Christ told the disciples while He was alone with them “until now you have asked for nothing in my name. And, In this the Father is glorified that you bear much fruit. If you abide in Me and my words abide in you”. You can ask the Father anything in my name and He will do it.
It is here that we can assess our faith for accuracy. I mean the one who cannot lie said “ask anything in My name” and He will do it to us so is it true for us? If not, why not. Do we ask anything and receive it?
There is a polarity shift that takes place in our faith as we correctly understand God and His gift to is in His Son who said “Ask anything in my name and the Father will do it.”
So here is the truth. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit, ye must be born again”
Of this Paul said “the first man Adam was a human doing and the last Adam Christ is a life giving spirit”. And so are all born from the union of word and Spirit, water and fire. The eternal things that we have acquired by faith which is tempered by testings of His word in us, the “hath God really said” are to partake of His holiness and become like Him.
He who speaks and it becomes a fact, like ” Let there be light” so say we. And as Christ said ” He who believes in Me out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. We too become a life giving spirit having the invisible attributes of the living God we see in Christ.
But it is the unregenerate carnal mind that is bound by time and matter that cannot do this. As Paul said “You observe days months seasons and years. I am afraid that I have labored for you in vain” (Gal 3+4). They are still under guardians and tutors rejecting faith, which is our invisible response to the invisible God.
But those who are born from above are those who see the Kingdom as a concurring, constant reality, and those who are born of the spirit enter the Kingdom now. It is they who “like the wind blow where they wish”. (John 3.8) It is these who out of their being flows rivers of living water” . And it is these believers that creation is subject to with Christ’s words saying “Ask anything and it shall be done for you”. And “greater works shall you do because I go to the father”. And it was Paul who prayed that we would know the power that resides in us which is the same power for creating that God displayed as Christ was raised from the dead. This is in us now through the working of faith.
It is the Father of glories who begat me to be like Him, and seated me with Him in glory (John 17.22 Eph 2.10). Yes “all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God” because they are created with the capacity to reflect the glory of God. And it is the redeemed born from above man that is restored for that purpose. “Ye shall become as gods and scripture cannot be broken”. So we say. “We believe Therefor we speak”. This is the new creation and the new creating. In the beginning God said and it was so? And I do the works of my Father. I am a kind of first fruit of His creation” in the here and now. “for as He is so are we in this world”.
Here again is where the 2nd coming seekers fall short. For when Christ said to “ask anything in my name”, they only ask in distortion of His name because they are still looking to be saved. Being ignorant and unaware that Christ already came and saved eternally having implemented the New Covenant as is evident by His blood and this gift is activated by faith to “each one in their own order” (1Cor 15) when they apply their faith and not an end time thing. We advance now. The Kingdom of God is at hand now.
But they think he must come and save again with carnal raptures and resurrections. This is a different saving and a different Jesus. They ask in the name of that Jesus who has yet to save. They think his name is a spelling and a pronunciation without meaning, but His name is “Hosanna! Blessed is He who came”. So why must he come again for another saving or rapture be pre trib or post trib or whatever you want to call it?
The spelling may be the same but the meaning is different. His name means “the saving one, the savior, having saved. But they believe Jesus must come again and save through raptures and bodily resurrections in a carnal way to appease their human senses and they reject the saving that is evidenced by the blood of Christ through the eternal spirit. They ask in the name of the wrong jesus. One who must save later. But this one to come later to save is antichrist in direct competition with Christ who already came and did the saving. This is my savior.
It is antichrist to pray in that meaning and say that
name. It receives nothing from the Father but is left to chance and happen stance and a little sympathy from God hoping some day they will see. They are unbelieving not knowing scripture the power of God or righteousness and holiness as becoming saints. But we cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit perfecting holiness. 2 Corinthians 7.1. We discard those notions.
For us who follow Christ who said “follow Me that where I am you may be also” as Christ asked, we are with Him being one with Him we are like Him for “as He is so are we in this world”. We are in heaven and on earth at the same time as was He (John 3) but it is earth that is the temporary variable that is being removed for the eternal to remain. Are you participating in the eternal that remains?
Yes the Christ I know has another coming on the human scene, but it is His last one when “the elements and all the earth and its works will be burned with a flaming heat”.Then those who have put on Christ in this age will be seen and known by their invisible attributes that they attained in their sojourning because that’s all that’s left, the invisible.
This is another reason why waiting for another Jesus to save your carnal body is a hoax. Only the invisible survives the fire. Even as Paul said of putting off the body that “you not be found naked”. Why? Because your body will be discarded being sown corruptible returning to dust.
So what are you putting on your soul now so you won’t be found naked? And how much of Christ can you put on now while you have your mortal body? Well I hope your transformation, or better yet your transfiguration is complete. Isn’t that why God gave some apostles pastors and teachers? “Till we come to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”. This is not a rapture thing or a thing you get when you mortally die.
When John was in the Spirit on the Lords day, meaning The Day of the Lord” for the Revelation, the apocalypse, the unveiling of Jesus Christ, He met a person he thought to be the Lord and stooped down to worship him. Lets look at the account of someone who was already the likeness of Christ before the supposed 2nd coming when the transformation is thought to take place according to the purveyors of that gospel.
6 Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” meaning invisible and ubiquitous, And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place. (immediately not 2000 plus years)
7 “Behold, I am coming quickly! ( means immediately). Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.” (because what you keep you become).
8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.
9 Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. (Being a product of the gospel, and not, i repeat not a product of a 2nd coming Jesus) Worship God.” 10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. (meaning right now and not some 2000 plus years later, but the day is coming when) 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
So if you have ears to hear, Please, please put Him on now because this age closes and what you became in this age is who you are in the eternal. This is not an age to wait like the 2nd coming purveyors trick you into. It is our time of sowing and reaping exchanging flesh for spirit. The harvesting is now
“Today is the day of salvation” today is the saving and the transformation, today we reap if we do not faint. Today we put on Christ to the degree that we receive and attain.
The saving and the transformation is not a time or a place or an event but a person. Some call Him Jesus, some call some one else Jesus. Who is your Jesus. Did He give you salvation, meaning Himself for that’s what His name means. He is the only thing eternal. Did you settle for less?