30 October 2004

The Kingdom Of God Belongs To Such As These

The Kingdom of God belongs to little children and those who receive the Kingdom and accept it and welcome it with the faith and heart like that of a child because God has a heart that only the purity of a child can match - for it is a heart which can receive and accept and welcome the same things that God receives, that God accepts, and that God welcomes into his heart, and into his Kingdom, and into his secrets, and into his discipline, and into his love –
And only these qualities in us can reach out to the heart of God and so identify with it – drawing more of his word into the light that Christ has put in us - for such is the power that comes from such a heart and it is what God searches for –
The power of the Kingdom in men and women mature in Christ and retaining the qualities which adhere the Kingdom to themselves with a surging purity of a heart and power which can only reside in a child, and those who cling to the purity and openness and eagerness and willingness given unto children - seeing them as a light given to us in the darkness of our lost innocence, so as to have resurrect in us what has died and given way to hardness and narrow mindedness and blatant carelessness – for the power that comes from such a heart is the power of miraculous unfoldings for that is how life manifest first unfolded – through the miracle of the unfolding of God’s pure word from a pure heart -
And the Kingdom belongs to such as these because the Kingdom came from such as these - For if God in his Trinity does not have the heart which is of the qualities of a heart which he placed in a child then the Father would not have a heart which relates to and gives his kingdom to what is the innate and astounding innocence and resilience and unconditional love and forgiveness which abides in children and those that have resurrected in them what never should have been lost or put to death but only should have been brought into the maturity of which comes from knowing God – by knowing the one who made our hearts and who speaks into them to bring them back to life as they are created anew by his words – words which always seek to unfold and give of God and his secret wisdom unto those who are one with him in word –
For his heart and the words which abound in it does make the children into sons – and into daughters - into co heirs and into kings – into ones just like Jesus as he takes us into the far distance of where his fatherhood does go - into where his family does go – and into the vast expanse of belonging to God and what belonging to God does bring to our heart and souls as they seek and pant for the one who waters and refreshes us – and brings joy that is so thick and tangible that you can touch it because it has a presence of its own, because it is instigated by the unending compassionate release of God to us - and it is powered by his endless search for ones who have the sweet gold nectar of the kingdom running through their being – a being which is made up of word purified as gold in a consuming fire -

For his heart – God’s heart and all that is in it, will take us into a mature and wise innocence born out of knowledge and given power by a heart which has the understanding of one who knows good and evil, and has gone to the depth of evil and is now able by the grace of God to come into the heights of all of which is good – into the heights of God who is good and who has no evil in him -
For the heart of the word of God is for the unfolding of each member of the family – and it starts with each member of the Trinity - for all of the Trinity has to unfold and give release of the word through each of them - for God’s word is manifold having many different parts and elements and features and forms and operating many things at once and comes through the all of God - because it is the all of God – and it comes through the three of them for it to be of its complete and finished state - for the all of God brought it forth and so the all of God brings it into the fullness of its revelation –
And as it comes through the all of the three persons of God – then the all of what word has to say can pour into those of whom have the deep and receptive and willing heart which the Lord afforded and gave unto children for safe keeping –
For safe keeping and as a witness to what is in the most intimate parts of the heart of God - Given to keep safe within those who drink in from the heart and so who then can forgive from the heart because as they see God in his word - and the word in God - they see how senseless it is to try to contain and bring restraint to what is of the eternal - and only God’s way in retaining and forgiving sins is the eternal way – the eternal way of his word which is always praising and revealing God as it streams out life in torrents - but we caution it and so bring into manifestation only a part of the deluge of its flow - but if the heart of which is afforded unto children and to those who retain the God given qualities given to the little ones of God is the essence of our hearts – then therein lays our greatest asset as the creation in us of a new heart is the creation in us of the Kingdom of God and the secrets of the knowledge of his Kingdom of word –and his Kingdom of the Heart ~

The Kingdom which is God comes from out of his heart and that is why it can only be formed in our hearts, and if anywhere else then it is not the Kingdom of God - for then we try to form it ourselves as we separate his word and divide and cut it into what is received accepted and welcomed, and what is not - and we want to see it somewhere else, but not in us as we try to form it separate from us to view it from a distance, with speculation to its worth and its measure and its content as we try to take from it and seal it unto us alone without Christ as our Lord and cornerstone - and we take the denarius and try to compare its content and worth to that of the Kingdom and put value on what can not have a price attached to it, as we compare what can have no comparison lodged against it – and we try to manufacture it ourselves out of deeds, and from the teachings of blind guides - and it may seem to be a reflection of God’s Kingdom but it is not the Kingdom – it may seem to be similar because it bring us satisfaction and acclaim and praise but it is not the Kingdom – we may be copying what may be duly seen of God and try to plant it somewhere else but it is not the Kingdom –
Because God’s Kingdom cannot form outside of us – it cannot form out of deeds and blind teachings – it cannot form outside of suffering, outside of perseverance, outside of patience, outside of sacrifice, outside of obedience, outside of love - it cannot form outside of God’s word and outside of God’s Spirit and outside of God’s heart - and can never be separated from God’s Christ - and there is no Kingdom which can form in us in the same way and which can take rightful and righteous possession of our hearts and souls and minds and spirit and flesh and blood and be of a constant passion and purpose, and bring us to a repentance and a determination, and be of unparalleled love and sacrifice, and be canopied with patience endurance unto to death - as does the Kingdom of God –
No other Kingdom sacrifices the heir so as to have co heirs that were once enemies – no other Kingdom sacrifices the only begotten Son and the King of the Kingdom so that the enemies may be reconciled to the Father of the Kingdom so that they may be co heirs with the heir and Son of the Father – no other Kingdom will stand against all else which takes away the rights that life in abundance has - and make lack and greed and unrighteous accumulation be seen for what it is and bring it low and make it cower as God does make it cower before the feet of our Lord Jesus - as He, in all of his great power and wisdom holds himself in perfect grace and humility as what cannot help to overflow out of him pours out profusely before the eyes of all men – the wealth and riches and glory of God – the kingdom pours its riches out of our Lord with such immense humility and dignity and grace as the truth and power and wealth of God cannot help but manifest as its full revelation even from eternity past is made known as the mystery of God is revealed and the overflow of the abundance cascades through and out of every part of our Lord – out of every part of Word manifest as it flows and flows with such a holiness as it covers all and everything that is made by his word, and of which the power of his word sustains and maintains and nurtures and gives life -
There is no other Kingdom but the Kingdom of God - for all others which take the name and are called a kingdom are not the Kingdom of God even though many are given status by the Lord and rise to take their place within his purposes as kings and kingdoms but is only as they wait for the Lord to bring all into the one and only everlasting Kingdom of the eternal God who is eternal Word Complete –

And the Kingdom holds it all - all the purposes for all the words and actions of God way beyond what we now know and understand ~
For there has to be a purpose to the Lord’s suffering and a purpose to ours as we follow his lead - there has to be a purpose to his sacrifice and to ours as we take up his word and obey and practise it - there has to be a purpose to hanging on a Roman cross when there was power to dissolve that cross into nothing, and a purpose to our hanging on with all we have in us, to all of which the cross of salvation brought from heaven to earth and then from earth to heaven -
There has to be a purpose to God revealing the mystery of himself – there has to be a purpose to word becoming manifest and light being given so we could see what was always there but was only always unto God - there has to be a purpose to walking on a razors edge which is so narrow and so sharp that each step cuts into our being and spears up into our hearts – a purpose to pouring out our jealousy and love for God and what belongs to him - a purpose to why we yearn to fully feel in all our senses our belonging to God – and he fulfils all his ways and purposes with himself, and fills our every sense with himself, as he gives to us as yet unheard of words and as yet unfelt of gestures of his soul so we who need his comfort are comforted - and we who yearn to be where we are to be and with whom we are meant to be with are given through all of our senses the total and complete sense and purpose of who we belong to - as he speaks into us the purposes of his heart as he draws all parts of the Kingdom - gathering from all of its far reaches so as to give unto us what will make it a reality for us - pouring into us revelations from the Father because we as a part of is word, need the Father of word – need to have the closeness of our Father wrap himself around us - and we have the revelations from the Son because we need the Son of God and to listen to the words of his wisdom – we need the Son of our Father who is our Saviour and our Lord – the King and Heir of the Kingdom of God, who gave his life to bring us into a salvation that offered co- heirship with him - because he who was dead is now alive forever and brings us into that same life which will never cease and gives us the offer to live it with him - because he is the true light of the world and came so the word of God would be seen and heard and felt and known so no one would miss out on knowing the purpose of why all things are as they are - and know that it will lead to where all things will be as they should be - as we now move into the revelations from the Holy Spirit: because we all need the Spirit of the word which is life and which is the truth of God - we need the fullness of the threefold God to unfold to us, and to see far into the mystery of why we were spared - to see the all of it, as each detail of it goes deeper - for the one who deeply examines and explores the heart and mind of God is speaking now of what he holds in himself - for the threefold God reveals his word to us through each of their hearts - for God and his will to be made known in extra depth - for the Father speaks and then the Son and now the Holy Spirit speaks and we have the full dimension of God in full array and made known to us - and that transcends and outweighs all of what comes and goes in the lead up to the fulfilment of God and his word -

And even as we look at what we are, or are not, presenting to the Lord and doing for the him - and see that no matter how it seems to us that it is outweighed by the consummate weight and power of the Lord - for he is our ability to hang on to even the smallest thread and to not let go for even the smallest thread, the smallest word of God has the power in it to make our thoughts captive to only Jesus and Jesus only - as we hang on to the one we belong to because he not only lights the way for us but is the light and the way for us –
For it is not hanging on to the visible displays of great power or great anointing but clinging to and hanging on to the heart of the word which the Spirit of the word exposes to us - and extends liberally and graciously and willingly to us just as he does his outstretched arm and open hand which he reaches forth through all of eternity so as to reach unto us – he parts eternity, he parts the heavens, and he parts the seas and he parts the earth to get to us and so we can get to him - for that is how we are reaching out to him when in our maturing process we have the heart and faith like that of a child, who does not know when to give up when they see before them the one their heart yearns and pines for – for that is the maturing process - it is not going backwards into our childhood but it is only in our maturity in Christ that we can ever have this type of faith and heartfelt and open and willing response to God with full acceptance of him without any doubts or disbelief – and so be far away from a heart which is without such a refinement and which spurns such a comparison to that of a child - turning away from what seems to be just a childish fantasy of kingdoms and kings and lords princes and wealth and riches beyond measure – but he who turns away will then himself be turned away and cast into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth -

For as the refining process of our walk in Christ increases, it makes us truly walk the fine line that only one with the heart like that of a child would ever walk and pursue - because it is that type of heart which only sees the Lord and not the suffering and not the sacrifice and not the pain and not the grief and not even the miracles – they do not refuse the suffering and sacrifice and pain and grief or trials or miracles - it is just that it does not take precedence and stand in front of the Lord and conceal him from sight - so that what we are looking at is fragments of him and not the all of him as he is one - to see only Jesus and see all as in the context of Jesus Christ and his eternal life of word – that it is all one - and what is all one has already been made perfect - so we are not perfecting through suffering what already has been perfected - but it is that we are in the word of God, and we are of the word of God, and held together by the word of God as the truth of Jesus is made manifest in us - who in ourselves are of the manifested physical existence of God’s word - so it is that suffering is not the only focus or sacrifice the only focus or pain or grief or trials or miracles or anointing the only focus - but Jesus in the wholeness of word is the focus – just as this type of heart of which resides in a child only sees and hears the Lord and has no doubts or disbelief or idolatry - no rebellion and no pride and has no ulterior motive because they are motivated by Jesus entirely and not by the power or glory or riches - and they come to where they belong - and to whom they belong and it takes only one word from his mouth and one utterance from his heart and one glance from his eyes – for nothing kept the Father out of the view and hearing and heart of Jesus – and nothing is to keep Jesus out of our view and hearing and heart for he appeared to us in the oneness of word which made up his physical manifest presence – and he is the whole and complete word of God as spoken by the Father and as spoken by Jesus and as spoken by the Holy Spirit –
All of which is the Word of God is in the manifest presence of Jesus Christ - and the Father gave him the words to speak out which would dissolve all other words which brought physical and spiritual manifestations which were born out of words without the power of life – and Jesus spoke the words which would manifest in us healing and life …words which restored and resurrected us physically and spiritually -

For there has to be an attachment of heart and soul to the Kingdom of our God which is word - an attachment which is so strong and powerful that it overrides all of which comes in to overwhelm and flatten us and bring our hearts into focusing only on the suffering and the grief and the trials - and not on the heart and words of the Lord with whom all things are possible -
For it is his words which give purpose to the sacrifice and to the suffering and to the pain and trials and even to the miracles and the anointing - for even though we can feel the interference and the intrusion - we find we can only hold more fiercely to our Lord who is our focus because Jesus is our sure and true foundation on which we have built - and because if we do not have the eternal foundation of Christ we are swept away by what may seem easier and what we will be made to think will still get us to where God wants us to be - but it is that God made Jesus the focus and the foundation for us – because we need to have a focus for our heart and minds – for our spirits and our souls which is God’s focus and God’s sure foundation on which to have his word built and formed in us – and he made Jesus the entirety of his word for us because we need his entire word to know and understand him - so as to come to him and to know he who is word himself - so we can merge as word with THE Word and survive what is only the prelude to a life in the fullness of the Kingdom formed and built on word – and he made Jesus his manifest truth for us to take us through the times of struggle when our fingers are torn and bleeding from the grip we have on the sharp edges of his mountain as he takes us to the extreme sharpness of his word - because to walk the road of Christ and to climb the mountain of the Lord takes the truth of the Lord made manifest in our lives - just as the Father made Jesus the manifest way for our lives so we could see as well as hear what is the right direction for us to go in - no matter what our mind tries to tell us and persuade us to do – and he made him the manifestation of eternal life so we could physically touch him – he made Jesus his manifest focus – his manifest word, his manifest way to the truth of the mystery of God - and without him we could not even be near the mountain of the Lord let alone ascending it far above into where word becomes what we are breathing in its pure and solid form -
For without Jesus we cannot breathe in the words which replace the air we are used to breathing - for when we meet them in their own territory they are solid in power and in authority and without a shadow of a doubt without Jesus Christ we are eternally at the foot of the mountain and lost in the desert of sin and completely blind and forever lame and crippled – and without speech and without power and without heart and without word and without breathe and without God and oh so far from his Kingdom of eternal life -
For He is the purpose and the focus and the Kingdom which surpasses all - for the voice and the actions of men are not born out of a kingdom life nor any regal or righteous upbringing which gives them footing into the life of a King and the heart of a King or the ways of a King or the words of a King nor the sacrifice and suffering and patience and wisdom and knowledge and understanding of a King who has an eternal Kingdom – but Jesus who is the King of all kings is born out of the kingdom of pure word - and that is what draws us to focus on him even when we are not aware of it – as the power of the unseen makes itself known, for what we are drawn by is the Spirit of the word – the pure Spirit of the word and the pure Spirit of the Kingdom and the pure Spirit of the eternal heart – the Spirit of who we belong to, and he is what our hearts and souls feel even though the greater understanding of it only rests in the Lord - for it is to focus on him and all is within that focus - all within that intense meditation on what his word is saying to us, and performing for us, and unveiling to us and allowing us to witness of God himself -
And many place their attention on the many things which they believe they are doing for God and they take their eyes off Jesus himself and look at their so called great sacrifice and their great trials and their great anointing - and that will be what kills them - for focus on the Lord in his oneness is what keeps us alive to stand in God’s powerful word and the power of his word which sustains and maintains all things - and we are to dwell in it, and with it and to sustain its presence in us for that is the Kingdom of God which dwells within us - and to have the Kingdom of God within us is no small feat for our Lord even though nothing is too hard for him to accomplish - because sometimes the things he has to say are hard for him to say - and the things he has do are hard for him to do – for even though it is easy to do in his power it is hard to do in his heart – but he does it out of necessity – for it is done to us in accordance with the idolatry we have set up in our hearts – and so he does what has to be done for the good of the Kingdom and comes to us in the ways he has to come to us for the good of the Kingdom - for even the ways he comes to us is in accordance to what we hold up in our hearts - but is now that the end is near -

And the Holy Spirit who breathes out God into all of us - when he speaks out of his own heart, all of which he has brought into manifestation for the Father and for Jesus is felt as he felt it - and he speaks now because the one who manifests all things has stepped forward and in voice of the third person of the Trinity, and is now to give manifest of what is in his heart and expose what is in ours -
And what is in his heart is the culmination of all from eternity past - to what transpired from the time the first words were spoken by the Father up to and including now and then into what is still to come -
For when God the Father, and God the Son speak, the Holy Spirit does respond in power and action but also responds in his heart and converses with the other two persons of God within the closed sanctuary of that silent heart - for all of which the Father had in him has been poured out – poured out on all flesh - and all of which Jesus had in him has been poured out for he has authority over all flesh - and now all of which the Holy Spirit has in him has to be poured out for all has to be released on the earth as it is the heavens of God - for the Spirit brought creation into being and prepared it for Jesus as he went forth and fulfilled all of which the Father had in his heart and all of which he spoke - and now he is going to prepare it again for Jesus by all of which is in his heart and all of which he has yet to speak - for that is the way they work – that was the purpose of his period of silence and solitude which brought what was kept in his heart to its full measure by only speaking what he heard for the prescribed duration of time, and keeping all of the third person of the Trinity held within the heart of the Kingdom of word - for all of which he has controlled and kept in the holy sanctuary and kept in pure silence and solitude and encased in the power of self control – when it is released we will see the power which it takes to bring back the Lord Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity in the flesh – we will see the power which it did take to bring back the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead – the Holy Spirit is now going to issue his full power for the world once more to see the resurrection power of God as it remains hidden no longer -

And all of which he has held in his heart - as it came into its overflow utterance and groans could be heard - and now it is at full of measure and it is time for it to come into its release - for his time to speak as well as to be the power source of the Trinity has come - and is in increased power because the power of God which is the Holy Spirit of God, now speaks on his own as well as acts on his own words - as they are given forth in full and ripened fruitage as his voice is now heard and his heart is now felt and his presence now made fully known -
And within their complete and perfect oneness the great and Almighty God of heaven and earth will speak as he has never spoken before because the last of the revelations are to come not only through the Holy Spirit but given by him as he gives further unfolding of what has already been spread out - and takes the scriptures of God and opens them into their threefold release - giving full revelation as the Spirit himself speaks the Spirit of the word - because it takes the three of them to give full unveiling of God for the three of them are God – and the three of them do speak and have words which have to be spoken and heard for complete fulfilment of his word to take place –
Jesus is word manifest but the all of God is word and all have words which have to be spoken into their eternity to make eternity the eternity of God …
And as we take the pure words of God in the old Testament and join them with the pure words of God given in the New Testament and feel their texture as the unwritten and as yet unspoken words of God the Holy Spirit are added to their weight - as we start to feel the full and true weight of the all of God – the all of his Kingdom - for it may be unwritten as in a form we know - but written nevertheless in the form of God and the forms of which he takes but with the entire contents not inspired by the Holy Spirit to be given their written script by men and for their content to be read as we would read it - for when he inspired the scriptures he was not speaking on his own but reminding those who wrote for him what Jesus had said and done, and what the Father had said and done, giving them their oneness and giving the Father and Son their distinctness as two persons - for that was to come first so that we had firmly founded and planted in us our true and sure foundation which is God’s Christ, so that when the Holy Spirit came in his power, and in his word, we would be able to stand and not have the mighty wind of God which precedes him level us to the ground -
And just as the Father prepared us for Jesus so Jesus prepared us for the Holy Spirit – for it is only because Jesus came and did become our only sure and firm and eternal foundation and the only cornerstone on which we can build, and on which will see us remain standing when the Holy Spirit gives the full venting and the full unveiling of God Almighty - as he steps forward to speak and to act on what will usher in the return of the second person of the Godhead once more –

~ For it is God ushering in God –

And he is going to reveal and unveil himself because the third person of the Trinity has to be revealed in full – his heart has to be emptied in full – bringing to us fullness and completeness of all word and revelations of which he is the Spirit of, and of which has been left to be spoken out by him – and as he speaks it he will act on it – for there is no more delay!
He will now do everything he has threatened because his words will not be delayed any longer but whatever words he speaks will be performed –

For the Holy Spirit is now going to speak the unspeakable revelation of the Spirit of all word – the Spirit of all utterance and all groanings and all yearnings which are too deep to have ever been described or uttered before in the scriptures - he is now going to speak and the power of those revelations will guard us - just as they will sweep us away if we are not standing firm with our eyes focused on Jesus Christ – for what he will say is what words could never before express nor speak nor utter nor describe –
For The Holy Spirit has always come to our aid and helped us in our distress and bears us up in our weakness – because we do not know what prayer to offer up nor how to offer it worthily – and he has always gone to meet our supplication and plead in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance - with groanings that cannot be expressed in words – because the Holy Spirit prays for us with an earnestness which cannot be described – which cannot even be uttered – until now - because all of which his heart holds has to be of its release – all of which has been kept in unspeakable silence is to be expressed in words which will give expression to what was heard as an utterance - to what was heard as a groaning - to what was heard as a yearning – words of the Holy Spirit which have been kept in indescribable and unspeakable holy sanctuary –
But now his utterance will be clear spoken words – and now his groanings will be great and massive power - and now his yearnings will be the venting and unveiling of the third person of the Trinity - and now his earnestness will be the miraculous unfolding of the text of the heart which was written in power and sealed in the destruction of what is not of the eternal word of the Kingdom –
For the Holy Spirit is here to take away all of which cannot stand in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ because he is going to reveal the power which it takes to bring back the Lord Jesus Christ, to this earth as he comes in his glorified flesh and uses word to change us in the twinkling of an eye – the same power which it did take to bring back the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and to raise him to the heights of the heavens – for the Holy Spirit is going to issue his full power for the world once more to see the resurrection power of God but this time in full view of men and in full view of all of which they hold in their hearts and continue to raise and place before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ – for what is hidden will no longer remain hidden and what has been concealed will now be revealed -

Because the kingdom of God is not to give us human satisfaction or to reflect what is not held in God - or to glorify those who do not glorify God or to reveal to us what is not of the fullness of the Trinity – or to condone our acceptance and use of any words which have not come through the sanctifying process of God –
But it is to blow us away like chaff if we have not Christ as our continuing foundation – and to bring us down if we do not work for the glory of the one who sent us – and to discipline us with the truth on which the Kingdom of God is built – and to give us the true meaning and truth of a Kingdom which only exalts God and reveals his truth in every way it turns to face –

The KINGDOM OF GOD is the KINGDOM OF WORD and it is about to have the last word spoken and declared for the Glory of he who is the King of the Kingdom and he who is the Word of the Kingdom and he who is the Father of the Kingdom and he who is the Spirit of the Kingdom and the threefold God who is the Kingdom itself -

So get ready because there is no more delay!
The Lord will now do everything he has threatened because his words will not be delayed any longer but whatever words he speaks will be performed –


AMEN HOLY TRINITY OF GOD
LET IT BE AS YOU HAVE SAID

The Delights of a Co-Heir

You will find that the delights of the heart is what motivates and drives us to do what we do, say what we say and go where we go. For delight is the source of power that drives the desire, which then motivates the action or conduct. If a man delights in money, then greed is the desire which drives his actions to make a profit. If a woman delights in rare jewels, then vanity is the desire which drives her to acquire the beauty. If a man delights in a woman, then love or lust is the desire which drives him to be in her presence.

Solomon, the king who appeared to have had it all, wrote, “I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasures of kings and provinces. I acquired men and women singers, and a harem as well- the delights of the heart of man.”[1]

However, the things he spoke of are merely objects of the world that are passing away- they only enhance your physical life momentarily. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.[2] They are not the type of treasures that Jesus spoke of when He said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”[3] Treasures on earth do not enrich your eternal life because they are not of the everlasting nature of God- you cannot take them away with you when you die.

But the treasures in heaven we possess beyond death and beyond this age- that is our true inheritance. Paul even calls them our rewards.[4] Eternal life is not an inheritance. It is a gift from God, made possible and available to us by the sacrifice of Jesus. It is activated by our faith in the Son of God, who was sent to take our place of punishment in the face of God’s wrath. And it is nurtured and developed by the Holy Spirit who lives in us to increase our measure of eternal life. The measure of eternal life is determined by an individual’s share in the tree of life and in the holy city.[5] Eternal life is given to us that we may actively take it up and live out our inheritance at a place where the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with us.[6] And it will happen at a time called “Now”, according to God’s word. But for the time being, our delight in our true inheritance will determine our attitude, mentality, actions, our speech and demeanour.

So what is our true inheritance in this age and in the age to come? It is what Peter describes as something that will never fade or perish or fade out- kept in heaven for us.[7] But Peter did not actually tell us what it consists of. We need to know because if we are to take delight in our true inheritance, it will be what motivates and drives us. Delight is what brings us joy and also firmly stops us from quitting in the face of opposition, persecution, famine, hardship, danger and sword. Our delight in our inheritance must be strong enough to overcome them so that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ- that we will stand firm to the end as we cross a river where the increase of wickedness may drown us and wash us away in its currents if our delight is only lukewarm.

So important is God’s delight in kindness, justice and righteousness that He is motivated to exercise them on earth.[8] So important is God’s delight in mercy that it motivated Him to work His own arm for salvation.[9] And so important is God’s delight in mankind that it motivated Him to give his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.[10] It even takes two to tango, for if a man delights himself in the Lord, and the Lord delights in His ways, then the Lord will give him the desires of his heart and make his steps firm.[11]

Take the example of Mary Magdalene, her delight in the word of God caused her to sit at His feet and listen to Jesus amidst all other distractions. Her delight in His presence caused her to hang around Golgotha long after He was dead and then around the tomb after His body was found missing. And her delight in the whole person of Jesus caused her to pour perfume on His body beforehand to prepare for His burial, despite the rebukes she received from men who were uncomfortable with the display of affection, but too comfortable in their stiff-neck religiosity to come out of the shell we know as darkness. So potent is this thing called delight that it is a power of the age to come, and forged as a weapon in this age due to its divine power to demolish strongholds.

What is held in this thing called delight and what is in its power as it unfolds? And what is the delight of a co-heir of Christ that will set him or her apart from all others? How does one delight in his inheritance? And what is our inheritance?

Under the old covenant, Israel’s inheritance was the good land that the Lord had promised Abraham and His descendants- a land flowing with milk and honey. The Israelites still needed to work at it because they had to dispossess the Canaanites who lived there. But they managed to defile the land and made God’s inheritance, meaning His beneficiaries, detestable in His sight. God said to them, “How gladly would I treat you like sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation. I thought that you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me. But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me, O house of Israel.”[12]

Under the new covenant, Jesus serves as a mediator so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.[13] Like the inheritance of the old covenant, it did not depend on the law, but on a promise, for God in His grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.[14] But the ministry Jesus has received is superior to the old covenant and it is founded on better promises- being an eternal inheritance. It is not land that can be dispossessed or seized and the possessions on it pillaged. Our eternal inheritance is a treasure in heaven that cannot be exhausted, for the Father was pleased to give us the kingdom.[15]

But note: the people Paul spoke of in Roman 8:17 are 2 distinctively different and separate groups. He said, “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs- heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory.”[16] Just because you are an heir of God, does not a co-heir with Christ make. But if you are a co-heir with Christ, you are naturally an heir of God. For a co-heir, or joint-heir, has equal share with Jesus as a son or daughter of God the King. It is where Discipleship, Sonship or Daughtership and Kingship have been made complete by their abiding in the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit in them, to form the consolidation and elevation of Co-heirship, which is the stature and likeness of Christ in perfect precision.

There is a group called the righteous who will be heirs of God but not co-heirs with Christ. Jesus said, “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on His right and the goats on His left. Then the King will say to those on His right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take up your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the earth.”[17]

Notice the Lord said, “My Father”- not “my Father and your Father, my God and your God”. These are the heirs of God who are not accorded full sonship or daughtership for they remained as children of God. As the Lord said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”[18] God is the wonderful Father~

Now to be a co-heir with Christ is a whole different ball game. The standards set by the Father are much higher, for the trials and tribulations are steeper, the discipline stricter and the level of commitment must be perfect. Perfection is demanded of a co-heir, for perfection is the heritage of Jesus Christ in whom we are fellow heirs with. To His co-heirs, Jesus is proud to say, “You are those who have stood by me in my trials. And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father confers one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”[19] Here the kingdom of God is given to His co-heirs- presented to them as their inheritance. They also receive a position on His throne with the authority and right to judge Israel, who was the first group of people that God entered into a promise through their forefather Abraham. They are neither the sheep on the right or the goats on the left, for they will stand next to Jesus separating the goats from the sheep with Him.

Those who are worthy to receive a place on His throne are sons and daughters who belong to the family forever. This is in accordance to the law of inheritance in Ezekiel 46:16-17: "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: If the prince makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his sons, it will also belong to his descendants; it is to be their property by inheritance. If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs.” Jesus is the Prince of Peace, His Father is the Everlasting Father, the Holy Spirit is the Wonderful Counsellor- and you and I are co-heir with Christ. But the servants are those who as sons and daughters, demanded from God their share of the inheritance so that they can leave the family and go their way, making himself richer but the family poorer. But we are not to be like that. Instead we are called to start powering up the delight of Co-heirship now.

Now this is the true delight of the co-heirs with Christ. Their delight is not in the praise of men or the luxury of palaces, or the power to call fire from heaven, or anything that is valued by men. No, that is not our heritage. Our Saviour did not come in fine clothes and a holier than thou attitude. He was birthed in a humble place and raised in a simple home as a carpenter’s son. When He began His ministry in public, even His own family thought He was mad. He spoke His Father’s words and so-called men of God tried to stone Him because they belonged to an opposite father. He instructed His apostles to go to Bethsaida immediately, but they set across to Capernaum at the time of their liking. He was crucified and raised back to life, yet only a few of His own had the heart and courage to believe in Him when He said that He is the resurrection and the life. His own disciples saw the resurrected Christ but did not offer to dress His wounds. He asked an apostle if he would love Him more than these but he did to rise up to the occasion. He asked His Eleven to wait for the Holy Spirit so that that the twelfth apostle may be properly appointed, but they took it upon themselves to cast the lot and added Matthias to the apostleship of Christ. Time and time again- it was disappointment, rejection, hardship, disobedience, weariness, hunger, dismissal, false accusations and persecution- all this within the family of the house of God. Although away from His own, He would say to a centurion, “I tell you the truth, I have not found such great faith even in Israel.”[20]

“He grew up before God like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.”[21]

We esteemed Him not until we saw His face in the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, just as Mary Magdalene did, and fell in love with His words, His demeanour, His kindness, His passion, and His incredible love for His Father - in fact, His whole person, which all the words of this age cannot describe in entirety the brilliant details of the perfection of Jesus Christ, who is the all of God. Because we have found the truth, we have found the life, and we have found the one whom our soul loves - and we are never letting Him out of our sight. For to let Him go now is to turn away after He has begun to open His heart to us, and His Spirit has just begun to speak to us from His own heart. And to do so now is to crucify the Lord the Lord and the Lord all over again not with a nail through the hands and feet, but three nails straight through their heart. To say, “No more, Lord, that is enough for me” is to reject the kingdom that He has conferred upon us through a covenant that entailed the spilling of His blood unto the ground, and emptying the sins of all mankind into His flesh, and submitting of His spirit unto death, so that when He died- we were born again because whoever lives and believes in Him will never die. Do you believe this?

Do you see where we are going? The delight of a co-heir is in the trouble and hardship and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword-[22] and the fear of the Lord.[23] These are all the things others shy away from because they do not have courage and the love of God, the understanding of the word of God, the knowledge of the person of God, and the complete infilling of the Spirit of God, as they are too busy pursuing what the pagans run to see past the hardships and what they really represent. But if you are seeking first your Father’s kingdom and His righteousness, then be prepared and brace yourself, because in this age we are brothers/sisters and companions in the suffering and the kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus.[24] In fact, suffering was the passion of the Lord.[25] And His passion was the full intensity of the river of His delights.[26] Though it is discreet like a quiet stream, for the personal things of God are never loudly advertised on billboards, it also has the powerful force of roaring waterfalls, with the undercurrent of kindness, justice and righteousness running through the length of the riverbed. For the river of life flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb, but His river of delights flows from the heart of God. With God is the fountain of life,[27] but in God is a mountain of love- and that mountain has always been the chief mountain of the Lord’s temple and it will be raised up and established as chief above the hills in these last days.

This is the first hallmark of a co-heir: he/she delights in suffering in the Name of Jesus so much that it produces perseverance, and a noble and faithful character refined by denying himself and taking up his daily cross to follow Jesus, who is the overcomer.[28] This is the hallmark which will earn us the 12 rewards from the Statute of Kingship if we follow through in perfection and due diligence:

1. To him who overcomes, the Lord will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. (Rev 2:7)
2. To him who is faithful to the point of death, the Lord will give him the crown of life. (Rev 2:10)
3. To him who overcomes, the Lord will not let him be hurt by the second death. (Rev 2:11)
4. To him who overcomes, the Lord will give Him some of the hidden manna. (Rev 2:17)
5. To him who overcomes, the Lord will give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it. (Rev 2:17)
6. To him who overcomes and does His will to the end, the Lord will give authority over all nations to rule them with an iron sceptre and dash them to pieces like pottery. (Rev 2:26)
7. They will also shine like Jesus because He will also give him the morning star. (Rev 2:28)
8. He who overcomes will be dressed in white and walk with Jesus. (Rev 3:5)
9. The Lord will never blot His name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before the Father and his angels. (Rev 3:5)
10. Him who overcomes Jesus will make a pillar in the temple of His God. Never again will he leave it.
11. He will write on him the name of His God, the New Jerusalem, which is coming out of heaven from His God; and He will also write on him His new name. (Rev 3:12)
12. To him who overcomes, He will give the right to sit with Him on His throne, just as He overcame and sat down with His Father on his throne. (Rev 3:21)

Now to say that we are co-heirs with Christ of the kingdom of God is still a generalisation because if the kingdom is the suitcase, then within the suitcase are the goodies. Jesus said, “All that belongs to the Father is mine”. And all that belongs to Jesus are the goodies in a kingdom which He confers upon us, if only we stand by Him in his trials.[29] His trials are everything that needs be done for Him, in Him, by Him, alongside Him and through Him. The kingdom we inherit with Jesus is not New Jerusalem for that is His bride and our family home.

No, the kingdom of God in which we are co-heirs is the power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and praise, [30] and salvation.[31] This is our true inheritance- as revealed to us at this time- for our Father who is unseen has a kingdom made up of the unseen, and we are given eternal life to take up our inheritance and expand the kingdom and enrich it and extend its boundaries as we are not only heirs of God, but we are creative producers and acquirers of wealth in glorification of the Lord the Lord and the Lord.

But you ask- God is life eternal, and He will never die, so how do we attain our inheritance?

This is the second hallmark of a co-heir of Christ- their delight lays not in a transfer of ownership of the kingdom of God to their names, but their delight is firmly founded on the day when Jesus has put all His enemies under His feet and put everything under Him, and then He will put Himself subject to God so that the Father may be all in all. We are co-heirs with Christ but there will not be a transferral of ownership from God to Jesus to us. That is not the attitude of what the dreams of God are made of. But it is more like the son who lives in the house of his father, but never ask or contemplate that the house should one day be in his name. Rather, co-heirs with Christ are like the Levites of the old covenant who were set apart from the nations, for they do not have inheritance in the land, or any shares among them.[32] In truth, God is our share and our inheritance. And that is the sweetest thing because we do not need anything else because our Father is over all and through all and in all, and He is our all.[33]

And finally, this is the third hallmark of the co-heirs of Christ- their delight is in the voice of the Holy Spirit. They have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is speaking from His heart for this limited period of time. And their delight will motivate them to sit at His feet, stay awake and focus on listening and retaining all His words amidst the distractions and upcoming chaos. So delightful is the love song between a co-heir and the Holy Spirit that heaven holds its breath in silence to watch and observe what it is that the Holy Spirit has been doing with Himself for the last two thousand years, patiently living in the heirs of God’s salvation as their Counsellor. And not one beat will be missing, not one key out of tune and not a single emotion overlooked because the Maestro of all maestros, the Mastermind of masterminds, has finally stepped onto the stage of God’s opera to unveil the delight of His heart: His masterpiece in us.

Amen Holy Spirit- let our love song begin and never end!


[1] Ecclesiastes 2:8
[2] Proverbs
[3] Matthew 6:19
[4] Colossians 3:24
[5] Revelation 22:19
[6] Revelation 21:3
[7] 1 Peter 1:4
[8] Jeremiah 9:24
[9] Isaiah 63:5 and Micah 7:18
[10] John 3:16 and Proverbs 8:31
[11] Psalm 37:4 and Psalm 37:23
[12] Jeremiah 3:19-20
[13] Hebrews 9:15
[14] Galatians 3:18
[15] Luke 12:32
[16] Romans 8:17
[17] Matthew 25:31-34
[18] Matthew 19:14
[19] Luke 22:28-30
[20] Matthew 8:10
[21] Isaiah 53:1-3
[22] Romans 8:35
[23] Isaiah 11:3
[24] Revelation 9:1
[25] Acts 1:3 OKJ, AMP and NIV
[26] Psalm 36:8
[27] Psalm 36:9
[28] Luke 9:23
[29] John 16:15
[30] Revelation 5:12
[31] Revelation 19:1
[32] Numbers 18:20
[33] Ephesians 4:6

The Holy Spirit Speaks

Job 33:14 For God does speak - now one way, now another - …

Acts 2:4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

The gift of tongues was the gift which was unique to the advent of the Holy Spirit, in baptism by Jesus Christ. Previously, as the Holy Spirit came on men/women of God in power, there was more recorded for us that they spoke in tongues, or if they prophesied like Saul (king). It is not recorded that they spoke in different languages (tongues).

There were great remedies such as Samson slaying the Philistines with a jaw bone. However there has never been recorded that the gift of tongues came with the Holy Spirit. It was to be the unique gift that signaled the beginning of a new era – the new had come because even the speech had been changed. What is recorded for us is that in Acts 2, 10 and 19, as the Lord baptized, prophecy and praises were uttered alongside the tongues. In Acts 2, those who had the utterance were given the interpretation so that they might be witnesses of the beginning of the era.

As the era draws to an end, what does the gift of tongues of the Holy Spirit mean for us (especially for His elect) and the Holy Spirit at this stage? The gift was given that we might utter mysteries for God in languages no one else could understand and in so doing, edify ourselves for growth (1 Cor 14:1-10). It was a means for the Holy Spirit to pray for us when …We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. (Ro 8:26-27)

And all of that, the Holy Spirit has done. So powerful is this gift, that the infiltration of our ranks spent centuries persecuting and eliminating from our ranks those who could speak in tongues. They do this by making up lies like ‘tongues are from the devil’ and misusing Paul’s advice to the Corinthian church about speaking in tongues. Despite all that, we are now almost 2000 years later, at the end of the era when the Holy Spirit was the one who supervised the work of God on earth, and at the eve of His departure. The gift of tongues which came first will be the last and will now reveal a new dimension in its use and not so new.

Those who have matured, understand that through the gift of tongues, the Holy Spirit can pray through us, repeating what He had heard of which is spoken in heaven by the Son and agreed by the Father. This is so that what has been agreed to in heaven can be loosed on earth through agreement to on earth by those of us who know to say “amen Holy Spirit”.

Now as the silence in heaven continues and the Holy Spirit speaks on His own through prophecy and through tongues, the gift of tongues is now being used by the Giver of the gift, of His own accord and mind, to reveal to us His heart. And to His elect, the Holy Spirit will grant interpretations of His prayers in His gift of tongues, for it is written “To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.” (Pro 16:1)

So now, the Holy Spirit who has dwelt with man on earth for 2000 years will give reply to the plans of men’s hearts, hearts that are wicked beyond understanding, and express His reply in His tongue from His heart with one full agreement.

Now men will be witness to what the Holy Spirit think of the plans of the hearts of those who have not listened to Jesus. And the church will witness what the Holy Spirit think of her plans and those who have not listened to the Holy Spirit as Jesus commanded. For it is written “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Pro 18:21)

The tongue of the Holy Spirit will truly unleash life – life abundantly for those who will listen to Jesus. But to those who will not listen, life will be withheld and where there is no life, there is death. Those who love the tongues of the Holy Spirit will eat the fruit of the tongues of the Holy Spirit. That is, we who love to be the speakers of His tongues, the listeners of His tongues and the amen of His tongues, will eat of the fruits of the Holy Spirit – love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, perseverance, patience, truth, righteousness and praise. Fruit that will sustain like the fruit of Eden was to sustain Adam and Eve.

Had Adam and Eve ate only the fruit permitted them, they would not have had to toil as they did. Likewise, if we love only the tongue of the Holy Spirit, then we will eat only of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. For the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Wisdom and it is written:
…the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Pro 12:18)
The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life… (Pro 15:4)
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge… (Pro 15:2)

In the days of distress that are coming, unequaled since the foundations of the earth, the fruits of the Holy Spirit (love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, perseverance, patience, truth, righteousness and praise) are essential for our survival. They are what we will live on, spiritually and if our spirits remain strong, then our flesh will be sustained. For Jesus Himself have told us, “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing…” (Jn 6:63)

So likewise, when the Holy Spirit leaves, He will not leave us without provision. But He will, like the master who went on a journey, leave us with provision to feed the other servants at the right time.
Mt 24:45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?

All the provision for life comes from the fruit of the tree of life and in this case, it will be by the tongue of the Wise One – the Spirit of Wisdom. So all who loves His tongue, will eat His fruit which gives life, life abundantly, to see through the days of distress, unequalled since the world began.

Mt 24:21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again.
If it is unequalled, then the distress would exceed the day of banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden. A day when men and women found themselves cut off from their usual source of food. A distress that would exceed when the windows of heaven and the springs of the deep burst open to wipe out all life on earth. Men and women everywhere found no shelter in what they were used to. Only something as strange and irrelevant as the Ark of Noah gave shelter and sustenance for those who were in it.

Distress unequaled – on a personal and global sense, to give you a glimpse of what is to come. No one, the church is hoping to be raptured. God did not rapture Noah but gave him a way to escape through the distress. So likewise, those who love the tongue of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Life, will receive life and those who hate His tongue or ignore His tongue, will embrace death. For even those who survived the deluge, all perished, as the waters covered the earth for 150 days. They perished because they had no food that could sustain them 6 months, even if they found vegetation to cling on to. Likewise, those who do not love the tongue of the Spirit of Wisdom, will have no food to go through this time, whose distress exceeds that of the flood of Noah globally.

This is because …a lying tongue lasts only a moment (Pro 12:19). The tongues of all the lying spirits who claim to be gods but are not God. The fruit of their tongues, their teaching and religion, will not last long enough to sustain them through the distress. Those who do not have the word of truth in them to give them truthful lips, will not endure, for truthful lips endure forever… (Pro 12:19). Those who do not have the power in their hands to part the Red Sea will not escape. And those who do not have the power to hold back the storm will be drowned by the storm of the Lord. But if the power of the Lord is hidden in His hand and the Word of God is in His heart, for He has meditated on it day and night. The sea will part for the Lord’s elect and the storm will cease at their utterance.

That is why we have been given this half hour of heaven’s time for us to come, not to believe in the tongue of the Holy Spirit but to know it.

It is written, without faith it is impossible to please God… (Heb 11:6). But without knowledge (I say to you), it is impossible to love God and to worship Him without making an idol of Him.

Jesus came, He who is perfect in knowledge of God, and He responded to all who had faith, any faith in Him. For it pleases God to respond to all who has faith in Him. So perfect knowledge responded to imperfect faith, and we were healed.

But when God chooses His elect, be it the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, it is God who is displaying faith in His choice. Just as when God choose Job as His champion – God knew and had perfect faith that Job would not fail Him. And as imperfect as Job’s knowledge of God was, Job freely confessed to this.
Job 42:1-5 Then Job replied to the LORD : "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. "You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.' My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
Yet Job accomplished all that God elected him for. Job withstood the devil and the persuasions of religious men. He spoke what he knew and kept faith.

Likewise, now as the Holy Spirit makes known to the devil His elect, like God made known Job to the devil, we need only to speak what we know of Him and His Word, however imperfectly. And He who has perfect faith will love those who have imperfect knowledge. And this time He will …let the world know that He sent Jesus and have loved us even as He have loved Jesus. (Jn 17:23)

If perfect knowledge responding to imperfect faith produced healings of the blind, the lame, the issue of blood and the driving out of demons, what will perfect faith, responding to imperfect knowledge do? And even greater still. If we can say amen with all our heart, mind and soul, like the armour bearer of Jonathan did, to the Holy Spirit as He unleashes His tongues, without understanding or interpretation, then we have unleashed perfect faith in response to perfect knowledge, for the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Knowledge and He is perfect.

So then, eat up and stock up. Bring into the ark … every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them. (Gen 6:21) Agree at all times with the Holy Spirit, with thanksgiving, with all requests and intercession, even as He who has been silent now speaks His response to the plans of the hearts of men and manifests the heart of God’s plans.

Amen Holy Spirit.

He who has an ear, hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to the church.

The Holy Spirit Speaks (part 2)

Jn 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit…
Is 11:2-3 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him –
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of power,
the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD –
and he will delight in the fear of the LORD.
The Spirit of truth and of holiness
The Spirit of life and of revelation
The Spirit of grace and of glory, will be for Him
The Spirit of sonship to the praise and glory of the God and Father of Jesus Christ, who is also His God and Father.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Is 13:3 I have commanded my holy ones; I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath - those who rejoice in my triumph.
Is 13:11-13 I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless. I will make man scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
Is 13:17 See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
Ex 19:6 a holy nation of priests and kings – a holy nation
Dt 28:49-50 …a nation whose language you will not understand, a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young, like an eagle swooping down.
Is 14:30 …your root I will destroy by famine; it will slay your survivors.
Is 15:9 Your waters are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon you - a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.
Is 16:9-10 So I weep, as Jazer weeps, for the vines of Sibmah. O Heshbon, O Elealeh, I drench you with tears! The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit and over your harvests have been stilled. Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.
Is 21:2 Attack! Lay siege! I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.
Is 23:12-13 …Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest. Look at the land of the Babylonians, this people that is now of no account!…
Is 34:5 My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.
Is 52:13 See, my holy ones will act wisely…
Is 53:11 After the suffering… they will see the light of life and be satisfied…
Is 41:1 Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband
Mk 14:9 I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.
Is 54:2-3 Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.

This is what the LORD says: For three sins of the Pharisees, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath.
For three sins of the Sadducees, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath.
For three sins of the Herodians, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath.
For three sins of the Nicolaitans, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath.
For three sins of the Balaamites, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath.
For three sins of Jezebel and her children, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath.
Eze 14:20 as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD , even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.

Lk 6:24-26 … woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe to you when all men speak well of you…
Jud 1:11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam's error; they have been destroyed in Korah's rebellion.
Jud 1:20-25 But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear--hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy-- to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
Rev 22:20 … Come, Lord Jesus.

23 October 2004

In This World We Are Like Him

Christ is better than the best Judaism – better than the prophets and the angels and rejection of him is fatal – and if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is no other sacrifice that will cover our sins – and there will be nothing to look forward to but the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies, because it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God - and it is impossible to restore to repentance those who were once enlightened - those who have experienced the good things of heaven and who have shared in the Holy Spirit, and who have tasted of the goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come – and who then turn away from God – it is impossible to bring such people to repentance again because they are nailing the Son of God to the cross again by rejecting him - holding him up to public shame.

For when people escape from the wicked ways of the world by learning about our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and then get tangled up with sin and become its slave again, they are worse off than before – and we are not to be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins for the terrible anger of God comes upon all those who disobey him – for he shows his anger from heaven against all sinful and wicked people who push the truth away from themselves - for the truth about God is known instinctively for God has put this knowledge in our hearts and has never left himself without a witness - for from the time the world was created people have seen the earth and the sky and all that God has made – and they can clearly see his invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature so we have had no excuse for not knowing God – for there were always his reminders such as sending us rain and good crops and giving us food and giving us joyful hearts –

For God did not leave us without a witness of himself even after we departed from him and his commands for even when we are unfaithful he will always remain faithful and true - and he will never leave us without a witness of himself because he is with us always even unto the end of the age - with us till the end of the age because God is bringing many sons and daughters into glory and it is by Christ and by Christ in us that he is doing it – and it was only right that God who made everything, and for whom everything was made, and in whose hand is everything, that he should bring many sons and daughters into glory – and through the suffering of Jesus, God made him a perfect leader, one fit to bring them into their salvation – for from the very beginning of our salvation we are made perfect through sufferings .

For it was by the grace of God that Jesus tasted death for the sake of everyone but God – and when Jesus tasted death he had no sin in him to change or alter or to camouflage its true taste and he drank it all and tasted the all of it and he tasted what no man was to ever meant to taste and he took it in its fullness – for when the world does taste of death it has a barrier of sin which does not hinder the pain or grief of it, but it does not allow for the true taste of it to be experienced fully as it was by Jesus because he is pure in all of his senses and sinless in his heart and without any corruption to alter the full sting of death – and he tasted in full strength the taste of unbelief and vileness and cowardice and immorality and falsehood and murder and idolatry and lies - for death was full of all of which was against God - and Jesus tasted of all of which was against him for he not only heard it in our hearts but tasted of it and smelt it as it touched his flesh as he made himself obedient even unto death –

And even though Jesus Christ is God he did not demand nor cling to his rights as God, but made himself nothing – he who is all things – who is the I AM - who is eternal life – who is all powerful made himself nothing in comparison to who God is - so he could appear in human form and then he obediently humbled himself even further – even further our Lord humbled himself as the dust from which we were formed coated him and clung to his body as he set aside his rights as God and died a criminal’s death on a cross – he partook of our flesh to taste of death for all the world so we could partake of his flesh to taste of life for all of eternity – and it is only God and God alone who can and who does make us right in his sight because he so humbled himself so that when he was raised to the heights of heaven and given a Name above all other names - then if we called on that name which was placed so high above us and was the central core of the Kingdom of God - then we would be saved and lifted up and raised to the heights of Christ to live with him forever because salvation is eternal as God and his promises are eternal – and it is accomplished from start to finish by faith in Jesus Christ - for it is through faith that a righteous person has life – for Christ came to give us life and he came to give it as God can only give and that is in the abundance of his name and in the abundance of his word - for out of the abundance of the Father’s heart did come an inheritance for us fit and only deserved to be touch and beheld by Jesus Christ himself –

But there are those who will have none of it - or want some of it – who reject it - and who insult it - but when God closes in on someone there is no escape – there is no escape from falling into the hands of the living God – there is no escaping into the world or escaping into the old covenant - for the world is perishing and the old covenant has been fulfilled – it is done it is accomplished and it is now out of date and put aside - for when God spoke of a new covenant it meant he had made the first one obsolete and Jesus has given us a ministry that is far superior to the ministry of those who served under the old covenant because he is the One who guarantees for us a better covenant with God, which is based on better promises.

And no one can ever be made right in God’s sight by doing what his old covenant law commands - for the more we know of God’s law the clearer it became that we were not obeying it – but God has shown us a different way of being right in his sight – a way which was promised in the scriptures –
And we are made right in God’s sight when we trust in Jesus to take away our sins and we all can be saved in this way no matter who we are or what we have done - for all have sinned and all fall short of God’s glorious standard, but God in his gracious kindness has found us not guilty – the Godhead has found us NOT GUILTY – and God has done this through Jesus Christ who has freed us by taking away our sins and by taking away our guilt and making us the righteousness of God – but we still live like we are guilty, but God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy his anger against us and to set us free to come into his Kingdom and to be reconciled with him – and we are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood sacrificing his life for us – and then it is for us to pursue with haste and without pause or turning back a life in that freedom – a life in his word without guilt or condemnation - for there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus, for the power of the life giving Spirit has freed us through Christ Jesus from the power of sin that leads to death – for the law of Moses could not save us because of our sinful nature - but God put into effect a different plan to save us – he had a different plan to save us and he sent his own Son in a human body and he destroyed sin’s control over us, by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins and he did this so the requirements of the law would be fully accomplished for us who no longer follow our sinful nature, but instead follow the Spirit –

Jesus fulfilled all of which we couldn’t do so we could follow the Spirit and so we could be enabled to represent this new covenant which is not of written laws but of the Spirit - for the old way ends in death but in the new way, the Holy Spirit gives life - and oh what a life he gives us – what a great and wonderful life he gives us as he gives us privileges we could never have before Christ came to free us – even the privilege of suffering for Christ - for that is the true privilege of a life in Christ and with Christ – as is the privilege of being reconciled back to God and having come live in us God the Holy Spirit, who leads us into where all truth becomes our manifested reality and is brought to its climax at the return of our Lord in the flesh – when word in the flesh comes again to bring us our salvation -

And God has every right to exercise his judgment and his power -
For many do not understand God’s way of making people right with himself and they will not go along with his ways – but it is that Christ has accomplished the whole purpose of the law – the whole purpose of why the Law was given has been accomplished and fulfilled by Christ and so all who believe in him are made right with God - for he is a sure, and firm, and tested, and precious cornerstone that is safe to build on - and whoever believes need never run away again -
For anyone who believes in him will not be disappointed for we all have the same Lord who generously gives HIS riches - he gives HIS riches to all who ask for them - and all who call on the Name of the Lord will be saved – all who call on the name of the Lord will receive the riches of eternal life which is held in Jesus Christ our Lord ~

And how can we call on the name of the Lord to save us unless we believe in him, and how can we believe in him if we have never heard him, and how can we hear him unless someone tells us of him, and how will anyone tell us if they are not sent – and how beautiful are the feet of the one who was sent – how beautiful are the feet of Jesus Christ who was sent so we would hear him – and believe him and so call on his name and be saved - confessing with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in our hearts that he is raised from the dead - for it is believing in our hearts that we are made right with God, and confessing with our mouth that we are saved - for God alone made it possible for us to repent of our ways and to be in Christ Jesus - for he is the one the Lord possessed at the beginning of his works – the one who was the first of his acts of old - and it was for our benefit that he made Christ to be wisdom itself – and he is the one who made us acceptable to God making us pure and holy as he gave himself to purchase our freedom – to attain our acquittal – declaring us not guilty -
And it is by his boundless mercy that he has given us the privilege of being born again and has reserved for us a priceless inheritance kept in heaven pure and undefiled and beyond the reach of change and decay, and God in his mighty power will protect us until we receive this salvation because we are trusting him and it will be revealed on the last day for all to see –

And God is entirely fair in this present time when he declares sinners to be right in his sight because they believe in Jesus –
For Jesus is the only one by whom we can be saved and we cannot boast that we have done anything – for not one thing can we do to be accepted by God – because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds but on our faith in the Son of God – and if we wish to boast we should boast only on what the Lord has done – for his extreme kindness is free and so undeserved – and what a joy it is for those whose rebellion is forgiven – whose sin is put out of sight – those whose record the Lord has cleared of sin – and whose lives are lived now in complete honesty and truth – and in complete devotion to Jesus Christ and the example he set for us to follow and adhere to

For when we bow down before the Lord and admit our dependence on him he will lift us up and give us honour - and it is only when the Holy Spirit controls our lives that we remain humble before God - and know that he is the all and everything of our life - and only he enables us to produce the fruits of the Spirit in all their vast abundance if we are living by the Holy Spirit in full measure and manifesting his full power as we follow his leading in every part of our lives, because we who belong to Christ are to be in full submissiveness to the Holy Spirit and allowing him to lead us in all areas of our life –

For if God identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first instalment of everything he will give us –
If the Father gave us the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of Jesus - who is the power of God, as the first instalment on the vastness of which is held in the promises of God - then as yet we have not seen the full unleashing of even that first instalment – for God gave us the deposit on the all of him and even though the Holy Spirit is the all of God he gives us small amounts at a time, as the will of God and his promises and his desires for us and our growth is released - for the full and maximum power of the Holy Spirit - the fullness of the promise of God cannot come through us and to us until we have taken the fullness of the promises of God and given them their earthly release in the manner God desires and that is through us being the fullness of the stature of Christ while on this earth - for then his promises which extend far into the eternity of life as they are released in their purposed measure on the earth - can then be released in their fullness into the eternities of eternal life as the Holy Spirit moves in all of his power as he moves the heavens and the earth to make way for the new heavens and the new earth -

For we cannot say Jesus is Lord without the Holy Spirit enabling us - so how much more do we need him to take control of our lives and our hearts and our attitudes, to bring in the release through us of what is held in the name of Jesus –
For it is a privilege given us to say the Name of Jesus just as it is rare for the Holy Spirit to hear the name of the Lord spoken and for it to be coming from a heart drenched in his word which is the glory of him –
For the Holy Spirit hears it all and even though we are all to call on the name of the Lord and so be saved - there is a way that the Father and the Holy Spirit say the name of Jesus - and when we can hold and say his name in our hearts in the same way which will make his Father and our Father melt at the mention of his name as it comes to him devoid of any expectations, any rewards, any self use, but said only in the deepest of love which has come from being changed by his word in us through the power of the Holy Spirit – when it is Jesus and only Jesus coming from our hearts and only Jesus that we are setting before the Father with the same gentleness as Jesus with the same humility as Jesus and with the same deep and endless passion which made him not cling to his rights as God but to humble himself far exceeding the humility of men and to die a criminals death so we could live the life of a king – the life of co heir to the heir and King of the kingdom – giving of his great love for his Father, so we could know of such a love - and that was to be the way he chose to save us and bring us back unto himself for the world had to know that Jesus loves his Father and he does whatever he commands him - and salvation came by way of love and it is only by the Holy Spirit controlling every part of our life - and every part of our heart that we can ever give expression to the Father of what it is which is held in the name of Jesus - for only he alone knows what is held in the name he gave his only begotten Son – and only he can share that with us -

For anything which pertains to our Lord is under the control of the Holy Spirit so anything we are wishing to say, or do, if not out of a heart which is only for Christ then the Holy Spirit will disperse and confuse our language and put his fire into our hearts to bring it into meltdown, if what is in them - and what comes out of them is contrary to Jesus Christ and the Father who is in him and who is one with him…

For there is no escaping from God – God the Father – The Son or the Holy Spirit - for it is the Kingdom of God in which we are meant to live and apart from it we are like a fish out of water – and were totally out of our element the moment we pushed God away and were determined to call what was not our own – our own – cowering away from his word and its kingdom of life and truth and being vile and wretched and poor and offensive and blind and naked in the sight of the one who is the Father of all, and who lives in riches and glory which fill and overflow all of the universes and all of the eternities – and he sees those who refuse Christ, and sees the lack of good courage they have to face the truth and to accept salvation and to walk and live in Christ and to step into the Kingdom of God and into eternal life and eternal riches through his word of Truth …because it takes good courage to live as Christ and to listen to Christ and to follow him everywhere he goes –
It takes an attitude which defies and overrides the attitude that brings disobedience and rebellion and defiance which is always before the face of the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell –
It takes an attitude which comes when we are fully lead by the Holy Spirit and have become so much like him that our attitude is the attitude of Christ Jesus - who though he was God he did not demand to hold to his rights as God but took the humble position of slave and appeared in human form humbling himself to the depths of death so as to raise all to the heights of life -
It takes an attitude which brings transfiguration and makes our face shine like the brilliance of the sun and our clothing to be as white as light, for we are clothed with Christ and dressed in salvation and are the glory of his name - and none of this can the world produce on its own, or out of its own accord, or out of its own attitudes or out of its own desires or for its own glory –

For we need the Holy Spirit to say JESUS IS LORD - so much more do we need the Holy Spirit to stay in the Lord and to wait for the Lord and for him to find a level of faith waiting for him when he returns which will send those eagerly waiting for him up into the clouds to meet with him -
It is the attitude of God we need and his Holy Spirit is his download into us – he is not only the deposit of what is still for us to receive - but he is the download of all of the attitude and zeal and jealousness and power and anger and wrath and destruction and love of God as he elects and divides and gives notice to those who are not walking the narrow road nor walking the razors edge of his word –
He is giving notice – and he has given notice - and he who is the deposit which was set in our hearts giving us the assurance of what is to come is now manifesting the promises of God before our eyes
And we have to sharpen our attitude and sharpen it on his word and sharpen it on his power and sharpen it on what he is showing us of Jesus and the Father so our attitude is as sharp as God himself –

We have to get real and get ready and are prepared –
For Jesus is what happens when we are making our own plans and our own preparations – Jesus is what happens when we are least expecting him and he is the one who turns all plans into God’s plans and makes all of which is not found in him come to nothing – for if it is not already something in the eyes of God then it is already nothing in the plans of God -

And we are sinners who have been lead by Christ into repentance - the same ones that Christ was sent to buy freedom for, and we have the Holy Spirit to allow us and to give us the privilege of saying the name of Jesus - for it is a privilege to call on the name of the Lord and it is an undeserved privilege to be saved and to be raised to all of which his name holds - and we have to take a new grip with our tired hands and we have to stand firm on our weak and shaky legs and let the Holy Spirit mark out a straight path for our feet that we do not veer from - and we have to stick to the path and stay with Jesus - and not get side tracked - and above all guard our hearts for it effects everything we do – for whatever is in our hearts determines what we say - for what was in the heart of Jesus is what we heard in what he said, and what he did – for we are listening to a sinless heart one which only can, and did speak out of what was not corrupted or had thoughts of self or desires which were contrary to the ways and thoughts of the Father - and that is how we do what Jesus did and are able to say what he said - for only the Holy Spirit controlling our lives will we be able to say what Jesus said and with the sameness of his heart, for that is how great the words and actions of our Lord are –
For we are not imitating that which is not full of the full power of God Almighty and so if our attitude is not the same as Christ Jesus and being not demanding to have the promises of God fulfilled to us - but take the position of brother and sister and co heir to our Lord and brother - and for us to raise our Lord above all of which men have lowered him to, by using the power the Holy Spirit which he will dispense to us when we have allowed him to step into our heart and make it as great as the heart of Christ Jesus - for then God the Holy Spirit can take vengeance - for out of no other heart than the heart of Jesus can the Holy Spirit execute his power on earth at the level of which it has to be executed - for he is ready to avenge but are we ready to have that vengeance come through us –
Have our hearts been truly circumcised and cut free from the flesh which is still slave to the world – a world which has no fear of the Holy Spirit of God – no fear of his power - no fear of his anger - no fear of God’s judgment - no fear of his raised arm -
No fear because they have no knowledge because they want no knowledge but that excuse is past its used by date - for God has never left himself without a witness so all would know him - and he will now move as the Spirit of the fear of the Lord and let the attitude of men be the attitude of men - and let the attitude of Christ be the attitude of Christ - because God’s patience has come to its full measure and it is time that all who profess to belong to Christ show themselves to belong to Christ – and since Christ suffered physical pain we must arm ourselves with the same attitude he had and be ready to suffer too - for if we are willing to suffer for Christ we have decided to stop sinning and are now only anxious to do the will of God - for suffering is only part of what God has called us to – for Christ who suffered for us is our example and we are to follow in his steps –

And it is a sin not be crucified with Christ and to give over all of which is to be nailed to the cross of salvation so we can be fully resurrected in him for the glory of the Father and to go from being disfigured by sin to being transfigured by God as we become a blank canvas ready to be written on by the finger of God and ready to used by the Holy Spirit of God who we have allowed to control and possess all of our life - for that is how life in this form and in this age will come to its end for it is only by the undeniable power of the God - the power that resides on earth with us – in us – which is ready to do the will of the Godhead – when it can come through ones of this earth and of this age to bring all into the age of the millennial reign - and God will do it through ones who have submitted to the Holy Spirit and allowed him to make our hearts in the greatness of the stature of the heart of Christ himself for then the work will be done - then the work will move into it where the Holy Spirit can depart - for the all of him can only be downloaded into the all of us - if we have the heart and the mind and the attitude of Christ - for in no other way can we take the fullness of God the Holy Spirit and for it to remain in us for the duration of it purpose in full measure and in full power until the Lord decides to shut it down - and that is the calling of God - that is what his heart is calling out to find and to have respond back to him and it comes from his heart to our heart as we take our present troubles and then move them into the greatness of God’s heart and his plan, and to know that they will produce for us immeasurable great glory that will last forever – for there is joy in the endurance of many trials – trials which test our faith to show it is strong and pure because it is more precious to God than gold - for because of our faith Christ has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand and are confidently and joyfully and boldly and with an attitude which only Jesus had looking forward to sharing God’s glory for we also desire to share in his sufferings – for we have been given not only the privilege of trusting in Christ but the privilege of suffering for him – for even though the battle is the Lord’s we are in this battle with him if in this world we are like him – if in this world we listen to him and obey him… if in this world we are true and submissive instrument of the Holy Spirit... if in this world we are rejected and persecuted and called names for sake of the name of Jesus … if in this world we are able to move with the Holy Spirit when he is ready to move in the greatest power – in the greatest love – in the greatest judgment… and in the greatest plan of God the world has ever seen…

And if in this world we can see what it is that the Father has in his heart as he pulls aside the silken velvet veil of his great majesty for us to see what it is that he holds in the name of Jesus - what it is that he holds in the love in his heart and what it is that he holds for those who do not hold to and demand the promises he has spoken of but take on the attitude and the heart and love of Christ Jesus and humble themselves unto him - so he can raise them to where no man can ever be raised – so he can bring them into where no man can ever come – so he can give them what no son or daughter would ever have, if Jesus who is heir of the family riches had not gone before us in all things and executed the will the Father and moved all of which was outside of the Kingdom of God into where they need only call on the name of the Lord and be saved -

For repentance is given to us by God but repentance has to be spoken out by us to make it active and alive and that is what we sharpen ourselves on daily – our constant repentance before our Lord and our God – for all of which he gave us is to make us all of which we are -and repentance is the first cut that is made in our hearts to circumcise it and to make it able to be infilled with the glory and word of God as the Holy Spirit through his massive unshakable power brings many sons and many daughters to glory -

For the love of a Son for his Father saved us and now the love of many sons and many daughters who are coheirs with Jesus Christ will give unfolding to what has been saved and kept holy and shielded in the Father’s heart until coheirship with the heir of the Kingdom came into its full measure – and all and each of us separately are to be that full measure – so if it is one or if it is of the multitudes the Father will have coheirship with his Son in its full and eternal measure for his enjoyment and for his pleasure and for his rejoicing now and forevermore ~

AMEN HOLY SPIRIT