Life On Both Sides of the River Part 4
In the last part of the study, we saw that, Phil 2:10 , "Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus the Christ is Lord." We saw that this included every knee and every tongue, including all that were in the heavens (or the spirit realm), the earth and under the earth. Now, that takes in, everyone that was, is or ever will be born. ALL will accept Jesus as Saviour.
Now, some will say, "well, that doesn't mean that all will accept Him." OK, let's go to 1 Cor.
1 Cor 12:3, "Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed; and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but, by the Holy Ghost."
OK, NO MAN can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now catch what is about to be revealed, here. Now, Philippians told us that every knee and every tongue will bow and confess Jesus is Lord, in heaven, in earth and under the earth, right? Now think about this, if no one can say that Jesus is Lord, EXCEPT by the Holy Ghost, for every knee, and every tongue to bow and confess, that means that EVERY MAN WILL HAVE THE HOLY GHOST!! Hallelujah!! I don't know about you, but I don't know any "unsaved" person that has the Holy Ghost, speaking through them, do you that THEY KNOW He is speaking, but, don't we know "unsaved" folks, that Father has spoken to us through them? But, this is telling us that in order to say "Jesus is Lord," they have to have the Holy Ghost and gone through SALVATION!! The Body of Christ HAS to see this! This does not say that "every Christian" will bow and confess, it says EVERY MAN will bow and confess Jesus is Lord. So, somewhere, in each life, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord! Hallelujah!
1 Cor 15: 49-52
VS 49, " And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly."
to run a reference of "image of earthy" read Gen 5:3. earthy=natural, heavenly=spiritual.
Now, "as we have borne the image of (out from within) the earthy," we can understand this 2 ways:
1)as we start out, we bare the image of Adam, but, even in our salvation walk, we begin to bare the image of Jesus, in the natural. OK?
2) " we shall also bare the image of the heavenly." What this means, then, is that not only are we going to bare the image of Jesus, in the natural realm; but, we are going to bare the image of Christ, in the Spirit realm!! And when the church finally gets to the place where we can separate Jesus from the Christ, in terms of who we are, because Jesus, the flesh man, does not live in us, Jesus was flesh and blood; but, it's Christ, who lives in us. God, who is Jesus, our Father , Christ, who is Father's very LIFE, lives in us.
I want to share this with you; when Jesus came, even though scripture says that "in Him was the fullness of the Godhead bodily," Jesus, in Himself, was in part. Because Jesus, Himself, was not fulfilled within Himself UNTIL we became Christ. (God's anointed, God's life flowing through us.) When He was on earth, He wasn't fulfilled, He was in part. When we became the Christ, upon Jesus' resurrection, He became the Head of Christ, He was once again, God the Father , we became the Body of Christ, God's Life and THEN He Himself was fulfilled.
So, the scripture says, " when he that is perfect shall come (us, God's Christ), he that is in part shall be done away with," so when we "connected" to Jesus, for lack of a better word, as the Body of Christ, and Jesus, the Head of Christ, Him which was perfect came. Then, Jesus, who was once by Himself, in that in part realm, was done away with. (I PRAY that you see this in the spirit). But, the church latched on to, and still does, Jesus being by Himself. I take NOTHING from Jesus by saying this, but, Jesus (the flesh man) wass just part of the equation ,He is the Head of the Body,(as Father) and we are the body of the Body and together we are one new man!! God and His Flesh Body, walking the earth.Hallelujah! One perfect man!! Praise His Name, for it is HE that made this possible. This is why the scripture says, "be ye perfect as I am perfect." and the scripture tells us that we "are perfect", "we are complete", IN HIM.
Also, this is why we are "to know Jesus no more after the flesh"!! He is no longer that flesh Son that walked the earth, 2000 years ago. He is NOW, God the Father (John 17:4-5) and WE are His flesh body.
OK, "as we have borne the image of (out from within) the earthy, we shall also bear the image of (out from within) the heavenly."
VS 50, "Now this I say brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit in corruption.
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God -- --"AS HE IS SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD." The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
VS 51 "Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep"....This is a proof of Both Sides of the River; some sleep, or go by way of the grave, some will not. Daniel saw it, John saw it and Ezekiel saw it; BUT, "we shall all be changed." Whether we go by way of the grave, or whether we don't, "we shall all be changed."
VS 52, "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
This means that those who are not walking in the anointing that God has placed in them, because Christ is the anointing, and those who are not walking in the anointing, "and the dead (in Christ) shall be raised incorruptible," that means they shall "stand up and be counted." 1 Thess 4, speaks of "the dead in Christ shall rise," this word "rise," means "to stand and be counted." The church has the dead in Christ going up into the air, but, that's not what that word "rise" means. It means to stand and be counted. They are dead to the anointing, or the Christ in them. The anointing is there and it's like in Malacai 3, it says "SUDDENLY, the Lord has come to His temple." We have had the Lord somewhere out in the sky, and finally the truth hits and we realize that God's not out in the sky, but He's in His temple, which we are. It's the same with those dead to the anointing that is within them, it's there, they just don't know it, they are dead to it. So, "the dead in Christ shall rise (or stand and be counted)" and that's when the knowledge finally hits them that, WE ARE HIS ANOINTED ONE, and we start acting like the anointed one of God, rather than "an old sinner saved by grace." So the dead will rise incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.
Let's look back at VS 19, of the same chapter.
We need to know that God's plan for me and you, is the same plan that He had for Jesus. And if the plan for Jesus was to live with Him throughout eternity, that's the whole reason John 3:16 came into the picture, He died for all, everybody, for each and every person. Christian or not! The only difference in us and some others, is that we have received His understanding of this!!
1 Cor 15:19, "If in this life only we have hope in Christ (the anointing), we are of all men most miserable."
Now, with this scripture, we need:
1 Tim 2: 1-4, "I exhort you therefore that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks, be made for ALL men; (2) For kings, and for ALL that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." Now, how many of us know, that all that are in authority are not Christians??! VS 3, "For THIS is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; THIS= to pray for people like Saddam Hussein, Hitler, ALL that don't know the Lord as their saviour. But, because of religous thoughts, we don't do this, because it's not good in the sight of MAN!!
VS 4, "Who will have all men to be saved (delivered), and to come UNTO the knowledge of the truth."
Why did God put this in the Bible? Because, first of all, "if we have hope in this world only," which is saying that there is hope in the life after this one, for those that He has ordained to go on by way of death, saved or unsaved. "Pray for all men." Why? Because, God said that He will have all men to be save.
Now, people say "God doesn't cross our will." I don't know where they get that, because GOD'S WILL is ALWAYS performed! Always!! And He will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. This word, "unto," means to be just like!! To be just like the knowledge of the truth! To BECOME the knowledge of (out from within) the truth. Once a person comes into the knowledge of the truth, it is IMPOSSIBLE for them NOT to accept it, and they BECOME the knowledge of (out from within) the truth. Amen! Hallelujah!!
In the next part we want to start with the book of Matthew.
to be continued...
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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