How beautiful it is when the Church dwells in unity.....deno
Paul said of the church and its many members, We are God's house, we are God's field. Jesus has a GRACE DESIGN for each HOUSE of HIS. He has a GRACE MASTER BLUEPRINT of what He wants each of His Houses to look like on the outside (Holiness Presented) and what He wants His House to BE LIKE on the INSIDE (Love, Pure & Clean and Disinfected)... But Jesus runs into a major construction problem pretty often. ITS CALLED OUR FREE WILL.
Church, Jesus, He sure needs our cooperation. He has to share this house with another occupant and that is you and me, and you and me have our own totally independent God given us freedoms and wills. Such can sure cause us troubles and GRIEVE THE OWNER when we don't think right and surrender to His Higher Intelligence and to the GREATNESS OF HIS LOVE and POWER. We need to surrender our will to His with the Assurance of His peace and goodwill for us seeing He paid dearly, he paid a great price to save us, to purchase us, to own us and to call us HIS.
I hear this scripture echoing in my hearing right now, Oh that old familiar scripture, HOW CAN TWO WALK or LIVE TOGETHER UNLESS THEY AGREE...? Most of the time they can't, at least not in peace and harmony. It can be like wild cats and dogs in the house. But friends Jesus has such a peace and goodwill grace plan for us that is out of this world in joy and gladness. None of us love ourselves near as much as we are loved by God and Jesus. Therefore who do you think has the best and brightest plan for us? He that knows us better than ourselves and He that loves us most....JESUS and the FATHER.
You stomp your toe and you take off running from the pain trying to escape it. Jesus, they nailed to the Cross and he in his love for us just laid there without uttering one complaint. He wasn't running from the pain BECAUSE HE WAS THERE GOING THRU ALL THAT FOR YOU, for your blessings and benefits. You don't want to endure even a stomped toe size pain for you.
But church, let us take a minute and sober up. WHO IS LORD? WHO CREATED ALL THINGS? WHO IS BOSS? Who bought our house with severe pains and blood, precious blood? Jesus the Greatest Love.
Seeing that He paid such a high price for us, surely we can render unto our OWNER DUE HONOR AND RESPECT and some serious TRUST looking at how HE VALUES US WORTHY OF THE PRICE OF HIS OWN LIFE AND BLOOD. Such a price paid shows us how dear we are to his heart and how he wills us all some serious peace and Goodwill. And why not? After all lets look at some wisdom and light that is shining here from this great price that he paid to purchase us all. Every house Christ bought, Jesus paid the same price for...THE SAME.
Can't we see that He (Jesus our Purchaser) Must REALLY LOVE US GREATLY? Can't we see that He must have a LOVELY BEAUTIFUL GRACE PLAN FOR ALL THE HOMES HE BOUGHT seeing the great price He paid to purchase them all? He paid the same price for all showing His Value of them all is THE SAME.
Everyone is loved by the purchaser equally the same and valued the same. The same HUGE price was paid for them all.The schism's in the church come from our pride and selfish, fleshly exaltations, when we lose sight of that which is patterned after the price of the blood of Christ that equalizes us and gives equal value to every home that the MASTER with His own Blood Purchased.....As Paul wrote, So that there would be NO SCHISMS in the CHURCH (In the Body)...And let no one do anything in the church in human vain fleshly glory, such causes divisions of the wrong kind. He said that is evil and is no way a reflection of the wisdom of God in the Uniting Equalizing Cross of Christ.
Christ own Blood is THE BEAUTY and the GLORY and THE SHINING EQUAL VALUE OF US ALL EQUALIZING ALL THE SAME... Even as Jesus said in John 17:23..Father that they would all BE MADE PERFECT IN ONE and that they would come to really know and see this, that You love them even as you love Me. Even as is an equal term.
Church God loves and esteems us all the same, and the blood of His Son is our equal value and oneness light, wisdom, and calling to love one another as Jesus loves us all the same. To let the devil take us from the blood of Christ price & wisdom by using other comparisons like external skin color, outer looks, wealth status etc. is of evil. Those things and others brings schisms into the church from the world, the flesh, and of the clever devil who is always trying to divide us (GOD'S CHURCH) and the nation.
Those evil dividing schemes are not from the EQUALIZING UNITING Spirit of Christ, nor from what His Purchasing Blood Speaks...It is from human vain glory of people who have fleshly cravings, world appetites, and desire some form of self idolizing in the great congregation of the redeemed. That is what happened to Satan and brought forth his calamity.
Church we are One..Equal to Jesus in Value and every member Equally loved and that is what His Blood speaks and will forever preach....Rich, poor, and all in-between, the blood of Christ is our strength, our equal value, our personal and spiritual self esteem, and uniting equality.....Amen.....Thank you Jesus for Your Word.......deno.....share freely.
A Man in Man.......deno
Jesus said, I speak unto the world about HEAVENLY THINGS and as he spoke such light he brought attention to the fact that all men have a spirit in them, which is the heavenly part of them. All of the human race both male and female have a spirit man residing inside them. Peter called him THE HIDDEN MAN, the hidden man of the heart. (1 Peter 3:4 KJV)
In James 2:26 we read that, no ones body is alive or remains alive without the spirit of that person still residing in that body. When the spirit leaves the body, the flesh man dies, but the spirit man lives on. It is that spirit man (who is the life to the flesh man) that God WHO IS HIMSELF AN ETERNAL SPIRIT, sent His Son to shed his heavenly light upon and to give NEW LIFE unto, NOW IN THIS WORLD, thru faith in Christ blood, death, and resurrection from the dead....Receive Ye Christ.
Thru eye opening study, we can clearly see that the bible is gleaming with the knowledge of the reality of the spirit man and its condition and that the spirit man has its own type of condition and death much like the physical man or our outer man does. The more we become spirit man minded and spirit in man educated, the more the bible in many of its spiritual passages MAKES SENSE.
FOR INSTANCE...In John 5:25 Jesus after speaking to Nicodemus about spirit man reality said these words to others...Truly truly I say unto you, the hour is coming AND NOW IS... (When Christ said AND NOW IS, he was shedding light on immediate right now activity not just futuristic activity and thought). He said, AND NOW IS the time when THE DEAD will hear the voice of the Son of God. In this verse Jesus is talking of the spirit of man, for the time IS Now and NOW IS he said. In this verse Jesus also reveals spiritual death. He said THE DEAD shall hear His voice. There is a dead state of the spirit of man and there is an alive state of the spirit of man. They both are alive in the existing sense, but their nature is different. Angels are holy spirits. Demons are evil spirits. Angels are spirits of life, demons are spirits of sin and death.
Both angel spirits and demon spirits exist and they will exist forever, but they are different in their nature and character and they have two different everlasting destinies (Heaven or Hell). Angels are holy in nature and alive unto God. Demons are evil in nature and dead (Separated) unto God (THAT IS SPIRITUAL DEATH).
Jesus said (of the spirit of man) that the time NOW IS when the dead (men whose spirits are evil and dead and separated from God-which is everyone born into this cursed world of sin and death), those dead spirits of man and inside men shall hear the voice of the Son of God. Those that hear shall be made alive (see Eph 2:1-10). They shall be changed into Christ image and likeness of spirit (Eph 4:24) and character in Spirit and made alive or reconciled and reconnected unto the Spirit unto God. For the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus shall make them free from the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2). This is wrought by the power of the recreating Word of God given us in Christ.
The bodies resurrection comes in the future at the end of the age, its time was not in the NOW IS time of Christ. When Jesus said, The hour is coming he was talking about the resurrection of the body in the last day, and when Jesus said and NOW IS, he was referring to the spirit of man and his condition and response unto the voice of the Son of God, the Gospel. He said, the hour is coming and NOW IS when THE DEAD shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live (Be made alive ,John 5:24 & Ephesians 2:1-10)...The DEAD have a great need. They need to be MADE ALIVE AGAIN. They need to be BORN AGAIN (John 3) or come back to NEWNESS OF LIFE. They need eternal pardon and forgiveness and resurrection life that only Jesus can give. He is the ONLY ONE who is of God to us THE RESURRECTION and THE LIFE. All others have not this glory, but are false prophets flooding their deceit and false light into the world to destroy and to deceive. Jesus is the TRUTH.
Spirits, all spirits have a condition much like our flesh man has its state or condition. Good or bad is the condition of mans spirit, and dead or alive is the spirit of every man. One or the other is the condition and state of the spirit. Our physical body is either healthy or not, and its either dead or alive and we can easily recognize those physical conditions. But no man can naturally know the real condition of the spirit within by the physical mans condition or by the physical senses. But his faith, what his heart believes and confesses reveals it to the physical world....What's your name or who are you, Jesus said to the spirit or the person. What they confessed back, by that confession they were known. What we believe and what we confess from our heart is the true identification of the spirit (1 John 4:1-6) and 1 John 5:1-5). What we believe WE SPEAK....And no man can deceive or lie unto God. God knows the truth of and in every man's heart. Jesus knows HIS OWN. (John 6:36-37, John 10:3-5, John 10:vs14, 25-29.
Our five physical senses have not the power to convey to the mind the knowledge of spiritual reality by itself. Though our flesh has its life by the energies of the spirit man inside it, the world of the flesh is blind or ON THE MOST PART SEVERELY NUMB to spiritual presence, realities, spiritual truth and wisdom unless taught it, revealed it, or exposed to it thru Divine or demonic encounters.
On the day of Pentecost, God gifted the church (The Believers) with the greatest DIVINE ENCOUNTER of His Spirit's outpouring INTO THE INSIDE OF THE CHURCH...On the day of Pentecost , Like a RUSHING MIGHTY WIND was their ENCOUNTER EXPERIENCE. They had already had certain measures of the Holy Spirit encounters after Christ resurrection (Luke 24:45 and John 20:22) but the day of Pentecost was going to be the ENCOUNTER of all their encounters. They would experience being endued with POWER FROM ON HIGH. What a glorious GRACE DAY it was AND NOW IS....ASK in Jesus Name (Luke 11:12).
Believe me, they were HIGHLY EXPOSED that day to fuller spiritual realities of God's Sons Spirit and RESURRECTIONS POWER. They even supernaturally spoke in languages of heaven and of earth that they were never trained to know. This was a DIVINE SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTER that was so powerful and even so tangible to the touch and to their five physical senses that it would forever register its glory and reality even upon their natural man's mind as they would remember and contemplate this third and yet the most mighty of them all Baptism in the Holy Ghost experience.
Peter preached that this mentioned Holy Ghost encounter or infilling is for all them that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, SO DID JESUS (John 8:37-39). Sometimes it is like a rushing mighty wind in some, and sometimes it can be like The Lord opens your eyes to understand the scriptures (Luke 24:45), or like the Lord breathes on you and you receive His Spirit (John 20:22). The disciples themselves experienced all THREE of these Holy Spirit measured out outpouring encounters, effects and receivings so saith the full counsel of the word of the Lord. (See Luke 24:45, John 20:22, Acts 2:1-40....We Can To...Even all of them as believers in the blood, death, and resurrection of the Son of God our Savior.
But no man can receive any infilling encounter of the Holy Spirit without first being MADE ALIVE himself in their own spirit, in their spirit man that marks the man (like circumcision) for the promise of the infilling. Remember our text? Jesus said, the time is coming and NOW IS when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and those that hear will be made alive. Christ voice heard and believed, is the HEAVENLY Seed of our spirits new born resurrection. We are born again by the imperishable Word of the Lord, the gospel. His Word recreates our spirits making us GODS NEW HOLY INFANT SPIRITS that lives deep inside these mortal bodies, and because we are NOW BORN AGAIN, we are now ready to enter into the promise to be filled with the Mighty Holy Spirit of God.
Right before this verse Jesus revealed what happens when people (in the spirit) really hear the voice of the Son of God and believe. He tells us exactly what takes place and that which takes place does so NOT IN A MAN'S FLESH, but in HIS SPIRIT. John 5:24 Jesus said, Truly Truly I say into you, he who HEARS MY WORDS (My Voice) and BELIEVES I was sent from God, HAS EVERLASTING LIFE and shall not come into condemnation, BUT IS PASSED, PASSED, PASSED (or resurrected) from death unto life (He's a NEW MAN in his spirit man.
This just mentioned above that Jesus spoke of, is the NOW IS RESURRECTION of men's spirits (of the people) who hear HIS VOICE in the gospel and BELIEVE. Those of us who have heard HIS VOICE, we have BELIEVED and responded and He has raised our spirits back up thru the Word of the gospel of HIS POWER, making them New Born Again spirits created in Christ Image in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:22-24).
Our born of God spirit that is CREATED in Christ Jesus is now different from the spirit of the world that is inside the unbelievers of this world. As God's HOLY SPIRIT is totally different in its nature than the devils unclean evil spirit, even so is our spirit that is made NEW in Christ Jesus that much different than the spirit nature of those who are still dead in tresspasses and sins who have not heard or believed the Voice of the Son of God.
The flesh is not ever to be the tell tell of any of this so we do not go to the fleshes senses to understand that which is spirit or spiritual. For that which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit, they are not one and the same. Matter of fact as a christian, our fleshes nature and desires are opposite and opposing and is contrary to our NEW SPIRITS NATURE and our sinful flesh wars against our spirits new holy nature. So in this light we can clearly see why we cannot go to or go by our flesh and it lust and desires and its 5 physical senses to tell us about our spirits NEWNESS and condition in Christ Jesus. We have to learn by Gods Spirit these things. Paul did and he wrote of his revelations and revealings in his letters to the churches. (1 Cor 2:9-16).
In Christ our spirit is a NEW CREATURE created in the love and holy image of the Spirit of God (Thank God-2 Cor 5:17 and Eph 4:23-24). But the spirit nature of those who do not receive Christ, their spirit nature remains and is like the spirit of their father the devil and his eternal destiny is theirs if they do not break free and overcome the darkness of this blind world and be BORN AGAIN themselves in their spirit man. For this reason, Jesus speaking in Spirit and about the spirit of man, said, Unless a man (the spirit man) be born again, he cannot understand nor enter into the kingdom of God.
When this above saying confused people, Jesus said to them, there is flesh and there is spirit, My words are spirit and they are life, the flesh does not profit from them. He said, there is a spirit man and there is a physical man. There is a man in man. Every man has his own spirit man. If your spirit man is not born again, he remains the living dead in his grave, but if He hears My VOICE and believes, I will make him alive. He will be BORN AGAIN (Resurrected and Made New), passed from death unto life (John 5:24). That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not confuse the two as to marvel at My saying..You Must Be Born Again (John 3:16-18).....Amen....deno.....share freely
