Life On Both Sides of the River Part 6
We only have about 6 more scriptures to look at, (unless Father adds to this) but I want to start this study in Philippians.
Philippians 1: 3-6, "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, (4) Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy. (5) For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; (6) Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until ----you look just like Jesus." Now here in King James it reads "he will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ."
The church says that this verse means, he's going to perform it until Jesus comes. That's not what is being said. He is saying that he's going to perform the work in us until we KNOW that we look like Jesus. That's the whole idea of Jesus coming as the Pattern. So that God could perform a work in us until we look like the Pattern. It's not a certain day, but it's until we come into the image, IN OUR HEART (mind-Christ Mind).
Eph. 4: 13, "Till we all come into the unity of the faith, AND, until we all come into the knowledge of the Son of God, AND, until we all come unto a perfect man, AND until we all come unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ..."
Not the fullness of Jesus, but the fullness of Christ. This is why I say that when Jesus was here, His embodiment was the fullness of the Godhead, but Christ wasn't fulfilled. Christ couldn't be fulfilled until Jesus died and became the Head of Christ and we became the Body of Christ. So "until we all come into that knowledge," because a lot of sisters and brothers in the Body of Christ DON'T KNOW WHO THE SON OF GOD IS! See, If the Son of God was Jesus, because, he's talking to the church of Ephesus, in Paul's mind, then he would not have had to say this to the church because the church knew who the Son of God was. Paul said "until we all come into the knowledge of the Son of God," understanding, that Paul had a greater revelation than the other 12. Paul knew that when Jesus died, that He went back to being the Father and we became the son.
(John 17: 5, " "And now O Father glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."
So Paul had to emphasize here that "until we all come into the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man." Because the Son of God is a perfect man, ONE man, the Corporate Man. When we all come into that knowledge of Eph 4:13, we will then be able to minister a word to those people of another age. I know this is new to many of you, but I ask that you take this before Father and allow Him to show you. Don't go with an attitude, just go seeking HIS TRUTH, not what we've been taught for years. This is why Paul said "we minister to the ages to come." We've so stuck in this little mode, that we think that what we minister in this day is ONLY FOR THIS DAY!! But, God's process has never been like that. God has always revealed a word for another age. Track it out in the OT.
We're still talking about God reconciling all men unto Himself.
Genesis 7:23, " And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark."
Now, here we have the scripture that tells us, speaking of the account of the flood of Noah's day, that every living substance was destroyed. We know, through the account that they all died. The scripture also said, "that God is the same, yesterday, today and forever." So, in the flood of Noah's day, all those people died. (except Noah and his family). And that's because they walked with God. Because the scripture says "that all flesh was destroyed," but Noah didn't die. So, I don't think God was talking about literal flesh, I think He was talking about carnality. Everything that walked in a beast nature is what died. Keep in mind, that all of those people died. And let's look at Matt. We have to know how the mind of God works to some degree. And we have to see God through God's eyes and not man's eyes, because we'll never see God if we look through man's eyes.
Mt 27: 50-53, " Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. (51) And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; (52) And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose. "
Now, this was not when Jesus went into the lower parts of the earth and preached for 3 days, this was when He died. When He died, the veil was rent, the earth did quake, the rocks did rent, the graves were opened, and many of the saints which slept arose. So, we have the saints resurrected already, "and came out of their graves after His resurrection ..." so they stood in a resurrected state for 3 days. Because He went into the lower parts of the earth for 3 days. So, what I'm saying here is, first of all those saints that resurrected, they resurrected and stood in a resurrected life for 3 days ,u ntil Jesus resurrected. 3 natural days. But, you and I and the church has been standing in a resurrected life for 3 days, God's days, but the church doesn't see that yet. We're still waiting for something to happen, like the rapture people, so that we can be resurrected. But, I'm telling you that since the day He died and for the last 3 days, we've been in a resurrected life! (and it's just being realized!) It's just that after the 3 days, read what it says,
Verse 53 "And came out of the graves after his resurrection and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."
So it's going to be after the 3 days or during this 3rd day that many are gong to see what the manifestation of God is really all about. OK, So, in the days of Noah they all died, and here in Mt it says,
"that MANY of the bodies of the saints came out of the graves..."
not everyone came out of the graves, but MANY came out. That means that if MANY came out of the graves, that there were some still left in the graves.
"and the graves were opened; and MANY of the bodies of the saints arose."
Not ALL of the bodies of the saints came forth. There were still some that God called SAINTS that did not resurrect. OK, let's go to 2 Peter.
2 Peter 2:4-7, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment, (5) And spared not the old world, but save Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (6) and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah unto ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them as ensample unto those that after should live ungodly. (7) And delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked....."
Now turn to 1Peter 3:18-20,
"For Christ, also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust (those people back in Noah's day were unjust, and those in Sodom and Gomorrah were unjust) that he might bring us to God; (bring who to God? the just and the unjust) being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit; (19) By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison." ( now, who was put in prison? The angels that fell, the people in Noah's day and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, but He called them angels. And He called them saints. (which sometimes were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." So, here were all these people that God called angels and saints, and they were disobedient and God put them in chains. When Jesus died, those saints that weren't in chains resurrected right then, when He died, the saints (that's what God called them) that were still in prison. Jesus went down and preached to them. God did not destroy them, He preserved them, until the day that Jesus went and preached to them. I say this, to show that the church has to change that thinking that once someone dies, they are finished. That's not the case. Just like the Rich Man and Lazarus. The rich man wasn't finished, because he talked. It's just that he talked to the wrong person, he talked to Abraham and he should have talked to God. Amen! His "motives" had not been changed YET.
Luke 12: 46-48, " The Lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. ( now the church reads this and says, see when he dies, he's with the unbelievers) And there is a portion for the unbeliever, but let's go on. (47) And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. (OK, he'll have his portion with the unbelievers). (48) But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. (Now with the carnal thoughts, we get the idea that we'll be tied up somewhere and beaten with stripes, like Jesus was beaten with stripes.) For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required, and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Now let's look at the meaning of "stripes." It's the Greek word (#4127 in Strong's), "PLEGE" (play-gay) = to inflict calamity with the intent to FORM, SHAPE or MOLD, Doesn't this make you think differently, when you know that meaning? Hallelujah!!!
So, there is Life On Both Sides of the River, and all glory to our Father, His Plan includes all people. He will not lose even one person. He is so very glorious in His Wisdom and Love. We need to see Him as He is. We do not serve a God that cannot bring into being the plan that He made, before the foundation of the world. He is All Knowing, All Powerful and certainly All Loving of His creation. Amen
conclusion, Be blessed.
"One man manifesting Christ, is better than 100 men preaching about Him.
May Christ Manifest in You, Daily.
And "Now"we are wearing the seamless garment,a thought garment, woven without a break of His high realization of Truth."Now"His Truth has both interlaced the substance of both our spiritual and body consciousness. Praise, Praise His Holiness, Lord Jesus Christ!
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