16 October 2004

The Kingdom of the Everlasting

It is hard to comprehend that there was no time when God did not exist because he is from everlasting to everlasting - but there was a time when things did begin for us and there is a time when it will end for us and when we will be taken into the everlasting of God –
For if we are in Christ who is from everlasting then we have to be not only prepared and glorified in the flesh but more importantly in the heart for it is where God came from - it is the heart of God which is the everlasting of God - and it has to be seen as extremely far above us when seen against what will pass away – immortality has to be seen in its own light of Christ for any of what is unseen to be seen – for what can be seen came from what is not of the physical - and for us to come into the light of the knowledge that to last forever in everlasting kindness, righteousness, love, salvation, joy, light and life and to live forever in an everlasting Kingdom and with an everlasting Kingdom within us which never ceases to unfold around us and in us – is knowledge and understanding only comprehended by God but given to us through Jesus Christ –
For Jesus is the extremes of God and our God took all to its outer edge before he even came into the world to save it -
For the Son is the extremity of God’s heart and he went to the extreme with his Father so he could then go to the extremes with what was created through him, by him, and for him - so it too could be brought into the extremely intricate pattern of eternal life and into all of its power and beauty and so come into the everlasting of God with God - because we were prepared by God to live as he lives and to love as he loves –

And what is the everlasting? – Yes, it is life which lasts forever but what is life which lasts forever and how do we live in it and live with it -
For it is a forever lasting supreme realm of no compare set above all else for even though God brought into existence his creation - and gave it a time span and a point of reference where it did begin and where it would end - where the mortal and material would cease and the immortal and the formless beauty of God would take its place - for even though his creation came wrapped in time it was his intention to take it into the timeless everlasting with him - a place out of which nothing else can exist in an eternal state – for it is so intense with glory and exaltation of God - and it is his whole presence in its divine fullness and splendour and he wanted to share it and so exposed what he created to what is of the unspeakable - where life is honoured… and exalted…and revered - and in full and glorious detail …where love is in its full complete and intimate detail - where God is in all of his detail and oneness and the beauty of it is far past any beauty given unto the world – the world may have been the reflection of it but it was not it : but he did bring it to us once in full detail in Jesus Christ and wrapped it in flesh and covered it in his blood for it came to pour out the power of the forgiveness of sins in all of its glory and majesty but was seen in its resplendent form only through the eyes of God as it gave dignified and glorified resurrection to what God’s creation had lost – what had been cast aside in the time of mortality but which was raised again and given its full stature of glory and place of resurrection and honour -
For the everlasting was yet to have the fullness of its expression given to anyone else but the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit – the fullness of its blinding light and the fullness of its deafening truths – where the thoughts of God’s heart were being brought into and then past their full, pressed down and flowing over measure - where the Holy Spirit knew that God was ready to unmask himself and put a Name to a face - and a face to a Name – to reveal the heart of life and to let the life in his heart step forward…………and yes the face was the face of Jesus and the name was the name above all other names and the heart was the heart of the complete God and the life was the life of the supreme Godhead –
But it is not the physical face of Christ as seen in his mortal state, but the heart that was revealed in his face – a face of which was seen in the everlasting when the Lord took what was of an extra dimension of himself and gave it life and made the decision to reveal his majesty to those who would participate in life in the full – and he gave structure and heart and mind and soul and spirit to what was of no structure or thought of its own – and he structured a family for himself that would last – and a family that lasts is an extreme only given of God - given of God and which will have its place where there is no division of heart or motive – no division of glory or power - where the heart is undivided and where division is no more - for whether outside of NJ or whether inside all pertains to his empire of the everlasting – all are within his reconciling process – all within his word - all within his love - for all is in the everlasting for God has done the reconciling and endured the suffering but there is a time when true exaltation and honour to what he has done will take over -

For his word, even though it is a necessity to us it is still a luxury which never comes to an end – a luxury which we can indulge in always but more so when its luxurious content which is the eternal language of the heart of God does meet with ours and full and resplendent and as yet unheard of symphony is unleashed for God to indulge himself in - for such is he who is from everlasting to everlasting - for then we will truly know and see – for such is the heart of the word of God that when all is done and when all has been accomplished and God is fulfilled and satisfied the unheard orchestra of life will come into fullness of word in its ultimate glorified and resurrected state - for what will be heard in the everlasting is the full glory of God’s heart and all and every thought which did bring everything into his eternity – and so multi- dimensional and out of the reach of human and mortal understanding it is - for the everlasting was not made for us because it always was, but we are the creation which was inspired by it – for what the Lord lives in and is surrounded by and is filled with brought his heart into amazing responses - and what he has put together in the enormity of his plan no man can put asunder for man is only a thought of God which his glory wrapped itself around and made into what would give God pleasure and to bring unto him maybe one or perhaps more than one who he could reveal his heart to – his glory to – his word to – and his love to - for we may live in it fully when we move into eternity - but it is for God to reveal it to us for only he can open the eyes of our heart to it - for we see only what our hearts can see and if we want to see more and give God the glory and honour overdue him we have to meet God on this –

We have to be so bold upfront and personal with him for to see all of it, and be of one who has it all revealed to them by the Lord - takes one who will not side step or step aside – who will not turn at the voice of men or be found sleeping nor be one who prostitutes the giftings of God – nor one who did fail to give him food when he was hungry- and drink when he was thirsty – nor did welcome him in when he was a stranger nor failed to clothe him when he was naked nor visit him when he was sick and in prison -
For it is for God to reveal the heart to us and for us to search it in the manner of the Holy Spirit – for God prepared his Holy Spirit to come to us for he was the one who searched out the Father and knew his every thought, his every intention and every sequel and consequence to every pattern of his thoughts …and he was prepared and made ready to come into the world because he is the Spirit of the heart of Creation and he brings us the extremes of God and reminds us of the extremes of God – and feeling the difference between what is created and what is not is feeling, and living in, and having live in you, the extremely supernatural and yet natural God and being aware of him – because when we are in full awareness of the one who lives in us who is the Holy Spirit – then we are aware that we are different and that our lives are now different and our thoughts and speech and actions are different - and when our awareness of the Holy Spirit steps over into the extremes we are filled with thoughts of God which take us directly into his heart and before his throne - and then those thoughts manifest around us in the form of miracles as his word moves into its fulfilment as his written scriptures now manifest off the page they are written on, as the manifest power of God raises them into the glory of their fulfilment -

For the fulfilment of the word of God fills the Lord with more life – eternal life has more life as it comes into more of its fulfilment - for life is here to stay and what we have in us of God is here to stay one way or another and when the word of God is moving into all of its fulfilment we will feel the difference between what is created and what is not - for God’s word is not created but it does create and it is where the uncreated and the created come together……. – where the thoughts of God are our thoughts for they are higher than ours - the thoughts God has, are higher than ours and when we have thoughts of God they are higher than the thoughts we have of the world and so produce higher and more powerful and lasting results which exalt our Lord and bring honour to he who is in the highest -

For it is thinking with a heart centred on the Lord and what he is driven by, and having our thoughts go into the bottomless depths of what powers and moves and drives him - and we need the Holy Spirit to take our spirit and to make it one with him as our thoughts reach further into his word and his ways - for when we are in this place with him and following his word - as we are following Jesus – we see that Jesus is the outcome of God’s thoughts and it is like we are following God’s thoughts and watching them come into their manifestation in ways of miracles and wonders and signs to see what is unseen and to see how the unseen forms into what can be seen - for it is all held in Jesus - it is all Jesus from the thought to the word to the effects and the outcome – it is thinking about him and the things of him, and as we go into imitation of the perfect the Holy Spirit searches us and brings into manifest presence our deepest thoughts and if they are of the thoughts of God, and of his heart, and of his interests then what will manifest will glorify him and bring him praises from near and far - coming to him constantly to have him praised and glorified endlessly as the heart and thoughts which power these responses flow without interruption through us – for it is to have gone from the created mind to the Creator’s mind and to be aware of the difference - to be aware of God in us – aware of eternity in us – aware of the power in us who is the Holy Spirit in us -

For we do not know how long creation took to be formed in the heart of God ~
We do not know how long Adam took to form in the heart of God before he manifested out of the dust instantly mature in his physical state – for the Holy Spirit took each separate thought of God and brought them all into one and then such the form of man appeared – for each bottomless thought in its own right was searched out and examined and explored with great diligence by the Holy Spirit for it was the image of God that was being brought into a visual form as the Holy Spirit worked with perfect thoughts, with a perfect heart and a perfect mind and with perfect love – and he put every response in all of its forms together piece by piece - for it was out of the one who is the image of life that came all things - for out of his own image did God create and fashion what would last –
For all of which will pass away was made to pass away - and all of which will last was made to last - for it was out of his powerful love that moves in all and every direction that his thoughts are formed - his love of life, his love of oneness, his love of unity - his love of family, his love of making known and sharing what is his - and it is God in his extremes and doing what he does extremely well when he moved into the restricted form of the physical, and for one who is Spirit and without containment that is an extreme - for then what is unseen is now seen what hidden now made known what concealed now searched out and what was closed now open –
For what the Lord opens no one will shut and what he shuts no one will open
For who can open what the Spirit of God has not diligently searched and examined and explored and hovered over and then brought into its prescribed manifestation - for we cannot examine search explore as he does, to the extent he does, to the extreme that he does, with the knowledge and understanding and wisdom he has - we just cannot do it unless he desires to take us to the extremes of his work with him and to make us so like him that we can search out the heart of God with him - for who can search the thoughts of a man except his spirit and it is by the Holy Spirit that we know the mind and heart of God and by no other means do we enter into God except through Jesus Christ, for what he thinks and what he has in constant workings in him can only be for the Spirit to give us understanding and knowledge of for we were, and still are only a constant thought in God’s mind and we are kept manifest in the physical by the power of his word – and it is the truth that drives us further into a deepness we know nothing of – constantly pursuing what it holds of the Lord as we stretch to reach what is held in the eternity of him – the greater things the greatest things ….which are the only things we now have in our hearts and minds…

And the thoughts of our Lord turn to all of which our hearts are filled with, and he ponders over them and searches and examines and explores them as they are brought before him and drawn into him as he responds to their texture and their nature and their extreme searching quality which reaches into him - for the Holy Spirit searches the incredible deepness of God and goes into places we cannot even entertain in our brains let alone hold in our hearts and he brings all of what God has in himself concerning us in all of its complex detail and he gives it manifest form - but if we have not touched God and loved him then we are not known by him – and have not been forthright and diligent like the Holy Spirit in our deep searching and delving into him - for creation in universal ways is always on his mind and in his heart but it is to break out and come before him and even though still only a thought of God, but to be standing in front of him –
It is to make that thought so boldly stand out and look different and be different and to touch his heart differently – to have stepped out from the mainstream of all of which God does sustain, and enter into the thoughts of God at the extreme level at where he is - and to be one with the thoughts of his heart - to be of the nature of he who is extreme and present ourselves to him as a wildcard – that he might take advantage of our boldness and if we are to be saying I am co heir with Jesus Christ, then to take on that role past speaking it, and act on it, and be the part and take our co- heirship and honour it before God and even though he knows all of what we are made of – to then take what we are made of and drive it to the extremes and push it into where everlasting meets everlasting –
For my God! Is that not only a fragment of what we can do for him – or present to him – or offer to him – to be a thought in his mind which takes his attention even if when he turns to see who stands before him we are swept away as he glances at us – because if we do not love with a love which excels and exceeds and powers past all else as if all else is standing still – and then continue to go for all of which we are being drawn to in our God and in our Father and in our Lord - then we will never come to him in a way which may have us brought back to dust in his sight, but in a way which just may have met him at where he has been waiting for us to come and meet with him -
But indeed to fear the Lord is wisdom and the choice part of knowledge and it is pure and lasts forever and it leads to life and life is GOD - the fear of the Lord leads to the Lord – it leads to God but within that reverent fear of him has to be an incredible love which drives us to the boundaries but yet refuse to be stopped by them - for God is past any and all boundaries and so we move past them for there is nothing except God who can keep us at any distance from him - and what draws us with such intensity has to be God himself – for the fear of the Lord and the love of the Lord when combined results in incredible boldness for that is the state of our hearts – bold and unashamedly wanting the Lord at all cost even though we do not know what it is we are moving towards with such a fierceness of desire of heart ~
For if we are created out of his glory - out of his word - out of his heart - and out of his desire to share all of which is his with those who are his own - and if we were inspired to be created by the absolutely indescribable glory of the everlasting – then what are we, and who are we to be, if we came into being from thoughts which so filled our God’s heart with glory and splendour and dreams and hopes and visions beyond all else - then who are we suppose to be, and what incredible things are we meant to be doing to glorify the one who gave us this incredible life which will not end when taken into its completed state – in an eternity which so inspired God’s creative work to such an extreme measure of himself – that life desired more life – and glory more glory and splendour more splendour and eternity more eternity ……….

And Yes, it is to be the full and glorious measure and stature of our Lord Jesus Christ - but Christ is yet to be seen and revealed as he is - so what we are to be we do not fully know yet - for what he has for us to do and perform and move into while on this earth is a taste a touch just a hint, of what it is he has created in the fullness not only for us, but created in the fullness in us –for he did not create with incomplete thoughts and incomplete words -
For he formed in the heart of the everlasting all in its completed state - and planted all of which was extremely and deeply of him in his created beings and brewed over it and being satisfied that all was complete, he brought it into its beginning and made all of his great eternal plan come alive and have breath and movement and choice and be of a decision making being - for the decision making and choice and faithfulness to God and his power of thought and heart was to draw us into the great majesty from which we came - and which we will go back to after we have gone through the essential refining process -
For how refined do we have to be to go where we are going - how refined is God’s heart - how refined is refined when God is doing the refining – how refined are the thoughts and words of God - for it was what unfolded in him which so inspired God to bring into life prospective sons and daughters heirs and kings ones after his own heart who could and would see and feel things the way he does – for to share what is held in his everlasting glory - his everlasting word – and to share his heart we have to understand the very fibre of the thoughts of which fill him – how intense and pure and radiant and spectacular and complete they are - for how complete and of the radiance of God in all his purity and intensity is Jesus who holds eternal life - for life in God is complete and so much so that life came out of life - word came out of word - glory from glory - splendour from splendour as his majesty never ceases to unfold and be raised to the height of heights -
And the hopes of filling this glorious lasting brilliance which is life and which is light in its perfect contours and colours did lead the Lord to having thoughts of what can only be of the extreme - and then he stepped out of the extreme and into the outermost – into the utmost lengths in every direction and in every action and in every word and in every reward - and that is why there is no middle road – there is no lukewarm – no average – no ordinary – no half way – no lesser degree than the greatest degree – for we go for what is rarely seen and that is Christ in us in full power – and then taking all of which is given us from above and giving it its maximum glory as the extremes of the Lord take in its hand all of which belongs to God and which he formed out of his glory and his resplendent and eternal love and give exaltation to the One who gave all of life- life in the full – because life in the full is stepping into the outermost of the extreme and God who is Life and is all of its extreme and outermost qualities, and he is no average person - no ordinary person- he does not go half way but starts at the extreme and then takes it all the way with him–
For God in the flesh is extreme – people he could call his own and who would call him Father was extreme – to have all call on the Name of the Lord was extreme – so extreme and so extremely painful because who would step into the extreme of him, as be as his only begotten Son and go all the way –
For the all of God was filled to overflowing with the prospect of sharing what would never end, and he stepped over the threshold of the outer of the extremes of himself and had such great plans for what was born out of such magnificence and such love – out of such glory and vision and insight and wisdom and understanding and out of such zealousness and jealousness for his own – out of what was born out of his nature: out of his Spirit and out of his Son -

For to God what can not be of magnificence and destined for great things when born from the heart of the Godhead – for all his purposes are not yet fully revealed for there cannot be full revelation of them until Jesus who is the full revelation of God, brings all into its complete state and into its refinement –
For the way to such everlasting life is to enter into and through the purity and perfection of God the Son for what we are reaching into and will eternally go to is the heart of our Creator - it is the heart of our Father - it is the heart of the Godhead in their full majesty -
And Jesus leads and we follow – Jesus speaks and we listen – Jesus does and we do also –
For it is where every thought is made manifest, and who we are and what we have in us is written in our hearts and we just have to think it and the glory of it is given unto God - all being instant and yet all being never ending …… for the depth of it is never ending - the revelation of it never ending - the thought of it never ending - the manifestation and the word of it never ending - and the love which transpires within God never ending as is the love inspired in his people is to be of the never ending –
It is where God receives endless adulation and praise and worship for that is the state of the everlasting – that is the nature of the everlasting - and what it inspires in us is the same as what it inspired in God when he created out of what so filled his heart to overflowing - and then we are as God – inspired as he is and create as he does for there is an art in creating what is to be of the eternal – there is an art in what God does and when we master it his glory lifts his entire being into exaltation far beyond what we have ever brought to him before - and we have moved into the fuller of the fullness of the stature of Jesus Christ through whom all things were created –

For we cannot earn our salvation but we can be determined to do an amazing and awesome job with all of what the Lord sends us out to do as we interact with God the Holy Spirit and God the Father and God the Son as we take the task at hand and carry it out at the maximum of our ability - for that is reaching into God and being adamant that he will be glorified - that he will not have unprofitable servants - unprofitable sons or daughters for all of which he has given he will receive back as the measure of our heart goes into the outermost and utmost of extreme and our love and boldness makes us take a stand for Christ which is extremely powerful - for it cannot be anything else for anything less will not suffice - for nothing less than his Son did the Father give to redeem us, but even though we can never pay back to God the price of our redemption – we can bring all of what we have to him, and take all of what he has given us, and take mount and ride with it for God knows what we can do - he knows what we are capable of - he knows what we have in us that is of the everlasting and is waiting for us to use it : and to step out of from the ordinary and into the extra ordinary for Jesus is no ordinary Son and those who pursue him in great boldness and without tiring can be no ordinary son or daughter – so let us find out what God already knows about us and take it to its limit which has no end if we are co heirs with Christ - and stretch it from the alpha to the omega - for our Lord deserves it – he deserves to see and feel hearts which are already living in the eternal and which have died to the world and have taken up the life of the eternity and that life is God – and that life is with God, and that life is in God - and that life is now and that life is the everlasting and is of the deepest parts of our God’s heart and soul and it will not fade away- it will not tire - and it will not turn lukewarm or be ordinary or average or be less than perfect nor fail to be complete-

For the secrets of the Lord are for those who fear him as are the eyes of the Lord on those who fear him so Fear God and give him glory - Love God and give him praise -
Worship the Lord in the splendour of his holiness and go with the Lord your God and endure and enjoy the extremes of him and manifest the power and the heart of him, and live in the love of him, and share in the secrets of him - for he is to be loved, and he is to be shared, and he is to be manifested and he is to be lived for - and it is to exceed the dreams of his heart – to outrun them and as they soar to the heights to be soaring even higher by being the extremes of his heart –
For where his heart does go, then we are there with him, and in him, and for him - having stepped into the outermost – into the utmost of his lengths which he goes in every direction with every action and by every word – and be of the every outermost extremes of him and not middle of the road – to be hotter than hot because lukewarm for Christ does not exist when you are in the very core of the heart of God – just as there is no average – no ordinary – no half way – no lesser degree – for in his heart is what is not rarely seen - but is always and eternally seen and that is Jesus Christ in full power and maximum glory - just as it is the extremes of God are which make us just like Jesus – and which make us no ordinary disciple – because life in the full is stepping into the outermost of the extreme and God who is Life, and he is no average God - and has no ordinary heart and he does not go half way but starts at the extreme and takes it all the way in every direction – and who can restrain and keep quiet all of which came from him and all of which surrounds him and all of which dwells in him - for even his thoughts and dreams and hopes, and desires – even all of his expectations and all of his everlasting glory …will raise up and shout and proclaim the glory of the One who is, and who was and who is to come – the one who is alive forever and holds the keys to death and Hades – the one who is the holy One, the True One – the one who is the one and only true God and apart from him there is no other God – and apart from him there is no great reward – apart from him all of which we think are of the extreme are a waste of time - for he comes to us when we will not expect him so it is that we have to be expecting of his return each and every second – we have to have our hearts prepared and have his return in the flesh already a part of our heart so much so that it is evident in what is taking place around us and in us ..
When the fear of God in us and the love of God in us meet in boldness for it will be in boldness and in love and in reverent fear of the Lord that we will stay to meet our Lord on the Mount of Olives - when the heart of God in us reaches the great unfolding of all of which is Christ in us the hope of Glory ~

AMEN