Jesus came and purged our sins by Himself through the work of the cross.
- And most everyone who ever serves God goes no further than
that in their understanding.
- We are VERY MUCH aware of the work Jesus did on the earth.
- His blood is found throughout our preaching as having been
shed and spilled in both his scourging and actual death on the cross.
- And we know how important it is for us to understand how
His
death, represented by His shed blood, saves our souls when absolutely
nothing else could.
But Jesus went on to something more after His death.
- His blood is involved in something other than being shed
after His death.
- And it is this state of Jesus Christ that He is presently
in
right now that thousands of Christians have never come to really
understand and know as they know about His death and shed blood.
As a result, Christians are living with a severely restricted awareness
of everything to the point of only knowing His death to save them and
put them on a highway to heaven, to finally live in glory after this
life.
- That's all they know about.
- Preaching that gets into anything more than that is tuned
out, or
regarded as something not to be concerned with as though it's too deep.
- But all of this is a symptom of our limited desire for
Jesus.
One preacher said that when you preach about Christ in glory now and
seated in heaven at the right hand throne of God, most of the
saints
relegate that to something they are not interested in learning about.
- They think it's too deep and they close themselves off to
it.
- They stick to repeating over and over again where they were
when God saved them.
- How a change occurred from being a sinner to now being a
Christian.
- And they are on their way to heaven.
- It goes nowhere beyond that.
- And the preacher said that such people are selfish.
So few HUNGER AND CRAVE to enter into the Rest Heb 4 speaks of.
- They do not strive to go on unto perfection.
- Hardly no one runs the race with patience.
- They're up and down all the time.
- They never learn of their attachment to Jesus Christ now
and how
they're living in an invisible kingdom that has more power and glory
than they can imagine.
Selfish?
- People are generally in a hurry about everything.
- Learning takes patience and time.
- We but something that requires assembling, and we do not
even
have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow
carefully how to build it.
- ASSEMBLY REQUIRED.
- We just lash out at it trying to build it with the
knowledge we
already have, and ignore the knowledge it is providing for us which is
necessary to build it properly.
- We fail and retain our religious flare, but never seek to
go further as God really wants us to.
- We're selfish.
- We do not really care to experience the intimate and
personal relationship with Jesus.
- God wants to fellowship with us like this.
- And we simply do not seek to like He does.
What Jesus did after He died to purge our sins, was to SIT ON THE
THRONE OF GOD'S RIGHT HAND IN HEAVEN.
- And where that throne is is in the true most holy place,
that the tabernacle and temple's inner rooms only represented.
- And He did something else with His blood aside from
shedding it.
- The shed blood takes care of your sins.
- But THERE UP IN GLORY HE SPRINKLED HIS BLOOD ON THE
MERCYSEAT, and FROM HEAVEN He does something else with that blood.
- HE SPRINKLES YOUR HEART AND CONSCIENCE.
- And people know hardly anything about what that means.
- They do not understand what that is all about.
We need to learn about where He NOW LIVES, and why He is there now.
- He did not just die on the cross and resurrect to ascend
into glory and wait for thousands of years to come back for us.
- HE IS FUNCTIONING UP THERE RIGHT NOW.
- And what that functioning is accomplishing is they very
thing
people are missing and the very thing they need to understand so they
never fail and never backslide.
It's a trick of the devil to think you cannot understand these things.
These truths that will make you never backslide, are the very things
the devil has made so many people believe they can never understand.
- If I was the devil, I would do the same thing!
- If there are truths that will make Christians so strong
that I
could not successfully defeat them, then it would be those truths that
I would make them convinced they can never understand, so they turn
their minds off before they are even begun to be explained!
He is up in heaven right now performing a function that is actually FAR
BEYOND what He did on the cross.
- He shed his blood to purge your sins on the cross, but he
is in
glory to SPRINKLE YOUR HEARTS RIGHT NOW WITH BLOOD, and SEND DOWN A
POWER OF GOD into our hearts that will Keep us and protect us in this
Christian life from ever being defeated.
The book of Hebrews is a book written to a church people that were in
precisely the same spiritual state as most Christians in the church
today are in.
- They only knew about the cross and what Jesus did on the
earth to
make them free from sin and on their way to a life after this death in
heaven with Him.
- And look at what they were experiencing!
- Look at what the writer had to talk to them about, giving
an indication of their struggling.
Heb 2:1 KJV Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to
the
things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Heb 2:3 KJV How shall we escape, if we neglect so great
salvation;
which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed
unto us by them that heard him;
Heb 3:12 KJV Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an
evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Heb 3:14 KJV For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Heb 10:25 KJV Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
as
the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more,
as ye see the day approaching.
Heb 10:39 KJV But we are not of them who draw back unto
perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Jesus is God.
He came in the flesh.
He died on the cross to bring God and man together again.
HE ASCENDED TO THE THRONE, and this fourth part is the most awesome of
all, and He is there now functioning to provide us with the power from
God to put the power of HIS KINGDOM into our hearts so we ABOUND in
victory.
God has a kingdom in heaven.
- The purpose of the Holy Ghost is to bring the power of that
Kingdom right down and into our hearts
- Imagine the kingdom in heaven being brought down into our
own hearts on earth!
- Satan could not stand there.
- He was cast out.
- When this kingdom in all its glory is able to pour forth
into
your hearts, satan will not be able to stand being near you as well!
- And talk about casting devils out!
- The same kingdom power of God Almighty that threw satan
down to
earth like lightning will throw him around everywhere IN THE EARTH in
which you work for God if it is pouring down into you as IT CAN!
Just by understanding Hebrews' message, you can experience this.
But it is going to have to be something beyond the norm of thinking we
need to LEARN in our heads some truths.
You need to actually HEAR GOD SPEAK into your very heart now.
Did you know the Bible is God's word?
- But it is a word written on paper and read with eyes.
- And did you know it is actually a MEANS for you to be able
to HEAR God's word directly?
- No, you will not hear any new doctrines when you hear God
directly.
- The written word established that already.
- But the written word is full of instructions, especially in
Hebrews, for you to be able to directly hear God speaking into your
heart.
- It's not a set of memorized truths God is wanting to put
into you so that you have this victory we are talking about.
- IT IS A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
- It is getting into the place in which YOU ARE IN INTIMATE
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD.
Heb 1:1-3 KJV God, who at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in
time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (2) Hath in
these last
days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the worlds; (3) Who being the
brightness
of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all
things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our
sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Notice THE SON is appointed heir of all things.
- In other words everything is going to wind up FOR HIM at
the end.
- THE END.
But He is also related to the BEGINNING.
- By the Son God made everything in the beginning.
John 1:1-4 KJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with
God, and the Word was God. (2) The same was in the
beginning with
God. (3) All things were made by him; and without him was
not any
thing made that was made. (4) In him was life; and the life
was the
light of men.
So JESUS is the beginning and the end!
- But Heb 1:3 says BEING - -speaking of right now in between
the beginning and the end.
- He is the brightness of His glory.
We can only know about the sun that is in the centre of our solar
system by the LIGHT IT SHINES FORTH TO US.
- That light is like JESUS.
- HE SHINES FORTH all that you can ever know about God.
- He is the WORD of God -- the manifestation and expression
of God.
- YOU WILL NEVER KNOW GOD ANY OTHER WAY THAN THROUGH the Son.
And verse 3 says HE UPHOLDS ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER.
- He started it all and ends it all and is UPHOLDING
everything between the beginning and the end RIGHT NOW.
In order for you to get this awareness and truth of power that will
make you never fall nor struggle, JUST AS JESUS IS THE BEGINNING, THE
END AND UPHOLDING EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, HE MUST BE YOUR BEGINNING,
YOUR END AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.
Then and only then WILL YOU STOP thinking you cannot know the deep
things of God.
- Only then will you get the key that you were robbing of
yourself when you felt you could never get that deep with God.
- YOU WILL GROW SO IN LOVE WITH HIM THAT YOU LOSE YOUR
SELFISHNESS
AND SHARE THE SAME DESIRE GOD HAS TO HAVE A PERSONA, INTIMATE
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM, and fellowship with Him as Adam did in the
Garden of Eden!
Jesus is presently in Heaven to DISPENSE TO YOU BLESSINGS beyond what
weak believers ever know.
- He is there to pour down the power of the Kingdom of Heaven
into your heart.
- Your heart is where you love and desire and believe.
- And imagine that HEART empower with all the blessings of
the kingdom of Heaven!
Seek to KNOW THIS JESUS, where He lives NOW, and what He is doing there
for us NOW.
- When you fill your heart with Him like this, GOD SPEAKS TO
YOU.
Heb 1:1-3 KJV God, who at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in
time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (2) Hath in
these last
days spoken unto us by his Son, ....
It's not just information you keep in your mind.
- That is the way it was in the old testament - sundry times
when he spoke by prophets.
- HE SPEAKS NOW BY HIS SON.
- And the only way you hear Him is to LOVE THAT SON WITH ALL
YOUR HEART and crave to know Him deeply.
