We have spoken about being a joint-heir in His sufferings and in the powers of His resurrection and now we need to learn about being a joint-heir and partaker with him in his priesthood. We can only function within the Priesthood of Christ by the power that worketh 'in us ' . It is the power of the Christ working in us that makes us a joint-heir and partaker of this great Priesthood .Our own works are never accepted into this Holy Priesthood. This Priesthood is activated only by the workings of the power of Christ ' in us This means that we no longer plan and organize and build here and tear down there in our endeavors to serve God. No, this is the place where we ' rest from our own works ' and enter into the works of the Lord; Here we only do what He provides for us each day as we submit to each situation which He now provides for us in our daily life. We find here a whole new way of living! We find that we must always be mindful every moment of what God prepares for us.
We must be alert and aware of his presence each and every moment for when we loose awareness of His presence we will miss what he had for us at that given time, whether it be for a moment or a day, or a week or a month, or a year, etc. We must be always aware of the Father's business! Many times we are horrified at the things we have
‘let slip ' the things we have lost because we were ' asleep ' and did not know his will for that one moment! Satan also works from moment to moment! If Satan can cause you to put off your prayer time for five minutes he takes those five minutes to work up something else to get you interested in! Many times we lose The Lords presence for the whole day because of the one moment when we were unaware of his presence and missed the thing he had for us. We create our own eternity in a moment by moment relationship with God in quite submission, in loving communion as we learn to ' sit together with Him in heavenly places. Being alert to His presence is very essential to our relationship with Him.
What a wonderful rest this is! If the winds of life are stormy and wild I can still rest, because I am tucked away in my ' secret chamber ' hid away in Him! Here I am submitted to His will so that HE can use me as He pleases; Should He desire to uproot my life and move me to another people, another location, to a different position , I can still rest, I remain hidden away in Him! And although He takes from me, my precious earthly affections to the breaking of my heart, I know He will never do it without a reason, and that reason is His Priesthood which He is operating in and through my life that He may again reach out to others by the breaking of bread! “For we being many are one bread, and one body, for we are all partakers of that one Bread “ ( 1st Cor. 10; 17)
It is by eating His flesh that the many member body becomes the bread also to be broken for others; here one is offered up as a ‘living sacrifice’ as he becomes a joint-heir partaker in the priesthood of Christ Jesus! As His ‘Body-members’ we are joint-heirs of all that He is and all which He did…..It is time for the ‘body’ to become unified with the Head in the operation of His priesthood as ‘living sacrifice’. His Body is one with Him!
Jesus prayed the Father to ‘make them one with Him’ ! We are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh by eating His flesh which is the living Bread from heaven which was broken for us at Calvary! This is our ‘communion’ with Him. It is much more than just believing the written Word, it is a commuion and participation in the Living Word which came down from the Father and became flesh, it is the ‘creative’ Word which said; ‘ Let there be and there was’ ! This is the Word to which we are joined to as joint-heir-partakers.
It is time to stop playing church and get into the move of God ! The breaking of the Bread of life only comes through the Priesthood of Christ. Just as His flesh was given through the Headship by the breaking of Bread , so must the bread again be broken as we come to be a joint-heir with him and become that one Bread which is broken for the life of the world! We must become willing to be broken ! Unbroken bread is never distributed, unbroken bread is never handed out. We must become 'pliable ' in the hands of the great ' potter ' ;We must allow Him to break us at anytime and anywhere He chooses. This is what it means to serve as a partaker and joint-heir in His Priesthood.
We must offer our ' bodies ' as a living sacrifice wholly and completely acceptable to God according to the power that works 'in us'! We must come to fully realize that it is by the powers that works in-us (and not by the powers which are pour down from the sky) that will conform us into the image of the Son of God.
Too long we have looked to the sky for a ’miracle' to drop down and remove our burdens and heal our bodies and make everything alright so we can go on our merry way living a life of ease and without effort. This is not what we find in the scriptures. Jesus said; 'Take up your cross and follow me. Where will you follow him to ? Where He went, of course! Where did He go? He went to Calvary, He came out into resurrection life, He ascended to heaven. Where will you follow him to?
I wonder what some people think it means to follow the Lord. Surely they don't believe they have followed him until they have been to Calvary and have come into resurrection and ascended with Him to the Father. Jesus said; 'That where I am there you may be also!' It is the power that works ' in-us' that makes the difference. It is a power that conforms us and brings us into the high-calling of God in Christ, into the Kingly-Priesthood of Melchizedek. It is this ’power which works 'in-us’ that makes us a partaker of His end-time Priesthood which will part back the spiritual Jordan and allow the believing creation to cross over into the Cannan Land of His Rest! There must be a ' priesthood to arise ' to carry the ark of the covenant ' through the swelling tides of the this harvest time ' Jordan. No man crosses Jordan until the Priesthood of the Christ body dips its 'feet' into the muddy waters of sin and death that are covering our land today in a black shroud of fear, pain and heartache!
It is this endtime 'feet-company' who make up this endtime Body that will lift the ark of the covenant and carry it into the swelling tide and stand in the middle of the stream until the last Tribe, the last soldier, the very last believer has crossed to the other side!
Too many today are scared to enter into the 'main-stream' of humanity and stand with the blazing torch of the Word to cut to the 'marrow of the bone' ! They like their traditional teaching, and fellowship in a luke-warm religion to much to cut loose from the shore-lines of the 'home-fires' and the comfort that they find within the congregation!
They are afraid to 'let-down-their-net' for the 'drought-of-fish-on-the-other-side' !
But 'Priesthood' is not 'Mother-church' !Mother-church was 'feminine' and her only functions were to 'conceive and bring forth a man-child !
What a wonderful position the Mother church held in bringing forth through her long age of 'travailing in pain to be delivered of her man-child! It is this man-child who makes up the Most Holy Priesthood of Melchizedek!
As the muddy, swirling waters of the spiritual Jordan rises to a thunderous climax, ( the sin/death of this age ) God is raising up a priesthood to enter fearlessly into its waters and hold back the tide until the last believer of this age 'passes over on dry land'. In this endtime age of consummation we are not of the feminine spirit of the mother-church, but we are of the masculine spirit of the Son of God which is a spirit to rule and reign , to tear down and build again from the waste and ruins of a passed age! ( Isaiah 61; 4 )
This endtime people of the priesthood are not accounted for as the Adam generation but they are as those who are found in St. John ch 1; verse 13; which were born , not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God!
Many claim to be real, true 'believers' and are not , because a true believer has the powers of Christ activated and working 'full-time' in his life! Even while you sleep, these powers are at work! The 'husband man' is pruning and cutting a way the dead branches, he is digging around the 'roots' and putting in the rich nutrients of ' strong meats'; We must be weaned from the 'children's bread' and the milk from the breast of the Mother Church and learn to walk in the full-stature of Christ Jesus. We must become a partaker of His Body to ' eat his flesh and drink his blood and live and not die! (please read St. John ch 6 ; ver. 48-58. ) We have seen so many who pray away a cross which God was given them for cleansing, claiming it was a work of the devil in their ignorance! God has promised to answer our prayer and when we ask him to remove our cross he will remove it, and we have lost the battle ! It is a very serious thing to shun the cross and call it a thing of evil.
We must recognize our daily cross as a necessity for our salvation and not turn it away as an attack from satan. We must allow the powers of Jesus Christ to work ' in-us' to the cleansing from all unrighteousness! Almighty God has sat in motion a plan for humanity and unless you are allowing this plan to format and manifest in your life then you will never make it into the kingdom of God! This age is the kingdom age! It is an age when the virgin churches are all hearing the midnight call; Behold The Bride-groom comes , go ye out to meet Him! Remember it was the foolish, the ignorant, that was left outside! The foolish were just as much a virgin as the wise but the very fact that they were foolish barred them out of the kingdom! ( Depart from me, I never knew you, you workers of iniquity! )
The full-statured, many-membered Body of Christ is now arising up in a Kingly Priesthood and is coming forth as The Bridegroom to take unto Himself a Bride. The wise virgins will go into the wedding chamber with Him as handmaidens for the Bride body. We are in the most exciting time humanity has ever known as God moves among his people in this endtime age of fullness! The mysteries which once left us perplexed and confused are now being opened up to us in a panoramic view which leaves us staggering in awesome wonder ! These great mysteries were ' sealed up ' until the time of the end when God would reveal them to His elect people.
God today is revealing Himself in a way in which He has never before appeared to mankind!
The excitement among the elect people of God is mounting as they pass from the old traditional place of arguments and backbiting and deceit! We are finding our place ' among the stars where we can shout for joy as sons of God! Praise God ! We must allow God to bring us back to the origin of our being , back to the spiritual perfection of His first creation ! The scriptures teach us that He knew us before the foundation of the world was laid, even before we were formed in the womb ! We find in the scriptures that the Body of Christ Jesus was with God from the beginning, predestined to be conformed to His likeness! God's plan of salvation is to bring the creature and the creation back to its former state of perfection. We are not speaking of the garden of Eden here. We are speaking of something far greater!
We are speaking here of a perfection for which the whole creation is groaning for as the Sons of God are manifested according to Romans ch 8; ver. 19-22.
' A LAMB TAKEN FROM AMONG THE FLOCK '
To be a joint-heir in His priesthood one must offer up his body as a 'living' sacrifice, ' ' wholly ' acceptable to God! He must become as a lamb taken from among the flock, without spot or blemish, a male, a son of the first born). This is a prototype of a remnant people who are delivered out from the mother-church into the masculine son spirit as a lamb from among the flock. This is the only people who can eat of this Bread of life and live forever! Remember the prototype; only the bread which fell on the sixth day was Incorruptible; all the ages before it were days of death, days of pain and heartache, days of evil and darkness; just as soon as the day ended the bread became full of worms and begin to smell of death! But, behold! On the sixth day the bread became Incorruptible and was saved over for the next age! And so Moses told them to put some of the manna in a pot and carry it over to the next age, (generation). And so we have carried this word in a prototype until this sixth age when a people would arise to eat this living bread and live forever.
The prototype of this lamb is found in Exodus ch 12; ver. 5: It is the Passover lamb, the prototype of Christ Jesus. It must be one taken out from among the others ; It must become separated and sat apart for the purpose for which it was created! One who serves in the priesthood must be one who has stood before the shearers and opened not his mouth, until the old life of Adam became as the 'chaff which the wind drives away': To serve in the priesthood of Christ one must first be a partaker of the living Bread which came down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. ( please read St. John ch 6 ver. 48-58. ) Within these ten verses here in John you will find the only formula there is for eternal life.
There is no other out side of being made a partaker of this Body of Christ which was given as the Bread of Life . If a man eats this Bread he shall never die! 'Except you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you' Jesus said. Many will say they don't understand what this means; Even the disciples said that it was a ' hard saying ' and many of them stopped following him because of it, they said, who can understand this? My friend, do you understand this? If not, then you need to get to some one in this world who can teach you and guide you into a spiritual place where you can hear the voice of God!
There is not much time left! We are now in the day of ' a double-portion' which you will find prototyped in Exodus ch 16; ver. 22-29.
We are now in the sixth day of a double portion and on the seventh day no manna (bread) will fall. The Bread of life is being gathered into the many-membered Christ-Body and will no longer be gathered from the fields and handed out to the multitudes on the hillsides of religion.
Moses told the children of Israel to lay away a portion of this heavenly bread to ' keep for further generations'. This was a prototype of the Bread of Life which brought in IN-corruption on the sixth day; We are now in the sixth day of creation! On the sixth day the corruptible bread put on IN-corruption.
Just as this present day corruption will also put-on IN-corruption in this last end time age of the sixth day. Many spiritual leaders have tried to shove this life message to the 'back-burner' and leave it there while they gorged themselves on the bread of the fifth day which is full of worms and stinks with the smell of death and decay!
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Our prototype here tells us that there will be no ‘manna’ fall on the seventh day.
We are now living in that day when no manna is ‘falling’.
The ‘waters of life’ have become a fountain flowing out of the belly of the Body of Christ!
It is a river flowing out, and a fountain ‘springing up. This tells us that its source is now in the earth……It is a time when the Word of the Lord is going out of Mt. Zion and Jerusalem. ‘ Come, let us go up to the house of the Lord and He will teach us of His ways……..Just as our prototype in the day of Egypt’s famine, the ‘corn’ was all in Cannan with Joseph. So it is in this day, all our spiritual needs will come out of the Father’s House, which is the body of Christ in the earth! This is His ‘barn’ of plenty!
It is here that one can find a shelter from the storm and rain, the heat and the cold!
It is here that a table is spread, and Jesus invites His chosen people; COME AND DINE!!! The manna is no longer being ‘poured out’ in this seventh day of rest : It is springing up and out’ from the body of Christ which is Christ in His fullness.
All of God’s treasures are found within the Bulah land of the Christ Body and no where else! And where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst!!
He is in the midst because it is His Body that HE dwells in; His many member Body!
Every member of His magnificent Body have been made priests and kings, they are all lambs for every house! Praise God! He has come to be glorified in His saints!
We have not seen Christ in His ‘fullness’ until we see Him in His body.
This is a new day……It is the third day of His resurrection, and the sixth day of His new creation is passed and the seventh day has dawned upon us!
The air around us is exuberant with His presence, the atmosphere has chanced and the glory of the Lord is seen upon His people!
We no longer need gifts and anointings and visions etc.. Because we now have the gift of all gifts, and within Him is found all anointings and knowledge and beauty and riches of untold splendor! He is our perpetual healing and our supreme happiness!
He is our life line and we neither look for nor desire another!
Thus we now sit with Him in heavenly places ‘ far above all powers and principalities.
Come share in our ‘bounty’ of glory as we worship in spirit and in truth; Amen
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