Saturday, June 29, 2013

A True an Accurate Meaning of Passover part 21

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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