We are now in the time when we celebrate Mother’s.
Text: Galatians 4:22: For it is written, that Abraham had two
sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. Vs 23: But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he of
the freewoman was by promise. Vs
24: Which things is an allegory for
these are the two covenants: the one
from the Mount Sinai, which genders to
bondage, which is Agar. Vs 25: For this Agar is Mount Sinai, in Arabia,
and answers to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her
children. Vs 26: But Jerusalem which is above is free,
which is the mother of us all.
Galatians shows Christ our Liberty [freedom; independence; deliverance; redemption]).
When it comes to something
being “real” that means it is legitimate, actual, genuine, authentic, or true.
We are in the time when we celebrate or honor the MOTHER of the family, motherhood, or maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, or by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring.
The US Census report states that over two million grand children are being raised by their grandparents. So being a mother means more than giving birth to a child. It’s loving and knowing a soul before you even see it. It’s carrying and caring for a life that’s completely dependent on you for survival. So we thank God for the mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers, great great grandmothers, or all involved in raising children.
We also have spiritual mothers, those that have not given birth physically, but are spiritually birthing
sons of God (male/female), into the
Kingdom of God. Like as Paul said to the Galatian church in relation to himself being a male: Galatian 4:19: My little children (darlings), of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.
Some of the
characteristics of mothers are: they’re patient;
respectful; strong; humble; empathetic; authoritative; supportive; loving. The Bible speaks of many mothers that are
described differently. Just to name a few.
Eve - the mother of all living (Genesis 3:20): Sarah – the mother of nations (Genesis 17:16): Hannah – the mother who kept her vow to the LORD (1st
Samuel 1:11): Mary – the mother
who is blessed among women (Luke 1:28).
There are a lot of
descriptions to describe Mother’s, but today I’m going to talk about a Mother that you don’t hear too much about,
and that’s the one that’s called “the
Mother of us all” (Galatians 4:26).
Webster defines mother as the female parent; the origin or source of something. Mother in Hebrew is em (ame), meaning the bond [cohesion] of the family. She’s considered the bond, cohesion; glue of the natural relationship of mother and child.
Our text Galatians
4:22 states, “For it is written, that Abraham had two
sons, the one by a bondmaid (paidis’ke)
[slave; servant], the other by a freewoman (eleu’theros) [unrestrained (to go at pleasure), as a
citizen, not a slave; exempt (from obligation or liability); free]. Vs 23: But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but
he of the freewoman was by promise.
Vs 24: Which things are
an allegory (parable; analogy; symbol): for these are the two covenants; the
one from the Mount Sinai, which genders to bondage (slavery),
which is Agar. Vs 25: For this Agar is Mount Sinai, in Arabia
(arab –ar-awb’) [sense of sterility [inability to
produce children or young; not able to produce fruit or seed], and
answers to Jerusalem, (yeruwshala’im) [founded
peace] which now is, and is in bondage (doueu’o)
[to be a slave to; do service] with her children. Vs 26: But Jerusalem which is above (an’o)
[upward or on the top; high] [not beyond the
blue] is free, which is the mother of us all.
Matthew 12:46-50,
gives us insight to what “true family”
is all about in God’s language, as spoken by Jesus Himself:
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Vs 46:
While he yet talked to the people behold
his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with
him. Vs 47: Then one said unto him, “Behold, thy mother
and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee”. Vs 48: But he answered and said unto him that told him, “Who is my mother
and who are my brethren”? Vs
49: And he stretched forth his hand
toward his disciples, and said, “Behold my mother and my brethren”. Vs 50: For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in
heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother!
On the spiritual side the Mother (the church)
is the bond (fellowship; partnership; association;
affiliation; alliance; coalition; relationship) that ties the sons of God (male & female) to our Heavenly
Father, through Jesus Christ, by the Holy Ghost.
In Genesis
3:20, Eve (analogy of the church) is called “the mother of all living” and in Galatians 4:26, Jerusalem which is above that is free (the church), is called “the mother of us all”!
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Genesis
2:20: And Adam gave names to all
cattle and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for
Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Vs 21: And the LORD God
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh instead thereof. Vs 22:
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken
from man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man. Vs 23: And Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman
because she was taken out of Man”. Vs
24: Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one
flesh.
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Genesis
3:20: And Adam called his wife‘s name
Eve (the life-giver) because she was
the mother of all living.
She was not the “mother of all breathing”, because
there is no way possible for one woman and one man to bring forth all these
different races or nationalities of people we see in the world today. There are many walking around today breathing, but not "living". But she
was the “mother of all living” (chay – khah’ee) [alive; fresh; strong] / chayah’) [to
live; revive; nourish up; preserve (alive); quicken; recover; repair; restore
(to life); be whole]. She was
a type of the church the MOTHER that
had reproduced (revived, repaired,
restored to life), and brought forth sons of God (male & female), that was ruling and reigning over creation,
with dominion, authority, and power, as God’s representatives in the earth for
the glory of God, then!
Adam being put into a
deep sleep and the woman taken from his side that was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones, was his wife (the church) of whom he became the head, that
he called Eve who was “the
mother of all living” at
that time. Then when Jesus came, and was
put to sleep (died) on the cross, and rose from the dead, He became the Head of
His wife (the church) that had now become
flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones (Ephesians
5:30), that came forth from His side that He cleansed by the washing of the water, which is the Word of God
(Ephesians 5:26), and eternally redeemed
with His own blood (Hebrews 9:12).
She is called New Jerusalem, which
is above, and is free, who is now “the mother of us all” (Galatians
4:26)!!
So who is the Real (true) Mother?
Something happened to
the “mother
of all living” in Genesis
chapter 3. First we must understand what
happened in Genesis chapter 2. The LORD
God had taken over the creation and formed
man (male
&female) the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils (face;
countenance) the breath of life and made him a living soul (vs 7). Then the LORD God planted a garden eastward (denoting the rising of the Sun - the beginning of the
dawning of a new day in God) in Eden (place of dominion, authority, and power) and
there he put the man, to dress
(abad’) [do
service] (ruling and reigning over creation / reproducing and bringing forth
other sons of God; to worship) and keep it (shamar’) [to hedge about; guard; protect; attend
to; watch (man)]. They
were watchmen over the
creation, ruling and reigning over the creation. Everything Adam needed was placed at his
disposal (available for use whenever,
wherever, and however needed).
EDEN was to them then as HEAVEN
is to us now!!
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Genesis
2:16: The LORD God commanded (gave a charge, order to) the man, saying,
“Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat: vs 17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eat thereof thou shalt surely die”.
As the head of
creation, the man Adam already had instructions what not to do, but something
happened in Genesis chapter 3: at
this time Adam now had his “help
meet”, the Woman that was now
his wife.
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Genesis
3:1: Now the serpent (not a slithering snake ) [but a person being used by the
devil; Satan] was more subtil than any beast (cha’y) [raw flesh] (raw, crude, rude, refer to something
not in a finished or highly refined state] of the field (sadeh’) [domain] (an area of territory owned or
controlled by a ruler or government) which the LORD God had made,
and he said unto the woman (the mother of
all living), “Yea, hath God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the
garden”? Vs 2-3: And the woman
said unto the serpent, “We may
eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God
hath said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch (naga')[lay the hand upon for any purpose; come (draw) nigh; join] it, lest you
die”. Vs 4-5: And the serpent (whisperer; devil; liar; deceiver) said unto
the woman (mother of all living), you
shall not surely die: for God doth know
that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and you shall
be as gods, knowing good and evil”.
This “field” was not wheat, straw, or a place
where cattle are driven as such. In
Matthew 13:38, Jesus said that the “field
was the world”. World in the Greek
is kos’mos, meaning that which has
been orderly arranged, decorated, and
adorned by men, whether political (government); social,
economical, or ecclesiastical. Each
of these systems is controlled by men some of a
beastly (furious) nature. It’s
happening all over the world. The “upper class” living high, standing on the shoulders of the “lower class”. Proverbs
29:2: When the righteous are in
authority, the people rejoice: but when
the wicked rule, the people mourn (sigh;
groan). But remember this, Proverbs 13:22: A good man leaves an inheritance to his
children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. People all over the world are sighing and groaning due to
circumstances and situations happening on all levels of their lives, but God’s
Word is still true.
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2nd
Chronicles 7:14: If my people, which
are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and
turn from their wicked ways: then will I
hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
It has been proven
throughout eons of time that God has always brought His people out of bondage to
each of those beastly government systems even from the book of Genesis, beginning with Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Greece, Persia, Rome, Papal Authority,
and the government system that’s in operation now is no different. The same God that delivered then is
delivering His people now. For it is the
government of God, which is His Kingdom
(dominion, authority, and power) that
is within us that we must live by and not the one religion teaches that Jesus
is going to set up over in the Middle East when He comes back, because He’s
already here, ruling and reigning in those that believe! Luke 17:21: “Neither shall they say, lo here or lo there: for behold, the kingdom of God is within
you”. Within God’s government or
Kingdom is all that we need spiritually
and naturally that we might live!!!
But we must believe it, receive it, and walk in it!
Back to Genesis 3 (the
fall of mankind):
[What the devil
didn’t tell the woman was that they were already gods]!
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vs 6:
And when the woman (the first mother)
saw (ra’ah’)[approved; discerned; experienced and enjoyed] (what the religious system of that day offered): that
the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired (chamad’) [to delight in; take pleasure in] to
make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof [this was not an apple; but it was the lie of the
enemy], and did eat [devoured;
absorbed] (the lie within her mind or
consciousness and appropriated it to her own life and purposes, instead of God)
, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Vs 7:
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Their nakedness had
nothing to do with the woman wearing a
dress or the man having on a suit and tie, but they’d been stripped of the
covering of God’s righteousness that they’d been clothed with, inclusive
of His wisdom, knowledge; counsel;
understanding, dominion, authority, power, incorruption and immortality! They fell from their divinity back into humanity,
through the fig leaves and aprons (the religious
systems of that day they had joined themselves to and covered themselves with). They moved
from light into darkness; from life into death!
That’s why 1st Corinthians 15:22 states: As in
Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be alive!
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1st
Timothy 1:14: And Adam was not
deceived, but the woman (the mother of all
living) being deceived was in the transgression (parab’asis)
[violation; error; fault; sin].
What you must
understand is that even though Eve
(the life giver) (the mother of all living) had
eaten of the fruit (not an apple) (but the lie of the enemy), the creation still had not yet fallen, but when
the head of the creation her husband (the one the LORD God gave the command to), when he partook of
the fruit (the
lie of the enemy) that’s what
brought on the fall. He did it so to
keep fellowship (companionship) with her, his wife (the church).
So which “breast” are you feeding from, “the mother of all living” from
(Genesis 3), or “the mother of
us all, that is free” in (Galatians 4:26).
So God is now asking “Who is your Mother”?
Genesis 3:8-13,
there’s a conversation going on between Adam, his wife, and the LORD God:
Genesis 3:8: And they heard the voice (qowl) [calling aloud; sound; thundering] of
the LORD God walking (halak’) [continually; be
conversant; as they went to and fro on the pathway (of the behaviors) of their
lives] in the garden (within
themselves) in the cool of the day: And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the LORD amongst the trees of the garden.
These “trees” they hid themselves among were not oaks, or pines, but they were people. (Please read at your convenience): (Isaiah 61:3) God's people are referred to as "trees of righteousness". [Briefly] (Ezekiel 28) God said to the king of Tyrus, "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God": (Ezekiel 31) Pharaoh, king of Egypt in this chapter – God is referring to him as a “tree in the garden of God”. So, if Adam and Eve were the only two in the “garden of Eden” in Genesis, as have been preached to us religiously for years, how did the king of Tyrus and Pharaoh king of Egypt, get in there? That’s because the Garden of Eden was not a physical garden of flowers and trees, but a place of dominion, authority, and power!
Genesis 3:8: The “cool” of the day:
Cool being the ru’wach, which is the wind; breath; to smell (ability to
discern); to perceive; make of quick understanding. The LORD
God calling unto Adam was Adam hearing the LORD God speaking within himself because of where he
(Adam) was at that time! He’d become
bound by the Woman (the church) [that
was the mother of all living] that now has become the adulteress that had committed apostasy (desertion of one’s professed faith or
party), but he still wanted to
keep fellowship with his wife (the
church). Adam had moved from the “heat of the day” (the place of eternal life; divine health; dominion;
power) into the “cool of
the day” (the
EVE-ning), along with his wife. Evening is the Hebrew root word e’reb, meaning, dusk; evening;
night; the going down of the sun.
The light of God that was in them (the Adam race) had been darkened by the lies and deceit of the enemy!! Eve, the “life-giver”
(the mother of all living) had now
become a death sentence to him.
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Vs 9:
And the LORD God called unto Adam and
said unto him, “Where art thou”? Vs
10: And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because
I was naked; and I hid myself. Vs
11: And he said, “Who told thee that
thou were naked”? Hast thou eaten of the
tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou should not eat”? Vs 12: And the man said, “The woman (the
mother of all living) whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me
of the tree, and I did eat”. Vs
13: And the LORD God said unto the
woman, “What is this that thou hast done”?
And the woman said, “The serpent beguiled (nasha’) [to lead astray; (mentally) to delude, or (morally) seduce;
deceive] me, and I did eat”.
Genesis 3:14-21,
the LORD God pronounces judgment upon the
woman and the serpent (not a snake but the devil), and Adam
because he hearkened unto the voice of his wife (Eve, the mother of all living) and
ate of the tree of which the LORD God commanded him not to eat of: and the ground was cursed because of Adam’s
disobedience.
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Vs 14:
And the LORD God said unto the serpent
(devil; Satan), “Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle
and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust
(this is not dirt the serpent ate– but flesh) shalt thou
eat all the days of thy life”. Vs
15: And I will put enmity (hostility)
between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
This is the prophecy
of the victory that Jesus would give back to the creation!! So God in His infinite love, grace and mercy,
had a plan to restore the creation back unto Himself through His Son, Jesus the Christ.
·
1st
Corinthians 15:22: In Adam all die,
but even so in Christ shall all be made alive!
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2nd
Corinthians 5:19: To wit (know), that
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.
That’s why we see
in our theme scripture:
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Galatians
4:23: But he who was of the bondwoman
(paidis’ke) [a slave or servant] was born
after the flesh: but he of the freewoman (leu’theros) [unrestrained (to go at pleasure), (as a
citizen); not a slave; exempt (from obligation or liability); free; at
liberty] was by promise: Vs
24: Which things are an
allegory: for these are the two
covenants, the one from the Mount Sinai, which genders to bondage, which is
Agar. Vs 25: For this Agar is Mount Sinai, in Arabia and
answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Why Arabia, because Arabia connotes sterility,
which is the quality or condition of
being sterile [not able to produce children or young; fruit or seed]. The religious system is not able to bring forth "sons of God" that walk in the freedom of the Spirit, but those that are bound by flesh or carnality.
Why is that? Because
“religion” is still trying to present to us the same “woman” that was called the
mother of all living in Genesis 3, that is yet a “bondwoman”, instead of the “freewoman,” that’s called “Jerusalem which is above, that is free, who is the mother of us all” (Galatians
4:26).
In the New Testament
this “bondwoman” is called the “MOTHER OF
HARLOTS” spoken of in Revelation
17:5:
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And upon her forehead (frontal lobe) [that deals with personality; higher
intellectual processes; concentration; planning; decision making; verbal
communication] was a name written, MYSTERY BABYLON (confusion) THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND ABOMINATIONS (bdel’ugma) detestations
[idolatry] OF THE EARTH!
It’s called Mystery
Babylon “THE GREAT” because of
the enormity (extreme scale; seriousness;
extent) of the work of the enemy in these different systems of the world that has become methods of bondage (oppression) to many from all walks of
life. Systems being sets or arrangements of things working together as parts of a whole or an
interconnecting network; a set of facts, rules, principles or procedures working a certain way; an organized plan or method or
established order; a prevailing political or social order, especially when
regarded as oppressive and intransigent [unwilling to change one’s views or to
agree about something]. As defined by Webster and other sources.
Why is this? Babylon in Greek is a type of tyranny. Tyranny
defined in Webster is the authority,
government, etc, of a tyrant (an oppressive ruler; master); cruel and unjust
use of power. In Hebrew its Babel, meaning confusion (disorder; perplexity;
chaos; confound). That’s what
happened in Genesis 11:1-9, when the
people journeyed from the east [the place of
light], into Shinar (ancient name of Babylon) and began to build them
a city and a tower (pulpit; rostrum) whose top may reach
unto heaven (high
places of elevation) deviating
from doing it God’s way, and He confounded
(overflowed; mixed) their
language and scattered them abroad upon the face of the earth. This means that they began to disagree not
just religiously, but governmentally or politically, economically, and socially,
about different matters as pertaining to life, as it is happening in our society or the world today.
Today, many are
speaking different languages, especially ecclesiastically, across towers (pulpits; rostrums) all over
the world, in relation to repentance
from dead works, faith toward God, the doctrine of baptisms, laying on of
hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment, instead of going on unto perfection (Hebrews
6:1-2). But the majority of Christendom don’t even believe that we can be perfect and
that’s because “the Mother”, (Jezebel, the false teacher), spoken of
in Revelation 2:20, has seduced
(plana’o)
[caused to roam (from safety, truth, virtue); go astray; deceived] the
harlots (her
children; daughters) (the different denominations) telling them
in order to overcome they have to wait until Jesus come back and get them and
take them to where God is, or go up yonder where God is via a dirt grave. Truth is, we can overcome right here and
right now because Jesus IS COME already, that
we might have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). God
doesn’t want us to just survive, but
He wants His people to “thrive” (grow;
develop) till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature (maturity) of
the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13), because “As he is, so are we, in this world” (1st John 4:17). We must
do the works that He did, because He
said we could (John 14:12), if we
believe. But it's going to take the "Body of Christ" as a whole to do this.
What is a “harlot”? It’s the Greek word por’ne, meaning, an idolater (idol worshipper); to sell. No one can pay me enough money to preach what
they want me to preach, I must preach what God gives me. This is one of the scriptures GOD gave to me: Ephesians 6:19: And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my
mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel. So I have no choice
but to obey this mandate from God,
not man, to do what I do!
Someone may say, “I don’t worship idols”. An idol is an image of a person or thing excessively reverenced or devotion to. For those that can’t start their day without the horoscope, worship the stars. For those that wear crosses with Jesus still on it, are still holding on to the Man Jesus, when He's not on the cross, He’s risen, therefore we must worship God in Spirit and truth (John 4:24). Those waiting for the Man Jesus to come back and get them, are worshipping His flesh that has become an idol to them, when He’s already here by the Spirit. His flesh is no more (2nd Corinthians 5:16) “Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known (past tense) Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth (from hereon) know we him no more”: Except in you (Ephesians 5:30) “We are members (limbs; parts) of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones”. The only way He can and will be seen now is in His people!
Back to Galatians
4:25, this Agar, is the bondwoman,
MYSTERY BABYLON, THE GREAT the “Mother
of harlots”, that house and train those that preach
and teach, “One of these days Jesus is
coming back and set His Kingdom up in Jerusalem”. When Jesus Himself said:
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Luke
17:20: The kingdom of God comes not
with observation. Vs 21: Neither shall they say, lo here or lo
there! For the kingdom of God is within you! 1st Corinthians 4:20: The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. Romans 14:17: The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but joy, peace, and righteousness in the Holy Ghost.
You don’t have to die
to go to the kingdom because the kingdom of God is come to you and is within
you!!
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Galatians
4:26: But Jerusalem which is above
(an’o) [upward; on the top; in a higher place
(which is in Christ)] is free (leu’theros)
[unrestrained (to go at pleasure), (as a
citizen); not a slave; exempt (from obligation or liability); free; at liberty],
which is the MOTHER of us all.
This is the REAL (true) MOTHER, the city that John saw
coming down from God out of heaven. Revelation
21:2: I John saw the holy city, new
Jerusalem (not the one in the Middle East), coming
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
We the Church are
that city! Even Isaiah prophesied it.
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Isaiah
1:26: And I will restore thy judges
as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward, thou shalt be called, the city
of righteousness, the faithful city.
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Isaiah
60:14: The sons of them that afflicted
thee (those that fight the true message of the
Kingdom) shall come bending unto thee: and all they that despised thee shall bow
themselves down at the soles of thy feet:
and they shall call thee, “the city of the LORD”, the Zion
of the Holy One of Israel [God’s Israel is now
all over the world, not just in the Middle East].
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Isaiah
62:12: And they shall call them, the
holy people the redeemed of the LORD:
and thou shalt be called, “sought out, a city not forsaken”.
Then it’s
confirmed in the New Testament:
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Hebrews
12:22: But you are come (present tense) unto mount Zion, and unto the
city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
innumerable company of angels. Vs
23: To the general assembly and
church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven (not out in the sky – but in Christ), and to
God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect: vs 24: And to Jesus the mediator (mesi’tes)
[go-between; reconciler (intercessor] of the new covenant, and to
the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Our Heavenly Father
has made us, the Church, “the Real (true) Mother” of His creation now,
through Christ by the power of the Holy Ghost, to reproduce and bring forth
sons of God (male/female) in the
earth, to rule and reign as the Adam race did in Genesis before the fall. Hallelujah to Jesus!!
So who is the Real (true) Mother?
Let me tell you when the “Real (true) Mother” stood up!!
Matthew 27
(after Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection):
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Vs 50:
Jesus, when he had cried again with a
loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Vs
51: And behold, the veil of the
temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake,
and the rocks rent; vs 52: And
the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, vs
53: And came out of the graves after
his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
How many know that it
was the cross that differentiated between Jesus
and Christ? It was the body of the Man Jesus that God chose to suffer and
die in that hung on that cross, but the body God chose to be glorified in after the resurrection was a many-membered body called Christ!
·
Romans
12:5: So we, being many, are one body
in Christ, and every one, 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,
are 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.
When Jesus rose on
the third day, when He “the Head” got
up, He got the Body (the church) up with Him, which is His wife (the mother of us all)!
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Colossians
1:18: And he is the head of the
body, the church (a living organism, not an organization): who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence
(superiority).
That’s why Jesus said
what He said in Matthew 8:20: “The
foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests: but the Son of man hath not where to lay his
head”.
That was because He
hadn’t died yet, but as I explained earlier when He got up out of the grave He
got the body up with Him. This could only happen after His resurrection, and it was at Pentecost, when He attached (married; joined; united) THE Head (Himself) to His Body the Church! That’s
the place He has laid (placed) His Head!! Colossians 2:9: For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Bodily is the root
word somatikos’, meaning corporeal (of a physical, material nature; tangible). Ephesians 5:30: We are members (limbs; parts) of
his body, of his flesh, and of his bones!
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Hebrews
12:22: But you are come (present tense) unto mount Sion (the church triumphant) and unto the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem [not
the one over in the Middle East], and to an innumerable company of
angels. Vs 23: To the general
assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven and to God
the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect: vs 24: And to Jesus the
mediator (arbitrator; conciliator; intervener;
peacemaker; adjudicator) of the new covenant and to the blood of
sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
SO WHO IS THE REAL (true) MOTHER? That
would be all of us, male and female, that
are members of Christ’s body.
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Galatians
3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you
are all one in Christ Jesus.
John said: Revelation 21:1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea (conglomeration [number of different things grouped together]).
But we are “one blood” (Acts 17:26): And hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. We are “one bread” (1st Corinthians 10:17): For we being many are one bread and one
body: for we are all partakers of
that one bread. We are “one body” (1st
Corinthians 12:12): For as the body is
one and hath many members and all the members of that one body,
being many are one body: so also IS
CHRIST.
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Vs 2: And
I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Those of us that are in Christ, are already in the “new heaven”, and that old heaven that we use to think was up beyond the blue, that lie has passed away from us! For he hath raised us up together and made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6). We are already enjoying the marriage supper with the Lamb, our Husband, right now!!
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Revelation
19: 7: Let us be gland and rejoice,
and give honor to him: for the marriage
of the Lamb is come (present tense), and
his wife [the real (true) mother of His sons
(male/female)], hath (already) made
herself ready. Vs 8: And to her was granted that she be arrayed
(dressed) in fine linen, clean and
white [the light of God]: for the fine linen is the righteousness
of saints.
We are God’s
righteousness! Romans 8:2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Vs 3: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh: vs 4: That the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit. 2nd
Corinthians 5:21: For he hath made
him to be sin for us, who knew no sin:
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
You want to know why
you and I are now the “REAL (true) MOTHER”? Let me break the
word “MOTHER” down: We are:
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M:
(MEMBERS): Ephesians 5:30: You are MEMBERS (limbs; parts) of his body, of his flesh,
and of his bones!
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O: (ORDAINED): John
15:16: You have not chosen me, but I
have chosen you, and ORDAINED (tith’emi) [to
place (in a posture); appointed] 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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T: (TRANSLATED): Colossians 1:12: Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (worthy) to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light. Vs 13: Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath TRANSLATED (methis’temi)
[transferred] us into the kingdom of his dear Son.
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H: (HEIRS): Romans
8:16: The Spirit itself bears witness
with our spirit, that we are the children (teknon)[sons]
of God. Vs 17: And if children (sons), 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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E:
(ENLIGHTENED):
Ephesians 1:17: That the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge (full
discernment; acknowledgement) of him:
vs 18: The eyes of your
understanding being ENLIGHTENED (informed;
aware; educated; illuminated) that you may know what is the hope
of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.
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R: (REDEEMED): Hebrews
9:11: But Christ being come an high
priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not
made with hands, that is to say, not of this building. Vs 12: Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained ETERNAL REDEMPTION (deliverance
from sin, death, hell, and the grave) for us. Vs 22: Without shedding of blood is no remission.
Let the redeemed "Real (true) Mother" (male & female) say so!! I am redeemed by the blood of the crucified Lamb!!
So will THE REAL MOTHER OF US ALL, (the true body of Christ) please stand up and glorify the FATHER!!!
Pastor Gracie Perry