December 3, 2014

John 14-17 in Colosssians

!.!9+ For it pleased the Father that “In Him” (Jesus) all the fullness (of the Father) should dwell. And by Him to reconcile all things to Himself weather things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of the cross.

Here we have again the gospel, the good news. The topic of a right relationship with God the Father. The good news that in the here and now we have a right relationship with God the Father like Adam and Eve had before the fall. Not by a redeeming from planet earth as an act to be performed at a certain place in time called the second coming of Jesus, another Jesus, but, and I quote ver batum from Colossians “having made peace through the blood of the cross.Â

When Jesus said “I am the way” and “Follow Me that where I am you may be also” and”You shall not follow me now but you shall follow me after” having shed His blood they did not have to follow Him through that. But now defeating Satan sin and death we follow Him. We put our faith in this Jesus. To be “In Christ” is to partake of His death gifted to us so that we don’t have to have death performed on our mortality. By faith we are catapolted past death to eternal life by this gift. As it says in Romans 8 that the body is dead because of din, but if Christ dwells in you it is His spirit that gives life to your dead body and not a rapture or a future resurrection.

Â This is our confession at baptism, to alege ourself with that invisible fact. That John also attests to(5.24.

We “who were once alienated and enemies in our mind by wicked works (of doubts and disbelieving) yet now (not a second coming) He has reconciled us in the body of His flesh through His death to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable in His sight”- How? Through the death of the body of His flesh, having made peace through the blood of the cross. The second coming Jesus simply cannot do this. And this is not an I.O.U. from God to be a redeemer at a second coming.

You see Jesus does not have to repeat Himself or redo the work of the cross in another way like a future redemption from planet earth in a visible way because you cant see it now. For “we were enemies in our mind”. It is that the mind is renewed by one who has faith in the Christ who shed His blood to accomplish the work the Father gave Him Him, which was to reconcile your mind from wicked thoughts of denial, like a second coming mindset.

Having made peace through the blood of the cross we have access to the Father as we place ourselves in Christ Gods perfect sacrifice. The Father accepts Him on our behalf and we don’t have to wait for a visible act for this to be true in some future jesus. But through the blood now.

This is His act that fulfills the words “Father that they may be with Me where I am. That they may behold My glory. That the glory you have given Me I have given them. You just have to have faith. These things all being gifted to us by the cross and not actualized or recieved at certain days on a time frame but the time frame of faith. “Walk according to what you have received. (Phil 3…)

The Kingdom of God is at hand.

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.

It was John the apostle who said he was in the Lord’s day for the testimony of Jesus Christ, showing us that we too can be in the spirit on the Lords day. Not a 24 hour day but the day which has no beginning or end which needs no sun for the Lamb, being the death and blood of Jesus, is the light and not another as though He is not yet but must become as though He has limitations. And it is He who is in the midst of the throne of God calling the shots in all power and authority His possession. This Lords day, Thee day like no other day that all other days faintly resemble. Thee day that already was in full splendor and glory for it is the origination of all such attributes the place from which the voice of God calls us to Himself, this we can behold.

I see Him in the place of time and matter of this creation like Ezekiel who explained of a cloud enfolding from the north. This engulfing cloud that has been gathering and scattering with a mighty wind of God, are His breath and spirit. Him in whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning is the calm in the midst of the storm.This storm that all other earthly storms resemble slightly, whirls about all creation casting to the outer regions of ignorance and spiritual darkness all things that reject and scorn the testimony of His Son, and simultaneously gathers together to Himself the one who excepts the invitation. “Come to the wedding, the feast is now, and always ready” being as ready in any day and every day for it is not in the 24 hour day that mimics, but the eternal day that has no beginning or end.

This is The Lords Day. That which was from the beginning, that already is.

And He does not need a second coming Jesus to come and jump start this day as though it is an event in limbo and waiting or as though it is all together not yet and must must become or be completed, as though it must be constructed, because His word that said “Let there be” and it was, doesn’t work anymore, for this day is just beyond the veil of human understanding, meaning those limited to their carnal senses that only see in time and matter being ignorant of Him who whisks about at will all the time and any time for He is not of time as though He must wait in line anxiously ringing His hands like He were a man, but He is the Immortal, eternal, invisible, the only wise God.

The Kingdom of God is at hand, the proverbial stage is set. The trumpet blasts, Da-da-da-dah! The heavenly choir sings. The place of this gathering of non-elemental born again of the spirit beings not born of time and matter also whisk about at will (John 3.8) at the throne of God just outside of time and matter being “In Christ”. I see the Heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God, an inumerable company of angels general assemble, the collection of the first born and the spirits of just men made perfect. (Hebrews 12.22+) And with each age, the crowd grows the engulfing cloud draws to himself a thousand, and a thousand thousands and ten times ten thousand to behold this Glory. Even now the angels rejoice at every new soul who wakes up to this reality. Glory halleluyah.

I see this glorious ensemble of heavenly beings harmonizing and beautifying making sounds that man has not heard growing with each new addition when all the sudden the tone changes. It is as if the orchestra-tor is distracted and drops his sticks. Horns start to blow off key, bows on the violins break, gasps and shrieks are heard and everyone turns to see. Look what the cat drug in. The 21st century second coming believers come shuffling on stage, blowing on their corn whiskey bottles, raking their wash boards with their knuckles, playing their Jews harps and slapping their knees singing “He”ll be coming around the mountain when he comes”. They are dancing to a different tune.

John 14-17 in Colossians part 2

Heavenly Choir