The Bride and Groom and John the Baptist

Posted on May 10, 2013 by ADMIN

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The Bridegroom Has the Bride

John the baptist’s disciples were asking him about Christ and he made the most peculiar statement.
Jn2.29 He who has  the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.
John was describing to his disciples God’s purpose and mission for him in this life. Which was to baptize Christ, the Son of God. As our Heavenly Father told John “upon whom you see the Spirit descending on and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit”. So “the friend rejoices because he hears the Bridegrooms voice”. John’s purpose was accomplished. This is why John said “They must increase but I must decrease” showing us that John was the last of the prophets of that Jerusalem. John would be beheaded, and that Jerusalem would be plundered “till not one stone shall be left upon another”.
John calls Christ the Bridegroom , and the Holy spirit the bride saying “He who has the Bride is the Brides Groom”. John witnessed the union as he baptized Christ and said “therefor this joy of mine is fulfilled”. Mission accomplished.
Bridegroom is a word for a newly married man, or he would be called a fianc钝. Hence He has the Bride. (past tense) The union is actuated.
The mystery of this baptism/union is this, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth by His word. God spoke and the word came out of His mouth. The spirit also came out and “brooded over the face of the waters.. As with us when we speak, it is our word pushed by our breath by which we speak. At that point the breath and word are inseparable, then the vibration (word) excels and the breath follows. Hence “Tye Spirit brooded (a thing a mother hen does) over the face of the waters.
So in the beginning the word and breath of God originated from the mind of God being ingenuity, design and a fore knowledge where they all, coequally existed in the place before time we call Eternity, being The very Image of the living God, being split into three parts in this way, making clear to us the original components of the Godhead body. Meaning all that is invisible and eternal exited cohesively together as one. GOD IS ECHAD.
 And He chose to give us an understanding of this split in two parts, male and female by creating Am and Eve. Genesis 1.27. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Christ is the male image, the Holy Spirit is the female. It is the union of male and female that is called a Marriage. These all came from the Engineer, ingenuity, and designer called the Father who calls us to Himself as we unite with the Word if Hod with the Spirit of God we are the Children of God and one with them.
So in the beginning of creation the Adam/atom was split, and. As for the new creation being the union of Christ and the Spirit. And with us when this union of the word and spirit takes place in us we too are of this union, being a new creation, defined as being “born from above”, taking on the attributes of our parents which are the very Word and Spirit of God. We become Christ like and we become empowered by the Bride, the Holy One, The Holy Spirit and the Unction of God from the Father. Yes She now broods over us like a Mother Hen over Her chicks like She did with Jerusalem of old. We are that Jerusalem’s replacement called “the body of Christ “.
I John says
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life”. 2 the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us” 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is (emphatically) with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things we write to you that your[a] joy (in the Holy Spirit) may be full.

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We Speak What We Know

Posted on February 24, 2013 by ADMIN

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WE SPEAK WHAT WE KNOW

“Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness”.
At first glance we think “what’s the big deal?” The big deal is this, if somebody asked you about what you were going to eat and you said, “we are eating dinner then we will have desert after we sit down at ourtable. People would assume you were with somebody or that you were carrying passengers. (invisible friends)
The thing is Christ said that, while He was talking to Nicodemus. There is no mention of other people being there and it was actually at night that this conversation took place. Nicodemus did not want others to know he was even talking to Christ. If it was me in that situation I would exit stage left. We speak, We know , We see. Huh? C-ya! No wonder some people said he had a demon.
Yes this behavior is peculiar but there is more. Ya! So check this out. Jesus also frequently referred to himself as the third person. Here is an example from John 5.19:
 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you,the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
He repeatedly calls himself “Son of man“, “Son of God” and He says things like “the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven”, “it’s time for the Son of man to be glorified”. He is talking of himself as the 3rd person.
He speaks of himself as if he is speaking of someone who is not there, but he is speaking of himself.
The truth of the matter is this. If you recall from the Genesis creation account, God said “Let us make man in our image and our likeness”. From this we can understand more of the plurality of God, and the Holy Spirit in Christ saying “We speak what We know and testify what We have seen.
With this in mind it makes sense that Christ spoke as 3rd person. A fact is this. Had Christ not been a plurality, He would not have been God. As scripture says ” for in Him dwells the fullness of the God head body”. and “He is the head of all powers and principalities” and “all things have been given to the Son”
I praise the father for this glorious gift for us.
Blessings

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Daniel 9 is Fulfilled

Posted on January 24, 2013 by ADMIN

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SCRIPTURE SHOWING DANIEL 9 IS EXPIRED AND NOT FUTURE

1. “To finish the transgression,”
– This was fulfilled. (Matt 21:33-45; 23:32,35,36,38; Luke 11:47-51; 1 Thess. 2:14-16)

2. “Make an end of sins,”
– This was fulfilled. (John 1:29; Matt 1:21; Acts 10:43; Hebrews 9:12-14,26; 10:9-14)

3. “Make reconciliation for iniquity,”
– This was fulfilled. (Romans 5:8-11; II Cor. 5:17-21; Hebrews 2:17; Col 1:12-21)

4. “Bring in everlasting righteousness,”
– This was fulfilled. (Romans 3:21-26; 4:13; 5:17,18; 9:30,31; 14:17 (Isa. 51:8) ; Hebrews 9:12; II Thess 2:16; I Cor. 1:30; 2 Cor. 9:9)

5. “Seal up vision and prophecy,”
– This was fulfilled. (Matthew 13:14,15 (cf. Isaiah 6:9,10); 17:5; John 1:1; 12:39-41; Acts 7:37; 28:25-27; Romans 1:1-2, 3:21, 16:25-26; Ephesians 2:11-17; 3:3-6; Colossians 1:26; Hebrews 1:1-2; I Peter 1:9-11; II Peter 1:19-21)

“blindness”(Is 8:16; 29:11; Daniel 8:26; 12:4; Matt 13:03-23; 22:29; Luke 24:44-47; John 12:37-41; Acts 3:17; 13:27; 28:23-29; Rom 9:32-33; 11:7-10,25; I Cor 1:22-23; 2:6-8; II Cor 3:14; I Pet 2:7-8; Revelation 10:4; 22:10)

6. “Anoint the most holy (or holy place).”
– This was fulfilled. (Matthew 3:15-17; Luke 4:18; John 1:32; Acts 2:32,33,38,39; 4:26,27; 10:37,38,44,45; Hebrews 9:22-24 / Not Physical Temple – Acts 7:48-49)

 

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A STERN WARNING FOR SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH

Posted on January 5, 2013 by ADMIN

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A STERN WARNING FOR SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH

 

The Lord continually reached out to a disobedient people. He gave them warning after warning finally saying “if after all this you do not repent I will punish you 7 times more for your sins”. (Leviticus 26)

We see by the time of Christ He said “Oh Jerusalem I weep for you. If you only you had known your time of visitation. Now these things are upon you”. He came a thief in the night and they were left desolate.

We think, how can this be? All those innocent Jews! The desolation occurred, not one stone was left upon another. Jerusalem was seized and over thrown. The Lords patience ran out and they were judged. He said “All day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people”. They were left desolate, condemned and annihilated.
The Lord said “On you shall be required all the blood of the Prophets from righteous Abel to Zechariah whose blood was spilled at the altar” and even John the baptist and the blood of Christ Himself. As He said “Fill up the measure of your fathers guilt!” And the words from the Jewsh populace “His blood be upon us”. And it was.
Leviticus 26 had been fulfilled. This is a horrific description of them killing each other and even eating their own children and being attacked by armies and wild animals. I know this is graphic and is largely unspoken of but He said do not add or take away from His words. So this should be a wake up call in our day. Nothing happened to the Jews they did not deserve.
They thought they did service to God, in the end they received the wrath of God. Woe! Let that sink in.
You see Romans 1 says that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness in men who suppress the truth. And that is what they did. They were aware of Gods words and feelings about this and did not respond accordingly and His patience ran out. That was Gods wrath “to the Jew first”. They knew God and they suppressed the truth of God. They compromised His values and misrepresented Him.
We read on in Romans 1 that “they knew Gods eternal power and Godhead so they were with out excuse”. “They professed to be wise but became fools and turned the Glory of the incorruptible God into an image of an corruptible man”. They expected Christ to validate their Kingdom by giving them a man to preside in their preparations and are doing so today under the guise of a second coming, a phrase not found once in scripture.
This was the first great woe. They thought God was a man like them. Huh? Is not Jesus a man who will come to planet earth and rule from Jerusalem? That is your first strike.
For even in Samuel’s day when the populace demanded a king like all the other nations had. What did God tell Samuel? “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them”. They exchanged the glory of the invisible God into the image of a man”, an invisible king for one thy could see. That’s right.
And again Samuel addressed the people saying “But you today have rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversaries and tribulations and have said to Him, No, but set a king over us” presumably one they could see. Main stream Christianity today in the same way, rejects the rule and reign of Christ today in hopes for another savior. Meaning, the main body of Christianity today, preaches that the Christ man will be our king in a future time in a man-made Jerusalem on earth, and rejects the notion of the invisible God being our king now as it was before Samuel. Not knowing Him in this way, they too have rejected Him. They too have turned the Glory of the incorruptible invisible immortal God into a flesh and body man with their “end time” teachings of another coming Jesus.
Lets bring up the peoples response when Moses was sent to rectify the covenant in Horeb. Ex 24.7 “All that the Lord has said we will do it”. This same people did not want to relate to God and also said “Moses, you deal with Him we don’t want to”. They gave away their birth right and responsibility to relate to the Father. They were glad to have someone else talk to God for them and rejected the blessings of God Himself. Maybe like today. With books, commentaries, preachers and other peoples opinions about God, off and online. They have exchanged a personal relationship with God the same way they did. “You speak to the scary voice” for us. He can speak to the hand.
Here is where we are today. The truth is truncated because everyone receives knowledge of God from each other. They have to verify things with another mans testimony. One says I am from Paul or Apollos, or maybe a Baptist or Evangelical and this teacher or that. You are all acting like silly men with your own private club. Don’t you know there is only one body? But what does Christ say? John 2.23-25+ 5.31-36 The people saw the signs that He did and Believed in Him and it says, Jesus did not commit himself to them because He knew all men and he had no need for man to testify of Him.”
They think that if they use the name Jesus, they must be good but maybe they preach another Jesus.
From Paul in Galatians, The gospel I preach to you is not by man, for I did not receive it from man nor was I taught it but it came by revelation of Christ. In other words first hand.
Today especially with end times they follow each other from one supposed prophesy to another. Changing doctrines with each new world event, having no truth but strong opinions. Empty of faith profiting on these theories no matter how many times they change their opinion they repent not. Vipers hatching eggs of yet more vain theories deceiving and being deceived. These are the blemishes in your love feasts. They do not enter the Kingdom because for them it is later and they keep distracted others who are trying.
Hebrews 10 puts out a stern warning drawing a comparison from those who rejected Christ back then and now anyone who rejected Moses law dies with out mercy. Of how much worse punishment do you suppose he will be who thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing. For we know Him who said vengeance is mine, and again, the Lord will judge His people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God”.
If you think God will put up with your flippant use of His name putting it on earthly things and on every wind of change, you are mistaken. You are using His name in vain. If you do not take these things upon ourselves and judge yourselves, you will be judged, for “judgment starts at the house of God. 1st Peter 4.17
Christ spoke very firm to the corrupt church in The Revelation of Jesus Christ with these words “I gave her time to repent, and I will cast her into a sick bed and all those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation unless they repent of their deeds”.
We need to get back to basics and back to the message preached by John the baptist, Christ, then those who heard. That is to “repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand”. This is as true today and every day as the day it was first spoken. When was the last time you heard that?
If you are preaching or believing in a kingdom of another day you do not have the King of Kings from the scriptures.
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and Glory forever and ever. Amen
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To the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and the Lord of lords who alone has immortality dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To whom be honor and everlasting power.”
The Kingdom of God is at hand, Amen

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8th Day

Posted on March 25, 2012 by ADMIN

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8TH DAY

The Sabbath and the Lords day are different days. The Sabbath is the last day of creation signified by 7′s.

In Lev 23 at the conclusion of the 7th feast the people were given an 8th day. This was said twice marking the importance. The portrayal of the feast’s 1-7 had concluded it’s testimony. They would then repeat this 7 feast cycle every year, until?   Stick with me this gets good.
Joshua having entered “the land” and dividing it up had not entered the true rest only signified by the 7th day, for He spoke of another day, stated in Hebrews 4, hence showing “it is not of this creation” not of our world. Not available in this cycle of 7′s. He pointed to another, but the promise of the land was completed.
Solomon also having finished his portrayal of being “the King” in “the City” celebrating tabernacles the last feast, sent the people away on the 8th day. For Solomon was not the son spoken of, for the son was said to be eternal, so Solomon also referred to “another day” after the 7th day. And in Christ’s day, His new work, is why the true believers, seeing Christ on a donkey, knew He was what the portrayals represented, or pointed at, The true King. For they with faith looked past the value of the flesh riding on a donkey and saw One riding on a white horse.  The Savior.
For the law and the prophets could only testify to this, meaning they pointed to this day as the 7th feast concluded with, and the prophets spoke of another day and time, but that was only as far as they can go. But now the 7 feasts have been fulfilled, Christ has entered the tabernacle eternal in the heavens, not made with human hands, being our High Priest forever like Melchizedek, being the reality that all the feast’s and sacrifices pointed to Him, putting them to an end to never return to, Christ obtained eternal salvation. The series of 7′s have expired in Christ. Not just the Passover and Pentecost, for all the law and the prophets were until John who said “this is He” the Christ. Mt 11.13 Including the feast of Atonement and Tabernacles, or Christ has more work to accomplish in this creation, but He is done, henceforth waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. Can you accept this?
The feast’s pointed to this day, Joshua pointed to this day, even with David, “Today if you will hear my voice” then with Solomon as the King in the City, and many more like these all pointed not to a physical day, a physical land, a physical temple in a physical city, meaning not of this creation, the creation signified by 7′s, but the new creation cycle that has no day or night or physicality for the hour is coming and now is when you will will not on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father, for the Father is spirit and He is truth and He seeks such to worship Him. “TODAY” This is the creation we are called to, better yet born from. Amen?    For those who have ears to hear!
Again with the circumcision. All males shall be circumcised the 8th day. This too pointed to the “putting off of the flesh” after the cycle of 7 and putting the new man, as we are instructed to do by faith. Another portrayal pointing to “the 8th day” Meaning the new creation.
Here again from Revelation 5, the scroll sealed with 7 seals and all who looked on wept “because no one was found worthy to open it”. Enclosed and sealed within the feasts is the new creation, much like in a cocoon to be opened, and if Christ had not come to do His second work, His second creation, we too would weep today, but Christ at the cross removed the seven seals by fulfilling the requirements, hanging on the cross like an eternal billboard sign, an invitation to all humanity, taking away the hand written ordinances that were contrary to us, He opened up the scroll written inside and out, which is Him, the word of God. The veil, His flesh filleted, arms wide open inviting all who will accept Him.
As for those still bound by doubt in the Sabbath and feast’s? Paul addressed this with these words, “you observe days, months, seasons and years. I am afraid for you that I have labored in vain”.
Let us not “insult the Spirit of grace and count the blood of Christ a common thing”. And let us go on to maturity not laying again the foundation of dead works, baptisms laying on of hands and resurrections and this we will do if God permits.
So brethren, see how silly the arguments of a Saturday Sabbath verses a Sunday Sabbath really is? Christ rose on the first day after the Sabbath day, before the first light ray. Mt 28.1, Which is also the 8th day, being the first day of the new creation. And we are a new creation, 2 Cor 5.17.  This is the day we celebrate every day!!!!!!!

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Ekienos 2 and the plurality of God

Posted on December 14, 0201 by ADMIN

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EKIENOS # 2 AND THE PLURALITY OF GOD. 3/19/14

In previous articles we discussed the nature of God as being a plurality. Some call this the trinity. This one God, or THEY who said in the beginning let US make man in OUR image and OUR likeness. And like Adam and Eve who “were made in Gods likeness male and female made He them”. They were split in half and portrayed 2 selves in one, the third part being the breath of life called God’s Holy Spirit.

Ekienos is from the Greek word “autos” that become one by a covenant to show the plurality and the unity of God. That is a unity that has always been with God, a plurality of persons some call the Trinity. We can understand “autos” in marriage. The two become one to be able to have offspring. And we are the offspring of God being of the New Covenant by receiving His word or DNA and breath. His DNA  is written not on tablets of stone but on our heart by God.

We also discussed how in John 3 Jesus said to Nicodemus “we speak what we hear and we testify what we have seen”. Of how Christ was one and plural at the same time. Christ was in the father and the father in Him. Christ was in the spirit and the Spirit was in Him. Hence a plurality in unity. Adam and Eve portrayed on the outside visibly for us what God is on the inside. In the Spirit. A place that we can NOT see with our human eyes so God broke His image down for human adaptation to become godly. That is he purpose of pictures and patterns throughout creation and Old Covenant scriptures as well. This is how God shows Himself to us. All the old testament pictures and patterns find their complete “in Christ” of which the word says, “no one as seen God at any time, but the Son declares Him”. What the old testament did in parables, the Son now tells believers plainly about the Father for the Father is manifest in Him. As Christ said to Thomas “if you have seen me you have seen the Father”.
We made the point that the Gospel of John uses the Greek word ekienos. A word every where else is translated as they and them, but in John it is translated “He” and “Him”. As though John did notknow what he was talking about and he needed the English translators to fix it for him. I am sure John knew exactly what he was doing and the translators should have appropriately rendered ekienos correctly to “they” and “them” like it is done elsewhere in John.
So today we look at the first Epistle of John and we have the translators trying to fix John once again by changing (ekienos) to he and him. They also frequently change “autos” to “him”when “autos” is a gender neutral term that means self male or female. We will expound on this in other posts.
So from first John 2.6 it says that “whoever abides in Him ought to walk even as He walked”. It should say that “we ought to walk even as They (ekienos) walked”. So by that scripture we learn that They walk in me as I walk in them”.  With this we can understand that “we are complete in Him who is head over all principalities and powers”. The principalities and powers are subject to us on the same way.
In 3.3 of us being the offspring of God everyone who has this hope purifies them-self even as He/they (ekienos ) are pure.”
And 4.17 Herein is our love made perfect because as He/they (ekienos) are so are we in the world. This should say, because as They are so are we in the world. So are we in the world as they are, in spirit and truth, in a plurality.
This is the same plurality (ekienos) Isaiah describes. “In the year king Uzziah died I saw the Lord high and lifted up”. Here we have the spiritual principle  have discussed in other posts. An earthly king sown corruptible and through a revelation the true King raised incorruptible in Isaiah’s mind. To the invisible unchangeable ever ready always present truth . The kingdom of God is at hand. And right after that the Lord says through Isaiah “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” This is the plurality of God. Us.
The whole purpose of the gospel is to bring us to this. To be reconciled to the father in the son and the spirit. He who has the Father has the Son. And he who has the Son has the Bride. (John 3.29) He who has the Son has the Father and this is all done in the Spirit who bears witness, who testifies to the Son, this Bride is the “anointing we have received that teaches us all things (eternal). Of whom when the spirit comes, the Helper whom the Father sends who will teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance. Another helper, a different person in the Godhead, the comforter, the Spirit of truth whom the Father sends so you won’t be orphans, the other parent who is not Jesus but His Bride. The one who is not known by the world for they neither see her or know her. And this is eternal life that you may know Them, the ekienosin Him…..
John opens up in his first epistle with these words. “That which was in the beginning which we have seen, which we have handled, concerning the Word of life. The life was manifest and we have seen and we bear witness and we declare to you that you also may have fellowship with us, that you may be one with us, with the Father and the Son”. John is speaking in the plurality like Christ was to Nicodemus by saying “We”. His invitation is just that. “We ought to walk as they  (ekienos) walked. We should acknowledge the plurality of God in Christ in us.
This is the fulfillment of Christ’s prayer in John 17 “that they all may be one, as you Father are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, that they may be made perfect in one”. This was said by the One who also said “Let there be light” and the light happened immediately. He who made the lame whole immediately with a word. Can you believe this? Can you receive this? Then it is now and it is for you. Christ spoke the prayer and it is a reality.
And what we have is not a perfect flesh but a perfect understanding to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Eph 4.13 in the here and now. “We have the mind of Christ”.
As Christ said “I go to prepare a place for you that where I am you may be also”. This is that place. The place as He says “I go to prepare a place for you”, “If I do not go the comforter will not come. As we receive “another helper” we enter that place. That place is what Christ meant when He said “the Kingdom of God is at hand. Like Uzziah had to be sown a flesh king for Isaiah to see the Lord high and lifted up, so too Jesus as a man has to be sown in our understanding, planted in human form to ascend to be high and lifted up in the spirit. As He said to Mary “do not cling to me yet for I have not ascended.
Another principle we have been discussing is “He takes away the first to establish the second” That is why Christ had to go for us to receive the Spirit. Not that He wasn’t already in all power. It was our brain, our new man that had to follow this, so that “where I am you may be also”. This is the purpose of all the pictures and patterns and the purpose of the Son himself. To take us to the Father. ” Go tell the brethren that I have ascended to my God and to your God, to My father and your Father. Cling to this! Be ye reconciled to ekienos, be joined and receive the sweet union given to us in Christ Jesus from before the foundations of the ages. Ekienos.
Christ didn’t have to do something that wasn’t done. He didn’t have to become something He wasn’t for He is the same yesterday today and forever. He had to walk it out for us so that we could follow Him to the Father. “Father if there is any other way?  Jesus the man walked it out for us only. For you cannot add or take away from eternity, you can only partake in Him, and everything eternal is “in Him”. Ekienos saw humanity blind and disarray and said “Whom shall We send, whom shall go for us?” They sent the  Son.
I pray that you know and understand that when the Lord says “come my people enter your chambers” He is not talking about a place where feet can go, but this place we have been talking about. This place we receive when the Son is ascended and seated. Not that he wasn’t for He said Father restore to me the Glory I had before. He set it aside.
I have talked about what I have seen and told you what I have heard. Um, I mean we talk about what we have seen and we tell you what we hear. Ekienos and our unity in the plurality of God “in Christ”.
John 14.21 In “that day” you will know that I am in the Father and you in Me and I in you. This is “that day”. Today! If you will hear His voice.

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