Text: Ephesians (Shows Christ as Our ALL IN ALL)
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Ephesians 1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places in Christ: vs 4: According as he hath chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love: vs 5: Having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his
will:
· Vs 9: Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: vs 10: That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him. Vs 11: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will.
I left off in part three talking about Jesus
recognizing His purpose and taking His position in God as Son, Priest,
King, and Lord, in His Heavenly Father.
This too is how we recognize our purpose and take our position
in God:
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St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God: vs 2: The same (you and I) was
(existed) in the beginning with God: vs 14: And the Word was made flesh.
Just as Jesus was the Word made flesh
and brought forth at the appointed time, (Galatians 4:4-5), so were we the Word
made flesh and brought forth at the time appointed by our Heavenly
Father!!
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St. John 1:11: He came unto his own and his own
received him not: vs 12: But as many as received him, to them he gave
power to become the sons of God: vs
13: Which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
I’m not here just because my parents
got together one day or night and decided they were going to bring forth a baby. Oh no! I’m here because God sent me here through
them. I’m a predestinated son of God!! Anatomically, I’m female, but yet, spiritually, I’m a “son of God”!
Our PURPOSE in the earth: (Is to manifest the Invisible God in the earth, in a physical
body)!
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1st Corinthians 6:19: What! Know you not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your
own? Vs 20: You are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God’s.
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Ephesians 5:30: We are members (parts; limbs) of his body, of his flesh,
and of his bones.
We know that Jesus is the Head of the body the church (Colossians 1:18), but
it’s us, the body (the Ecclesi’a) that gives the Head (Christ) His flesh and bones in this earth realm!!
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Colossians 2:9: In him dwells all the fullness
(ple’roma) [repletion or completion] of the Godhead
(theot’es) [divinity] bodily (somatikos’) [corporeally or physically].
With us being made in God’s image (tse’lem) [to shade; a phantom; illusion;
resemblance; representative figure], after His likeness, that
makes us His representatives in the earth. That’s what we’re being told in the
latter part of what John wrote:
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1st John 4:17 states: “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may
have boldness in the Day of Judgment:
because as he is, so are we, in this world”.
This reveals our POSITION in the earth:
AS GODS:
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Psalm 82:1: God stands in the congregation of
the mighty (el) ‘strength; mighty, spec the
Almighty (used of any deity): God (god); great; might (y one); power; strong]; he
judges among the gods (elohiyms): vs 6: I have said, “You are gods (elohiyms)
[gods; magistrates] and all of you are children of the Most High (Elyown’) [the Supreme God]”.
That’s what God made Moses to be to Pharaoh
when he sent him into Egypt to deliver His people.
In Exodus 3:1-22 [God sent Moses into Egypt to deliver the
children of Israel]: and Moses said to God:
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Vs 13: “When I come unto the children of
Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you;
and they shall say to me, “What is his name”? What shall I say unto them”? Vs 14: And God said unto Moses, “I AM THAT I AM”: and he said, “Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you”!
This was a profound revelation of God manifesting Himself as man in the man Moses! In
actuality, Moses was “GOD” (in flesh
form) that had come to deliver the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage and
did deliver them!!
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Exodus 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, “See,
I have made thee a god (elohiym) to
Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother
shall be thy prophet”. Vs
2: Thou shalt speak all that I
command thee: and Aaron thy brother
shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.
In the New Testament, Jesus said that about us! (John 10:22-42) [At the Feast of Dedication, the Jews questioned Jesus about Him being the Christ]: Vs 24: Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, “How long dost thou make us to doubt”? “If thou be the Christ, tell us”!
Jesus’ response: Vs 25: “I told you, and you believe not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me”. “But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep, as I said unto you”. Vs 30: “I and my Father are one”!
Look at what they did when Jesus said this: Vs 31: Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Vs 32: Jesus answered them, “Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me”?
Listen to what “religion” said to Jesus: and it’s what religion is saying today to those proclaiming this gospel in its fullness: Vs 33: The Jews answered him, saying, “For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy (evil speaking against God); and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God”.
What they (those Jews) didn’t know was, that they were talking to God that was
in flesh form, in the person of Jesus the Christ!!!
But Jesus went on to say to them: John 10:34: Have you not read in your law, where I said, “You are gods”?
There are people today that will “stone you” for saying that “we are gods” in flesh form as Jesus was
God in flesh form! That is because they
haven’t yet grasped the revelation as Peter did in Matthew 16 in
relation to Jesus as being “the Christ”! Peter recognized that Jesus was Man and God all in one!
REMEMBER, 1st John 4:17: As he is, so are we in this world!
What other POSITION do we hold in the earth?
WE’RE SONS:
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St. John 1:11: He came to his own, and his own received him not: vs 12: But as many as received him, to them he
gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his
name.
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Galatians 4:4: When the fullness of the time was
come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: vs 5: To redeem them that were under the
law, that we might receive the adoption (placing) of
sons. Vs 6: And because you are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
This word son is huios, which is
distinguished from the son tek’non. Tek’non
indicates one given birth too as a child,
but huios, is reserved for those that
take on the characteristics of the Father so much so, that the devil can’t
distinguish between you and God!!
This is not self-exaltation, because
we know that God is Elyown, the Most High God!! But it’s just that we must believe that we
are who God say that we are in Him!!
In John 15 (Jesus said to His disciples): Vs 13: “Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends”. Vs 14: “You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you”. Vs 15: “Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knows not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends: for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you”.
A father doesn’t turn his business
over to his friend. He talks about things to the friend that he doesn’t talk about to
the servant. But when it comes to the father’s business, he turns his business over to his “son”, and “sons” we are:
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Galatians 4:7: Wherefore thou art no more a
servant but a son: and if a
son, then an heir of God through Christ.
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1st John 3:1: “Behold, what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it
knew him not”. Vs 2: Beloved, NOW are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him:
for we shall see him as he is.
He is already appearing (visibly seen; materialized; taken shape; come into view) in His people, and we already see Him as He is in flesh form! Because when we look at one another we are
looking at God in flesh form in the Body
of Christ composed of both male and
female!! His appearance is only seen now and ever will be seen, in His people!!! [Praise
break]!!!
So those of you waiting for Jesus to
appear on a cloud, it isn’t going to happen, because He never said that He was
going to come “ON” a cloud. He said that He would come “IN” or “WITH” clouds.
We
are God’s clouds:
Matthew 24:29-31 [speaks of Christ’s coming (appearing)]: Vs 29: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: vs 30: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Matthew 26:57-68 [Jesus is brought before Caiaphas the high priest] (the council sought false witness against Jesus to put Him to death): Vs 60: But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses: vs 61: And said, “This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days”. Vs 62: And the high priest arose, and said unto him, “Answer thou nothing”? “What is it which these witness against thee”? Vs 63: But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, “I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God”. Vs 64: Jesus said unto him, “Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Mark 13:1-37 (Signs of the end of that age): Vs 26: And then shall they see the Son of man coming IN THE CLOUDS with great power and glory.
Then in Mark 14:53-65 (Jesus before Caiaphas): Vs 61b: Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, “Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? Vs 62: And Jesus said, “I am”: and you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming IN THE CLOUDS of heaven.
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Revelation 1:7: Behold, he comes WITH clouds, and
every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindred of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen.
His appearance IN AND WITH the clouds has already occurred and the ones that
pierced Him saw it when it happened.
They saw it at Pentecost when those Apostles and those in that upper
room came forth out of the upper room with the power of the Holy Ghost and
fire!! As they came forth with the Word
of God thousands were saved!!! That was
the Son of man “COMING IN AND WITH” the CLOUDS of His people with great power and glory!!! We His people are His clouds today and we’re compassed about with those in the spirit
realm which are God’s cloud as
well!
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Hebrews 12:1: Wherefore, seeing we also are
compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us.
This is the cloud that covered the
tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle (Exodus
40:34-38). It was the same cloud that followed the children of
Israel through the wilderness as a guide to them (Numbers 9:15-23). This also was the same cloud that appeared at the dedication of the Temple that
Solomon had built (2nd Chronicles 7:1-3).
That was the same CLOUD that appeared in Luke 9:28-36 (on the mountain of transfiguration to Jesus and the three apostles, Peter, James, and John): Vs 30: And behold, there talked with him (Jesus) two men, which were Moses and Elias: vs 31: Who appeared in glory and spoke of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Vs 33: And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said. Vs 34: While he thus spoke, there came a CLOUD, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
Did you get that, “They feared as they entered the cloud”! The scripture said nothing about them “sailing off anywhere, to enter the cloud”. It’s just that they were in a “high place” and were able to “enter the cloud”!!! [PRAISE
BREAK]!!!
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Vs 35: And there came a voice out of
the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son:
hear him”!! Vs 36: And when the voice was past, Jesus was
found alone. And they kept it close, and
told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.
Who was in the CLOUD? All those people
from the book of Genesis till then, and from then until now that same CLOUD is with us today, and will
continue on throughout eternity!! We are compassed about with so great a CLOUD
of witnesses (Hebrew 12:1)!!
Look at what Paul wrote in 1st Corinthians10: Vs 1: Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea: vs 2: And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea: vs 3: And did all eat the same spiritual meat: vs 4: And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
People that are not preaching the
kingdom of God in us NOW or that we
can have the fullness or the total of God within us right NOW, Jude calls them, “Clouds
without water”. But those at
Pentecost and those NOW that are preaching and teaching the total of the Kingdom
of God in us right now and that we are God’s
Kingdom in the earth, are “clouds
with the water of life”!! As God
said to Israel through Moses that they were His kingdom of priests, He’s saying that to us today!!
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Exodus 19:6: And you shall be unto me a
kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.
These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
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Revelation 1:6: And hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father: to
him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
Amen. (Revelation 5:10)
WE’RE HEIRS:
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Romans 8:16: The Spirit itself bears witness
with our spirit, that we are the children (sons) of
God: vs 17: And if children, then heirs, heirs
of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we
may be also glorified together.
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John 14:12: He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to my
Father.
Again I say, the only way Jesus can
and will be seen is in His people, because we are now ONE with the Father also!!
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John 17:20: Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me through their word: vs 21: That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us:
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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1st John 4:17: As he is, so are we,
in this world!
WE’RE PRIESTS (intercessors): KINGS (rulers): AND LORDS (ownership; supreme in authority): [Remember what God said to Israel through Moses]: Exodus 19:6: And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
It was repeated in the New Testament as well,
to us, the Church!! We are God’s Israel NOW!!!
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1st Peter 2:5: You also as lively stones are built
up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood: to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable
to God by Jesus Christ. Vs 9: But you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people: that you should show forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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Revelation 5:10: And hast made us unto our God, kings
and priests: and we shall reign on (over) the earth.
(Revelation 1:6).
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Revelation 19:16: And he hath on his vesture and on
his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
The PURPOSE of the church (is to do what Jesus did when He walked the earth):
SPREAD THE GOSPEL:
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Matthew 28:19-20:
Go ye therefore, and teach (instruct) all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo,
I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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Mark 16:15: Go ye, into all the world,
and preach (proclaim; announce; declare
divine truth; evangelize) the gospel (good
news; truth) to every creature.
TO WORSHIP:
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St. John 4:23: The hour come, and now is, when
the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seek such to worship him. Vs 24: God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
TO EDUCATE:
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Matthew 9:37: Then said he unto his disciples,
“The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers (ergat’es) [a toiler; teachers] are
few”: vs 38: Pray you therefore the Lord of the
harvest, that he will send forth laborers (true
teachers) into his harvest.
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Ephesians 4:11: And he gave some, apostles; and
some prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers: vs 12: For the perfecting (katatismos’) [complete furnishing; restoring; joining
together] of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying (instructing; building up;
teaching) of the body of Christ. Vs 13: Till we all come in the unity of
the faith, and of the knowledge (full discernment;
acknowledgement) of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure
of the stature (maturity) of the fullness of
Christ.
TO WITNESS:
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Acts 1:8: But you shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:
and you shall be witnesses [observers;
eye (ear) witnesses] unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
The POSITION of the church: [These things we must do, because we are
Christ’s body in the earth]:
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Romans 12:4-5: For as we have many members in one body and
all members have not the same office: so
we, being many, are one body in Christ, and everyone
members one of another.
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1st Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is one, and hath
many members and all the members of that one body, being many is one body: so also is Christ. Vs 13: For by one Spirit are we all
baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or
free: and have been all made to drink
into one Spirit.
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2nd Corinthians 6:16: And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as
God hath said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people”.
And because of the POSITION we hold (as God’s representatives; agents (delegates;
trustees); ambassadors (spokes-
persons) in the earth [male &
female], JESUS SAID:
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Matthew 28:19: Go ye therefore, and teach
all nations, baptizing them in the name (character;
authority) of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Vs 20: Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you.
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Mark 16:15: Go ye into all the world
and preach (kerus’so) [to herald (as a
public crier), especially divine truth; proclaim] the gospel to
every creature.
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John 15:16: You have not chosen me, but I have
chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and
that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in
my name, he may give it you.
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2nd Corinthians 5:18: And all things are of God, who
hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the
ministry of reconciliation: vs
19: To wit (know),
that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation. Vs 20: We are ambassadors (spokes-persons) for Christ, as though God did
beseech you by us.
We need to recognize our purpose and take
our position, as Jesus
did, as God! WHY?
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Mark 16:17-18: And these signs shall follow them
that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak
with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they
shall recover.
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Luke 4:18: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to
heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.
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Romans 10:14-15: How then shall they call on him
in whom they have not believed? And how
shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a
preacher? Vs 15: And
how shall they preach, except they are sent?
Don’t let anybody tell you, that God
doesn’t need you, because He does!! We
need Him and He needs us! He ordained it to be this way! That’s
why He made man (male/female)
in His own image, after His likeness (Genesis 1:26).
John 4:24, “God is Spirit”! As Spirit, He can’t be seen, but He wanted
to be seen, and to do that He had to make Himself visible. So He made Himself visible in man (male/female)! Praise break!!!
GET HOLD OF
THIS: We are Him who is
seen, of Him who is invisible: We
crystallize (form; solidify) the one who has
no form: We localize Him who is
everywhere: We are the ones creation’s
waiting for. We bare the name of Him who is un-nameable: whose
name transcends every name that is named:
We are the dawning of a light
which has no genesis: we are the ones creation’s
waiting for. We are the living word wrapped up in flesh and bone.
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Romans 8:19: The earnest expectation of the
creature is waiting for the manifestation (demonstration;
declaration] of the sons of God.
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Ephesians 5:30: We are members of his body, of
his flesh, and of his bones.
Therefore we must RECOGNIZE (identify) our PURPOSE
(goal; cause; motive], get into our POSITION (post; station; office; rank; status), and rule as God in the earth!
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John 14:12: He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.
We must do as Jesus did, and that is
to take our “God-ship authority”, knowing
that what we do, it’s the Father doing it through us, because we have become one with the Father as Jesus
was!
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John 14:10: Believe thou not that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me: the words
that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwell in me, he does the works.
Jesus realized that He was not separate from His Father – but that they were “ONE”!
St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Vs 2: The same (that’s “US” His people) was (existed) in the beginning with God. Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us!
So are we ONE with the Father!! John
17:20: Neither, pray I for these
alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. Vs 21: That they all may be ONE, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be ONE in us: that the
world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Jesus said to Thomas and Philip: John 14:7-9: If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and from henceforth you know him, and have seen him. Philip said unto him. “Lord, show us the Father and it suffices (satisfies) us”. Jesus said unto him, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how says thou then, “Show us the Father”?
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1st John 4:17: As he is, so are we, in
this world!
Again I say: You are Him who is seen, of Him who is
invisible! You crystallize the one who
has no form! You localize the one who is
everywhere! You are the living word wrapped
in flesh and bone.
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Ephesians 5:30: We are members (parts; limbs) of his body, of his flesh, and of
his bones!
You are the dawning of
a light which has no genesis: You bare
the name of Him who is un-nameable! We
are the one’s creation’s waiting for!
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Romans 8:19: For the earnest expectation of
the creature waits for the manifestation (displaying;
demonstration; exhibition; presentation; revealing; appearing) of the
sons of God.
Many are ignorantly waiting for Jesus to come back, but He has finished the
work the Father sent Him to do!
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St. John 17:4: I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou
gave me to do!
In reality it is us “the sons of God” that
the creation is waiting for and we
must move into our God-ship authority and
rule and reign in and over the earth,
right here and right now!
RECOGNIZE YOUR PURPOSE (man; woman; boy; girl): AND
TAKE YOUR POSITION AS GOD (elohiyms),
IN GOD (Elohiym) [ELYOWN’]. But remember,
we are the sons of the MOST HIGH [Elyown’] (the Supreme God)!!!
Pastor Gracie Perry