the most holy place view of jesus’ redemptive...

The Most Holy Place View of Jesus’ Redemptive Work

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Pastor Roy E. RichmondTree of Life Ministries

625 S. W. 158th Terrace – OKC, OK 73170405-799-7393 – www.treeoflifeok.com – [email protected]

There are six important things that took place when Jesus went to the cross. We have heard much about the physical sufferings of Jesus and those physical sufferings are very important to us. He died as humanity physically and took on Himself the death that was appointed to all mankind because of what Adam did. [Hebrews 9:27-28] There is another side to what happened at the cross that is just as important to us and most of Father's children are not even aware of it. We are a spirit, we have a soul (mind, will and emotions) and we live in a body. What took place there in the spirit is vital for us to know and understand and identify with. The following teachings will expose you to much revelation as to what took place from the Garden to the Cross, and in the grave of Jesus as humanity, and your identification with that work. We pray that you will glean much from this study and that it will help you change your mind about who and what Jesus Christ has done and who the believer is presently. Pray for a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, as you study this!


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This particular study of the Finished Work of Jesus Christ contains the vital components of what Father God did in His operation of removing the force of sin (spiritual death) out of man, and establishing the force of His life – He did this in the person and work of Jesus Christ. This was first taught to me by Pastor Gary Garner; I’ve listened to and transcribed all of his tapes, and taught from his writings for many years, but this study has actually been taught every since Paul wrote the letters to the Churches of his day, and for us who are alive and remain. I’ve listened to all the tapes and the writings of Leon Stump, concerning Paul’s System of Truth, and then also have read all of Charles Prices books (1875 – 1920’s) concerning the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, including two wonderful books titled, “A Man in Christ,” and “Made Alive.” I’ve read E. W. Kenyon’s entire collection of books and also Witness Lee’s books concerning Jesus’ redemptive work; they are all excellent but not the final word concerning the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. As we grow in our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and co-operate with Father’s Holy Spirit in His purpose, which is to teach us of Jesus Christ and His work, then we will continue to receive the ever unfolding revelation of Jesus Christ. This version (Version 2009) is what we at Tree of Life Fellowship have been given, and are able to understand to this day. We will continue to, with Father’s help, enlarge this study – it will never be finished, as far as our understanding goes – we will glean from what Father God did in the person of His Son, for eternity. We pray you are enlarged in your spirit and soul as you study this book, and will come back to Tree of Life Ministries, often, to feed on what we have and are graciously being given by Father’s Holy Spirit.

We offer nothing but the bread and wine of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; it is the only power that will make a person whole – spirit, soul and body.

Who ever you are feeding from, you need to look and see what’s in their hands – what are they offering you?

†Roy Richmond is Senior Pastor at Tree of Life Christian Fellowship. He and his wife Donna have been married for 9 years as of July 31, 2009, and have three, children, five grand-sons and two grand-daughters. What a blessing, their quiver is full!


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Pastor Roy has been in the ministry for over 30 years. He is a dynamic teacher, explainer and preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who not only pastors Tree of Life Church, but also pastors people in the community and over the World Wide Web, as a Scribe and Teacher.

Pastor Roy has been an ordained minister for many years; has served as an Associate Pastor, worked with youth, and also teaches in other cites across our great county and the overseas. He is an able bodied minister and priest to the Body of Christ at home and at large. He has attended the American Bible College and Seminary in Oklahoma City; working on his Masters graduate studies and also has a Masters of Divinity degree; more importantly He has THE MASTERS Degree from the Holy Spirit. His ministry emphasis now is to bring salvation, not only to the spirit-man, but also the soul (mind, will and emotions), the body, the financial realm and the social realm of every man in Christ. He does this by feeding the hearers a constant diet on the bread and wine of the Gospel. The Holy Spirit has made Him a voice of One, bringing a clear sounding Word to this generation.

He has taught through verse by verse studies of most of the Bible and various topics concerning Christian living. He now proclaims and explains one message which is found all the way through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, JESUS CHRIST, HIM CRUCIFIED AND WHAT THAT MEANS TO THE WORLD! He is a man on a mission; to teach, proclaim and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to all who are hungry for truth. There are many today, who are ready to be shown what the house of God (Body of Christ) is to be. The Bible says to "Show the house the house, and if they be ashamed (Aware they are not imaging Christ), then show them the goings out and the comings in there of." If a person is not seared with a mind set that they are okay the way they are, then they are ready to grow in the Lord.

Our Pastor teaches the Word in a way that you will remember it. You will also experience renewal in your soul, which is your mind, will, emotions and thinking facilities and be brought to a total rest in Christ after studying this book and others that are available. The Holy Spirit has revealed to him a great understanding of the Finished Work of Jesus Christ; any hungry studentwill glean much from the studies offered by Tree of Life Ministries. Our local fellowship has been called to be a priesthood of believers, who serve in a cause larger than our wants, and greater than our selves. The staff of Tree of Life Church, invite you to join with us, on this wonderful journey of growing into the fullness and the stature of Jesus Christ? When the believer matures they will “Ask not what Father God can do for them, but they will ask what Father God wants to do through them.” Selah! We highly recommend these studies to all who are hungry to grow in perfect maturity, in Christ.

Sincerely,

The Staff of Tree of Life Church

Out Line:

Matthew 12:40


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40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Purpose: To realize the most important time to be aware of, is the three days and nights of the redemptive work of Christ. How our craving to understand the future has robbed us.

Hosea 6:1-4I Sam. 2:6-10

II Cor. 8:9

Introduction: The Three Days of Moses Ministry Ex. 3:18; 5:3; 8:27 The Lord instruction at the burning bush (The right sacrifice) Ex. 3:18 The three days journey would deliver them from their works Ex. 5:3-5 The compromise of less than three days Ex. 8:27

I. The darkness and light of three days in Egypt Ex. 10:22 This pictured the light of the gospel Eph. 5:8 God hath commanded the light to shine out of darkness 2 Cor. 4:6

II. How long does it take to make the three day trip? Some never even start They are too busy trying to figure out the future Acts 3:21

III. The Lord’s first appearing has been missed already To the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ Eph. 4:13 Predestined to be conformed to the measure of stature Romans 8:29 As we have had the image of the earthy we shall also 1 Cor. 15:48-49

We don’t want the appearing of the Lord to be missed in us!

Come eat of the Tree of Life!

Chapter One: Introduction

Tree of Life Christian Fellowship


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Pastor Roy E. Richmond

The Revelation of Redemption“Three Days and Nights”

I hope you have a Bible with you during this study, because you need to add sight sense

knowledge to your receiving of God’s Word. We need to hear it, see it, and touch it. We are going to start this book out with a couple chapters dealing with the “Three Days and Three Nights” of redemption, as seen through out the Bible. We will not be able to go through the entire Bible, but we are going to hit some highlights that I believe will result in a measure of maturity in the believer’s life.

Matthew 12:38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

They asked for a sign, Jesus said no sign will be given to you, except the sign of Jonah. We are today in a time when many people are wondering what is going to happen. Just during my life time, the majority of the charismatic Church has used all the signs and wonderings going on in this world system to declare a soon coming “rapture” of the Church. Then they seek signs in the stars to prove that the “end” is going to take place, and then they use the number of each New Year to come up with a phrase to prove that Jesus is coming – as of the writing of this book they have been saying, “He’s coming in 2008 and He won’t be late. During Jesus’ ministry, in His earth walk, the crowds followed Him, as longs as He was feeding them and healing people –signs to them. But the moment He began to minister Most Holy Place things (you must eat of my flesh and drink of my blood or you’ll have no part with me), they all ran – “An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.”

What had Father already shown men, concerning Jesus being the Messiah? Well all the Prophets foretold of His coming. Isaiah prophesied of his birth something like 650 years prior. What he spoke was said of the Lord, “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Herod, an unbeliever, had heard and believed that He would be born in his day. The Angel of the Lord told Mary and Joseph. Mary’s cousin new of it, with no doubt. The three Kings knew of His coming and the Angel of the Lord told many shepherds, and then the Angels declared who He was when He was born. John the Baptist declared His coming into his time of ministry and being the Lamb of God. Jesus spoke the Sermon on the Mount, and spoke with wisdom and knowledge like no man had ever spoken. He healed the sick, brought sight to the blind, brought people back to a right and sound mind. He raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead. Equipped the disciples to go out and preach the Gospel, and for them to heal people themselves; all this, and the religious leaders still wanted further signs. Signs won’t cause a person to accept the gift of salvation, which is to bring man back to an intimate fellowship with Father God. Only seeing the work of Jesus and


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God’s love for mankind will do that. Fear teaching won’t do it either; that will only cause a person to get born-again out of fear for the consequences of what “might happen” if they don’t. That kind of salvation experience produces no intimate relationship with the Savior.

Especially as Church people, we need to understand the maturity process of the individual members that make up the Church. Many people are concerned about the world system, but really, there is a real correlation between how mature the Church becomes, and what happens to the people who reside on this planet we call Earth.

We need to understand something. Those of us who are concerned about the future, and I am, need to be aware of a fact. The future of the Church world wide depends on what happened to Jesus in the past. One needs to realize this individually. What is going to take place in the Church is what has already happened in Christ, the Head of the Church. What happened to Him, is supposed to be developing and becoming what is true of every person in Christ, the Sons of God. The Church’s future depends on something that happened in the past.

What has been very hurtful and harmful to the body of Christ, is the Church as a whole is always looking toward the future. We always want Father God to show us what’s coming next. Really,the information that we must have, is what happened in the past. What happened in the three days and nights of the finished work of Jesus, will determine what’s going to take place in the Church. The last Adam (Christ) is the head of the Church, what’s true of Him, is true of the Church. Actually, positionally it is already true, but just because it is true that doesn’t mean we are walking in it. We are going to take a couple of chapters in this book by looking at this plan Father God had, and see how the fruition of it was fulfilled in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.

The Church is looking in the wrong direction. They are looking into the future, asking, “Lord what are you going to do about my problem,” “What are you going to do about the world’s problem?” We’ve got some problems in the world today, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to get better any time soon.

So, what’s going to happen? We shouldn’t ask the Lord, “What are you going to do,” because Father God has already accomplished everything necessary to straighten this world out; in factwhat Father did in Jesus was to bring restoration to the world. It’s not our future we need to worry or wonder about, it’s our past we need to learn about. What did Jesus do, already, in His finished work to change our circumstance individually and corporately? It is vital for us to ask the right questions and find out the answers from the Holy Spirit. There are many people who think they can go to the Word and decide for themselves what it means. That is very dangerous. Jesus said He sent Father’s Holy Spirit to lead and guide us, and we now know that the Holy Spirit is Jesus Christ or Father’s Spirit. We can all learn the truth of the Word, by allowing the Holy Spirit that resides in us, to teach us, and to expose us to the five-fold ministry He has gifted to the body of Christ. That truth will be in total agreement with what the Father has said.

The message is ever-unfolding in a greater understanding, but the message of the finished work of Jesus Christ is about something that is already accomplished. We are being called to take a second look at the Cross of Jesus Christ. The first time you looked at the work of the cross, you


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saw Jesus dying for you. It was His death for you. The second time you look, if you will stay there long enough and allow the Holy Spirit to open your spiritual eyes; you see Him dying as all of humanity (those who were in the first Adam); Jesus became one with humanity (man hewn down). In Adam’s fall he brought man down from the spiritual realm to the dust realm (natural, carnal realm).

The first look, you see forgiveness, but you still see yourself as being the same as you were. The second look, you see Him dying as the race of men who needed forgiveness, and then you realize that His death was the death of all humanity. One of the great tragedies of the Church world today, is to continually see the death of Jesus, as the death of just one man. It wasn’t the death of one man; it was the death of all who needed a death. We live in wonderful times, because the Lord is dealing with people about the need to take a second look at the Cross. Taking that second look will change ones relationship with the Father, by causing him or her to desire to know Him more – that’s the goal to have an intimate relationship with Him.

We need to take advantage of what Jesus has already accomplished. One of the problems in a local body, who is constantly being feed on the deaths of Jesus (there was him dying and then all dying in Him), is that we become so familiar with the material, that we don’t take it seriously. A starving person will really take a morsel of bread very serious. People who have had lot’s of food and many choices will let food go to waste, and will forget how blessed they are to have food. By the same token we can be so used to what we enjoy in our study times, our conferences and the ministry God has blessed us with, that we forget how good we have it, and how blessed we are to have Most Holy Place ministers. (Those who have been to the Mercy Seat and heard the voice of God – their message can be heard by everyone)

Jesus said there will be no sign given but what Jonah in the belly of the whale (The whale pictures the first man Adam) pictured, and people are looking for signs and wonders all over the place today. We need to look back and see the great sign of Jonah; what took place in the three days and three nights.

Isaiah 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way (the path Jesus walked out in His redemptive work; He is the way), walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

The Word that will change people’s lives is a Word from behind them. It’s in our past; something has happened in our past that we did not know about. Revelation 1:12, that great chapter where John was standing at the Table of Shewbread; that reveals to us something important. We know he was standing at the Table of Shewbread, because it was the Sabbath Day, and when he turned to see the voice that spoke to him, he was looking at the Candle Stick. In the Tabernacle of Moses, the Table of Shewbread is right opposite the Candle Stick, so he was feeding on bread and wine, and he heard a sound behind him; the voice came from behind him.

Family, it’s not what God is going to say, it’s what God is saying about what has already been done. I think it would be a great benefit to every believer if we would realize there is something greater than miracles and special gifts. I believe in the gifts of the Spirit, and the word of knowledge and wisdom. The word of wisdom is a supernatural word from God, and also can


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affect people’s daily lives. The word of knowledge is a supernatural word of God about both the present and the past, and I believe in those things. But, what we need is a revelation of the Word of God. Why do we want a word that feeds the carnal mind, when we’ve got the Word, and we’ve got the Man, who is the Word living in us?

The Bible is the written Word, and Christ, the Holy Spirit living in us, is the living Word. The Word that we are to understand is about something which has already happened. What ever you don’t know about the Cross of Calvary cost you something. In fact, if we would understand what took place in the three days and the three nights of redemption at Calvary’s Cross, we would realize that most of those things you are expecting to happen have already happened. That statement of fact is what makes people want to call us a heretic. As one fellow said, “They’ve been did.” It’s already done.

What we are looking for to be accomplished has been accomplished at the Cross and in Jesus’ resurrection, and subsequent return into men as Father’s Holy Spirit. If you are looking for the “Marriage Super of the Lamb” in your future, you are wasting your time, and missing out on the Lamb today. We are supposed to be feeding on Lamb today, because we are married (in union)to Him presently. It’s not some big table up in heaven, one hundred foot long with mash potatoes and chicken fried steak, and pecan pie. It’s the marriage supper of the Lamb. What’s served at the marriage supper, Lamb? It’s not going to be served, it is being served.

God has prepared a table for us in the wilderness, in the midst of our enemies (the manifestations of the carnal mind); we are feeding on Lamb, and the Lamb becomes alive in us, and through us. Jesus said, “No sign shall be given except the sign of Jonah. The Message Translation of the Bible states in Proverbs 23, that He has prepared for us, a six course meal to eat on in the presences of our enemies, which are the lies that are deep within the carnal mind; that meal is Crucified, Died, Buried and Quickened, Raise and Seated – the revelation of what Jesus did and our union with His work. The Feasts of the Lord portray that meal, as well as every picture in the Old Testament, and yet most of Father’s children have no real working knowledge of the Old Testament.

Message Translation: Psalms 23:5 You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies. You revive my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing.

We are going to get into this by showing you that these three days and three nights in the whales (the first man Adam) belly, is an ever re-accruing phrase in your New Testament. You will see it over and over again as you study your Word. It is also a re-accruing phrase in the Old Testament. We will look at several Old Testament references in this study of the three days and three nights.

As we do study this, in the Old Testament, the student needs to know, that the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed. The New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. The Old Testament gives us physical pictures of spiritual truths. There are several references to three days and three nights in the Old Testament. Every one of those have a snap shot within them of various views of what took place in those three days and three nights.


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There are also several references to three days and three nights in the New Testament. In the last six chapters of this book, we will look at a detailed teaching on each step of the redemptive process that Jesus suffered as humanity, and what happened in those three days and three nights; where did He go? How long did He stay there? How are we identified with what He did?

It’s not just an interesting subject to study; it means everything to your Christian experience. If we could understand what happened to Jesus, and how we were involved in that, and we know what was accomplished when He rose from the dead, and how we are seated together with Him in heavenly places; our worries would be over. We wouldn’t wonder where we are, or who we are, or what our purpose is, or what our future is going to be. We are still trying to find out who we are in Christ, but you don’t find out who you are in Christ by memorizing Scripture in the New Testament.

We should memorize Scripture, but one is not to believe a statement of what God said just because he or she has memorized Scripture. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Most other translation says its hearing and hearing by the message of Christ. It’s hearing what Christ has done. These things that are written down in the New Testament are not going to become true, when one believes them. They are already true. When Paul wrote that believers are more than conquerors, they are more than a conqueror whether they believe it or not. But onebelieving it releases the reality of it to work in their life.

We can’t do that by just confessing that we are more than a conqueror. Shouldn’t we confess with our mouths what the Word says about a person in Christ? Yes. But, if you find out how you got to be more than a conqueror, you wouldn’t confess anything opposite of that truth. You can confess that a nice car in the lot of a car dealership belongs to you, but unless you know how it got to be yours, you better not drive it off that lot.

Confession is the result of knowing how you got possession of that. You’ll never get righteous by confessing that you are righteous. But, if you can find out how you got to be righteous, you better not say anything other than that. You became righteous, because Jesus became sin, so that we might be made the righteousness of God. I’m saying I’m righteous, not to become righteous, I’m saying I am righteous because I know how I became right with God. You must understand the difference. You don’t confess to get, you confess because you found out you have righteousness.

It doesn’t become true when you confess it or believe it; it’s already true. It is even true whether you believe in it our not. Believing it is what allows the truth to manifest in your life. You can’t believe it just because somebody told you it’s true. You’ve got to believe it, because you understand the three days and nights of redemption, and understand how that three day and nights, made these things true in you.

The majority of the Church is trying to believe things, by looking in the wrong direction. We are asking, “When are you going to do this or that Lord?” “When are you going to do something about my problem, when are you going to bring healing to me?” I even hear people in our Church, who have heard the finished work taught for years, still making statements liked, “I know Jesus is going to heal me someday.” If we look in the future for anything from God, we


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are looking in the wrong direction. Isaiah said the voice is behind you; the Word to walk in is behind you. Look around and see what happened from the garden of Gethsemane to the Cross.

I believe in faith, and I always will be a faith man, but my faith is not based only upon what God declared in a verse. In the Old Testament, when He said something, it became true. When God says something in the New Testament it didn’t become true when God said it, it was true, and that’s why God said it.

When He says we are more than a conqueror; that is not a promise. He didn’t say you might be or you could be; He said we are in Christ and Christ is in us; we are the Sons of God, presently.You could have never conquered anything, but you are more than a conqueror. Why, because you are in Christ and He is more than a conqueror? You don’t have to conqueror anything to be more than a conqueror. You have to be in-Christed (filled with His Holy Spirit); in Christ, means you are a conqueror. You can’t be in Christ and not be a conqueror. It matters not if you feel like a conqueror, you are one.

See, the problem is, we act like the persons we believe ourselves to be. It will be a hallelujah day when the Church knows who they are in Christ; that they are Sons of God today, just as the first Adam was before the fall, and just as Jesus was in His earth walk. Why do we believer that? After Jesus ascension, He returned as Father’s Holy Spirit and came into man, which is bringing God life, back to mankind. You say, “I believe the Bible; we win in the end.” Therein lies the problem, it’s never now. There is the thinking that things are going to go to hell in a hand basket, but in the end we win. “I’ve looked at the back of the book, and we win.” We already won when we received Father’s Holy Spirit into our life. We are seated together with Christ in heavenly places. Born again people must understand that we are not going to be anything more, if we die physically and wake up to the heavenly realm, than what we are right now in earth? Your body will be different, but you are a spirit and you are everything in your spirit that you are ever going to be. Don’t wait to “go to heaven” to experience eternal life. Eternal life is a quality of life, and Jesus said, And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3 So there needs to be some ‘knowing’ take place in the body; that’s the reason Paul wrote in the book of Romans that we are to reckon some things to be so. The word ‘reckon’ is an accounting term; a person adds some things up and comes up with a conclusion.

People think they are going to get eternal life when they die, not so, you have eternal life when His life entered into you. Eternal life is the present possession of every believer. Eternal life doesn’t mean how long it last, it means the quality of it. It’s a life living out of the realm of eternity, which includes duration. Its God life and it is the kind of life God has in Him.

Now let’s look at Genesis chapter 22, and see an example of an Old Testament three day reference. This is Abraham offering his son. We need to see how important three days and three nights have been from the very beginning.

Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt (prove in the original Hebrew) Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.


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Does God test us today, no? In the Old Testament, nobody had eternal life. God knew what Abraham would do, but Abraham didn’t know what he would do, so Father wanted to allow Abraham to prove to himself that he trusted Father God. Here is what I want you to realize; God doesn’t test you to find out how you will respond. He already knows how you are going to respond. Do you think that God didn’t know that Adam would get puffed up in his own estimation of himself? (Ezekiel 28) God knew he was going to. God had an answer before Adam did what He did, and He has an answer for anything you might do, out of a carnal mind. His answer is the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8)

He just released redemption into the realm of time and let it move through people. See, He is God and He can do what He wants. One of the attributes of God is that He knows everything. When you come to tell Him about something you may have done, He already knows. That is why our confessions, are to be confessions that sin was dealt with on the Cross; not talking about all the things you feel bad about. If you are struggling with something that is not of Christ, then you confess that it has been dealt with on the Cross, and let the Holy Spirit change your nature and your desires. He knows your thoughts before you even think the thought, and He provided forgiveness for what you did or will do.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth (forgiven) us from all sin.

Do you believe that Scripture pertains to you? You weren’t even alive when that was written. God did something about sin (missing the mark) before man ever sinned. People want to be punished or something; they even think all of their sins are going to be named in front of God and the host of heaven. They don’t know that the race of man that needed punished, had already been punished in Christ over 2,000 years ago at the Cross. It is a sad situation. He would tell you He already punished the man of sin. “My Son went to the Cross as sin (all who were in the first Adam), and He said, Father forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” They punished Him physically, and God laid the sins of all on Him (in his spirit and in his soul), and those sins killed Him and they buried the Son of the living God, who had never sinned. He walked perfect and upright before God; He did not need forgiveness. He became so much humanto the point where He cried on Calvary’s Cross, “My God, My God why have you forsaken me?” In the person of God’s Son all were forsaken, so that all would be raised when He was raised.

Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son,

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Abraham could have and may have said, “I have another son,” God said he only had one. What about Ishmael? God said take your only begotten son. Ishmael wasn’t God’s idea. He was the product of Sarah’s “good” idea. Sarah said, I’m old and you’re old, why don’t you go into my handmaiden and we’ll just have this promise son by her? Abraham agreed with her and ended up nine months later with Ishmael. From the time that Ishmael was born, until Genesis 17, God never spoke to Abraham again, which was 13 years. What they did in this instance, is a picture of how the spirit of man (male in gender) listens to the


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carnal thoughts in the soul (female in gender), and all they end up with is good ideas and the fruit(baby) of those ideas. Some people have lots of carnal babies (fruit of our good ideas) out there.

God had promised him a son, and they were getting old, and things were looking impossible. When things begin looking impossible, you are just on the verge of something pretty awesome, unless you try to fix it yourself. Can you imagine what it was like for Abraham; he had walked with God every day, and all of a sudden when he impregnates this hand maiden, there is no more contact with God for thirteen years. I bet he said to Sarah, “I think we made a bad mistake, it’s been years since I heard from God.” He knew he did something wrong, and what it was, was that he tried in his own self effort to accomplish God’s purpose and will.

We are told today in Churches, “You become this, you do this, you clean yourself up;” family you can’t do that. In Genesis chapter 17, it is 13 years later and God comes on the scene and says to Abraham, “I am Almighty God.” You know what Almighty means? He is saying I don’t need your help. It doesn’t matter how bad things look to you, God is Almighty. He was saying, “Don’t you ever do that again. If I tell you you’re going to have a son when you are five hundred and eighty years old, just hang on, because you are going to have a son. See, our good ideas are not God’s ideas. There are brothers and sisters out there who have put themselves way behind in the plan of God, because they have been impatient and come up with their own good ideas. You know what they are doing; they are in the middle of their own good ideas, and asking God to bless their Ishmael. It won’t work!

God said you take your only son; he doesn’t even recognize what Abraham did out of his own good ideas. He doesn’t yours either. He said take Isaac your only son.

Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest… Did you know God, the Father loved Jesus? “This is my Son in whomI am well pleased.” God has said that to you also. You know what happened after God said that of Jesus? Jesus went right into the wilderness. You better remember what God tells you. He went into the wilderness, went through a temptation that we all experience ourselves, his soul (mind) began to doubt that He was who His Father said He was. He heard in this thought realm, “If you be the Son of God…..” (See my discourse on Luke chapter 4 on our web page):www.treeoflifeok.com. That thought or temptation came too late, because God already told Him that He was His Son, and He believed His Father – do you? Sometimes we forget the preceding word that makes us victorious today. It’s not God speaking to you presently, as much as it is you knowing what He has said, and the Holy Spirit revealing to you what He has said.

…..and get thee into the land of Moriah; (the same mountain range Jesus was crucified on)and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Genesis 22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third dayAbraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you,


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The young men couldn’t go; young men can’t see the redemptive work of our Father in the person of Jesus; we are speaking of immature people, who still want to play in the play pen of spirituality and carnality. I believe in all the gifts and the blessings of God, but God wants a relationship with you. The young men don’t want to see, nor do they see the need to see the revelation of the Cross of Calvary.

Abraham knows he is going to offer his son, but he also knows that if need be, God will raise his son from the dead. What faith?

Genesis 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

Isaac is a picture of Jesus Christ here. The wood was laid upon Isaac. Wood speaks of humanity all through out the Bible; Jesus became humanity (man hewn down) by His Father making Him humanity; He willing emptied Himself of all He was in His Father, so He could receive all that humanity had become – dead spirit, soul and body. That is why the Cross was a tree, because wood speaks of humanity.

Genesis 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

God will become a lamb for the burnt offering.

2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ (the Messiah), reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Genesis 22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

This was a grown boy we are speaking of. He could have fought his way off this altar. He had to know this was going to be alright. See, Jesus was willing to go to the Cross. It was His will to do that. Jesus wasn’t murdered, He was sacrificed. It looked like it was a murder, but Jesus had faced death many times in His earth walk, and He just walked right out of their sight, but this time He was submissive to death. He was willing.

Genesis 22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.


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God had said to Abraham, “I want you to kill Isaac.” If Abraham lived in our day and listened to some preachers, he would have went on ahead and killed Isaac, because God had told him to earlier. But, God then said, “Don’t do it.” Sometimes there are reasons for things we don’t understand. There was a provision made for Abraham and Isaac, as they walked up one side of the mount, there was a Ram walking up the other side.

God never waits for you to have a problem, before He makes a provision. He is Jehovah Jireh but He doesn’t wait. The Tree is already there, just like it was when the children of Israel came to the bitter waters.

Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

Remember, this is three days and nights. Jehovah Jireh was revealed to be our great provider here, and the great provision was the death of His Son, and He is our possession today.

We depend on the gifts of the Spirit, to our own demise. I believe in the gifts, but they are not as good as discerning your own healing, and understanding how you are healed. However God wants us to experience healing is fine with me, but there are gifts of healing, and then there is a knowing how you got to be healed and standing on that knowledge and staying healed.

Miracles are not God’s best; not having to have miracles is God’s best. What we’ve done is, we become like the little baby that drinks from a bottle until they are seventeen years old, and still needs their diaper changed; something is wrong with that picture. There comes a time when you get weaned off the milk, and you start feeding on meat, the meat of the Word, barley and wheat, bread and wine.

That is what the Church must do. If you can hear this, then you are called to understand something. You need to know how you got to be what God said the body (the Sons of God) are, and everything is answered in three days and three nights.

When Jesus came up out of the tomb, He said, “All power is given unto me, both in heaven and in earth.” Now, if all power is given unto Him, that means that the first Adam is no longer in control – the prince (the first Adam) is cast out of this world (John 12:31). If He had all power, everything except all, leaves nothing. There is no other power except the power that was in the possession of Jesus Christ, and now is in the Sons of God by virtue of us being filled with His life.

We are to go into the entire world and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ; that’s Good News. We are to know that we are now the prince of the world – the last Adam – Father’s man he wanted in His image. Father is the King and we are all His prince; we are to rule and reign over planet earth in Father’s perfect image. Religion and tradition has been preached, but the true Good News is coming forth today to all who are hungry. The manifestation of the Sons of God has not been revealed as of yet, but its taking place right now. When a cover is taken off a master art piece,


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the art does not come into existence when the cover comes off. The cover coming off just unveils what is already true. So to, the uncovering of the Sons of God will reveal what is already true. We are already who Father says we are, but there are some false ideas and understandings that are keeping us covered. Father’s Holy Spirit – “another comforter” “Jesus as the Holy Spirit” is at work in a people, revealing to us who we are and what our purpose is.

We need to know that we are approved of God presently. The finished work of Jesus answers every controversial issue that exists in the body of Christ, without exception. If you know what Father God has accomplished, in Jesus, and how you were involved, then every controversy is settled. It is not a matter of do you believe this or I believe that; it’s a matter of what’s true by virtue of what’s been accomplished in the finished work of Christ.

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Three Days and Three Nights

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I was replying to an e-mail recently, and the content moved me to look up the Scripture concerning receiving the engrafted Word of God, and also how His Word is unsearchable; meaning we cannot exhaust the revelation of Jesus Christ. While thinking of the engrafted Word of God, I began to mediate on the word ‘engrafted’ and it made me think of when a person needs a skin graft and the surgeon takes a graft of good skin and places it on the place where the dead skin was. If the meat or tissue is good that the new graft placed on; then the new skin will be engrafted, meaning it will adhere to and become one with that person’s body. In like manner the Word of God is the same way; if the spirit of man receives the Word and it is engrafted, meaning there is good soil for it to grow in, then the Word brings life to the natural carnal mind and swallows up all aspects in the mind that releases death. I also looked up Ephesians 3:8 and studied it from various Bible versions. When I looked at the Message Translation, I was very much blessed because it gave me my ministerial credentials; I am asked quite often what my back ground is, what school that I went to and how have I learned all of “these things.” Well, now I have an answer, and it’s not that I went to this or that college or that I’ve done anything else that would make me acceptable to anyone – the following is my plea: When it came to presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ to people who had no real understanding of the revelation of Jesus Christ. Father God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities. And so here I am, preaching, teaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. (Ephesians 3:8)

Those words are so true. The more I study the Word, and learn of Father’s redemptive work, as Son - the revelation of Jesus Christ - the more I find out that these things are beyond my understanding or comprehension, therefore I have to depend solely upon Father’s Holy Spirit to guide me in all truth, and be my teacher. He dictates to me as I write, and without Him doing so I cannot write or teach with an understanding that will grow up and equip the Saints – therefore I will lay down the Outer Court and Holy Place understandings, and allow Him to continue to raise me up higher and higher into the Most Holy Place realm of His Word.

This is the reason we go over this teaching we call the Six Steps to the Throne, every two or three years – the light is getting brighter and brighter to those who are hungry to grow in wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of our Saviour. As we stated in our last chapter, we can see these three days and nights throughout the entire Bible. Jesus said, “In the volume of the book it is written of me,” so when we study the Bible we look for nothing but Him and our union with Him by virtue of Father’s Holy Spirit in us. We need our minds renewed about the truths revealed to us by the Holy Spirit, and we do that by allowing the Holy Spirit to feed our soul (mind, will and emotions) until it is in complete union with the Spirit of God’s within us. We are the body of Christ, or in more reality, we are the Sons of God living on planet earth but also living in the spiritual realm; a manifestation of Father God in a body.

We know that there would be a very large amount of people coming to any given meeting, if there were signs and wonders going on. But we also know that signs and wonders are not God’s best. The redemptive work of Jesus Christ is God’s best. Signs and wonders can come from men trying to reproduce what has happened in past meetings; they’re not always from Father God. We are not to be moved by signs, even if it is from God. In fact, signs and wonders should just


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be the norm in the body of Christ. The problem is people focus on the signs, rather than on Jesus Christ. You can get caught up in signs real easy.

God wants us to love Him, and to understand the relationship we have with Him because we have been filled with His life – we are in perfect union with our Father. You will find all kinds of miracles in the revelation of the redemptive work of our Father. It can be a life time full of study. It is the most awesome miracle that could ever take place. We are totally set free from the force of sin and the affects of the ADAM bomb. Christ didn’t just heal a few; He healed or freed everyone from the effect produced by the fall of man. He didn’t just forgive some sins, He dealt with sin period.

We have to have this understanding, in order to mature and grow. The only reason you walk in any level of maturity, in the physical realm, is because of lessons you have learned. The same is true spiritually. We must see some things spiritually, and they can only be revealed to you as you allow Father’s Holy Spirit to do so.

We have been programmed to believe certain things, so, when we read or hear teachings, it comes through that thread of our programming, and it gets put into the future. We’ve got to find out what has happened.

Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD…

This statement “Come, let us return unto the Lord,” is being spoken by the Holy Spirit, through a priesthood today. We are drawn to come back from all those places Isaiah 11 speaks of, which God’s people have gone off into. We are to come back to the Cross, to the basic principals of Christianity. Those principals are Christ and what He did, and how we were involved.

………..for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

On the cross of Calvary, and in the three days and nights, in the heart of the earth, the Lord tore all of humanity (those in Adam before the Cross) up, and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the new man came forth without sin. He is talking about old man, new man here. The old man deserved being torn, because of the curse of breaking the Law – no one is in an old man today because Jesus destroyed, and made void or of none affect the first man Adam, and all in him.

It says “He hath torn,” but who did He tear? He tore the old man up in the person of His Son who became human; the first man Adam, and the Lord exacted what was the judgment of all upon Jesus who had become the first man Adam. You didn’t miss judgment. All humanity got what they deserved, in Jesus. The greatest news I’ve ever heard, is that I’m not the person who had a judgment placed upon them; I’m a new creation being because of His work. The punishment has already been exacted in Jesus. Jesus became who all of humanity had become.

John 12:32 Jesus said: And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

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humanity wasn’t torn, He hath torn. His tearing was humanities tearing. He would heal all; so, when were all healed? When Jesus who had become human, He bore all manner of sickness and disease, and when the New Man (Jesus Christ) was raised from the dead He had healing in His wings (wings speak of a voice or the Word that comes from a person.) In the book of Ezekiel it says that the ‘wings’ of the Cherubim, can be heard all the way out into the Outer Court; there are many places where wings represent a voice. What happened to sickness? Well, Jesus bore the curse, and all sickness and disease is under the curse. He bore that curse, by becoming that curse, and He took it into Himself, during those three days and three nights. Malachi said He was raised with healing in His wings.

What happened to that sickness; it was destroyed because union with the first man Adam produced sickness; he had death in him. Any sickness and disease you might be experiencing has already been dealt with, and I believe if we will allow the Holy Spirit to draw us up to the heavenly, there will be no sickness and disease. Now sickness and disease comes from living out of the power of a carnal mind. The Word states to be carnally minded is death, and death comes from sickness and disease.

Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared (her mind has been renewed) as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nomore death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

These are not future truths; they are the revelation of what became true after the resurrection of Jesus Christ to all who will embrace His redemptive work.

Rev 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation (receiving the truth produces a tribulation in the mind, will and emotions), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple (Believers are the temple of God, and they find that out and allow Him to live, move and have His being in them): and He (the Holy Spirit of Father God) that sitteth on the throne (Believers are the throne of Father God) shall dwell among (in) them. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Everything the world and the Church are waiting to be dealt with; has been dealt with in three days and nights, over two thousand years ago. I believe John was seeing the finished work of Jesus Christ, just as Paul saw it but with a different typology. We need to have the same revelation that was given them.


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Can you see how vital it is for us to quit looking for the Lord to do something about the problems that plague His children? God in His mercy, has given us the gift of the spirit, the gifts of healing, and laying on of hands until we grow up to find out who we are in Christ, enough to resist the onslaught of the religious, carnal teachings that are lodged in the carnal parts of our mind, those lying symptoms; we can walk free and live out of the life in our spirit. It is what God has done that we need to know.

Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

After two days would be the third day. He tore us up, but after two days He will raise us up. Most people view this Scripture as being in our future. This was speaking of after the two days He was in the heart of the earth. It is talking about redemption, the three days and three nights of Christ redemptive work. God revived us when He revived His Son. That is why we have no need chasing after revivals. We’ve already been revived in Christ. We just come together to fellowship, to participate in corporate worship, and to eat of bread and wine, which produces spiritual growth.

There still exists a veil, which in a measure blinds the minds of Christians so that they may not see. For the most part, many are not able to look into the Word of God; Old or New Testament, and see the spiritual meaning. How many times have you had people tell you that they read the Bible, and it makes no sense to them? It takes Father’s Holy Spirit to reveal the Truth of the Gospel. We are living in the day when a glorious sunrise of revelation is coming forth. It’s nothing new, but there are those who are hungry now. This unveiling is the central glory of the cross of Jesus Christ in all Scripture.

The first chapter, we looked at the three days and three nights in the sacrifice of Abraham’s Son. With this lesson I want to direct the student to look at another picture.

Exodus 3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness (a place of being alone- to get away from the distractions), that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

You must take this three days journey, because if you don’t, you won’t be completely out of the grasp of Egypt (the world system). Why are we still dealing with the things of the world, because we haven’t taken, fully, that three days journey? We’ve studied everything we can, but this is a journey that will be more than just a study. It is a life changing journey. It’s not just learning about what took place in those three days and nights, it’s you, experiencing the revelation of you being there. When you’ve been somewhere, you experience it.

God was telling Moses to make sure they went those three days, and when they did they got to the waters of Marah, where they saw a tree. Once you get through those days you will get an understanding of a tree, where redemption was exacted. You’ve got to go those three days.


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Exodus 5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

Sacrifice is worship. If you don’t go these three days, you won’t know how to worship or why we worship. Today, taking this spiritual three day journey, will give you deliverance from the power of the carnal mind, which produces death in the physical, mental, social and financial realm, and from the memories of the past; those false images people identify with. You have nothing to worship about until you see yourself in union with the New Man Christ (the last Adam) that rose from the grave of Adam, and ascending into the heavenlies with Him.

Some of you may think you need deliverance in certain areas, and seek earthly council to do that, yet all you have to see is that you were delivered. We should be experiencing our walking in the heavenlies today, in the realm of the unseen.

Ex 8:27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us. 28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

The mind, filled with carnality (Mind - Greek: 5590 Psuche ((psoo-khay)) is feminine in the Greek; we call her Sue) knows that if you go all the way, you will see the enemy of carnality defeated, and you won’t come back to that carnal mind. Pharaoh said, “Don’t go very far.” See, your enemy wants you to just stay in a shallow understanding of the three days and three nights. The carnally infected mind has been in control for a long time, and it’s time for the Church to go those three days and defeat the last enemy, which is the carnal mind.

So, what is it that every person needs to feed their spirit, to get their minds renewed? It’s the revelation of what took place in Jesus’ redemptive work. The Bible says that Father God was in Jesus reconciling the world back to Him self. (2 Corinthians 5:19) There are three verses in the Bible that talk about the operation of Father God, and the Old Testament speaks of the destruction (people perishing away) of those who do not put their faith in His operation – His operation is the things that pertain to what Jesus went through in His redemptive work:Crucified – Died – Buried; those steps are the doing away with the first man Adam and all in him. Quickened (made alive) – Raised – Seated; those steps are the present position of all believers in the OPERATION of Father God – the work of the Son.

Psalms 28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.


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I could preach for several hours from those three verses; but suffice it to say; very few believers have any understanding of the operation of Father God. I constantly ask Pastors, “What are the six things that Jesus did in His redemptive work?” I still haven’t had one person or pastor that hasn’t been taught these lessons, answer the question. When I give them the answer they say, “Oh, that, I know that’s in the Bible.” Sadly they have no clue as to the power of knowing, understanding and being able to speak with clarity of what each of those steps mean to mankind today. Every believer must receive a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His Word, so that they can know what He was sent to do, and that He did accomplish all that Father had planned. He restored that which was lost, and that was the ability for man to be able to walk with Father God in the spirit again. So, are you hungry? Are you tried of the traditional and religious food you’ve been eating on that has not brought any spiritual maturity to you? Are you tired of trying to do it your way; beating yourself into submission to what you’ve been taught, and trying to “crucify yourself?” Do you want to see just how far back redemption went, and how high it will bring you into the spiritual realm; then come on this journey with us in the next six chapters? You’ll be raised up by the Holy Spirit in you as we take this journey from Crucified, Died, Buried, Quickened, Raised and Seated.

Before you read any further, I encourage you to pray this prayer that Paul prayed over the Church, and pray it daily. If you do, then the Holy Spirit in you will take you to heights that you’ve never experienced before.

Pray this over yourself, and over your family and over those who teach you:Ephesians 1:17-23 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Buckle up, we’re going to soar into the heavenly at light speed……..

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Six Steps to the ThroneStep One

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"CRUCIFIED"

Searching the unsearchable riches of Christ. Eph. 3:8

Revelation 3:20-22 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcome, and am set down with my God in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith

unto the churches.

In this passage of scripture, we see Jesus standing at the door of the church and knocking. This is talking about a time in God’s plan, when there is a Great Feast available. We call this the "super supper." The Church (the body in union with Christ) has entered into the time when Father opens His Word up to us, and we have Him laid before us in every passage and every place in the Word.

Without getting into great detail about this chapter of Revelation, we want you to see that there is a promise of sitting together with Father God, in Christ, in His throne, ruling and reigning as Him, just as the first man Adam did, and just as Jesus did in His earth walk. We can now do that because we have Father’s Holy Spirit in us. We are coming to the time in the calendar of God, when this is becoming an actual experience of believers, where we will rule and reign over our earthen vessels and then over planet earth.

If I’m asked; "Do you believe that the Kingdom is already here? Do you believe the Kingdom is now, or do you believe the Kingdom is future?" I just simply say "yes." It is both. Jesus said in Luke 17, that the Kingdom of God is within you, which is righteousness, peace and joy and it’s all found in the Holy Ghost, which is Father’s Holy Spirit or life that resides in every born again believer. It is not only now, but it has been, every since people started being born again, ever since the beginning of the church, in Acts 2. The Kingdom of God is within every born again believer. It cometh not with observation; it’s not something you can see; it’s an inward peace and joy that comes from being intimate with the One the believer is in union with. We know that there now is a level of manifestation of God’s people living, moving and having their being because of living in the Kingdom of God. People are finding out that they share His position as King of kings and Lord of lords, as His body or as His Sons in the earth. The scripture in Revelation 3 records, "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in the throne.”This is happening right now as our minds are being renewed to our union with Jesus Christ.

The Kingdom of God that is beginning to manifest in this earth is a spiritual kingdom. There are pictures in the old covenant of those spiritual realities that we are growing into. It is impossible to share with carnally minded people, spiritual truths; they are spiritual truths; so Father gives us physical pictures of those things all the way through scripture. He gives us physical pictures in the old covenant to show us what we could call visual aids of the spiritual kingdom, and the


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Holy Spirit is within us all, to open our eyes to these pictures to bring the spiritual into being. Solomon’s kingdom is the greatest picture of the kingdom age that we live in presently.

I Kings 10:18-20 Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps; there was not the like made in any kingdom.

Solomon’s kingdom, pictures the ultimate kingdom that is being set up. It is a picture of Solomon’s kingdom before it was divided and they went into Babylon (confusion) and were overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar. At the height of that kingdom we find the greatest Old Testament type of the present kingdom age. The interesting thing here is that the throne of King Solomon’s temple had six steps to it.

That is where we get this thought, "The six steps to the throne," because to sit together with Christ is a process. It is a growth, and there are six steps to that throne. The six steps that we will be dealing with are these: crucified, died, buried, and quickened (made alive), raised and seated. If you will study the Pauline revelation, there are six things that Paul reveals Jesus doing in His redemptive work. You can’t get to the throne without going up these steps, which are named crucified, died, buried, quickened, raised and seated. The first three steps – Crucified, Died and Buried – are the removing of Adam or as commonly called “the old man.” The last three steps –Quickened, Raise and Seated – are the present position of every born again believer, and can be of anyone who would believe in the operation of Father God.

This teaching is to help in the renewing of the mind to these six steps, so that the believer can make sure they are walking in a proper understanding of how to grow in the Lord. You don’t just jump in. You don’t rule and reign with Him until your mind is renewed to what Christ has done for and as you.

He was crucified, he died, and He was buried; those are three separate experiences that all have an individual purpose. They all have something to do with the removal of the first man Adam. Then we have three more steps; quickened, raised and seated. Those have to do with providing a building of who the believer is.

The outline that we are going to deal with in each step is:

First, we are going to let the Bible proclaim these truths. Then we’re going to let the Bible picture them. Then we’re going to let the Bible prove them. Then we’re going to let the Bible make all of these steps practical.

We’re going to proclaim it, picture it, prove it, and make it practical. If you cannot apply these truths to your life, it is no good.


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First of all, let us proclaim this first fact about being crucified. In any step (physical or spiritual), there are two dimensions: a riser and a tread. It’s amazing how you can be so intricate in the study of the word of God. There is a riser and a tread in every step. There are six steps to Solomon’s throne. There is a going up, and then there is a walking out of that going up. I did not say ‘walking out,” I said, “walking out of.” There is a vast difference in the two; all we need to do is walk out of what Father God has already done in His Son Jesus. Those six steps can be divided into twelve separate revelations. "Crucified" is the riser: "crucified with Jesus" is the tread. That’s what it means to us. "Crucified" is what happened to Jesus;" "crucified with" is how that affected all humanity.

Galatians 2:20 I (the first man Adam and all humanity in him) am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I (the new creation being in Christ) live; yet not I (not the person I was before I got born again, which was a person dead to the things of God – a spirit void of His life), butChrist liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

We all have the same measure of faith – your quality of life depends solely on where you put your faith. To have life eternal working in your life, you need to intimately know the Father and He who He sent which is the Holy Spirit or Jesus Christ; both are the same. The Holy Spirit was in Jesus in His earth walk, and then Jesus ascended back to the Father and the great cloud of witness’s (those who had died in body), and then He returned as another comforter (himself) but as spirit so He could be in man, not just with man. It’s greater to have an inward King then an outward King. He’s no longer just with us, He’s in us and we are in Him – we are one, in the most intimate sense of the Word.

In almost every single modern translation, this word "am" is changed to "was," (In company with) which is very important. "I (all of humanity) was crucified with Christ" is the proper way to say that. It is not something that is presently going on; it is something that has already happened. The word human, comes from the word hewn down; like a tree being hewn down. When Adam fell from the heavenly realm, all mankind in and of him was hewn down, thus becoming human rather than man.

Jesus was crucified over 2000 years ago. Paul came along and he said, "I was crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I." Paul was saying it’s not the first man Adam that lives; something happened to the first man Adam, he and all in him no longer exist. Jesus’ resurrection completely made all of humanity non-existent. The old has passed away, and the new has come into being. Those who are not born again are not of the first man Adam either; they are just dead to the things of Christ. They need to see the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, and they will no longer resist the coming of Father’s Holy Spirit into their lives.

What does it mean? II Corinthians 5:17 If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Are you a new creature in Christ? What happened to the old creature? You’re not both the new man in Christ and the old man in Christ. You don’t have two natures. Like the black dog and white dog that people talk about fighting in us. That isn’t true. It is not scripturally sound to say that.


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You are either alive in Christ, or you are dead in Christ, or better said dead too Christ. Jesus said that He drew ALL men into Him. When you get born again you are filled with Father’s Holy Spirit and in the real you, which is spirit, you come alive to the things of God.

I John 5:12 he that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

Now notice that he makes a difference. He says, "I am (or was) crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I." It’s no longer the first man Adam that is living. The old me was crucified, "yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and gave himself for me." The student of the Word must understand God’s one man plan. All before the Cross were in the first man Adam, which was a fallen man. All after the Cross are in the last man Adam (who is a risen man); but to experience the life and life more abundantly that Jesus secured for all, they must ask Father into their life by accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior. Being born again is a free gift; but it must be accepted because true love demands a choice. Father is not, nor has He ever made anyone love Him, for that would not be love.

The cross was God’s way of doing away with all of humanity – the fallen first man Adam. Now it’s important to know that the word ‘Adam’ just means ‘man’. It’s not speaking of just one man but the whole race of mankind. The word ‘human’ or ‘humanity’ refers to the condition of mankind after the fall of the first man Adam.

After the work of the Cross, no one is connected to, or part of, the first man Adam; Jesus did away with that race of mankind, You don’t have an old man if you are a new creation being; that would be an oxymoron. The cross of Calvary, was God’s way of doing away with the first, to bring forth the last man Adam (Christ). So the fact is, you are a new creation being and you no longer have an old man, because you are not connected to Adam in any way. You are totally in union with Jesus Christ. The only problem is we have a soul (mind, will and emotions) that thinks she is still married to Adam, and she declares herself to be in charge of your mind, will and emotions. The sad fact is most people have bowed to her dictates all of their lives. The carnal aspect of the soul is the “man of sin” that needs to be revealed and removed, by feeding our spirit-man the revelation of Jesus Christ. Let’s look at some Scripture that speaks of the carnal soul that needs to be removed; it’s the carnality that is hindering the day of the Lord in each individual believer.

2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ(when you got born again), and by our (the corporate body growing up into Him in all things) gathering together unto (one with, filled with His Spirit to where we are completely one – no difference) him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand (When was that day at hand? The day this letter was written, and still is today). 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin (the carnal filled soul – mind, will and emotions) be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.


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Verse 4 is speaking about nothing else but the harlot soul that declares her self to be still married to Adam, and that she is in control of the body. Guess what; we have let her be in control; but no more! Oh, how man has worshipped themselves; born again people and people who are not born again. They have done just as the first man Adam did (Read Ezekiel chapter 28 to see what he did; he looked at the work of “his” hands and admired himself above Father God). Revelation 17:5 speaks this of the carnal mind And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. This word ‘earth’ speaks of planet earth, but it also speaks of the occupants thereof, and the word ‘Babylon’ translates out to be confusion. Revelation 18:7, records that she (the carnal mind) says she is not a widow that she sits as a queen: How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Let’s look at that word ‘heart’ and see what it means in the original Greek language. Greek NT: 2588 kardia (kar-dee'-ah); prolonged from a primary kar (Latin, cor, "heart"); the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle: The middle is the soul – we are spirit, in the middle we have soul (mind, will and emotions) and then we live in a body.

(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

Paul said "I (The man before the Cross) was crucified." I can just hear someone saying to Paul, ‘Paul, you’re going about things a whole different way. What has changed in your life?" He would have said, "Well, I’m a new creature in Christ. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, but the person now living is Christ who lives in me." I’m not a natural carnal man anymore; I’m a man filled with Father’s Holy Spirit – Christ – meaning an anointed Cherub (blessing). And if you are born again, then you are an anointed Cherub – Son of God, part of the whole –Sons of God

We are the body of Christ – Father’s man on planet earth but living out of the heavenly realm, just as the first man Adam did before the fall, and just as Jesus lived before becoming human in the Garden of Gethsemane. That is what he was saying there. It is so important to see this. Most Christians spend much of their time trying to get rid of the perceived "old man symptoms" when we must renew our mind, to new man realities. Most of Christianity is saying, "Well, we’re going to teach you how to stop doing this and how to quit doing that." The key to it is to understand who you are in Christ, and allow Father’s Holy Spirit in us to change our nature –give us a new name (nature). We must understand that the crucifixion was God’s way of doing away with the first, so He could establish the last. Born again people are now new creatures in Christ.

Gal. 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom (marginal rendering says whereby) the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.


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The cross, was God’s way of delivering all humanity from the fallen state Adam placed them in, and then receiving the revelation of the work or operation of the Cross is what will remove the old carnal, religious, harlot, Babylonian, traditional thinking in man’s mind.

Gal. 1:3-4a Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil (Greek: hurtful) world. Jesus said in this world (world system) you will have tribulation (pressure and hard times) but be of good cheer, I’ve overcome it all! Living in this world system is very hurtful. They offer you a false answer for everything that Jesus has secure for you. They give you a pill for peace; Father is peace. They give you medicine with all kinds of side affects for sickness; Father is the healer. They give you loans with 23 % interest; Father is our provider. I can show you all the false help this world system offers, and show you that Father is the real help. They try to fix your mind, with dealing with the past and dwelling on the wrong done; Father tells you that you have no past but His past, and His mercies are new every morning. The list would go on and on. He has delivered us from this present evil system which is very much anti-Christ; meaning, hinders the nature of Father God in a person. By Him giving himself for humanities sins, he delivered us from this present evil (carnal) world. His crucifixion was humanities crucifixion.

Gal. 6:14 says "By whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." The world became dead to you; the world lost its grip on you. When somebody dies, they lose their grip on the world and the world loses its grip on them. God knows that we need to be people of the spirit. How do we do that? It was His crucifixion that provided that. This is so practical because people want to constantly say, "I need to walk in the Spirit." "I need to be more separated from the world." "I don’t need the world to have such a grip on me." Those are not things that you do; they’re what the cross provided for you.

Jesus said in John 17, in that high priestly prayer, Father, don’t take them out of the world, but deliver them from the evil (things offered that results in hurt) that is in the world. How did He do that? He became one with humanity on the cross; Father crucified all in Adam, in Him and delivered us from the world. 1 Thess. 5:2; Rev. 3:3 & Rev. 16:15 all talk of Jesus coming as a thief in the night. A thief takes what is not his. Father God has sent His Holy Spirit into us and He is at work taking away that which is not of Christ, by giving us a revelation of Jesus Christ. He is removing from our thoughts anything not of Christ. He is not a thief; it says He comes AS A THIEF. We belong to Him already, but there are things in man that are not of Him, and He is removing everything that is not of His nature.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is (was) crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

This statement may shock you; this is not a promise; it is a statement of fact. You are not trying to get rid of an old man; Jesus did that. Paul uses the phrase ‘old man’ but he is not saying that they have an old man, he is explaining to the Church at Rome that they are not trying to fix or fight the first man, Adam, any longer. The Law was for the first man Adam – it was all “ThyShalt Not!” Now it’s you just won’t do those things anymore because it’s not in your nature to.


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The word ‘old’ in the Greek means antique or warn out, and the word “man” in this verse means human – the man that was hewn down.

Now, what we’re to do, is renew our mind to the fact that the first man Adam, no longer exist at all, by feeding our spirit-man the truth. The crucifixion was God’s way of doing away with humanity, and the crucifixion happened over 2000 years ago. With God, the first man Adam never existed; when are we going to agree with Him – Can two walk together unless they agree?(Amos 3:3) We’ve got to listen to what Father says from His Most Holy Place understanding, and agree with Him. These things don’t compute in a carnal, religious mind set; they must come through the redemptive scarlet thread.

The problem is the majority of the Church doesn’t know what happened over 2000 years ago, and Father is renewing our mind to that by biding us to come to the marriage supper of the Lamb. As we feed on the bread and wine of the Gospel, the true Word of God comes into our spirit-man and the result of that is the man-child (Full grown manifestation of Christ) is given birth to and prevails over the mind, will and emotions and then, "To wit the redemption of the body." (Romans 8:23).

That’s enough proclaiming it. We should know and believe, if we are believers in Christ and His redemptive work, that the old man Adam is crucified, dead, buried, destroyed, (render) entirely idle, abolished, ceased, cumber, done away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void. NT: 2673 katargeo(kat-arg-eh'-o); from NT:2596 and NT:691; to be (useless),


Now to prove it!

Our identification is based upon three facts, and everyone needs to know these. The greatest tragedy among Christians today, is to view the cross of Calvary, as the death of only one man. It wasn’t just one man. Father never saw it as one man. It was one man, but it was all men dying in that one man. Father never viewed it as the death of one man. You’ll never see it in Scripture as one man dying alone. Jesus’ death was the death of all humanity. How could that be? Identification is based upon three facts:

1. Everything Jesus did, He did as humanities substitute, so that whatever he did affected all.

My wife deposited my check in my checking account this week. When she did it for me, it was as if I did it because it was put into my account, but she did it for me. Jesus did some things for us, as us.

Romans 5:8 But God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.


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Christ died for humanity as humanity. Everything he did, he did as our substitute; the word ‘substitute means,’ one who takes the place of another. My wife went to the bank and deposited the money for me. It looks on the books as if I went over there and did it myself. It says there was X amount of dollars placed in my account; it looks like I did it. It’s in my account. I can write checks against it!

When Jesus died for all, guess what! The Bible says, all died; why, because He died as all humanity. He was humanities substitute by becoming the federal head of the human race – what He did, went all the way back to the first man Adam, and dealt with the first act of missing the mark.

Identification is not what we do. Some say, "We need to identify with the work of Calvary." Well, that is true, but it doesn’t make any difference if you identify; it’s what Father identified with when he saw the cross, which is important. If you never identify or believe, the fact remains that He became humanity and died as all humanity, for us and as us. It’s up to you to accept His gift and believe. If you choose not to, then you miss out on the life and life more abundantly He came to bring you while living on planet earth. You do have a choice because love demands a choice.

The question is not how you see the cross, the question is, how Father sees the cross. Then when you see it the way He sees it, everything He did will began to manifest in your life. How did Father see the cross? He did not see the cross as Jesus dying there as one man. Why, because Jesus was our substitute? Identification means "to consider or treat as the same," according to Webster. So Father was considering and treating the crucifixion of Christ, as humanities crucifixion. He considered Jesus as all of humanity.

2. Jesus became just like the first man Adam in that fallen state. He became so much like the first man Adam, that Father could legally view Him as being one hundred percent human – spirit, soul and body. These are basic truths in understanding the New Testament. He was our substitute, so Father put everything He did on our account. He also laid everything humanity became, upon Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, when He said "Thy will be done," to the fruition of redemption on the Cross, and in the three days and three nights of torment. Death (Adam’s fall) entered into His spirit, and then into His soul and then He became obedient to death and His body (human body) died. He had to empty himself out of everything that He was in the Father, in order to become human and be the perfect sacrifice; for He who knew no sin (not in union with the first Adam) was made to be sin (human).

If you really want to understand what Father God did to Jesus as humanity, read these chapters I have listed: It is vital for ever believer to understand this (Psalms 22 & Isaiah 53)

II Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.

Quite often, I have young Christians ask me; if this verse is true, then why do I struggle so much? Well the answer is that most people don’t understand the “love of Christ,” or even that He really does love them, and when He first loved them. When the believer understands the


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awesome love of the Father toward them, then their faith will be in His redemptive work, and that understanding will constrain them: hold them together, arrest them as a prisoner of love, compel, preoccupy (keep their eyes and mind off of the world system) NT: 4912 sunecho From the Greek NT: 4862 sun (soon); a primary preposition denoting union; with or together (but much closer than – actually in - NT:3326 or NT:3844), i.e. by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc.: KJV - beside, with or in including completeness.


Why were all dead, because He died as all humanity. It goes further than that though. God sees you the way you really are. We think sometimes that the blood of Jesus makes Father see us some way that we really are not. He doesn’t see us funny; we’re the ones who see us funny. When Father says, "You are the righteousness of God," you come back and say, "Well, no, I’m not. I kicked the car, lost my temper and spit on the carpet."

You are RIGHT because of what Jesus did, not because of what you do or don’t do. As Dudley Hall wrote, the Church needs to quit eating form the “do to be tree.” What we do is read where we are the righteousness of God and then we will get our own measuring device and measure ourselves and say, "No, no, no." Don’t use your measuring device. Let Father tell you the truth, and see that Jesus Christ is the measuring device. Everything that is true of Jesus Christ is true of all, presently, today. Jesus did not do right things to get to be righteous; Jesus did right things because He knew He was righteous. "How am I ever going to get to where I do right things?" When you find out you are right. We’ve got it backwards.

We say, "Someday I’m going to be able to say, like Paul, I am the righteousness of God." Paul didn’t say that because he did everything right, he said it because he had a revelation of what the cross produced. You are righteous, not because of what you do. The way to change what you do is to believe what Father said about you. Father sees you exactly the way you are; most don’t see their selves the way we are in Him. That’s why we come together and study Paul’s revelation, because Paul saw the why and the how, and the when all became righteous.

Identification is based on the fact that Jesus was our substitute; He did it for humanity and as humanity. Now everything He is, we are today. Father said if one died for all, then all are dead. But it’s more than that. Your identification or substitution must go further. What did Father see in Jesus that made him say all was crucified? He saw Jesus, on the Cross, as human. He identified with humanity, so much so, that Father saw humanity there. You have to understand the "one man plan" of God. He did away with the first, to establish the last.

Psalms 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

This is a prophecy of all of humanity coming to an end, in Jesus, and then the New Man, the Christ (Sons of God) being established in the earth.


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Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

He did that by doing away with Adam, and establishing a New Man in the earth, filled with His Holy Spirit.

There are those who say there are still both Adam and Christ in the earth; no, a thousand times no; there is only one man, and that man is Christ – either alive to Him or dead to Him. By accepting Christ as your Saviour (rescuer), Father activates His Holy Spirit in you, and you become the Son of God, a member of the whole. Yes, we struggle in our minds, with thoughts and desires that are not of Christ, but Father has an answer for that; it is, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be ye transformed or transfigured by THE renewing of your mind (soul; mind, will and emotions), which is feeding your spirit man; eating on spiritual food that grows you up and changes your nature. Most “spiritual” food that is fed in Churches today comes from the carnal realm – I would say 90% or more does.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is (was) crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Jesus became everything humanity had digressed to or ever would. He took on the fall of all mankind past, present and future. He had to because the Bible said the old man (the first man Adam and all in him) was crucified with Him. Father can’t say, "Well, let’s just pretend that was humanity." Redemption is based on a legal transaction. He became legally human, so much human that Jesus became the federal head of the human race, but with out ever missing the mark Himself; He was the only sacrifice that Father God would accept.

3. The believer is presently in union with Christ, one with Him, so that His history is their history, His present is their present, and His future is their future. A believer is just as much the Son of God today as Jesus was the Son of God in His earth walk, and Adam was the Son of God before the fall. If you would have seen Adam before the fall, he and Father God would have been identical twins with the very same Divine Nature Activity at work in Him. Jesus told men who asked Him to show them the Father, He said, “Have I not been with you so long that you haven’t seen the Father.” “If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father.” We should be able to say the same thing; actually we shouldn’t have to say it; people should just be able to see Him in and upon every believer, and they will, as soon as we know what to believe and put our faith in the truths of the Gospel.

I Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

If you are in-Christed, it doesn’t mean that you’re over here and Father or Jesus is over there. It means we have a current and present union with our Father; we are one with Him. Jesus said, I am the vine and you are the Branch. There is a union between the Vine and the Branch; they are not different but they serve in different functions. That means the same life is flowing through us. Jesus is sitting (a position of rest) at the right (power) hand of the Father right now, in you. The believer is in Him, and that’s the reason the Bible says you were crucified with Him. Praise God! The Bible says we are the Body of Christ and all of His children together make up the


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Body of Christ – a many membered man – Sons of God – Father now has a man who He can live, move and have His being or nature in. Praise God His will has been done; man in His image, and we are beginning to reproduce in His image, not ours. The old doctrinal and religious teachings were and are still reproducing people in a false image. They are told that they are “sinners saved by grace,” and that they are “Christians not perfect but saved.” Both of those statements are lies from the Babylonian teachings that come from the harlot mindsets in our Churches.

These three facts are the foundation upon which the subject of identification is based. We need to understand these three facts about identification. He was your substitute; everything He did was placed on your account. He became so much like Adam, during the work of redemption, that Father viewed Him as being Adam; the problem is, that most believers don’t view Him this way. When you view Him (Jesus) as becoming the first man Adam, then the believer quits fighting what’s perceived to be an old man or a perceived “devil,” and they learn that their only enemy is ignorance (carnal mind) to the truth of the Gospel. The word ‘devil’ or “Lucifer,” or “satan” all mean traduce or as Strong’s calls it, “The arch enemy of God.” A traducer is anything that hinders you growing or moving toward God’s intended purpose, and the word “arch” means first in rank, which would speak of the first man Adam. He was the first enemy of God because He failed to reproduce in Father God’s image – He was an enemy to God’s intended purpose for man. Can you see that? If you can, then you have eyes to see and ears to hear, and you should thank your Father for that because only the Holy Spirit in you can reveal that to you.

We destroy the carnality in our minds, by feeding on what’s on the Table of Showbread, spiritually speaking. You’ve got to see it like Father God saw it. I am in union with Him, so His history becomes my history and His future becomes my future.

John 12:31-33 Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This said he, signifying what death he should die.

This is Jesus speaking. All mankind was included in that, "all men." You will always fear judgment until you realize that the man that needed to be judged was in Him, and done away with, and now you are judged righteous. Father knew that in our time, people would read verse thirty-two; get up in church services and say, "Let’s all praise the Lord, because if we lift Him up, He will draw all men unto Him." Father knew people would say that, so he added verse thirty-three to let us know He was not talking about lifting Him up in praise and worship. He was talking about the cross. Jesus was nailed to the cross, and on the cross He drew all men unto Himself; a-l-l men-past, present and future.

As soon as He drew humanity unto Himself on the cross, Father could judge all in Him. He could kill all of humanity in Him. Father didn’t fix the old man; He didn’t heal the old man and He didn’t restore the old man. He killed the old man. The old man got everything he deserved; he was crucified. How could that be, because Jesus was made to be sin (human) in the Garden of Gethsemane, by drawing all humanity into Him self. When Father was dealing with Jesus, He was actually dealing with all humanity in Him. That happened over 2000 years ago. When you


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receive a revelation of that, you are going to wake up and say, Thank God, that’s over! He’s not changing us family; He’s waking us up to who we are in, and of Him.

He dealt with sin over two thousand years ago. The reality is He had a Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, to deal with the results of giving Adam a free will. He just came into the realm of time 2000 or so years ago. He being slain is still as fresh today as it was then. If you need to experience the Lamb slain and the shed blood, it is there fresh for you today. Many people say, "Oh, thank God, Jesus’ death was so that I wouldn’t die." That isn’t true. Jesus’ death was not so that Adam could live; Jesus’ death was so that Adam could die. Adam needed to die or humanity would have been much worse off than they are today. As bad as the people of this earth are, if it had not been for Jesus, we have no idea of how bad it would be; I think no one would be alive on planet earth now. God came in His grace and mercy (both were Him in Son) and did away with Adam and brought into being a whole new race of New Creation beings. The problem is most believers have believed a lie and are looking to the future for redemption when they need to look to the past to see when and where redemption took place.

We’ll look at more of that later.

How many men were drawn into Jesus? ALL men! The whole world was drawn into Jesus; even those who do not know Jesus. The price for the sins of humanity has already been dealt with. Nothing left to do but say thank you Father, and yield to His Holy Spirit. John 16 says that when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will reprove the world of sin (singular). There is only one sin that keeps a person from experiencing life and life abundantly (eternal life; a quality of life), and it is the sin of not believing on Jesus Christ. Humanities sins were drawn into Christ. II Corinthians 5:21 says He was made to be sin for us.

Evangelism is just helping people believe in the finished work of Christ, but the problem is most don’t even believe that the finished work of Christ was enough.

Let’s look at an interesting kingdom parable.

Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field: the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

What is the field, according to what Jesus had said earlier? The field is the world. Jesus is the man, the world is the field, and the treasure in the world is the church. In order to have the treasure, Jesus had to buy the whole field. In order to get the glorious Church, He had to buy the whole field, and He gave everything that He had in Him or what He was, to get it. All He was, He gave so that out of the world there would be a treasure, which is the Church, a people in His image. He couldn’t get that treasure by just buying the treasure; He had to buy the whole field. Everyone in the field became His. In order to buy the church, He had to get the world. There was only one way to make this thing legal, and that was to buy the whole world. So, He became one with the entire world, so that out of the world the treasure would come. He was more than willing to do it.


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We saw the word "judgment" when we referred to John 12. It reads NOW is the judgment of this world. You do not have to fear judgment if you are in Christ. You can have your own judgment, by not accepting His, and that is living a life below what He has made you to be, or you can accept His judgment, that you are righteous and just rise up and live out of that righteous life that resides within you.

The judgment of Father fell upon Jesus (humanity), when he had become the first man Adam -spirit, soul and body. Believers and unbelievers need to see the judgment that took place on Calvary.

Daniel 7:21-22 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

The horn is the anti-Christ (the harlot mindset) who will prevail against the saints until judgment is given to the saints of the Most High. What judgment do you think he is talking about? He’s talking about a revelation of the judgment that happened at the cross; I call it a revelatory judgment.

Judgment was given to them; that means a revelation of the judgment of all humanity in Jesus, was given to them, and in that, they can turn and deliver those people who are still trying to crucify themselves. The anti-Christ (Thoughts in your mind that say you are not in Him; thoughts that sit themselves up as king over your mind) will prevail against you until you get a revelation that you are not the one doing the crucifixion. What is the anti-Christ? The anti-Christ is everything that is not Christ. If Jesus was crucified for humanity and as humanity, and you are still trying to crucify yourself, that would be anti-Christ. (Unbelief)

II Thess. 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means; for that day (the day of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Read: Revelation 17; the "Whore" is the man of sin who sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. It is none other than the carnal mind. The Holy Spirit is revealing to those who want to know the truth, who the man of sin is. I know we wrote this earlier in this writing, but it’s good to repeat things often; we are some times slow of learning. I did say, we, including myself.

People have thought that II Thess. 2:3 spoke of a great bunch of people falling away. What needs to fall away, are the thoughts and understandings of the carnal mind. Paul said to be carnally minded is death.

The manifestation of the Sons of God is not going to appear upon the church, until there comes a falling away of the carnal mind. What has to be revealed first, the son of perdition? Who is that?


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John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name, those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Who is He talking about there? He said, "I didn’t lose any of the disciples except one. I lost one, and he was the son of perdition."

Now who was the son of perdition that He didn’t keep, Judas? Put the two together. II Thessalonians says there’s going to be a falling away first and that man of sin is going to be revealed, the son of perdition. What we need to know is the reason that Judas was called the son of perdition. Why was he called the man of sin; because he betrayed Christ? How did he betray Christ? Not the way you might think.

Judas means praise, just like Judah. There is a praise that betrays Christ.

The praise that betrays is pictured in the man Judas, who is the picture of the man of sin. He has got to be revealed in the church. The man of sin is always seen in the church. There is a man of sin in the church, the son of perdition, in the church, that goes out and like Judas, trying all of his life to crucify himself. In the church world today and in each of our lives, we need to examine ourselves to see if we are trying to crucify ourselves. He said there has to be a falling away of this man of sin – carnal weapons. The nature of Christ won’t be seen upon the Church until the man of sin is revealed in the church. The man of sin is simply the guy that went out and hanged himself, instead of letting Jesus’ hanging be enough. Every Christian needs to let Jesus’ crucifixion be what it was, their crucifixion. Just rest in the finished work and stop trying to hang, or crucify, yourself.

One of the most false sayings in the Church is, "You just have to die to this or that." It is amazing that people will hear this message and go away saying, "That was a good teaching." Now what must I do? I’m going to try harder, quit some things, and bare myself up till I get right." That is the Judas, the praise that betrays.

They say, "I praise you Lord that I was strong enough to quit this." That’s not the cross of Calvary. If you’ll apply His cross to the problems of your life, you will get real deliverance, the deliverance of the Cross. It won’t be something that you decide to do by your own will.

How do we picture the cross? There are so many ways we can picture the cross. The cross of Calvary is seen in Noah’s ark; the whole boat was a place of preservation. The whole ark, which pictures the church, was built from the death of a tree. In the tabernacle of Moses, which pictures the church, if you stood over the top of the tabernacle of Moses, the pieces of furniture were in the shape of a cross. That’s the cross in the church. The camp at rest was in the shape of a cross. It’s a people crucified with a cross in the midst. Exodus 12, when the lamb was slain, they put blood over the doorposts and the side-posts, forming a double cross. There are two crosses there. The doorposts and the side-posts made two crosses, which means there were two people killed there; Jesus and you, in Him. It is pictured all the way through scripture. His crucifixion was your crucifixion. The lamb’s death was the death of the firstborn at the first Passover.


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That’s the only reason the death angel passed over; why didn’t He kill the firstborn of the children of Israel’s houses, because there had already been a death there. The angel didn’t just skip that house; he saw blood, and he passed over because there was already a death there. That lamb’s death was the death of the firstborn.

When you see with eyes of revelation, you’re not going to say, "Thank you Father I didn’t have to die." Family, if that is your attitude, death is still working in you. There is blood on the doorpost of your heart; therefore you have a revelation that the one, who needed to die, already died and is no more. That’s the revelation knowledge that only comes from the Father.

Now let’s make it practical.

Numbers 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.

And Moses prayed for the people.

The context, in which this was written, was that the people had begun to murmur against Moses and Aaron. Serpents were sent, and the serpents bit them and they were dying. They said, "Would you pray and tell the Lord we’re sorry." Moses did.

Numbers 21:8,9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shalllive.

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

How did they live? They beheld the serpent of brass. Now, do you get the picture here? Serpents were biting them. Father said the answer was to put a brass serpent on a pole; a picture of Jesus, who had become the serpent (Adam) on the Cross.

When Samson gave into temptation of the harlot, he was taken into the hands of the Philistines(dust dwellers); the Bible said he was put in stocks of brass. It’s the same thought throughout scripture. Brass speaks of judgment. Here’s a brass serpent on a pole, and they were to look at that brass serpent. They were bitten by serpents, but they were to look at the brass serpent on a pole. If they looked at the brass serpent on a pole, not at a lamb, but a brass serpent, they would live.

What does that have to do with us? Jesus came along in the Gospel of John and said, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lifted up. You see, Jesus became that brazen serpent. The serpent does not represent a “devil” or a “Lucifer” it speaks of the first man Adam, in his fallen state. This is a picture of Jesus identifying with humanity, and becoming sin. He was the lamb. But see, the lamb became judged with humanities judgment.


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Any aspect of the carnal mind that is killing you, He died to, so that if you could see the brass serpent, life would come to you.

Whatever is killing you, whatever has bitten you, whatever is presently working death in your life, you must observe being on Jesus, so that when you see it on Him, it leaves you; it has already been judged.

Let’s say you’ve got a problem with alcohol. You say, "I can’t get rid of it; it’s killing me." What’s the answer? The answer is, to see Jesus becoming one with what is killing you. He bore the curse. Is that part of the curse? Yes it is. That’s why Jesus didn’t want to go to the cross. He wasn’t afraid of the nails and the pain. He dreaded the identification; he dreaded becoming one with everything that was cursing man. So, you have to see Jesus dying, with every illegal problem at work in your life. What is killing you, actually killed Jesus! Deliverance comes to you when you see Him dying with what you need to be delivered from.

So you must view it and keep looking.

How long does it take? Who cares? Just keep looking!

The worst thing you can do is stop and look at the snake, or as many people do, the worst thing you can do, is get everybody together and go on a "snake hunt." Forget all the snakes! What people want to do is to cast out the snakes. God said, "This is the answer. I’m going to put a brazen serpent on a pole. You look at him and you live, and you’ll be safe." "Okay, that’s what Father said; now let’s just gather these snakes up. Let’s go on a war against these snakes." No! You don’t war against the snakes. Look at Jesus on the cross. "But we’ve got to do something." The work has already been done! You’ll always be fighting snakes until you see what Jesus did to the big snake Adam. That’s the key. You can do this; you can get in a circle and beat snakes all your life. "We’re snake-beaters. We’ve beat all the snakes out of our camp." Well, that’s good, but there are more to come if you think you have to fight. We get real tired and then we just keep fighting. We get real good at "snake beating." In other words, there are no snakes in our place right now, but the problem is, tomorrow you’ll have to beat the snakes again. You’ll have to cast snakes out every day. You’ll be doing it again in the morning, because the snakes are endless, if you put your belief in them. People spend all their life fighting the snakes and they don’t know that Jesus destroyed him that had that power of death, that is the traducer – the first man Adam, and all in him.

Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same (became one with Adam); that through death(resurrected and broke free from death that held humanity down in the dust realm) he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Greek word for "destroy" NT: 2673 katargeo (kat-arg-eh'-o); from NT:2596 and NT:691; to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively: KJV - abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, destroy, do away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void.


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What you’re going to have to do is drop your stick and look at the serpent (Jesus as humanity) and see what He did. That is tough for some people to do, "But, don’t you believe that people have problems?" Yes, we believe that, but we’ve got better things to do than fight serpents and issues. Our message is to get people to look at Jesus.

You can do it either way. The only problem is that if you chose to fight, you’ll keep fighting all of your life because fighting something that is already destroyed is a never ending battle, and that fight will kill you. The Church needs to wake up, there have been millions of snake stomping meetings and I don’t think anyone has whipped a snake yet or if they did, another one came later. Jesus defeated him that had the power of death; believeth thou this?

The hardest thing in the world to do is believe that’s the answer. You’ll never believe that’s the answer until you really find out what happened at Calvary. I would rather die looking at the cross and preaching the Cross than die, of fatigue from beating what I think to be snakes.

Daniel 7:25 And he (the anti-christ) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High...

That’s the objective of the carnal mind, religious teachers and those who follow after the traditions of men; to wear out the saints of the Most High.

Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

....Think to change times and laws.....

They will make them think that the things Jesus did over two thousand years ago is something you’ve got to do today. Change times? No, it’s done. The only thing we have to do is believe. Just look at the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to give us eyes and ears of revelation. We are told to labor "IN THE WORD" not labor to crucify ourselves. The only fight we are to fight is the good fight of faith. The Church is not a fuss, a fight or a funeral, it’s a place to come and feed on the bread of life.

There is life for a look. That may seem too simple, but that is the real answer. What we have to do, is to get to people before they totally wear out, and tell them to rest in the finished work of Christ. Quit fighting a defeated enemy, which is Adam or to some people it’s what they think to be a “devil”; start praising God. There are some saints of the Most High God that are being worn out and some who have died physically before their minds could get renewed, but thank God, we know they are with Father God.


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Hopefully, when they get so tired they can’t stand, the cross will be so close to them that they will be able to look. Isn’t that going to be a great thing; it’s happening today. If you’ve totally worn yourself out fighting snakes, fall down in the midst of them, look at the cross, and they can’t bite you. Even if you have been bitten, there is life for a look!

Amen and Amen!

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Chapter four

"DIED"

1 King 10:18, 19 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.

CRUCIFIED REVIEW & DIED

Solomon’s kingdom is the most perfect type of the kingdom of God that we have in our Old Testament. We believe that the Old Testament contains visual aids of spiritual truths. The kingdom of God is a present kingdom, but for the most part the people living in the kingdom are not aware of it, thus they do not benefit from the life source of the kingdom of God.

Jesus said in Luke’s gospel, that the kingdom of God does not come with observation, but he said, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. There has first got to be an awareness of the kingdom of God within us, before we are ever going to see the kingdom of God manifested in this earth. The King of God is the Holy Spirit of Father, in man.

We find here, that the throne of that earthly king had six steps to it. I guess if there is a statement that would describe what God is doing to us, and to the world, He’s leading us to an understanding that we are His throne, which is a place of rest for us and Him. He’s bringing us to His place of ruling and reigning. He’s bringing us to the place that we call ascension life or life and life more abundantly.

Paul wrote, as recorded in Ephesians 2, that we have been quickened or made alive together with Him, raised and seated together with Him. We know quickening applies to the new birth experience. We can easily link up the resurrection to the Spirit filled life, but what about the ascension; resurrection life is not all that is available.

We are to sit (a position of rest) with Father God in the heavenlies; we are to rule and reign from that dimension. Heaven is the abode of Father God, and Father lives in man, so man must be the abode of Father God. Here’s the problem; most people have never linked ruling, with resting.But the Kingdom principles are altogether different, totally opposite from those of the world. We think of ruling and reigning, as physically working our way into a relationship in which we just conquer things, but that’s not the way the Kingdom of God works. We rest in what has been conquered; we rest in the facts of the conquest of Jesus Christ. So we come here to this picture of the spiritual and physical throne that we are, and we find there are six steps to that throne.


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We have stated in our previous chapter that for every step there is a riser and a tread, so we can see that there is something that brings us higher, and there’s a walking out of that or in what that step provides. Let’s talk about the throne, so we will understand what we are talking about.

What is the throne of God; there are six steps to it, but what is it and how does it apply to you and me?

What are we going to find out about our position in God when we understand these steps? What are we going to see when we view one another as we are? What mind are we going to function out of?

There is no use going through this study, if we don’t know the objective; let’s read from Psalms 132 and see the objective of Father’s redemptive work.

Psalm 132:12-14 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore. For the Lord hath chosen Zion: He hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest forever; here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

Zion, is a people; the church. We find here that God’s throne is a resting place in His people. What is God ultimately trying to do? We say we’re seeking the rest of God. Really, we’re seeking the place that God is comfortable resting in a people. That’s really the plan and purpose as it is outlined in scripture.

When the tabernacle of Moses was finished, God came and rested in it. When David’s tabernacle was finished, God’s presence was there in that little tent. All of those things are pictures of the church and what God is doing there. His throne is the place where He rests.

Psalm 99:1 The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble; he sitteth (marries) the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

Where is God’s throne? The psalmist reveals to us that He is married to the cherubims; believers are cherubims – blessings. He sitteth or is in union with and in His man. Now what are we talking about there? In the tabernacle of Moses, behind the veil can be seen this rectangle box called the Ark of the Covenant that had a lid, is called the Mercy Seat. Here we find the mercy seat was two and a half cubits by a cubit and a half; the same size as the ark, speaking of the fact that the mercy is just as wide as Christ and His work. It has no dimension of depth given. There’s no way to measure how deep the mercy goes. The actual translation in the Old Testament about His mercy, is “Oh give thanks to the Lord for His mercy, forever; not His mercy endureth forever. He loves us, so He does not have to endure us.

There were cherubims that were made out of the same piece of gold as the Mercy Seat. The Bible says that God sits there in union with the cherubims. Those people that He rested among were not perfect people. How on earth does a holy God dwell among an unholy people? He has a place to rest, and that resting place is called the Mercy Seat. Jesus Christ has made us perfect in Him and we are the place Father God seeks to rest in.


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What are we doing? When we’ve learned everything there is to learn about Jesus and His work and our union with Him; what is going to happen? We will believe who we are in Christ and His nature and life will flow through us and out from us to others. Why was God lawfully able to come in and dwell among His people? Because there was something on that Mercy Seat, that to Him, allowed Him to rest among the people. If man could understand the reality of His mercy and grace, they would rest with being one with Him.

The only problem is, in the old covenant, it was a rest that kept everybody away except the high priest, just once a year, because he typified the finished work of Christ. The problem is not with God; the problem is in man’s thinking. She, the Church, can’t rest with Him because she doesn’t know what those six steps are. Most believers don’t know the riser and the tread of those steps. I promise when they do, they’ll be at rest with Him. Many are just beginning to see, some are in the midst of viewing and some have seen so much that they are experiencing perfect rest in many areas.

We have stepped past the veil in the calendar of God, and the light from the mercy seat has been shining toward a people, and has drawn many into the Most Holy Place realm, where all are welcome. Some have sat down on the mercy seat with Him, and are becoming a clear sounding Word, a voice that speaks as the voice of One – the Spirit and the Bride are saying, come!

The fact is, Ephesians 2, says we’ve been seated together with Him in the heavenlies for over two thousand years. What does that mean? Jesus sat down with the Father in a people. Where’s that, on the mercy seat? So, God is bringing us, in our understanding, to a place where we will come back and know so much about these steps of redemption that we are willing to rest in the finished work of Christ.

There isn’t a more beautiful picture of what God is doing, than in Genesis 1 and 2, where God says He is going to make a man who is going to rule and reign and have dominion and subdue; that includes that man and his or her surroundings. The very next day, the Bible says God rested on the seventh day because he was finished.

The first picture of man and his Father is on the sixth day. Man was finished, completed, and it was Father God’s purpose to have him rule and reign with Him and as Him from the position of rest.

Did that plan fail? It didn’t fail because that which you see in Genesis 1 and 2 is just a picture of what God is now doing. We are well past the end of the sixth day, and guess what’s happening? God has a man finished and complete, head and body; the new creation man. It will be one man, not a whole bunch of different men and women. We all are one body, Christ’s body.

The table of shewbread was the next piece of furniture that is described after the mercy seat. God said I will commune with you there. Then the next thing He describes is the table of shewbread on which are twelve loaves of bread in two stacks of six. There are the six steps again, and the six things that Jesus did; He was crucified, humanity was crucified with Him; Jesus died, humanity died with Him, ECT. That is why there are two stacks instead of one.


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But here’s the thing we want you to see; the specific sizes, two tenth deals means omer. In other words, it was an omer (the bible says in Exodus 16,) put an omer’s worth of manna in the pot; omer was one man’s portion. That whole table represents the portion of one new man in all of the things that Jesus did. Anytime you read the word ‘things’ in the New Testament, it usually means the things Father did to the first man Adam, in Jesus, and then the things Father did to His new creation man in Jesus Christ. Crucified, Died, Buried, and then Quickened, Raise and Seated. Let’s see what Paul wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, concerning the “things” of redemption.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things (logos or redemptive work of Jesus Christ) work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to (the word ‘his’ is not in the original Greek language) purpose (The word ‘purpose was actually Shewbread).

Purpose in the Greek: NT: 4286 prothesis (proth'-es-is); a setting forth, i.e. (figuratively) proposal (intention); specifically, the show-bread (in the Temple) as exposed before God: KJV -purpose, shew [-bread].

(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)’

What the Holy Spirit was telling the Church is, “We know the Word of God or the operation of Father God works together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called to the table of Shewbread.” The Word only works in ones life when they feed on Him (Jesus Christ), who the Word is all about. Christ the head (Father’s Holy Spirit) and Christ the body – all believers; the in Christed ones, together, united as one, is God’s Sons on earth, ruling and reigning. God is building a man. The man in Genesis one, the first Adam, did not enter in; but God wasn’t surprised about that, because Rev. 13:8 says that Jesus was crucified before the foundation of the world. He was already crucified before the first man Adam fell. Paul told the Church at Corinth, that people were eating and drinking destruction to them selves because they were not discerning the body (The body is Christ in a body – the Church). He did not say “Lord’s” body as they translated the verse, He said, discern the body. Check it out in your Strong’s Hebrew Greek reference book. Where they wrote “Lord’s, the number is 9999, which means they added it to fit their religious beliefs, which caused great confusion, as they did with a lot of words in our King James Version. We are to know who we are in Christ and draw from and fellowship with the brethren; when we don’t, then many are weak, sick and die needlessly.

Can you see God’s plan? His whole plan revolves around crucifixion. No one has a problem big enough that crucifixion won’t take care of. That is God’s plan. He was crucified from the foundation of the world, and the end of the book says that the bride of Christ is married to the Lamb. The Lamb speaks of Jesus’ crucifixion, and that’s where our union started. It’s a communion table. He said, “I will commune with you there.” See how they’re linked together?What’s this table about? The bread on the table leads you to the mercy seat. You feed on that, and it will lead you to the mercy seat.


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II Samuel 6:12a, 13 And it was told king David, saying, the Lord hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

Here is the Ark of the Covenant being brought back to Mt. Zion. The Ark of the Covenant has the mercy seat on it. Now notice, when they were bringing back the ark into David’s tabernacle, they walked six steps and sacrificed. That is not accidental because it tells you how to get the ark and the mercy seat, back into the church.

They took the bread off of the table every Sabbath and replaced it with fresh bread. What they did was, they took this hot bread, put it on the table, and they ate it later. The priests ate the bread that had cooled off; it had been there seven days, which shows you that this Sabbath is the place of rest. When the day of rest comes, you will have eaten what this bread pictures because you are a priest, a Royal Priesthood. We are in the seventh day with the Lord, and its’ time to eat the bread on the table. He has prepared a meal - a six course meal - for us to eat right in the presences of the enemy – the carnality in our minds. (Psalms 23, the Message Translation)

The ark comes to rest in the tabernacle by going six paces. Some translations indicate that they went six steps, stopped and sacrificed. They went six more steps, stopped and sacrificed. That is what we are doing. What is our message, six steps, which is the redemptive work of Jesus Christ? That’s what we proclaim. We know that will get the job done.

Then we get to Solomon’s temple and his kingdom, and there are six steps to the throne. It is pictured all the way through scripture. Every major picture of the church shows where we’re going with six steps; crucified, died, buried, quickened, raised and seated.

Deut. 12:9, 10 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you. But when you go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

We can see this fits the Sons of God today; many are living out of that rest in a much higher realm than they have before; they are allowing the Holy Spirit to lead them, guide them and show them the THINGS of Jesus. (John 14) Deut. Verse 10 gives us the principle. The direction - rest - is found by going over the Jordan. Jordan means “the descender,” and it speaks of death.

STEP TWO: DIED

Now we want to share the fact that all of humanity died with Him; no one has to fear an appointed day of death, because the entire race of humanity already died that death in Jesus.

You have heard some call themselves “walking dead men;” we are not walking dead men. The first man Adam is dead (does not exist) and the believers are alive unto God because they are new creation beings. That is so important to understand. If you think you are a walking dead man, then you haven’t seen that Adam was crucified and died. You still think you have an old


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man and that you are in Adam, which is not true; no one is in that non-existent, worn out antique man. How can I say it, that it will make you understand this fact; the first man IS NOT!

You do not have an old man, so quit saying “my old man,” or “your old man.” If you are a new creation being, then you cannot have an old man because Father God did not make you out of a repaired Adam. When a person opens themselves up to the born again experience they are made new! I know the natural mind finds this hard to understand, but when a person accepts Christ as their Lord and Saviour, the Father baptizes them with Father’s Holy Spirit – their spirit-man is filled with Father’s life; the spirit-man is reborn and is filled with the life of God. The life of God completely quickens (makes alive) that man or woman’s spirit. Then as we heed to the Word and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal Christ to us and feed on the bread and wine; the life of God in our spirit-man prevails over our soul (mind, will and emotions) and then Paul wrote, “To wit the redemption of our body,” thus we are saved to the uttermost; spirit, soul and body. As we are illuminated to the redemptive work of Christ, it releases the life of God within our spirit to swallow our mortality (soul and body). You are no longer the person that was in Adam. You are a brand new creation in Christ.

II Cor. 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. KJV

(AMP) Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] (dead to God) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! Italics – my emphasis.

If I’m a new creature in Christ and I’m not in Adam, then what happened to Adam, he was crucified, and then he died and was buried? The moment I got in Christ, I was instantly made new in my spirit. But the fact is, those who have not yet opened themselves up to receiving the gift of salvation, they are no longer in the first man Adam either because the first man Adam does not exist anymore. They are dead in Christ; meaning they have no spiritual knowledge of the Father, and they also do not have His life in their spirit-man.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,Christ died for us.

His love is for all, not just for born again people; but they do need to know the love of God. Someone says, “Well, if I’m not the “old person” I used to be, why do I still do some of the things that fallen man did, and carnal man does?” Because the flesh (law, carnal mind) still functions in the soul, and for the most part the believer has not been taught the necessity of the renewing of the mind or even how to. It is not unusual to have desires that were there before you were born again or even new ones, which do not reflect who you are in Christ.

Nevertheless, you are still a new creation being in Christ, as you feed on bread and wine (The Gospel of Jesus Christ), you will change in your soul and body. The Bible tells us that change comes from glory (appearing) to glory (appearing). The more the Light of the Gospel (Jesus Christ) shines on you, the more you change into His very image. It is said several times in the New Testament, that Jesus will come as a thief in the night. A thief takes that which is not his.


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As we feed on Him and allow the Holy Spirit to show us Christ; then Christ comes “as a” thief and removes that which is not His. The only thing that will be left is the mind of Christ, and a body redeemed in His image.

In the majority of people today, the soul and body are still very much under the control of the carnal part of the mind. The new man, which is your re-born spirit, must release the life of God within it, to swallow the mortality in the soul and body. This is done by spending quality time with the Father in worship and fellowship, and spending much time with the Holy Spirit in study of the Word and praying in the Spirit. It is that simple, yet the body of Christ has tried everything in the world to “crucify the flesh,” and has failed miserably. James was used of the Holy Spirit to tell us to study, to prove to yourself that Father God has already approved of you.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman (teacher or student) that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. If you rightly divide the word of truth, then it means you can wrongly divide the word of truth. The word must be studied as it pertains to the finished work of Jesus Christ, not concerning natural carnal things or weapons.

What we are taught in Christendom from the time we first go to church is “if you are really godly, you won’t ever feel like doing any of those things anymore.” That’s not true and is not the Bible principle. You feed your spirit-man the Word, your nature changes; you don’t change your nature by doing or not doing. You feed, and put your faith in His work.

If a person is born again, then their spirit is full of the life of God. What needs to take place, is for the hindrances to the life in the spirit-man from entering into the soul (the womb) to be removed by the spirit man growing and growing on the Word, until it becomes strong enough to prevail over the woman, the soul, and then there is a birth that will take place. The Word of God is the food that causes the spirit-man to grow. You allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the Word of God to you, in your spirit-man and your woman (the soul) will give birth to the man-child, spoken of in the book of Revelation, and then your natural body will be swallowed up of life –no more mortality. The man-child is none other than the nature of Father God, in a believer. Then the spirit-man will prevail over the soul and the desires of the soul will turn towards heavenly things.

The life of God in the new man is cleansing the soul of all unrighteousness and revealing the truth of who the believer really is; in-Christed or a member of the Sons of God. We will always act like the persons we believe ourselves to be, so it is vital to find out who the believer really is. We are new creatures in Christ, in our spirit and that must come out upon us. Praise God our souls are being saved.

Now let’s prove it; how could a person receive the life of God in their spirit, the minute they accept Jesus’ redemptive work as their salvation? How can a person participate in something that took place over two thousand years ago if they just now accept Christ? We’ll give you three principles.


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1. The Bible says you were in union with what Jesus did, because he did everything as a human that was required of the man who sinned. Whatever Jesus did was done for and as all. So, now all who accept His work can receive Father’s Holy Spirit in themselves because the man that hindered that ability or right has been taken out of the way. Now, all can come by faith and open themselves up and receive of Him, by faith in what Jesus did.

Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Once a person sees what Jesus did, they will come boldly (with all confidence in what He did)!

When Father came as Son - Jesus to die, He didn’t just go there in place of humanity. If it was just for humanity, then we would still be human. Humanity had the penalty of death and judgment upon them and both had to be satisfied. It’s just like the example of a murderer who has killed twenty-six people and got caught. Someone says, “I’ll die for him.” That’s great for the murderer, and it gives you a sense of thankfulness to that person; but the problem is that we’ve still got a murderer on our hands. An innocent man died for the murderer, but the problem is, we’ve still got a murderer. In that guy’s own mind, he still is a murderer and his nature is still that of a murderer.

That is what most people believe; they believe Christianity is just forgiveness of their past murders or sins. But it’s more than that. It’s good to know that God forgives you. But understanding humanities death in Christ makes you realize that not only are you forgiven, but the person who did those things no longer exists. He does not exist! He is extinct! What about what I might do today that is not of the Christ nature, out of the power of the carnal mind; well His mercies are new every morning, and the Bible says, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.” So, I’m still redeemed, and I’m going to repent (turn from that and go the other way) as many times as it takes, till I just don’t want to miss the mark any longer. The more a person feeds on the Gospel, the more they’ll draw from the life (Father’s Holy Spirit) of God in them, for whatever it is they are getting from the acts of mark-missing (sin).

Jesus was our substitute, and biblically, the word ‘substitute’, does not just mean for, but for us, as us. He became humanity in the Garden of Gethsemane; the moment He said, “Nevertheless, Thy will be done,” He gave up His divinity and took upon himself all that Adam had become, then the fruition of that process was completed on the Cross. Substitution goes further in God’s view than in ours.

The reason God says Adam died in Jesus, is because he did!

2. Jesus became so human, that God could legally view Jesus as being the first man Adam (Adam being the whole human (fallen-man) race). Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, said, “If there’s any other way, take this cup from me.” Why, because He didn’t want to be human. He didn’t want to become what mankind had become in their fallen state. Jesus did not die as one


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man, He died as all humanity. He became every thing despicable about fallen man and also as everything good humanity produced. Father God wants neither good nor bad; He only wants Christ.

This can also be seen in the Ark of the Covenant in Moses’ Tabernacle, which is the hidden part of the ark. The ark was wood, overlaid with gold, within and without. There’s something in there that can’t be seen if you just look at it. The table of shewbread was wood, overlaid with gold. You couldn’t see the wood. Wood speaks of humanity, or the human side of all that Jesus had become.

That is the hidden part, the mystery, and the revelation that comes from the twelve loaves, is that Jesus became everything a human could become, because of the fall. That’s the mystery; that’s the Pauline revelation; that’s the Benjamin message. The message is Jesus became human therefore He actually died as a human. The only reason God can say that all humanity is crucified, is because Jesus became all humanity and was crucified; He became the first Adam, and in His resurrection from the first Adam, He became the last Adam, and all in Him are the last Adam (man with Father’s life in them). The fact is, every man, woman, boy and girl have been reconciled to God because of what Jesus did. All they have to do is accept His gift of salvation, then Father will put His Holy Spirit in them, and they will be baptized (no water there) in the past, present and future of Jesus Christ. Everything Jesus did in His redemptive work will become true of that person the very second they say, yes! Someone says, “That’s just the way God saw it.” We had better see it the way God sees it, because He sees it correctly.

3. So, number three, I am now in union with Christ, I am one with Him; His history is in fact my history. I am in the body of Christ; Son of God, just as Jesus was in His earth walk. Everything that Father is; is now mine because I am one with Him, the way He intended for his man. His history and his future are all mine. Once you became alive in Christ, you are translated into a new world – the heavenly realm. What’s flowing through His body is flowing through mine. I have the same life He has and I have the same DNA (Divine-Nature-Activity) functioning in my spirit-man and it is working into my soul and then into my body. I have already experience a great part of my mind being renewed; there is still much more to go, but thanks be to Father God, I’m much further along than I was when He led me to this meal in 1996. This is why I am so fervent about eating on what this bread and wine pictures to us. I know without a shadow of doubt, that eating on the Lamb slain. We must see Him as the Lamb slain, before we can see Him as the Lamb of God, residing in the throne that we are. The seeing will release His life to swallow all aspects of mortality in the soul and body, and cause His nature to explode upon us, or as I like to say it, flow out of us. His future is our future.

Now let’s picture it. There is a present day theme for every Old Testament book. In the book of 1 Samuel, there are two kings and two priests. The two priests are Eli and Samuel.

Eli is a fleshly priest; he couldn’t get the job done, and he brought reproach to the kingdom.Samuel replaces him, and Samuel was a spiritual priest. In fact, both of them from the very beginning of the book are present. In our own lives there is a decreasing Eli and an increasing Samuel, who is in the temple (which you are). The flesh (law and carnal mind) cannot get the


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work done and they must die; in our thinking. Only what is in our spirit-man can bring salvation to the soul.

There are two kings, Saul and David. There is a decreasing Saul and an increasing David. What every believer needs to know is how to let the Samuel in them take over; this godly priest who pleases God and actually anoints the king? How do we get this Eli out of the way? That is what Paul’s revelation is all about. Paul was a Benjamite. So we find here Eli, who was blind at this time.

1 Samuel 4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

The candlestick was going out in the temple. Eli couldn’t see. The flesh man (carnal or natural mind) cannot see. In Father’s economy we have pasted the time of transition, and there are many who are actively involved in that, which is causing us to walk and live out of our spirit-man (our spirit being one with Father’s Holy Spirit),

The natural man (un-renewed mind) cannot see. Scriptures say he was heavy of flesh. Spiritually speaking, it has nothing to do with being overweight; but it means that too much flesh has caused you not to be able to see. We’ve got to allow the Holy Spirit to get rid of this man (man of sin, carnal mind). The man of sin must be reveled for who it is and then must fall away. It will fall away at the revelation of Christ.

2 Thess 2:2……the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

The carnal mind (un-renewed soul) exalts itself above all that is God. It is the accuser of the brethren and it must be exposed and destroyed by the Word of God (Is not my Word a fire, Jeremiah wrote that); also the Word says that God will make His ministers a flame of fire. We sing a song called, “Burn fire Burn.” We need the Word of God to burn away this man of sin; the son of perdition – the carnal mind that tries to crucify itself. The son of perdition is the part of man that believes it can crucify itself. The part that thinks its own works can please God. It sits in the temple showing itself that it is God, when in fact, it is not.

Now how does he (or she – the soul is female in gender in the Greek) go?

At this time there was a war between the Philistines and God’s people. The name ‘Philistine’ means, to roll in the dust. It pictures the war that is going on between the people of God and their enemy, which is ignorance to the operation of God, which is rampant in the carnal part of the Churches mind. Paul said, “To be carnally minded is death,” and Jesus said, the last enemy to be put under our feet is death, so our only enemy is the carnal mind filled with all kinds of traditions, religious teachings, and fleshly desires, that have been ingrained for many years. The engrafted Word of God will remove all of that.


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James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

James is talking to believers here, who are already born again; so there must be more than just getting born again, the soul needs to be saved and then the body will be redeemed. Saved, is sozo in the Greek, and it means made whole spirit, soul and body. We are not “saved” in the real sense of the word, when we invite Father God into our lives, by accepting the gift Jesus the Son provided, we are born again. Then and only then, as we yield to the working of Father’s Holy Spirit in our life will we experience the total salvation of our whole being – spirit, soul and body. I hope your not getting tired of reading some of these things over and over as I repeat them. We need to be repetitive with a lot of these things, because it takes repeating a lot, to by pass the natural understanding and let it get into our spirit-man or spiritual knowing.

How does one get their soul saved, just receive with meekness, the engrafted word of God. How does a woman get pregnant; she receives (willing) the sperm from her husband, and it becomes engrafted with the egg and life comes forth. It’s that simple, yet it is one of the greatest miracles in mankind, and in like manner, it is a great miracle of how the Word of God is received or engrafted into our spirit, bringing life to the womb of our soul and producing the Man Child. It makes me want to shout!

This beautiful picture continues:

I Samuel 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head. 13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out. 14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli. 15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. 16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

This “man of Benjamin” pictures Paul. God raised up a man in the New Testament named Paul and gave him a revelation. Shiloh, means the place of rest. Why don’t some people grow up; because they are like Eli, sitting on the wayside? The carnal mind says, what is done, my son?What is finished? That’s what I need to know. I’m in misery, I haven’t produced anything and I can’t produce. This is what the natural mind really needs to admit. My question to Paul is what is done? I don’t want to know what needs to be done; I want to know what is done. I heard enough from well meaning preachers, what I need to do; I know the problem, I need the answer.What is the finished work of Christ?

1 Samuel 4:17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni (fist or fighting) and Phinehas (mouth of serpent), are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

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humanity. Jesus went into the hands of the enemy (He became a human (Adam); the ark (Jesus) has been taken. In the redemptive work of Jesus He allowed Himself to become human, He submitted to death in all realms of life and submitted to death that was in all mankind before the Cross. He became our substitute by becoming human. He took the penalty of torture and judgment and then died the death of all men; spirit, soul and body, and then experienced the hell of all humanity. Every evil or good thing Adam produced, Jesus bore it. In those three nights in death, He bore the hell of being totally separated from Father God, even in physical death.

He said the ark of the Lord is in the hands of the enemy.

1 Samuel 4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

When he, the Benjamite, (Paul) made mention of the ark of God (a type of Christ), Eli died, for he was a type of the old man Adam. He represented Adam in his fallen state and he also represents the carnal mind. When the natural mind finds out what happened to Jesus, the man (woman) of sin sitting there will die. He (actually she, because the soul is feminine in gender) will fall back and die, and never return.

Forty years is one generation.

This is what gets rid the man of sin. The Benjamite screams, Jesus is in the hands of the enemy (one with the first Adam). “No! No! How could that be, because He became human?

I want to show you how perfectly this type is played out.

1 Samuel 5:1 AND the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.

Ashdod, means fortified. They brought the Ark into their stronghold. Jesus, the ark of God, went into the fortification of the powerful force of death that entered the first man Adam. This stronghold had a god in it called Dagon; it’s interesting that Dagon was a fish-god. Jonah, as a type of Jesus, was swallowed up by a big fish. Jesus was swallowed up by a big fish named Adam, for three days and three nights.

1 Samuel 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

Notice he went there one day; they rose up the next day, which would be the morning of the second day.

1 Samuel 5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands cut off upon the threshold; only (the word ‘only’ in this verse means


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leanness or to waste way) the stump of (the fore-mentioned phrase “the stump of” was added by the translators to fit their religious beliefs; it was not in the original Hebrew) Dagon was left to him (the word ‘him’ means downward – their god Dagon perished – this type of the first man Adam was no more; just as the first man Adam is no more.) This is a type or picture of what Jesus’ resurrection did with the first man Adam, and if the stump was left, then we would still be fighting part of Adam, not just the carnal mind. There was nothing left of this false god, and there is nothing left of the first prince of this world – the first man Adam.

The Strong’s Hebrew number for that phrase is 9999 the stump of. This is what is written when you look up number 9999 in the Greek and Hebrew - 9999 inserted word (x);This word was added by the translators for better readability in the English. (actually to fit their religious beliefs) There is no actual word in the Hebrew/Greek text. The word may be displayed in italics, or in parentheses or other brackets, to indicate that it is not in the original text. (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

This would be the morning of the third day. By the morning of the third day there isn’t anything left; this Dagon god made of dust of the earth, wasted away to nothing. See how beautiful that is? Jesus rose on the third day, and defeated every part of Adam. The problem in man’s life today is not because of a degenerate prince (Adam), it’s because they have not received the revelation of Jesus Christ and discerned the body, which is to know who they are now that they are filled with Father’s Holy Spirit. (The Greek does not say Lord’s body, it says body) In the book of Hosea, God said, “My people are destroyed because they have rejected knowledge.” It is vital that we allow the Holy Spirit to renew our mind.

Now let’s make it practical.

There are six steps to the throne. The first three are crucified, died and buried; those three things are all important, and they do away with Adam (humanity).God brings forth the revelation or manifestation (take the cover off – revelation) of the new man in you, by proving that the old man is gone, and then cleansing your mind (soul) of all the Anti-Christ thoughts and beliefs. Father God knows that the natural process is, if you don’t understand that the old man is gone, you will spend your whole life trying to do away with him. It’s like fighting a dead person; you will never win that battle. The whole church world is doing that.

We preach from the pulpit that we need to get rid of this stinking lifestyle. So, we say here are ten steps to getting rid of stinking lifestyles. We could even preach the positive side. Here are ten things that we must do because we’re Christians.

We can’t do them, so we always fail. That is the law. We always end up not being able to do it. We can’t do it. That’s the message: you can’t do it. If you could, you wouldn’t need Christ.

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Resurrection NT:386 anastasis (an-as'-tas-is); from NT:450; a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication [its author]), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth): KJV - raised to life again, resurrection, rise from the dead, that should rise, rising again.


He didn’t say that you’ve got to live the resurrection life, to get life; He said you’ve got to be planted in the likeness of His death and then He will live His life through you. Planted in His death, “But, Pastor Roy, we’re not interested in death; we’re interested in life.” It is impossible to have resurrection life without a revelation of a death that took place to produce that resurrection life.

Here is the first principle.

1. If you are planted in the likeness of his death, then the natural consequence is that you have His resurrection because His resurrection from Adam was produced by LIFE, and you have that same Holy Spirit in you that raised Christ from the dead. We’ve got a whole bunch of people preaching resurrection life but living a life far below resurrection life.

Nobody wants that kind of resurrection life.

Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

In order to get to the place where we do not serve sin, we must know something; we must know that Adam was crucified with Him.

Romans 6:13 neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Have you ever heard this preached, “Quit sinning?” That word ‘instruments’, according to the marginal reference, means weapons. Quit using your instruments (your arms, your eyes, and your ears) as weapons against yourself. But, you see, there is something missing here. We say, know that your old man is crucified, that your old man is dead, and then many in the Church says, “quit sinning.” But there is a point here, and that is this reckoning part. Knowing how it was done.

Romans 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we continue to live one (original Greek) with Him, and also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from dead (the first man Adam) dieth no more; death (the first man Adam) hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto


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sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Notice the phrase “if we be dead with Christ” is in past tense; who is he talking to? He is talking to born again believers, and he says, if we be dead with Christ. That’s a past tense thing.

Verse 7 states we are freed from sin. Why should we reckon ourselves to be dead unto sin, because His death unto sin was the death of Adam and we are no longer a slave to the force of sin? He said, “don’t do anything; just reckon what He did to be what needed to be done.”

Here’s the point. Here’s the way to make it practical. Knowing this, reckoning, comes before not yielding. Don’t tell people not to yield their instruments if you can’t teach them to know and to reckon. Reckon is the accounting part of it; it’s the mind renewal of it.

It’s the thing that links together the “not sinning” and the “knowing.” The reckoning is the constant feeding on that, until you get to the place where your nature changes and you function out of the mind of Christ, which is Father’s Holy Spirit reining in your whole being, and not the mind full of law and carnality. From the basis of who I know I am, I can now say, “I don’t have to do those things or think those thoughts; I am not that kind of person.” That is something that is the natural consequence of reckoning.

We read these things, and because we don’t reckon how they can be so, we don’t act on the facts of the redemptive work of Christ. That is God’s “end of the work statement.” We never act on these things because we can’t believe how it can be true of us. We must understand, reckon and know how we became the righteousness of God in Christ, before we will act on it. This comes from understanding our identification with Christ on the cross in His death. That’s what God is saying. The Bible says we are seated together with Him in the heavenlies. We are right now in the stage where we are reckoning it to be so. God has anointed a first-fruits ministry who can make us believe it, so we can act on it. They are Scribes who can write the Word out and teach it in a way that it is palatable, and will cause the hearers to all stand up as One new man – the manifest Sons of God.

Currently, many believers still act like a fallen man in many areas and still experience mortality in the soul, body, social and financial realm, because they have not discerned the body of Christ that they are. BUT the Holy Spirit is at work rectifying that problem in those who are heeding to the call of the Spirit and the Bride; “The Spirit and the Bride say, come!” The word “discerning” as used in the letter to the Church at Corinth; when Paul writes about discerning the body, infers to withdraw from, to separate thoroughly, to show favoritism, to decide, make a distinction or to conclude that, you are the body that Father God says you are – the Son of God. If you don’t believe that you are His Son – His New Creation Man – the body of the anointed cherub, and then you will not manifest who He has made you to be, so in a sense you are not. If you believe you’re not something, then you’ll never reveal in your life on this planet what you have been made to be.

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There are things in my life I need to draw from. You can check things out from the deposited death. There are some things in my life that I still need to have removed. There are some things in my life that I need to have added. There are still some things in my life that do not manifest Father’s Holy Spirit within me. But, He is in me and His nature is coming forth.

God knew that at the end of two thousand years, that golden candlestick would be so bright, that it would shine a great light on the bread; in fact Isaiah 30 tells of the light, as the light of seven days shinning in one day.

Isa 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, (the dying of the man of sin; carnal mind) when the towers fall. Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun (Son) shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. (The breach currently is the un-renewed mind)

Isn’t it interesting that the table of shewbread was made before the candlestick was made? They made that whole table of shewbread before the light came; to show us that when the light comes, something was already there, that we were not able to see. The answer is there before the light comes. People say, “Oh, here’s the light. Now when are you going to do something about my situation?” The golden candlestick was put on the left hand side as you walked into the Holy Place Room. Here’s what’s happening: the golden candlestick has been produced. There’s light. But we’re looking on the wrong side of it; we’re looking over here, saying, “Lord, when are you going to do something about my case?” He says, “Would you look over there? There are twelve loaves of bread over there. That’s six things Jesus did and six things that they mean to you.” Jesus Christ is the Sabbath and we are at the time of rest. The six days (days of working) are over. It’s time for you to eat. The priest ate the bread at the end of the sixth day; we are past the end of the sixth day, and there is great shortage of priest eating on this bread; this should not be so.

That’s a good principle. Even though they saw it, it wasn’t edible until the end of the sixth day. You couldn’t eat it until the proper time, and we are at the proper time, we’re past the proper time. We’re there, and we have found out what those pieces of bread are all about. We’re not just going to hold them. Eating them is the reckoning part. When you feed on them (what they represent), when you get them in you, they become communion. You are eating on your union (communion) with Christ.

They take you to the mercy seat. What has happened is some of the church (the priesthood) has been feeding on those twelve loaves, and we have turned around and we found that there is no longer a veil between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place; we have walked boldly into the throne room of grace. The veil is gone; it has been gone for over two thousand years. But if you eat this bread, the veil is removed from you. The only thing you see is the glory of God and the mercy seat. We thought the veil was to be removed from the natural Jews, when all along it was the veil over the eyes of the spiritual Jew. You don’t see problems any longer; you don’t have any problems that His blood didn’t take care of.


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We can even enter into His rest now, because in Hebrews chapter 6, it says there will be thosewho taste of the age to come. Somebody has to do it first to show people the way. This has nothing to do with natural things; we’re talking about spiritual things, but it will affect the natural.

Micah 2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

There comes a time in our spiritual life, wherever we are, where we realize that where we are spiritually, is not going to bring us to rest. Every one of us has to leave some things behind and realize they are not going to work. Which direction do you go?

Isaiah 60 says, ARISE. You go higher. Not north, south, east or west, but up. “Up” is not a direction; it’s a dimension. We go higher. If you know rest is available now, and you stay where you are, you are going to be polluted and you’re going to be destroyed. God doesn’t show you something, if He doesn’t want you to go there.

Abraham left the Ur of the Chaldees because God said to leave. He didn’t show him anything; He said I just want you to leave. So he left the place where he was. You know what he saw first? He saw Jesus. The Bible says the Lord appeared to him. It says when he got away from that place he was told to leave, the Lord appeared to him. The land we are going to is the Lord.

In Genesis 12, he said to come on out from there, so he did move. He said “I’m going to show you a land.” But the first thing Abraham saw wasn’t a land; it says the Lord appeared to him. The whole principle is that the land he was going to, pictures the Lord he saw. And the place where we are at today, is in union with our Father, but first we must be willing to leave the place we are presently, in order to go higher in the things of the spirit and understand our union; discern that we are the body – the Sons of God.

I have had people say to me, “My old man, the man I used to be is really giving me trouble.”The Bible says, that the old man, Adam, was crucified and died; the Bible says, that all humanity was buried together with Him. You do not have an old man!

Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism,..... No water there; this is a spiritual baptism that the Holy Spirit does to a person who gets born again; they are placed in all that Jesus did.

The sequence is easy; if Adam was crucified, then Adam died. If Adam died, what happens to Adam, he was buried? If Adam was buried, forget it. You the believer are no longer in the first man Adam; he doesn’t exist.

It’s what you think about someone who is buried that is your problem. The first man Adam is not your problem. Adam was crucified, died, and was buried. Being buried with Christ, doing away with Adam, is not something the believer does. God did that in the person of Jesus. People hear this message and they think they hear what we preach. They come up and say, “Pastor, I believe


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that. I’m going to do just what you’ve said; I’m going to bury the old man.” As soon as they say that, we know they didn’t hear, because that’s not something you do. That happened over two thousand years before you were ever born. You can’t do that.

What you must do is feed your spirit-man the revelation of Jesus Christ. That’s the difference. My job is not to bury me; my job is to understand what Jesus has done and believe it. We tend to want to examine ourselves and say, “I’m still Adam because after all, I’ve got this temper, and stuff like that.” The reason the believer still has those problems is because they don’t know what Jesus has done and who they are in Christ. There has been very little teaching in the Church on how to mature spiritually, but there is now and it’s available to all who are hungry; John said if there were books written concerning the reality of everything Father did, in Jesus, in His redemptive work, this planet could not contain them. What He did was bigger than any one knows; but we will know because His Holy Spirit is in us to tell us and show us; let’s let Him do so.

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SIX STEPS TO THE THRONEStep Three

Chapter five

"BURIED"

Numbers in the Word, have symbolic meanings. By understanding these meanings, you can get

a clearer view of what the Holy Spirit is revealing in a passage of scripture.

In the book of Ruth, we see that Ruth was given six measures of barley. Jesus, had six water-pots filled with water and turned them into wine, in the book of Matthew. The candlestick in Moses’ Tabernacle had one central shaft and then six branches. On the table of Shewbread, the bread was divided into two stacks of six each.

There is something important about those six things that Jesus did. The Bible says when they were bringing back the Ark of the Covenant; they went six paces, stopped, worshipped and sacrificed. When we say Six Steps to the Throne, we are just using this as a launching pad.

When you think of a throne, don’t think of a fancy chair somewhere. When we’re speaking of the throne, when we say Six Steps to the Throne, we’re not talking about a chair. Sometimes we think that God is sitting on a throne, and Jesus is sitting there with Him. The throne is inside of the individual believer – in union with.

Don’t think in the world of the spirit there is a big chair somewhere; think of a place of rest. That’s the whole idea of the throne. Jesus is ruling today from a place of rest. He is King of kings and Lord of lords because He’s come to that place where the work is finished. This is the idea and we need to understand this. Thus the reason in the Most Holy Place there was an ark with the mercy seat on it, and Psalm 99:1 says that God sits between the cherubim’s. Why, because that is the place of rest, over the shed blood, at the place of the finished work. God rests on and in His throne, which are a people. The whole message of the Word of God, is that God wants, and is going to have a man (a people), who are resting, ruling and reigning with Him, from the dimension of His throne! Genesis 1 reads, "Let us make man in our image... and let them have dominion... let them subdue." That is speaking of ruling and reigning.

The next thing we see in Genesis 2 is that He rested, because He had already finished the work. That pattern is played out all the way through scripture. Father God now has a people who are there; they have become the cherubims in the fulfillment of what that type spoke of, the Most Holy Place people, ruling and reigning with Him.

There are six steps to that throne, which speak of the six things that were revealed to Paul, that Jesus did and the six things it means to us. Doesn’t that speak of twelve? You also see a step, which has a riser and a tread. First there is the revelation of it, and then there is the walking out of that revelation. You see what Jesus did as a human, and then there is that which we reckon to be true of all in Christ. The walking out of the revelation is the natural consequence of the reckoning.


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People say, "I’ve got to make this work in my life." No! You’ve got to reckon it to be true in your life and it will work automatically. When you look in the mirror of the Word of God long enough, you will respond to what you reckon yourself to be. You don’t do anything. You find out that you are not an old man; you begin to live the life that is inside of your spirit-man, rather than living out of the power of the carnal aspects of your mind. You allow Christ to live through you and change your nature – save your soul (mind, will and emotions). That is the difference between works and rest. It’s the difference between doing it yourself and growing into it. I do believe we need to put action to the revelation of the Gospel, but our new nature will produce that. Paul said, reckon these things to be true, and then don’t yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness or weapons against yourself. The thing that the church has never done is the reckoning part; it’s the tread part of all of these six things. We just told people to “don’t do,” and “quit this and quit that,” without telling them what was true of them, which would have enabled them to live the righteous life.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Paul is referring to the condition of man before the work of redemption.

2 Cor. 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

He died for us, as us, so that the scripture records that we died. Not the "we" that we presently are, but the “we” that was in humanity before the Cross. While reading II Corinthians 5:17, you will see "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." You might ask the question, if I am a new creature (translations reveal that it is a creature that never existed before), then what happened to the person that I used to be? When you ask that question that will be the beginning of your ascension. First of all, as a new creation being, you never “used” to be anything else. Stop assuming an outward expression of a type of person who doesn’t exist any longer. You can’t be BRAND NEW and still have an OLD nature. Father did not fix the first man Adam, nor did He use any part of that old, antique, worn out DNA, to make His new man. He created a brand new man, and this time, not out of the dust of the earth. He did it with His Word (Jesus Christ the Son) and breathed into Him all that Father is, and that man is who we are today – we are the Sons of God – a many membered body. Once we believe it and let His life have full reign in this corporate body that we are; the result will be that the Church in the heavenly, The Church in the heavenly on this planet will come together and will become the whole body fitly joined together, and for ever live with Father (one with). Paul said, we should comfort one another with that fact.

What happened to the person “I used to be”? I am not both people. I’m not an old man and the new man. Then what happened? The truth is, everyone before the Cross was crucified, died, and was buried. That’s what happened. When the New Man the Christ was resurrected; BEHOLD ALL THINGS WERE NEW; the prince of the old world (the first man Adam) was cast out and done away with, and the rulers (sun, moon and stars – those who were in rule) all fell. That is the


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history of a human in Adam. That’s the truth; not the person I am today, but the fallen man that lived before Christ.

The old man Adam, could not have been crucified with Him, unless He became who the old man was. That happened; it is spoken of in John 12:32, "If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me." That is His identification moment; that’s the moment He became humanity – He became at-one-ment with Adam. That’s the moment He opened His pure lovely sinless spirit to the condition of all humanity, spiritual death entered His spirit and then to the soul. The fruition of this was total confusion of mind and then death to the body. Whatever He became on the cross was so much like humanity that God could view all humanity dying there. That must be what God saw, because He wrote that in the scripture. Adam was crucified and He died.

Now, what is the natural sequence? What’s the next phase? What’s the next step in the whole process? If humanity was crucified and if humanity really died, then what needs to happen next? You’d better bury the dead man. This is finality. Many people, when they first start understanding these truths, wonder why there is so much detail. You could say, just keep it at crucified and let’s go on. God literally puts the last nail in the coffin by revealing, that humanity was buried with Him. Go through the Old Testament and you will find over and over this principle: don’t touch a dead man, or you’re unclean. Much of the religious world has done what they did to that false god Dagon; the Ark – Jesus – was placed in its midst and it fell down; then they lifted it back up. The next day it fell again, and this time it’s members were cut off and actually wasted away; but the translators added to the text, to fit their religious beliefs that “only the stump of it was left.” There was nothing left of Adam, and we are not to touch or deal with that dead man. We are to feed on how that took place, and on who we are in the Father today –quit trying to fix a dead man, you’ll perish dealing with “dead” men.

What are you supposed to do? You’re supposed to put the dead man in the tomb or the grave and bury him. Don’t touch the dead man; this is what has produced the uncleanness in the body of Christ, because we constantly touch that dead man; we have fought what we thought to be a “devil” or “the residue of Adam;” family neither one exist; they are the product of traditional and religious teachings. In the soul it is a constant digging up of a dead man and burying him again. "What are you doing with that thing?" "Well, this is my old man." In the soul we are digging up that stinking grave, bringing it to church with us and saying, "Teach us what to do with this." First of all, there is nothing there to dig up; let that go. You need to realize that when something is buried the way Father God buries it, it no longer exist. There is no place to go dig up even the bones or any DNA of it; it’s not! God help us to solidify that in our own thinking.

Since we are in union with Christ right now, His history is our his-story. 1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. So also is Christ. Thank God for the courage of the apostle Paul. Thank God for the power of the Holy Spirit who inspired Paul to write, "So also is Christ." This is Christ. He did not say, "So also is the body of Christ." I would have just been so tempted to put "the body of Christ." He said, "So also is Christ." The many bodies of Christ – believers - are Christ the anointed ones in the earth today – we are no longer separate


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from Father God. Just like my body with all its members is Roy, so also is Christ. If we are a member of that body, then we are of Christ, the Sons of God. Is that too difficult? We are in union with Christ in terms of His life and His nature.

Now let’s look at a proof scripture.

Romans 6:1 what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized (not water baptism) into Jesus Christ were baptized (Father’s Holy Spirit placed in us at our born again experience) into his death? 4 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.

We just talked about "baptized into Him" in I Corinthians 12; don’t look at water when you think about that. Don’t think about water baptism; think about your spirit being baptized in Jesus redemptive work; the death side and the life side. The water baptism is just a physical picture of the Spirit baptism; it’s a teaching tool, and it is commanded of Jesus, to go ahead and do it, just like communion. When you opened yourself up to the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, Father placed His Holy Spirit into your spirit-man – baptized you into all that He is. If I could take the life of God and it be in the form of water, and put it in a tub, and dunk you in it; do you not think that His life would swallow you up? I believe it would, and that’s exactly what happened when you got born again; His life was placed in your spirit-man and it gave you His life in your spirit, and as you allow the Holy Spirit of God to feed you, then that life is released to your mind, will and emotions, to swallow up the last enemy, which is all aspects of the carnal mind that produces mortality.

Notice the progression here.

Because of the fact of who humanity was before salvation, all humanity was placed into His death; all were buried with Him by baptism into that death. The reason we don’t teach that we need a death, is because the death that was due all in Adam has already taken place; what we do now, is a revelation of the death of all, in the work of Jesus’ three days and three nights of redemption. "Like as", means that this is the only way that what he is about to say can happen. The whole purpose is that newness of life would manifest in our whole being; the only way to get that, is to allow the Holy Spirit to feed us truth, until our spirit-man grows up and becomes the man of the house (know ye not that you are the house of God); there is a husband (spirit) and there is a wife (the soul); the soul needs to be quite and let the born again mature husband do the talking.

So, humanity was placed into Jesus, which means an incorporation into His death, and since that includes crucifixion (that’s where He died), since all were in His death, all must have been involved in the burial. This teaching itself is not going to change you. It is the revelation of it; you’ve got to allow the Holy Spirit to open your spiritual eyes and ears. I’m not talking about physically; it’s got to be a spiritual revelation. Once you see the old man (Adam) dead, you will never be able to hear some of this false stuff that’s going around. It no longer makes any sense to you.


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If you ever experience the cross, it is difficult, even impossible, to doubt it. Once you’ve taken the Gos-pill you can’t go back to that old religious, traditional teaching. When God reveals something to you, it is revealed! You can’t teach someone a revelation. We can’t give you that revelation. We can’t reveal it to you; we can just expose you to it. Part of the problem, is that most people get their revelation from other people (there is only one revelation), and they’re just that; someone else’s revelation. But, if God reveals the revelation He gave Paul and John to you, it will become a driving force in your life. What I know is an eternal thing. It happened before the foundation of the world.

I believe that when I got into Christ, I got into the predestined one. I believe His-story is my story; and I believe His present, praise God is mine! That is predestination; all the predestination scriptures are involved with being in Him. If you live out of the power of a carnal mind, then you have death at work in you; but if you live out of the spiritual mind of the Holy Spirit in you, then you will have life and peace. If you are in Christ (Father God), you have His history and you have His life, now. There are only two type of people in the world – your either born again and have been made alive with the life of Father’s Holy Spirit, or you have not been born again, and you are still in Him but you have no life – it has to be willing received. He will not force you because love demands a choice. In the Old Testament, Father God told the children of Israel, “I lay before you life or death, please choose life.” In the New Testament, Father, through Son said, “The thief (law – the flesh) kills (your spirit), steals (your soul) and destroys (your body) but I am come to bring life and life more abundantly. What will you chose my friend, life or death; I pray you choose life, now!

Colossians 2:11 in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Humanity was buried with him. That is simply saying, since humanity was buried with him, then the new creation beings, that believers are, were raised with Him also. It’s the natural consequence. If the old man, Adam, was crucified, then the natural sequence of that is, when He died, the (old man) died; and the (old man) was buried, because He was buried.

Now let’s picture it.

Matthew 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulcher.

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adding." Take these verses and add your name to where it says Joseph. Here is a man, who was a disciple, who had hewn out of a rock, a place to bury himself. He was a rich man. Since they didn’t have jack hammers in those days, how long do you think it took for a man to chip out a piece at a time, out of a rock to make a place to bury him self? It must have taken a great amount of his time. People would say, "What are you doing, Joseph?" He’d say, "I’m just going to bury myself there. I’m working at the process of burial."

So, he finally gets it finished; he finally works on it long enough to build a place of burial. Who’s he planning on putting in it? Him self! Then he heard of the death of Jesus; and he took the body of Jesus and put it in that tomb that he had worked all that time on for himself. He buried Jesus in his own burial place and rolled the stone over that tomb, and then he departed. That is a picture of what every one of us must do. We’ve got to see Jesus’ body as humanity buried in the tomb that was reserved for all in the first man Adam; the old man’s tomb. As we roll that great stone over it and seal it up, we can say, "Thank God, that’s over with."

Look at it spiritually now. Joseph had been working all his life to produce a place to bury himself. Now what’s he going to do about his own death? Well, it’s over. You have no need to bury the person you are today because you are the Son of God with His Holy Spirit, in you; you are the new man. I’m not going to get into that physically, but I want you to see spiritually what I’m sharing here. Let’s look at a picture of what we’re doing today by reading from Ezekiel chapter 43.

Ezekiel 43:10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

This chapter is a picture of the glory coming to the house; it’s a picture of the finished work and of a throne in the midst of the house. The throne is a place of rest. "Show the house, the house." What we need to see is a revelation of the house. Have you ever been ashamed of the things you’ve done since you made Jesus Christ Lord? Everybody would say yes. It is amazing; when people begin to understand the cross, when they see Christ, it produces an understanding of their condition. I think of the Shulamite woman in the Song of Solomon; when she saw the king, she said, "He is white, and I am black." It has nothing to do with race, it’s a condition.

Isaiah chapter 6, records that Isaiah saw the Lord sitting on the throne, high and lifted up, what he saw made him realize that he was a man of unclean lips; he had spent his whole ministry, before seeing the Lord and His redemptive work, speaking Woe, Woe, Woe upon the earth and the inhabitants of the earth; but once He saw Father’s redemptive plan He was a prophet that spoke of the Holy Things of Father God. We say we want to see Jesus, and when we see Him, it’s like it reflects back on us. We think, "If I’m in union with Him, then why this iniquity? The Bible says we will be ashamed of our iniquities. If you see Christ, you will be ashamed of your iniquity. The grace of God teaches you to deny ungodliness. We can’t teach you to deny


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ungodliness. How do you bring a person to the place that they can deny ungodliness, by revealing grace. If grace teaches us, then you don’t have to teach, to deny ungodliness, you teach grace. It just brings a conviction and a spiritual awakening in your life and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ enables us and changes our nature to where we live the ascension life that we have presently.

Let them measure the pattern. Who is the pattern, Jesus Chris is. Notice that verse 11, says "the goings out thereof" and "the comings in thereof." If you are part of the house and you are ashamed of your sins (unbelief), the first thing you have to do, is to see the "goings out" of the house. What has gone out of the house – they are not in the first man Adam any longer? That is the "goings out thereof" and the "comings in thereof." The forms thereof would be the many forms that Jesus took; He is the head of the house. He took on the form of a servant; He took on the form, of the old man; He took on the form of what the force of sin had produced in humanity. Look at this characteristic of a soldier; remember you’re a soldier of the Most High God; you’re part of the army.

Deuteronomy 23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: (He’s talking about going to what we call the toilette) 14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

Notice that is says a paddle upon your weapon. The Bible is a weapon, the Sword of the Spirit. There is a paddle attached to the weapon to bury what comes out of thee. Is that plain enough? Spiritually speaking, there is something that has come out of you – you no longer have the useless, warn out, antique humanity in you. It’s over. Bury the past. In the army, you never go to war without a paddle.

Deuteronomy 22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

An ox is one of the natures of Christ. It means sacrifice. I want to be a living sacrifice, but you can’t plow with an ox and an ass together. The Bible says that Ishmael was as a wild ass. This speaks of the untamed nature that was placed in humanity by the fall of Adam.

Jeremiah 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

This is all they did; they didn’t bury this creature; they just separated him and took him outside and threw him outside the camp. They had no burial. The reason that the Ishmael past still exists, is believers still think they are Adam and Christ. They just carry in their understanding, a dead man around with them and he stinketh. He doesn’t have a burial; he just exists. He’s never put away forever in their mindset.


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John 20: 1 THE first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher. 2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid him. 3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulcher. 4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. 5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. 6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes lie. 7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

This is the same sepulcher in which the old man was buried. The stone was rolled away and Peter walked in there, and he saw the body cloth lying in one place and the head cloth lying in another. The cloth that covered the head was neatly folded up and set aside, and the body cloth separate; it hadn’t been placed with the head cloth. This cloth once covered the dead body of Jesus, but Jesus Christ, the new man, was alive now. Jesus folded up the head cloth, because the work of the head was finished. There is still something left for the body to do; identify with Him and put the clothes of the dead man in the tomb where they belong. Don’t wear the old coat any more; we’ve put on a new coat of righteousness, which is the very glory of the life of our Father. What we are teaching here, is to be so bold as to go over there and fold that body cloth up and lay it with the head cloth; agreeing with our union with Jesus Christ. There is still something yet to be done. God desires a people so bold, as to go fold the body cloth. "Let’s go wrap it up and put it over there with the head." We are being asked to do that same thing. We’re coming to the place where Peter was, and we’re being asked, "What is that cloth for?" That cloth covered all humanity in Jesus. I know that there will be people who are bold enough just to wrap it up. We may do it with fear and trembling, but we will do it. Because of wrong teaching, it is very difficult for God’s children to agree that they are one with Father God, and that they are Christ the body, the Sons of God just as much as the first man Adam was and just as much as Jesus was in His earth walk.

Why is that so important, because it is one thing to realize that our sins are forgiven, but another thing to realize the person who had the hand writing of ordnances against them, has been done way with and no longer exists. You are not who religion says you are; you are who and what the Bible records that you are.

Psalm 99:1 THE Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubim’s; let the earth be moved.

Where does God sit? Where is His resting place? Where is His throne? His throne is between the cherubims. I’m not talking about some physical chair; I’m talking about a place in God where you can actually live out your destiny as manifesting the very nature and likeness of Jesus Christ.

Exodus 25: 17 and thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 18 And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.


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19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of themercy seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof.

Notice these cherubims were made of the mercy seat; they were part of the mercy seat. They were "in union," as it were, with the mercy seat. This is not speaking of angels; not as we have heard angels spoken of. The word angel just means messenger; it could be man, or it could be a celestial being of some kind, but not here, because these creatures were in union with the mercy seat.

1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

These cherubims speak of people who come to rest, where Father God rests, over the mercy seat; they are people in union with Him. Those in union with Him are to enter into a place of resting there. God dwells between or in the cherubims. At the end of the book, the Bible says, He is in the midst of His people. The blood of the atoning sacrifice is right there in the midst of it all; that’s the death.

Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,

The word propitiation, is the same Greek word translated "Mercy Seat" in

Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. We can speak of it now, because we are those who are alive and remain at the coming (not just in spirit, but in soul and body) of the Lord in His people.

What He was saying, is that Jesus is the mercy seat? That mercy seat pictured Jesus and His redemptive work, what He did.

Exodus 26:1 MOREOVER thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.

There were four layers of this covering. The first layer was a linen cloth that was embroidered with cherubims. You could be so engrossed with these furnishings; you could look over to the left and look over to the right but the Bible says that we ought to seek those things which are above. Where were the cherubims? They were embroidered in this white linen cloth; they were placed on the ceiling so that in that dimension, when you walked in there and looked up, you saw the cherubims. Can you see that in looking up, you envision your destiny, because between the cherubims is where God rested. Let me show you how this applies to the New Testament. You cannot interpret, or properly understand the New Testament, until you understand the Old, because it was written from that perspective.

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on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

We’re talking about the resurrection, or the quickening. How does this verse apply to us? Did you ever read that scripture and wonder what are the "things which are above?" First of all, He’s not talking about a natural direction. You get the idea that if you’re a Christian; you need to be looking up constantly. He is not talking direction, but dimension; looking to a higher realm. That’s exactly what you would have done if you were in the Holy Place some 3500 years ago. If you were a priest and you looked up in the natural, what did you see? You saw a picture of the cherubims embroidered on the ceiling. It is all a picture of your destiny.

Notice in verse 2, you are to set your mind on those things you renew your mind to these truths, by feeding your spirit-man, and with everything you’re worth, go for the rest, which is behind the veil. Set your affections on those things, not the things of this earth. We can get caught up in all kinds of things. We think, "If I’m a Christian, I ought to be doing this and this and this." Don’t think that way, set your affections on things above. We are not talking about dreaming about what heaven is going to be like, with a beautiful “physical mansion” and a harp with your name engraved on it. We’re talking about the spiritual Most Holy Place that you are, and you can take this thought and say, "Hey, priest, look up, seek those things." What things? "Those things embroidered in that linen, the cherubim; seek those." Seek that place in God. Seek the revelation of being in union with the mercy seat in your understanding.

Those verses say that the first man Adam is dead, and now our life is hid with Christ, in God. When Christ, who is our life shall appear, His life will be our life – that’s when Father’s Holy Spirit came in you, and you can see it, speak of it and live out of His life. Then shall we also appear with Him behind that veil in glory. The glory (appearing) was behind the veil. We need Father God to deliver us from being so carnal minded. Many today are living in a Disneyland attitude about life, with just fun and games, and there is a spiritual dimension that is opening up through the Word of God, that can change your life; yet most reject it, or are missing out on abundant life, because they think there is nothing more than born again or spirit-filled and functioning only in the gifts that came through their pentcoastal experience. They have no idea what Tabernacle is, which is growing up spiritually into all that we are in Him, by taking this second look at the work of redemption.

Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Mens hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud (Father’s Holy Spirit coming back INTO man; not just with man) with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

Please hear what this says. One of the signs of the times is that men’s spirits (the hearts of men) will fail them because of fear. It says, "For looking after those things which are coming on the earth." It doesn’t say that those things touched them; it just says they were looking at them. They set their affections upon the things of the earth. They set their minds upon the things of the earth.


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That’s what that word in the Greek means; ‘affection’ means mind. You can be looking at the wrong things in this dimension, and your heart (spirit-man) will fail you by not growing up into Him in all things. We’ve got to be so cautious, because Father God is not playing games. We must take the passion of Christ seriously! We’re well past the end of that 2000 year period of time, and Jesus said, men’s hearts will fail them, not because these things come on them, but because they are looking at the wrong things.

Both of the cherubims were looking at the blood on the mercy seat. God is looking at the blood. The problem is much of the Church is looking at the things of this earth, and not the things of Father’s redemptive work. We’re looking at our actions, at those things that are on the earth. These truths are eternal truths. They are life changing; they are life producing. We need to understand our covering. It’s a pitiful thing to be born-again; spirit filled, and still totally robbed of any victory in ones life. Well, look up! You see those cherubims. That is the throne; that is what we’re looking for. When you study about the six steps to the throne, you are looking up. You may look at me in the natural, but you’re looking up in the spirit.

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Step Four

Chapter SixQUICKENED

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We’ve gleaned from the first three steps now – we know that the first man Adam, (in the fallen state) – the arch (first in power) enemy of Father God’s purpose, has been judged guilty and is gone; this is the fourth step, and it’s the position of man after the work of redemption. We have covered being crucified with, died with, and being buried with Jesus. First we will proclaim from the scriptures that born again people have been quickened, or made alive, with Christ. We’re going to do it by using two scriptures.

I Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us (you) to God, being put to death in the flesh (in the first man Adam), but quickened by the (in the) Spirit (Father’s Holy Spirit in the New Man that came out of the tomb).

Where the King James says by the Spirit, actually, the Greek says in the Spirit. When it says “being put to death in the flesh,” that word in is the same Greek word that is translated “but quickened by the Spirit.” It has to be translated “but put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the Spirit.” That second one doesn’t make any sense at all. But “quickened in the Spirit” – Jesus Christ the new man was quickened. The word quickened, is just an old English word that means “made alive.” Jesus the new man was made alive; He was “given life.”

Why did Jesus have to have life given to Him? Because He obediently identified with the death that was lodged in humanities spirit, soul and body; He took on Himself, the death that was lodged deep within all humanity and His spirit died. It wasn’t just a game; it wasn’t just “Let’s pretend that I died.” He took upon Himself the death, released from the fall of Adam. If a New Creation being is going to come out of that grave, He’s going to have to have some kind of life given to Him. The Bible says He was quickened, or made alive in spirit.

This again is the sequence: if you get the crucifixion down right, and you understand how fallen man was crucified with Him, then the natural consequence of that, is that Adam (humanity) died in Him. If the old man died, then the old man was buried. If Jesus (After He became humanity) was buried, then He took all humanity into the tomb, then did He come out with humanity, when He came out of the tomb? No, He took the old man into the tomb; Father brought the New Man that He created with His Word, out of the tomb. When you accepted Jesus as your Saviour, your spirit-man was given Father’s life, and now you are flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone; believers are now one with the Father in spirit, and are being made one in soul (as they come to know and understand the operation of God and put their faith in His perfect work) and will be one in body. We are no longer human, but new creation beings.

Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you (Who


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man was in Adam), being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

The quickened together, becomes experientially true of us, when we accept Christ as our Saviour. Verse 12, states faith is in the operation of God; it is faith in what God did. Real faith is in the operation of God, in the redemptive work that was wrought in Christ. You can have faith in your faith; faith in that fact that you’re going to be healed some day; faith that it’s all going to work out someday; faith in your Church; faith in your denomination; but being made alive in your spirit, soul and body only take place, when one puts their faith in the operation of God, and one cannot do that until they allow Father’s Holy Spirit to show them the things (Gospel) of Jesus’ redemption work – CDBQRS. With His help, you can see every picture in the Old Testament that helps us understand the spiritual truths of His redemptive work.

We read in I Peter 3:18, that He was quickened; you were quickened together with Him. Most of the time people read Colossians 2:13 and it would be real easy for some to skip over it and say, “That’s what happened when I was born again; that’s when I was forgiven.” No, you were forgiven of your sins when Jesus took the penalty for sin upon Himself as humanity. It reads, “Having forgiven.” All manner of sin was totally paid for, forgiven, before Jesus was ever given life to, because it says, “quickened together with Him, having forgiven you.” God says in Isaiah 53, “I saw the travail of his (all of humanity in Him) soul, and I was satisfied.” From that day forth God could never hold anything against any man, because the price had already been paid. There is only one sin that keeps a person from drawing from the presence of God in them, and that is the sin of not believing, intimately knowing Father God and He whom He sent – Jesus the Son – and now Christ the anointed body – the Sons of God who are filled with Father’s Holy Spirit. So, the quickening process becomes experiential as we put more and more of our faith in Him. We are changed by seeing Him more and more, and at every twinkling of an eye experience – that is when your illuminated to a particular aspect of His work - there are so many of those, John said, that if books were written of His work, this planet could not hold them.

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 (Father’s Holy Spirit) will not come unto (actually this word ‘unto’ is in) you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince (the first man Adam and all who were in him) of this world is judged. God is the King of the Universes, and He made the first man Adam, prince over Planet Earth – he was to rule and reign and take dominion in the place of the King, as the King. It is written that Father God is King of kings and Lord of lords. We are the kings and lords of this earth – we have a God given right to rule, reign and take dominion – you need to believe this my friend!

All manner of sin has been dealt with. John said, “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin (singular) of the world.” Notice in verse 8, Jesus said, “Reprove the world of sin.” Sin –singular; what sin, not believing in Jesus who died as humanity; not believing in Father’s operation of redemption and not believing that you or we are the body – not discerning these truths. To convince man of these truths is the Primary Purpose of Father’s Holy Spirit coming into man; see our book on “The Primary Purpose of the Holy Spirit.” It all


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revolves around the redemptive work of Jesus. He will reprove the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Jesus said exactly when that happened; in John 12:31 He said, “Now is the prince of this world judged and now is he (Adam) cast out.” When Jesus, as humanity, was crucified, the prince of this world was judged; the first Adam in their fallen state.

Acts 13: 32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art Son, this day have I begotten thee.

In this scripture, we want you to see the quickening of Christ, the last Adam, and all in Him. God hath fulfilled the same. What same; the promise made unto the fathers? Something in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead fulfilled all the promises of the Father. Jesus became our “promise land” when He was raised.

Jeremiah 1:11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

The almond tree was the very first tree to bud in the spring. It is called “the hastener.” It speaks of Jesus. Remember that the golden candlestick was a picture of an almond tree; it speaks of resurrection. Everything the Word declares about us happened or became true when that almond plant came forth, and when all were placed in Him (Jesus as the almond branch). Everything that is true of us is because we are one with Father God.

I will boldly declare that I am who Father says I am, and I rule and reign over this planet as Him and you do to. We are the prince of this world now, and He is our Father, the King of kings and Lord of lords. If we don’t believe this now, then when are we going to? Are we just going to die off and wait for another generation to believe what Father’s Holy Spirit is revealing to us? The problem you’ll experience when you become bold as to stand up and declare what the Word says, is that there are many brethren who will stand against you and say you are teaching false doctrine, because if they can’t see it, then they think it’s not true. Pastor Gary Garner made a statement several years ago, that the enemy of what Father is doing today, are those who are stuck in what He said or did yesterday. I’m glad Abraham didn’t close His ears off to the present voice of God, when Father told him NOT to kill Isaac. The day before He told him to offer him up as a sacrifice, and then He told him not to kill him. Family, His ways and His Word is an ever increasing revelation; please don’t get stuck in what you knew last year or even yesterday –follow the Holy Spirit to where He wants to take you today.

1 Peter 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, (that does not say, reserved for later in the sweet by and by; it says FOR YOU – you are the abode of God - heaven) 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.


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“Us” would mean all of us reading this. “Begotten” means having had life given to you. You were fathered; God fathered us again unto a lively hope. How did He become our Father; how did God give life unto me from Himself? What does eternal life mean? Where did you get it? Father gave you life, by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. The life that you have is life that God gave you through raising Jesus from the dead, and it is a quality of life, which is Father God’s life. You do not have anything but His life in your spirit; it is His life. You can’t be in His body and have a different kind of life. God gave you your nature, your life, by raising Jesus from the dead. What God made Jesus to be, is everything He wanted all of the body to be, because we are in Him and of Him and Him living on this planet.

What God made Adam to be in the beginning, was what He wanted everybody to be. But before Adam could reproduce what he was, he became something else, and he produced what humanity had become. (See Ezekiel 28) So, God had to make another Adam, the last Adam, Jesus, and we who have been made alive are Christ – anointed ones – kings and lords of this earth and priests. Priests serve Father God first and then mankind.

When did He do that? After He had paid the total price for removing the first, then God imparted Life to the second; the last Adam. “Again”, just like at the beginning, God said, “Let’s put wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption, all the treasurers of wisdom and knowledge in him. He said, let’s make Him complete.” When God raised the last Adam up with life, and you accepted what God did, you were engrafted into the last Adam – you became all that He is. Every believer must understand God’s one man plan. You are either dead in Him or alive in the resurrected Adam (Christ) – the Son of God. There have never been two men; there is only one. When Father’s Holy Spirit comes into a person at their born again experience, then everything that is true of Him becomes true of that person. When he or she continues to live without Father’s life, or even is born again and does not receive from Father’s life, the death from being carnally minded does its job in the soul and body until physical death takes them out of this natural realm; that’s not that way to go to heaven or experience His life.

1 Peter 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

His resurrection was our inheritance; “Reserved in heaven for you.” Not “from you,” but “for you.” So look up; you are seated together with Him, and He is in you; so what is reserved for you, is in you – Father’s Holy Spirit. “In the last time”, is the day an individual person finally opens up to all whom Father is, inside of them. Every one needs to experience their own last time. The phrase last time is when a person comes to the end of their soulish life and lives out of the life of God in their spirit-man. I think one just finally has to get sick of a life of carnality –some never do and just ends up dying in their body.

We always want to dwell in safe territory where others have trodden. We want to stay on this side of the Jordan; after all, that other way is a way that no man has gone before. But in the day that we are in, God is demanding that a people go further. It is ready to be revealed in the last days. What is; a salvation? Where, from the resurrection of Christ from the dead? That is our destiny, and it started with our quickening – being made alive in spirit and to the logo’s of God.


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Jesus’ resurrection was a two-fold thing: He was quickened and then raised. He was made alive before He ever came out of that tomb physically raised.

Ephesians 2: 1 AND you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: The children of disobedience are those who have not come to the saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. They are still living, moving and having their being out of the carnal realm, which is the same thinking that caused the first-man Adam to fall. He took His eyes off of His Father, and began to admire the works of what he thought was from his own hands. They are people who try to come up with their own knowledge and wisdom – and not that of Father God.

Let’s look at a few verses concerning the wisdom of man.

Eccl 8:1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. 2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. 3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.1 Cor 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Back to Ephesians 2: Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with


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Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly in Christ Jesus:

Did you think about the time you were born again, when you read this scripture? That is what most Christians do. He has just told us in Ephesians chapter 2, that we need the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, so he is talking about Jesus and His redemptive work. In verse 5 “When humanity was dead in sins, hath quickened us”- I wonder if the “us” and the “we” could be the same in that verse; yes they are. The we in Christ and the us in Christ are the same. Now, here is the thing: it says “quickened us together with Christ.” What does the word quicken mean? It means made alive. Be made alive in Christ, became a reality for me, when I opened myself up to Him; but it actually took place when He was made alive. Verse 6 says “and made us sit (joined as one – married) together” between those cherubims. He took you there. That is the reason that you are supposed to look at them – you’re married to Him – one with.

2 Kings 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest (between is not in the original Hebrew) the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

1 Chronicles 13:6 – the word between was added to it and it’s not there either.

1 Chronicles 13:6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth the cherubims, whose name is called on it.Ps 99:1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth (between was added by the translators) the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

OT:3427 Sitteth - yashab (yaw-shab'); a primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry:(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

Commentaries records that the light lit this up, the light lit that up; but if you read it yourself, you will see that the light lit up the cherubims. You couldn’t see them without that light. Once you see it, you will always know that it is your destiny. He says, “I have taken you there with me. See, those Cherubims; that’s you.” It is the vision of who you are in Him. Raised and made to sit together with Him in heavenly (the original language did not say places). Father’s Holy Spirit and you are to be in a position of rest (married), inside of you, for you are the abodes of God –heaven. Heaven is a spiritual place, but you are also a spirit, so, He lives in your spirit, and wants to live in your soul and in your body.

This is all one beautiful message about a loving heavenly Father who loves you so much. Somebody says, “Two thousand years ago Jesus died for us.” Well, He did, but for us, as humanity; the Bible says in Revelation 13:8, He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Before you ever thought about messing up, God dealt with the mess up. That’s the reason no one is ever going to say, “Lord, you know me. I’m the one who tried real hard and I made it. I had some problems, but I made it.” It was consummated before you were ever born.


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God is maturing a Melchizedek priesthood in this last day to feed the body and the blood of Jesus to a people out there who has said, “Man, it ain’t working.” I see a desperate, despondent body of Christ out there that is just hanging on for “fire insurance.” They don’t want to go to what they think to be hell. They’re willing to put up with this hell just so they don’t have to go where they have been taught as an “eternal one”. But there is something more than that available. Look up. Look up.

Now let’s close by looking at a picture of this fact in the book of Isaiah.

Isaiah 26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. 16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

The nation spoken of here is the people of God (1 Peter 2). In verse 17, the woman with child, is the church, the bride. Near her time - that’s today. We have been with child - the nature of Jesus. We have been in pain; we have as it were, brought forth wind; that’s the doctrines, every wind of doctrine. That is basically all that the church has produced in the 2,000 year period, called the Church age; every wind of doctrine. We hear a lot about what the church is doing, but the world has not yet seen a manifestation of Christ in His fullness.

Verse 19, is the key. Thy dead men shall live; together with my dead body shall they arise. That is something that happened over 2000 years ago. But here is what needs to happen, today; we need to wake up and quit dwelling in the fleshy, carnal realm. “The earth shall cast out the dead”; this speaks of the resurrection. There is a direct correlation between “thy dead men shall live’ and, “together with my dead body”. We want to do it separately; we want to do it two thousand years later. There is no shortage for books written with men’s wisdom, as to how to make dead men live! They won’t work family – they are just new renditions of old writings that have been around for thousands of years – it’s called humanism.

But the news for today is it’s together with Him. What I think we need to do when we read the Bible is to quit looking at it as many men. Today we only see one man, the last Adam, the Sons of God – the Anointed Cherubims. It’s all about Him and when you got born again, everything that is said of Him is said of you. Think of yourself as one with Him and not separate or different; Christ is all and in you all…..

Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

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RaisedUnless noted, all Scripture references are King James – emphases mine.

___________________________________________________1 Kings 10: 18 Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. 19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

This king was Solomon; he had a kingdom that best typify what the kingdom of God is symbolized as in the scriptures. The war was over; David, his predecessor, had defeated all the enemies, and Solomon was just enjoying the spoils of victory that David had wrought. Just like this Kingdom that we are enjoying spiritually - our King Jesus defeated the arch enemy (the effects of Adam’s fall) and that defeat produces all that we are enjoying; we are to enjoy all of what He has produced. This Kingdom (righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost) is to be growing in and upon every believer. We have this expressed symbolically by Solomon’s kingdom. Here we have a picture of Solomon’s throne. In Revelation 3:20 & 21, we are told, if we will sit down at the table and feast on Him, we will then be able to share His throne. We wrote in the previous chapter, about this being a picture of how we get to the revelation of us being the throne of Father God, and how we enjoy this ruling and reigning with Him.

Notice in verse 18, how do you get a throne of ivory? Do you see death involved with that? The only way you can get ivory, is from the death of an elephant. So this whole throne is produced by death, and we know that speaks of the Lord’s work to do away with fallen Adam (humanity). When one reads the words “six steps”, they understand that what we perceive the steps to speak of are the six redemptive steps that were revealed by the Apostle Paul in his epistles, of which Jesus wrought for us in His redemptive work. Those six steps are, crucified, died, buried, quickened, raised and seated. Those are the six steps to the throne. These get you to the throne. These picture the ever-increasing ascension life that we are growing into. We are already one with Him in the throne that we are; we are already seated together with Him in heavenly. Sometimes those steps are numbered, as twelve steps. Why, because each step has a riser and a tread. Christ was crucified; all were crucified with Him. The riser would be His crucifixion; the tread would be “crucified with”; that’s walking out of what was done. Six steps to the throne. We need a supernatural revelation of each and every one of these principles.

In this lesson, we are going to look at being raised together with Him. He was not only crucified; He not only died and was buried; He was quickened and then raised. Quickening and rising are two different things. Quickened, is given life to, it is the impartation of life; but He was raised after the life was given to Him. In like manner, even though life has been given to mankind, they are not raised until they put their faith in the operation of Father God. Buried with him in


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baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. Colossians 2:12

Let’s take a look at several places where the Bible says we were raised together with Him.

Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

When was Christ raised? He was raised on the morning of the third day, over two thousand years ago in the realm of time. Because of His rising up and being the head of the new race of mankind that we are, everyone has resurrection life available to them.

Ephesians 1: 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

… who believe - NT: 4100 pisteuo (pist-yoo'-o); to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ): KJV - believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with. 1

NT: 4102 pistis (pis'-tis); persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:

20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.

Notice, that the power that is “to us-ward who believe” is resurrection power. It is that same power with which Christ was raised from the dead. We were raised; resurrection life is ours because we were raised with Him, and it’s released to a person when and while they believe – we are changed from appearing to appearing of Christ within us – we must know what to believe, in whom to believe and then believe to the salvation of the soul and the body.

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved ;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly (rest – spiritual – abode of God – superimposition) in Christ Jesus:

We were raised with Christ. It is not difficult to teach what it means to be crucified with Christ. It is not difficult to teach what it means to be dead or buried. That is the doing away with the old. We don’t have a problem teaching “quickened together,” because that’s the impartation of life, and you and I have the same kind of life that He has. But you can see a problem; there is

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more to resurrection than just teaching that we came out of the tomb with Him, because Jesus’ body was different when He was raised, than when He went into that tomb – He had become a brand new creation man – He was completely one with Father God - spirit, soul and body, and He was the head of a new race of mankind. We want to deal with that now. The book of Revelation states that Jesus is the creation of God. Now there will be no more failures, we are living in the realm of eternity now, and the only thing left is for man to wake up. We are not like the first man – made from the dust – we are made from the heavenly man Jesus – He was not of Adam in His earth walk.

Let me continue with this thought of resurrection. We’re talking about “raised together with Him.” Let me first show you that the resurrected Christ is, in fact, our “Promise Land,” and it is who we are now by virtue of our union with Father God. We need to see that. The children of Israel wandered through the wilderness forty years on their way to the promise land. To them that was a natural land in a physical country. But we do not inherit some piece of property over in the Middle East, nor is our inheritance some geographical location somewhere a billion miles from here. Our inheritance, is the fullness of the raised Christ within us; the manifestation of the Sons of God who are filled with Father’s Holy Spirit.

Acts 13:32 and we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

Notice what he said: the promise (singular) made to the fathers (plural) was fulfilled in that He raised Christ from the dead. The “raised Christ” is the fulfillment of the promise. Everything in the Old Testament was physically typical of what Jesus was when He was raised from the dead. The promise to the fathers is that God would redeem man back to himself, and that He would have a man (many membered) on planet earth again, walking in the spirit realm with Him and in Him, but also in a redeemed body walking on planet earth, and ruling and reigning on earth as the Prince of this earth, with Father as their King.

You and I today, are not in union with the earth-walking Jesus. We sometimes try to identify with Him, but that is not who we are in union with – He gave up who He was in the Father, and became the fallen man Adam – he no longer exist. The earth-walking Jesus was doing what He did as a man, identifying with humanity, so much so that He became human, in order that He might go to the cross as a human. He then became all that humanity (fallen man) had become, and died.

Then God made a brand new creation man, and quickened Him and He was raised from that realm of death into eternal life – Christ the last Adam, and all those who are in Him today have eternal life in their spirits. The man, who went into the tomb, was not the same man who came out of the tomb. Jesus had become humanity by the time He went into the tomb; the person he had become did not come out of the tomb.

Father God made this new man Christ, the last Adam, to be unto us righteousness, sanctification, redemption and wisdom. (1 Corinthians 1:30) The Christ became the last Adam (Adam means


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man) in His resurrection. God, made a brand new head of a whole new race of beings called “the new creation man.” “New creation” means that Christ, the new man, was the beginning. Christ Jesus became the head of his body when He was raised from the dead, and He ascended back into the Father and the great cloud of witnesses, and then descended on the day of Pentecost back into man – making all things new. It is a brand new creation that you and I are involved in. When that man was raised, praise God that was a new creation man. “This day have I begotten thee” Hebrews chapter 1 says. “This day have I given life to thee.” That is so vitally important to understand. Romans 1:4 said that God declared this to be His son by the resurrection of the dead. “This is my son; this day have I begotten thee. This is the firstborn from among the dead,” not the firstborn of the dead. He came out from among the dead. He left the dead there and came out from among them, as the head of a whole new race of people, a new kind of people. The resurrected Man is our promised land. Praise God!

1 Peter 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

He has given life to us by the resurrection of Christ from the dead. How did God give life to us, by the resurrection of Christ the new man, from the dead? When you were born again, by receiving Father’s Holy Spirit into your spirit, is not when the life that you received, originated. God did not give you a separate life; He placed you in the One and Him in you. We are now distributors of life. You became in-Christed; you got His life because you are in Him and Him in you. You don’t get another birth; it’s the same birth. When God was raising the last Adam from the dead, God was giving life to all, in Him. He is the Vine and we, the Sons of God, are the Branches. It is the same kind of life that flows through us. It is resurrection life.

We read in verse 4, that we were begotten to an inheritance. He’s saying that our inheritance is that resurrected Christ; he is our inheritance. We are growing up into the manifestation of that resurrected Christ; that is where we are headed. That is what we are maturing and growing up into. You must understand first of all, that you are comprised of an inner man and an outer man; our inner man is the hidden man of the heart, which is our spirit, filled with His Holy Spirit. Our outer man is the soul and the body that has not yet been saved – renewed but is presently being saved from glory to glory.

II Corinthian 4:16b though our outward man perish, our inward man is renewed day by day.

Let’s look at the word ‘perish’ as it is used in the above verse: The Greek NT: 1311 word is -diaphtheiro (dee-af-thi'-ro); from NT: 1225 and NT: 5351; to rot thoroughly, i.e. (by implication) to ruin (passively, decay utterly, figuratively, pervert): KJV - corrupt, destroy, perish.The root Greek word for ‘diaphtheiro’ is NT: 1225 diaballo (dee-ab-al'-lo); (figuratively) to traduce: KJV - accuse.


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When a person looks at their outward (soul and body) it’s always traducing or accusing you –look at how old your getting or how your mind thinks bad things. Those are all “devil” (not a real “devil” – accusing thoughts). We must not identify with the thoughts of the natural man or what we see with our natural eyes.

I Peter 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of a great price.

Jesus, when He was raised from the dead (fallen humanity), had another kind of body, a resurrection body. It is obvious from scripture.

John 20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the fist day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

The doors were shut. Why did Jesus have to say, “Peace be unto you,” because the doors were shut when He came into the room. Here are some folks that were afraid of the Jewish leaders anyway, and Jesus just steps out of the realm of eternity, into the realm of time, right in the house they were hiding in, and doesn’t use the door. Then He says, “Calm down; be peaceful, it is I.” There is more to the resurrection than just saying, “Well, thank God, we’re raised together with Him,” because Jesus had another kind of body. You could see the nail prints, but it was a different kind of body.

We are raised with Him, “If you be raised with Him...,” but where is that union - that “raised together with,” the resurrected Lord presently located? It is in our inner man. Your inner man has the same senses as your outer man. This is what we need to realize: when the Bible says, “Taste and see that the Lord is good,” He is talking about spiritually consuming the Lord. When Jesus said, “Eat my flesh and drink my blood,” he was not talking about any natural tasting or natural consuming. He was talking about your spirit man who is in union with the real man.

Notice Saul of Tarsus, on his way to Damascus, to persecute the church. Jesus showed up with a light (It was His glory) so bright that it blinded Saul (Paul). Did you know nobody else saw that light? It was so bright, it knocked him down, and he said, “Who are you and what would you have me to do LORD?” The others saw nothing, and they were right there. There are spiritual eyes and there are physical eyes. Physical eyes can see God’s creation and the works of God, but physical eyes can not see the spiritual aspects of God. Father God can and will open the spiritual eyes of anyone He desires to for His purpose, but also anyone who desires Him to open their eyes. The spirit man is in union with Father by virtue of being one with Father’s Holy Spirit. Jesus was walking through the crowd, and somebody reached out and touched Him. Virtue came out of Him. II Corinthians 2 tells us that we ought to be an expression of the fragrance of the Lord everywhere, so people will want to draw from our life. It is in that part of our being that we are in union with the resurrected Christ. Our inner man is in union with the raised Christ. It is out of that part of us that we must begin to see.

How beautiful that is! I’m a new creature in Christ. We have a tendency to think, “That’s spiritual,” and think it’s somehow less than the physical, but it’s not.


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1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption: 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written. The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew 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 (during) 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.

Can you see Jesus’ death and resurrection in those verses? There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. You have a natural body and a spiritual body. In verse 45 “a quickening spirit” means a life giving spirit. You have the same life in your spirit that He had in His spirit when He was raised. That is important. You have a heavenly birth, the resurrection life, and ascension life. It is a present tense thing.

We’ve got to learn to live out of our spirit; we’ve got to learn to be spiritually conscious. We’ve got to learn to draw healing and life from our spirit; healing comes from the inside out. Healing is something that is the present condition of the Church; it is life. We’re learning to see the Lord. When we say we need an appearing of the Lord, we’re not looking with our physical eyes’ we’re looking with our spiritual eyes. We’re seeing Him.

The bible says that Moses could see Him who was invisible. God is giving spiritual eyes to us. The Bible teaches that the life in the body of Christ will someday increase its domain to the outer man. In other words, that which is true in us will be on us, and that it taking place in many people today.

2 Corinthians 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed (revelation knowledge) upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

We want to show you that this resurrection life is at work quickening our mortal bodies. This body that I am in right now, this outward suit, this skin, bone, muscle, meat and blood body (you can’t see the real me with your natural eyes), is something that is the product of a mind that


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functions out of a carnal realm; it is not the real me. Father’s Holy Spirit in me is affecting this body as my mind is being renewed. Before this thing is over, all of the carnality and false manifestations will totally be swallowed up of life, and only the spiritual new creation man that I am, will stand in full manifestation.

In 1 Corinthians 15:51, Paul is showing us a mystery. In verse 52, where it says “at the last trump,” the word that is translated ‘at’ is really the Greek word that means “during.” When most people read this whole phrase, “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump,” they think of an instantaneous change some where in the future. No, the changes comes during the process of the renewing of the mind; it’s from glory to glory or appearing to appearing that you are changed into His image – saved (made whole) to the uttermost – not just in spirit, but in soul and body.

It is “during the last trump,” which is a clear sounding Word coming from a priest who can sound the message of the finished work, with clarity. “In a moment”, is the same words that Paul uses when he says, “for our light afflictions endure but for a moment.” It can seem like a long time, but for God it is a moment. By “the twinkling of an eye,” sometimes you think you’ll shut your eyes and when you open them you’ll be changed. What he’s talking about there is this trump, this impartation of light. The change comes by the increasing spiritual impartation of light. The trump speaks of revelation knowledge, or enlightenment. What he is saying, is there is a change that takes place during the last trump.

1 Corinthians 15:26 the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

The life in us, is working its way to the outer man. There are some of us who are going to be alive and remain at the last trump; actually some of us are (some are becoming) the voice of the last trump, if we are preaching the message of the seventh day. We have a better chance of being that people, than those people that lived two hundred years ago. We are closer to the fruition of “during that last trump” than any generation that ever lived. The revelation is coming quicker, and we know that there is a change going on in a large group of people. When I write, I am humbled at how Father dictates to me, and bring Scripture to my mind – He’s getting this true message of the Gospel out, and He’ll use anyone who is hungry for the truth, and will share it without compromise. When all the carnal questions stops in a person mind, then and only then can they begin to listen and hear what the Father’s Holy Spirit has to say to them. I instruct, on my job, people on how to give Veteran’s seminar, and do public speaking. I can’t instruct them until they settle down, relax and listen to me. There is a period of time when they want to tell me their story and their ideas for giving the seminar – once they stop all that and listen to me; then I can train and instruct them and help them to be great seminar presenters. Until all the questions and comments stops – I can’t instruct. The same is true with us learning the spiritual truths Father wants to impart – we must stand still and see the glory of our God – we can’t do that while we are asking all the wrong questions – and coming up with our own religions and traditions.

There has been no shortage of well meaning ministers to tell me that I shouldn’t share the things Father has shown me; “If I do, I won’t get to preach to the crowds.” We’ll I’m not after the crowds; they can chase them. I’m after people who want to grow up. The majority is always


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wrong family; they were in the days of Jesus earth walk, and they are today. The majority is looking to the future for their redemption, when the Bible plainly tells us to look back to the Cross. The Old Testament Saints looked forward to the Cross, and the New Testament Saints are to look back to the work of the Cross – “Back to the Future.” The New Creation Man’s future started there at the work of the Cross, and Jesus’ subsequent resurrection.

Paul knew he was raised together with Christ, but he cried, “I want to know Him in the power of his resurrection.”

Romans 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh (people who are dead to the things of Father God) cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. “Dwell and have is the same thing.”

Do you have Christ in you? What does quicken mean; to make alive? The greatest event for any believer is to be placed into the body of Christ, but the great event that the world is looking for is the appearing of Him in and upon the Sons of God – that’s you and me. We just need the cover taken off of us by the Holy Spirit teaching us, and then what is under the cover of religion and tradition, will be seen. What’s under the cover is already what Father has made it to be, it is just veiled right now; but the veil is coming off. We believe with all our heart that it is going to take more than just good preaching to change the world. It will take a manifestation of Father’s life upon the Sons of God that we are.

Romans 8: 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

The whole creation that God created groans and travails, because corruption is everywhere. Living out of the power of a carnal life is death, and there is no shortage of death around this planet – physical death and also the death of living with no intimate or revelation knowledge of our Father and His living in His man. “Having the first fruits of the Spirit”, means being filled with the Spirit. “Even we ourselves groan within ourselves.” The body of Christ is groaning within itself for something to happen; we desire for the life in our spirit-man to break forth to the soul and the body; but we are just now learning how that happens – it comes from feeding on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Who is waiting for the redemption of the body? The whole creation is waiting.

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the manifestation (revelation or to take the cover off) of the sons of God.

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life in us; we have ascension life in us. The scripture teaches us that there is a day when that life that is within us, will extend its domain to our outer man. God doesn’t use anything of the first man Adam; He gives us something brand new.

Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for (Greek: Expect fully) the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile (Greek for vile – to be made low) body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. (That work was what he did during those three days and three nights and our identification with all he did.)

Notice, that it is the life of Father God in our spirit that will change the body that is affected by the dust realm – carnal realm, so that it will be like His glorious body. What a glorious passage! Sometimes we just believe for this glorified body; but you can’t believe for this. What does the scripture say? It says, “From heaven we look for His appearing, who shall change our bodies.” Do we look for the change of the body, or do we look for Him? Heaven is the abode of God, and we are the abode of God, so I’m not looking for Him to come from a million light years away, I’m looking to Him, that is in my spirit-man, to my soul and then to my body. If you’re looking for the Christ, you don’t have very far to look; just look inward and at those brethren you fellowship with; do what Paul said to do, don’t know anyone after the flesh, but after the spirit, which is where Father resides.

The very life that you have in you, His resurrection life, is working its way out of you into your soul and then your body. There is a change. We don’t think it’s an instant thing; we think it is a progressive thing. We believe it is even at work in this hour. We believe we are in the last trump; and during that last trump, the understanding, the vision, the seeing, the growing up of the inner man is working it’s way to the outer man, to be seen by all. Do you understand that this would be a great way to touch the world very quickly? Paul said, “This is a mystery. We shall not all sleep.” Some will not go the way of the grave; some will be alive and remain at the coming of the Lord in His whole body.

Isaiah said he saw a time when men would live as long as trees. (Isaiah 65:22) That is a long time. I don’t know when that time is, and I don’t think this is something you can believe for. But I believe we are in the beginnings of that day.

2 Corinthians 5: 1 For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

The earthly house is a house made of earth. Paul is talking about the spirit-man unclothed or uncovered by receiving revelation knowledge. My spirit-man lives, currently, in a natural body that is mortal, but it is going to be swallowed up of the God life that’s in my spirit-man. If that


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weren’t going to happen, why in the world would he say something like - “that mortality would be swallowed up by the life?” The earnest is the down payment; when the fullness (Father’s Holy Spirit) comes to the soul, it will affect our outer man. When my spiritual Brother Scotty Todd’s body ceased to be able to hold him, he just walked out of it and began walking in His new creation body in the heavenly; but a person’s body doesn’t have to die for that to happen, it can just be swallowed up of life, right here while standing on planet earth.

When Father’s Holy Spirit came into your life, He came into your spirit. From the time when you received the Holy Spirit, He began to renew your mind. When your mind gets flooded with light, it will begin to affect your physical body, spirit, soul and body, and the total man, manifesting the life of Christ will appear. We used to teach and believe that this trump would blow and we would ascend, and during that ascension there would be a change. I believe every bit of that. I believe this is the last trump; I believe we are ascending, and I believe there’s a change taking place. But what God wants is for us to be alive on planet earth, living as the abode of God – heaven on earth. Our previous thought and many of person’s current thoughts on that is and was that He was going to get us out of here so He could pour out hell on everybody in the form of physical fire, and just burn everybody up to where their eyes melt in their sockets. Then we follow that by saying, “Oh, isn’t it great that it is close to the time of our departure,” and by saying that, we were saying, “Just pour hell out on them, Lord.” But God, with the revelation of redemption, is melting the eyes of the carnal mind, the natural sight, and causing all to see Jesus’ work. He’s giving us His eyes. He is making people more conscious of the Spirit, than of the natural. Praise the Lord! He is raising us all up by giving us an understanding of who we are in Christ and what Christ has done! I am so excited that we are of the group of people who are alive today, at the coming of the Lord in our whole being.

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Of all the things that we are about in our local fellowship, if we can get these six steps and the foundational truths revolving around those steps, we’ve got what really is the heart of this part of the body of Christ: The Six Steps to the Throne.

We have looked at I Kings 10, as one of many different places that we could have started from. We could have started from the six paces that David went with the ark on the way back to Jerusalem. He went six paces, stopped and prayed. Six steps to the throne. We could have started from the Book of Ruth, where Boaz gave her six measures of barely. It’s the same principle. There are many places in scripture. We’ve chosen this place because it is a picture of Solomon’s kingdom at its height, which parallels the kingdom of God. Jesus is King, ruling and reigning over all the earth on His throne.

Understand something, as we finish these lessons with this last step; Father God’s throne is a place of authority, in a people. It is a place of ruler-ship. We’re not sitting in some big old golden chair somewhere, ruling as an earthy king. It is much deeper than that, much higher than that. We’ve used a picture of Solomon’s throne to teach the progressive revelation of Christ as seen in this redemptive work, as revealed by the Apostle Paul. These steps are all obtained from looking at the overall view of the revelation of Christ as given through Paul the Apostle. The first three steps were the negative side of the Cross; doing away with the first traducer (one who hinders Father’s purpose for man) – the first man Adam who had a living soul, and all in him after the fall. It is what Jesus had to do first, before God could make His son into the head of a new creation man. There could not, nor has there ever been two different types of mankind in the earth. II Corinthians 5:21 says that He was made to be sin. Some people say He was made to be a “sin offering,” it doesn’t make any difference whether you say “sin” or “sin offering.” The Old Testament sin offering, even though it went to the altar as a sinless offering, in the sight of God, that animal bore the sin, took the place of, and died the death of the one doing the offering. It is the same thing.

Studying these six steps to the throne is to us, the easiest way to see our union with Him. I don’t doubt that there are other ways; but it is the easiest way to come to the realization of being one with Him. These are far reaching truths that God knows and He is releasing them to a people who are sick of the old ways, and ready to receive truth. If the entire Church knew these things to be so, we wouldn’t have some of this end time eschatology stuff that we hear going around. We wouldn’t believe that we’re going somewhere that we’ve already been for over two thousand years!

Now we are going to deal with the present reality of being “seated together with Him in heavenly.” Let me tell you how the Lord has progressively unfolded this truth to us in scripture.


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When you first look at these six steps to the throne, it would be your understanding that this “seated together” wasn’t all that important. There are more than one scripture for all the other steps; but it is only in Ephesians 2, that we find this statement that we were seated together with Him. The carnal thinking was that it wasn’t really that important, if it is mentioned only one time. But that verse in Ephesians is a little hole (like a worm hole in space) in the world of the Spirit; and once you go through it, it opens up the whole Bible to you because that is the end of the matter. When Jesus sat down, the work was done; it was finished. The program had been completed. As you began to realize that, you began to see it wasn’t just in the one little place; it’s everywhere. We could use many scriptures for this, but we will just launch into this with Hebrews chapter one.

Hebrews 1: 3 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; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

“Who” speaks of Jesus, and He is the brightness of His (the Father’s) glory. The purging of humanities sins is something He did by Himself. Every truth in this line of thinking is just endless in its scope. Just think about this; He did it Himself over two thousand years ago. “This day have I begotten number thee.” Jesus was begotten in the resurrection. We are going to teach this “seating,” the opening of the heavenly realm, to all, as the ascension that occurred in John chapter 20. Mary went to the tomb, and Jesus, the last Adam, met her there. He told her, “don’t touch me; I have not yet ascended unto My Father.” The three days and three nights that it took to bring redemption’s full work, wasn’t over until He ascended the morning of the third day, back into the Father from whence He came, and also into the great cloud of witnesses; those who had gone on by way of the grave, before His redemptive work came into the realm of time.

Let’s proclaim it simply by reading the verse that says it’s true.

Ephesians 2: 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly in Christ Jesus:

This is a past tense statement. He hath quickened us, He hath raised us, and He hath made us sit together with Him in the heavenlies. Have you ever heard anybody explain this by saying, “Oh, that’s positional truth?” What they’re saying is, “That’s the way God views it, but that’s not really the way it is.” But God sees it the way it really is; either I am seated together with Christ in heavenlies, or I’m not. If I’m not, I’m not, and if I am, then I’m going to live that out. Positional, simply means that I am seated together with Him in the heavenlies. That is a truth. That is one of those truths that we have talked about previously, that Father God knows, but we have yet to find out. Did you know that the Bible boldly proclaims if you are in Christ, then you are where He is? You can’t be in Him and not be where He is.


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Philippians 3:20 For our conversation (we talk like a citizen of) is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Heaven is where Father lives; He lives in man. Some people don’t like to hear it, but the truth is that the Bible boldly proclaims that we are already in heavenly – meaning we are the abode of Father God. The word ‘in’ infers one with. “We look from heaven (not to heaven) for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.” That boldly tells me that I have the ability to look from that dimension. How could I look from that dimension, if I’m not there; the fact is, I am there, because I am the abode of Father God; so my temple, mansion is in heavenly union with all that heaven is. He is in me, so I look in me, my spirit, for Him and draw my life from Him.

Hebrews 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. Angels - NT: 32 aggelos (ang'-el-os); from aggello (to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an "angel"; by implication, a pastor:

It says we are already come to the heavenly Jerusalem. The problem is not where I am, but what people perceive this place called heaven to be. It is not some physical planet several billion miles off somewhere. It is the realm of the spirit; it is the unseen (with carnal eyes) place that is more real than the place you are viewing with your eyes. The place Adam was in at the beginning; the Garden of Eden didn’t go anywhere. The Garden of Eden didn’t leave; Adam left it. It still exists and Father God took us there when we got in Jesus Christ; it is the spiritual dimension and still a place. Adam went from the spirit world and fell to the dust realm (carnal). He died spiritually and left that place behind. The place is still there, and we’re being brought to a revelation and awareness and that heavenly-mindedness, moment by moment, as this trump sounds that you and I are in. We are in the last trump, during the last trump, we are being brought back to a consciousness of the heavenlies where we dwell. The first man’s living soul, Adam didn’t even know he had a physical body until after he left that place, until after he died spiritually. Then he began to clothe himself. We, on the other hand, as the Body of Christ, are born back into that dimension, through the new birth. We were unaware that we have a spiritual body; but now Father’s Holy Spirit is uncovering that spiritual body and bringing forth the manifestation, by taking the cover of religion and tradition off – He’s renewing our minds. We don’t want to be found naked. The spirit man is in Christed (anointed), has a lamb in it (Father’s Holy Spirit); we are to be covered with His glory. The word ‘Anointed’ means to be concentrated to the office of Christian service; a priest unto Father God and then unto men.

There isn’t any way to jump into this half way. These far reaching truths are too awesome in their scope to just back off a little bit. You can’t just slip in there and talk about being seated together with Him in heavenly, and just make this a nice little lesson that won’t rock any boats. I can’t do that; I have a mandate to teach it the way it is and let the chips fall where they may. People are hungry and they can hear! Paul said he did not neglect to teach the full council of Father God; I will not neglect that either. If He’s going to give us a truth, then we need to teach it to everyone who will listen; the problem is, there are too many who won’t listen because they judged what the Father is saying today, by what they’ve been taught by the religion they’ve grown up in. When the children of Israel were released from Babylon, to go back and rebuild their city and temple, many of them chose to stay. They were Babylonian (confusion) bred,


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Babylonian reared, and will be Babylonians till they die. Those kinds of people have to be given the joy of when God’s wrath took place at the work of redemption, and travailed in birth with the Word of God in the presences of messengers and the Lamb in them. Just share the truth and then let the Holy Spirit do the convincing.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any men hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 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. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Revelation 4:1 AFTER this I looked, and, behold, a door (Christ Jesus is the door) was opened in heaven (the abode of God that we are): and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

“Come up hither” - that’s not a direction, that’s a higher dimension. “A throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.” If we are seated together with Him in the heavenlies; if He is the head and we are the body, then the one that John saw on that throne was a many-membered man. The unveiling of the inChristed or anointed Sons of God, the many-membered man throughout the Book of Revelation, includes those that are one with Him. It is found all the way through scripture.

As we ascend in the spirit, not naturally, not geographically, but spiritually, we will also see our union with Him. We will also see ourselves seated together with Him, as His abode. That’s the exciting thing. That’s really when we take off as a Christian; it’s when the growth process starts. The reason this age is called the “kingdom age,” is because the veil points to a time in God’s purpose, that people understand what it is like to be one with the King. We are being drawn to live in the Kingdom of God, not the kingdoms of this planet earth. They come to the realization by seeing that, they’re caught up in the spirit to see themselves as one with the King, and that produces a manifestation in this earthly world of the spiritual Sons of God.

It is not called the “kingdom age” because that’s when Jesus becomes King (He’s always been king); but it’s because His body (Believers), come to a point of understanding their union with Him who is seated on the throne and their involvement with that. They draw their life from that Kingdom and the life of the King. He then begins to out-work His life and nature through the Body. That is the revelation that He gave Paul and we need to understand that. “Seated together with Him in heavenly” is not just something we proclaim; it is not just something that we get happy over. If one understands it and really believes it, it will change their thinking. I am confident that it will change the way you deal with the natural mind. In Romans 16, Paul said that the enemy (the carnal mind) would be placed under our feet shortly. How shortly? The very second that we see Paul’s revelation; it will be instantaneous, just as soon as we see ourselves seated together with Him. The church world today, almost without exception, is doing it backwards. Many are thinking they have to pull a “devil” down, pull down strongholds, pull


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something out of the heavenlies and put what ever it is, under our feet down here. Look again in 1 Samuel chapter 5, and you’ll see the picture of Jesus Christ, the Ark of God, being placed into the place of Dagon (Adam) and destroying him. Jesus already went into the stronghold, which was all humanity after the fall, and defeated him completely. Just look in the Gospels and see what happened when Jesus died and was resurrected; there were seen people who had died in body, walking around on planet earth. What happened, Jesus defeated the death, hell and grave that they were bound in – Adam or humanity with death lodged in them. (Matthew 27:50-52) There is the rapture people have been waiting for. Quit waiting, it already took place.

Father God has raised you to the above realm and is giving you a revelation of that. If you are seated together with Christ in the heavenlies, and you are, then what ever hinders the manifestation of Christ, will automatically be under your feet, which are His feet. The man of sin is revealed, which is the natural carnal mind – the Great Whore or Harlot, in the book of Revelation, and she is the mother of all harlot mindsets. (Read Revelation 17 to see how she gets rescued or saved.)

Putting death under your feet is not something you do; it is something you discover has been done in your union with Christ, and you feeding on what He has done. As long as the Body still believes that this “sitting together” is only going to be fully manifested with a physical departure from this earth, they will never come to understand that the carnal mind thinking is under their feet now. The soul (mind) needs to see every aspect of Jesus’ redemptive work. There is a picture of that with Mary and Mary Magdalene; they saw every step – CDBQRS

John 19:25 they saw Crucified – Mark 15:40 they saw Died – Matthew 27:50-61 they saw Buried – John 20:1-18 they saw Quickened – Mark 16:9 they saw Raised – Mark 16:19 they

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Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. (On the Cross) 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

These “blind eyes” and “deaf ears” are not physical; it is speaking of being able to see and hear what Father’s Holy Spirit is showing us of Jesus’ redemptive work, and who we are today, in Him. Thank God for healing physical lameness; but the saddest thing today, is the Body of Christ is limping around, not being able to walk out of what Father has done. The thirsty land in


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verse 7 is carnally minded people. Verse 8 says, “A highway shall be there, and a way.” Who is that way? Jesus said, “I am the way.” Verse 9 says, “No lion shall be there. The lion is religion and traditions of men – it’s a beast or a dragon by the time we get to the book of Revelation because it’s had lots of flesh to feed on. There is a great dragon waiting to devour the man child, in Revelation chapter 12. The dragon can also be seen in Galatians chapter 5 – the works of the flesh or the kings of carnality that the Great Harlot (the un-renewed mind that hasn’t seen redemption as of yet) has affairs with. Revelation 17:3, she sets upon, or better said, is in union with these kings of carnality - I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. Seventeen works of the flesh! What we need to do is get our women (soul), to live out of the heavens that she is, by washing her with the Word.

Revelation 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder (supernatural) in heaven; a woman (wife – soul of man) clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

She was "clothed with the sun." She has a revelation of the new day. She has a revelation of this new ruler that is in the heavens. She realizes that there is a new king now. "It’s not by might, nor by

power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts."

A woman in the heavens speaks to me of people who have been in the Most Holy Place realm and have seen some things, are coming from a far country with bread and wine that they obtained there. There are many pictures of this woman. There is one of them where Jesus walks up to a woman who has a spirit of infirmity; that pictures the church. I think it also can picture the soul. First of all, if you don’t have this mindset, the feminine, in other words, this woman is bowed to the earth. What she is seeing is what has been taught to her, seeing herself as human. She is bowed to the earth. She can’t lift herself up. She cannot, she can in no way lift herself up. She has been in this condition for a long time. She has been in this condition for eighteen years. Eighteen is the number of bondage. It is also the number of the beast if you count it six, plus six, plus six. She is influenced because all she can see is the man of dust. All she can see is what is going on in the dust realm. It is a carnal mind. Can you see that this is a picture of the carnal mind? "To be carnally minded is death."

Isn’t it interesting that Jesus shows up to this woman on a Sabbath day? The Book of Revelation was written from the perspective of the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord is a day of rest, and in order to rest, you have to know how the work got done, so you have to have a revelation of how Jesus did the work. I mean, He comes to a woman (psuche) and says to that woman, "You are loosed from your infirmities. Stand upright and look into the heavens." I am telling you that we are standing in the Day of the Lord where we no longer have to see who we are in


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Adam. We can now see who we are in Christ! The more I look into who I am in Christ and my union with Him, the more I am going to give an expression as I give birth to a man child. I am going to have His baby so to speak. We are going to give expression to the very life and nature of Jesus Christ. Family, that expression will not be a people who are still bound up with all kinds of fleshly sins. They will not be a people who are building fellowships, who just let you be who you want to be and expect Father God to bless that. We are going to bare the image of the Father and this is not anything like what the manifestations of carnality that are listed in Galatians 5:18. She is clothed with the sun; she has the moon under her feet. That means that the light that has ruled the darkness is under her feet. She now has a crown of twelve stars, meaning she has a clear understanding of Jesus, CDBQRS and her CDBQRS with Him – she is no longer separate from Father God – the two have become one again!

The dragon is the false prophet. The stars are always dealing with messengers. He dragged some messengers to the earth. We have a lot of messengers talking to us from earth. We have a lot of people involved with that woman who is earth bound, who can’t see anything but the earth, and their message is always "woe, woe, woe." It’s always "sin, sin, sin", a sin consciousness. It is always looking into the earthy and seeing what is always the bad news. They read USA Today on Saturday night and now they have a message to you on Sunday morning that is bad news. "This is the big one; we are about to really come down to the final war." It is always something scary. It is always "woe, woe, woe" rather than seeing "holy, holy, holy". God is moving us from this "woe, woe, woe" earthbound mentality to a "holy, holy, holy, the whole earth is filled with His glory." That is what Isaiah saw and what we need to see. There are a lot of messengers that have been "the tail of the dragon." This big dragon thinks it’s going to devour a baby, but the truth is, this woman is giving birth to a man-child, and it will not be devoured!

1 Peter 5:8, calls the first living soul - Adam, a traducer – that which hindered mankind from their intended purpose – arch enemy – first in rank – diaballo – accuse or traduce; that’s what the un-renewed soul and body does – it accuses and traduces you. (2 Corinthians 4:16) The lion that roars at us today, is the harlot mindset; she offers you the cup of abomination – Don’t drink it!

Isaiah 35:10 records, “Everlasting joy upon their heads.” David said, “Thou anointest my head with oil.” Saul was anointed with a vial of oil. A vial is a manmade instrument (religion and tradition of men). Saul didn’t last (1 Samuel 10). David was anointed with a horn (horn comes from a death) of oil, and God said, “That’s a man after my own heart.” God is anointing the head; He’s changing our minds with a revelation of a death; He’s renewing our thinking; because this oil of the Spirit that is touching our minds comes from the horn. Where do you get a horn? It comes off of a dead sacrifice. Out of that death comes that anointing that is anointing our heads today. That is the difference. The first man Saul (a type of the first man Adam), the man that wanted to rule and reign from his “own efforts” was anointed out of a physical, manmade vessel. It was the way we thought it ought to be done. We’ll rule and reign this way; this is our thinking.” David comes along out of obscurity and is anointed with a horn of oil.

Verse 10 refers to everlasting joy. What does “everlasting” mean? Well, it doesn’t mean having the joy of the Lord one day and not the next. “The joy of the Lord is our strength.” They shall obtain gladness and joy. Hebrews 1 says that Jesus, the head, is anointed with the oil of gladness. “Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” That will touch the world! How much more


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practical can it be than to know that being alive in Christ, you live and have access to the above realm! You are not fighting all the time; Church is not a fuss, a fight or a funeral – it’s a place of faith and fellowship. God’s people are fighting an imaginary enemy. Just rise up above it and consider Jesus. It is possible to spend more time thinking about a perceived “devil” than about the Lord. Most sermons in the charismatic realm, give more power to that false enemy, than they do Father God. Psalm 110 is referred to seven times in the New Testament. Seven is the number of perfection in the scriptures.

Psalm 110: 1 (A Psalm of David.) THE Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2 The Lord shall send the rod (teaching) of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 4 The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent; Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the head (first in rank - Adam) over many countries (the earth and the inhabitants thereof).

7 He shall drink of the brook in the way (a course or road of the fallen life): therefore shall he lift up the head (Jesus the last Adam). This is a very revealing verse – Jesus was baptized in a river that was a type of the deaths He would die – Jordan River – meaning ‘descender’. That river flowed all the way back to a city named Adam. It’s a picture of what Jesus did spiritually. One of the Hebrews words for ‘brook’ is nachal, which means a mode of decent, occupy or instate. John 12:30-32 Jesus said, “If I be lifted up, I’ll draw all men (humanity) unto me – this spake He of His deaths.” (He died, spiritually, mentally, (his soul died) and then physically).

Psalms 124 is a great reference to what this brook represents and how Jesus swallowed it all up. Family, this was the cup that Jesus dreaded, not just dying on a cross – He dreaded becoming human and not just human, but drawing into Him self every human trait ingrained in all of humanity.

Psalms 124: 1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; 2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Jesus is seated in Father God’s power. What is the last enemy that will be put under? It is the carnal mind that produces death – physical death and being dead to the things of God. What is Zion? It is the church; the highest order. Zion is the over comer; it is the rod of His strength. Ps.110:3 you find, “The day of thy power.” That’s the third day; “the power of the resurrection.” After everything Paul wrote of Jesus, and knew of Him, he later said, “That I might know him in the power of his resurrection.” In Genesis 14:18, we find Abraham meeting Melchisedec; that is the first time that Melchisedec is mentioned in scripture. He is not mentioned again until 1000


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years later, when David writes this Psalm. Then he’s not mentioned until we get over to the book of Hebrews. This Psalm, “Sit thou on the right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool,” revolves around this statement in Ps.110:4, “Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek”.

Verse 7 says, “He shall drink of the brook in the way, therefore shall he lift up the head.” Because He drank of that brook of the false life, we can now drink of the River of Life and be the anointed Sons of God on planet earth – body of Christ. We have to get this message to the people, so that they can understand the implications of being seated together with Him. You could teach a year on this thought and never exhaust any of it. In fact we have taught the Pauline revelation, many times, which is an even more detailed study of the redemptive work of Christ.

Psalm 2:4 he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.

“Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?” Why do we get so down about certain things that happen in our lives? He that sits in the heavens laughs! When thoughts come to your mind, like, “You will never make it; you’re a fool for even believing you can grow up,” “He that sits in the heavens laughs,” because it shall come to pass. The prophet Isaiah got up one day and said, “Do you know what? A virgin shall conceive and bear a child.” I’ll bet his wife said, “Honey, don’t go and tell people that! Just write that down in a book somewhere, and then they’ll find it sometime. Don’t go tell them that!” He thought, “No, I’ve got to.” He died, and what he spoke happen seven hundred years later.

Psalm 2: 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Here is the Father saying to the Son, “I’ve set my King on my holy hill. I will declare a decree.” God said, “Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen, and the uttermost parts of the earth.” This earth belongs to the Lord. The Body of Christ is going to rise up to understand exactly that they are in the One who rules and reigns. One day they will rise up, not presumptuously, but because their Head is anointed with oil that came from a death; there is a group of people doing that now. They are declaring a decree, “Father, give me the heathen and the uttermost parts of the earth.” Too many are sitting back thinking. “Come on, King Jesus, declare that decree.” What God is doing is revealing to us, so we understand that through the voice of many waters this promise will be fulfilled. (A people trumpeting the finished work is that voice of many waters.)

Paul wrote, in 1 Thessalonians, that the harlot mind set, the unrighteous man or women, will be found sitting right in the temple. Some have located it. We’ve found him, and it was the “I”, that old “Judas” in us that wanted to crucify self. Judas had thirty pieces of silver in his grip. Silver speaks of redemption and thirty is the number for maturity. Judas threw away his maturity and went out and hung himself. We must not think that maturity comes, by something we do; it comes by something the Lord has already done. Maturity comes, from you seeing and understanding some things. Quit beating yourself up and just feed on the message of the Gospel


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of Jesus Christ – taste and see that the Lord is good – enter into His rest so that you can give birth to His very nature and life.

May the Lord reveal to His people His finished work of Jesus Christ – Father’s operation.

We must put our faith in the operation of God because we won’t live the risen and seated life until we do. Father’s Holy Spirit is in you to lead you, guide you, and show you the things of Jesus Christ – then you will know where to put your faith and what to believe.

Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Amen

This is the truth as Father’s Holy Spirit has been able to reveal to us today; it will enlarge and be continued because we know that we can never exhaust the revelation of Jesus Christ; but we are going to let Him teach us all we can take right now. We pray you are willing to come along with us. We have hundreds of studies that will help any person who has finally gotten sick of the old; that which has only brought forth winds of doctrine, and they are ready to go onto perfection. If you are, join with us and feed on the Tree of Life.

Blessings to you my brothers and sisters; may the grace of our Father rise up within you and make you whole. The life of God in you is sufficient to deal with anything that is hindering the full manifestation in you individually. Come and dine, the Master is calling, come and dine……the Spirit and the Bride are now saying, “Come.”

To be continued,

Roy E. Richmond Pastor/Teacher/Scribe

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