You and I being called by the Lord Himself - HIS BODY- is one of the greatest names God has ever bestowed upon a new creature of his WORDS making. If our eyes are shut we want see the glory of what this great name given us means. But friends once our eyes get even a glimpse of its EXALTING LIGHT we can begin to see ourselves IN CHRIST from a greater and more far above all higher viewpoint and oh what a glorious and wonderful view it is. It is a view from the TOP like no other creature before us has ever been allowed to see, own, possess, have, and walk in, EVEN FOR ALL ETERNITY TO COME.
You see being the church, being the body of Christ, being Christ flesh and bone by the word of the Lord is a position and a place of one of heavens highest honors. It is a position and a specific place of unique belonging. It is not just some title that heaven came up with one day and just through it out there in jest to sound religious. NO NO NO .NO SIR. It is God lavishing upon those His Son died for a name which is a PARTAKING NAME like no other ever given to created creatures. Its a name which means INCREDIBLE BELONGING. A PLACE OF FELLOWSHIP WHERE GOD LIVES AND WALKS IN AND COMMUNES AS ONE SPIRIT WITH HIS SON, SONS AND DAUGHTERS. A PLACE WHERE GOD FACE TO FACE AND SIDE BY SIDE ENJOYS LIFE WITH HIS FONDEST SON WHO IS NOW IN HIS RESURRECTION GLORY (HELLO-GOT THIS, HERE IT COMES)...IS NOW BY THE WORD OF THE LORD- MADE UP OF MANY MEMBERS . IT MEANS TO BE A PART OF. IT MEANS TO SHARE IN AND WITH. IT IS A PLACE OF GREAT CONNECTIONS. A PLACE WHERE MANY ARE MADE ONE. WHERE MANY ARE JOINED TOGETHER AS TIGHTLY AS ALL THE BODILY MEMBERS OF A HUMAN BODY DOES AND FUNCTIONS AS ONE. IT MEANS A SINGLE BODY MADE UP OF MANY GRAFTED MEMBERS WHICH TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, (IMPORTANT LIGHT THERE) TOGETHER MAKE UP ONE NEW MAN. A BODY OF A MAN, IF YOU CAN RECEIVE IT, THAT IS CALLED "THE RISEN, EXALTED, HIGHLY HONORED FAR ABOVE ALL SON OF GOD". Are you starting to see now a glimpse of the great connection? The revelation is all in that paragraph just penned but like the people in Jesus' day who saw and heard him daily. THEY HAD EYES TO SEE BUT DID NOT SEE. THEY HAD EARS TO HEAR BUT DID NOT HEAR. Until their eyes were really opened, they did not see the real glory that was standing, preaching and living right before them, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES. But here is some good news about that. There is hope. For you see, after awhile, those whose eyes were at first blind to THE WORDS GLORY ( THATS WHO JESUS WAS, THE WORD OF GOD. REMEMBER THE WORD HAD BECOME FLESH AND DWELT AMONGST US)...those folks remaining cleaved to him THE WORD OF GOD.. their eyes finally did open and when they were opened they saw his glory and they shouted, AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY THE GLORY OF GODS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONGST US.
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LETS TOGETHER NOW, YOU AND ME, DIVE RIGHT INTO THIS LIGHT TO DISCOVER THE GLORY OF OUR PARTAKING NAME...
You see God in His great love where with He loves us (YOU AND I) He spared not even his own Son for our needs, our blessing and salvation.(Romans 8:32). Brethren I repeat HE SPARED HIM NOT. Him who? His very own Son by whom He made the worlds.(Hebrews 1:1-4) Now thats important. He did not even withhold from us his only begotten Son by whom He made the worlds. Keep that in the front of your thinking and maintain it there as you keep reading. HE SPARED HIM NOT. HE DID NOT WITHHOLD FROM US-THE BLESSING-THE GIFT-OF HIS MOST DEAREST AND MOST PRECIOUS BELONGING (HIS OWN ETERNAL SON THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND BECAME FLESH). Talk about how much more will your Heavenly Father give His children GOOD THINGS more than any other father. The giving of Jesus GIVEN BY GOD TO US is most certainly the sure proof and truth of those words. HE GAVE US HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON LITERALLY. HE GAVE HIM TO US AS AN INCOMPARABLE SACRIFICE AND AS AN EVERLASTING INCOMPARABLE GIFT CALLED " OUR LIFE "(HELLO). DING DONG. BELLS ARE RINGING HERE..(COLOSSIANS 3:1-4, esp. vs4)
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Think about this with me.Think about the giving of Jesus from God to us. JESUS under the pressure of that cross in the garden of His despair where HE sweat as it were great drops of blood from his body to the ground. He cried that he might be spared WAS NOT SPARED........Jesus feeling the extreme weight of that hour of the power of darkness coming against him mercilessly moments before the betraying kiss. He cried that he might be spared WAS NOT SPARED........Jesus knowing the agonies of the sacrifice he was to endure ( which for a while would even disfigure his face and human features ) because of the mightiness of sins weighty punishment and blows into and upon him(See Isaiah 52:13-14) He cried out that he might be spared WAS NOT SPARED........He Jesus, being pressured and tempted to exclude this pivotal point in human history and if possible having it erased from the foretelling scriptures of truth so that it might not have to be fulfilled by him in this so brutish manner ( for it was a most horrifying cup to drink), He cried that he be spared WAS NOT SPARED....... WE REPEAT HE WAS NOT SPARED. HE WAS NOT WITHHELD IN THE GIVINGS OF GOD TO MAN FOR MANS REDEMPTION NEED, FOR MANS OTHER MANIFOLD NEEDS AND FOR HIS BLESSINGS FOR LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY IN A HOUSE OF THE OIL OF GLADNESS. AGAIN WE EMPHASIZE THAT HE WAS NOT SPARED, HE WAS GIVEN......Romans 8:32..He that spared not His own Son, BUT DELIVERED HIM, DELIVERED HIM up FOR US ALL, how shall He not with him ALSO FREELY GIVE US EVERYTHING ELSE.....
Paul is saying here that the most expensive gift in all existence which is the SON OF GOD THE CREATOR, God gave us. So it is only fitting to say that most certainly the rest of Gods many lesser in value CHRISTMAS presents God with Jesus has also given us.
AND AS IN ALL GIFTS AND PRESENTS EVER BESTOWED FROM ONE TO THE OTHER THEY ARE GIVEN TO BE OWNED AND POSSESSED BY THE RECIPIENT OF THE GIFT AND PRESENTS given freely.
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Lets now look into and define the meaning of the tears that Jesus was crying in his prayer that he might be spared and that the cup might be taken from him.
What a raging battle for control had to be and was bucking on the inside of Jesus in that garden. He in all eternity had never and I do mean never ever felt anything near this KIND OF STORM that was raging within him, in his human emotions. He was dealing with the redemption wounds in his mind of the scriptures of Isaiah 53:5-7and their being fulfilled IN HIS BODY even to the piercing of the soul *Isaiah 53:10) on A MANS LEVEL. This STORM was a type not like the storm that he was in perfect peace and rest in when his disciples were fearing for their lives and looked over at Jesus asleep in the boat and saw he was totally undisturbed about it. There and in that storm they woke Jesus up and said." Master dont you care that we are about to die here. Look at this raging sea." Jesus looked at it. Took a great big yawn of faith and said to the storm PEACE BE STILL and peace and calm it became.
But this kind of storm that was ignited in his belly in the garden of temptation, such a shout of faith could not stop its rage. This was an inner TURBULENCE and inner atmosphere storm. A war between several wills was battling for the SON OF GODS DECISION that day. EACH OF THEM WANTING THINGS TO GO THEIR WAY. Jesus wanted the cup removed. He was not just playing a role here as if numb to the facts and feelings of its horror. These scriptures that the Father placed into Jesus' hands to fulfill (in severe and most important entrustment), had Jesus' soul shook to its core into the eruption of even the taste of fear itself, despair, dread and of second thoughts about fulfilling them. It was of such pressure, of such incredible soul agony that even the SON OF GOD was HIMSELF fighting in the arena of double mindness.
Then there was the Fathers will. The Father kept saying Son there is no way around this lest we be found liars for both our mouths have sworn this oath of the cross for mans redemption and ransom. You must go and endure this. This was the main purpose of You becoming flesh (THE LAMB). These scriptures must be fulfilled. SON You have to go thru with fulfilling them for the victory to be sealed and won for you, ME and mankind. PLUS THE MOUTH OF GOD HATH SPOKEN THIS DAY OF ATONEMENT THAT IT SHALL COME TO PASS EVEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
And then there was Satan. He also was very much in the midst of all this activity and this inner turbulence going on in the Son of God. He was hissing back and forth all over the garden of Jesus' inside hearing places. Jesus could hear him shouting over and over again in echoes, DONT DO IT JESUS. BE THIS FAR FROM YOU. THE PRICE IS TO MUCH. THE DISFIGURING PUNISHMENT TO GREAT. DONT DO IT. THEIR NOT WORTH IT JESUS. JUST LOOK AT THEM. THEY ALL WENT TO SLEEP ON YOU AND THEIR YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS ON THE EARTH. IF THEY DONT CARE DO YOU THINK THE REST OF THE WORLD CARES? THEY DONT JESUS. FLEE FROM THIS SHEDDING OF YOUR BLOOD...SIDE STEP THIS WALK TO THE CROSS AND ILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS TO ALL MY KINGDOMS OF DARKNESS. ILL GIVE YOU THE WORLDS FINEST OF EVERYTHING. ALL ITS WOMEN. ALL ITS FAME AND FORTUNE. ITS EVERY PLEASURE AND DELICACY. JUST SIMPLY WALK AWAY FROM THE PAINS OF THIS CROSS OF DEATH AND ALL SHALL BE THINE. THIS WAS THE TEMPTATION OF (Hebrews 12:3-4)
But one thing and oh it is and was and ever shall be the monumental glorious thing that will forever be shining upon the details of all that went on that day in the garden of temptation and of the cross of Christ that we had going for us on our side and in our corner and favor in that historic hour and that was the TRUTH of the mighty ever enduring fact that our heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are absolutely and incredibly genuinely IN LOVE WITH YOU AND ME. LIKE A FAITHFUL HUSBAND LOVES HIS BRIDE AND WIFE, AND LIKE A MOST LOVING WONDERFUL FATHER HIS CHILDREN even so we are so greatly loved. As it is written, I HAVE LOVED YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE SAITH THE LORD THY REDEEMER.
It was that amazing love that won the victory Jesus needed that hour on the inside of him over his inner turbulence and storm when he resisted sin in the temptation of blood being spilt or not. If it flowed by means of the cross, then Gods truth and righteousness was upheld and prevailed. If the blood was left inside the Lamb by the side stepping of the cross THE GREATEST TRANSGRESSION that could ever had been committed would have been wrought by God himself who had become a man. For Jesus Christ became a man to fulfill the scriptures of the Redeemer that God before prophesied would be accomplished by the outpouring of EMMANUELS MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD. If he left them unfulfilled Amazing Grace would have never been a song and hell could have been packed with all of heaven in a transaction of truth verses a lie heavenly warfare and justice. God would have been found a sinner by the form of a lie by unfulfilled promises/scriptures that His mouth had spoke SHALL COME TO PASS. (FRIENDS it is a Law that the wages of Sin is Death no matter who commits the sin. If God sinned it would be the same consequence. The sin of all sins. The curse of all curses to a Being that exist. Who could redeem the living God? NO ONE could have. This failure of not fulfilling scriptures was Satans only hope to bring down God and to save his own neck. There is more to this amazing truth than the human mind naturally understands. This garden event was truly THE HOUR OF THE POWER OF DARKNESS.
But Thank God . Thank God. Jesus Did Overcome. Thank God He stayed on his knees per say until the victory he needed came to his soul and thru agonizing prayer, a kind of prayer few have ever even come close to tasting, he reached out into the spiritual realm for the strength impartation that he needed. Finally with the strength received, he got up ready and now fully willing to drink the most horrible cup a sinless God In MAN could ever drink. THANK GOD HE PREVAILED. THANK GOD HE DRANK IT.
HE DRANK IT ALL BROTHER AND SISTERS. EVEN IF I MAY PUT IT THIS WAYS HE EVEN LICKED THE BOWL OF ALL ITS FURY, PUNISHMENT AND WRATH TILL NOTHING WAS LEFT BUT A LOVE LETTER AT THE CUPS BOTTOM WHICH WHEN HE TOOK AND READ IT IN THE SPIRIT UPON THE CROSS.. IT READ.....SON IM SO PROUD OF YOU. THE CHILDREN ARE FREE NOW AND OUR ETERNAL INTEGRITY IS FULLY UPHELD.... AND NOW WHOSOEVER WILL CAN COME AND DRINK OF THE WATERS OF LIFE AND SALVATION FREELY.
Then just moments later for the joy that was laid before him he cried in sweet release...IT IS FINISHED. IT IS ACCOMPLISHED.
Oh friends what a mighty most wonderful Lord and Savior we have and are privileged to love, walk with, adore and serve.
ITS NO WONDER WHY HEAVEN CALLS HIM "WONDERFUL"
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SEEING THEREFORE THE GREATNESS OF THE FATHER AND JESUS' LOVE FOR US....AND SEEING THEREFOR THAT GOD DID NOT EVEN SPARE THE LIFE AND BLOOD OF HIS OWN SON, HIS MOST HIGHEST VALUABLE GIFT AND POSSESSION, FROM THAT MOST BITTER OF CUPS THOUGH HE CRIED THAT HE MIGHT BE SPARED FROM DRINKING IT. CAN YOU SEE HOW THERE IS NOTHING, NO NOT EVEN ONE THING THATS GOOD AND THAT EXIST THAT GOD WILL WITHHOLD FROM US HIS DEAR CHILDREN. I MEAN FOLKS THINK ABOUT IT. GOD GAVE US THE CREATOR TO SAVE US AND ENGRAFT US INTO HIMSELF IN THE CONNECTION LINK OF HIS BODY. HOW MUCH MORE WE CAN BE SURE THAT GOD WILL GIVE US ALL* THE CREATED THINGS * AND THAT FREELY BEING THAT HE (GOD) CALLS US BY THE NAME ITSELF (THE FLESH AND BONE OF JESUS CHRIST MY SON).
The scriptures tell us that WE are Christ Body, Even the very fulness of Him (Jesus) that fills up all of us with himself. He was poured out and now by His Spirit he is shed abroad in the many members of HIS BODY. When THE FATHER does anything for Jesus. When He gives anything to Jesus, The Body, The Flesh and Bones of Jesus cannot help but to PARTAKE. We Are One..
When our eyes are opened up to the IDENTIFICATION GLORY of this fact of what it means to be Christ flesh and bone body and bodily members, ( MEMBERS OF HIS BEING) we will begin to see ourselves IN CHRIST (LITERALLY)....BELONGING MEMBERS OF THE BODY AND THE BEING OF JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF AND THE WORD CHURCH WILL BECOME MORE THAN JUST A BUILDING DOWN SOME STREET SOMEWHERE MADE OF STONE, WOOD AND CLAY. Being THE CHURCH MEANS WE ARE HIS BODY, JESUS' VERY OWN FLESH AND BONE. This gives us HEAVENS HIGHEST LIFE. This gives us great and mighty blessings, honors. exaltations, strengths and power, riches, a great inheritance, an awesome Father and future. FOR AS JESUS IS SO IS THE BODY OF HIS BEING.........FOREVER.
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I CLOSE WITH THIS. SOME TIME AGO AS MY EYES WERE BEING MORE OPENED TO THIS IDENTIFICATION GLORY TRUTH OF WE BEING CHRIST BODY, HIS FLESH AND BONE AND TO THE GLORY OF WHAT THAT MORE DEEPLY MEANS, IT ALL PRETTY MUCH STARTED WITH THE LORD SAYING SOMETHING TO ME THAT WHEN I FIRST GRASPED IT AND REALLY HEARD IT, THE WORDS AT THE FIRST STARTLED ME. I HAD NEVER HEARD MY PREACHING DAD EVER SAY OR PREACH ANYTHING LIKE WHAT I HEARD, NOR ANY OTHER TEACHER I HAD HEARD SAY ANYTHING LIKE THEM...... THOSE WORDS WERE.....YOU WILL HAVE TO STAY TUNED FOR THE CONCLUSION.....HOPE TO SEE YOU THEN.....DENO.....AMERICA FOUNDED BY BELIEVERS FOR BELIEVERS......Please feel fully free to preach, teach, publish, share any or all of my writings with all others you desire to. It would be an honor to me that you would. I hold no personal publishing claims to it as on a copyright basis. As I hear i write. Even as you hear and you speak, preach and teach. Its all to the glory of Jesus Christ who let me come back home like the Prodigal Son....Dennis Smith (Deno).
