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Creation and the Two Adams

7/3/2022

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Remember: Our Father created all things by Christ Jesus, His Beloved Son, for His Own Pleasure, and if Christ Jesus was One with the Father in creation, then it follows that creation’s purpose is to display the Father’s Glorious Love He has in His Eternal Son, the Brightness of His Glory!!!

1 Corinthians 15:45-47   All that we looked at last week falls under the stewardship of the first man Adam.  Adam was made (became) a living soul.  He created nothing, but was rather created unto an incredibly glorious stewardship, given dominion over all creation

Hebrews 2:6-8 Vs 7-8a speak of God’s original intent for humanity.  Created just a little lower that the angels!!  Crowned with glory and honor, set over the very work (creation) of God’s Hands!!!  All of this was the stewardship of the Glory of God in creation that humanity was created unto!!!

Hebrews 2:8b “But now we see not yet all things put under him (under humanities dominion).”
“Man, being made in the image of God, was fit and able to glorify Him as God.
But whereas, whatever perfection God had communicated unto our nature (in Adam), He had not united it unto Himself in a personal union, the fabric (framework) of it fell to the ground.  God manifested herein, that no gracious relation between Him and our nature could be stable and permanent unless our nature was assumed into a personal union and subsistence with Himself.  This is the only Rock and assured  foundation of the relation of the church unto God, which now, can never utterly fail.  Our nature is eternally secured in that Union (with and in Christ), and we ourselves thereby.”  “IN HIM all things consist.”  Colossians 1:17-18  John Owen

Romans 8:14-25  And this fall, this loss of dominion over all things, has led to the groaning of all creation, ours included!!

But Remember: Rev. 4:11 The Father created all things for His Pleasure.  Hebrews 1:2 The Father created all things by His Son, Who is His Pleasure (Matt 17:5), and the Father has appointed His Beloved Son the Heir of all that He has created!!!  John 3:35, John 13:3, 16:15

Colossians 1:12-21 Therefore, the reconciliation of all creation.  The Work, the Re-creative Work of the Last Adam, the One Who gives Life to all of creation- the Second Man (1 Cor. 15:45-47) the Lord from heaven, Who is to inherit all things!!!
Vs 12-15a The Glorious description of our Man, the Last Adam.  The King of our new Kingdom!  Our Redeemer at the cost of His Own Blood.  The Image Of The Invisible God. Vs 19 It pleased the Father that In Him, all fulness should dwell.(3:9)
Vs 16 By Him were all things created, ......all things were created by Him, and for Him.”
Vs 15b Now notice: He who is the Image of the invisible God is the firstborn of every creature, of all creation!!!
Vs 18 “He is the Beginning, the firstborn from the dead.”  Therefore, He is the Head of the church, His Body of the “born again” ones.
Vs 20 It pleased the Father, to reconcile all things unto Himself, whether they be things in earth or in heaven.  And that by the Blood of His cross.
Vs 21   And that includes us, His “sometime aliens and enemies”, He also has reconciled.

Ephesians 1:10 This is the Father’s “ingathering” in One all things in Christ expressed by Paul as the Father’s Good Pleasure.  And this is the , “But we see Jesus” of Hebrews 2:9.  This is the Hope of all creation as in Romans 8:23-25.  And in John’s vision (Revelation 5:11-14) this is the reason for the praise and worship of all creation at the presentation of the Bloody Lamb!!!
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Our Covenant God is our Creator

6/26/2022

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Isaiah 42:5-6  The glorious Vs.5 is preceded with the Qualifier of the one Speaking: ”Thus saith God the LORD, He that created the heavens....” and then we proceed to Vs 6 and the prophecy of God the LORD giving Christ as the covenant!!!  

Rev. 4:11 “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for/because Thou hast created all things, and for Thy Pleasure they are and were created.” ; Job 9:1-10, 37:18; Ps. 102:25-27/Hebrews 1:10-12 , Ps. 104; Isa. 40:21-22, 45:12, 18, 51:12-13, 66:1-2; Jer. 10:10-14/51:15-17, Jeremiah 32:17 (refer to the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge)

Acts 17:24-25  “God that made the world an all things in it, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth” .....”seeing He gives to all life, breath and all things.”  Note this is the introduction to Paul’s gospel message to the heathen philosophers in Athens.  No attempt to prove anything, just the statement of Biblical fact!

Hebrews 11:1-6 (3) Notice the place of faith in God’s creation of the worlds out of nothing in this text on the indispensable nature of faith in pleasing God.  It is not optional!!!

John 1:1-3, 10 In His introduction as Redeemer, God’s Word, His Son, is introduced as the Creator of all things!!!  

Hebrews 1:2 In His introduction as our Priest/King, He is spoken of as the one “by Whom He Made the worlds.”    Ps. 33:6; Eph 3:9; Col.1:16

Proverbs 8 The personification of Wisdom is in the context of creation (Vs.22-30) and provides the inseparable connection between creation and conscience (Vs.1-21, 31-36) as we see in Romans 1:18-28.  As Romans 1:20 declares, the hallmark of the Creator is so strong in His Creation, that all of humanity is without excuse!!!  Ps 104:24

1 Corinthians 1:24 Christ, by Whom He created the Worlds, is the Wisdom of God!!!  “The fool has said in his heart, there is on God.”  Ps. 14:1 in total denial and ignorance of Psalm 19:1-6 (Note the proximity of the proclamation of creation and David bringing in the perfection of the law).

Ephesians 3:9-10 Paul’s purpose was to “make all men see the fellowship of the mystery, hidden from the beginning of the world in God, Who Created all things by Jesus Christ”, now notice, to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church, the Manifold Wisdom of God”, which as we have seen above is Christ!!

2 Peter 1:16-18 Christ Jesus is the Pleasure of the Father: Matt. 3:16-17, 17:5; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22, 9:34-35, John 3:35, 5:20-23; Col. 1:13 (margin: the Son of His Love)

Conclusion: If our Father created all things by Christ Jesus, His Word, our Redeemer King/High Priest, and if Christ Jesus is the very Wisdom, One with the Father in that Creation, then Creations purpose is to display the Father’s immeasurable love and pleasure He has in His Son!!!  And the church, the Body of Christ is the “candlestick” of the Glorious Wisdom of God, His Son, on display unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places
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Our Glorious Covenant God!!!

6/18/2022

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Our Glorious Covenant God!!!

Revelation 4:1-3 Note: Two covenant emblems: “One Sat on the Throne.  He that Sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardius stone.”  Ex. 28:15-20 with a twist.  The first and last stones on the priest’s breastplate are reversed.  Pointing to a covenant/High Priest far grander than the Old Testament and only Israel.  Isaiah 66:18-20; Matt. 20:14-16; Lk 13:24-30
“There was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like an emerald.”   Ezekiel 1:26-28 Vs 26:  Upon the throne in this vision is “the likeness as the appearance of a man.”   Vs 28 The brightness that surrounds the Throne has the appearance of the rainbow.  Now notice, “This was the appearance of the likeness of the Glory of the Lord.”   Perhaps this union of what appears to be the “Son of Man” on the Throne, and the Glory surrounding the Throne is the envisioning the Union of all the Covenant purposes of the Father in Christ.  Revelation 3:21 “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His Throne.”  Christ is the Glory of the Father!!!  (John 1:14; Eph 1:3-12)

Isaiah 42:6   All of the Covenant assurances to the Family of God and to all of creation are found, sealed, and assured in Christ Jesus.
“I the LORD have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will keep Thee, and give Thee for a Covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.”  See also Isaiah 49:8; 60:1-3; Luke 2::30-31

Hebrews 6:13-7:3   God’s immutable oath, in which it is impossible for Him to lie (vs 17-18) our strong consolation, our refuge of hope that is set before us.  Hebrews 7:21 “For those priests, (Levitical) were made without an oath, but this priest with an oath by Him that said to Him, The LORD sware and will not repent, Thou art a Priest after the order of Melchisedec.”  Notice vs 19, “But the bringing in a better hope, by which we draw nigh to God.”
So what are the “two immutable things”?
1.  God’s only Begotten Son is declared our King of Righteousness, our King of Peace. 7:2
2.  The Son of God, by God’s oath of office, “abides a priest continually-eternally. 7:3 & 16-17 “Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.”  (See 1 John 1:1-3)

Remember: Abraham’s encounter with Melchisedec (Genesis 14:18-20) was before his dream of “cutting the covenant”(Gen. 15:8-18), killing the animals that were used in the tabernacle shadow worship of the “Lamb slain before the foundation of the earth.”(Rev. 13:8) 
Galatians 3:16 “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made.  He saith not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ (Gen. 15), the law, 430 years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect.”
Hebrews 2:16 “For verily He took not on him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.(The seed of faith)  Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make a reconciliation for the sins of the people.”
Matthew 28:26-28 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, And brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take eat; this is my body.  And the took the cup, and gave thanks and gave it to them saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Is Christ Jesus your covenant with the Father? “No man cometh to the Father, but by me.”
God has given us His Word!!!  He cannot Lie!!!  (John 1:1-2, 14:6;
Hebrews 1:1-2)
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On 2 Corinthians 5:21

5/24/2022

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​2 Corinthians 5:21 "For He has made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him."
"If I were to reduce the whole Gospel of God to one word, I believe that one word would be "transfer". All my salvation lies in that word. My transgression is transferred to Christ; He is charged with it; and His Righteousness, which is the very Righteousness of God, is transferred to me, and I am to put it on and wear it, and go to God in it." Joseph Irons 1785-1852



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There is more to Resurrection that resurrection!!!

5/22/2022

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There is more to Resurrection than resurrection!!!

Romans 5:8-11   Vs 10: ”We shall be saved by His Life.”

Romans 6:3-11   Vs 5: “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His  death, we shall be also in the likeness of His Resurrection.”  
Vs 10-11:   “In that He Liveth, He Liveth UNTO God.”   Vs 11 “Reckon yourselves....alive UNTO God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Note: Resurrection in Christ Life is an UNTO GOD LIFE.  Flesh “life” is to exist unto self, my will, my needs, my safety, my control, my reputation, my exaltation!

Romans 7:4 “You are dead to the law (it’s guilt, condemnation, punishment) by the Body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to Him Who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit UNTO GOD!!!”

Romans 8:9-11   Focus here is the Resurrection Spirit of the Father, Vs 11
Vs 9   If we are Christ’s, the Spirit of God dwells in us.  But note: “Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His”
Vs 10 To have the Spirit to dwell in us is to have Christ dwelling in us!!! Jn 14:16-18.

Galatians 2:20 Vs 19 “For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might LIVE UNTO  GOD.”
Vs 20   #1 If I am crucified with Christ, (planted in the likeness of His death), I live.
#2 But something is radically different!!  “It is not I, But Christ Lives in me.”
#3 The life I now live is this “day to day” flesh, this body, I live out of a new  “operating center”, the “Christ in me” center, the “UNTO GOD” center.
#4 The faith by which I live out of the “Christ in me” center is more than just my   fledgling faith.  I live by the faith of the Son of God, my Resurrected Jesus, Who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Hebrews 5:1-9 All of the above is the work of our Great High Priest, who lived His Life in the days of His Incarnation (as completely human as Divinely possible) in the faith and confidence of His oath of office as our Eternal Priest “after the order of Melchisedek”.
Vs 7  His “strong crying and tears” were perfectly human and sinless.  He possessed the full range of human emotions and proper desire of preservation, without  the controlling lust that grips us.  His control was the Will of His Father!!!
Was He saved from death?  Heb. 2:10-15 Note the statement of His Faith in vs 13: ”I will put my trust in Him.”

Colossians 1:27   This is the glorious mystery of the Gospel, Christ in you, the hope of Glory.”

Philippians 3:3   This UNTO GOD LIFE is the resurrection life our Christ Jesus purchased for us through His Own Blood.  This is our faith mark of that life.  “For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, Rejoice in Christ Jesus, AND HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH.
”  Our flesh contributes nothing to this life!!!
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The Father, the Bosom of the Gospel  Part 6

5/1/2022

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The Father, the Bosom of the Gospel  Part 6

2 Peter 3-4 1. Everything that we need for life and godliness is already given to us by His Divine Power (Eph. 1:19-20) through the knowledge of God and our Lord Jesus Christ.(vs 2)
2. And in that knowledge are given “great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the Divine Nature.”  (Eph. 3:19; Col. 2:8-10; 1 John 3:1-3)
3. “Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”  (Gal. 1:3-4)

But we have a problem: 1 Corinthians 1:9-16 1. Again, the blessings of the “things which God hath prepared for them that love Him” exceed human understanding.
2. Vs 9  Such blessing has never even entered the heart of man!!
3. Vs 11 “The things of God NO MAN KNOWS, but the Spirit of God, Whom we have received of God, that we might know the things freely given to us of God. (John 16:13-16)
4. Vs 16 “But we have the mind of Christ.”  And this is 1 John 5:20!!!  This Spirit of God given to us 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”.  

Hebrews 10:12-20 This is the Sprit of the New Covenant, 
1. Vs 12-14 The Covenant that IS the MAN Christ Jesus (Isa. 42:6, 49:8; Gal. 3:16-17)
2. Vs 15-22 This Spirit, is the Spirit of Sonship (Gal. 4:4-7), the Spirit of the “The New and Living Way” (Vs 20, 8:13, 2 Cor. 5:17), Vs 15 The Spirit that Witnesses within us the New Covenant Promise of the Father!!! (16-23, Jer. 31:33-34)

Ezekiel 26:25-27 This is the Father’s Spirit that He promised to put within His people, to “cause you to walk in my statutes (laws), and you shall keep my judgements and do them.”

And that brings us to Romans 8:2: “For the LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS (operation of the Father’s Spirit in our hearts) has made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Vs 4 “That the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

But first things first:Unless we know and believe the truth of 1a, the truth of rest of Romans 8 does not belong to us!! Vs 9 Only those who are IN CHRIST JESUS have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them.

Hebrews 4:12-16 The Spirit’s continually gracious and active “law work” in our heart’s.
1. Eph. 6:17 The Word of God is the Spirit’s surgical tool, it cuts both ways!!  It reveals sin and brings life.
2. 4:12 It “divides soul and spirit”.  We don’t understand the difference at first.  But the Spirit makes the distinction between what is of the first man Adam (1 Cor. 15:45, the living soul) and the last Adam (a life giving Spirit). This is usually very uncomfortable!!
3. “And joints and marrow”.  Our flesh and it’s lusts govern so much of our activity (joints). We hardly have ever given a thought to the “whys” of behavior other that to feed our ego’s.  But the Spirit gets down to the very marrow, the root of things and “breeds white blood cells” to fight the infections of the flesh.
4. “Thoughts and Intents of the heart”.  This is painful, the stuff of our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount! (Matt.5-6).  Vs 13 This is life lived before the Father Who sees in secret!
5.  Vs 14-16 But if Romans 8:1 is true of us, Never fear, we have a Great High Priest, our Advocate with the Father.(1 John 2:1-3) We are to find ourselves continually at His Throne of Grace and Mercy.  Remember, this is the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father!!!  

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The Father, the Bosom of the Gospel  Part 5

4/23/2022

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The Father, the Bosom of the Gospel   Part 5
The Father’s outworking His Will & Purpose in His Adopted Family 
By the indwelling Spirit of Christ!

Galatians 3:13-14  Recall that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law.....that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”  Remember, this Promise was of the Father! (Lk 24:49, Acts 1:4, 2:33, John 15:26)
Galatians 4:4-6  Here Paul states that God (the Father) sent His Son to redeem law failures (that’s all of us) “that we might receive the adoption of sons, and because your are sons, God has sent forth THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON, crying Abba, Father.”

This name, FATHER, is the name Jesus taught His disciples and is crucial to understanding our God’s Eternal Will and Purpose.  Jesus speaks of His Father over 100 times in John’s Gospel.
John 17:6  “I have manifested Thy Name (Father in Vs 5).
Vs 11  “Holy Father, keep through Thine Own Name those whom you have given me.”(See also John 6:37-39; Hebrews 2:10-13)
Vs 12 “while I was with them in the world, I kept them in Thy Name.”
Vs 21-22 And here, our Jesus prays for us, “That they all may be one; as Thou Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also MAY BE ONE IN US: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.”  And notice that in vs 22, the Glory that the Father has give the Son, the same Glory that Moses could not see, the Son has given to us, “that they may be one, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE.”  And that requires the Spirit of Glory, the Spirit of His Son, the Spirit of Sonship, in our hearts.!!!

Ezekiel 36:26-27 “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will put within you......And I will put My Spirit within your, and cause your to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgements, and do them.”
Jeremiah 31:33 “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”(think family!)
Hebrews 10:14-22 This is the covenant that the Holy Spirit is witnessing in us, the same covenant in which our Jesus is our ascended Melchizedek, our High Priest, by which we are invited into the Holiest by the Blood of the Lamb.

Romans 8:2 It is this “New Covenant Spirit”, this Spirit of His Son, this Abba Spirit of Adoption, that  is the “law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus that has made us free from the Law of sin and death.”  So how does this practically work??

Ephesians 3:14-17 Paul prays this prayer that all men and all principalities & powers in heavenly places might see the glories of the Father’s Eternal Purpose in Christ Jesus.
Vs 14-15 Notice, he bows his knees “to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom the 
whole family in heaven and earth is named.”
Vs 16 Here is that working of His Spirit in our inner man, that New Covenant internalized promise!!  Neither Adam’s nor Israel’s inner man could cut it.  Not one single thing in our “inner man” by birth or nurture has any spiritual strength adequate to please the Father.(Matt.5:44-48)
Vs 17 The Spirit has to “clean house” so that “faith work” can be done.  That is, that our inner man might be able to dwell in and with Christ by faith.  And this is the rooting and grounding in love, the same work spoken of in Romans 5:5. This is the revealing of that love bond that is Father Love to His Adopted children.  From this time forward, He deals with us as His children!!!
Vs 18-19a   Paul seems to imply by his prayer that it takes this much of the Spirits’ working to get us to “first base” in knowing the Love of Christ, to root us in Christ’s Love.  And then, he seems to run out of superlatives to describe the incredible treasure of Christ’s Love as we grow up into Him.(Eph.4:15)  It’s kind of like he finally says, oh forget it, no human words or knowledge can express it.  And truly, it has to be intimately KNOWN in our inner man by His Spirit.
Vs 19b   “That ye may be filled with all the FULNESS OF GOD.”  Truly, this is over the top!  How on earth can this be??  My best stab at it is Colossians 1:19, “For it pleased the FATHER that IN HIM should all fulness dwell.”  And again 2:9-10 For in Him dwells all the FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY.  And you are complete IN HIM.....”
If the Spirit is strengthening is in our inner man in order that Christ Jesus may dwell in our hearts by faith, and this same Christ Jesus is the fulness of the Godhead, then His indwelling in us by faith through the operation of the Spirit is God working out His fulness in us.
Vs 20   Just in case we can wrap our brains around such incredible truth and promise that is in Vs 19, Paul lays this on us.  Our God and Father “is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”  This immeasurable Power that works in us is His Spirit of Resurrection Life that Paul speaks of in Eph. 1:19-20.
Vs 21 All of this is that He might be glorified IN THE CHURCH by Christ Jesus, now notice, throughout all ages, WORLD WITHOUT END.  AMEN”  
Our God isn’t glorified by any work of our hands as though He needs anything.(Acts 17:25)  He is rather glorified by our Worshiping Him in His working by His Spirit in the “inner man” of all His Family, the church, that the rejoicing of His children in Jesus Christ will bring Praise and adoration to Him for all Eternity.  Recall the “circumcision of the New Covenant”
Philippians 3:3   “For we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, AND HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH.’

Next time: The Spirit’s practical attack on our fleshly confidences.

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The Father, the Bosom of the Gospel  Part 4

4/17/2022

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This is out of order in the series on the Father as the Bosom of the Gospel, but I feel I need to post it on this Easter, the religious day of remembrance of the Eternal Truth.
​                                 The Father, the Bosom of the Gospel   Part 4
                         How the Father “Internalizes” His Glory in His People

Exodus 33:18-23  Recall that the best the OT mediator, Moses/the Law could see and             “reveal”, were the “back parts of God.
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Hebrews 7:19 “For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope             did; by which we draw nigh to God.” 
Hebrews 8:1-2;6 “This is the Sum:  We have such an High Priest, who is set on the                   Right Hand of the Throne of The Majesty in the heavens, The Mediator of a better            Covenant, established on better Promises.”   No more “God’s Back Parts”.
1 Peter 1:3-4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according              to His Abundant Mercy has begotten us again to a LIVELY HOPE by the 
    RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible,
         and undefiled, and that doesn’t fade away, reserved in heaven for you.”
Romans 4:23-25 (edited) “but to us, to whom righteousness shall be imputed, if we
       believe ON HIM (The Father, see 1 John 2:22-23) that raised up Jesus our Lord
       from the dead; Who was delivered for  our offences, and was raised again for our
       justification.”
Romans 6:4-5 “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.  For if we have been planted together in the likeness
     of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His Resurrection.”
Romans 8:11 “But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
      He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His
      Spirit that dwells in you.”.

Please listen carefully!: If our Lord Jesus Christ had only risen from the dead and had not ascended to the Father’s Right Hand, we would still be in our sins!!!

Hebrews 10:12-13 “But this Man, after He had offered ONE sacrifice for sins FOR
      EVER, sat down on the Right Hand of God; from henceforth EXPECTING till His
      enemies be made His Footstool.”
Vs 14 “For by one offering He has perfected FOR EVER them that are sanctified.
John 7:37-39 “He who believes on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
     But this spake He of the Spirit which they that believe on Him should receive: for the
     Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.” (Ascended
​      into the Father’s Glory.)
John 16:7 “Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if
     I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him
      unto you.”
Acts 2:21-33 “This Jesus God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.  Therefore being
     by the Right Hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the Promise of
     the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.”
Ephesians 2:4-7 “God..has quickened us together with Christ...and has raised us up
      together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places IN Christ Jesus.”
Hebrews 10:15-23 “And having an High Priest over the House of God (Heb.3:6); Let us
     draw near with a true heart (the implantation of the Holy Spirit Vs 15-47) in full
      assurance of faith.” 

Resurrection is never to this old fallen earth (Gal. 1:4 ): Resurrection is ever and always to the Heavenlies, into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus.(Hebrews 10:19-23) By faith, that is to be the context of every earthly event we encounter in the here and now
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So What's A Father To Do???

4/12/2022

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        So what’s the FATHER to do?  His stated purpose in His Will is to “gather together IN ONE all things both in heaven and earth”.  But from our text (Exodus 33:20) that appears to be fatal!!  How then does He answer this longing, this prayer to see Him Face to face, (and not kill everyone who gazes upon His Perfection, His Glory)?

        John 1:14  “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld His Glory, the Glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father), full of Grace and Truth.”
Did you catch that?  The Most High God placed His Glory, His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father, in human flesh.  And as impossible as it is for the unaided human mind to understand that mystery, John proclaims that they beheld, looked upon that Glory, and wonder of wonders, lived to tell about it.  In fact, he was one of the twelve witnesses to that Glory in human flesh.  Just in case you think that was a typo---
        1 John 1:1-3   “That which was from the beginning, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled; for the Life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show it unto you that Eternal Life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us.

        And lest we mistake the Brightness of this Glory of God come in human flesh, and think it is some dim reflection, consider this:
        Hebrews 1:1-3  He has spoken to us by His Son, “Who being the Brightness of His Glory, and the express Image of His Person, and upholding all things by the Word of His Power, when He Had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High.”

        I said previously that it was impossible for the unaided human mind to understand this mystery, but consider this Divine Aid.
        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.”
       John 14:9  Jesus words to Philip, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet you have not known Me, Philip?  He that has seen Me Has seen the Father; and how do you say then, ‘show us the Father.’”

How long have you “been with Jesus”?  Have you seen the Father?  Have you beheld His Glory in His Beloved Son??  Vs 11a, “Believe Me that I Am in the Father, and the Father in Me.”  Have you lived to tell about it??

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The Father, the Bosom of the Gospel

3/31/2022

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                                                                 Revelation 4:11
          The foundation of the Glorious praise given unto the Father upon His Throne is that He created all things, and for His Pleasure they are and were created.  I am puzzled by the present tense, “are”.  I wonder if the “are” refers to His present work (in our history) of His New Creation in Christ Jesus.  This is as stated in His Will and Purpose in Ephesians 1:1-10.  His Eternal Will and Purpose is, in our history of time, “to gather together IN ONE all things IN Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even IN Him.”  2 Corinthians 5:17 “If any man be IN Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.”  And then there is His Purpose for the Church, (Eph. 3:21), Unto Him (the Father of Vs 14) be Glory IN the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
          This IN denotes a family unity of which Eph.1:14-15 speaks, “I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.”  John speaks of this closeness, this unity, this being IN the family of the Father under the term “fellowship”.  In 1 John 1-3, after his gloriously “touchy, feely” description of the Apostles witness to God made flesh, Eternity made manifest in the God/Man, Christ Jesus, he gives us his reason.  “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son, Jesus Christ.”  Such an incredible invitation!!  Not just to visit this Fellowship of the Father and His Son on occasion, but to live in it as sons and daughters.
          But as the saying goes, “Houston, we have a problem.”  I am not going to enter into a dissertation on the fall of man, but rather I want to pick up from an incident in the life of Moses and it’s prophetic importance in man’s redemption unto this eternal Fellowship with the Father and His Son.

          Exodus 33:7-23:   Moses had been called of God to lead the liberated Israel into the land of God’s promise and their mediator, their go-between, the one who stood between God and the people in all matters of life in their journey.  Moses quickly discovered that God was right when He Said, “Ye are a stiff-necked people.” (Vs 5) Soon, Moses is needing assurance that he is not in this adventure alone.  As an assurance that He was blessed of the Lord in this endeavor, he says, “I beseech thee, show me Thy Glory”.
          God answers with a blessed promise, “I will make all My Goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the Name of the Lord before thee; etc.”  But then the problem!!!
          Vs 20 And God said, “You can not see My Face; for there shall no man see me and live.”  “We can talk as friends, I will meet you in the tent of meeting (Vs 7) under the cloudy pillar, but not face to Face.  Vs 11 speaks of Moses and God speaking face to face, but it was more like a “zoom meeting”, just not the same as true “face to Face”.
This incident prophetically illustrates through Moses, the mediator of the Law, the fatal limitations of the old covenant.  At it’s best, because of the weakness of the flesh, both Israel’s and ours’, the Law/Old Covenant, can only reveal our distance from the Perfect and Holy God!  The Apostle Paul speaks of it in 2 Cor. 3:7 as “the ministration of death”, its letter–it’s words of God’s perfections, kills.  As with it’s requirement for lepers, it leaves us crying, “unclean, unclean”.
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          So what’s the FATHER to do?  The stated purpose in His Will is to “gather together IN ONE all things both in heaven and earth."  But from our text, that appears to be fatal!!  We will next look at the “prophetic irony” introduced in Numbers 6:25 and thereafter the glimmer of hope throughout the old testament.  Until next time, be in fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ!!! 
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