Fellowship
in the Household of Faith
06/09/2013
BELIEVER
5: in Christ we are more ready than ever to enjoy this eternal life with one
another. I am just thanking the Lord for His spirit, that we have one life. We
have one hope, one faith, one Father, one body, and we are just enjoying this
oneness. And we are enjoying this in
Jesus' name, and our relationship with our Father. So what's the first course
on the menu brothers and sisters?
(BELIEVER
7 is going to offer the first course of the night's meal)
BELIEVER
7: Sharing from Two Kinds of Righteousness by E.W. Kenyon
Chapter
12 RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH
THE
church does not appreciate what she is as declared in the Word. We have been
taught that we were unworthy and unrighteous, that we were weak and had no
faith, for so long that it has become a chronic disease. We look with fear upon
any message that brings relief unless it is a message of works. If we could
sacrifice something, if we could pray long enough and hard enough, if we could
confess our sins enough, then in some way we might get straightened out in our
spiritual life. The whole thing is wrong.
Righteousness
comes by faith. It is not gained by works, by repentance, by crying or by
weeping. Neither does it come by the way of begging. It comes only by the way
of faith.
Man
has always sought to get Righteousness by works. If we thought we could become
the Righteousness of God by praying for a certain number of hours, we would do
it. If we were told that someone had obtained Righteousness by confessing all
their sins since childhood and by making restitution for them, we would be
willing to make the effort.
Righteousness
does not come that way. It comes by faith. Not by your work but by Christ's
work. Not by your tears but by the tears of Christ. If every one of us knew
that we have Righteousness in us, we would become entirely independent of
circumstances.
If
we were as conscious of being the Righteousness of God as we are conscious of
being weak and unworthy, we would not be sick any longer, we would not be held
in bondage to want and poverty.
If
we were as conscious of our Identification with Jesus Christ and our oneness
with Him as we are conscious of physical pain and physical need, we would never
have pain and we would never mention our needs again. This new sense of
Righteousness, this new fact of Righteousness, this new discovery of our being
the Righteousness of God in Christ gives us a new sense of freedom in Christ.
It utterly destroys the Sin Consciousness and the Weakness Consciousness and
the Want Consciousness. In their place has come the all absorbing reality of
Christ. We know that He is our Righteousness and that we are the Righteousness
of God in Him.
He
is with us in all His ability and strength, in all His completeness and fullness.
We are not afraid of circumstances. He whispers, "Fear thou not, for I am
with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee ; yea, I
will help thee ; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
righteousness." He is with us. He is the God of the New Creation. He is
our strength. He is upholding us with His Righteousness. We cannot fail. We
cannot be kept in bondage.
This
gives us a new liberty in prayer, a new sense of authority as sons and
daughters of God to use the Name of Jesus, a new joy in fellowship with the Father.
There is a new freshness in the Word. It has become literally His Word to us.
Its absoluteness grips our hearts. We may not have realized it before but the Father
and Jesus are speaking to us. The Word is the voice of the Father. He is not
speaking to multitudes. He is speaking to each one of us. He declares that we
have become the Righteousness of God in Him. We know that we are what He
declares us to be.
Then
there comes a new sense of mastery. We are coming into our rights, our legal
rights in Christ. Our steps are sure now. No longer is there any uncertainty.
We are not afraid of what the day may bring forth. We know what it means when
He says, "Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world."
We know what it means when He says, "Ye are of God, my little children,
and have overcome them." He is talking to us. The sense of mastery, the
strange new dignity of sonship, sweeps over our hearts. We understand what it
means to be under orders from heaven. We are ambassadors. We are clothed with
authority from heaven. Luke 24:49, "But tarry ye in the city, until ye be
clothed with ability from on high." Now we understand what Jesus meant
when He said that demons and the forces of darkness would be subject to us.
Weakness, fear of failure-the little kingdoms that once ruled the world have
been subordinated by Jesus Christ. Jesus conquered Satan. Every Satan-ruled
force is subject to His Name.
He
put Satan and all his works under our feet. Now we know what Redemption means.
We know we have become "the fullness of Him that filleth all in all."
We know that "of His fullness have we all received and grace upon grace.
We know that we have received "the abundance of grace and the gift of
righteousness." We reign as kings in the realm of life through Jesus
Christ. We begin to understand I Cor. 12:3, "And no man can say, Jesus is
Lord, but in the Holy Spirit." Now we say it as New Creations conscious of
our standing and our rights. Satan's dominion has been broken. The Lordship of
Jesus has begun. We shall not want because we are one with Him. He is the Vine,
we are the branches. We are the fruit bearing portion of the Vine. We are His
lips! We are His hands! We are living with Him. He is living in us unseen but
real. We walk with Him. All this Righteousness gives us.
BELIEVER
5: this is so good to hear it all so clearly. BELIEVER 7 this is wonderful that
you pulled this material out to read.
BELIEVER
7: thank you Lord for all the goodness to give us these things.
BELIEVER
4: is there an appreciation of this by anyone before we move on. BELIEVER 5 you
can start, just to get started.
BELIEVER
5: well, whether we are talking about righteousness or the image and likeness
of God, it appears as though Jesus Christ has restored the righteousness that
we need; He has restored the image that we need. Where there is His Holy
Spirit, we have been supplied with everything that we need to be able to
experience abundant life. And I will just leave it there for now and desire to
hear from others, and their expression of their enjoyment.
BELIEVER
3: I'm trying to find a little part in this book that I read two or three days
ago that matches this. I can't find it.
BELIEVER
5: you have many thoughts as far as what was said, maybe I know where it is?
BELIEVER
3: it has to do with something along the lines of Jesus becoming sin so that we
might become righteous, or Jesus tasting death so that we might have life.
(Later I found it: "As surely as God made Jesus sin, God made us righteous
the moment we accepted him.")
BELIEVER
5: was it dealing with His love nature. And I'm not trying to distract your
thought, Kenyon does have some unique terms as far as how he expresses this
life.
BELIEVER
3: he talks about, and this goes together with something else that I was
reviewing tonight when he says, "man has always sought to get
righteousness by works." But even how in the Old Testament, even though it
was called the age of grace, still there was no righteousness apart from the
shedding of blood. I think it is Leviticus 17 where it talks about apart from
the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. And we don't get
righteousness apart from blood being shed. So that was even in the Old
Testament, righteousness never had anything to do with completing the law.
Maybe that first system of animal sacrifice was called the law, but it was
still the shedding of blood.
BELIEVER
5: when you think of the shedding of blood, what is your concept of blood
shedding? Now just as a human being, BELIEVER 3, what do you think of when
blood, or somebody dying?
BELIEVER
3: well blood shedding or dying, I think of blood shedding of actual like they
cut the animal and its blood came out, and they had to sprinkle the blood, or
burn the blood, it's like the pouring out of the blood.
BELIEVER
5: let me be more specific as we get into this and say, why is this animal
dying? Why? What is the reason? Why is this animal dying?
BELIEVER
3: so that people can righteously have fellowship with God.
BELIEVER
5: But why? Why would the shedding of blood, the death of this animal bring
that about?
BELIEVER
3: the only answer I have is because God requires blood for sin. To cover sin.
BELIEVER
5: what kind of sin?
BELIEVER
3: I think just sin in general.
BELIEVER
5: have you ever thought of a person, that there wasn't something he did wrong,
but the person did something good, and that was sin. And so somebody had died
because somebody did something good. Have you ever thought about that one?
BELIEVER
3: somebody had to die because someone did something good?
BELIEVER
5: yes for something good. You said about sin, you know, like as if they did
something wrong.
BELIEVER
3: well yes like the Bible says that whenever a baby is born there had to be a
sin offering. So birth is not a bad thing, but there still had to be an
offering for the newborn baby.
BELIEVER
5: yeah, so I am asking the question, what's that about, that offering thing
with the baby being born? That seems like a positive thing. Right? So let me
ask you, with the people who eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
some of them did good and some of them did evil, but all of it's death, then
are we understanding that when somebody does something without God that it is
sin?
BELIEVER
3: it's death
BELIEVER
5: yeah, but when somebody does something good without God, that's sin isn't
it?
BELIEVER
3: yes
BELIEVER
4: this part is really good, and we do not understand this.
BELIEVER
5: yes, where is our capacity to understand this side of the battle. BELIEVER 3, could you imagine that if we did
something without God we would say, "Oh, I feel so bad." There needs
to be a solution for this, "I've done something good without God."
BELIEVER 4: BELIEVER 5 went to the fundamental place with
something that we still do not understand. For example, this is for all and we
do not understand this, unless God reveals it to us and he allows us to
experience it. He said, but in the moment that we do something good in
ourselves it is still sin.
BELIEVER 5: you mean without God, without the Father? As
we are operating independently?
BELIEVER 4: this is something really deep that is beyond
our human capacity to understand.
BELIEVER 5: but BELIEVER 4, isn't it wonderful that we
can at least hear it, with our ears? We are pronouncing this objectively, we
are hearing this even though we might not know what it means. Isn't this
awesome?
BELIEVER 4: if we do something in ourselves apart from
the Father it is sin. This is hard to understand. Today BELIEVER 2 said to me,
"you think everything is bad." We were talking about the music. He said to me, "if someone sings
Christian music, is the person singing Christian music fallen are they not
fallen?" He was listening to
another type of music.
BELIEVER 5: hey, what is Christian music? This just rubs
me the wrong way, as you said Christian music. If it is music that comes from
the Father, that is wonderful. If it isn't, what the heck is it? Excuse me. I
think it should be termed secular Christian music.
BELIEVER 4: let's slow down a minute, I love BELIEVER 5
how you have put the things tonight, regarding even if we do good we are still
in sin. Any human being, even a Christian who is not moving in obedience to the
Father is in sin.
BELIEVER 5: yes filthy rags
BELIEVER 4: the point is not what is good or bad, the
point is that we depend upon the Father. And the only one who depends upon the Father
is Christ in us.
BELIEVER 5: and Christ as us.
BELIEVER 4: for this to be a real, we have to consent
that He show us this. Because if not we are going to continue in the way of
good works. The most important thing is not if we do good or bad, it is that we
abide in fellowship with the Father.
BELIEVER 5: how about it. There is only one standard?
Hallelujah. Now, BELIEVER 3, if we sang with the tongue of men and of angels,
but we do not have the love of the Father, has it got any profitability to it?
(BELIEVER 3: No)
BELIEVER 4: I am going to put some seasoning on this. When preparing a great feast tonight, with
meat, everything seasoned. We are enjoying a wonderful feast with different
kinds of food, but these different foods have only one element in all of them, and
this one element is the love of the Father. The love of the Father and His
children. The seasoning is starting to get really good, and the fire is
starting to grow, like the roasted lamb. So we need to just consent to this
roasted lamb, like one brings roasted lamb, the other brings of bitter herbs...
But everything has the element of Christ.
BELIEVER 5: and His submission to the Father is the
sweetness isn't it.
BELIEVER 4: so if we allow it, and consent to the Father
in each one of us, and then there's just one flow in the meeting, we just have
one product and we have the opportunity to say the same thing that Christ said,
"my food is to do the will of My Father."
BELIEVER 5: I love being with the other sons and
daughters, not just brothers and sisters.
BELIEVER 4: so this is the continuation of what the Father
is ready to do in any human being that is prepared to eat this roasted lamb,
for each one of us, all of us who have died, all of us who have resurrected, we
all enjoy the same food. So before we keep going, I just want to put one more
pinch of seasoning from what I enjoyed today. I reviewed from our brother
Martin Luther King Jr.'s I have a dream. In one of the chapters it talks
about the power of nonviolence. When he talks about the agape love. I'm going
to take the part that is really good. He says, according to the word, agape
love stands for creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. But the biblical
theologians say that is the love of God. It is an overflowing love that seeks
nothing in return. In other words, unconditional love. When you begin to love
on this level, you begin to love man not because they are likable, not because
they do things that attract us, but because God loves them. This is it.
BELIEVER 5: this is the love that we really see at
Calvary, this is the love of the Father loving us human beings unto the end,
nonviolently, submitting to be crucified on the cross. This is the love of God
being exterminated. This is the ultimate sickness of the human being. This is
not just Original Sin; this is the origin of evil in man. This is unbelievable,
this is so awesome. This is the kind of sacrifice that we are seeing. Isn't it
wonderful that there is only one thing going on? He is loving us to death. What
a wonderful revolution of kindness. This is the true revolutionary war,
hallelujah! And this is God's revolution literarily overcoming everything in
His Son. This is the greatest battle that was ever fought. Hallelujah! When He
is back living in us as the victor, and we are allowing Him to live through us.
When this is the Christ in us music, this is the song of victory. This is what
we want to hear.
BELIEVER 3: do you know what is so good? Today my
coworkers, my fellow servers, they were picking on me a little bit and saying,
"BELIEVER 3, and you ever heard this song?" And they were talking
about the lyrics of this one song that says, "I am a sinner" blah
blah blah, in a way that is kind of
mocking the Lord. So I said, "hey guys, have you ever heard the song of
the Lamb? The song that they sing around the throne of God night and day?"
And they were like, "No, we have never heard that."
BELIEVER 4: that is a good job. That goes directly to the
warfare of love.
(BELIEVER 7 desires to leave)
BELIEVER 5: let me get to the point that I haven't even
shared yet about the sacrifice. I'll just say one thing before BELIEVER 7
leaves.
BELIEVER 5: the sacrifice, this is the animal that was
prepared to enact a covenant. Not to pay for problem, not for a remedy, not for
a breach in the contract, this was a covenant sacrifice of death to enact a
communion. We are familiar with this in the realm of inheritance, that unless
the person who owns everything that they own dies then they have it, it's in
their hands, they have it. Unless they die it is not able to be released to the
beneficiary. This death was what was needed in order to give a gift. And I will
just finish with this, and I want the last thing that was said to be very
clear. The picture is this: the Giver of the gift knows that unless He Himself
dies He cannot give the gift to the beneficiary. Unless the Giver of the gift Himself
dies He cannot give the gift of Himself to His beneficiary, to the other
person. So He delivers himself into our hands unbeknownst to us so that we will
kill Him so that He can give us everything. In the picture this is Jesus as the
female, Jesus becoming the red heifer, Jesus going outside the camp and
allowing us to kill Him, to kill her so that we can be delivered from death by
giving us eternal life. That is the picture, that is the sacrifice: the female
outside the camp, not killed by the priest but killed by the person that brings
it. Amen. This is the nonviolent loving death that procures the complete gift
and provision for us. And this is what God did in His nonviolent revolutionary
war against sin and death, He accomplished it. He went outside the camp, and He
died as a female. He died with the dung in her, He died with the blood in her.
It was totally contrary to any of the other rules; this is the extent of the
love of God for us. This is awesome.
This is the Messiah that human beings are looking for that they think is
coming in the future. Oh no, He has been
crucified since before the foundation of the world. This is fresh, this is
ready for anybody all the time any time, Hallelujah. This is not just something
done in the present time, this was done in eternity, this is in the aorist
tense, this is not in the present tense. This is a kairos event, this is not a
chronos event. This transcends the time space continuum.
BELIEVER 7: I think you're a lot BELIEVER 5 for giving us
this beautiful word. And this confirms what God gave to me to share tonight.
BELIEVER 5: this is vital, this will allow us to rest in
the deepest rest ever.
BELIEVER 7: That in all ways God shows us that He is not
only a chastiser. God is immeasurably and eternally so good, and He gave us the
symbolism so that one day somebody would understand it. That God is only grace,
goodness, mercy, and generosity.
BELIEVER 4: before we continue I want to clarify some
things. There is one part that it didn't understand from what BELIEVER 5
shared, and I know BELIEVER 7 's where you are going with all of this. So let's
allow that the Spirit to move us where He wants. We can want to move in a
certain way in the Fellowship, or we might want things in a certain way, but
when certain things start to get put on the table and we start to put a certain
flavor on what God is doing, the Spirit is the one that needs to order
everything that is being spoken. And if not, we come to the point that we do
not understand what is happening. And this is something very important. So I am
going to pass the ball to BELIEVER 5, so that he can continue to open what he
is opening.
BELIEVER 5: this point right here is so lacking in many
people's understanding. Rabbis said that Solomon in all the wisdom that he had,
and Ecclesiastes chapter 7, they said that this was one thing that he didn't
understand, what this effort was all about. This is very deep.
BELIEVER 4: let me do something, because I feel that the
Fellowship is starting to go to a really good point, so I feel that you keep
going. BELIEVER 3 said, that you already finished the flow.
BELIEVER 5: I just finished the introduction, just to
give the introduction.
BELIEVER 4: this is what I feel, I felt you went to the
introduction, but this needs to be amplified. BELIEVER 7 went to some parts
that I "feel it"
BELIEVER 3: when you say you feel that.
BELIEVER 4: this is a touch in the spirit. This is not
something natural.
BELIEVER 5: BELIEVER 4, when you talk about the sense of
the spirit, we are talking about the sense of the One New Man becoming the
reality of our lives, aren't we?
BELIEVER 4: I'm going to start with the last part that BELIEVER
7 flowed, and what happened this week with the flowing, or do you prefer to ask
a question to you regarding what you flowed? And then if I need to interact our
practical living-I'm going to flow. I give you the option to go to the left or
go to the right by the Spirit.
BELIEVER 5: why don't you lead out, you all, and I will
just be available for whatever that might mean for.
BELIEVER 4: let me tell you something, because BELIEVER 7
is still here, and I will just flow directly to you. In other words, it is
better to do that to redeem the time.
BELIEVER 5: with what we just talked about, in terms of
what the Lord did for us in eternity, that before BELIEVER 7 went to rest and I
just wanted to say that, because of the nature of that this God is going to
work on us, is going to bless us while we sleep . This is how good this is.
That's why I wanted to share that because we don't just go to sleep, we are
made in the image and likeness of God, God is moving in us while we sleep.
Isn't that wonderful? This death,
because this death releases life, then just like sleep that appears to be like
death, this is where it just continues to release the life in our sleep, just
like this kind of death that releases life through death. Praise the Lord.
BELIEVER 4: the point that you talked, if we believe it
this is going to happen. Because the Spirit
has a chance to explain to us just by believing; not by arguing, not by
thinking, but just by believing.
BELIEVER 5: yes we just receive this. We believe and we
receive.
BELIEVER 4: yeah because in some ways, BELIEVER 6 is
seeing BELIEVER 7 in a desperate mode (for sleep).
BELIEVER 5: when Adam was put to sleep, like we go to
sleep at night, when he was put to sleep, he is put to sleep for a purpose
because this is when the Lord was going to open His side and take a rib out of
him and literally create this woman for him. And so this is all we're talking
about here, this kind of rest.
BELIEVER 4: before we continue I want to ask a question
to clarify some things. The red heifer is completely consumed right?
BELIEVER 3: yes. Usually they take the dung away from the
sacrifices, they clean some of the inward parts, and sometimes they'll burn
certain parts, like the fat. But with the red heifer, they just kill it and
burn everything.
BELIEVER 5: they burn everything, everything, everything.
BELIEVER 3: they don't skin it, they don't take out the
guts.
BELIEVER 5: and it is a female, not a male. This is
important because this is for the church, this is for the bride.
BELIEVER 3: is that the only female sacrifice?
BELIEVER 5: there were some exceptions. But generally
most of the proper sacrifices were male sacrifices. Because Christ is a male,
and He died for the disobedience of Adam, the male. But this was for the
female, like Eve. He went outside the camp as a female to take care of what
happened with Eve. This isn't dealing so much with sin, as with death. This was for the water of separation that
would cleanse a person who had been in contact with death.
BELIEVER 4: I want to attach some points again because of
how BELIEVER 7 interpreted some things. Do you understand what BELIEVER 7 said?
BELIEVER 3: I think what you are talking about when he
said that God isn’t a punisher. BELIEVER 7 says this often, and there is
usually a disagreement in there. BELIEVER 4 has a check in his spirit, so that
is what he is wanting to open up right now.
BELIEVER 4: the part is this
BELIEVER 5: well, BELIEVER 4, this is for your own
clarification primarily, which will be a blessing to others.
BELIEVER 3: BELIEVER 4 is wanting to know, why after all
your sharing on the red heifer did BELIEVER 7 say that God is not a punisher,
as his main praise to the Lord?
BELIEVER 5: let me clarify this one point. As we all know
there are different kinds of crimes punishable in different ways, correct?
(Yes). So if someone goes ahead and robs a store, they might have to go to jail
or pay a fine, correct? (Yes). But if
someone kills somebody, that is a capital offense, and in certain places that
could be punishable by your death, correct? (Yes). With what happened with
Christ, this became a capital offense. This is not just a sin offering, or a
trespass offering, but this became a capital offense. So we're dealing with not
just a sin or not just a fault, but we are dealing with "the wage of this
sin is death." We are dealing with
the ultimate payment, for the result of sin which is death. That is what we're
talking about. This is a chastisement (punishment) unto death; this is a
discipline unto death. This is not a spanking.
BELIEVER 4: this part is complementary of what I was
planning to flow. But the Father does not punish us in the new covenant because
He already prepared a sacrifice for us. And
this sacrifice is His beloved Son. By faith we take the sacrifice, by faith we
are in Christ, and in Christ we are accepted in the beloved.
BELIEVER 5: we are accepted in the death in Him. In other
words in the context that you're speaking. This is very important because the Father
committed all judgment to the Son (John 5).
BELIEVER 4: yes, in other words, BELIEVER 7 said,
"the Father doesn't judge human beings, He is really good." BELIEVER 7 talks about how good the Father
is, because of the judgment that He put on His Son for our redemption. This is
what I know as a reality if anyone will open their hearts and take this by
faith. In the sacrifice we already receive forgiveness of all sins, all death.
BELIEVER 5: if we only understand this about Jesus dying
for sins, and don't understand it in terms of we, the human beings, killed
Christ, and we don't get it. When Jesus became the female heifer outside the
camp, and the bringer of the sacrifice before the priest killed it before the
priest, this is what we are talking about, this is how He died. He doesn't die
at the hands of the priest. It isn't like they say, "well the Father
killed Him.” You know the priest killed him. No this is where the bringer of
the offering slays the sacrifice. We need to get this straight. This is loaded.
Until I realized that....
BELIEVER 4: ... I didn't have the real understanding of
what the love of the Father is. Until we know what you are talking about, we do
not understand what This sacrifice is.
BELIEVER 5: this sacrifice of the heifer, the female, in
the hands of the one that brought it is a representative of all the people.
This is a big mystery. And so, when we are convicted ourselves that WE
crucified Christ, then the forgiveness becomes real to us. Until that point it
is only a little game. It is only a little spanking. It's only, "oh,
you've been a bad boy, you rode your bicycle on the wrong side of the street."
No, we are talking about the ultimate crime here; we're talking about the
ultimate love. This is final, this is the agape love, this is the eternal love.
This is what is not heard in secular Christian churches, secular Christian
music. You don't hear about this, because it is all a game and it doesn't mean
anything outside of this. If we don't know this as a premise, you can't even in
the Old Testament economy, you can't even go to the Temple unless you have had
this water of separation. It is a death penalty. If you go to the Temple in you
attempt to get together with everybody and you've touched death you haven’t
been cleansed then it is a death penalty, that is it, you're done. You aren't
getting a spanking, you're getting killed. This is what we are talking
about. I'll be quiet now.
BELIEVER 4: right now I feel it's done. The part we need
to talk about with BELIEVER 7 is the part that we don't understand, or don't
see the part that is real, of how Christ is our capital punishment. And we by
faith take this, it is not something light.
In the moment we really know as a reality the Father shows to us this,
it is like He Himself reveals He love, this agape love to us. It is not just, the Father loves every human
being for this or that. It is just speculation until we really know what He has
done for us with His Son.
BELIEVER 5: yes until we are of convicted of the blood of
Christ, until we are convicted of this crime in the ultimate sense, we are
still playing games. And we will never
receive this gift that comes through this kind of death, we will never receive
our inheritance, we will always be attempting to work for it. We are not
talking about original sin here, we are talking about the origin of evil in the
human beings. The secular Christian church does not communicate about this
origin of evil in man, where we became the children of the devil, the children
of darkness. I have to be careful here
because we are on the telephone, and this is serious stuff here. Is BELIEVER 2
still here. (Yes he is). Okay, I will
just say this because with the younger generation, if they do not know this
underneath everything else they know about Christianity they haven't got a
clue, they haven't got a clue. This goes for all of us, but I'm just saying,
the new people that are coming up and that are growing up, and they generally
have not heard about this Christ, they have not heard about this event. They
are ignorant of it. Maybe certain people
have gotten some understanding, but this is generally not communicated right
across the board. Solomon, the Rabbis said that Solomon didn't understand this
with all the wisdom that he had. You know what Jesus says about this, when He
washed the disciples' feet, this was Jesus enacting, personifying, as the red
heifer washing the disciples feet. They didn't get it. When He approached Peter
about washing his feet, Peter goes, "you're not going to wash my
feet." And this is the way the church is. It doesn't understand what's
going on. And Jesus is saying, "I'm going to wash your feet," and we
say, "no You're not." And Jesus goes, "O By the Way, if you
don't let Me wash your feet you have no part with Me." And Peter said,
"well you better wash me all over." I mean he is so stupid. We are so
stupid. Jesus goes, "No, no, you're basically okay. I just need to wash
your feet." This is the part in Ephesians 5, where it talks about how that
the church is washed as the bride with the washing of the water of the word,
the Rhema. This is what we are talking about; this is the preparation for us so
that the Lord would even be able to be with us. Unless we are washed by the
washing of the water of the word how could we even be with Him. How could we
marry Him? How could we be in communion with Him? We can't. I'll back off again
here. This playing church business is a joke. It is a bad joke, it is a
nightmare. Where is the real love, where is the real intercourse, where is the
real relationship with a man and a woman, where is this before Genesis chapter
3, where is this real relationship? Where is the true church? I will back off
again.
BELIEVER 2: Jesus said to His disciples, "how hard
will it be for those who have...."
BELIEVER 5: are you reading from some place...
BELIEVER 2: yeah...
(After some microphone issues)
BELIEVER 5: when you are close to the microphone I can
hear you. It has got nothing to do with spirituality. If we are close to the
technology the technology will work. Praise the Lord.
BELIEVER 2: okay I'm going to start now. Jesus said to His
disciples, "How hard will it......"
BELIEVER 5: are you reading from a certain place here
where I can follow along?
BELIEVER 2: Mark 10.
Jesus said to His disciples, "How hard will it be for those who
have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God." The disciples then said to
one another, "who can be saved?" Then Jesus said, "For mortals
it is impossible, but for God all things are possible." No believer should
judge the faithfulness of the Lord. You should pray to the Lord that He give
you increasing amounts of faith in Him, not in humans. Because if you trust in
humans when you depend upon yourself, you will see what a failure you are. You
will be a witness to how you cannot keep everything that you say. You will be a
witness as well that only Christ can do what He says. You'll also see how the
Lord moves in your heart, and how the Lord does not move in the hearts of those
in the Lord does not work in. We aspire to salvation, to eternal life, but the
only one who can give it to us is the Lord. For mortals, this salvation is
impossible, for God everything is possible. He offers salvation to us day by
day. He provides for every need. The
Lord's Divine power has given us everything that we need for life. You not need to base all of our things on the
knowledge of Him and allow Him to be the one that shows us everything. Allow His
divine nature to work in you. I am to help you escape the corruption of the
world caused by evil desires and all things natural. Your word tells us that
everything is possible. May the Lord help us to draw me into His strength. May
the Lord teach us in developing perseverance and doing His will. And may the
Lord allow that His glory be manifested in us, and all glory be given to Him.
BELIEVER 5: so what does that mean? That is a wonderful
theological expression. What does it mean, "all the glory?"
BELIEVER 2: what do you mean?
BELIEVER 5: does that mean that we do nothing
independently of our Father, and that the Father is doing everything in us?
That the Father is glorified in the Son, that the Father is glorified in us? Or
does it mean we are doing anything independently of our Father, and the Father
is being shamed?
BELIEVER 2: that's foolish. You should know that.
BELIEVER 5: say that again, soulish? I'm not hearing you.
BELIEVER 2: foolish
BELIEVER 5: foolish. Okay what's foolish?
BELIEVER 2: the second answer. Because you are obviously
talking about how the Lord is being glorified and not yourself. Why would you
even put that in there?
BELIEVER 5: the Lord. Now we're talking about the Lord of
the lords, Jesus? Or are we talking about the Lord Jesus without understanding
the Father? What are we talking about here?
BELIEVER 2: everything is connected to one BELIEVER 5.
BELIEVER 5: everything is connected to one what BELIEVER
2?
BELIEVER 2: one Lord, one God. If you think that there's
more than one, then something is wrong.
BELIEVER 5: Jewish theology talks about one. It doesn't
talk about the Father though. So let's clarify what we are talking about.
BELIEVER 2: you are using your brain...
BELIEVER 5: we are using the New Testament; it is called
one God and Father.
BELIEVER 4: I really appreciate you explaining everything
simple level. I appreciate you explaining everything to BELIEVER 2. Just some
shaping is needed.
BELIEVER 5: unless we have been to the boot camp, like in
the military, we are not ready. That's all, it's really simple. We are talking
about being brought back into a relationship with the Father. I love to hear a
brother who begins to talk as a son. The other brothers talk as little boys,
without the Father; they are just playing. I enjoy the rite of passage when the
boy becomes a man. I'm not interested in compromising with males, and being
boys; we want to enjoy the fellowship as sons of God with the Father. Praise
the Lord. And when I was in boot camp it wasn't a real happy time. "O
my... What are they doing to me?"
(Someone left the fellowship a little frustrated for not
having the opportunity to share)
BELIEVER 3: little kids get a little angry if you do not
let them share.
BELIEVER 5: it is quite an environment in the nursery. I
think nurseries are wonderful places. Every house that is raising children
should have a nursery. There is a place for the nursery in the house. But there
is also a bedroom for the adults. There is a difference.
BELIEVER 3: I am not claiming to be an adult, but I am
interested in becoming one.
BELIEVER 5: don't worry about it; you are going to have
to become one. The Father is going to finish His work that He has begun. He is
more interested in this process than we are.
BELIEVER 3: that is good news; it is good to hear that.
This red heifer thing is very interesting. I have heard repentance expressed in
these types of terms and ideas. I have
heard brother say the true repentance is when you see that it is in your own
heart, that you personally are responsible for the death of the Lord Jesus. And
only when you see that can you have a real deep repentance. So I've heard this
before, and I'm kind of like, "that is pretty heavy..." But relating
it all to the red heifer is pretty amazing.
BELIEVER 5: let me go ahead and say that when this
ordinance was passed, you know what was going to be happening? The children of
Israel had gone into the Promised Land, and the leaders had come back with an
evil report. When the leaders came back with the evil report saying that they
were grasshoppers in the sights of these giants, they were not coming back with
a report of how they saw themselves in God's sight. And so there is a death
penalty. And now the children of Israel, why are they going to be around there
for 40 years? Because it is going to take them that long for everyone to die,
and they are going to bury them out there. And so what was needed, because when
people are around death, and it is so hideous in the consciousness of it, and
it is so grieving, that they had to have the preparation of this heifer
offering; the water of separation that cleanse people who had been in contact
with death. So in the journey that we are all on Christians, we are in the world,
we are around people that are like living death. And we need this cleansing
because anyone who has been around this death could not have fellowship in
eternal life. And so can you imagine with over 2 million people dying out there
over a period of 40 years, there is a lot of separation going on here every
day, every day, every day. Because there is death in the camp, every day, every
day, every day. That is the reality of it. And this is what we experience on
this earth. There is death going on every day, every day, every day. We need to
have our feet washed by the Eternal Spirit so that we can have fellowship while
we are going on. If we are not experiencing this, then we are like in our sin
while we are trying to fellowship. And it's like, we're double minded, we are
sick, we are not having true fellowship; do you know what I mean? It is a joke.
And so not to belabor that too much, but to say this is what the real Church of
Jesus Christ needs. And when Jesus, He said to them in John 13, He said,
"do you know what, if you guys want to be happy, you'll do this. You wash
one another's feet." I don't find so much of a foot washing going on, you
know with this water of separation of the heifer. I only hear people talking about the meal
offerings that are done by the priests. And that doesn't help the people out.
That gives the mental knowledge. Kind of like what BELIEVER 2 had said earlier,
about the mental thing, and it's like, it's only mental stuff. But to bring up
the subject of this heifer, you know, this needs to be communicated. And part
of it is objective that we can even say with our mouths, think with our minds,
but it needs to get into us, to become the reality. Under the circumstances, I
would normally never talk about this kind of stuff over the telephone because
it is so subject to misunderstanding and we are in each other's presences. So I
already know that we are in trouble communicating like this. But it's almost
like, here were forced by geographical situations to be separate from one
another, and to bring these things out over the telephone, so I am expecting on
the end down there for the understanding of this heifer to become a practical
reality. Otherwise, there is just death in the camp.
BELIEVER 3: well I would say at least the mental or objective
knowledge is gotten clearer tonight. And we will work with that, and expose
ourselves to it in prayer and maybe looking on it in the word.
BELIEVER 5: let me go ahead and say something in
conjunction that, these ashes, like when you said we need to expose ourselves
to it... Here's how it works. If the person has made contact with dead body,
and what happens is a clean person who hasn't had that contamination goes and
gets some of these ashes and mixes them with water, goes to the person who has
been contaminated on the third day. And this is so bad that they clean person
that goes to the defiled person and sprinkles them with this water of
separation with the hyssop, that the clean person becomes unclean until
evening. They are defiled until the evening just by being around this person.
That is how bad this is. This is like Galatians 6:1, "if someone has been
overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual go to this one to restore them...
This is the law of Christ." This is what we are talking about. So what
happens is, with what you said about opening ourselves up to this or exposing
ourselves to this, then it's like, when the clean one which represents the Spirit
comes to us on the third day, so to speak in the Old Testament symbolism, and
on the seventh day, and then the person is clean and they are ready for
fellowship. Now, because we have the Eternal Spirit of Christ, then the Eternal
Spirit is washing us constantly with this water of separation....(like) the
washing of the water of the word. I just
say that at this juncture, we talked about being available.
BELIEVER 4: this and how the Lord is operated but the Spirit,
if we are not really attuned to the Spirit, any person has a chance to
misunderstand some things. But the good thing is, by this kind of love and by
this kind of life everything that the Father does and has prepared for us is
wonderful. And the only ones left here in fellowship tonight (that haven't gone
to bed) are BELIEVER 3, BELIEVER 5, and I.
BELIEVER 5: yes things definitely got opened up with the
other brothers and sisters, that because of where people are at it is
definitely challenging. So there is some problems because of this kind sharing
tonight, that are just beginning; and I am quite familiar with how this works.
Especially with the younger people. With BELIEVER 7, with this thing about the
discipline, we are getting right into how this thing really works, and stuff
definitely comes to the surface.
BELIEVER 4: yes the other three brothers had a
circumstance of problems tonight. The things have already been put on the
table, the only thing that we need to do is prayer, and the Lord needs to open
up whatever needs to be done. That's all.
BELIEVER 5: so I'll just say, I take the liberty at your
initiation to share certain things. So because of the seriousness of the kind
of things that shared, you're definitely going to have some follow-up work.
Some damage control. This is such an enemy, this is so adverse to the natural
man. Because the natural man is the one that killed sacrifice. So, this is
where the murder comes out, this is where the deceit comes out that no one
thinks they have. So I'll just say, be forewarned. So we're a little bit of
this tonight through one person. So it's like unless these things are brought out,
people do not have the chance to find out where they are not at. So it is
definitely an exposure situation that goes on. It is certainly not
"nice" so to speak, but people never grow up. They just think that
because they say things.....(and) I'll end up becoming an enemy because I bring
this stuff to the table. And I expect that, and I am just already letting you
know that this is what goes on at this level.
BELIEVER 4: yes, it warfare is normal for whatever ground
the Lord gains in us. We just need to open ourselves for whatever the Lord
wants to do, and it is not an easy way to open.
BELIEVER 5: yes here's the point, what I'm saying this
that this understanding of the red heifer offering needs to be studied, it
needs to be understood inside and out. And I know that you brothers know how to
study and get tuned in with what has been opened up here about this. There is a
lot of details and this. The ramifications of this, it is not something you can
just get in a second. I ended up learning this through real troubles that went
on in a whole congregation. Because people were not being equipped with this
understanding of the heifer with the water of separation. So I didn't learn
this just casually. It was grueling, you know, the process. And even as I came
to understand this myself, I would go ahead and open this up with people. But
because they're so interested in playing church and everything, this didn't fit
with the routine. Because they are just doing the system. They are just
communicating "good information," and the reality that was behind
what was going on wasn't an issue for them. And so, well this is quite the
turf. So it would be interesting with you ever has the capacity to understand,
this understanding of the heifer, to find out. And the other people who aren't
interested and who don't want to, then that will be clear to. So, yep.
BELIEVER 3: I think with the red heifer, sometimes I
think that it is a good approach to, understand things by types, so that the
Lord's Spirit can reveal the reality to us. Instead of just telling us,
"you murdered the Lord Jesus." I can't go sit around and meditate
about that, that will drive me crazy. But if I go study the red heifer, the
Lord to reveals that to me, then just kind of as I am looking at things I think
it might get there easier.
BELIEVER 5: yes, and I will say, yes that is the reason
that those things were given. And when we see this stuff acted out, like when
we see Christ crucified, and then the people say, or Pilate goes, "well
what shall we do? Who shall we release?" And the people say, "give us
Barabbas, crucify Jesus." That is where we see this. And then they go
ahead and pronounced a real wonderful thing, they say, "and let His blood
be upon our heads, and upon our children, and upon our children's
children." So, we are going to have the chance to work this stuff through.
Because this happened, and it was recorded in the New Testament we can discern
where it was, and how it goes. And I am willing to us objectively communicate
the portions where we find this, so that these portions can be meditated on and
the reality of it become an experience. Then just save some time with that too.
Like we can go ahead and shuffle through this stuff. It took me months and
months if not years to go through and do an extensive study on this. Because
this is so overlooked, and people are trying to play church without knowing
Christ as the heifer, and needless to say it is and utter failure. Because the
priests, they had to have this water applied to them even before they could be
consecrated. I don't know whether you knew that were not. So I said all that to
say this, that objectively we can go ahead and go into the different portions
of the Scripture that relate to this, and see the seriousness of this and....
BELIEVER 3: and that relates to the hyssop too, right?
BELIEVER 5: yes, the hyssop is what was used to apply
this. And the hyssop relates to the most tender plant, on the other end of it
the Cedar was like the strongest plant. So even the symbolism of the hyssop.
And this is where, as an illustration of this meditation, would be Psalm 51.
And around verse seven, where David has literally murdered someone. This isn’t
just killing a sinner. And he needs to
be cleansed; he needs to be purged with hyssop. This is what he is talking
about. At the end of it, verse 17 or so, it talks, "you know what, if You
wanted bullocks or something, I'd offer them, but Thou wouldest not. Now what
we need is a broken and contrite spirit. We need to have truths in our inward
parts." This is what he is talking about. This fall has touched death, and
he was experiencing that fatality of death being with him. And he had lost the
joy of the Lord. I realize that it is getting late and everything, but at the
same time, this is not light stuff, this is serious stuff. And I will give you
one other thing, like objectively to chew on, around Numbers 32 when it talks
about how they had been out in battle. They're coming back with spoil, and
their leaders go out and meet them outside the camp, and they talk about that
before they, they have to stay out there seven days to go through the
purification process before they are even allowed back into the camp. And this
is where we see the water of separation coming in again. These guys have been
out there involved in killing people. They had touched death. And so they
needed to be cleansed, and they use the water of separation to do that. And
this is something that the younger people don't even have a clue about, in
terms of really loving one another, and really being involved in warfare were
people get killed. So this is involving some of the more serious elements. So
there's just a couple of different references that will give you something to
begin with.
BELIEVER 3: is the water of separation from the heifer,
like when the Bible talks about water of separation.
BELIEVER 5: yes that is directly related to the ashes of
the heifer...(That were sprinkled) on the unclean, and that allowed them to
participate in the congregation until they had been cleansed. These ashes of
the heifer, they need to be understood as far as how they are used with people
who have made contact with death, because in order to be able to get together
with one another have fellowship, it also applies to 1 John 1:7-9, in that area,
where it talks about walking in the light as He is in the light, having
fellowship with one another in the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all
sin and unrighteousness. This is the picture, and I think you'll find some
illustrations of this in, Brother (Witness) Lee knew a measure this, the notes
in the Recovery Version will get into this understanding of the heifer in that
portion. So I am just going ahead and communicating what needs to be
communicated about this offering, and I didn't go back and say exactly what I
said earlier, but as we continue the reality of this will continue working its
way out, so that we can become functional with this understanding of Christ. So
this is really so big because most of the time people are just communicating,
the priest are communicating about Christ as the male, they're the ones doing
the whole thing, the people are just passive, and it's terrible. The church is
so weak, so beggarly. So that is a little bit more on out of 1 John 1:7. And as
we interact, as we get together, we understand this better, then we will be
able to enjoy the benefits of being delivered from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, that the result of it was death. And then we will be brought
into such a relationship with our Father that we will be delivered from the
origin of evil in man, that happened through them partaking of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. Because it just wasn't this knowledge business, it
was the spirit behind that knowledge that the people got which took them away
from the presence of God, and this is why they died, the presence of evil, not
Original Sin, evil, from the Evil One that got him to eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. We need to be delivered from evil, and our Father
is the only one that can deliver us from the evil. And this is where, where
people don't have this understanding of heifer what they do is, because they
don't see themselves properly, from being cleansed from being one with the
devil and being murderous and deceivers, they can't even receive the love of
the Father, because they are unrighteous, because the image and likeness has
been marred, so it is only through Christ coming into us, providing us with the
righteousness, providing us with the self-consciousness of His image, that
allows us the ability to receive the agape love. This is incredible, this is
awesome. Because unless there is a place to be able to receive the love of the Father,
we wouldn't even take it. We would go, oh I'm unworthy, oh I don't deserve
that, I am unclean, unclean, unclean. So when we are cleansed by the water of
separation and the ashes of the heifer, we are literally cleansed from that. We
are literally delivered from our thoughts of being unworthy, from our thoughts
of being sinners, from thoughts of being evil. We are literally delivered. And
the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed, now it's sprinkled on our consciences,
and now we don't have an evil conscience anymore. Now we have His conscience.
And this is what Paul was talking to Timothy about when he said that, "the
end of the law is charity... Out of a good heart, a good conscience... Faith
unfeigned." These are the basics for our "normal Christian
life." So people go through these, you talk about the Scripture with one
another, and they vibrate with all the stuff. But unless this is in our
consciences ,Suneidesis in the Greek, which means shared knowledge,
having the same spiritual knowledge, the knowledge of knowing as we are known,
right, of being chosen, of being available to His choice, but comprehending
with the saints this love of God, the height, the depth, the width, and the
breadth, this is what we are talking about. This is all the middle voice; this
is all the communion of the spirit. Man I can't get over with, here it is 3:30
AM or whatever, and it is like This Eternal Life is ours to be enjoyed.
Unbelievable! We need to fellowship in this kind of life. If we are not having
this, if the blood of Jesus Christ and understanding of the real blood of Jesus
Christ, that this is the blood of this human being, that the actual blood flow
was mixed with the Father, that They had the same life, it was the life of the Father
and the Son. And when this blood is sprinkled on our consciences, our
consciences begin to experience the fellowship with the Father and the Son. This is the shared knowledge, the suneidesis.
This is not just some knowledge; this is knowing as you are known. This is looking into each other's eyes, and
being changed into the same image from glory to glory. Where we go into
different portions where it says, " And the servant of the Lord must not
strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness
instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth..." That
"acknowledging" of the truth right there, that right there is what we
are talking about; the acknowledgment of the truth. And it yes talking about,
and people didn't receive the love of the truth, they weren't saved. It wasn't
like, "oh I heard the truth." No, we need to have the love of
the truth. We need to be actively, loving involved with the truth of the
person. We are getting back to the original relationship that man was supposed
to have with God through the tree of life, that the enemy came in and
interfered with and conceived himself in them, evil. So anyways, I'll start
backing off here a little bit. This is our heritage, this is the basics. This
is where eternal life flows like a river and everything that touches will live.
Here is the river of the water of life, here is the symbolic water of
separation flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb, then everything that it
touches will live. Isn't this awesome! It says there is the tree of life
growing up in the middle of this river, and you know what, it has 12 manner of
fruit for the healing of the nations! We are talking about the real stuff you,
you know what I mean. God is interested in every single human being: past,
present, and future. Brothers, this is the flow. And this water is the water of
separation; this will separate us from death. And in the middle of being
separated from death, we will be able to enjoy eating from the tree of life.
"He who has an ear to hear let him hear, he who overcomes, I will grant
him to eat from the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of
God." How about that brothers? Are we having a meal or what. I'm over
here, and I keep reflecting on the clock, and on our humanness, retiring stuff
like this, and at the same time we are so hooked up with this life that it
isn't even funny.
BELIEVER 3: you know I was so tired, like the the
beginning of the meeting. I was kind of lying around on the couch, and I kind
of said to myself, "I don't care how the fellowship is going; I'm going to
leave at 2 AM. I'm going to go to bed." Them didn't and I'm glad I didn't.
BELIEVER 5: I'll tell you what; we are right in the main
line right now. This flow is unbelievable. This is the life that has the power
to take these dry bones and connect them all up. This is huge. We're not
talking about raising the dead of an individual. We are talking about raising
the dead humanity of a whole corporate nation, a people. We are talking about
the resurrection of the corporate dead. All of the human race, this kind of the
resurrection. Isn't this something glorious. How the heck is this going to
happen, unless the ashes of the heifer, unless this river that flows from the
throne goes out and literarily reaches everybody out in the desert.
BELIEVER 3: we need to know this river and be in it.
BELIEVER 5: yeah this river, it's water. But what kind of
water is? It's the kind of water that separates from death. It's pretty good
stuff huh! This hits anybody, and it literally separates them from death. Just
a little powerful, wouldn't you say. And you know what; I find that
unfortunately much of the secularized Christian church doesn't have even a clue
about this stuff.
BELIEVER 3: no, I have never heard this before. The water
of separation that separates us from death.
BELIEVER 5: and it is death that disqualifies us from
eternal life. And that is why Jesus came, to become that provision to separate
us from the separation. We're dealing with the second death here, by the way. I
got into some of the stuff the Jewish rabbis ‘materials on this.
BELIEVER 3: you know, they're looking for a future
Messiah. And they're looking for a future red heifer also. Have you heard of
that?
BELIEVER 5: I've got all the paperwork on it; I've been
following this for years with my friend over in Israel. This thing is being
played out geographically right now.
Because unless they have a heifer, they can't even, even though they
have all the Temple stuff and put the whole thing together, unless they have
this heifer to have the ashes they can't consecrate the priest to allow this
whole Temple thing to function. So it's like they are out of business. Now the
Lord God has already provided the heifer 2000 years ago. Now if they reject Him,
and they can't find another one, they are in trouble aren't they? So here's the
funny thing, you know what the rabbis have done, because they realize that they
need to have a Temple functioning and stuff, because they can't find one, I
have a friend of mine who knows these completed Jews who know Jesus as the
heifer that are kind of accepted in the Jewish community, the people that are
in the know, these guys, these rabbis are trying to find a loophole so that
they can function without a heifer. And so the other guys, they know these four
guys because they knew that Christ is their heifer, they said that they would
be willing to play along with the Jewish routine because they know that they
won't die. Because they have the real ashes of the heifer on them. And so there is a real funny thing that is going
on in the inner circle of these Jewish characters, because they're trying to
rearrange the rules. Because they
realize that they don't have any home base, they don't have any headquarters
yet, because the dome on the rock is still not functioning, they are like
homeless even though they're in the Promised Land. I used to communicate this
regularly, and I used to talk with people about the heifer through the Jewish
situation, just to get people's attention. But so many people, they don't have
an ear to hear, they are so busy self-centered in their own lives. They really didn't care. The richer ones, they
were just looking for a 501c3 so that they could donate their money and try to
sit on the board so that they could control the finances that went through the
church, to be on the Board of Directors. It was sick.
BELIEVER 3: you've seen some trash, you've seen some
death.
BELIEVER 5: when seemingly brothers and sisters are like
literarily betraying one another, and just fighting for power and everything,
it is quite disheartening. It's quite disheartening. It will tear you right up.
And you know when we talk about this love of the Father, I didn't learn this by
accident, I learned it because there was no other way to even be around people
without wanting to take them out. Like, eliminate them. Eliminate them. I won't
even go into it now, but I mean....
BELIEVER 3: you exhausted your own resources?
BELIEVER 5: absolutely, absolutely. And when you are toe
to toe with people and the other person deserves to die, and then it is like,
what's to stop from that happening? There needs to be an intervention, there
needs to be the love of the Father to love your enemies, when according to the
law you would have the right to eliminate them. I had one guy that called me up
one night that was loading the shotgun, and was getting ready to go and take
the guy out. And I said, "Listen, I know that you are so good at what you
do, before you pulled the trigger, at least give him a chance to accept
Christ." Well that stopped him. I felt that just being able to share that
truth with him in life, in the midst of pain, that the Lord intervened. So
anyways, these aren’t just nice little sayings. These things are in me; these
things are a part of me. This is not just a message, it is built in. Praise the
Lord. This Lord is alive, He is back from the dead, He loves His enemies to the
end. He says Father forgive them they don't even know what they're doing. This
is the real life. He is a lamb, and He is in us to be a lamb some more. And the
world needs this lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. So, it
is the summertime and our schedule is changing and it is like, this is what is
at hand not just the summertime, the kingdom of God. So what we want to do?
Have a job, have an education, and have a wife and all this stuff? Or do we
want to have Him and His love and see what He will have after that. I think
Jesus said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness."
And His righteousness, as a gift, and then His goes, "and you know what,
We'll add everything else, whatever you need. But if you try to do it
backwards, all your life you will be
screwed up." Trying to make things work. Terrible. Oh Lord cleanse us. So
what do you think shall we leave it there? This does go on and on, when we are
in a river, this river keeps flowing forever and ever. I mean I am a little bit
fired up, I don't think I'll be able to sleep anyways. Is BELIEVER 4 still
there? Because it is getting closer to 4:00 AM. Why don't we plan to be in
touch together if we're still alive? It will be great having more fellowship
along these lines and just seeing out resurrectingly Christ would like to live
through us. Amen.