THE CUP THAT HE DRINK……………
SHALL I DRINK IT TOO………………JOHN 18; 11 .
There was a time when I wondered just what it meant to ' suffer for the Lord '. How would I know when I was suffering for the Lord, and what did my suffering accomplish?
Not long ago I came to the knowledge that our 'suffering for the Lord' is quite different from our passing through the sprinkling of blood for our total cleansing. This suffering in the flesh as we pass through the blood is the process of ' putting off the old man, and putting on the new man'. It is the 'shearing of the lamb' before the 'offering up' of the sacrifice. One cannot suffer for the Lord until he has been 'prepared' for sacrifice. It is said of our Lord, ' He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter and stood before the shearers and opened not His mouth' ( Isa. 53;7) As a 'joint-heir with Him, we also must stand without grumbling before the 'shearers' as the sprinkling of blood is shed upon us by jesus our Highpriest in the heavens.
The 'old man' of sin and death must die, and the new man, Christ Jesus must appear in flesh for the 'living sacrifice' which is wholly acceptible to God! We must present our 'bodies' a living sacrifice in our suffering for Christ. Our bodies are not our own, but we are bought with a price. Our bodies are the temple of God. We bear'His' image! Some of His images are; being hated , used and deceived by friends, family and the world at large. Being spit upon and mocked and falsely accused. Being branded as a sinner and rejected by the world, misunderstood and left alone, looked upon in disgust and loathing especially among his own. To 'bear his image' one must be branded a weakling, a deciever, a coward, a liar.
If you are not ready to bear His image you cannot be a member in His 'house' His 'body'! God never accepts the 'unsheared lamb' upon His altar. It is by our ' entering into Christ' that we become 'what He was' and here, we become a partaker of all that He was, even to the entering into of His great Sacrificial Priesthood! The reason we are not seeing more deliverance today is because there is 'polluted bread' being offered up which is like the bread in the wilderness, it has been kept over and the worms of corruption are feeding on its stench! Remember; It was on the sixth day that the manna (bread) became 'incorruptible' and God said, ' Gather up a double portion for no manna shall fall on the seventh day'.(please read Exodus 16; 15/29 , this is our monumental prototypes, standing out like a neon blinker in this day of darkness; this is one of the scriptures which Jesus told us to 'search' ' for they testify of me, He said. No manna will fall on this seventh day which we are now entering into, because the Holy Ghost is being 'contained' within the Body of Christ and has become a 'living stream' and it is now ' flowing out' and 'springing up' from the living fountain which is the 'fulness of Christ' ( His Body Is His Fulness; ( Ephesians 1; 23 ) There will be many who will come to walk in the 'light of that city' but only a predestined and chosen people will enter into this 'joint-heirship of unity as Head to Body ; as the Vine is to the Branch'. Praise God, Praise God!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ah, my precious ones, that ' old 'lighthouse' is sending out its bright beams across the sea of humanity to light the way home for all who will come! Literally thusands can be seen today as they turn from the doctrines of men and begin their journey home as the light of the Kingdom shines upon them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is deep teaching but it is a teaching many desperately need and cannot find, because the order has changed from the sixth day to the seventh day and the manna is only found within the Body of Christ. The Holy Ghost is no longer falling, it is contained within the double portion ( the Headship and the Body of Christ) . This is the Father's House, The House of The Lord situated on Mt. Zion.
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The Passover lamb was taken out from the flock, a male of the first born. He was shorn of His vesture and made ready for a holy and 'living sacrifice' .
Please note the qualifications here; first one must be seperated from the flock ( religious sects) ,
God is moving the last member of The Christ Body out from the religious 'highways and hedges'.of tradition and deceptions.
We must be moved out in order to come under the new covenant, the blood covenant. For until we
'come out' we are still a member of the flock! God wants you seperated so He can prepare you for a living sacrifice in His Body! This lamb must be a male and of the first born, without spot or blemish. It is only by becoming a jointheir with Christ and putting on the image of the 'Son' that we become a male of the first born and without spot or blemish! It is only 'in His image' that we leave the feminine realm of weakness and come into the masculine realm of authority and power of the Son! So we find that this 'lamb for every house' must be a male! We must have a change of 'gender' so to speak! We must become a member of (His) Body, of His flesh and of His bone!
For us to become this special 'living' sacrifice we must be taken out, seperated, and shorn of our old mantle, the old man of sin must pass under the sprinkling of blood, this is the shearing. Here we become a joint-heir with Christ, a holy offering, ready to be offered up on the altar of sacrifice.
Here, we have come to a place where all we have and all we are, is now committed to our loving Saviour and it is now ' no longer I that lives but Christ in me! Here, I have entered into His suffering, the just for the unjust. 'As a member of His Body' I am now a living sacrifice whereby others can be delivered through the great and majestic Melchisedec priesthhood which is a Priesthood that is operating within the body of Christ now in this last hour of time. Time is ending and millions are passing out into the realms of eternity with no consciousness of what is happening The condition of your soul before God is being perpetuated in this hour, whatever state you may be in .
The Melchisedec Priesthood can only operate within the Temple of God,'which temple we are '(1st. Cor. 3;16/17.) Jesus Christ our ascended Head, has no other 'temple', 'we' His many member body, is the 'place He lays His Head' ( his authority, his power).
He will not work outside of His body. This body has struggled and grown under the outpouring of the 'former' and the 'later' rain of the Spirit until now it is coming to maturity and the harvest of the earth is ripe! Do not look for another so called 'revival' or 'outpouring'; There will be none!
The Holy Ghost is now being contained within the structure of the majestic Christ-Body and is no longer 'poured out' but has become a 'living stream' a fountain 'springing up' !
The symbolic 'dove of Noah' has found a 'resting place for her feet' on an 'earth' that has been cleansed and purified as gold is tried in the fire and she will no longer be 'sent' down from the mountain where the ark rested, for she is settling down in her 'home' her place of rest!
Three times Noah sent the dove out to see if the waters of sin and death had abated from the earth, The first time she found no rest for the soles of 'her feet', the second time she brought back the olive leaf to Noah as a sign that all was well. But the third time he sent her out she returned no more unto him! My friend, know for sure that the Holy Ghost is no longer 'falling'!
It is here, like a 'mighty river' like a fountain 'springing up' an everlasting stream right here in this 'barren desert' the house of David is being rebuild for a habitation of God in the earth! Praise God! ' ISA.CH 2; 2/5………, 'IN THE LAST DAYS THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND EXALTED ABOVE THE HILLS……
AND NATIONS SHALL FLOW INTO IT! AND MANY PEOPLE SHALL COME AND SAY;
'COME LET US GO UP TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND HE WILL TEACH US OF HIS WAYS…….PLEASE READ VER. 4/5. WE MUST LEARN TO 'GO UP TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD' BECAUSE ONLY HERE CAN WE RECEIVE THE TRUE WORD OF GOD IN THIS DAY OF CONFUSION. We are now in the last day, the time when the prophet said that the house of the Lord would be established in the 'top of the mountain'. This is the Body of Christ which is His temple, His house, His place of 'habitation' where He abides! amen, amen, amen!
Members of this 'temple' this 'house' where God abides which is the body of Christ united to its ascended 'Head' in full stature, must be 'lively stones, like the great mountain in Daniel 2, they must be stones cut out of that mountain , cut without hands they become a great mountain and filled the earth.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE STONES THAT MAKE UP THE TEMPLE , THE HOUSE OF HIS HABITATION;
A member of that Body must be jointed to Him through a blood covenant where we put-on His very image , having our vile body fashioned likeunto His glorious Body, ( see Phil. 3/21 )Bearing in our 'bodies' the 'dying' of the Lord Jesus; being clothed upon with our house from heaven, 2nd Cor. 5;1/4; having been made 'conformable to His death' Phil 3; 10; bearing the image of the heavenly as well as the image of the earthly; 1st. Cor.15;49; Having been 'transformed' by the renewing of our mind ,Romans 12; 2; Having been predestined for this one purpose; to be conformed to the image of the Son of God! Romans 8; 29, etc.;
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There is a great and awesome work of God manifesting itself here within this predestined, and chosen people who make up the Body of Christ! The religous world will never accept this 'joint-heirship' life in Christ because of the reproach, the shame, the rejection, and suffering that is placed upon it!
They refuse to drink ' that cup' and eat 'that bread', therefore they deny and fight the message. But Jesus said; ' unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you, and this is exactly where the religious world is today.........it is dead! It has no life in it! It feeds on a bread of corruption!
But the projection here is a people who have risen far above the regular christain walk of tradition! This is a people with no resemblance to what they were when they started out for God! Where once they walked in certain ordinances pertaining to religious traditions they are now 'seated' with Him in the heavenlies and just as He is not of this world, neither are they of this world,St. John 17; 16
The glory which the Father gave unto Jesus the Son, He has given unto His Body (St. John 17;22.) And Father as thou hast sent me into the world, so send I them! 17;18. And so we have a picture here of a people who have come into a place where they as members of Christ have reached a destination of being a son-image creature, a living sacrifice wholly acceptible unto God and God having accepted them in Christ, they too have become a sacrificial lamb through the operation of God through Christ/
This is a most glorious revelation because it brings us into a place of being a 'lamb for every house' as The Lord takes over our bodies as living sacrifices. This is where our 'suffering for Christ' comes in. When we enter into His death we become a lamb, which is a living sacrifice with Him. For as the sufferings of Christ ' abounds in us' so our consolation also abounds by Christ. In Phil. 3;10, the apostle Paul says; ' that I might know Him in the power of His resurrection, ' and the fellowship of His suffering' being made' conformable unto 'His' death! The sufferings of Christ ' abounds ' in us! Just think of this!
We know that there can never be but the one offering for sin which was Jesus Christ who was offered 'once for all' , but His Body is called into unity with the Head, to ' partake' of that one offering!
Only the 'Body' is called to 'enter into' Christ its own Head! What ever our natural body feels, or does, all comes out from the Head.......So is Christ The Head and Christ The Body........The ' high-calling of Christ is to His many membered body, 'only'. He is now calling forth His body into unity with Him in all that He was and is.....even into His great sacrifice! Whatever the Head was, the Body must become! Jesus prayed thus; ' Father, make them one as we are one, that they may be one in 'us'! ( St. John 17; ) ' Father I will that they whom thou hast given me , be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory!.........., and the glory which thou hast given me, I have given them! St. John 17;22
When Jesus came back into flesh at Pentecost, He came as a' begotton seed' which fell into a body of many members. There has been a time of formation of that seed within the church ages that has brought that 'begotton' seed into a maturity to be born.....it has brought this 'begotton' seed into the ful-stature of Christ in His Body, which is spoken of as the 'man-child' in Rev. 12.
It is also spoken of in the beginning, Genesis 1; 27/28, as the 'God image creature' who is to rule the world with a rod of iron. ONLY 'THIS' BODY WILL DRINK THAT SAME CUP
This cup is found in his death which we are made conformable to!
Jesus in Matthew 20;22/23, asks his disciples; ' are you able to drink the same cup that I drink and recieve the same baptism that I am baptized with ?
And then He answers his own question; you shall indeed drink of this cup........and recieve this same baptism...........Only one who has been conformed to the Son image can drink the same cup that HE drank. It has to be one who is seperated from the flock( the church world), and has passed through the hands of the shearers, one who has been 'prepared' through the disciplinary hands of The Father; He is the Vine, we are the branches, our Father is the husbandman. There are mountains to climb and valleys to cross as we pass through this journey of conformation. Just as our Head, Jesus Christ who, although He was a son, yet He learned obedience by the things that He suffered. The disciplinary hand of the Father has been upon us as He has ' scourgeth every son He receives'. Having been united with Him by blood covenant, the Body is forever sealed and joined to the Head, thus becoming one with it. So that 'withersoever' the Head would go, so goes the Body. This is the most wonderful message of all times if you can hear it. Jesus prayed to the Father; ' Father make them one in us' Today, we are becoming one with Him as the body becomes conformed to His image and becomes a living sacrifice as was the Head!
Jesus, speaking of His many membered body, declared' ' They are not of this world, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THIS WORLD! ' According to St. John 17 this body was with the Father before as Jesus said; ' Thine they were; but you gave them to me' What an awesome thing that is made manifest in this age!
" TO DRINK THIS CUP.....................'
To drink this cup one must stand alone , apart from the (flock) the religious masses, from family, from friends. Remember, The Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, thousands of years before the climax at Calvary! We can go back to David as a shepherd boy, strolling through the gentle rolling hills of Galilee minding his sheep when the spirit of Christ arose within his breast and he cried out; ' In my loneliness I am like a sparrow alone on the roof top, ' My heart is sore and pained within, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me, fear and trembling have come upon me, oh had I the wings of a dove, I would fly away and be at rest! Psalms 55.
Over and over the spirit of Christ cries out through the lips of David, in the agonies and torments of fears and loneliness, of pain and rejection by a world that hated Him.
To drink this cup one must be prepared to stand alone, to be smitten and ridiculed, to be lied upon and deceived by family and friends. In Psalms 55 we find where the Lord was in deep sorrow because of the betrayal of friends and those He worshiped with in the house of the Lord……..' if it were an enemy, he said, I could have born it, I would have hid myself from him, but it was one of my equals, who took sweet counsel together and walked with me in the house of God! How very well aquanted we are with this one !
How many times we have suffered the reproach of those in the churches and places of worship.
Those who follow Him today 'withersoever' He goes must prepare to eat this passover lamb 'with the bitter herbs ' it is the Lord's passover!
Let us go for just a minute to our prototypes in the book of Exodus. ch 12.
At the beginning here we find where the lamb is taken out from the flock , a lamb for every house'. The lamb is killed in the evening time and its blood is placed on the door posts of the place where the body of the lamb is eaten . In ver. 8 we find that it is to be roasted with fire and eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. If anything of it is left over it is to be burned. Jesus speaking of this 'passover-supper in Luke 14; 24 said, ' None that were bidden shall taste of my supper! The fragments which were left were to be gathered up and burned that nothing be left! Only that which is blood-covered shall eat this 'passover'.
This passover is to be eaten ; ' with your loins girded , your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; You shall eat it in haste ( in a hurry) it is the Lord's passover!
We will notice a few things here that are written for our admonition and edification.
The lamb for every house, prototypes the body members of Christ. We will notice that it is killed in the 'evening' which is the evening time of this last day . One of the most significant things about the prototypes is that the blood is placed on the 'door post where the passover is eaten! This tells us that where ever the passover lamb is eaten, the blood is covering that house!
Each house was to have its own lamb offering. In 1st. Cor. 12; 12/14. we find where the body of Christ is one body but many members; then it says that we are many members but one bread…….SO IS CHRIST! ' For we all partake of that one bread! As we eat that bread we 'become' that bread and as Jesus took the ' two loafs' ( the Head and the Body) and fed five thousands with twelve baskets of 'fragments ' left over, so it will be in this new day, many will come from the East and from the West and set down in the Kingdom with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. All nations will come to this great feaste of all feastes; ' Tell them, He said, that all things are now ready! That many-member son which came out of the nation of the Gentiles , a nations accounted as dogs and with no hope' ' Yea, thus saith the spirit of God, I have taken out a people for my name sake, a prodical son! Bring forth the royal robe and the signet ring of sonship and place them upon him and let us rejoice and be merry !!!
Today the lamb has been slain on the outside and the blood of the covenant has been applied in the most holy place where the passover is being eaten. It is being eaten with bitter herbs and in haste, IT IS THE LORD'S PASSOVER!
Exodus 12;12…….' and I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all of the first born in the land of Egypt, ………and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are………and when I see the blood I will pass over you………
God cannot use us in this day unless we have become a 'living sacrifice' acceptable unto God! The 'Christ-Body' is coming under tremendous pressure today as it stands as living sacrifice, and comes under the suffering for the body members to bring each one into its rightful position . Many times we are brought under severe agony of spirit as some one is being delivered. As the apostle said before, ' His suffering 'abounds' in us! We have now entered into Calvary as a living sacrifice and our bodies are being offered up for the life of others . 'Greater love than this has no man!
As the apostle Paul declared; I bear in my ' body' the 'dying of the Lord Jesus!
This is a great truth which tradition has tried to destroy. The church has not wanted to share His death, His sufferings. She has said, ' By His stripes I am healed, not knowing that to be healed by His stripes she would have to bear His stripes!
Being conformed to His death is becoming a 'living sacrifice' ; As He is, so are we in this world! Jesus said these words; they did not originate from my lips!
As we are brought into the oneness of His suffering, we have the peace of knowing that whatever comes our way, He has a purpose in His divine plan and whither it be by life or by death I will rejoice and do rejoice in this great knowledge of sharing in His suffering. As the apostle Paul said; I rejoice in my suffering for you. Sometimes we are bowed down with grief in our spirits and agonize before God until the burden is lifted. Sometimes it is revealed to us what we are 'travailing' for, sometimes we only feel a release from the burden.
Not long ago I was in intercessory prayer and it was revealed to me that my burden and agony in spirit was for the teenage world of homeless confused boys who have no one, no home, no one to care. I was shown 'one' such child, and the spirit spoke to me that there were hundreds and hundreds of them throughout our land roaming the streets of our cities, half dressed, cold and hungry/ Oh God! How can we not be concerned?
God help us to wake up from our traditional slumbering and face the facts of life while there is time !
The true body of Christ today is stamped with the characteristics of Christ. They are bearing His image in His suffering and also in His glory. They are not suffering for some kind of sin in their body or spirit, they are living sacrifices for Christ's sake! He calls upon them to lift up that cross where ever the need is! If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me' It takes more than a message and a few songs to lift up that cross! THERE MUST BE A LIVING SACRIFICE!
OUR BODIES MUST BE OFFERED UP WHOLLY ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD!
He must find us as 'living' (not dead) and 'offered up; ' wholly acceptable; anywhere, anytime, for any purpose He so desires!
So. It is no longer I that lives; but Christ that lives 'in me'!
The fact that He ever chose 'me' to live in is so awesome!
And so, ' death works in me, but life in you, as I come to travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in YOU ! 2nd Cor. 4;10/11/12/
Col.1;24------Gal. 4; 19------please read scripture!
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