Jesus Revealed Through His Body

December 3, 2000 pm
MF Blume

Colossians 1:18  And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Colossians 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

1 John 4:12  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.


We clearly see that God considers the Church to be the Body of Christ.

So Jesus needs to be revealed through His Body the Church, by the members of the Church loving one another. But there is a hindrance to His manifestation through His body. But while He is manifest in our flesh, anything that comes from our lives that is confessing something else than His presence in us is antichrist. Let us turn to the book that is named after this whole issue.
Revelation 1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Revelation 1:5  And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

The first title given to Jesus in this book is the FAITHFUL WITNESS. The first vision John actually had of Jesus in this experience he recounts to us in the book of Revelation is as follow:
Revelation 1:12-13  And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Jesus appeared in the midst of the candlesticks. Jesus is seen in the midst of the candlesticks, the churches. But in the Book of Revelation there is also a FALSE WITNESS that is spoken about. Talk about wolves in sheep's clothing! All of the people who care less about the word of God will be fooled by this lamb-appearing dragon. You believers who have no love for the word of God in the Bible, who flock to every miracle-worker you hear come to town, are in DANGER!
Revelation 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Miracles are things that you can see. We read this about a test for a false prophet.
Deuteronomy 18:22  When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
But even if the thing DOES come to pass, we are still to test the prophet out further.
Deuteronomy 13:1-3  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Even if the false prophet foretells something or says a sign will be given, and the thing actually does come to pass, just as he or she said it would, that still does not mean they are true prophets. Beware of walking by SIGHT, and not by FAITH.
John 8:12-15  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true. Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
Jesus was accused of being a faulty witness of Himself. Jesus needs to be manifesting in a person's life. This false prophet and false witness needs to be recognized and dealt with. We read the first BEAST that gave man problems was the SERPENT.
Genesis 3:4-6  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree wasgood for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Out of the three elements that were in the forbidden tree, two of them were in all the rest of the trees.
Genesis 2:9  And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
The other trees were good for food and pleasant to the sight, just as the forbidden tree was. Its that element that hindered God's Spirit from dwelling in Adam and Eve so that He could manifest through their lives. The antichrist spirit in humanity is in all of us. The serpent deceived the woman.

The beast deceiveth people in Revelation 13:14.

We cannot be deceived.

If we do not keep the truth in our hearts and continue to receive it regularly, the antichrist spirit will appeal more and more to the flesh, and the flesh that we all have will rise and eventually take over our lives again. Don't use this Church for an opportunity to get a position and show everyone how great you are. Anything that does not confess that Jesus is in OUR flesh is just as antichrist as not confessing Jesus came in flesh to begin with.
2 Thessalonians 2:1  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
I want to apply these verses to our lives individually in a spiritual manner. Before Christ can be revealed, the MAN OF SIN must be revealed. This element in us all seeks to rise up and be as gods, as the serpent urged the woman in Genesis 3. The temple of God is your body. When we, as Christians,  do not reach out to help others, it is either one of two things.
  1. We are either immature infants, who naturally require the older saints in God to help and minister to.
  2. Or we are unnecessarily carnal, and have never allowed the word of God to work in our lives the will of God.  We are too concerned for ourselves to help anyone else.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR GOD? Stand still and move only one little finger on your right hand, and keep the rest of the body still. This wickedness is a mystery. Notice here that John is in need of being shown this entity. He was shown this whore, and on her forehead was written MYSTERY BABYLON. Notice the same self-exaltant spirit in this woman called MYSTERY-BABYLON. Lately in our congregation I have felt led of the Lord to have every believer pray and minister to someone in our altar services. The one thing that will hinder Christ from ministering through our lives is concern for ourselves and that antichrist thinking of me-first.