We're to be the
house of prayer for all nations (Isaiah 56:7; Malachi 1:11; Matthew
21:13; 1 Timothy 2:8) when we walk or live a life of Love towards all in
the spirit and in Truth, which is righteousness restored with our soul.
Now for a short rehearsal of
what we've learned. What we've not mentioned is the LORD's virtue
which we know flowed from Him as witnessed to in Mark 5:30, Luke 6:19
and 8:46 and virtue is power, divine power which brought about
restoration or healing to those who were effected by it (Isaiah 53:5 and 2 Peter 2:24). They were by
faith's reaching out in receptivity to the union of Life restored within
their spiritual bodies, mans soul the source of our healing power.
Galatians
5:24-25
“And
they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh
(in Romans 7:18 Paul reveals that: “For I know that in me (that is,
in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me;
but how to perform that which is good I find not.” and the in
chapter 8 verse 7: “ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
When Adam lost the Spiritual presences of God he became flesh. Of this flesh
Romans 6:6-7 says: “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with Him, that the body of sin (the voice of sinful flesh) might be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.”)
with
the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit.”
As
the disciples on a number of occasions were told by Christ to deny
self and to take up their cross, they like the church of our day had
no understanding of His request to surrender all to His charge as an
accursed thing that was due death's penalty, which He nailed to the tree. It may be that the truth of our being crucified with Christ
has not been taught. And many they are who shrink back from the
self-denial that it implies, and as a result, where the flesh (self
will, sin) is allowed in any measure to have its way, the Spirit of
Christ cannot exert His power. Only as the flesh is kept in the place
of crucifixion can the Spirit guide us in living Loving faith and fellowship
with and within Christ Jesus. This is the purpose and meaning of our
first estate and what the Holy Spirit equips us for through our
passage through this estate. The first crisis is the Lord's Last
Passover (Pesach or lamb) meal for it is in it that an exchange is
made and then another crisis of consummation is faced, do we
surrender our will for God's Will (by taking of the Garden cup) in
the form of another crisis death. And this is the cross and our death
of self and to the world. This is also revealed by Christ Jesus in
Matthew chapter 10 verses 38 and 39 or do we remain as part of the deception in the world of darkness chaos and sin in religion?
Matthew 10:38-39
“And he
that takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of
me. He that finds (holds onto, to return to, to show one's self out*) his life shall lose it: and he that loses his
life for my sake shall find it.” Jesus
spoke seed words to His disciples which only after they received the
Holy Spirit sent from above did they even begin to understand their
meaning. We when we come to the crisis of the requirement placed on
all who would accept the mystery of the Lord's Passover, New
Covenant meal and Marriage Feast and then the cross' work, the loss of one's life (of deadness, separation from God) and the
New Life which is on the other side of it, what we've called the
second blessing. Entry into the New Covenant and the power of an
Endless Life. And of course this is all received by His faithfulness
working within us.
* see Paul's warnings, found in Galatians and Hebrews: for he says that after we've tasted the abounant Life of Christ, the re-genesis, quickening to true Life, there remains no more room or need to crucify the Lord again by returning to the former life and this is what the Lord is here telling those around Him.
Before we leave
this allow me to look at just one more passage of scripture this is
found in Luke chapter 14 and beginning with verse 26-33:
“If any
man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he
cannot be my disciple. And whosoever does not bear his cross, and
come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to
build a tower, sites not down first, and counts the cost, whether
he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he has laid the
foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to
mock him, Saying, "This man began to build, and was not able to
finish." Or what king, going to make war against another king, sites
not down first, and consults whether he be able with ten thousand
to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else,
while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an ambassage, and
desires conditions of peace. So likewise, whosoever he be of you
that forsakes
(renounces)
not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.”
This is of course
our Lord's own words on our subject of study and what do we find in
verse 33 but this one word “forsake” or as we've shown
“renounces” all that he has, "he can not be My disciple". So argue
they will over words and their meanings and even doctrines or mans
opinion of them but this one thing they can not do deny the LORD His
right to intervene or rule those who have put Him in first place. For
this is the meaning here “IF” we don't love or fear God more than
our own lives and indeed our own kin then we're not worthy of Him.
For this is the meaning of Deuteronomy chapter 6 and verse 5 along
with that of Romans chapter 12 and verses 1 through 4 from these we
can with Paul say as he does in Galatians chapter 2 verse 20: “I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
And
this is the hidden meaning of the bread and the wine of the New
Covenant. As indeed the full of those few short hours, days and weeks hold for us. Which are the seven Ones of
Ephesians
4:3-5.
This
morning long before day break the LORD woke me to show me this and
please bear with me as I need to get this straight and correct.
Going
back to Genesis and the origin of man when Adam followed woman in the
eating of the forbidden fruit When man bit into it, Adam the man, tore God's
heart, it literally broke. For God lost His first Love, His son, His
first born son, heart of His heart, Love of His Love. For man was God's
greatest creation. Because man was created in His divine likeness and nature. In other words, man unlike the beasts of the fields, had the power of
will, the power of choice and Love both at the same time directed toward
his parent, God. For God, is Spirit, was and is the Father of spirits
or the soul of man, He is our parent and Head of His family, the
family of His own making in total Love. When man was torn from his
connection to his parent the separation caused a great wrenching of
pain within the heart of both man and the Father. From here we'll move 3000
plus years (by mans standard) forward to the day Love was crucified and
the curtain of the heart of man and God was torn again while Love,
Grace, Truth and Faith hung suspended between Heaven and hell. The
righteous one judged guilty of Love in place of sin and in the death
of the flesh the circumcision of the heart came again and the Hand of
God this time tore the curtain of the division of the Holiest place for all
mankind to be allowed back to the heart of his parent. The flesh of
Christ Jesus was mans flesh just as the veil of separation was also
mans flesh, for behind it was the darkness and hardness of mans
heart. Where the seat of mercy once sat, yes once sat, because it had
been removed by the Priest’s many years prior, so the room was
defiled just as Israel was.
Those who don't judge themselves aright
remain defiled just as Israel to this day has been judged because of
it's unbelief in the partial hardening. It only took another partial hardening
because, Satan had already hardened their hearts when they chose to listen to
the high priest's, who were but false prophets and dreamers of
schemes and liars They (priests of Israel) were but serpents, servants of Satan, and
evil was in those men and the people that followed the few. Through
Satan's deception they had cooked up a plan of mass deception which
established their devised schemes to hoodwink the nation in the doing
of their will. In the vast deception, as when the flesh of Jesus had
tempted Him in the wilderness, so it was already at work. You may ask when and where did
this happen, in the wilderness when He was hungry and the evil one
showed Him the kingdoms of the world which were then already under
his control through the religion and governments of men. You see
Satan knew this, the crowd always follows those who lead by deception
and so does all, when there is evil a foot. For mans heart is evil but as
we've already said, holds a good heart of spirit, mans conscious is within
the soul of all men everywhere, because of Genesis 3:15. For this is
the reason Jesus knew mens heart condition. He was there when man ate
and His heart was broken, though He knew what was ahead just as a
good parent today knows without being told when their child is up to
no good.
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