Isaiah 14. 12-15 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer,[a]Â son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13Â For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north
14Â I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
15Â Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit.
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*THEY HAVE KEPT YOUR WORD
Jesus Christ having come to earth had a specific task to accomplish before He returned to the Father, and having completed that task He knew His departure was “At hand”.
His report to the Father? “I have glorified you on the earth, I have finished the work you have given Me to do”. And the work in question in this scripture is “I have manifest Your name to those whom you have given me out of the world and they have kept it. They were Yours, You gave them to Me and they have kept Your Word” And “I have given them the words which You had given Me (to give to them) and they have received them and have known surely (truly without question or addendum) that Jesus came from the Father and was to return, His mission was accomplished.
For you see Christ, after the departure of Judas, no longer called them servants but friends “for a servant does not know what his Master is doing, but I tell you plainly about the father”. Then says “I have come forth from the Father and have come into the world and again I leave the world and go to the Father”. It was as if time froze and all the energy of Jesus Christ spotlighted that phrase for all eternity, for that was primary in the work the Father gave Him.
And it was so much so much so in fact that He made the disciples repeat what they heard, as he does also with us. Jesus then reports to the Father “They have kept your word”. Jesus came forth from the Father and returned to the Father” And the message kept? I came forth from the Father into the world. Again I leave the world and go to the Father. And you see Me again no more.” At least not in the flesh. John 16.28+28
If this then is central to the message the Father gave the son to give to us for it to be repeated by the disciples, then shouldn’t it be central to the teachings of Christ today? He came to sow seed in the hearts of the disciples and He knew it took root when His words came out of their mouths, otherwise He could not have said to the Father “I have given them Your word and they know truly I have come from you” who also said “You will see me no more because I go to the Father”.
This epic and paramount message that was delivered was that Christ had come forth from the Father and that He was returning and no where, I mean no where in all this discourse where He speaks plainly of Father, does He ever mention anything about a second coming or another work. Yet today in Christianity for many, that is the focus. But Jesus Christ told the Father “they have kept Your word” and the disciples having repeated that, Jesus said to them “Do you now believe?” as if to punctuate for us this important truth, then to further state to the Father “I have given them Your word and they have kept it” is a double stamp for us too. This is what He wants us to keep as well. And if Jesus did not finish the work the Father gave Him, He would have to come back a second time and none of what He said is true or reliable. His work in fact would not be finished and the cross would be a hoax.
You see it was the prophets who spoke of a coming one of which Jesus accomplished the word saying “all the law and the prophets were until John the baptist, now being fulfilled in Christ, Him having accomplished and finished the work saying “now the Kingdom is preached and all are pressing their way in” as if to indicate a stampede but today? They are waiting for a kingdom and they call it a second coming. What a disgrace. No stampede into the Kingdom, the doors are closed. A sign on the door “We are closed for remodeling and will re-open at the grand second coming. Bring your lawn chairs, popcorn, and palm branches for the coronation of the king who is coming later. Hosanna blessed will he be on that day.
With this mindset “The Kingdom of God at hand” has no relevance for it in fact would be not “at hand” but some time in the future and we would all be left alone in our sins, but that’s not the case. That’s not the gospel.
John the baptist specifically sent and asked Christ “Are you the coming one or do we seek another?” Jesus did not send word to John of a second coming, No problem I’ll get you on the rebound. Or; Go tell John I will come back in another couple thousand years to finish My work? This is not found once in scripture, neither is “the second coming”. But rather “go tell John what you see and hear”. Does this offend you?
Jesus could not say of these people, the second coming seekers “Father they have kept your word” those who keep My Word the Father will love and We will come to them and make our home in them” if they do not receive Jesus Christ in His natural, preincarnate self of being “The Word of God. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever”. Amen!
This can not be said to the second coming seekers because they believe the kingdom must come, and that Christ has more work to do and their heart is covered over with a thick delusion. But Jesus Christ is seated with the Father waiting for His enemies to become His footstool” waiting for His work to be played out, but “Today is the day of salvation” But they do not believe the testimony God gave the Son, then the Son gave the disciples, then the disciples repeated it back to Christ and He delivered word to the Father. “It is finished” unless finished means something else.
In John chapter 13 Christ showed the disciples in parable form the same thing. Christ stood up and took off his garments then He put on a clean towel. He then proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples with the clean towel till they were all clean, except Judas of course.
We can understand from Moses the importance of clean feet with what sandals mean, because when Moses was on Sinai he was instructed to “take off thy sandals for where you stand is Holy ground”. This was the first place Moses came in contact with the eternal and his sandals were the insulators between the created and the eternal. And the same for the disciples, they were coming into contact with the invisible and eternal Son of God that was washing their feet. We can understand in parable form that it is us that are washed by the water of the word.
Christ then said “what I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” And hopefully you are able to understand this as well so you can advance further into His Kingdom.
So when Christ had washed their feet, He took off the towel, meaning His humanity, He then put on His original garments, meaning His Glory, then sat back down like in the beginning before creation. This was all done in picture form, for us to understand the invisible reality it portrayed. Then He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
The answer is that, He showed them in parable form “for without a parable spake he not to the people”, His escatology, that He took off His Heavenly attire, put on earthly flesh as referred to by the towel, washed their feet to sanctify them so that He could tell the Father “I have finished the work you have given Me to do, I have given those you have given Me your word and they have kept it. Then to return to His Eternal composition, having finished His work in the realm of temporal flesh. He now instructs us to “follow Me so that where I am you may be also”. Meaning to the Father. And you can only follow the Word of God if you become His word to. We follow Him by becoming Him and He us Word. This our transformation and transfiguration.
He left us an example and We just showed you how to do it. You have to do it the way He did it with word, God’s word. We believe therefore we speak. Then the thing that we said becomes the thing that is, like when the Father said “let there be light and it was so”. When we hear the word if God we receive it into our hearts, we ponder what He said untill we can understand and repeat it. Then the things that we say that we learned from the word, becomes true for us as well, the moment we accomplish this process. The Heavenly Father hears our profession and being pleased that what He says to us reverberates back to Him and He us happy. Why? Because He knows that we got it. It is real for us. From that moment on we never need to repeat it again. We move on the the next revelation to complete the same prossess.
In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the Word was God”. You too must become Word to follow Him like we just showed you. In this way we are “a chip off the old block”.
We hope you now know the mission of Christ was to retrieve His elect by washing them from the obstacles of this age for recieving His word and the regeneration of the spirit, to wash each other’s walk, follow Him and take their rightful seat at His own right hand. Can you see this? Can you receive this? Can you repeat this?
Paul finally did in Ephesians 2 saying that He “raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus”.
Didn’t Yeshua say “follow Me that where I am you may be also? Well this is how you do it.
So those who heard and kept the word “I have come forth from the Father and come into the world, now I leave the world and go back to the Father”? Follow Him! He is “the way, the truth and the life”. He said “no one comes to the Father except through Me”. Meaning through word. His word in us, spoken as if we own it, because we do. We are joint heir’s of the things of the Father that He spoke on our behalf, for us to repeat it, for it to become our new reality. This is why Paul said “old things pass away, all things become new”. Not new in the sense of having never been before, but new in the sense that it never fades or gets old. It is always in it’s illustrious form of Heavenly Glory that never fades. It is new in this way.
If you truly understand this and do this, you will know Him and there is no need for another Jesus to explain or perform anything. Salvation start to finish is summed up in this way. This is the Christ, why do you seek another?
The Steward Part 3 To Those Who Hear
The disciples asked Jesus Why He spoke to the people in parables and He answered them saying “Because to you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom, but to them it has not been given”.
This here then coincides with “of those born among women there is none greater than John the baptist, but he who is least in the kingdom is greater than he”. That it is those who are looking to time as a dispenser of the things of God to be manifest in physical matter the things of God, they are blinded because it is by revelation that we receive the things of God. Not a date on the calendar..Â
Scriptural Stewardship Part 2 A Prophets Reward
We have discussed how a steward is a minister to administer, a distributor to distribute or a dispenser to dispense. That the words steward and dispensation come from the same Greek word in the New Testament. A minister and a steward of scripture distributes and dispenses the things of God according to the degree of what they have received and attained. They can only take you as far as they have been in the faith. And someone who is looking for a second coming Jesus and a second coming Kingdom is not qualified to represent the Kingdom of God now at hand.
Time is not the steward the dispenser or the distributor of the Kingdom of God and the things of God. The gospel is. And a true minister of the gospel reveals to you what is just beyond the veil of human perception made visible, or knowable only by revelation. Even as Paul said “The gospel that I preach to you did not come by man nor is it taught by man but by revelation (seeing things invisible) of Jesus Christ, and not a 2nd coming event of carnal visuals. Or God would have to apologise to those He said “seeing with their eyes they see not,hearing with their ears they hear not. It is with the heart that one must see and hear to understand the things of God”.
It is also said in John 2.24+ that Jesus did not commit Himself to man because He knows what is in man. And He had no need for man to testify of Him. So question the objective of scripture.
Also it says (John 3.27) “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from above”. So then only those who are born again that can see the Kingdom of God, and those who are born from above that can enter The Kingdom of God(John3.3-11) and it is us who can say “Most assuredly we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen”. These are they that are “the least in the Kingdom of Heaven that are greater than John the Baptist” So now we speak.
You see the second coming message is simply a mans convolution of the truth quite frankly because they admitently have never been into Gods Kingdom they are looking for. They reject these scriptures, or they would not be looking without for something that is within (Luke 17.22) They are blind leading the blind. A sorrowful sadness with an empty expectation of a future hope when the thing they are looking for “is in the mouth of their sack”. As scripture says, TODAY! If you can hear His voice. But they hear something else. (Read 1st post on stewards to understand “mouth of their sack”)
In Matthew 10 the Lord sends His disciples out to preach saying “The Kingdom of Heaven is now at hand”. Having empowered them and given them instruction He then tells them (Verse 40+) He who receives you receives me. He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet receives a prophets reward. He who receives a righteous man receives a righteous mans reward”. But we have come to you in the name of the Lord with a much greater reward, for he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than a prophet or a good man. For even the lowest stature person who is in the Kingdom of God of which you seek, is greater than a prophet or good man saying “of those born among women there is none greater than John the baptist, however He who is least in the kingdom is greater than he”. Why? Because we are born of a different sort. Even an once of eternity is more important and far out weights all time and matter because time and matter is what is being removed. (Hebrews 12.28)
It is the old style prophet who speaks forward of a coming thing that is not yet, but we speak to you what we have seen and testify to you what we hear about the true Kingdom of God. Not speaking forward about a second coming Kingdom that is not yet, but speaking as one who is from there. For we receive the testimony God has given in His Son and we follow Him where He is that we may be there also, and we do this “that the world may believe” at His command.
If you receive these words you receive more than any prophet or good person. Why? Because those who are in the Kingdom “In Christ” have reassembled the testimony of Christ within themselves having received His fullness, growing up into Him who is the head, who is far above all powers and principalities and powers. We are able to come back and lay out the bread crumbs that Christ left for us so that where He is you may be also. So we say. This is what a faithful steward does. We see what the Son does and do likewise. We receive the Gift of life and become givers of the indistinguishable, undiminishable gift from God. As our Lord promised “those who believe in me shall become rivers if living water”. So we do. His gift is confirmed in us and assures our duty as ambassadors. For how can one be an ambassador to a Kingdom they have never been to?
Let us go up from here.
We also showed you in the account given of Joseph and His steward to “follow me so that where I am you may be also. That we may be one in the Father and fill to be full in you the words of Christ that He prayed for you to the Father in John 17 the word “Father I pray not just for these but also those who will believe in Me through their (our) word, that they may be one with us”. This is the Kingdom of heaven. Come join us.
The message remains even now, till the end of this age “Go preaching the kingdom of God is at hand!!” (Mt 10.6+) This is the message preached from the beginning, then given to us, that the 2nd coming seekers distort and confuse for something that is not yet, but must some day be. For that which was from the beginning was never negated or taken away or the Lords words would not be eternal but seasonal like 1st and 2nd comings? We are called to the Kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world. Selah!
So as Christ said, so say we because as He is so are we in this world” Meaning not the man Jesus. He is not that anymore but His true self is as He is, so are we. Word. In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the Word was and is God. John 1.1
As He is so are we? He is one with the Father and prayed that for us too. Did you receive that word? He also said “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word and My Father will love him. And we will come to him and make our home in him. Do you have that?
Christ said “if anyone serves Me let him follow Me that where I am he may be also. Who also said “I am the way” who also said ” and the way you know! And it is not a 2nd coming train station departure bench of sit and wait.
This is the objective of every faithful steward in the things of God. To present every one “In Christ” a perfect citizen. To the full measure and stature of the fullness of Christ now and not at a second coming but now in Him. (Eph 4.13) If you can receive that the Kingdom of God is now at hand,then press in to attain this prize. “That You Father are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one with Us that the world may know. Can you receive this?
If you seek a second coming Jesus, you cannot have what we speak about for this is what you deny and make him a liar and reject the testimony that the Father gave you of His Son. God sent His Son not into the world to condemn but to save. This is what a savior does. He did not hand you a promisary note of a future king and kingdom but the one at hand, even at your proverbial fingertips.
The Kingdom is at hand” also correctly interpretated “immediate”. Repent and believe the true gospel. There is simply no room for a 2000 year gap for the one who has faith, for how is it we overcome the world? Is it of another appearance of another Jesus of another saving one of another gospel to finish what the first Jesus couldn’t do? No! Blasphemy! That which overcomes the world for us is our faith in Him in the here and now. 1st John 5.5
Today! If you will hear His voice.
The Kingdom of God is now at hand. This is the Eternal Gospel!
Amen.
*Scriptural Stewardship part 1 Joseph
Stewardship equals distributorship; to manage or look after another mans property, especially over a large house or an estate. One who is given care over provisions to distribute according to owners specifications. A stewardship in scripture is also translated dispensation, and means to dispense, to distribute and administer.
This is what the gospel teaches that you are given everything from the beginning,, and you just don’t know it. It is in the mouth of your sack for you to confess now and grow in understanding while dining with Christ (Word) “For in doing so an entrance is supplied abundantly for you into the Kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ”. And time has nothing to do with this for “in doing so”? “Today, if you will hear His voice”. And when doing that, “grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
John 14-17 in Colossians part 2
John 14-17 in Colosssians
Heavenly Choir
John in his book called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, not revelations but Revelation singular, goes on to describe our Lord in His heavenly Glory. “Grace and peace from Him who was and is and is to come”. Not to become as though He is not yet, but being the same yesterday today and forever He is a coming one meaning a constant coming each and every earthly day for He cannot be isolated to a singular event in space in time as though He has limitations as everything of the creation of time and matter has because He is the faithful and true witness being 100% reliable anytime and all the time eternally the same not waning or fading but constantly and always equally there and reliably for ever saying “come to the feast prepared for you from before the foundation of the world, the place that was before I ever spake a word to create for the Kingdom of God is at hand. To the heavenly voice that calls us.
John 14-17 found in Colossians
As we continue to clarify the teachings of Christ from John 14-17 where He says “If I go to prepare a place for you I will come back and receive you to myself” and “If you love me keep my word and Me and the Father will come to you and make our home in you” that He says these things so that when it happens you may believe” because it takes faith. That Him coming to us is not the carnally spectacular event called a 2nd coming. A concept not found in scripture. Be a good Berian and check your scripture. the term “Second coming is not found once in your bible.
20Â And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
There you have it “the Son of God has come” and “We are In Him who is true” fulfilling John 14-17. “This is the true God and eternal life” Not the next Jesus. What you want at a second coming happened through the blood. Receive this Jesus so that this verse may be true “If anybody loves Me they will keep My word and the Father and I will come to them and make our home with them.Â
This is the good news