THE MAN - GOD!! - Part 3 of 3

Part 3
Last but not least - let's now take a look at you, the Church - the ecclesia, the "body" of called out ones!

You, or we, are not little peons running around down here with a great big God sitting off somewhere beyond the blue! We are his temple or dwelling place; we house him; we are the manifestation of him in the earth!

It began with ADAM, a group of people, male and female, who manifested God in the earth. After Cain slew Abel, Adam's wife bare a son and called his name Seth. “For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead [in the place] of Abel, whom Cain slew." (Genesis 4:25). Seth means substituted. Substituted, as a verb, means to make way for, or give place or way to another offspring, descendant(s), or posterity.

This was a people with their heart turned toward God as Abel was. You can tell that Abel was a God man because of the offering he gave to God! (Genesis 4:4) “And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering." Cain's offering was of the ground, but Abel's offering was a BLOOD sacrifice (the firstlings of his flock)! He was a keeper of the flock, which typifies shepherds or pastors who are over the flock of God! Great God from Zion!! He was a God man! So Seth being in his stead had to be a God man, a type of restorer or bringing back of people to God!

Genesis 4:26 “And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos; then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.” (Jehovah – the self-Existent or Eternal God) LORD comes from another root word HAYAH, meaning to exist, to be or become! Enos means mortal, frail, feeble, wicked, melancholy. This is the side of man that fends for himself. He allows the carnal or flesh man to rule instead of seeking God! That's why Paul said in Romans 6:12, "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body"! It will eventually kill you unless you obey 1 Corinthians 15:53: "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality"! (vs 54) "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory"! IT IS NOT OPTIONAL! WE MUST do this right here and right NOW and not out beyond the blue!!

Though Enos's flesh was ruling him for a season, he had a way out of the mess he was in because of whose he was (the son of Seth who was the son of Adam and who had God's blood in him)! He had to subject himself to the power of the Most High, God the Creator, the Source of all he needed in order to overcome! The only way out of whatever you are going through is through the blood! God's blood has always existed because God has always existed! He is from everlasting to everlasting! It's just that when Jesus's blood was shed, it paid the price for all of mankind to be restored back to the Creator!

Take a look in Genesis 5:12: Here you can see how "men" began calling themselves by the name of the LORD!! Look back at the definition of LORD, which means to be or become! They discovered that because of the Source they had to look to, they could be the same as the Source, God himself! Not above but equal with! Jesus didn't think it robbery to be equal (the same) with God. Are you afraid to think with Christ's mind when it is written "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God"? (Philippians 2:5) These people had become God men or had the awareness they were the "man God!" To name a few: MahalaleEL; JAred (Yared); NoAH; JoSHUA (Yeh-ho-shoo-ah); SamuEL; NehemiAH; JeremiAH; DaniEL; EzekiEL; AbiAH; these were "God men!" DeborAH; JaEL; LydIA; Esther (HadassAH in Hebrew); SarAH were "God women!" There are others! Have you ever given any thought to the spelling and pronunciation of their names? Why? Because they were the "man God" in the earth, both male and female!

Psalms 82:1 "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty: he judgeth among the gods”! Both nouns, God and gods, come from the same word "elohiym" meaning gods, especially the Supreme God; the Almighty; Immanuel; God! (VS 6) "I have said, ye are gods"! Jesus said this in St. John 10:34. Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?" Ephesians 5:30 "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones"! I John 4:17 "as he is, so are we in this world”!!

Colossians 1:15 refers to the invisible God, but he has made himself visible in "man" (male and female)! It is not that man chose to make himself God, it was God who chose to make himself man! I AM SOOO GLAD HE DID!!! What an AWESOME GOD!!

This REVELATION does not come from religious, traditional preaching and teaching, but it comes from INVISIBLE God making himself VISIBLE in you!

When Jesus walked the earth in the BODY he sacrificed, many didn't recognize him because of their carnal minds and spiritual blindness! They could not see or didn't know that was God in a FLESH BODY! But Peter got the REVELATION! He LOOKED BEYOND THE FLESH MAN JESUS and saw "The Christ"! He saw the "Man God"! In Matthew 16:17, Jesus said, "Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven", with heaven being the higher realms of spiritual elevation, a renewed mind, a spiritual mind! Not beyond the blue!

When John saw Jesus in St. John 1:29, he said, "Behold (look) the Lamb of God"! John was seeing Jesus as the sacrifice! But when John, the revelater, saw him in Revelation 14:1, he saw a Lamb stand on the mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads! John was seeing the result of the sacrifice! The Lamb and the thousands of lambs that had become one with him (the church TRIUMPHANT)! NOT UP YONDER, but HERE, IN and ON the earth!! Those that had become the MAN GOD IN THE EARTH!!

As you read and absorb this revelation of the Spirit God, the God in the Son, and God in You (the Church), may it bring you into the awareness that you, me, we are the "Man God" in and on the earth!!

- Apostle Gracie Perry