LORD'S LIGHT MINISTRY
                                                    Linda Keith

                                      How Well Do You Know Jesus?

Father has been showing me this Truth for several years, and He is leading me to allow Him to speak this Truth. I want it completely understood that I am, in no way, doing away with JESUS. ( it could NEVER be done!)  This is an in-depth knowing of Him. I ask that you read this study completely through, study it out, and take it to Father.

We will be looking at much scripture, so please read them for yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to enlighten those that need it.

John 17:1-5, "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: (2) As thou hast given him power overall the flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. (3) And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. (4) I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. (5) And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."

This scripture plays a big part in this study. In this study we want to look at the different realms or levels of understanding.

Much of what will be a part of this study, we've heard since we were babes in the Lord. (babe=tec-ni-on an unlearned son). But, some of us have been lifted, by Father, into a higher realm of son. (tec-non=an adolescent son who has moved to a position of being between a babe and a matured one.)  Then, some have moved into the realm of maturing. (whee-os= a mature son.)

As we were elevated in Father, we received enlightenment of a different level of understanding,  a deeper meaning of some of the same scriptures that we read as babes.  I am hoping that this study will help to release a deeper understanding of our Saviour, Jesus, the Christ.

As a babe, we knew Jesus as:

MT 1:23, "BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD, AND SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME, EMMANUEL, WHICH BEING INTERPRETED IS, GOD WITH US."

MT 2:1-2, "NOW WHEN JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDAEA IN THE DAYS OF HEROD THE KING, BEHOLD, THERE CAME WISE MEN FROM THE EAST TO JERUSALEM, (2) SAYING, WHERE IS HE THAT IS BORN KING OF THE JEWS? FOR WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST AND ARE COME TO WORSHIP HIM."

LUKE 1:31, "AND, BEHOLD, THOU SHALT CONCEIVE IN THY WOMB, AND BEING FORTH A SON, AND SHALT CALL THE NAME JESUS."

LUKE 2:7, "AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER; BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN."

And as we were raised higher in the Lord, as adolescent sons, or as young men, we knew Jesus as, the Son of God.

LUKE 3:21-23, "NOW WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED, IT CAME TO PASS, THAT JESUS ALSO BEING BAPTIZED, AND PRAYING, THE HEAVEN WAS OPENED, (22) AND THE HOLY GHOST DESCENDED IN A BODILY SHAPE LIKE A DOVE UPON HIM, AND A VOICE CAME FROM HEAVEN, WHICH SAID, THOU ART MY BELOVED SON; IN THEE I AM WELL PLEASED. (23) AND JESUS HIMSELF BEGAN TO BE ABOUT THIRTY YEARS OF AGE, BEING (AS WAS SUPPOSED) THE SON OF JOSEPH, ..."

JOHN 1:29, "THE NEXT DAYJOHN SEETH JESUS COMING UNTO HIM, AND SAITH, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD, WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD."

Then, we knew Him, as a mature Son, in the fulfillment of what he came for:

ACTS 1:8, "bUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU: AND YE SHALL BE WITNESSES UNTO ME BOTH IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDAEA, AND IN SAMARIA, AND UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH."

1PETER 1:19-21, "BUT, WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT: (20) WHO VERILY WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, BUT WAS  MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU, (21) WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD, THAT RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD, AND GAVE HIM GLORY: THAT YOUR FAITH AND HOPE MIGHT BE IN GOD."

This is how we have known Jesus. Now, we're going back and gain a deeper understanding of knowing Jesus. In order to know, truly know, Jesus, we must know our Father. So, lets look at what the Written Word tells us.

                                                   FATHER

This is a very controversial subject.

Some believe that God is three separate Beings: (1) Father, (2) Son, (3) and Holy Spirit.  They believe that each of them has a separate work to do. Father does the creating; the Son does salvation work, and the Holy Spirit does the "making possible" for the gifts of Pentecost to manifest in us, His people.

Some believe that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are  one Being with three functions.

So, lets allow the Written Word to clear up these beliefs, and show us exactly, Father's Being.

First of all, we have, for so long, been taught incorrectly. We have been taught that "in the beginning, there was the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." THIS IS NOT IN THE BIBLE!!

1John 5:7-8, "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the WORD, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."

Some people say that this scripture simply shows that the three "are in agreement with each other. Although, the three ARE in agreement with each other, this is NOT what this scripture is talking about. This scripture is saying that the three are ONE. ONE BEING.   The very next scripture proves this.

VS 8, "AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN EARTH, THE SPIRIT, AND THE WATER, AND THE BLOOD: AND THESE THREE AGREE IN ONE."

This tells us that these are three different things, BUT, they AGREE with each other. Most importantly, it DOES NOT say, that the three witnesses in heaven are "the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit". It tells us that,  it was/is "the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit."

Father is ONE Being. And as Creator, HE thought His plan, and HE spoke HIS thoughts, and HE brought into manifestation the thoughts that HE spoke. It was Mary, who the Creator thought of, spoke His thought, and brought into manifestation, the Son that was conceived and brought forth through her. It was ALL the work of Father God, our Creator.

And, just as He created US: His Written Word tells us:  "TAKE EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE", ALSO, "LIFE AND DEATH ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE, (SPEAKING)" AND AS FOR THE MANIFESTING: "THEY THAT LOVE IT (THE WORDS WE SPEAK) SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF IT (THOSE WORDS SPOKEN BY US.)  (the manifestation of the thought and spoken word.)

Now, we see in this, three different functions, but, ONE person, doing the three.

There is a huge difference in "being in agreement" and in "being one".
Being "in agreement" with means"  thinking alike,  believing the same thing or being in one accord.

"Being one" means: ONE thinking, ONE believing, One unit or person.

A good and accurate example of "being one", is us, or Father God. Although, we have lived life believing that there is God, and then there is us. THAT MAKES TWO.

There are three realms in God, in our walk in Him: (1)the creating of us by God. (Him and us). (2) our becoming His Son. (Him and us). (3) then, there those who KNOW that they began of (out from within) Father's Being and are full circle, back in His Being. (ONE).   We will get deeper into this a little later in the study. (1John 5:7)

Right now I want to look at,  DEATH. Now, we know that had Jesus have chosen to do so, death could not take His life. It was the flesh body that death touched, NOT WHO WAS LIVING IN THAT FLESH BODY.  And who was living inside that flesh body?  It was Father.

1TIM 3:16, "AND WITHOUT CONTROVERSY, GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS: GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, JUSTIFIED IN THE SPIRIT, SEEN OF ANGELS, PREACHED UNTO THE GENTILES, BELIEVED IN THE WORLD, RECEIVED UP INTO GLORY."

Who preached unto the gentiles? This verse tells us that God did. We know that the flesh that God manifested in was the man Jesus. It was through Jesus that Father preached unto the gentiles. This whole verse is about GOD. He had to have a flesh body in order to see death.
Father HAD to manifest in a flesh body, because HE COULD NOT DIE.

JOHN 1:1, "IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD."

It was Father living HIS LIFE through the flesh man,Jesus.

JOHN 5:19, "THEN ANSWERED JESUS AND SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF, BUT WHAT HE SEETH THE FATHER DO: FOR WHAT  THINGS SOVEVER HE DOETH, THESE ALSO DOETH THE SON LIKEWISE."

JOHN 6:33, "FOR THE BREAD OF (out from within) GOD IS HE WHICH COMETH DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND GIVETH LIFE UNTO THE WORLD."

JOHN 10:30, "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE."

JOHN 14:10, "BELIEVETH THOU NOT THAT I AM IN THE FATHER, AND THE FATHER IN ME? THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK UNTO YOU I SPEAK NOT OF (OUT FROM WITHIN)  MYSELF; BUT THE FATHER THAT DWELLETH IN ME, HE DOETH THE WORKS."

I know that we all know that Father lived in Jesus, and it was Father doing the works and doing the speaking. And all through the gospel of John , Father is telling us this. He is telling us that He (Father) manifested as the man Jesus. Even the name, Jesus, Father planned before the foundation of the world.

It was not God AND Jesus. It was God, with a name that was above all the names He had previously been called. You see God did not have a flesh body.

John 4:24, "GOD IS A SPIRIT; AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH." (Acts 17:24-29, 2Cor 3:17).

God manifested as the flesh man, Jesus. God walked the earth in that flesh body, as the Son. God "lowered Himself" from that Spirit world, into this natural world, and walked it for 33 1/2 years. God took on a name that was higher than any name He had ever been known as, Jesus. God allowed, even planned for that flesh body to die, for us, and then returned to the position of being Father, and WE became the flesh Son, on earth. (which we will get into later in this study.)  God NEVER had a PERMANENT flesh body to dwell in, UNTIL US. He never planned to be the flesh man Jesus, forever. He planned on being the flesh man Jesus, until resurrection. Upon resurrection, He returned to being Father, with the name, Jesus.

We know that God has always used the number, 3.  Outer court, Holy Place, Most Holy place; spirit, soul, body;  babe son, adolescent son, mature son;  common salvation, salvation of the body, complete salvation; thought, word, manifestation, etc.

In our walk, in Him, there are 3 steps:  salvation, Pentecost, perfection (manifested). He is our PATTERN.  He also, had 3 steps: Father, our Creator, Son, our salvation, and then what?  The third step of God was that HE RETURNED TO THE POSITION OF BEING FATHER.  As a PATTERN, we are to follow those same 3 steps: we came out of Father, we became Sons, and some will go full circle, back to Fatherhood, or Father Consciousness. (more about this later.)



                                         THE NAMES OF GOD

I know that most have had the teachings of the Names that God was known by, but, please bear with me.

We know that in each individual book of the Old Testament, Father was known and called, by a Name that described the work He did, in each particular and individual book.  In one book He was called El  SHADDAI "the Great Breasted One" and the work He was doing was nourisher, the all bountiful. (Gen 17:1) ; in another book, He was known and called JEHOVAH ROPHEKA and the work He was doing, was as the healer; (Ex 15: 26).  JEHOVAH SHALOM and the work He was doing, was being Peace. (Judges 6:24) ; JEHOVAH  ROI and the work that He was showing was as the Shepherd. (PS 23:1); EL ELYON, the Most High God. In the New Testament, He is known and called Jesus, God with us. "NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES" that He had ever been called.

What does all this mean?  It means that He  worked individual works under individual names, in the Old Testament. But, in the New Testament, the reason His Name, Jesus, is above all those other names that He had been known as, is that NOW, He has finished His Work , in heaven and earth. He sustains, He nourishes, He protects, He heals, He is our peace, our only shepherd etc, all in ONE Name, the Name above ALL the other names that He was known as.  And the reason His name, Jesus, is above all the other Names is because He finished His Work: He came in the likeness of a flesh man; He came as a Pattern, to lay out the realm of Sonship; He came that He  could live in us PERMANENTLY; He came that we might have eternal life, as HIS LIFE! He came as our Saviour. And after all this was done, what did He tell us?

HE TOLD US TO KNOW JESUS NO MORE AFTER THE FLESH?

Well,  as we take a look at  the Written Word, about Jesus, the first thing that I want to look at is, IS 9:6.

IS 9:6, "FOR UNTO US A cHILD IS BORN, UNTO US  A SON IS GIVEN; AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER; AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED, WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, THE MIGHTY GOD,  THE EVERLASTING FATHER...."

Now, we are getting to the heart of our study.  I know that some are saying, "WHY is she teaching something we learned years ago?"
And I'll tell you why. We have people praying to Jesus, the flesh man, we have people worshipping Jesus, the flesh man, and we have people who STILL have Father AND Jesus the flesh man. IF one is praying to their God, and they don't really know who their God is, I would say that they are praying amiss!!  They pray to the Son of God, when they don't really know WHO the Son of God is!!  You see, Jesus, the flesh man cannot be Father AND the Son, now. Father and Son are two different positions.  And EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US IS CALLED JESUS, AFTER OUR FATHER!  (Eph 3:14-16). We carry our Father's name! We do reverence the Work that Father did, as our Saviour, Jesus. That was FATHER. (IS 43:3, Ho 13:4, IS 43:11, IS 60:16, Luke 1:47, 1Tim 4:10).  Father was and still is the ONLY ONE GOD. He took on many forms throughout His plan for us, but, He is still our Father, Jesus.

We will look at this, later, when we look  at what John writes of Jesus.


                                                 JESUS

There is SO MUCH that can be learned from knowing about Father, as Jesus the Son.

1) Why was Jesus called "the ONLY Begotten Son"?  Because we did not know who we were, at that time. Now, we do.  We did not begin, when this flesh body that we wear came forth from the lady we call, Mom. We were BEGOTTEN at the very beginning. We came forth out of God. A literal part of Him.  And like Him, that never changed. The only thing that changed was our thinking, about who we are. We are not human beings. Oh yes, the natural eyes, and those unlearned will tell us that we are, but, it's a lie, that has been believed for so long, by so many. We are SPIRIT BEINGS. We were created in His Image and He is a SPIRIT. That never changes. And that Spirit Being is being seen more and more, by those whose eyes are tuned to the Truth.