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH in our inward parts defines the spiritual state we actualize in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets [see Matt 5:17; John 14:27; John 14:23] through a heart of flesh [see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV].

The circumcised heart of flesh that YHWH is developing in us progressively stands at some level of a Shabbat-Shalom in our inward parts. In this Shabbat-Shalom realized we can clearly ascertain that we are operating behind the Veil in the Mount of the LORD [see Gen 22:14; Isa 33:15-17].

We can also operate and function corporately in this Shabbat-Shalom; and, see the Kingdom manifest on the earth in our midst! This is why the Tabernacle of David [the Tabernacle of the BELOVED] is being rebuilt in our midst [see Acts 15:16-18; 13:33-39].

As we are progressively knitted together in love [see Col 2:2-3, NKJV] – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – we will see Kingdom reality [the Kingdom dynamic] manifest at the speed of thought and intent in us and in our midst, as the Mystery of GOD, both of the FATHER and the SON, becomes reality [the functional Kingdom dynamic] in us and amongst us [see Rev 10:7; Col 2:2-3, NKJV].

[Note: There will be two mutually exclusive spiritual scenarios [or, ‘spiritualities’ or spiritual atmospheres] on the earth: (i) Realities revealing the Mystery of GOD [see Rev 10:7; Col 2:2-3, NKJV] and the Mysteries of the Kingdom [see Matt 13:11] that unfold through the revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST in the inward parts [Col 1:26-28]; and, (ii) Realities that will come into place that deny the FATHER and the SON [see 1 John 2:22] – the Mystery of Lawlessness, that will manifest the anti-CHRIST “with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved” (see 2 Thess 2:7-12)].

The Veil of YESHUA’s flesh develops in the abiding through the Covenant Word made flesh in our heart – by the HOLY SPIRIT. The Covenant Word is revealed into our heart and it is perfected through the walk of faith in our lives and in our ministry functions. Our functional capacities develop in thought, word, deed and relationships – as we ‘walk the talk’ of the Gospel of the Kingdom [see Matt 4:23].

All of the Word that is perfected and completed into the heart of flesh that YHWH is creating in us, stands in a circumcision [uniquely and progressively defined in a circumcised heart of flesh] that defines our Kingdom function(s) and Kingdom position(s).

We function in the Kingdom by standing behind the Veil at two spiritual levels prophetically foreshadowed in the Tabernacle of Moses:

(i) Entering the Holy Place through a persevering hope on the LORD JESUS CHRIST that anchors our soul behind the Veil [see Heb 6:19-20, 11-20]. This is the fulfillment of the first veil in the Tabernacle of Moses.

(ii) Entering the Holiest by the Blood of JESUS, through a new and living Way through the Veil that is His flesh [see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV]. This is the fulfillment of the second veil in the Tabernacle of Moses.

The New Covenant proclaims what YHWH has predestined for us in Mount Zion, access to the Seat of the Government of the Kingdom of GOD, through a new and living Way through the Veil of YESHUA’s flesh. Hebrews 12:22-24 [NASB] reads: < 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. >

As YESHUA declared the Kingdom is within us and amongst us. And we access the Kingdom through a circumcised heart of flesh. Amen!

 

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James Niles

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Receiving The Kingdom (Part 2)

Navigating the times ahead of us, involves us receiving and actualizing capacities of function in the Kingdom of GOD – both personally and corporately.

The access to the Kingdom of GOD is within us [see Luke 17:20-21, KJV] in our inward parts [see 2 Cor 4:16]. This access is made available in us, in the Witness of JESUS CHRIST [see 1 John 5:10a, NKJV; John 10:9, 1-2] – in Spirit, Water and Blood [see 1 John 5:8, NKJV] – alive within us by the HOLY SPIRIT [see John 16:14; Rom 8:2; Rev 3:14b].

This Witness of JESUS CHRIST in us, is accessed by the HOLY SPIRIT [see John 16:14-15]; and, this Witness is declared to be “the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD [see Rev 3:14b, NASB; Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-18a]!”

Genesis 22:14 [NASB] pointedly speaks to us in the context of YESHUA’s sacrifice: < 13 Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. 14 Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.” > [KJV reads: “In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen”]

Scripture points to several realities that open to our heart:

  • In Psalm 24:3-4 [NASB] David prophetically points to an ascent into the Mount of the LORD with our heart: < 3 Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD [YHWH]? And who may stand in His holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully. >
  • In Psalm 15:1-2 [NASB] David prophetically points to the reality of being able to abide in the Mount of the LORD [YHWH]: < 1 O LORD [YHWH], who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill? 2 He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart. >
  • Hebrews 12:22-24 [NASB] declares an ascent for the church of the first-born [see also Col 1:15 where YESHUA is called the first-born of all creation] enrolled in heaven, being available to us in pre-destined terms [“you have come to Mount Zion”]: < 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. >
  • Hebrews 6:19-20 [NASB] points to us being actually anchored behind the veil, based on our hope in GOD through JESUS CHRIST: < 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, 20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest [see Heb 3:1] forever according to the order of Melchizedek. > 1 John 3:3 tells us that hope in JESUS CHRIST purifies us so that we are pure as YESHUA is pure!
  • Hebrews 10:19-20 [NKJV] points to a new and living way being opened to us through the Veil of YESHUA’s flesh. There is a heart of YESHUA’s flesh [see Matthew 5:8] being progressively developed in us [see Eze 36:26; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]. The Veil of YESHUA’s flesh opens according to the evidence of our faith in Him [The evidence of our faith will be of the substance of YESHUA’s Witness/Testimony; and, please be reminded that the Testimony of JESUS is the Spirit of Prophecy]: < 19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. >

The heart is the centerpiece of Kingdom function because the heart carries the co-mingled expressions of our spirit and our soul [see Heb 4:12]. Our spirit and our soul are mutually exclusive centers of consciousness in our inward man. What our soul and spirit express are co-mingled in our heart. Hence the necessity of us having to deal with the issues that impact our character and nature. Hence the crucial importance of the Fruits of the HOLY SPIRIT, because they set us free from the yoke of lawlessness [see Gal 5:22-23 in the context of Matt 7:23, 21-23].

Our spirit, expresses capacities of function in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST [1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c] so that we do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us [see Phil 4:13].

Our soul, is being perfected and completed in the character, nature and personality of JESUS CHRIST [which is the fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT – see Gal 5:22-23]. The fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT enables us to progressively function in the character, nature and personality of JESUS CHRIST.

So our heart co-mingles function [in CHRIST JESUS, in the measure of His Spirit we have actualized] with the character, nature and personality [of CHRIST JESUS, in the measure of His Nature, Character and Personality actualized]. And, our heart is the fundamental basis of all Kingdom function and operation [see Matt 5:8].

This is why Kingdom function stands opened by the Blood of JESUS [see Rom 5:9], through faith and a clear conscience [see 1 Tim 3:9; Heb 9:14], in a new and living way, through the veil, of His flesh [see Heb 10:19-20].

The veil of His flesh is opened [actually ‘cut open’ by the Sword of the SPIRIT, through the revealed Word] in our heart. The veil of His flesh is opened through the progressive circumcision of our heart of flesh by the HOLY SPIRIT [see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV + Rom 2:29].

In this manner we can stand before the ALMIGHTY and walk before Him in holiness and in blamelessness [see Gen 17:1-7], and actualize ‘anything’ in the Name of YESHUA [see John 14:12-14; John 15:7-8, 16; John 16:23-27].

This is the Kingdom dynamic opened in us by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, so that we actualize what the FATHER has predestined for us in the only BELOVED SON. Amen!

Romans 14:17 reads: < 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. > Amen!
 

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James Niles

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Receiving The Kingdom (Part 1)

Hebrews 12:26-29 (NASB) reads: < 26 And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” 27 This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is a consuming fire. >

The prophetic key to our navigating the times ahead of us is for us each to receive the Kingdom of GOD – which cannot be shaken.

By receiving the Kingdom: we can live in the government, economy and spheres of influence of the Kingdom that opens to us, through creative processes of our salvation – in CHRIST JESUS [see Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-18a] by the HOLY SPIRIT [see Rom 8:2].

While things on the earth have been shaken and will continue to be shaken, until the return of the LORD JESUS CHRIST to establish the Kingdom of GOD on earth, we the Body of CHRIST have been given the capacity to receive the Kingdom of GOD and be able to operate in the Kingdom of GOD.

YESHUA declares that the reality of the Kingdom of GOD is opened in our inward parts [see Luke 17:20-21, NKJV] and it stands in our midst [see Luke 17:20-21, NASB].

There are personal and corporate realities to function in the Kingdom of GOD. The corporate flows out of the personal.

In Matthew 13:10-17, JESUS the MESSIAH declares that the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven have been opened to us who have persevered by faith to receive and actualize the seeing eye and the hearing ear from GOD [see Prov 20:12, NASB]: < 10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” 11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given [see Luke 11:9-13]. 12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him [see Mark 4:20-25; 13-25]. 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand [see Hebrews 11:6, 3a; Rom 10:17, NKJV]. 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘ Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; 15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’ 16 But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. >

We receive the Kingdom of GOD through a new birth. YESHUA declares [in John 3:3, NASB] : < 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” >

We are also called to enter the Kingdom of GOD and to operate [see Matt 21:43] in the Kingdom through our birth in water and the SPIRIT.

In John 3:5 [NASB], YESHUA declares: < 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. >

The reality of the Kingdom of GOD, which YESHUA declared as being in us and amongst us, stands in something called ‘the Witness’ that we have received in and through the new birth.

1 John 5:10a, [NKJV] declares: < 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. > The Witness arises in the functional dynamic of a new spirit and a new heart that we have received in and through a new birth [see Eze 36:26].

The Witness we receive through the new birth is described as being Spirit, Water and Blood [in 1 John 5:8 NKJV; John 19:30, 34]. This is the Witness of JESUS CHRIST that connects us each to Him – both singularly and collectively; and, defines us as a functioning Body of MESSIAH.

We are born again in the Seed of the Word of GOD [see 1 Peter 1:23], opened in us as the Seed of CHRIST [see Gal 3:16].

In the Seed of CHRIST is embedded – by promise through faith [the seed of faith – see Matt 17:20; see also 2 Cor 1:20] – the prophetic foreshadowing proclaimed in the Seed of Abraham [see Gen 22:16-18] and the Seed of David [see Ps 89:3-4; 34-37, NKJV].

In the implanted Seed of the Word, germinated into a new spirit and a new heart [see Eze 36:26], Colossians 1:13 [NASB] declares: < 13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. >

The reference to the Kingdom of GOD as the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON points to both the Abrahamic root [see Gen 22:14; Ps 24:3-4; 15:1-2] and the Davidic root [see Isaiah 9:6-7] of the Kingdom of GOD, in and through the BELOVED [see Matt 3:17; 17:5].

As Ephesians 1:3-14 [NASB] declares: < 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him 10 with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him 11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, 12 to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation–having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory. >

This is the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD [see Rev 3:14b, NASB] that stands in us and amongst us – in the BELOVED, in Spirit, Water and Blood – so that we operate from heavenly places that stand in the Kingdom of Heaven and navigate the times, while positioned in the secret place of the MOST HIGH GOD [see Ps 24:3-4 + Ps 15:1-2 = Ps 91:1 = Gen 22:14 = Eph 1:3-6], under the shadow of the ALMIGHTY [see Ps 91:1]. Amen!

 

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Thought For The Day (September 1, 2012): The Law Of Life

Romans 8:2 (NASB) reads: < For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. >

The FATHER has predestined (foreordained) actual freedom from the Law of Sin and Death to those who are willing to live by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS.

Romans 8:3-4 (NKJV) reads: < For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. >

Romans 8:1 (NKJV) declares that: < There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. >

All things in Scripture flow into progressive fulfillment by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS. Eternal life, and the capacities to be developed in expressing this eternal life, are a gift that the FATHER has predestined – for progressive revelation and development in us – in His SON.

John 3:16 (NKJV) reads: < For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. >

Eternal life is an outcome the FATHER has predestined for everyone who believes in the SON; believing, in such a manner as to live in what the FATHER has predestined in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT.

In John 16:14 (NASB) YESHUA declares: < He (the HOLY SPIRIT) will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He (the HOLY SPIRIT) will take of Mine and declare it to you. >

YESHUA declares categorically: “All things that the FATHER has are Mine”!

From this statement we can understand that everything the FATHER has predestined for fulfillment is opened and developed in us, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS.

This is the basis of eternal life.

Living by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS is the Law of Life.

In this predestined reality of life eternal – in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT – is the reality and the actuality of the prophetic, predestined by the FATHER for our well-being (2 Cor 1:20).

This is why Hebrews 1:3 (NASB) declares that: < He (YESHUA) … upholds all things by the word of His power … >. Amen!

This is why 2 Peter 1:19 (NASB) declares: < So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. >

This Morning Star arising in our hearts is the Mystery of CHRIST predestined for revealed manifestation in the Body of MESSIAH, called to be a Bride for the LAMB.

Colossians 1:26-28 (NASB) reads: < the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. >

The Mystery of CHRIST peculiar to each one of us manifests and grows in what Scripture calls the Epistle of CHRIST.

2 Corinthians 3:3 (NKJV) reads: < Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. >

Each element of the Testimony of YESHUA (JESUS) is manifested and developed in the peculiar Epistle of CHRIST that we each are; we are a Morning Star in the making; with each Morning Star being a growing measure of the Bright Morning Star (Rev 22:16) expressing the reality and actuality of eternal life freely bestowed in us in the BELOVED, our Husband (Eph 1:6, NASB).

And, we are of our Husband’s flesh and of His bones (see Eph 5:30, KJV/NKJV). This is the construct of the Bride; she is of His flesh and of His bones.

His flesh is the substance of His fullness. His bones represent the structure of His Body; manifested, through His faith authored and perfected into the fabric of our faith and our being – individually and collectively!

As Morning Stars we are living expressions of the Glory of the FATHER’s Grace – freely bestowed on us in the BELOVED (Eph 1:6, NASB). Amen!

All that YHWH has predestined is unveiled in us – grace upon grace – in the Righteousness of YHWH working within us (through our faith in YESHUA) the prophetic reality of eternal life, freely bestowed on us through our faith in YESHUA (Rom 10:9-10; John 3:16).

This is awesome: The Bride is unveiled not by the works of the Law but by the washing of the Water of the Rhema Word (Eph 5:25-27), administered by the HOLY SPIRIT in a washing of renewal and regeneration (Titus 3:5-6), in a reality of grace upon grace (Eph 2:7-10; John 1:16-17) in fulfillment of the Law of the SPIRIT of Life in CHRIST JESUS.

At the highest level, the Law of Life is brought into progressive fulfillment in a Bride for the LAMB. This is why Isaiah 60:1-3 talks about nations walking in the light of our rising.

We walk into this by faith. Everything that we live is predestined in the FATHER’s will to be a living testimony and witness to our faith in YESHUA, by the HOLY SPIRIT. Amen!

GBU as you walk by faith into actualizing the Righteousness of YHWH that will create you to be a Bride for the LAMB.

Arise and shine brethren! This is your destiny by the predestined will of GOD.

By faith GOD will do the miracle He has predestined: to raise a Bride for the LAMB, without spot, wrinkle or blemish from a fallen humanity. Amen!

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Thought For The Day (August 31, 2012): We Are Predestined To Be A Bride For The LAMB

All that the FATHER has predestined for us is meant to reveal the Mystery of His Will.

The Mystery of the FATHER’s Will is – exclusively – established and developed in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT of Promise, in accordance with the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 5:17-18; John 16:14, 13-15).

Ephesians 1:9-14 (NASB) reads: < He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation–having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory. >

2 Corinthians 1:20-22 (NASB) reads: < For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. >

The Mystery of the FATHER’s Will unveils an astonishing spectrum of realities that we are predestined to actualize – by Promise (2 Cor 1:20; 2 Peter 1:19), through faith – in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT.

All that YHWH has predestined requires our active and continuous response.

At the highest level we are predestined to be a Bride, in GOD’s Righteousness, manifested through the washing with the water of the Word, in renewal and regeneration by the HOLY SPIRIT:

  • Ephesians 5:25-27 (NASB) reads: < Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. >
  • Titus 3:5 (NASB) reads: < He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior >.

 We will actualize this position of being made a Bride, in the Righteousness of YHWH; provided, we respond to GOD in a willingness to be holy and sanctified, in CHRIST JESUS by the HOLY SPIRIT (Rom 8:2). We enter into this reality in a Shabbat-Shalom (Heb 4:9-10) that proclaims the Righteousness of YHWH (Heb 6:19).

The Bride is predestined us be blessed in MASHIAH YESHUA, in heavenly places:

  • Ephesians 1:3-8a (NASB) reads: < Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. >
  • 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NASB) reads: < He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. >
  • Hebrews 10:14 (NASB) reads: < For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And on their mind I will write them,” He then says, “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” >
  • Hebrews 12:22-24 (NASB) reads: < But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. >
  • We have come to Mount Zion in a new and living Way. Hebrews 10:19-20 (KJV) reads: < Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh >.
  • The veil of His Flesh is manifested in hearts of flesh. 2 Corinthians 3:3 (NKJV) reads: < Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. >
  • These hearts of flesh are circumcised by the HOLY SPIRIT. Romans 2:28-29 reads: < For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. > See also Hebrews 4:9-10.
  • It is only through a heart circumcised by the HOLY SPIRIT that we will come to love our Husband. Deuteronomy 30:6 reads: < And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. >
  • Two hearts becoming one flesh is the Marriage Covenant consecration. Ephesians 5:29-31 (NKJV) reads: < For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. >
  • Revelation 21:9-11 (NKJV) reads: < 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.” 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, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. > Amen!
  • This is the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD (see Rev 3:14b).
  • This is the Mystery of the FATHER’s will accomplished in a Bride for the LAMB! Amen!

Brethren we enter into all this, by faith in YESHUA MASHIAH, in the glory of GOD’s grace bestowed on us in the BELOVED from the foundations of the world!

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Thought For The Day (August 30, 2012): We Need To Position Ourselves In What YHWH Has Predestined

Scripture stands in what YHWH has predestined for us in the Mystery of His Will – in personal, corporate and cosmic terms.

Ephesians 1:8b-11 declares: < … In all wisdom and insight He (the FATHER) made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him (in JESUS CHRIST) with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him (in CHRIST JESUS) also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will >.

What GOD has predestined, in the Mystery of His Will, is exclusively appointed for fulfillment in JESUS CHRIST: “the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth”.

Colossians 1:17-20 reads: < He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven. >

There is a personal revelation of JESUS CHRIST that we must pursue, by the HOLY SPIRIT (see Rom 8:2, 1-4; John 6:63; 16:14, 13-15).

Ephesians 1:17-23 points to the fact that the revelation of JESUS CHRIST to our inward parts, ultimately, has cosmic implications: < that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. >

From a personal revelation of JESUS CHRIST in our hearts, there is a dynamic of the call that will open to our hearts, in the surpassing greatness of His power that works within us (see Eph 3:20; Heb 1:3b), so that we will become functioning members of the Body of MESSIAH having a clear understanding that we are predestined to communicate the fullness of YESHUA so that He fills all in all – cosmic terms (Rev 21:10-11; Eph 3:19; Rev 21:22-26; Eph 1:3-10; 3:7-11)!

There is a serious danger today, that many in the church think that power exercised through gifts and anointings are the ultimate purpose of all things.

We must never mix “the tools of the trade” with the essential purpose and destiny of the Church, to be a Bride for the LAMB, so that His Fullness will fill all in all. All the tools of the trade – the anointings and giftings – must be developed as living expressions of MASHIAH YESHUA, or we will misuse them (see Matt 7:21-23).

Isaiah 55:10-13 declares: < “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, and instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, and it will be a memorial to the LORD, for an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.” >

We enter into what YHWH has predestined by choosing to: (i) Hear and understand GOD’s Word (Matt 13:23); (ii) Hear and accept GOD’s Word (Mark 4:20); and, (iii) Hold fast to GOD’s Word in a good and honest heart and, choosing to bear fruit with perseverance. We must do this by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (Rom 8:2).

In the New Covenant the Word stands exclusively in the Testimony of JESUS. Without the Testimony of YESHUA there would be no New Covenant (see Jer 31:31-34; Eze 36:25-27; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Heb 9:11-15).

The Word understood in the Testimony of JESUS will communicate the Spirit of Prophecy (Rev 19:10c). The Spirit of Prophecy is the inward anointing, arising from CHRIST being formed in us (Gal 4:19; Phil 4:13, 19, NKJV; Col 1:28, 26-29; Eph 3:3-4, 7-11), that will enable us to do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us, so as to actualize the predestined purposes of GOD.

The Spirit of Prophecy is the spiritual DNA for the fulfillment of the Word (Heb 1:3b), YHWH has predestined for fulfillment (Jer 1:11-12).

The Spirit of Prophecy is the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST (1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c) that is the Spirit of Holiness (Rom 1:3-4), fulfilling the Law and being invested with resurrection power; the power that works within us to give us exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think (Eph 3:20) according to the counsels of GOD’s will (Eph 1:11) that will fulfill the Mystery of the FATHER’s will (Eph 1:9-10; Rev 10:7). Amen!

Simply put, the Church that is marginalizing the Testimony of JESUS, is beginning to operate in the spirit of error.

Remember Colossians 1:17-18, < He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. > GBU.

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Thought For The Day (August 27, 2012): Fulfilling The Law Of CHRIST

Galatians 6:2 reads: < Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. >

The Law of MESSIAH (CHRIST), is made up of the commandments and principles of the New Testament.

All of these commandments and principles in the New Testament that constitute the Law of CHRIST, arise as a consequence of the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets, in the Testimony of JESUS.

In Matthew 5:17-18 (NASB), YESHUA declares: < “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.” >

The Law of CHRIST is actually a demand for perfection (see Matt 5:48, 43-48, NKJV)!

And, this demand for perfection by YHWH is entirely a consequence of YESHUA having fulfilled the Law.

And, this perfection is accomplished (by GOD) as we progressively live by the SPIRIT in CHRIST JESUS and, actualize the Righteousness of YHWH, working in us what is beyond human endeavor.

Hence the New Testament proposition of us being saved by grace (in a new creation), through faith that unveils a new creation in CHRIST JESUS, in the Righteousness of YHWH (Eph 2:7-10).

Romans 8:2 declares that the Law of the SPIRIT of Life, in CHRIST JESUS, has been appointed in the FATHER’s grace, to set us free from the Law of Sin and Death (Rom 8:2).

The intent of the Law of CHRIST is fulfillment of every commandment and principle, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, so as to accomplish all things in the FATHER’s will.

The fabric of this fulfillment is the actual communication of the Testimony of JESUS – in the substance and witness of JESUS CHRIST – into our inward parts, by the HOLY SPIRIT (see Rev 19;10c; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; 2 Cor 6-7, NKJV).

The Testimony of JESUS – the spiritual fabric of YESHUA’s Words that communicate His substance and Witness – is communicated by the HOLY SPIRIT, in the Spirit and Life of MESSIAH YESHUA (see John 6:63; Luke 21:33) – into our being.

The FATHER has appointed the fullness of JESUS CHRIST (that fulfills the Law and the Prophets) to fill all in all (Eph 1:23c).

The fullness of JESUS CHRIST is also appointed to reconcile all things – whether things on earth or things in heaven – to the FATHER.

Colossians 1:19-20 (NASB) tells us that: < … it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him (in CHRIST JESUS), and through Him (CHRIST JESUS) to reconcile all things to Himself (the FATHER), having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven. >

The reconciliation of all things to the FATHER, through the fullness of JESUS CHRIST, stands in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets in JESUS CHRIST. The Witness to this reconciliation is the Blood of YESHUA.

And so, the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets (witnessed by Blood) is entirely in the fabric of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST – in His substance (Gk: ‘hupostasis’) and in His witness (Gk: ‘marturia’)!

Since JESUS CHRIST has fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, the Law of CHRIST actually explains the meaning (and the implications) of the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets to us. Each commandment and principle in the New Testament is premised on the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.

For example: at the highest level, the Law of CHRIST (in Matthew 5:48) makes the following demand on all of us: < “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” >

Since we know nothing of perfection (see Isaiah 55:8-9) and, since the FATHER can only be accessed through the SON (see John 14:6), the reality of being perfect as our heavenly FATHER is perfect, only exists in the substance and witness of YESHUA, which is the fabric of His Fullness, that only the HOLY SPIRIT can communicate into us (see John 16:14)!

Also, the reality of perfection demanded in the Law of CHRIST, stands only on the basis of YESHUA having fulfilled the Law of YHWH given to Moses.

YESHUA has fulfilled the Law in His Nature, His Character, His Witness, His Testimony, His faith, His love, His Righteousness, His Holiness, His Wisdom, His Counsel etc.

John 1:16-17 (NASB/NKJV/KJV) explains this brilliantly.

In Leviticus 19:1-2, YHWH proclaims the highest level of the Law: YHWH demanded that Israel be Holy (Heb: ‘Qadosh’) as YHWH is Holy (Heb: ‘Qadosh’).

YESHUA was raised from the dead and declared to be the SON of GOD with power (see also Heb 1:3b) because His Spirit was found to be the Spirit of Holiness. Understand clearly that only the Spirit of YESHUA is the Spirit of Holiness.

Romans 1:3-4 declares: < concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord >.

And, YESHUA’s Spirit, communicated into the fabric of our being, by the HOLY SPIRIT, is the exclusive basis for the fulfillment of the Law (see 1 Cor 15:45 + Phil1:19c = Spirit of JESUS CHRIST = Spirit of Prophecy as noted in Rev 19:10c).

By the HOLY SPIRIT, the Testimony of YESHUA, ‘His Words’ (see John 6:63 & Luke 21:33), communicate His Spirit and His Life into us; and, manifests the capacities of CHRIST to walk in every commandment and principle of the Law of CHRIST, that flows out of the Ten Commandments. The demands of Matthew 5 are all a consequence of the fulfillment of the Ten Commandments by JESUS CHRIST. For example: ‘Blessed are the pure in heart’ would be an absurdity to any human being (see Jer 17:9) without YESHUA fulfilling the Law.

Romans 8:2, declares that if we live by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS we will actualize the reality of having been set free from the Law of Sin and Death.

So brethren, we must learn to walk by the SPIRIT in CHRIST JESUS and, only then can we fulfill the Law of CHRIST and actualize the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets in our lives as CHRIST is formed in us (Gal 4:19; Col 1:28).

We actualize the capacity to walk in every commandment and principle through the fabric of the Spirit and Life of JESUS CHRIST, perfected and completed –  in us.

Through the Spirit and Life of YESHUA, His substance and His Witness find actual expression in us by the HOLY SPIRIT. In His substance and His witness we are a new creation being manifested in the Righteousness of YHWH.

And, we will progress into being Holy as YHWH is Holy and being perfect as our heavenly FATHER is perfect, as we actualize the substance and witness of JESUS CHRIST, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in a new creation (Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-17a).

This is the Righteousness of YHWH working in us, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – through the conduit of our persevering faith in YESHUA (Rom 10:10; 2 Cor 5:21).

So by grace, through faith in YESHUA, through the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT, nothing shall be impossible to us (Matt 17:20)! Amen! GBU.

 

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Thought For The Day (August 25, 2012): Dealing With Our Offenses

In CHRIST JESUS, through the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets, we are a people of astonishing potential. The HOLY SPIRIT indwells us so that this awesome potential in CHRIST JESUS is developed, in accordance with the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets..

The enemy understands this and, satan is actively involved in building spiritual strongholds that will prevent our progression into the things of GOD. The enemy does this by cultivating lawlessness within the fabric of our being.

One of the most destructive strongholds that the enemy builds over our lives is the stronghold of offense. Offended people live out of their offenses, instead of living out of the abundance of CHRIST JESUS. Offense is sin.

Others may have sinned against us; but through offense their sin finds actual application in our being!

Our offenses manifest in our thoughts, words, deeds and relationships – in conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious terms. Offended people are hurt and angry people and, hurt and angry people will inevitably hurt others, even those who have had nothing to do with their offenses.

I have seen so many people at all levels of the Body of MESSIAH, including myself, being imprisoned by offense. Offended people become isolated. Offended people also become divisive and destructive because of their pent up rage and anger.

The enemy’s purpose for building any spiritual stronghold is to imprison us, to immobilize us in CHRIST and, prevent us from moving forward into the plans and purposes of GOD. Offended people become hindrances and stumbling blocks to the plans of GOD and to others they are associated with.

We need to get out of all forms of our offenses. Whatever the reasons for our offenses – physical, mental or sexual abuse; discrimination; injustice; manipulation by those in power; being hurt and let down by others; being exploited and used by others; being deprived etc. –  we need to get out of our offenses.

The LORD JESUS CHRIST commands us to get out of our offenses by declaring that we must love and forgive those who have done evil to us.

In Matthew 5:43-48, YESHUA declares the following: < “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 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, 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. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. >

In Matthew 6:14-15, YESHUA declares the following: < “For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.” >

YESHUA had many valid reasons to be justifiably offended by what He went through during His life and ministry, leading ultimately to His crucifixion. YESHUA chose to love and forgive and, manifest by Testimony an eternal and ever-present reality and actuality by which we each are healed and delivered of/from our offenses.

This is the Witness of the Cross alive in every born again Christian in Spirit, Water and Blood (1 John 5:10a, 7-8, NKJV).

The Scriptures present healing and deliverance in two distinct realities: (i) In predestined terms in the reality of the finished work of the Cross; and, (ii) In present continuous terms as a reality we appropriate by faith through the stripes and wounds of JESUS CHRIST, the scourging of JESUS CHRIST.

1 Peter 2:24 (NASB) presents the foreordained/predestined reality of healing: < and He (YESHUA) Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. >

Isaiah 53:4-5 presents the reality that we are healed by His scourging: < Surely our griefs He (YESHUA) Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. >

We should never deal with issues of our offenses in our own strengths.

We must deal with our offenses by faith in YESHUA, in the finished work of the Cross understanding that the healing and deliverance foreordained stands in the fact that “He (YESHUA) Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross”; and, because of what is foreordained, we must continuously appropriating our healing “by His scourging”.

“By His scourging we are healed” is a reality that stands in the Mystery of CHRIST. His Scourging is a living expression of His faith and love for us. His Scourging releases us from the scourging of our offenses through the spiritual mystery of YHWH’s Shabbat-Shalom manifested into us in the substance and witness of YESHUA.

The Shabbat-Shalom communicates the actuality of the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets, by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (Rom 8:2).

The Logos Word of the Cross presents to us the foreordained reality of our healing which we must understand (Matt 13:23) and accept (Mark 4:20) and hold fast to in a good and honest heart (Luke 8:15) in the reality of the finished work of the Cross.

The Rhema Word of the Cross unveils in the Witness alive within us, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in Spirit, Water and Blood. In Spirit, Water and Blood, in the faithful and true Witness, stands the Mystery of Healing: “By His scourging we are healed”.

Spirit, Water and Blood is the reality of the power (of YESHUA’s faith, love, forgiveness) that works within us (see Eph 3:20; Heb 1:3b).

In this Witness, energized by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, we battle our fleshly realities (rising from our past and present offenses) as opposed to what stands in the SPIRIT in the finished work of the Cross.

In the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH, given to us by the SPIRIT, in MASHIAH YESHUA, we can by faith in YESHUA, appropriate our healing. We must pray as often as is necessary, to ensure that the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH stands in our inward parts.

When we fail, we repent and get back into the Shabbat-Shalom through prayer and worship. We must forgive those who have offended us and break the yoke of lawlessness.

Tongues are an effective and powerful tool for our application by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (see Rom 8:2).

GBU in your battle for freedom from offense – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS. Amen!.

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Thought For The Day (August 24, 2012): Pursuing The Revelation Of JESUS CHRIST In The Shabbat-Shalom Of YHWH

The reality and actuality of JESUS CHRIST is an inward revelation from the FATHER-Heart of YHWH – actualized through consistent and persevering prayer.

[Tongues are a powerful tool in actualizing the Mystery of MESSIAH in our inward parts – see 1 Cor 14:2 + Col 1:26-28.]

Ephesians 1:17-19a (NASB) instructs us on the need to actually pray for the revelation of JESUS CHRIST: < that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. >

2 Corinthians 4:6-7 (NKJV) speaks of the revelation of YESHUA MASHIAH as treasure in our hearts so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of GOD and not of ourselves: < For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. >

The inward revelation of JESUS CHRIST makes us each an Epistle of CHRIST. 2 Corinthians 3:3 (NKJV) reads: < clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. >

In CHRIST JESUS, we are empowered to do all things. Philippians 4:13 (NKJV) reads: < I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. >

By CHRIST JESUS, GOD will supply all our need according to the riches of His Glory. Philippians 4:19 (NKJV) reads: < And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. >

As growing Epistles of CHRIST, we are to develop our capacity to do things in thought, word, deed and relationship, in CHRIST JESUS and by CHRIST JESUS, through the HOLY SPIRIT.

And, in the actualization of our every capacity to function in CHRIST JESUS and by CHRIST JESUS, in our inward parts, we are created as unique vessels, in accordance with the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.

The yoke of lawlessness that afflicts all of us (through the flesh) can only be broken as we actualize the realities of Scripture through the Spirit and Life of JESUS CHRIST; with every reality of the Word being established in us in the faith of JESUS CHRIST and, with every reality of the Word being brought to fulfillment in us in the love of JESUS CHRIST.

The antidote to lawlessness (which is the spirit of this age, the spirit of the anti-CHRIST), which is increasingly besetting the Church, is the actual communication of the Nature and Character of YESHUA MASHIAH into the fabric of our being, by the HOLY SPIRIT.

The actual communication of the Nature and Character of YESHUA MASHIAH into the fabric of our being, by the HOLY SPIRIT, is what will yield the Fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT in each one of us.

Actualizing freedom from the Law of Sin and Death – by living by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (see Rom 8:2, 1-4) – is the exclusive basis for actualizing our prophetic potential which stand in the many-faceted promises of YHWH.

Our prophetic potential is described in 2 Corinthians 1:20 (NASB) as follows: < For as many as are the promises of God, in Him (in JESUS CHRIST) they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. >

Our prophetic potential in JESUS CHRIST is also described by 2 Peter 1:19 (NASB): < So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. >

The practical reality of operating, free from the Law of Sin and Death, is the actuality of the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH in our heart. Here’s why this is so.

The ‘Shabbat’ speaks of the Sabbath rest YESHUA has opened to us, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in His Witness of Spirit, Water and Blood alive within us in a new birth (see Rom 8:2 + 1 John 5:7-10a, NKJV). Hence Hebrews 4:9-10 declares: < So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. >

The ‘Shalom’ speaks of the peace that stands in the atoning power of the Blood of the LAMB (see John14:27; Col 1:19-20).

The Shabbat-Shalom in our hearts is the practical reality or, the spiritual environment, of operating by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in the fulfillment of the Law (Rom 8:2, 1-4).

The Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH [YHWH M’KADDESH (Ex 31:13) and YHWH-SHALOM (Judg 6:23-24)] is the basis of actualizing and developing the prophetic into our being and through our being as we unfold as Ministers (Servants) of CHRIST, stewards of the Mysteries of GOD (see 1 Cor 4:1).

The Sabbath Day Law (Ex 31:12-18) is fulfilled in the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH in our hearts through the Witness of YESHUA in Spirit, Water and Blood, energized and quickened in our inward parts by the HOLY SPIRIT.

The Shabbat-Shalom is an operating state in YHWH (by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS) where we have ceased from our works of the flesh (see Heb 4:9-10) and, we have embraced capacities of function from GOD – in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in the faith conviction of having been set free from the Law of Sin and Death (Rom 8:2, 1-4). Amen!

All the Gifts, the 5-fold Gifts (Eph 4:11-12); the Gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT (1 Cor 12); the Ministry Gifts of the Believer (Rom 12:1-18)
must be developed and operated in the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH, actualized by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in the faithful and true Witness of JESUS CHRIST – in Spirit, Water and Blood. Amen!