‘AS THE FATHER HATH SENT ME: SO SEND I YOU’
JOHN 20; 21… Jesus says here unto them; ‘Peace be unto you; As my Father hath sent me, so send I you. And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said unto them; Receive ye the Holy Ghost, whosoever sins you remit, shall be remitted and whosoever sins you retain, they shall be retained.
What an awesome commission is given here to His body-members!
‘ As the Father hath sent me, so sent I you.’ There is such volume in meaning here that it can scarcely be expressed in simple language because of the glory which hovers it. In the glory of revealing here the words seem to swell and expand and burst forth in divine radiance that changes the whole concept of our relationship with Christ.
Furthermore; ‘ Neither came I of myself, but He sent me……….so sent I you!
In the book of Isaiah we find that He was sent as a light to the Gentile; to open the blinded eyes, to bring the prisoners out from the prisons of darkness. He was sent to spend a lonely night in Gethsemane where His sweat became as great drops of blood in the ‘pouring out of His soul unto death’. Here the will of flesh dies in darkness as the world around us sleeps, unconcerned, uncaring, even those who have walked with us in ‘sweet communion’ do not know the travailing of our soul in this darkest night that man has ever known. ‘ As the Father sent Him…….., so does He send us!
He was sent to stand in the halls of Pilate to wear the ‘purple robe’ of mockery, to be spit upon and beaten….., He was called to die on the cross which He carried on a bleeding back up Calvary’s hill for a world that ‘knew Him not’! As it is in this day, they claimed that they knew God, but did not know His Son and denied and hated Him, stripping Him of all human dignity they crucified Him on a lonely barren hill for your sins and mine!
Jesus said here; ‘ AS THE FATHER SENT ME, SO SEND I YOU’!
Many will not accept this awesome declaration found in the Words Jesus spoke here. It is a commission of the greatest responsibility and authority ever given to mankind and only belongs to the predestined body of Christ.
Then said Jesus unto them; ( St. John 20 21-23) Peace be unto you; As my Father hath sent me, so send I you. And when He said this, He breathed on them and said unto them, receive ye the Holy Ghost; Whosoever sins you remit, shall be remitted, and whosoever sins you retain, they shall be retained.
Here one is given powers to remit the sins of others, even ‘whosoever’; and also the powers to retain the sins of others. As the Father hath sent Him, so He has sent His body members. They have born ‘His’ death in their bodies
And have been made a ‘joint-heir-partaker’ with Him. Having come from God and are going back to God, by rights of a predestination and calling.
As body members move out into this end-time ministry of remission and retention of the sins of others it will be a ministry that will release multitudes of people as they come into the knowledge of His many membered body.
It is a people who have been sent, even as He was sent. They are appearing in this age as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, to bear His image and to follow Him even into His High Priesthood as anointed intercessors to lead a people across the spiritual Jordan which is now, at harvest time, overflowing its banks as sin and death reaches a crest which covers the mountains as did the floods of Noah.
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‘ They are not of this world, just as I am not of this world’ Jesus said.’
( St. John 15; 19)…., but because you are not of this world, but I have chosen you out of this world, therefore the world hates you.
Being born not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ( St. John 1;13 )
Without father, without mother, having no beginning of days nor ending of life, but like unto the Son of God abiding a priest forever.
( Hebrews 7; 3 )
Within this lofty description here, we find a unique people with a unique calling; it is a calling to ‘follow Him’.
Where shall we follow Him to? Where did the Father send Him? He sent Him to bind up the broken hearts and open the blinded eyes, to bring joy to a world that knows only death and sorrow. He sent Him out to give, give give!
………so send I you, Jesus said.
If one could conceive of this people who were created in Christ Jesus before the world was, being born not of the will of flesh, but of God, having no beginning and no ending, made like unto the Son of God, having been with the Father and were given by the Father unto the Son……, if we can come to see this people in this magnificent light then we can begin to understand that the Lord has poured out all His glory into this body of people and that He will work through no other means except through this Christ body which is the ‘Father’s house’. Jesus said in His prayer to the Father; ‘ Father, all the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them! St. John 17; 22.
This is a body of people which will house the Word of God and it is a place and abode of the Holy Ghost. All power in heaven and earth is given unto this Christ body of many members. Unless one comes to recognize that this body is the fullness of Christ in the earth and that it is the only way to approach God , then he will be eternally lost. We have now entered into an age when all things in heaven and in earth will be gathered unto this body. We must come to the knowledge that this Christ body of many members, which is made up from the remnant of all ages, coming into its fullness in this last age , is the fullness of Christ
According to Eph 1; 23. and is the coming ‘in likemanner as you have seen Him go’. His ‘likemanner’ can only come in His many membered body which bears His image being made bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. The ascended Lord Jesus is no longer in the like manner as He went away; He is now glorified back into the glory He had with the Father before He came to earth. It is this body here who puts on His image, by bearing His death and resurrection that He comes in like manner as He went away. There is no other like manner.
This is the ‘body’ which the eagles will gather unto according to Luke 17; 37; Wheresoever the ‘body’ is, there will the eagles be gathered together!
I believe that we have made it plain that this people are a very unique and awesome people who were called and predestined from the foundation of the world to be the temple of the almighty God in the earth. With Christ as their head, they only speak what they hear the Father speak. And do what they see the Father do.
This is a people who are sent, as Jesus was sent; to remit sins and to retain sins. To bind and to loose. They are sent to speak words of power to recreate, to raise from the dead, it is the voice of the Son
Coming forth through the many membered body of Christ that will bring the resurrection in….,’ and the day will come when all who are in the grave shall hear the voice of the Son of God and all who hear shall come forth……,some to ever lasting life and some to ever lasting contempt’.
This people are made up of God’s remnant people from all the ages before us, with this last age bringing the whole body to its full stature according to Eph 4; 13.
Within this body is found the martyrs of all ages, who make up the great cloud of witnesses we read about in chapters 11 and 12 of Hebrews. The apostle says that we are now ‘ compassed about’ that is we are absolutely ‘surrounded’ by this spiritual people who could not come into their perfect position in the body, until this last age brings in immortality and turns this corruption into IN-corruption. All the faith ages, (Heb. Ch 11) are now pressing forward to be joined to this end time member of His body. All the old patriarchs, the prophets and saints who came before us, with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will set down in the Kingdom with us!
This end time body of people will bring in the greatest move man has ever known as Christ comes in His fullness to be glorified in His saints!
Jesus said of this people that ‘ as He is, so are we in this world’. The body-members of the Lord Jesus are to be made into kings and priests in this endtime. They are called a ‘Royal Priesthood’. And will stand in the gap as intercessors to deliver thousands and thousands who come into this light of Christ and His body on earth.
It is through Him that we are putting on immortality as we pass from image to image and from glory to glory until we can see His full reflection emanating out from our person.
‘AS THE FATHER HAS SENT ME; SO SENT I YOU…
In writing these articles I find the Lord giving me words to explain things and many times in reading other members articles I find the same words. I was writing about the body members as to when they came into a new revealing of where Christ has gone, the spirit said’ and they ‘plunge’ right in, pressing forward! That word ‘plunge’ burned right into my soul as I caught the message of one who does not hesitate, does not stop to analyze and debate, but when he sees the foot-prints of our Lord Jesus, he ‘plunges’ ‘headlong’ full-force ahead,
so happy that he has found a deeper path no matter what it looks like, if His foot-prints are there! One of the definitions of ‘plunge’ is to enter into something quickly and forcibly, suddenly and violently. It is a pressing our way in through many battles and trials and tribulations with a strong determination to win the battle! We believe that it is worth it all to win the race! Amen!
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