I like the fact “it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the Lord.” We are not going to accomplish a thing by our own efforts, only as we put our dependency upon the Lord.
There were times I agonized over Scripture, wondering what hidden treasure was in the depth of their meaning. Of course the teachings I had experienced in the past didn’t seem to satisfy the hunger, which still gnawed at my inner man. In the midst of it all, there was the voice of the Spirit saying, “Come unto me I will give you bread and drink.” It is hard for us to admit we need assistance, from anything but our own mind. We say we want the direction of the Spirit, but our actions tell a completely different story. We search endlessly through the writings, and numerous translations of Scripture. Going from Greek, to Hebrew, trying to prove our mind set. Of course the end result is frustration. “What knows a man, except the spirit of man that is in him?” What is a natural mind? The big question what makes it a natural mind? I am aware motivation of self can do nothing, Which let me know there is a void in the natural as far as the spiritual is concerned.
Natural tends to search out understanding of its surroundings. Being limited to the boundaries of man, the understanding it finds brings comfort to the natural. Our, technology today is for the natural man. He is concerned about his welfare, and comfort. It has nothing to do with the Spiritual. I know there are those who feel modern technology gives us the means to spread the gospel. Teaching all men of Jesus, and the way of salvation. Of course in our mind set it could be no other way, than what we have concluded. In other words, it is because we say it is. This is the natural mind at work. It has nothing to do with the will, or way, of the Spirit.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, “I am the door of the sheep. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” (John 10: 7 & 9) As stated there is a void in the natural mind. He has a set limitation on him. His intellect could only take him to a limited area of his being. In order to excel beyond that which is natural, there had to be an entrance. Jesus stated, He was the door, The way, the truth, the life. He is the entrance into the unlimited spiritual experience for all men. He is the only door. Verily, verily, I say unto you, “He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber, but he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.” (John 10: 1&2)
This gives us an understanding of the Spirit. The characteristics of the Lord are exposed, When you enter the door. “He that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.” When we enter the door we find our desire is changed form self to others. We have a complete change of character, when we realize our identity in Christ. We are no longer void of understanding God’s will. We turn our attention to Him, and His will. We are taught to walk in the ways of His steps. It is no longer a desire for us to convert all men to our understanding, and mind set. We want to expose Christ to the world. To do this we must submit ourselves, Spirit, Soul, and Body to His will. We do not put limitations on the Spirit, trying to fit him into our mind set. We become, as He is, a shepherd of the sheep. We have this confidence, we are because He is.
When you experience the reality of being in Him, you know you have been translated, from the bondage of limitation, into the unlimited realm of the Spirit. Your concern is no longer trying to prove, or disapprove, but to be as He is. Drawing men by the fruit of the Spirit, which is the nature of Christ abiding in you.
There is a rest for the children of God. It is a wonderful feeling to walk in the reality of Christ within. Man will take truth, and try to mold it to fit his wants. For an example God will supply all of your needs. Men use this to fleece the unsuspecting child, assuring them if they give God will reward. They take the money and build kingdoms for themselves, in the name of the Lord. This is those that climb up some other way, They are the thief, and robbers. Always talking about a day coming, a day of deliverance, a day of escape from the turmoil of this life. Of course they always need to build, and spread their doctrine, until that day comes.
The reality of the indwelling Christ, and His love for us, is a depth, and width, that cannot be expressed in any language but Spirit.
For generations the word of God was given, Jesus the Son of God was sent to finish a work. He was not sent to destroy, but to fulfill a law. To bring a climax to the world system as it existed. “But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,”(Gal 4:4-5) It was the fullness of time. God had appointed a time for the Son to be birthed. “To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” I wonder what kind of answer we would receive if we were to ask our Brother’s and Sister’s, Were You born under the Law, or are you born free? Jesus came to redeem them that were under the law? Isn’t that one of the reasons He came?
Another reason the Father, “In the dispensation of the fullness of times, sent him, that he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:” (Eph 1:10)
In John 4: 34 Jesus stated “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. In John 5: 30 Jesus makes this statement. “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father, which hath sent me.
In John 17: 4 “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which, thou gave me to do.” John 19: 30 Jesus on the cross spoke these words “It is finished:” and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Can we realize the finished work of the cross?
For generations it was preached, He is coming to finish the work. Even in this generation there are those who still put it off to another day always reaching for, but never grasping the fullness of the finished work. I praise our Father, I believe there are those who realize, we need not reach out trying to grasp Him. Need not look for another day. He finished it, He is the Christ in you, and you in Him. In John 17: 5 Jesus Ask the Father “O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” Which is the Glory of the Father Himself. Jesus gave us that Glory also. Lets look in John 17: 20. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, That they all may be one, as thou Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. That the world may believe that thou has sent me. And the glory which thou gave me I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one:
I in them and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and has loved them, as thou has loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou loved me before the foundation of the world.”
We were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.
We have all things in this Christ. He completed the work. We need to understand the work he completed. I find no reason to wait for another day. I don’t know of any work incomplete. I know not of any good thing he withheld from us. He gave us the same life that abides in Him. We have the Glory of the Father; the Son Jesus Christ gave it to us.
Why are we here? Who are we? We must consider the things we were exposed to from our childhood. Teachings always pointed to another day, wanting you to have a hope for something. A God of someday, in a future time. A God sitting in the heavens somewhere, wanting you to work, to bring men to Him. Jesus Himself said, “I can of my own self do nothing”. What can your self-do? What work can you do for the Lord? Is it the Father working in you to do His will? Are we in Christ and Christ in us? Man can only come to God, as the Spirit draws them. We are not in the Adam realm. That which is perfect has come. He lives, moves, and has his being in us.
Jesus surly did the will of the Father. Evidently it was Father’s will to bring a fulfillment to the law. He wanted unity, a reconciliation of all things back to the order and glory it once was.
Have you ever had your wife decide to rearrange the house? Every thing had an order or place. You were so used to where every thing was you could walk through the house in the dark. But the rearranging day came. Every thing was changed from its order. The rooms had an all together different look. It was as if you were in a strange house. The furnishings hadn’t changed just their positions. Your favorite easy chair still sit the same, you just had a different view, when you sit in it. Its purpose hadn’t changed, yet its surroundings had.
We are of our Father house. We have a place in Him. The reason and purpose we have in our Father’s house hasn’t changed. Just our position, We were placed in a different position for a season. It takes a little time to adjust to it but we will. We must understand, just because we were rearranged, We are still in our Father’s house, and still fulfilling His plan. Jesus didn’t leave His Father. He was placed in a different position, however after a time He was placed back to the original position with the Father. We are reconciled back to the Father in Christ. Just as He returned to the glory He had with the Father. We returned with Him, to that chosen position we had in Him before the world was.
Yes we are safe in Him. How often we hear teachings on His unconditional love for us. His abiding in us, how He will never leave or forsake us. And yet in the next breath we are taught, He will come again some day. The Spirit keeps reminding me of the Scripture in Colossians 2: 9 & 10 “For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:”
I wonder can we accept the fact we are complete in Him? “He is the head over all power over all principalities.” He returned us to the glory we had with Him, before the foundation of the world. When Christ received the Glory of the Father, We received the same glory. If we deny this we are denying we are in Christ.
He is not a Christ of someday. He is Christ Today, alive and active, in a flesh body. He paid the price for you, you belong to Him. We are His body in the earth. We are His flesh, His bone, His character, His expression, as He is so are we. Our enemy was destroyed on the cross. The last enemy to be over come was death. 1 Corinthians 15: 26—28 “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all.”
Ask yourselves this question. Are all things under the feet of Jesus? Is all things subdued (conquered and subjected) unto Him? Is all power and authority given to him, both in heaven and earth? All principality and power, He is the head over.
How much of us will he permit to be in Him, and how much of Him is in us?
Romans 8: 2 “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Ephesians 2: 5 & 6 “Even when we were dead in sins, He hath quickened (made us alive) together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus this is the working force sitting us free from all power, and principality. We are seated in Christ in heavenly places. If our life is hide in Him and His life is in God. The life we live comes from the source of life in God through Christ. Not only do we have the life, we also have the mind of Christ. We are members of His body. He is the head of the body. His mind is our source of instruction. In Him we live move and have our being. We worship The Father in Spirit and in Truth. In order to do so we must realize we are in Christ. The old systems of the law of sin and death are disannulled. The second Adam is a life giving spirit. The Lord from heaven, We are complete in him.
He knew us, and in His time He formed us, and brought us forth. Keep in mind He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. There is a lot of controversy concerning a “Body” did we or did we not have a body? I don’t feel to go into this aspect of it at this time. However I will say we are of the substance of the Father. He knew us and chose us. In a body or out of a body we were identified, and known of our Father. Did Jesus have a body before He came to earth?
Isaiah 44: 24 “Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.”
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” (Jeremiah 1: 5)
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”(Psalm 127: 3)
“Thou has possessed my reins: thou has covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them” (Psalm 139: 13 –17)
“As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.” (Ecclesiastes 11: 5)
Look at the statement Paul made “When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:” (Galatians 1: 10)
We need to consider is this the Generation that will accept the finished work of the cross? Our God is in control of all things. He has a plan and purpose. He has caused the womb to bring forth in some and to be closed in others.
God has commanded the light to shine into our hearts. He will reveal His Son in us. We will not confer with the theory and Doctrine of men. However we will hear the Spirit as He speaks, and it will come from the mouth of our Brothers and Sisters. Keep your ears open.
What I would like to say to my fellow member in this time we are living? First of all I want to express the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is the express image of our Father. And is one with Him, coming to earth that all creation may be reconciled back to the oneness of the I AM, The all in all.
The voice of our God is clear to those with an ear to hear. This is the greatest time the earth has ever seen or will ever see. A time the manifestation of the Son of God is to be exposed. Each member of His body will be in the position of unity. Not one member will be striving for glory to its self. All will flow in harmony of one mind.
Would we say the earth would not see a mighty shaking from out Father? No we acknowledge the earth has never been shaken, as it is about to be. Is this the time when men should fear? This is the time when men’s heart will fail them because of fear.
This may sound like doom and gloom to some. To those who are walking clothed upon with the glory of our Lord, find it to be the most exciting and rejoicing time the world has ever known. In the wilderness a cloud, fire, and a rock went with them. When the cloud moved the camp moved. As long as they followed the cloud, all of their needs were met, shoes and clothing didn’t wear out, nor did their ankles swell. There was a supply of food and water. This was the wilderness experience for the natural man.
I am telling of a wilderness experience, where the overcoming power of our Lord. will be manifested in the midst of it. The clouds of the Lord, shall cover the Body of Christ in the earth. Each member of His body shall be supplied with the meat the world knows nothing about, there will be no hunger, or thirst. Jesus while speaking with the Woman at the well told His Disciples He had food they knew not of. This never hunger, and thirst again day, is now in the earth. The body of Christ shall not have need for the natural things of man. They have the power over all power and principalities of the earth. They are the risen Christ unveiled in the earth. There shall be no breaking of ranks. The glory of the Lord shall rest upon the redeemed of the earth. As the seeing of the blood on the door-post, So shall the seal of the Spirit be upon the children of the Lord.
You shall go on the wings of the Spirit. You shall speak as the voice of many waters. Nations, and Kingdoms, shall fall before you. They shall lay their gold at you feet. There is a cleansing of the filth off of the Daughters of Zion. Redeemed Son’s shall rise and proclaim the liberty of our God. With a sure hand and a strong word, the Christ of God shall be known in His Glory, both in the heavens and the earth. All things completely subdued to the Christ. All things returned back to Father God, The all in all the, I AM that I AM.
The host of heaven and earth are proclaiming He is Lord. We are one in Him, the same Spirit of life in Him, Is the Spirit of life in us. We are not the Lord, We are not the Father, we, are not the Holy Spirit. We are what we are because we are made complete in the Christ. I didn’t make myself complete in Him. He made me the way I am. Not because of me but because of His will and pleasure. He gave me life; He brought me forth in the time he chose. We are here not to build or please our selves, but to complete the plan the Father chose for us. If I rise to riches, or struggle to survive, I am still loved by the Lord. He is still the supplier of all my needs. He will never fail or forsake us. His love is unconditional. You cannot make Him love you any more or less. Your actions are not going to change His love for you. We need to ask ourselves the question. Where was I when the Lord brought to light my need to recognize Him as Lord and Savior? Am I something special that He would over look millions of people sending them to a burning hell to save one such as I? You tell me you accepted Him. No He chose me and died for me before the world was. Even before the world was we were chosen in Christ. Before we did anything good or bad.
Blessings
Bill Green.
