Post by WatchmanRay on Jan 30, 2010 15:13:15 GMT -5
RESTORATION
PART 1
AUGUST 14, 2009
DR. FRANK HUDSON
In any construction job there is a lot of tearing down to make room for the new. That is same in our lives. I am always reminded about a little kid in the emergency room one night that had his hand hung in the candy machine. When we finally convinced him to let go of the candy bar, he was able to get his hand out. He wanted that candy bar and he wasn’t going to let go even if it meant he was going to be stuck there. But when Daddy shows up, Daddy speaks right straight to the thing.
You are going to find out that we pick a lot of things in our life. Things that are good for us and things that are not good for us, but when the Spirit of God shows up He is going to tell you the Truth about whatever it is. When He does we have a decision to make. We can either lay there and scream and cry about it or we can let go of the candy bar and tell our sweet tooth to take a back seat and then just step into the liberty and freedom.
You see, God wants you FREE! He wants you to be at liberty. He wants you to have mercy and grace. He doesn’t want you bound up. Remember, the blessings of the Lord will add no sorrow to you. Say that. ! THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD WILL ADD NO SORROW TO ME! When God starts putting things in place, you are going to find out, a lot of times, just about every time in your life, you will have to make room for what God wants to do in your life. I will have to make room for what God wants to do in my life. I believe that is one thing the Spirit is doing now is beginning to clean things out, move it out of the way because if we are trusting in something that is not really strong enough to support us, then it needs to be torn out no matter how difficult it may appear. There are a lot of things in our life that look good but they can’t hold us up. Where they have been coated over, we’ve got them to where they looked good enough and were presentable but they just simply will not support anything. You can’t build on them.
The first thing the Lord will do is rip the sheet rock off and start revealing the weak part because He is wanting to build something very strong and to bring things into your life that is not only going to sustain and keep you, but will also be able to hold a lot of fruit that others can eat from. We find that He is going to do that. He is going to find those things in our life and when He finds them, rejoice! Don’t say, “Oh my!” No, forget it! Rejoice, celebrate and say “THANK YOU LORD!”
Even though you may be crying and weeping when you’re ripping things out of your life, let it go. It’s robbing you. It is not a strength even though it may be a “crutch” and has been a crutch, it is not a strength and He will take it away. You’ve got to remember that the Spirit of God is interested in RESTORING and bringing back things into our life that God intended from before the foundations of the earth.
There have been so many things that have been taken away and robbed and diluted. Have been just really moved from its divine intent of God to the degree that today we don’t even recognize it any more! There are things that God is wanting for us to walk in. That is part of the provision. It is not that we have ignored it, we’ve never seen it. It is not that we really don’t understand it; we have never really heard it! Those are some of the things that the Spirit of God is doing.
A lot of times we can’t hear what it is that God is wanting to speak to us because we have already drawn a conclusion about something or a situation about certain areas of our lives or things in our lives. Once you draw that conclusion, it’s like putting a time limit on God. When you put a time limit on manifestation you have just stopped believing God. When we start putting things in our realm or ball park, then we need to completely allow them to be governed by God.
One of the hardest things about moving on is getting over where you’ve been. I’ve said that for years! The reason I do is that is the main hindrance in Christianity. People have a hard time walking in liberty and joy and a refreshing and an excitement and believing all the good things God has said because we have always had bad things happen to us. One after the other and it just seems like life experiences have continually confirmed to us that life sucks, that it is hard, it’s difficult and you got to fight and claw and beat your way through everything. The whole time God is sitting there saying, “That’s not my design. I didn’t design it that way. If you are tired of living it that way, let’s try it My Way!”
Here He is now speaking, “Come over here, (get in the Spirit) or come up here and see this thing the way I AM looking at it and you will get a whole new perspective!” But a lot of times we are so busy. (Look busy, Jesus is coming soon) There’s bumper stickers that say that. Dealing with it on that level that we can’t get over there in the Spirit where He is. You’ve got to remember, God sees the end from the beginning. He knows what it is going to take. That kid had to let go of the candy bar or his hand was just not going to come out of there. It wasn’t going to give way and Daddy knew that. He wanted the kid free. Let’s let go of the candy bar!
God knows the things we want and sometimes you’ve got to let go of good things. Things that you perceive to be beneficial and good and contributing to your life. You have to let go of them so that you can get the contribution from the Spirit that will bring everlasting results.
When God is looking at the principle of restoration, we are looking at what God wants to bring us to. Not what we’ve experienced or even what we have imagined because we have to remember that God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we ask or think, which simply means our imagination is insufficient! It is not capable of comprehending or embracing the incredible ability that our Father possesses nor does it understand or take into consideration the authority and power that God has already released towards us who believe.
We have an awesome power that God has placed working in us and through us and to us and we have identified that power as your ability to believe. You cannot possess or take hold of something that you have never heard of because you can’t believe until you hear! At least that is the way the scripture outlines it. How can they believe except they hear? How can they hear except one preach or speak and how can they speak except they have been sent? When you go through that process that Romans 10 speaks about you then begin finding out that the thing God is trying to get us to is Romans 10:17 and that is TO HEAR THE WORD! HEAR WHAT THE WORD IS SAYING.
In order to embrace what the Word is saying, a lot of times we have to let go of what we thought the Word has already communicated to us. For instance, when I first came to Christ, I was afraid I could lose what He had given me. I was afraid. I didn’t want to do anything to blow it, because “the Church” told me I could. I almost killed myself trying to work my way to heaven. Trying to do everything I could and I’m telling you if you had known me before Christ changed and got a hold of my life, you wouldn’t have wanted to know me. That is just the way I was. I fought every day, scars, bruised, broke knuckles and hand. I was shot and stabbed. That was just the way I lived. When I saw the gift that God had given me, I thought I had to keep earning that thing. That is what I believed. I held on to that and unless I was going to be teachable, I could never have embraced the revelation that made me free. Here I found myself in a life and death struggle on a daily basis trying to keep myself saved. What I was actually doing was killing me. It ended up being a good thing. Because the more it killed me, the more I cried out for help. The more I realized I was falling short, the more I was just broken. It reached to the point to where I was fasting and praying weeks on end. Twenty, to thirty to forty days, it was irrelevant. I didn’t care, it was life and I had to have TRUTH! Then the Spirit of God spoke to me so clear and so plain and when He revealed to me the TRUTH about what He had done for me, I was never the same! I’m telling you that I squalled I was so free. It took such a load off of me.
The whole time I had been wrestling with the Spirit it wasn’t to impress God. I was trying to overthrow the mindset that I had developed thinking that was truth, when it wasn’t TRUTH. It was simply a step in the journey that was leading me to the TRUTH. I know when the TRUTH came! Because the TRUTH made me free! When the TRUTH makes you free, you know that you are free. That’s where the scripture says, “To whom the Son brings Truth and it is made known to them, they will walk in the freedom of that TRUTH!” Whom the Son makes free is the same one that He brings TRUTH to.
Any area in your life that you found TRUTH you are free! The enemy doesn’t like it at all but you are going to find out the more TRUTH you come into the more TRUTH you want. The more you realize of what God has filled you with and what He has prepared for you, the more you want to obtain that same promise and that same blessing that He set for you.
When we are looking at restoration, it is vitally important because we are being restored to the TRUTH! IT’S ACTUALLY A COVENANT OF TRUTH! It is an everlasting TRUTH! That is what God is bringing us to. Each one of us are at different levels and stages of the revelation. I don’t know anyone that’s on the same level of revelation and understanding. God is doing something different in every one of our lives. It is an individual journey although we take it together.
As we are moving forward in the things that God is doing, I want reveal some things and share some things with you that we need to look for revelation in. So that TUTH, the things that God has already put there, that already belong to us, but when we ACCEPT the TRUTH of it then he can restore us to the position we had with Him before the world was.
Does everyone understand that you were in Him before the world was ever formed? Now that’s an awesome revelation! If you’ve got a hold of that, it’s an awesome thing because it’s liberating. You begin to realize that God spoke of you from before the foundations of the earth. It just took time for Him to bring us into manifestation. You’re here at exactly the right time and exactly at the right point in your life and everything that God was doing is just perfect. We are coming to “the identity”! We are coming to know even as we are known!
To come to know ourselves even as we are known. When He is talking about, as we are known, He’s not talking about how angels know you. He’s not talking about how the enemy knows you. He’s not talking about how your neighbors know you or how your preacher knows you or how your parents know you. He’s talking about HOW HE KNOWS YOU!
If you will let that sink in. You could stop reading and close the book because He is only going to speak to you based upon what He knows to be true about you! That’s why when you hear people running people down and trying to exploit their weaknesses and all the other things, that’s not the Spirit of God. God does not keep rehearsing and counting and bring those things up for you. It’s the goodness of the Lord that changes people. That is what He does. He is speaking what He knows to be true. What He knows about true is what He put in you before the foundations of the earth.
Before the earth was ever formed you were in Him “in Word form”. I know that has to sink in. The Word formed and the Spirit moved upon that in due time and you have manifested and here we are. It does not change that you are here in a natural physical body yet you are still in the form of the Word. You are the Word made flesh, begotten by the Word and EVERYTHING PRODUCES OF IT’S OWN KIND. It’s not a hidden thing but is a very important thing. It is something that we need to discover! We need to understand it. We need to come to the reality of it because that’s what God is speaking to. He is speaking to the true thing and not to the idle things. He is not speaking to the flesh. He has already condemned the flesh so He is not even addressing the flesh. He is the one that is moving in our Spirit so that we come under the dominion of the Spirit in our life and can possess the soul. Now the soul lives in the body, but God’s not concerned about the body because the body is governed by the soul, governed by the Spirit. If we are allowing the body to govern us then it is out of order. If we are allowing the soul to govern it’s out of order. It needs to be governed by the Spirit. God know who is in authority. If God knows you are in authority, He’s not going to go outside your realm or do other things to try and communicate instructions to you to bring victory or success. He is going to come directly to the One who is in authority and that’s YOU!
Say that. “I’m in authority under Christ. He has given me all authority and all power in His Name to subdue all things and to put all things under His feet and my feet.
As that position we have in authority, first of all we have to accept it step by step. You are not going to jump from A to Z in one day. You have to accept that “B” has a position.
You have to accept that B has a responsibility, it’s an element, it’s a building block, and you go from a to b and you allow b to have its work in your life. Now when God is making us strong, he is not going to go from the cement or concrete pre- foundation to the roof! He is going to put everything in place that it takes to secure the roof and when it is time for the roof, the roof will be there and it will be strong and immoveable!
Now when He is growing us He is doing the same thing. He is restoring us, and what He is not going to do is take you from a place of devastation and give you absolute fullness of manifestation. WHY? Because it will collapse on you and crush you, but what He will do is show you how you got to where you are, so that you can stop the power it has to hold you there. Now once that power is broken, now you can spoil the enemy’s goods! As that power is broken God says now, the restoration doesn’t begin in the full manifestation, but the restoration goes plowing the ground making you free.
That begins the work of restoration of what God is doing in our life, and I’m going to tell you, as long as you try and hold on to the things He is trying to uproot- It is going to be tough!! What you are going to find out is that the things that have not produced life in you are probably going to be rooted up! I remember so many times people who were coming in and trying to understand revelation knowledge, they wanted to get information about what the KINGDOM OF GOD was saying and doing, if the Kingdom is operable today what is being said, and almost without exception, eventually they will get around to wanting you to explain the book of Revelation to them. It is almost without exception, they want to know, they have questions about different things in the book of Revelation. I tell them, I say well I could tell you, but it would waste both of our time, because you can’t go from learning that the Kingdom is available to understanding the Revelation, because the Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus!
Now I know the word that has been painted and formed in the mind of individuals about what the book of Revelation actually communicates. Now when they are locked into that information and they won’t let go of it “YOU CAN’T GET TRUTH IN THERE”! You can try, but they are going to war against it, I have watched for over twenty years. They are going to war against it simply because they have preconceived ideas, thoughts, imaginations, they have worked all this into their imagery and put everything into their plan of the future and everything else, and they have no room for revelation!
What you will find out is, God will come in and start kicking down the stand out about all that false imagery that has been placed there about a 7 yr. tribulation, raptures and beast coming up out of the sea and the sun being darkened and moon turning to blood and the stars falling from the sky and all this imagery is just terrible manifestations in this natural physical realm that has absolutely no bearing and meaning whatsoever on what God was revealing about Jesus Christ! IT IS MAN’S ATTEMPT AT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND A SYMBOLIC BOOK! IT CAN ONLY BE GRASPED BY THE REVELATION KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
What we find out then is that God is not going to try and move you from a place that you have just battled to try and keep your head above water, to full provision, although it is yours. What he is going to do is to educate us and bring us understanding and wisdom and knowledge, so that WISDOM can build her house. When she builds her house it is a good house! It will stand, now we are the house that the Lord has built, and He has done that through the SPIRIT OF WISDOM!
People have looked at the way God was building his house for almost 6,000 yrs. Not only have they not understood how he was building the house, they never have really understood the house. The reason they haven’t understood what God was doing was, they never understood what God said and they received a false imagery and developed a perception that robbed them from being able to accept the truth. As long as you are looking for a natural physical building and a natural physical temple and you’re looking for a natural ceremonial and ritual and priesthood and all these other things, you’re not going to see what God accomplished, if your mind is focused on that, this is foolishness to you! THE TRUTH BECOMES FOOLISHNESS AND YOU CAN’T RECEIVE THEM BECAUSE YOU ARE HOLDING ON TO THESE THINGS.
It is the same thing about VICTORY in our lives, whether you are fighting poverty, or you are fighting being oppressed all the time, whether you are fighting fear, whether you are fighting oppression of the enemy trying to come and still your joy, or destroy your family, or do all these different things, it’s the same thing! There is some kind of an imagery, or some kind of a foundational, or some kind of a word that has been accepted AS TRUTH, and I am going to tell you- IF IT IS NOT PRODUCING WHAT CHRIST SAID IT WOULD- [it is a false truth and it needs to be removed, just pull it down, IF IT IS TRUTH HE WILL CLEAN IT UP AND PUT IT RIGHT BACK UP THERE!]
So- don’t think that you are going to abandon truth, He loves it when you prove Him, He loves it when you come and press it, I know because I have addressed the Lord so directly over the years that people would run away from me thinking God was going to knock me down with lightning. I was just pure and going before Him honestly [hope you understand what I’m saying].
So being able to embrace what God is saying and doing in your life now, there needs to be a decision made, that is if you want the “TRUTH”- you got to let go of the error!
So- if you want to go in a different direction in an area of your life right now, if you are wanting God to restore you back to what you had with him before the world ever was and what Gods intent was in the EVERLASTING COVENANT, what you have to do is to begin to realize and identify and sentence the other things that are in your life to the same sentence that God has given them. They are not going to produce anything of the heavenly realm, they are only going to produce of the natural physical realm or the earthly realm, and it will never sustain you into the EVERLASTING REALM!
ALRIGHT- LET’S LOOK AT A FEW THINGS! Let’s go to EPH: 2-18
“Through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father”, {Say that} – Through Him [“NOW THAT IS JESUS”] we both have access by one SPIRIT unto the FATHER!
Now think about that for a moment- “Why do you think that God made it available for “YOU” to have access to the Father?” It is because He wanted you to be able to spend time in the presence of the Father to be influenced by the Father to know that you have an audience with the Father any time you need it!
Now- I am going to tell you that Christianity taught me and others that I know of as we were growing up and coming in- “that you keep going to Jesus”. Jesus made the provision, and said the time is coming and now is when I tell you “don’t ask me anything”! Yet we have always been taught to- “GO TO JESUS”! Just go to Jesus. Well Jesus is saying- “go to the Father”! JESUS MADE THE WAY SO THAT NOW- “YOU” BY THE SPIRIT HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO THE FATHER!! Jesus even said “the Father was greater than I”!
So- We have access to the “SUPREME BEING”, of the entire universe! Jesus gave us that access, because that is where He wants us to go! He doesn’t want you concerned over all the other little things, because the FATHER has all the answers! What ever you ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME THAT WILL HE DO, that will I do! The reason was so that the Father could be glorified because of the provision the Son had given us!
So every time we go to the Father, “We have access to Him by the SPIRIT”! Say that- BY THE SPIRIT!! You don’t have access by whining, complaining, by moaning, by groaning, by weeping, by crying, none of that stuff. YOU HAVE ACCESS BY THE SPIRIT!! So if you want to access the Father- YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE FLESH, GET OUT OF THE CARNAL REALM, OUT OF THE EMOTIONAL REALM, AND GET INTO THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT! NOW- Romans 8 makes it very clear to every single one of us- just simply another “Truth” that you have to believe and receive and that Truth in Romans 8 simply says this- “YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH BUT IN THE SPIRIT “IF” SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU.” Say that with me- I am not in the flesh but in the Spirit because I know THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN ME!!!
So – If you are in the Spirit you have access to God by that Spirit – WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE FATHER? Absolutely nothing!! How easy is that!! Do you know what you need to do? The same thing I have to do- “BELIEVE” THAT ACCESS HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE FOR YOU!! The only thing that separated me from the Father was the veil and Jesus destroyed the veil by his flesh took it out of the way, and all the hand writing of the ordinances that didn’t make a squat to God, but hindered me, because it condemned me ! So He took them out of the way, nailed them to the cross, so therefore I have confidence to utilize the access that I have to the father! NOW HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT?
Through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. NOW THEREFORE- everybody say- NOW- Now we all understand when now is don’t we, now is a very present word, it means it is already happening. Now therefore “YOU” ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS. No more now this was written about 2,000 yrs. ago, so this has been in affect a long time! But- what we have not realized is –we have embraced anther Truth- so that now when this Truth comes, if we can let go of the other old one, we can sure get a hold of the new one! Guess what it will do? It will enliven and just actually blossom the access that you have to the Father. You are no longer strangers and foreigners—you can’t be, because you got access to the Father- but we are fellow citizens with the saints and “OF” the household of God. That household of God simply means that you are now in the Family of God!
It’s a lot different being God’s people, and beings God’s family! A lot of times He calls different ones the people of God, BUT HE CALLS YOU CHILDREN!! I know a lot of people but I have got only 3 children! Now- I am going to tell you, YOU HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE WITH THE FATHER! When you approach Him, don’t approach Him as a people would, approach Him as a child would! Do you know why? Because you live in the household! It’s His good pleasure to give the KINGDOM to you.
He knew the only way to get the Kingdom to us was for us to be heirs, so He made a way for us to be BORN- AGAIN, and the BORN-AGAIN makes you the direct line, by birth, not by your merit, not by anything you could ever do, you couldn’t stand there and say –it was because I was at church every time the doors were open, or because I tithed regularly, or because I sang in the praise team, you couldn’t say any if those things. HE SAID I DID IT FOR YOU! I am the one that approached you. I am the one that brought the life giving flow of my WORD to you, and I am the one that brought my faith that is in my word to you. I am the one that caused MY SPIRIT TO OVERSHADOW THAT WORD and the things in your life to bring you to the point of bringing forth into manifestation and when you were born again – He said I did it all!! No flesh can ever Glory in the presence of God!!
These things are vitally important. We have covered a few things and you see how important the access and the knowledge and the revelation is, you see if we are holding to another thing, if you are trying to hold to the imagination that you are just an “old sinner saved by grace,” then you can’t ever accept that you have direct access to the Father!! Sinners don’t have that!! So you see how simple of a mentality and once you accept that as BEING TRUE, IT HAS NOW BLOCKED YOU FROM ACCESS! It has blocked from household and causes you to be a people. You are no longer a child but a people and that is what the mentality does. You can be a child but if you have a people mentality, you will never approach through the access you have to the FATHER!
Vs. 20 And [and is very important because it means what I am about to say is just as important as what I have already said] are built upon the foundation of the “APOSTLES AND PROPHETS”, JESUS CHRIST himself being the chief cornerstone.
Now one of the things that GOD is absolutely RESTORING is the Foundation in the body in the church, the body of Christ. He is restoring the APOSTLIC and the PROPHETIC MINISTERY! I ASSURE YOU UNEQUIVICOLLY, that individuals out there that put a little Title on their name-[apostle so-n-so] 99.9% are not an Apostle! I call it “TITUAL AUTHORITY”, it is titles that are given to individuals to try and impress somebody.
When God starts building upon the “CHURCH” and Truth and Revelation Knowledge and Governmental understanding and all the other things that God does through that “GIFT” then we will start recognizing it! He is restoring the GIFT! Do you know what one of the greatest conformation is that God is restoring it is? The enemy is counterfeiting it! The enemy is out there trying to throw apostles here and prophets there and everything else and we know that God is doing it because, the enemy would have no reason to try and counterfeit it, except he knew it was in the plan of God and the timing of it IS NOW for those manifestations to come!
Are built upon the foundations- So He is telling us here- that we are a “building”, and we are to be strong and We have a “Manifestation” or an “Expression” THAT IS TO BE SEEN IN THE EARTH! That expression that is to be seen in the earth is not because you wear a 3 piece suit or you have purple hair and pack a 10# bible or anything else! The manifestation, the expression is that when they come to see you they see the FATHER! You know the reason He called “US” the “TEMPLE” was because, WHEN PEOPLE WENT TO THE TEMPLE THEY GOT FORGIVEN, THEY GOT HEALED, THEY GOT BLESSED, THEY COME AWAY WITH REVELATION KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, THAT’S WHY HE CALLS YOU THE TEMPLE NOW! It’s so when He is manifested in your life and they come to you –what do they get? Forgiven, they get healed, they get blessed! That is what Gods design is, but we have to accept that revelation knowledge! The ability to do that according to God is that He is implementing something and when I implement it, this is the way it is going to work. The APOSTOLIC and the PROPHETIC will have a vital role in the building- because they will be FOUNDATIONAL, and the things I am going to build upon will be built on the proper functioning of those gift ministries. They are not offices in the church, don’t ever think that a pastor is an office in the church, which it’s not- don’t think that an apostle or evangelist is either- they are not- two offices in the church –elder and deacon. What the others are- they are gift ministries Eph.4-5 they are there to equip the body to do the work of the ministry, but they are not OFFICES! I know that modern day religion and Christianity accepts that the pastor is the head of the church and he’s right and everybody else has to find the pecking order and if you question him you are in rebellion, and he is the one who hears from God! Some of them rule by deacon boards that govern and every thing else. This is all unscriptural! It has nothing to do with it and GOD is not going to build on it! What you are going to find out is you can’t build on it either, because God is saying I will build you the way I said I will build you!
Now- THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE APOSTOLIC IS-- THE APOSTLE GETS EVERYTHING FROM GOD!! AN APOSTOLIC CAN ONLY FUNCTION WHEN IT HAS BEEN WITH HIM AND IS SENT FROM HIM!!! THAT IS THE ONLY WAY IT CAN! You see- you can’t go to seminary and be sent. You have to go into the PRESENCE or the access of the FATHER, AND WHEN THE FATHER HAS COMMISIONED YOU OR HAS GIVEN YOU INSTRUCTION OR DIRECTION- THEN YOU STEP OUT THE MANIFESTATION OF WHAT HE HAS GIVEN YOU! THE PROPHETIC IS THE SAME WAY!
So- what He is showing is- the foundation of what God is doing, is revealed through the proper function of the PROPHET AND THE APOSTOLE! Unfortunately in most of Christianity, THEY REJECT THE APOSTLE AS EVEN BEING ABLE TO MANIFEST TODAY AND THE PROPHETS THEY REJECT MOST OF THEM AS BEING ABLE TO MANIFEST TODAY OR IF THEY DO THE SYSTEMS ALMOST TURNS THEM INTO A CIRCUS SHOW, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROPER FUNCTIONING OF WHAT GOD SAID. THE APOSTLE AND THE PROPHET WILL DO TWO MAJOR THINGS - THEY WILL SERVE, THEY WILL EQUIP! THEY ARE NOT GOING TO RULE. AN APOSTLE CAN NOT RULE AND HE CAN NOT GOVERN OVER YOU!! HE DOESN’T HAVE THE AUTHORITY, NEITHER DOES A PASTOR; NEITHER DOES A PROPHET, NEITHER DOES AN EVANGELIST OR A TEACHER! THEY WILL SERVE YOU IF THEY ARE BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT. THEY WILL SERVE YOU, TO EQUIP YOU AND TO BUILD YOU UP!
So- in any case He is talking about these awesome things that are available in EPH.-2 AND YOU GOT TO REMEMBER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT RESTORATION, GOD RESTORING! We have to let go of what we have had to be able to embrace the TRUTH so that we can step into the arena of what GOD is saying and doing-because if there is a foundation laid over here and it is not the foundation of the APOSTLE AND THE PROPHET, IF IT THE FOUNDATION OF A RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION OR DENOMINATION TO WHERE THEY HAVE GOT TOGETHER AND DECIDED TO PLANT A CHURCH SOMEWHERE, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FOUNDATION HE TALKS ABOUT OF THE APOSTLE AND THE PROPHET! SO- can God use that? SURE! All things work together for the good to all those who love the Lord! Salvation is a big product of what God does through any place! But whether it is a structured organization or what ever, what Jesus was talking about was that when He builds His CHURCH - HE did not say it would have a big steeple, and a bell would ring, and we will come together 3 days a week- No He said- When My church is built the gates of hell will not prevail against it! That was his identifying mark, right there! The gates of hell will know when My body stands up1 HAD NOTHINGTO DO WITH LOOKING GOOD OR TRYING TO GRACE THE HOUSE OF God WITH YOUR PRESENCE-{ YOU ARE THE HOUSE OF GOD!!}
So – bringing all of that into perspective it has to come into focus! What really keeps us from focusing on it entirely is, all the other images that we have been taught, or we have learned along the way! So as long as we are looking at these other things and we try to make them equal to what God is SAYING AND what God is doing we are only deceiving yourself or walking in denial! When you begin seeing functioning Apostolic and Prophetic ministries- look up- pay attention- focus, BECAUSE THE MAJORITY WILL NOT BE THERE!! DO YOU KNOW WHY? IT IS NOT STRUCTURED ENOUGH FOR THEM. THEY DON’T FEEL SAFE AND SECURE THERE. Do YOU KNOW WHY THEY DON’T FEEL SAFE AND SECURE THERE? IT’S BECAUSE THE SPIRIT IS MOVING AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHERE HE’S GOING AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT HE’S DOING! BUT THAT IS WHERE YOU SHOULD BE DRAWN THEN TO THE SPIRIT, SO YOU NOW ARE RELYING ON THE SPIRIT- If you can get a paper that gives you the messages for the next 3 mos- one of two things, [either somebody is in tune very in tune ha- ha, or they are completely out of tune, which is right]! THERE IS NO WAY TO PREDICT WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS GOING TO SAY AND DO!! YOU JUST CAN’T DO IT AND EVEN THE APOSTLES OF THE FIRST CENTURY, WHEN THEY WENT AROUND AND THEY WERE IDENTIFIED AS THOSE THAT HAD TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN! WHAT THEY HAD DONE WAS IMPACTED THE WORLD OF RELIGION IN A WAY IT HAD NEVER BEEN IMPACTED BEFORE! Religion couldn’t order it, they couldn’t buy it. They couldn’t do anything with it at all. They couldn’t control it. They couldn’t shut it up. The more they persecuted it, the more it grew. The more they locked them up, the more God shook the prison doors and changed the prisoners, the guards, the people, and everything they tried to do - and that is what the spirit does!
The Spirit begins to free you. He frees you from the limitations that the soulish mind and the physical body has. Jesus demonstrated that! That is how He walked on the water! He was freed from the limitations of the physical body! When we come to the knowledge of the Truth that we now who are in CHRIST, WE ARE SPIRIT BEINGS!
That Truth when it begins to set in, then He also will start over riding the natural physical things and we will begin to see Spiritual phenomenon that is not a phenomenon at all! But is actually normal of the things that are of the SPIRIT!
You see, it’s a shifting. They started talking about paradigm shifts back a few years ago, and I’m thinking I wish you did come into one, if they would have came into one, it would have shifted from the natural carnal into the SPIRIT! They didn’t, they just shifted into a new terminology, and they like kicking a lot of terms around and things like that, but I’m going to tell you, when the SPIRIT begins to move in your life and shift things around in your life, you know it is happening. The light begins to come on! You begin to realize I’m alive! I am not locked into this thing that I have no power over it. I HAVE ALL POWER AND AUTHORITY TO CHANGE ANYTHING IN MY LIFE- NOTHING CAN KEEP ME I DON’T CARE IF IT IS A MIND SET, A PHYSICAL THING, IF IT IS AN EMOTIONAL THING, OR WHATEVER, IT HAS NO AUTHORITY AND NO POWER AND IT WILL BOW!!
Now you see that MENTALITY has to be taken on to where we understand that we are not here just trying to gauge and be kind of a thermometer of what’s going on, but we are a thermostat, and by the grace of God we can shift into SPIRIT, and as we shift into that realm of the SPIRIT, WE START CALLING THOSE THINGS THAT BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY REALLY ARE! What we are actually doing is releasing the TRUTH!! What the TRUTH does is begin to manifest!
Verse21: IN whom all the building fitly framed together grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
Verse22: In whom you also are builded together for a habitation of God! NOW- What is a habitation?? It is a dwelling place! In other words a home!! A HOUSE THAT GOD DWELLS THERE!!
I know that Christianity does not think that way. They don’t! They think that one day they will get to heaven! One day they will see Jesus! One day they will get to walk around on streets of gold and everything else. I am not denying that is a possibility. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT! THAT IS NOT WHAT HE IS SAYING! What He is talking about, believe it or not, JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD, and believe it or not HE IS ALIVE! HE IS ALIVE TODAY AND HE HAS ACTUALLY CAME AND TAKEN UP RESIDENCE INSIDE OF US JUST LIKE HE SAID, THAT HE AND THE FATHER WOULKD COME AND MAKE THEIR ABODE IN US!! HE DIDN’T SAY WITH YOU, HE SAID IN YOU!! THAT SHOWS THAT HE WAS MAKING THE GAP COMPLETELY IRRELVENT. HE WAS CLOSING THE GAP HIMSELF. HE DIDN’T SAY I WILL BRING YOU OVER HERE TO WHERE THE FATHER AND I AM - HE SAID NOPE- WE ARE COMING THERE!! You might mess up and hinder it, so I am going to do it the other way! I’LL JUST COME TO YOU!! JESUS EVEN SAID- FATHER I WOULD THAT THEY BE WITH ME WHERE I AM- HE SEALED THAT BY COMING AND PUTTING HIMSELF RIGHT IN US!! SO IT WAS COMPLETELY FULFILLED!!
SO RESTORATION BRINGS US TO THAT KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING! WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO HAVE JESUS LIVE WITH YOU? What would it mean? When you think about it, what would you need? What would you have lack of? How concerned would you be if things were happening? You wouldn’t be concerned at all. You know why? Because you know the resource. You know the potential OF WHAT IS THERE!
You see - our minds have to shift into the provision that has already been made! We are not hoping! We are not praying that these things happen! He’s saying you need to believe!!! The issue isn’t to hope and pray it’s to believe!!! To believe that what God said He would do, He will also perform!! Now I know there are some things yet for manifestation- the body of Christ is still going to come to a full and complete manifestation, and the earth is going to shake because of the voice of God rising up in his body, and God has set down expecting His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet [you are his feet] and the body of Christ WILL ACCOMPLISH THAT ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE! That the children of God the saints of God would take the KINGDOM OF GOD and would possess it for ever and ever! I can go on and on with all the things, BUT WE ARE NOT HOPING AND PRAYING FOR THAT, WE ARE BELIEVING THAT!!! But we have to get more personal and exact on the BELIEVING! He said- HE AND THE FATHER WOULD COME AND MAKE THEIR ABODE IN US!! WE ARE THE HABITATION OF GOD! WE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD! WE ARE HIS CHILDREN! ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE VITALLY IMPORTANT TO BEING ABLE TO BE RESTORED, SO THAT WE CAN TAKE ON THE SAME POTENTIAL THAT WE HAD WITH THE FATHER BEFORE THE WORLD EVER WAS!! It’s His desire. It’s HIS design!!
In Acts 2- I do want to share something there with you real quick- NO ORGANIZATION, DENOMINATION, NO PASTOR, NO SET OF ELDERS, NO DEACONS, NO POPULAR VOTE BY THE CONGREGATION HAS THE ABILITY TO SET DOCTRINE!! THERE IS ONLY ONE THAT SETS DOCTRINE - AND THAT IS THE LORD!! JUST ONE!!
We have so many denominations, because they got into the doctrine setting business. Some believe that you could have salvation by calling upon the name of the LORD. Others believe you had to have salvation and be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses. Others believe you had to call on the name of the Lord and be baptized and hold on to your faith all of your life and then you would be saved. Others believe you could have your salvation and then loose it if you went outside and looked at a pretty woman and that you would loose your salvation. But you know what? Even the blood of the bulls and goats would cover you for a year. “THE BLOOD OF JESUS COVERS YOU ETERNALLY!!”
When we begin to get locked in to all these different things, we realize that mankind does not have the authority to set DOCTRINE!! Matter of fact Jesus rebuked them, and said- you are teaching the commandments of men to be Gods doctrine!! That’s doctrines of men and not the commandments of God. By you doing that you are making the Word of God of none effect and He was not talking about “SCRIPTURE”. HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD [THAT IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD] HE’S TALKING ABOUT THAT WORD!! The LIVING Word of God! He said you are making the WORD OF GOD INEFFECTIVE BY FOLLOWING YOUR MAN MADE TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE. THERE IS ONLY ONE THAT SET DOCTRINE. YOU ARE NULLIFYING THE ACTIVE, LIVING MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD OF GOD WHO IS TRYING TO COMMUNICATE TO YOU AND BRING YOU TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH - BUT YOU ARE SO LOCKED IN TO YOUR CEREMONIES AND RITUALS, YOUR MAN MADE DOCTRINES. YOU ARE REJECTING THE WORD AND THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT TRYING TO BRING YOU TRUTH AND YOU ARE HOLDING TO YOUR TRADITIONS AND YOU ARE PUSHING AWAY THE POWER AND THE ANNOINTING OF GOD THAT CAN DELIVER YOU!
SO - W EN WE LOOK HERE IN Acts 2: We just saw in Eph 2 Paul talking about the apostle and the prophet was what God was building on, and here in verse 41: “they that gladly received his word were baptized and the same day there was added unto them about 3000 souls”, and “THEY CONTINUED STEADFASTLY IN THE APOSTLES DOCTRINE”AND FELLOWSHIP!
Now- I am going to tell you- in today’s Christianity, I don’t know of many Doctrines at all that are the Apostle’s Doctrine! WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE IST CENTURY APOSTOLIC DOCTRINE THAT WAS PASSED DOWN, IT WAS PASSED DOWN BECAUSE THEY LIVED IT!! THEY MANIFESTED IT. [DO YOU UNDERSTAND?] THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH TRYING TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER THAT TO BELIEVE THE SAME THING; IT HAD EVERYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT GOD HAD HANDED DOWN!! WHEN GOD HANDS THINGS DOWN HE HANDS THEM DOWN TO BE “TRUTH”! SO IT CAN BE ALIVE INSIDE OF YOU TO HELP YOU! IT IS NOT TO CORRAL YOU IN AND TO BIND YOU UP - IT IS TO SET YOU AT LIBERTY! IT IS TO MAKE YOU FREE!!! SO THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOU WILL HAVE ALLTHE FREEOM YOU NEED TO DO WHAT IT IS THAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO!
One of the things the disciples would probably never done after the Jews crucified Jesus, was they would have never went back to the JEWS. [Do you understand?] They would have never went back! “WHY?” BECAUSE THEY CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY!! THE IMPORTANT THING WAS THE WORD HAD ALREADY BEEN GIVEN! JESUS- SAID I AM NOT SENT TO ANY BUT THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. THAT WAS HIS MESSAGE. WHY? BECAUSE DANIEL 9: 24-27 HAD ALREADY DECLARED THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME AND DECLARE THE COVENENT AND CONFIRM THE COVENENT TO ISRAEL FOR 7 YRS.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE WAS SERVING? JESUS WAS SERVING THE WORD [THE IN THE BEGINNING WORD- THE FATHER], BY CONFIRMING THE COVENANT. NOW JESUS WAS ONLY PERMITTED BECAUSE OF THE REJECTION OF THE JEWS TO FULFILL IN HIS NATURAL PHYSICAL BODY 3 1/2 YEARS OF THAT- THE WORD [GOD] HAD ALREADY PREDETERMINED 7 YRS. SO- JESUS TOOK ON A NEW BODY, IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE A MANY MEMBERED BODY, ONE THAT WAS CAPABLE OF STILL GOING. SO- WHEN THE JEWS -THE APOSTLES, [ACTUALLY WERE GIVEN INSTRUCTION BY JESUS} THEY WERE INSTRUCTED TO GO BACK TO THE EXACT SAME ONES THAT HAD CRUCIFIED HIM! “”APOSTLES DOCTRINE””!!!! THE TEACHINGS THAT WAS HANDED DOWN TO THEM! IT WASN’T SOMETHING THEY SAT AROUND AND DECIDED TO COME UP WITH!! IT WAS WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD WAS DOING! THE DOCTRINE THAT CAME FROM THE APOSTLES WERE GIVEN TO THEM “BY THE SPIRIT” FROM THE HEAD, CHRIST SO THAT HE COULD GOVERN THE CHURCH!!! APOSTLES DOCTRINE WAS SIMPLY THE COMMUNICATION OF THE LIVING WORD OF GOD FOR THAT PARTICULAR TIME!! IT WAS NEVER TO SET IN THESE LEGALISTIC INSTRUCTIONS, GUIDELINES THAT YOU HAD TO KEEP AND FOLLOW TO THE TEE OR YOU WERE GOING TO DIE AND BURN IN HELL AND 10,000 OTHER THINGS!! THAT WAS NOT THE APOSTLES DOCTRINE!
WELL- ONE OF THE THINGS, GOD IS RESTORING IS, THE APOSTLEIC DOCTRINE!! IT IS THE LIVING WORD OF GOD!! AMEN! SO THAT YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM! You see there are things that you have freedom in that I don’t. Do you know who sets that and governs the tone of that in our life? THE SPIRIT AND THE WORD!! IF YOU HAVE A LIBERTY AND I DON’T, CAN I CONDEMN HER BECAUSE YOU HAVE THAT LIBERTY? NO!! WHY? BECAUSE THE DOCTRINE WAS SET IN HER NOT BY ME OR HER BUT BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD!
NOW – THE BODY OF CHRIST HAS TO LEARN HOW TO BE LED BY THE SPIRIT AND THE WORD [NOT SCRIPTURE]! IT DOESN’T KNOW HOW! IT HAS NOT. THE CHURCH OF TODAY HAS BEEN GOVERNED BY EXTERNAL ARTICLES OF COVENENT, BY ALL KINDS OF DOCTRINAL ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION! I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WE HAVE A LIVING BREATHING HEAD AND HIS NAME IS CHRIST AND HE IS FULLY CAPABLE OF LEADING AND GUIDING US BY THE LIVING WORD OF GOD TODAY AS HE WAS THEN!! WE ARE NOT LOST AND WE ARE NOT DEAF. HIS SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE!!
IF MY FATHER IS IN ME AND HE CAN’T SPEAK LOUD ENOUGH FOR ME TO HEAR HIM - I MUST HAVE ISSUES!! HE IS INSIDE OF YOU AND YOU DO HEAR HIM? YOU MAY NOT PAY ATTENTION TO A WORD HE IS SAYING, BUT YOU DO HEAR HIM. I ASSURE YOU HE IS SPEAKING IN SUCH A WAY THAT YOU CAN HEAR IT. EVERYONE OF HAS HEARD HIM AND TURNED AWAY FROM HIM, NOT INTENTIONALLY, AND LATER WE SAY MAN I SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT OR DONE THAT. THEN YOU BEGIN TO REALIZE- COULD THAT HAVE BEEN GOD? WHAT WE NEED TO REALIZE IS WE NEED TO KNOW THAT VOICE!! WE DO! I HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 37 YEARS AND WHEN SHE CALLS I KNOW HER VOICE! DO YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE I KNOW THE VOICE!! IT IS NOT THAT HE TELLS ME THAT IT IS HIM. NO, I KNOW THE VOICE! I DON’T NEED HIM TO IDENTIFY HIMSELF! WE NEED TO KNOW THE FATHER’S VOICE!! YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW THAT I KNOW YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT FOR YOURSELF!! YOU NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING!! SO GOD IS RESTORING! REMEMBER YOU HAD ALL THIS BEFORE THE WORLD EVER WAS, AND NOW THAT WE HAVE COME TO MANIFESTATION HERE IN 2009 HE IS WAKING IT UP, RESTORING IT BACK TO IT’S PROPER STATE, AND PROPER FUNCTIONALLITY, SO THAT WE CAN WALK IN IT. THE REASON HE WANTS US TO IS, SO WE CAN BE CONFIDENT, AND HAVE ACCESS TO HIM. HE WANTS TO LEAD US, AND HE DOESN’T WANT US HURTING. HE WANTS US TO BE NOT ONLY SUCCESSFUL AND VICTORIOUS FOR US BUT THERE ARE OTHERS THAT DON’T HEAR HIM, NOT THE WAY THEY SHOULD HEAR HIM! HE NEEDS US TO HEAR, NOT ONLY FOR US, BUT FOR THEM! SINCE WE HAVE LEARNED TO HEAR, WE CAN ASSURE THEM THAT THEY CAN HEAR JUST AS WELL! THAT IS HOW IT CONTINUES TO BE PASSED ON AND ON! WE ARE INTRODUCING THEM TO THEIR FATHER!!! NOT TO OUR DOCTRINE!!!
PART 1
AUGUST 14, 2009
DR. FRANK HUDSON
In any construction job there is a lot of tearing down to make room for the new. That is same in our lives. I am always reminded about a little kid in the emergency room one night that had his hand hung in the candy machine. When we finally convinced him to let go of the candy bar, he was able to get his hand out. He wanted that candy bar and he wasn’t going to let go even if it meant he was going to be stuck there. But when Daddy shows up, Daddy speaks right straight to the thing.
You are going to find out that we pick a lot of things in our life. Things that are good for us and things that are not good for us, but when the Spirit of God shows up He is going to tell you the Truth about whatever it is. When He does we have a decision to make. We can either lay there and scream and cry about it or we can let go of the candy bar and tell our sweet tooth to take a back seat and then just step into the liberty and freedom.
You see, God wants you FREE! He wants you to be at liberty. He wants you to have mercy and grace. He doesn’t want you bound up. Remember, the blessings of the Lord will add no sorrow to you. Say that. ! THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD WILL ADD NO SORROW TO ME! When God starts putting things in place, you are going to find out, a lot of times, just about every time in your life, you will have to make room for what God wants to do in your life. I will have to make room for what God wants to do in my life. I believe that is one thing the Spirit is doing now is beginning to clean things out, move it out of the way because if we are trusting in something that is not really strong enough to support us, then it needs to be torn out no matter how difficult it may appear. There are a lot of things in our life that look good but they can’t hold us up. Where they have been coated over, we’ve got them to where they looked good enough and were presentable but they just simply will not support anything. You can’t build on them.
The first thing the Lord will do is rip the sheet rock off and start revealing the weak part because He is wanting to build something very strong and to bring things into your life that is not only going to sustain and keep you, but will also be able to hold a lot of fruit that others can eat from. We find that He is going to do that. He is going to find those things in our life and when He finds them, rejoice! Don’t say, “Oh my!” No, forget it! Rejoice, celebrate and say “THANK YOU LORD!”
Even though you may be crying and weeping when you’re ripping things out of your life, let it go. It’s robbing you. It is not a strength even though it may be a “crutch” and has been a crutch, it is not a strength and He will take it away. You’ve got to remember that the Spirit of God is interested in RESTORING and bringing back things into our life that God intended from before the foundations of the earth.
There have been so many things that have been taken away and robbed and diluted. Have been just really moved from its divine intent of God to the degree that today we don’t even recognize it any more! There are things that God is wanting for us to walk in. That is part of the provision. It is not that we have ignored it, we’ve never seen it. It is not that we really don’t understand it; we have never really heard it! Those are some of the things that the Spirit of God is doing.
A lot of times we can’t hear what it is that God is wanting to speak to us because we have already drawn a conclusion about something or a situation about certain areas of our lives or things in our lives. Once you draw that conclusion, it’s like putting a time limit on God. When you put a time limit on manifestation you have just stopped believing God. When we start putting things in our realm or ball park, then we need to completely allow them to be governed by God.
One of the hardest things about moving on is getting over where you’ve been. I’ve said that for years! The reason I do is that is the main hindrance in Christianity. People have a hard time walking in liberty and joy and a refreshing and an excitement and believing all the good things God has said because we have always had bad things happen to us. One after the other and it just seems like life experiences have continually confirmed to us that life sucks, that it is hard, it’s difficult and you got to fight and claw and beat your way through everything. The whole time God is sitting there saying, “That’s not my design. I didn’t design it that way. If you are tired of living it that way, let’s try it My Way!”
Here He is now speaking, “Come over here, (get in the Spirit) or come up here and see this thing the way I AM looking at it and you will get a whole new perspective!” But a lot of times we are so busy. (Look busy, Jesus is coming soon) There’s bumper stickers that say that. Dealing with it on that level that we can’t get over there in the Spirit where He is. You’ve got to remember, God sees the end from the beginning. He knows what it is going to take. That kid had to let go of the candy bar or his hand was just not going to come out of there. It wasn’t going to give way and Daddy knew that. He wanted the kid free. Let’s let go of the candy bar!
God knows the things we want and sometimes you’ve got to let go of good things. Things that you perceive to be beneficial and good and contributing to your life. You have to let go of them so that you can get the contribution from the Spirit that will bring everlasting results.
When God is looking at the principle of restoration, we are looking at what God wants to bring us to. Not what we’ve experienced or even what we have imagined because we have to remember that God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we ask or think, which simply means our imagination is insufficient! It is not capable of comprehending or embracing the incredible ability that our Father possesses nor does it understand or take into consideration the authority and power that God has already released towards us who believe.
We have an awesome power that God has placed working in us and through us and to us and we have identified that power as your ability to believe. You cannot possess or take hold of something that you have never heard of because you can’t believe until you hear! At least that is the way the scripture outlines it. How can they believe except they hear? How can they hear except one preach or speak and how can they speak except they have been sent? When you go through that process that Romans 10 speaks about you then begin finding out that the thing God is trying to get us to is Romans 10:17 and that is TO HEAR THE WORD! HEAR WHAT THE WORD IS SAYING.
In order to embrace what the Word is saying, a lot of times we have to let go of what we thought the Word has already communicated to us. For instance, when I first came to Christ, I was afraid I could lose what He had given me. I was afraid. I didn’t want to do anything to blow it, because “the Church” told me I could. I almost killed myself trying to work my way to heaven. Trying to do everything I could and I’m telling you if you had known me before Christ changed and got a hold of my life, you wouldn’t have wanted to know me. That is just the way I was. I fought every day, scars, bruised, broke knuckles and hand. I was shot and stabbed. That was just the way I lived. When I saw the gift that God had given me, I thought I had to keep earning that thing. That is what I believed. I held on to that and unless I was going to be teachable, I could never have embraced the revelation that made me free. Here I found myself in a life and death struggle on a daily basis trying to keep myself saved. What I was actually doing was killing me. It ended up being a good thing. Because the more it killed me, the more I cried out for help. The more I realized I was falling short, the more I was just broken. It reached to the point to where I was fasting and praying weeks on end. Twenty, to thirty to forty days, it was irrelevant. I didn’t care, it was life and I had to have TRUTH! Then the Spirit of God spoke to me so clear and so plain and when He revealed to me the TRUTH about what He had done for me, I was never the same! I’m telling you that I squalled I was so free. It took such a load off of me.
The whole time I had been wrestling with the Spirit it wasn’t to impress God. I was trying to overthrow the mindset that I had developed thinking that was truth, when it wasn’t TRUTH. It was simply a step in the journey that was leading me to the TRUTH. I know when the TRUTH came! Because the TRUTH made me free! When the TRUTH makes you free, you know that you are free. That’s where the scripture says, “To whom the Son brings Truth and it is made known to them, they will walk in the freedom of that TRUTH!” Whom the Son makes free is the same one that He brings TRUTH to.
Any area in your life that you found TRUTH you are free! The enemy doesn’t like it at all but you are going to find out the more TRUTH you come into the more TRUTH you want. The more you realize of what God has filled you with and what He has prepared for you, the more you want to obtain that same promise and that same blessing that He set for you.
When we are looking at restoration, it is vitally important because we are being restored to the TRUTH! IT’S ACTUALLY A COVENANT OF TRUTH! It is an everlasting TRUTH! That is what God is bringing us to. Each one of us are at different levels and stages of the revelation. I don’t know anyone that’s on the same level of revelation and understanding. God is doing something different in every one of our lives. It is an individual journey although we take it together.
As we are moving forward in the things that God is doing, I want reveal some things and share some things with you that we need to look for revelation in. So that TUTH, the things that God has already put there, that already belong to us, but when we ACCEPT the TRUTH of it then he can restore us to the position we had with Him before the world was.
Does everyone understand that you were in Him before the world was ever formed? Now that’s an awesome revelation! If you’ve got a hold of that, it’s an awesome thing because it’s liberating. You begin to realize that God spoke of you from before the foundations of the earth. It just took time for Him to bring us into manifestation. You’re here at exactly the right time and exactly at the right point in your life and everything that God was doing is just perfect. We are coming to “the identity”! We are coming to know even as we are known!
To come to know ourselves even as we are known. When He is talking about, as we are known, He’s not talking about how angels know you. He’s not talking about how the enemy knows you. He’s not talking about how your neighbors know you or how your preacher knows you or how your parents know you. He’s talking about HOW HE KNOWS YOU!
If you will let that sink in. You could stop reading and close the book because He is only going to speak to you based upon what He knows to be true about you! That’s why when you hear people running people down and trying to exploit their weaknesses and all the other things, that’s not the Spirit of God. God does not keep rehearsing and counting and bring those things up for you. It’s the goodness of the Lord that changes people. That is what He does. He is speaking what He knows to be true. What He knows about true is what He put in you before the foundations of the earth.
Before the earth was ever formed you were in Him “in Word form”. I know that has to sink in. The Word formed and the Spirit moved upon that in due time and you have manifested and here we are. It does not change that you are here in a natural physical body yet you are still in the form of the Word. You are the Word made flesh, begotten by the Word and EVERYTHING PRODUCES OF IT’S OWN KIND. It’s not a hidden thing but is a very important thing. It is something that we need to discover! We need to understand it. We need to come to the reality of it because that’s what God is speaking to. He is speaking to the true thing and not to the idle things. He is not speaking to the flesh. He has already condemned the flesh so He is not even addressing the flesh. He is the one that is moving in our Spirit so that we come under the dominion of the Spirit in our life and can possess the soul. Now the soul lives in the body, but God’s not concerned about the body because the body is governed by the soul, governed by the Spirit. If we are allowing the body to govern us then it is out of order. If we are allowing the soul to govern it’s out of order. It needs to be governed by the Spirit. God know who is in authority. If God knows you are in authority, He’s not going to go outside your realm or do other things to try and communicate instructions to you to bring victory or success. He is going to come directly to the One who is in authority and that’s YOU!
Say that. “I’m in authority under Christ. He has given me all authority and all power in His Name to subdue all things and to put all things under His feet and my feet.
As that position we have in authority, first of all we have to accept it step by step. You are not going to jump from A to Z in one day. You have to accept that “B” has a position.
You have to accept that B has a responsibility, it’s an element, it’s a building block, and you go from a to b and you allow b to have its work in your life. Now when God is making us strong, he is not going to go from the cement or concrete pre- foundation to the roof! He is going to put everything in place that it takes to secure the roof and when it is time for the roof, the roof will be there and it will be strong and immoveable!
Now when He is growing us He is doing the same thing. He is restoring us, and what He is not going to do is take you from a place of devastation and give you absolute fullness of manifestation. WHY? Because it will collapse on you and crush you, but what He will do is show you how you got to where you are, so that you can stop the power it has to hold you there. Now once that power is broken, now you can spoil the enemy’s goods! As that power is broken God says now, the restoration doesn’t begin in the full manifestation, but the restoration goes plowing the ground making you free.
That begins the work of restoration of what God is doing in our life, and I’m going to tell you, as long as you try and hold on to the things He is trying to uproot- It is going to be tough!! What you are going to find out is that the things that have not produced life in you are probably going to be rooted up! I remember so many times people who were coming in and trying to understand revelation knowledge, they wanted to get information about what the KINGDOM OF GOD was saying and doing, if the Kingdom is operable today what is being said, and almost without exception, eventually they will get around to wanting you to explain the book of Revelation to them. It is almost without exception, they want to know, they have questions about different things in the book of Revelation. I tell them, I say well I could tell you, but it would waste both of our time, because you can’t go from learning that the Kingdom is available to understanding the Revelation, because the Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus!
Now I know the word that has been painted and formed in the mind of individuals about what the book of Revelation actually communicates. Now when they are locked into that information and they won’t let go of it “YOU CAN’T GET TRUTH IN THERE”! You can try, but they are going to war against it, I have watched for over twenty years. They are going to war against it simply because they have preconceived ideas, thoughts, imaginations, they have worked all this into their imagery and put everything into their plan of the future and everything else, and they have no room for revelation!
What you will find out is, God will come in and start kicking down the stand out about all that false imagery that has been placed there about a 7 yr. tribulation, raptures and beast coming up out of the sea and the sun being darkened and moon turning to blood and the stars falling from the sky and all this imagery is just terrible manifestations in this natural physical realm that has absolutely no bearing and meaning whatsoever on what God was revealing about Jesus Christ! IT IS MAN’S ATTEMPT AT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND A SYMBOLIC BOOK! IT CAN ONLY BE GRASPED BY THE REVELATION KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
What we find out then is that God is not going to try and move you from a place that you have just battled to try and keep your head above water, to full provision, although it is yours. What he is going to do is to educate us and bring us understanding and wisdom and knowledge, so that WISDOM can build her house. When she builds her house it is a good house! It will stand, now we are the house that the Lord has built, and He has done that through the SPIRIT OF WISDOM!
People have looked at the way God was building his house for almost 6,000 yrs. Not only have they not understood how he was building the house, they never have really understood the house. The reason they haven’t understood what God was doing was, they never understood what God said and they received a false imagery and developed a perception that robbed them from being able to accept the truth. As long as you are looking for a natural physical building and a natural physical temple and you’re looking for a natural ceremonial and ritual and priesthood and all these other things, you’re not going to see what God accomplished, if your mind is focused on that, this is foolishness to you! THE TRUTH BECOMES FOOLISHNESS AND YOU CAN’T RECEIVE THEM BECAUSE YOU ARE HOLDING ON TO THESE THINGS.
It is the same thing about VICTORY in our lives, whether you are fighting poverty, or you are fighting being oppressed all the time, whether you are fighting fear, whether you are fighting oppression of the enemy trying to come and still your joy, or destroy your family, or do all these different things, it’s the same thing! There is some kind of an imagery, or some kind of a foundational, or some kind of a word that has been accepted AS TRUTH, and I am going to tell you- IF IT IS NOT PRODUCING WHAT CHRIST SAID IT WOULD- [it is a false truth and it needs to be removed, just pull it down, IF IT IS TRUTH HE WILL CLEAN IT UP AND PUT IT RIGHT BACK UP THERE!]
So- don’t think that you are going to abandon truth, He loves it when you prove Him, He loves it when you come and press it, I know because I have addressed the Lord so directly over the years that people would run away from me thinking God was going to knock me down with lightning. I was just pure and going before Him honestly [hope you understand what I’m saying].
So being able to embrace what God is saying and doing in your life now, there needs to be a decision made, that is if you want the “TRUTH”- you got to let go of the error!
So- if you want to go in a different direction in an area of your life right now, if you are wanting God to restore you back to what you had with him before the world ever was and what Gods intent was in the EVERLASTING COVENANT, what you have to do is to begin to realize and identify and sentence the other things that are in your life to the same sentence that God has given them. They are not going to produce anything of the heavenly realm, they are only going to produce of the natural physical realm or the earthly realm, and it will never sustain you into the EVERLASTING REALM!
ALRIGHT- LET’S LOOK AT A FEW THINGS! Let’s go to EPH: 2-18
“Through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father”, {Say that} – Through Him [“NOW THAT IS JESUS”] we both have access by one SPIRIT unto the FATHER!
Now think about that for a moment- “Why do you think that God made it available for “YOU” to have access to the Father?” It is because He wanted you to be able to spend time in the presence of the Father to be influenced by the Father to know that you have an audience with the Father any time you need it!
Now- I am going to tell you that Christianity taught me and others that I know of as we were growing up and coming in- “that you keep going to Jesus”. Jesus made the provision, and said the time is coming and now is when I tell you “don’t ask me anything”! Yet we have always been taught to- “GO TO JESUS”! Just go to Jesus. Well Jesus is saying- “go to the Father”! JESUS MADE THE WAY SO THAT NOW- “YOU” BY THE SPIRIT HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO THE FATHER!! Jesus even said “the Father was greater than I”!
So- We have access to the “SUPREME BEING”, of the entire universe! Jesus gave us that access, because that is where He wants us to go! He doesn’t want you concerned over all the other little things, because the FATHER has all the answers! What ever you ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME THAT WILL HE DO, that will I do! The reason was so that the Father could be glorified because of the provision the Son had given us!
So every time we go to the Father, “We have access to Him by the SPIRIT”! Say that- BY THE SPIRIT!! You don’t have access by whining, complaining, by moaning, by groaning, by weeping, by crying, none of that stuff. YOU HAVE ACCESS BY THE SPIRIT!! So if you want to access the Father- YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE FLESH, GET OUT OF THE CARNAL REALM, OUT OF THE EMOTIONAL REALM, AND GET INTO THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT! NOW- Romans 8 makes it very clear to every single one of us- just simply another “Truth” that you have to believe and receive and that Truth in Romans 8 simply says this- “YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH BUT IN THE SPIRIT “IF” SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU.” Say that with me- I am not in the flesh but in the Spirit because I know THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN ME!!!
So – If you are in the Spirit you have access to God by that Spirit – WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE FATHER? Absolutely nothing!! How easy is that!! Do you know what you need to do? The same thing I have to do- “BELIEVE” THAT ACCESS HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE FOR YOU!! The only thing that separated me from the Father was the veil and Jesus destroyed the veil by his flesh took it out of the way, and all the hand writing of the ordinances that didn’t make a squat to God, but hindered me, because it condemned me ! So He took them out of the way, nailed them to the cross, so therefore I have confidence to utilize the access that I have to the father! NOW HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT?
Through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. NOW THEREFORE- everybody say- NOW- Now we all understand when now is don’t we, now is a very present word, it means it is already happening. Now therefore “YOU” ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS. No more now this was written about 2,000 yrs. ago, so this has been in affect a long time! But- what we have not realized is –we have embraced anther Truth- so that now when this Truth comes, if we can let go of the other old one, we can sure get a hold of the new one! Guess what it will do? It will enliven and just actually blossom the access that you have to the Father. You are no longer strangers and foreigners—you can’t be, because you got access to the Father- but we are fellow citizens with the saints and “OF” the household of God. That household of God simply means that you are now in the Family of God!
It’s a lot different being God’s people, and beings God’s family! A lot of times He calls different ones the people of God, BUT HE CALLS YOU CHILDREN!! I know a lot of people but I have got only 3 children! Now- I am going to tell you, YOU HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE WITH THE FATHER! When you approach Him, don’t approach Him as a people would, approach Him as a child would! Do you know why? Because you live in the household! It’s His good pleasure to give the KINGDOM to you.
He knew the only way to get the Kingdom to us was for us to be heirs, so He made a way for us to be BORN- AGAIN, and the BORN-AGAIN makes you the direct line, by birth, not by your merit, not by anything you could ever do, you couldn’t stand there and say –it was because I was at church every time the doors were open, or because I tithed regularly, or because I sang in the praise team, you couldn’t say any if those things. HE SAID I DID IT FOR YOU! I am the one that approached you. I am the one that brought the life giving flow of my WORD to you, and I am the one that brought my faith that is in my word to you. I am the one that caused MY SPIRIT TO OVERSHADOW THAT WORD and the things in your life to bring you to the point of bringing forth into manifestation and when you were born again – He said I did it all!! No flesh can ever Glory in the presence of God!!
These things are vitally important. We have covered a few things and you see how important the access and the knowledge and the revelation is, you see if we are holding to another thing, if you are trying to hold to the imagination that you are just an “old sinner saved by grace,” then you can’t ever accept that you have direct access to the Father!! Sinners don’t have that!! So you see how simple of a mentality and once you accept that as BEING TRUE, IT HAS NOW BLOCKED YOU FROM ACCESS! It has blocked from household and causes you to be a people. You are no longer a child but a people and that is what the mentality does. You can be a child but if you have a people mentality, you will never approach through the access you have to the FATHER!
Vs. 20 And [and is very important because it means what I am about to say is just as important as what I have already said] are built upon the foundation of the “APOSTLES AND PROPHETS”, JESUS CHRIST himself being the chief cornerstone.
Now one of the things that GOD is absolutely RESTORING is the Foundation in the body in the church, the body of Christ. He is restoring the APOSTLIC and the PROPHETIC MINISTERY! I ASSURE YOU UNEQUIVICOLLY, that individuals out there that put a little Title on their name-[apostle so-n-so] 99.9% are not an Apostle! I call it “TITUAL AUTHORITY”, it is titles that are given to individuals to try and impress somebody.
When God starts building upon the “CHURCH” and Truth and Revelation Knowledge and Governmental understanding and all the other things that God does through that “GIFT” then we will start recognizing it! He is restoring the GIFT! Do you know what one of the greatest conformation is that God is restoring it is? The enemy is counterfeiting it! The enemy is out there trying to throw apostles here and prophets there and everything else and we know that God is doing it because, the enemy would have no reason to try and counterfeit it, except he knew it was in the plan of God and the timing of it IS NOW for those manifestations to come!
Are built upon the foundations- So He is telling us here- that we are a “building”, and we are to be strong and We have a “Manifestation” or an “Expression” THAT IS TO BE SEEN IN THE EARTH! That expression that is to be seen in the earth is not because you wear a 3 piece suit or you have purple hair and pack a 10# bible or anything else! The manifestation, the expression is that when they come to see you they see the FATHER! You know the reason He called “US” the “TEMPLE” was because, WHEN PEOPLE WENT TO THE TEMPLE THEY GOT FORGIVEN, THEY GOT HEALED, THEY GOT BLESSED, THEY COME AWAY WITH REVELATION KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, THAT’S WHY HE CALLS YOU THE TEMPLE NOW! It’s so when He is manifested in your life and they come to you –what do they get? Forgiven, they get healed, they get blessed! That is what Gods design is, but we have to accept that revelation knowledge! The ability to do that according to God is that He is implementing something and when I implement it, this is the way it is going to work. The APOSTOLIC and the PROPHETIC will have a vital role in the building- because they will be FOUNDATIONAL, and the things I am going to build upon will be built on the proper functioning of those gift ministries. They are not offices in the church, don’t ever think that a pastor is an office in the church, which it’s not- don’t think that an apostle or evangelist is either- they are not- two offices in the church –elder and deacon. What the others are- they are gift ministries Eph.4-5 they are there to equip the body to do the work of the ministry, but they are not OFFICES! I know that modern day religion and Christianity accepts that the pastor is the head of the church and he’s right and everybody else has to find the pecking order and if you question him you are in rebellion, and he is the one who hears from God! Some of them rule by deacon boards that govern and every thing else. This is all unscriptural! It has nothing to do with it and GOD is not going to build on it! What you are going to find out is you can’t build on it either, because God is saying I will build you the way I said I will build you!
Now- THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE APOSTOLIC IS-- THE APOSTLE GETS EVERYTHING FROM GOD!! AN APOSTOLIC CAN ONLY FUNCTION WHEN IT HAS BEEN WITH HIM AND IS SENT FROM HIM!!! THAT IS THE ONLY WAY IT CAN! You see- you can’t go to seminary and be sent. You have to go into the PRESENCE or the access of the FATHER, AND WHEN THE FATHER HAS COMMISIONED YOU OR HAS GIVEN YOU INSTRUCTION OR DIRECTION- THEN YOU STEP OUT THE MANIFESTATION OF WHAT HE HAS GIVEN YOU! THE PROPHETIC IS THE SAME WAY!
So- what He is showing is- the foundation of what God is doing, is revealed through the proper function of the PROPHET AND THE APOSTOLE! Unfortunately in most of Christianity, THEY REJECT THE APOSTLE AS EVEN BEING ABLE TO MANIFEST TODAY AND THE PROPHETS THEY REJECT MOST OF THEM AS BEING ABLE TO MANIFEST TODAY OR IF THEY DO THE SYSTEMS ALMOST TURNS THEM INTO A CIRCUS SHOW, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROPER FUNCTIONING OF WHAT GOD SAID. THE APOSTLE AND THE PROPHET WILL DO TWO MAJOR THINGS - THEY WILL SERVE, THEY WILL EQUIP! THEY ARE NOT GOING TO RULE. AN APOSTLE CAN NOT RULE AND HE CAN NOT GOVERN OVER YOU!! HE DOESN’T HAVE THE AUTHORITY, NEITHER DOES A PASTOR; NEITHER DOES A PROPHET, NEITHER DOES AN EVANGELIST OR A TEACHER! THEY WILL SERVE YOU IF THEY ARE BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT. THEY WILL SERVE YOU, TO EQUIP YOU AND TO BUILD YOU UP!
So- in any case He is talking about these awesome things that are available in EPH.-2 AND YOU GOT TO REMEMBER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT RESTORATION, GOD RESTORING! We have to let go of what we have had to be able to embrace the TRUTH so that we can step into the arena of what GOD is saying and doing-because if there is a foundation laid over here and it is not the foundation of the APOSTLE AND THE PROPHET, IF IT THE FOUNDATION OF A RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION OR DENOMINATION TO WHERE THEY HAVE GOT TOGETHER AND DECIDED TO PLANT A CHURCH SOMEWHERE, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FOUNDATION HE TALKS ABOUT OF THE APOSTLE AND THE PROPHET! SO- can God use that? SURE! All things work together for the good to all those who love the Lord! Salvation is a big product of what God does through any place! But whether it is a structured organization or what ever, what Jesus was talking about was that when He builds His CHURCH - HE did not say it would have a big steeple, and a bell would ring, and we will come together 3 days a week- No He said- When My church is built the gates of hell will not prevail against it! That was his identifying mark, right there! The gates of hell will know when My body stands up1 HAD NOTHINGTO DO WITH LOOKING GOOD OR TRYING TO GRACE THE HOUSE OF God WITH YOUR PRESENCE-{ YOU ARE THE HOUSE OF GOD!!}
So – bringing all of that into perspective it has to come into focus! What really keeps us from focusing on it entirely is, all the other images that we have been taught, or we have learned along the way! So as long as we are looking at these other things and we try to make them equal to what God is SAYING AND what God is doing we are only deceiving yourself or walking in denial! When you begin seeing functioning Apostolic and Prophetic ministries- look up- pay attention- focus, BECAUSE THE MAJORITY WILL NOT BE THERE!! DO YOU KNOW WHY? IT IS NOT STRUCTURED ENOUGH FOR THEM. THEY DON’T FEEL SAFE AND SECURE THERE. Do YOU KNOW WHY THEY DON’T FEEL SAFE AND SECURE THERE? IT’S BECAUSE THE SPIRIT IS MOVING AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHERE HE’S GOING AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT HE’S DOING! BUT THAT IS WHERE YOU SHOULD BE DRAWN THEN TO THE SPIRIT, SO YOU NOW ARE RELYING ON THE SPIRIT- If you can get a paper that gives you the messages for the next 3 mos- one of two things, [either somebody is in tune very in tune ha- ha, or they are completely out of tune, which is right]! THERE IS NO WAY TO PREDICT WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS GOING TO SAY AND DO!! YOU JUST CAN’T DO IT AND EVEN THE APOSTLES OF THE FIRST CENTURY, WHEN THEY WENT AROUND AND THEY WERE IDENTIFIED AS THOSE THAT HAD TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN! WHAT THEY HAD DONE WAS IMPACTED THE WORLD OF RELIGION IN A WAY IT HAD NEVER BEEN IMPACTED BEFORE! Religion couldn’t order it, they couldn’t buy it. They couldn’t do anything with it at all. They couldn’t control it. They couldn’t shut it up. The more they persecuted it, the more it grew. The more they locked them up, the more God shook the prison doors and changed the prisoners, the guards, the people, and everything they tried to do - and that is what the spirit does!
The Spirit begins to free you. He frees you from the limitations that the soulish mind and the physical body has. Jesus demonstrated that! That is how He walked on the water! He was freed from the limitations of the physical body! When we come to the knowledge of the Truth that we now who are in CHRIST, WE ARE SPIRIT BEINGS!
That Truth when it begins to set in, then He also will start over riding the natural physical things and we will begin to see Spiritual phenomenon that is not a phenomenon at all! But is actually normal of the things that are of the SPIRIT!
You see, it’s a shifting. They started talking about paradigm shifts back a few years ago, and I’m thinking I wish you did come into one, if they would have came into one, it would have shifted from the natural carnal into the SPIRIT! They didn’t, they just shifted into a new terminology, and they like kicking a lot of terms around and things like that, but I’m going to tell you, when the SPIRIT begins to move in your life and shift things around in your life, you know it is happening. The light begins to come on! You begin to realize I’m alive! I am not locked into this thing that I have no power over it. I HAVE ALL POWER AND AUTHORITY TO CHANGE ANYTHING IN MY LIFE- NOTHING CAN KEEP ME I DON’T CARE IF IT IS A MIND SET, A PHYSICAL THING, IF IT IS AN EMOTIONAL THING, OR WHATEVER, IT HAS NO AUTHORITY AND NO POWER AND IT WILL BOW!!
Now you see that MENTALITY has to be taken on to where we understand that we are not here just trying to gauge and be kind of a thermometer of what’s going on, but we are a thermostat, and by the grace of God we can shift into SPIRIT, and as we shift into that realm of the SPIRIT, WE START CALLING THOSE THINGS THAT BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY REALLY ARE! What we are actually doing is releasing the TRUTH!! What the TRUTH does is begin to manifest!
Verse21: IN whom all the building fitly framed together grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
Verse22: In whom you also are builded together for a habitation of God! NOW- What is a habitation?? It is a dwelling place! In other words a home!! A HOUSE THAT GOD DWELLS THERE!!
I know that Christianity does not think that way. They don’t! They think that one day they will get to heaven! One day they will see Jesus! One day they will get to walk around on streets of gold and everything else. I am not denying that is a possibility. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT! THAT IS NOT WHAT HE IS SAYING! What He is talking about, believe it or not, JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD, and believe it or not HE IS ALIVE! HE IS ALIVE TODAY AND HE HAS ACTUALLY CAME AND TAKEN UP RESIDENCE INSIDE OF US JUST LIKE HE SAID, THAT HE AND THE FATHER WOULKD COME AND MAKE THEIR ABODE IN US!! HE DIDN’T SAY WITH YOU, HE SAID IN YOU!! THAT SHOWS THAT HE WAS MAKING THE GAP COMPLETELY IRRELVENT. HE WAS CLOSING THE GAP HIMSELF. HE DIDN’T SAY I WILL BRING YOU OVER HERE TO WHERE THE FATHER AND I AM - HE SAID NOPE- WE ARE COMING THERE!! You might mess up and hinder it, so I am going to do it the other way! I’LL JUST COME TO YOU!! JESUS EVEN SAID- FATHER I WOULD THAT THEY BE WITH ME WHERE I AM- HE SEALED THAT BY COMING AND PUTTING HIMSELF RIGHT IN US!! SO IT WAS COMPLETELY FULFILLED!!
SO RESTORATION BRINGS US TO THAT KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING! WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO HAVE JESUS LIVE WITH YOU? What would it mean? When you think about it, what would you need? What would you have lack of? How concerned would you be if things were happening? You wouldn’t be concerned at all. You know why? Because you know the resource. You know the potential OF WHAT IS THERE!
You see - our minds have to shift into the provision that has already been made! We are not hoping! We are not praying that these things happen! He’s saying you need to believe!!! The issue isn’t to hope and pray it’s to believe!!! To believe that what God said He would do, He will also perform!! Now I know there are some things yet for manifestation- the body of Christ is still going to come to a full and complete manifestation, and the earth is going to shake because of the voice of God rising up in his body, and God has set down expecting His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet [you are his feet] and the body of Christ WILL ACCOMPLISH THAT ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE! That the children of God the saints of God would take the KINGDOM OF GOD and would possess it for ever and ever! I can go on and on with all the things, BUT WE ARE NOT HOPING AND PRAYING FOR THAT, WE ARE BELIEVING THAT!!! But we have to get more personal and exact on the BELIEVING! He said- HE AND THE FATHER WOULD COME AND MAKE THEIR ABODE IN US!! WE ARE THE HABITATION OF GOD! WE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD! WE ARE HIS CHILDREN! ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE VITALLY IMPORTANT TO BEING ABLE TO BE RESTORED, SO THAT WE CAN TAKE ON THE SAME POTENTIAL THAT WE HAD WITH THE FATHER BEFORE THE WORLD EVER WAS!! It’s His desire. It’s HIS design!!
In Acts 2- I do want to share something there with you real quick- NO ORGANIZATION, DENOMINATION, NO PASTOR, NO SET OF ELDERS, NO DEACONS, NO POPULAR VOTE BY THE CONGREGATION HAS THE ABILITY TO SET DOCTRINE!! THERE IS ONLY ONE THAT SETS DOCTRINE - AND THAT IS THE LORD!! JUST ONE!!
We have so many denominations, because they got into the doctrine setting business. Some believe that you could have salvation by calling upon the name of the LORD. Others believe you had to have salvation and be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses. Others believe you had to call on the name of the Lord and be baptized and hold on to your faith all of your life and then you would be saved. Others believe you could have your salvation and then loose it if you went outside and looked at a pretty woman and that you would loose your salvation. But you know what? Even the blood of the bulls and goats would cover you for a year. “THE BLOOD OF JESUS COVERS YOU ETERNALLY!!”
When we begin to get locked in to all these different things, we realize that mankind does not have the authority to set DOCTRINE!! Matter of fact Jesus rebuked them, and said- you are teaching the commandments of men to be Gods doctrine!! That’s doctrines of men and not the commandments of God. By you doing that you are making the Word of God of none effect and He was not talking about “SCRIPTURE”. HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD [THAT IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD] HE’S TALKING ABOUT THAT WORD!! The LIVING Word of God! He said you are making the WORD OF GOD INEFFECTIVE BY FOLLOWING YOUR MAN MADE TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE. THERE IS ONLY ONE THAT SET DOCTRINE. YOU ARE NULLIFYING THE ACTIVE, LIVING MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD OF GOD WHO IS TRYING TO COMMUNICATE TO YOU AND BRING YOU TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH - BUT YOU ARE SO LOCKED IN TO YOUR CEREMONIES AND RITUALS, YOUR MAN MADE DOCTRINES. YOU ARE REJECTING THE WORD AND THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT TRYING TO BRING YOU TRUTH AND YOU ARE HOLDING TO YOUR TRADITIONS AND YOU ARE PUSHING AWAY THE POWER AND THE ANNOINTING OF GOD THAT CAN DELIVER YOU!
SO - W EN WE LOOK HERE IN Acts 2: We just saw in Eph 2 Paul talking about the apostle and the prophet was what God was building on, and here in verse 41: “they that gladly received his word were baptized and the same day there was added unto them about 3000 souls”, and “THEY CONTINUED STEADFASTLY IN THE APOSTLES DOCTRINE”AND FELLOWSHIP!
Now- I am going to tell you- in today’s Christianity, I don’t know of many Doctrines at all that are the Apostle’s Doctrine! WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE IST CENTURY APOSTOLIC DOCTRINE THAT WAS PASSED DOWN, IT WAS PASSED DOWN BECAUSE THEY LIVED IT!! THEY MANIFESTED IT. [DO YOU UNDERSTAND?] THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH TRYING TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER THAT TO BELIEVE THE SAME THING; IT HAD EVERYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT GOD HAD HANDED DOWN!! WHEN GOD HANDS THINGS DOWN HE HANDS THEM DOWN TO BE “TRUTH”! SO IT CAN BE ALIVE INSIDE OF YOU TO HELP YOU! IT IS NOT TO CORRAL YOU IN AND TO BIND YOU UP - IT IS TO SET YOU AT LIBERTY! IT IS TO MAKE YOU FREE!!! SO THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOU WILL HAVE ALLTHE FREEOM YOU NEED TO DO WHAT IT IS THAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO!
One of the things the disciples would probably never done after the Jews crucified Jesus, was they would have never went back to the JEWS. [Do you understand?] They would have never went back! “WHY?” BECAUSE THEY CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY!! THE IMPORTANT THING WAS THE WORD HAD ALREADY BEEN GIVEN! JESUS- SAID I AM NOT SENT TO ANY BUT THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. THAT WAS HIS MESSAGE. WHY? BECAUSE DANIEL 9: 24-27 HAD ALREADY DECLARED THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME AND DECLARE THE COVENENT AND CONFIRM THE COVENENT TO ISRAEL FOR 7 YRS.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE WAS SERVING? JESUS WAS SERVING THE WORD [THE IN THE BEGINNING WORD- THE FATHER], BY CONFIRMING THE COVENANT. NOW JESUS WAS ONLY PERMITTED BECAUSE OF THE REJECTION OF THE JEWS TO FULFILL IN HIS NATURAL PHYSICAL BODY 3 1/2 YEARS OF THAT- THE WORD [GOD] HAD ALREADY PREDETERMINED 7 YRS. SO- JESUS TOOK ON A NEW BODY, IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE A MANY MEMBERED BODY, ONE THAT WAS CAPABLE OF STILL GOING. SO- WHEN THE JEWS -THE APOSTLES, [ACTUALLY WERE GIVEN INSTRUCTION BY JESUS} THEY WERE INSTRUCTED TO GO BACK TO THE EXACT SAME ONES THAT HAD CRUCIFIED HIM! “”APOSTLES DOCTRINE””!!!! THE TEACHINGS THAT WAS HANDED DOWN TO THEM! IT WASN’T SOMETHING THEY SAT AROUND AND DECIDED TO COME UP WITH!! IT WAS WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD WAS DOING! THE DOCTRINE THAT CAME FROM THE APOSTLES WERE GIVEN TO THEM “BY THE SPIRIT” FROM THE HEAD, CHRIST SO THAT HE COULD GOVERN THE CHURCH!!! APOSTLES DOCTRINE WAS SIMPLY THE COMMUNICATION OF THE LIVING WORD OF GOD FOR THAT PARTICULAR TIME!! IT WAS NEVER TO SET IN THESE LEGALISTIC INSTRUCTIONS, GUIDELINES THAT YOU HAD TO KEEP AND FOLLOW TO THE TEE OR YOU WERE GOING TO DIE AND BURN IN HELL AND 10,000 OTHER THINGS!! THAT WAS NOT THE APOSTLES DOCTRINE!
WELL- ONE OF THE THINGS, GOD IS RESTORING IS, THE APOSTLEIC DOCTRINE!! IT IS THE LIVING WORD OF GOD!! AMEN! SO THAT YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM! You see there are things that you have freedom in that I don’t. Do you know who sets that and governs the tone of that in our life? THE SPIRIT AND THE WORD!! IF YOU HAVE A LIBERTY AND I DON’T, CAN I CONDEMN HER BECAUSE YOU HAVE THAT LIBERTY? NO!! WHY? BECAUSE THE DOCTRINE WAS SET IN HER NOT BY ME OR HER BUT BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD!
NOW – THE BODY OF CHRIST HAS TO LEARN HOW TO BE LED BY THE SPIRIT AND THE WORD [NOT SCRIPTURE]! IT DOESN’T KNOW HOW! IT HAS NOT. THE CHURCH OF TODAY HAS BEEN GOVERNED BY EXTERNAL ARTICLES OF COVENENT, BY ALL KINDS OF DOCTRINAL ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION! I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WE HAVE A LIVING BREATHING HEAD AND HIS NAME IS CHRIST AND HE IS FULLY CAPABLE OF LEADING AND GUIDING US BY THE LIVING WORD OF GOD TODAY AS HE WAS THEN!! WE ARE NOT LOST AND WE ARE NOT DEAF. HIS SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE!!
IF MY FATHER IS IN ME AND HE CAN’T SPEAK LOUD ENOUGH FOR ME TO HEAR HIM - I MUST HAVE ISSUES!! HE IS INSIDE OF YOU AND YOU DO HEAR HIM? YOU MAY NOT PAY ATTENTION TO A WORD HE IS SAYING, BUT YOU DO HEAR HIM. I ASSURE YOU HE IS SPEAKING IN SUCH A WAY THAT YOU CAN HEAR IT. EVERYONE OF HAS HEARD HIM AND TURNED AWAY FROM HIM, NOT INTENTIONALLY, AND LATER WE SAY MAN I SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT OR DONE THAT. THEN YOU BEGIN TO REALIZE- COULD THAT HAVE BEEN GOD? WHAT WE NEED TO REALIZE IS WE NEED TO KNOW THAT VOICE!! WE DO! I HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 37 YEARS AND WHEN SHE CALLS I KNOW HER VOICE! DO YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE I KNOW THE VOICE!! IT IS NOT THAT HE TELLS ME THAT IT IS HIM. NO, I KNOW THE VOICE! I DON’T NEED HIM TO IDENTIFY HIMSELF! WE NEED TO KNOW THE FATHER’S VOICE!! YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW THAT I KNOW YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT FOR YOURSELF!! YOU NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING!! SO GOD IS RESTORING! REMEMBER YOU HAD ALL THIS BEFORE THE WORLD EVER WAS, AND NOW THAT WE HAVE COME TO MANIFESTATION HERE IN 2009 HE IS WAKING IT UP, RESTORING IT BACK TO IT’S PROPER STATE, AND PROPER FUNCTIONALLITY, SO THAT WE CAN WALK IN IT. THE REASON HE WANTS US TO IS, SO WE CAN BE CONFIDENT, AND HAVE ACCESS TO HIM. HE WANTS TO LEAD US, AND HE DOESN’T WANT US HURTING. HE WANTS US TO BE NOT ONLY SUCCESSFUL AND VICTORIOUS FOR US BUT THERE ARE OTHERS THAT DON’T HEAR HIM, NOT THE WAY THEY SHOULD HEAR HIM! HE NEEDS US TO HEAR, NOT ONLY FOR US, BUT FOR THEM! SINCE WE HAVE LEARNED TO HEAR, WE CAN ASSURE THEM THAT THEY CAN HEAR JUST AS WELL! THAT IS HOW IT CONTINUES TO BE PASSED ON AND ON! WE ARE INTRODUCING THEM TO THEIR FATHER!!! NOT TO OUR DOCTRINE!!!