In Three Days

In Three Days the world was changed. 
 
In Three Days, three in a half years in the flesh, he endured what none of us could have endured, and yet came out of it without revenge, bitterness, hatred, resentments, and the other nasty carnal temperaments….. OR Did He? He did show anger. And the Father did have the last word on this matter.  And even though the judgment came forth to that generation, yet it wasn’t revenge of man, but the corrective hand of the Lord.  His way had been ignored.  His guidance despised.  His love rejected.
 
Jesus had the right attitude, of course.  He did what the Father wanted him to do, no matter what anyone else said or did.  He had to finish the work.  And He did. 
 
So it wasn’t the Lord and Son Jesus Christ that held a grudge against any, or wanted them killed or denied the blessings of the Father.  It was His own that had rejected Him that had resentment, envy, jealousies, and murder in their heart.  They felt that He was “competition” to them.  What filth this is!  Today we see this among the body of Christ in some places… those that proclaim to be the Lord’s, and I believe they are, just like that generation.  But today there must be an end to this beast. No more jealousies, strife, envies, fears, and greed.  There should be love.  Love that wishes the best for each other. That tries their best to help others be their best.  Not putting themselves down or thinking less of themselves or others. But thinking and behaving with each other’s best interest at heart.  Let’s work in peace together being led by the Holy Spirit in God’s Will.  Working His Will, Doing what each member should do, without despising any. 
 
Galatians 5:all is worth reading and allowing the Holy Spirit to circumcise your heart, if there is any need still there. Then His character can flow more through our renewed minds in Christ Jesus and produce after Jesus’ Father who is God and is now our Father too, by His choice! Begotten by the Holy Spirit and Word of God.  He wants us!  He Loves Us!
 
Galatians 5:20-21 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance (contentions), emulations (jealousies), wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that, they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 
In Three Days… the plan of the Father was made manifest for the entire world to reap of… it was consummated in those three days… each soul just needed to hear Father’s Word so Faith would awaken and then believe and receive the Son and Lamb of God for their Eternal Salvation… Peace with the Creator for ever.  Awesome!  Thank you Father!
 
Let’s take a look at Romans 6:1-14…. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.  … Let’s stop here for moment and look deeper at what He just said…. Buried with him by baptism into death… death meaning that in the action of death, the debt of sin was paid up completely, totally freeing us of all debt to the law (of sin and death).  So through faith in Jesus Christ and having received his glory…. We are now Free from the corruption that is in the world through lust.  But there’s more understanding here…. to ‘behold Him’ and be changed.  (2 Corinthians 3:16-18).
 
Let’s look into His Glory... what happens when we behold the Lord in His Glory?  We are Changed into the same image.  Not a reflection.  HE CHANGES US TO BE AS HE IS… ONE WITH HIM AND THE FATHER.
 
… hang on to that for a moment and let’s take a look at John 17 the whole chapter;  but I want to focus on is verses 4-5, then 22-34, then 22… now “connect the dots”, rather connect the thoughts and concept of what Jesus is saying here.
 
John 17:4-5 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
 
Now look at John 17: 22-24, And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:  23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou has sent me; and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
 
Hallelujah!   That presence of the Father, that glory…. Is the same presence that was with and in Christ on the cross, and raised him from the grave and death.  It is that Presence and Glory that is spoken of in Romans 6 (see above) which states “…that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.  Hallelujah! 2^nd Man walking. New Man.
 
Having received the Spirit of God, that Holy Spirit, that GIFT of the Father, That PROMISE of the Father after having HEARD the WORD OF FAITH being spoken concerning Jesus Christ, YOU RECEIVED that GLORY of the Father and became ONE with Him THROUGH His Son, Jesus Christ.  Now THAT TESTIMONY, that Voice of the Father Now Speaks within you to DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS for the Liberation of Your Soul from Death and Sin!  AND YOU now RECEIVE HIS GIFT of Righteousness and Abundance of Grace in the place of Sin, and HIS ETERNAL LIFE (Spirit) in the place of the spirit of Death.  For HE has fulfilled the requirements of the law that gave sin and death strength, and through His Death He has Overcome and Destroyed sin and death and the devil that had had the power of death and sin.  Since Jesus Christ fulfilled all requirements of the law of sin and death, this law was removed.  The Father’s will for this law was accomplished and completed.  The Lamb of God completed His work and His Blood speaks and declares His Righteousness for all.
 
Now that Law is no longer in power…. Now a New Law – the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus is put in place and activated, and you now can receive the Father’s Glory with the Son (what a covering! What an Identity!) and the Testimony of His Son … having received ETERNAL LIFE (1 John 5:7-15)! 
 
New Order and Newness of Life springs forth, for the first order is fulfilled and done away, and the second Man that is the Lord from heaven, the quickening Spirit is come forth to make the way for us all to follow! (1 Corinthians 15:45-47; Hebrews 8:10-13, Hebrews 10:7-10)
 
Romans 5:20-21 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
 
A NEW ORDER has begun established in Righteousness... an order of FAITH that operates through the GRACE of the Father by His Son Jesus Christ fulfilling all HIS WILL for US… GOOD WILL.  He has fulfilled the first (order) to establish the second (order).
 
1 Corinthians 15:51-57  Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.  55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?  56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.  57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Jesus Christ has fulfilled all “its” requirements, so the law of sin and death has lost its power and sting. Now the New law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus is of Grace through Faith in His Righteousness and is the POWER of our Blessings, and Liberation from all decay! WOW! Grace Reigns Through His Righteousness unto Eternal Life!

 
And 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 is Not talking about dying, it is talking about a change of GARMENT/IDENTITY…. Praise You Father!
 
So…. Where Is Your Faith Walking?  What WORD, what TESTIMONY are you standing in today?
 
Oh, Hallelujah…  Let HIM Speak to her, our Souls.  And let her be Liberated from the old and joined to the Holy One!  Walking in the Privilege of His Presence….. From Faith to Faith and Glory to GLORY!
 
Let His Glory Reign in You!  As the scriptures tell us in John 17:5, 22-24…. That where He is you/we are too… yet only by His Spirit.  Wow! 
 
But look deeper into this passage of scripture, meditate on this and allow the Lord to open your eyes to a “clearer” understanding of HIM.
 
There is the glory of the Father that Jesus is saying in the fifth verse, that Jesus (the word of God) shared with the Father from the beginning. And there is the glory of the Son, we see in verse 22 when Jesus says “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;…” 
 
Yet we know that Philip and the disciples wanted to see the Father, and asked Jesus to show them the Father.  You know the reply Jesus gave, which was “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father: and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? 
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.  Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
 
Now there is much to be said right here, and perhaps He will take us back to discuss more of the pieces here to give you the full picture… But I’m being pressed to take this another step forward, to show you that the Comforter, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father…. Not a separate entity given to you that will bring you to the Father, but yet the Holy Spirit IS the FATHER and SON.  The very Presence and Glory…. Now what is Glory?  It is the illumination of the very “character” of God. As the Father as the Son as the Holy Spirit… for they are ONE SPIRIT.  You can see this by the Son leading you to the Father, and the Father to the Son.  This is a revelation that only can be seen by HIS Spirit revealing Himself to us.  Who would know yourself better than yourself.  Don’t you know that it was His own hand and arm that brought salvation to all.  And the Holy Spirit is the very declaration of the Testimony of the Father concerning the Son.  The Father In you declaring to you His Son.  Awesome.
 
We are created in His likeness….. behold Him in His Glory and be changed as the Father that raised Jesus out of His death by His Glory is also doing the same quickening in us today.  There is much more to say on this. 
 
…raised up by the glory of the Father
 
Look at John 17 again, verse 22: And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
Why?
That they may be one, even as we are one:  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;
 
Perfection…. That we are COMPLETE… EQUIPPED… FULL… no lack.. Reconciled… Redeemed… the Perfect One is Come…. In Us….and Us In Him.
 
Why?
Because the FULLNESS of the IAM …. The complete character and the benefit of that character has JOINED HIMSELF to you… your soul to bring forth His Son in you and through you.  He Purchased it with the blood/life of HIS SON… a value of great price. 
 
WOW!  CAN YOU HEAR THIS?  YOU WERE/ARE OF SOOOOO MUCH VALUE IN GOD’S PERCEPTION, THAT HE CREATED A SON IN HIS OWN LIKENESS AND IN MAN’S NATURE OF DEATH and SIN, TO DELIVER US FROM ALL DECAY OF THAT NATURE!!!! What a HERO! SAVIOR Indeed!!
 
How MUCH He LOVES US!  How Much VALUE HE SEES in our Soul AND BODY!  For Him to look around and perhaps say to himself and His hosts…..  What do I have that is of enough value, that it could purchase the souls of man for my habitation, my inheritance…
 
Now, I know I’m talking a bit humanistic, but take a look and hear what He the Lord is saying to you….
 
Don’t you know HOW SOOooo MUCH I LOVE YOU?  Do You Realize the Actual COST of YOUR VALUE TO ME?
 
He made an investment of Himself... the giving of His first Born Son.
Can you hear Him?  He is calling you to Himself, drawing and drawing you … in a way no other of any kind can… (for there is no other). 
 
…In Three Days…
 
…In Three Days…
He made a way to be united with YOU FOREVER.  But He does not force Himself on any.  He will not Force Himself on you…. but He will allow you to get to know Him.  And as you begin to see and hear that WORD of Truth and Life, Faith comes alive in you, then you believe and desire to receive HIM.
 
Then it seems we are continually being drawn to Him …. Into “clearer” and clearer degrees of His Glory.  More of His Presence swallows up our mortality.  We are putting on, yet not of ourselves putting on, yet by His Holy Spirit we are garmented with HIS IDENTITY: Incorruption. Immortality.  Even more than this, we are having His Blood poured through us and changing our DNA…. As our Soul Prospers so does our bodies.  Quickening of the Holy Spirit…new man walking.
 
In Him we are being changed into the same image… eternally… Every character of His Identity as Savior, Redeemer, Lamb of God, Prophet, Priest, King and so much more… and the Law of Old fulfilled and removed, and the New Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus now working in us.
 
Baptized, Washing, Regenerated, Transformed, Changed, Metamorphosed, and this list goes on and on to explain the change of us out of death and sin, and into Grace and Life through the Righteousness of Jesus Christ.
 
Jesus Christ, Yahweh, the Way to be JOINED to the Father forever.  In three days… Now it is Finished. 
 
Come on in, this Way, and Behold the Lord’s Glory and Be Changed… Reconciled in our heavenly Father forever and abiding in His Son… Redeemed.
 
Amen.
RPJ

Receiving You Unto Himself

John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Jesus Christ Is the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace.  Meaning to shod your feet in the preparation of the gospel of peace is to always be ready… abiding in the Lamb of God, through whom you now have peace with God… so you walk. (Ephesians 6:15)

Jesus Christ washed the disciple’s feet on the preparation day of the Passover.  He was about to go to the cross and establish our eternal redemption.  So as Priest, Jesus washed their feet to prepare them also, because when He returned from accomplishing the work of Salvation, they would join Him and together they would begin doing as He did and washing the feet of others, redeeming all that would receive Him.

Jesus spoke the word of the Father to the world at that time and that word “washed” those that received His Word.  He was preparing that generation.  Elijah, John the Baptist, both spoke the word of God and prepared the way for the Son of God, the Lamb of God to go forth in the commission of the Father.  Now the Son of God washed the disciples so they too would be ready for the ministry of the Son of God with the Son of God.

Now Jesus Christ has accomplished Salvation for all eternity.  He is ruling and reigning over all worlds.  And today He is washing His chosen to prepare them to go forth With Him even in this age… He is receiving to Himself those souls from sin and death. The grave clothes of religion are falling away. His garments of Righteousness and Salvation are covering all our nakedness.

His Word washes, His word judges, His Word creates, His Word can bring down….

God’s Word settles every situation.  His Will has been done, will be done, and is being done.

He is Receiving Unto Himself a prepared people… washed in the Blood of the Lamb, cleansed in the Word of God that is Jesus Christ.

In Himself, Jesus Christ is seated in the Father, and as One they are come to make their habitation in His prepared people.  The Lamb of God is their light, their righteousness, their glory and honor.  He is our Head.  In Him we live and move and have our being.  We are sanctified, cleansed, justified and glorified in Him. We are God’s habitation and are clothed in His Garments that are white and holy. 

Jesus Christ is Lord.  And where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

The Father and the Son are One and now that He has prepared a place for us in Himself, He, that Spirit that is Holy, comes into our hearts and seals us for the journey of a life time….

So the Holy Spirit speaks and declares and reveals Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God to us, a little revelation at a time.  Each breath He breathes in us causes us to see Him and touch Him and Know Him more.  Hallelujah!!

A Change is happening.  A Birthing is happening.  His New Man is coming forth out of our earthen vessel.  God planted His word…. Planted His Seed, which is Jesus Christ, in our souls and that engrafted word is breaking forth out of the darkness.  That Seed that is His Son is the Light that is shining in our midst and all darkness is fleeing.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

John 14:20,21,23 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him…. If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

The Lord will not leave you comfortless, He said.  He said He would come unto you and receive you to Himself.  So, as that One and only Holy Spirit, He now fills us with the fullness of God.  Hallelujah!

Washing your soul, and causing you to know Him….. and in that knowing…. And in that revealing…. You are made and set free and the new man is revealed.  The 2^nd Man that is Jesus Christ, the Son of God who is that Seed of God which brings forth after His kind… His Divine Nature that has no sin or death.

John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 5:26-27 That he might sanctify and cleanse it (church/body) with the washing of water by the word. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

You cannot clean yourself up… only the Righteousness of Christ can establish you as holy.  You can put off certain characteristics that are not of His holy Spirit, but you will need His Power to make you Free… indeed.

Give the Lord your time, and seek His face….  In seeing Him, you will be washed and freed and established in the Kingdom in Him.

John 3:3,5 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Only by receiving God’s Seed that is Jesus Christ can you be allowed in to the kingdom of heaven… He is the Way.

He enters into our souls even while we are a filthy mess of sin and death… He apprehends us… so to be the One that is able to clean us up and make us clean and holy.  He is the ability and power… He is our ability and power to obtain the prize (become a son) of inheritance of the firstborn.

It is a journey… out of death and our grave… and into His Life of Glory and Peace.  He is Eternal Life and He is receiving us.

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Amen.

Makes Free

John 8:36 …If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

If you look up the two words “free” in a Strong’s Concordance you will find that the first means “to liberate” and the second one means “unrestrained” so to go and come as please.  Both mean “exempt” yet the first is liberty from moral, ceremonial, and mortal liability.  The second means exempt from obligation or liability.  The first free comes from the second free, by definition, but the second free is from a different Greek word that means “to come and go.”

So what does all that mean? Here is what the Holy Spirit shows:  When the Son makes you free, He not only liberates you from your prison but He establishes you in a new life that you may WALK in.

In the story of the ten Lepers the Holy Spirit reveals similar understanding but slightly different…. Please read:

Luke 17:12-19 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

And when he saw them, he said unto them “Go show your selves unto the priests.” And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.

Jesus didn’t immediately make them free.  He could have, but He wanted them to obey Him.  WHAT A LESSON FOR US.  Sometimes the healing, miracle or provision isn’t there yet because we need to WALK in Obedience to HIS WORD that HE SPEAKS IN OUR HEART FOR OUR SITUATION... THEN as we go…. Hallelujah, the manifestation of the blessing of God is made manifest.  (I pray the Holy Spirit will open your eyes if you are not able to see yet.)

Now look what happens next…. Another Lesson for us to take to heart and obey:

v15-16 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

GIVE THANKS!....   THIS is like having your prison door opened by Jesus…He has liberated you, but you just stand there not coming out of your prison.  Door is opened, shackles are off, THEN HE SPEAKS… grave clothes fall away at His voice and you begin to walk out of your prison.  Then you realize “I’m FREE!”  No more chatter from the other prisoners around you, no more the sound of bondage, and no more remembrance of that pain… it is PEACE Sounding and has swallowed you up!  You are so grateful; you turn to the Lord to thank Him before continuing on. As He swallows you up in Himself, you hear a “SLAM”…the sound of THAT Prison Door being shut behind you. You are in the arms of Freedom and Peace, and that bondage of sin (sickness, etc) is not allowed to torment you anymore. 

So remember to give THANKS to the Lord which is like the slamming shut of your prison door(s) so that you are Free Indeed.  Never will you be able to be in bondage again once you are Changed and walking in a new mind: mind of Christ. New Spirit: His Holy Spirit.  He has made you not just healed, but WHOLE.  Sealed in the Liberty and Life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that prison door has been locked, and you are changed into His New Life that cannot sin, and never be put in that bondage again (1 John 3).

Here’s the rest of that passage of scripture in Luke 17:12-19 v17-19 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

When Jesus says to him “Arise, go thy way” it is like the second “free” in John 8:36 which means to be unrestrained so you can come and go freely. 

By Faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, you overcome the world.  He is our Head and what we submit to we reap of.  Glory!

Awesome.!.

Luke 5:23-24 (Jesus speaking) Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?  But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said I unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.

John 8:36 …If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

When the Son makes you free, He not only liberates you from your prison but He establishes you in His new life that you may WALK in.

Thank you Lord! Yes and Amen. So be it.

Amen.