“Making The Right Connection”: (Pt 2)

 

Text:  Matthew 9 [Jesus is on His way to raise Jairus’ daughter]:

Vs 20: And behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him and touched the hem of his garment:

Vs 21: For she said within herself, “If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole”.

Vs 22: But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole”.  And the woman was made whole from that hour.

As I stated in part 1, when a woman is bleeding she is not in production.  This “woman” was a type of the church that’s not reproducing and bringing forth “sons of God”.  This “bleeding woman” (the unproductive church) touching Jesus’ clothes, signifies the church “making the right connection” so that she can be made whole by being covered with the righteousness of God, which is what Jesus’ garment or His robe typified! 

Revelation 19:8: And to her (the church) was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white:  for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

The “bleeding or hemorrhaging of the church” didn’t just start with this woman in Matthew 9, it began all the way back in the Book of Genesis.  I believe this because in Genesis 3 when the “woman” (the church) listened to the lies of the serpent (not a “snake”, but it was the devil himself) and ate of what he offered her (appropriated it to her life), and then gave unto her husband and he ate also, this is what brought on the hemorrhaging that led to the fall of mankind.

·         Genesis 3:6: And when the woman (the adulterous church) saw that the tree (of knowledge of good and evil) was good 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.

·         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 “physical clothing”, but they had become undressed of the “righteous covering” of God.  The “righteous covering” being their uprightness or innocence in God!  I believe this because in Revelation 19, mention is made of “the marriage supper of the Lamb”:

·         Vs 7: Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him:  for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife  (the true church hath (past tense-already) made herself ready.

·         Vs 8: And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean (pure) and white (the light of God):  for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints!

·         2 Corinthians 5:21: He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin:  that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

We, the body of Christ, are “already covered with the righteousness of God” right now, which is what the “church” became uncovered with in the book of Genesis.  We are not just covered with God’s righteousness, but we are His righteousness in Christ!  Glory Hallelujah!!!

·         Isaiah 61:10: I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

This was spoken and put in place before the “resurrection”, how much more now that the “resurrection” is come or “is present” that we be clothed with salvation and covered with the robe of righteousness right now, and we are!!!

We see how this “woman” with the diseased issue of blood pressed behind Jesus and touched His clothes.  Sometimes you don’t need a page, a paragraph, or a sentence from the Lord, all you need is a “touch” for “the right connection” to be made!

This word “touch” is from the root word “hap’tomai”, meaning to attach or join.  1 Corinthians 6:17: He that is joined (united) unto the Lord is one Spirit.

This “woman” (church) was actually caught in the web of philosophy, vain deceit, tradition of men, rudiments of the world and not after Christ (Colossians 2:8), from the religious physicians of her day.  These are the things Paul warned us about.

In Mark 5:26 it states that she had suffered many things of many physicians (doctors of religion) but the issue had only grown worse.

It’s evident she knew something about the transfer of power:  (2 kings 2:9) in relation to Elijah and Elisha, and she knew what was in the law about women that were bleeding not going into the congregation of the people.  She believed that once she “made the connection” that what was in “Him” (Jesus), was also in the “hem”, and she would get by faith what she needed, and did! 

To know what she was actually touching, connecting, or joining herself to, we must know what was in the “HEM” (Exodus 28):

·         Vs 31: And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

·         Vs 32: And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof:  it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

·         Vs 33: And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: 

·         Vs 34: A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.

·         Vs 35: And it shall be upon Aaron to minister:  and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he comes out, that he die not.

HEM in Hebrew is shuwl meaning to hang down; a skirt; a bottom edge; train.  In the Greek it’s kras’pedon which is a margin, in relation to a fringe or tassel:  border.  It was primarily the extremity or prominent part of a thing, an edge; the fringe of a garment or a little fringe hanging down from the edge of a mantle or cloak.

The Jews had these attached to their mantles to remind them of the Law (Numbers 15:38-39).  We are no longer under the law but under grace.

·         Ephesians 2:5: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved);

·         Vs 8: For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God.

What the “woman” was touching or attaching herself to was, the “righteousness of God”.  This was the true church (the body of Christ) becoming clothed with the “robe of righteousness”. 

Jesus Christ is the "righteousness of God":  Jeremiah 23:5-6: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely:  and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS! 

God through Him, has made us His righteousness: 2 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.

There are “two women” mentioned in Revelation, one was “the true church” (Revelation 12) the other “the false church system” (Revelation 17).

First, let’s look at the “true church”: (Revelation 12:1-17):

·         Revelation 12:2: And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. 

(This is the true church, Christ’s Body):  (1) First of all she was in “heaven”, not out beyond the blue, but in ouranos’, an elevated or high place spiritually because she had been transformed by the renewing of her mind, she had taken on Christ’s mind and was walking in kingdom principles, dominion, power, and authority; eternity:  (2) She was clothed with the sun (he’lios), denoting “light”.  The “light” here is from the root word “phos”, meaning luminousness, which is “to make clear or readily understood”, having the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians  2:16).  This implies knowledge in relation to discernment of who God is in us and who we are in God!  Knowing that as Jesus was in the earth that’s who we have or are become by the Holy Ghost and we must do the works that He did.  And He said “greater works than these shall you do” (John 14:12):  (3) The moon was under her feet.  Our universe receives “light and life” from the Sun, and we receive “light and life” from the Son of God, that the Sun depicts.  The Moon shines at night, typifying the devil and how he works in darkness.  But this “woman” has the powers of the devil under her feet because God has given unto her power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy (Luke 10:19):  (4) And upon her head a crown of twelve stars.  These twelve stars are the “sons of God” (male & female) that has become kings and priests in the earth ruling and reigning over the earth (Revelation 5:10), as the Adam race of people were ruling and reigning over the creation in Genesis before the fall of mankind.

Secondly, “the false church system” (Revelation 17:1-18):

·         Revelation 17:3: So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness:  and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

·         Vs 4: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication (idol worship):

·         Vs 5: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT; THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

·         Vs 6: and I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus:  and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

·         Vs 18: And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

This is the same “woman” John saw in Revelation 12:2: And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, but when he sees her now she is “drunken” with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

Drunken is from the root word methu’o, meaning to be intoxicated (made drunk).  In the middle of the word “intoxicated” is the word “toxic” which is “a poison”.  This is what the “physicians of religion” has been feeding the church for years, “religious poisoning”:  philosophy, vain deceit, tradition of men, rudiments of the world, AND NOT AFTER CHRIST (Colossians 2:8). 

They’ve been telling God’s people one of these days they’re going home to be with Jesus; Listen, we’re already at home:  (Isaiah 45:18): Thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited:  with Jesus:  (1John 4:4) Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world!

Many of these “physicians” (doctors) of our day now are saying we will overcome one of these days; when Romans 8 tells us how victorious we already are (vs 28-36) and goes on to say vs 37: Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. They (the physicians of religion) say “one day Jesus is coming back to get us and take us up to heaven so we can be with Him”.  But 2 Corinthians 5:16 states: “Yea though we have known (past tense) Christ after the flesh, yet now hence forth (from here on) know we him no more.  

God is through with the flesh body of Jesus as He was, He has another body now, Christ’s body, which is a many membered body that He’s using now, and that’s us “the church”, “the holy city, New Jerusalem”, that John saw coming down from God out of heaven” (Revelation 21:2).  We are that city!  Jesus said, “You are the light of the world, a city set on a hill that cannot be hid” (Matthew 5:14).  Furthermore, we are already in heaven, being in CHRIST!  (Ephesians 2:6): And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in CHRIST JESUS.

So this “false church system” according to Revelation 17:18, is the “woman” that is even now reigning over the “kings of the earth”.  The “kings of the earth” are the pastors, and preachers that fit in with the “Ahab class”, that are married to the Jezebel’s:  church’s preaching the “one of these days” messages.   These are the “physicians” (religious doctors) that administer or prescribe to the people what the people want to hear, and not what they need to hear.  But the “kings of the east” fit in the “John class” that God has spent time with on the Isle of Patmos, revealing the deep things of Himself to and they have accepted the revelation truth’s, and are telling God’s people that “He is a right now God, you can overcome right now, you can have a new body right now”!!  “Jesus has already come to you by the Holy Ghost, He is already here and He lives in you”!! 

·         2 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”!

Back to Matthew 9, what “the woman” was connecting herself to when she touched the “hem” of Jesus’s garment:

These things were in the hem of the robe of the high priest (Exodus 28:31-35):

·         Vs 31: And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

·         Vs 32: And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof:  it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

·         Vs 33: And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: 

·         Vs 34: A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.

·         Vs 35: And it shall be upon Aaron to minister:  and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he comes out, that he die not.

In the hem were pomegranates of blue, scarlet, and purple, and also bells of gold. 

Pomegranate:  is from the root word rimmown’, which is a tree (from its upright growth) or the fruit – sweet fruit with a refreshing taste) / It goes to another root word,  ramam’, which means to rise; exalted; get (oneself) up; lifted up; mount up.

·         Psalm 34:8: O taste (experience) and see that the Lord is good.

The pomegranate because of the many seeds it contains, symbolizes “fertility”.  This is what was about to happen to the “woman with the issue of blood” (adulterate and unproductive church), once she made the right connection she would experience having the ability to lift herself up out of the philosophies, vain deceit, traditions of men and the rudiments of the world and go “after Christ” walking “upright” in the righteousness of God, being “fruitful”, reproducing and multiplying bringing forth “sons of God”. 

·         Isaiah 40:31: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

When we “make the right connection” with CHRIST we will be like the eagle.  Just to name a few things:

·         The eagle has very sharp or keen vision:  (Matthew 6:22): If therefore thine eye be single, thine whole body shall be full of light (the righteousness of God; knowledge of God).

·         He’s fearless:  (2 Timothy 1:7): For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

·         He’s tenacious:  (Ephesians 6:10-11): Finally brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.  Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

·         They fly (soar) high:  (Ephesians 2:6): He hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

·         They never eat dead meat, they catch their prey live:  (Matthew 4:4): Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God:  (John 6:53) Except you eat the flesh of the son of man (Jesus), and drink his blood, you have no life in you.  (Revelation 2:17) To him that over-cometh will I give to eat of the Hidden manna” (the deep revelation truths of God)!

·         They possess vitality:  (John 3:15): Whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal (quality) life.  Vs 16: God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting (unending) life.

Why of blue? Blue is from the root word teke’leth, which is the cerulean mollusk ie dye obtained from it. Then it goes on to sheche’leth, from the idea of peeling off by concussion (a violent shaking) of sound.  Finally it goes to shach’al, meaning to roar; a lion (from his characteristic roar); lion, fierce, lion.

·         Hebrews 12:25-26: See that you refuse not him that speaks:  for if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven (the higher realms of spiritual elevation): whose voice then shook the earth:  but now he hath promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven”.

Shake is from the Greek word sei’o, meaning to rock (vibrate, sideways or to and fro); to agitate (in any direction); move; quake.

Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah (Revelation 5:5).  The lion is the king of the jungle!  Jesus the “Lion of the tribe of Judah” was ready to “rock”, “shake”, and “quake” this woman's world (the woman with the diseased issue of blood)! 

He was ready to speak and roar the vibrations of salvation and deliverance into her with the concussion (quaking; shaking) sound of His voice so to destroy and loose her from the works of the devil that had her bound:  Matthew 9:22: But Jesus turned him about and when he saw her, he said, “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole”!

Blue is from the word sheche’leth, meaning to peel off by sound.  When something is “peeled off” (cut away), something new is revealed.  In the midst of a natural earthquake things are moved out of their place, how much more having a spiritual earthquake to deliver us from the clutches of the enemy?  Jesus was ready to move her from law to grace, from darkness to light, from sickness to health, from sadness to joy, from death to life!  That's what God did for each of us as we received His Word! He rocked our world!  The "truth" loosed and released us from those grave clothes of religion, the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son (Colossians 1:13), which is "light"!

First of all, Jesus called her “Daughter”, which changed her identity from being just “a woman” (an adulteress) to being a “daughter” which is a descendant (successor; heir; offspring).  This placed her in the position of “Father / daughter” relationship. 

·         2 Corinthians 6:17: Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing (traditions of men); and I will receive you.  Vs 18: And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

 This put her (the church) in position of “heirship”, so that she could receive all the blessings her Father had in place for her,  peace, health, being holy, without blame before him in love, predestination, redemption, forgiveness of sins, etc, (Ephesians 1:1-23).

Then Jesus said to her, Matthew 9:22: “Thy faith hath made thee whole”. 

WHOLE is from the Greek word so’zo, meaning to be safe; saved; delivered; protected; healed, even made whole.  This “wholeness” didn’t just bring deliverance to her physical body only, but the total man:  heart, soul, mind and body!  In Mark 5:30, and Luke 8:46, Jesus said, “the virtue had gone out him”.  That virtue was du’namis, which was force, miraculous power, or a miracle itself!  The connection the woman made with Jesus gave her a supernatural miracle, which was “the right connection” or she made a “divine connection”!

Why of scarlet?  Scarlet is from the root word shaniy’, meaning crimson.  Crimson is a “deep red” color.

·         Leviticus 17:11: The life (ne’phesh) [vitality; breath] of the flesh is in the blood:  and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls:  for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.

BLOOD in Hebrew is from dam (dawm) blood (as that when shed causes death) of man or animal; the juice of the grape; bloodshed (drops of blood); blood guiltiness.  Then it goes to Adam (aw-dam’) to show blood (in the face).  The “blood” Adam (male and female) had before he fell was “not guilty blood”, but after the fall their blood became “guilty blood”.

Human blood is red because of the protein “hemoglobin”, which contains red-colored compound called “heme” that’s crucial for carrying oxygen through your bloodstream.  Heme contains an iron atom which binds to oxygen; it’s this molecule that transports oxygen from your lungs to other parts of the body. 

·         Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God. 

God in this verse is Elohiym (el-o-heem’), meaning gods in the ordinary sense, but specifically used of the supreme God.

Look at the last part of God’s name heem’.  “El” means God:   “HIYM” (HEEM) – [God with the life carrying blood].

·         Genesis 1:26: Let us make man in our image after our likeness.

MAN in the Hebrew is adam -  aw-dawm’, meaning, ruddy, a human being (an individual or the species mankind); hypocrite; common sort; low, man, men, person(s).  It’s also Adam (aw-dam’), meaning to show blood (in the face), in relation to flush or turn rosy;  dyed red; ruddy.

Blood in Hebrew is dam (dawm’).  What God did was made man with His blood in him. 

·         Hebrews 9: 11: But Christ being come a 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 for us.

·         Hebrews 9:18: Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.  Vs 19: For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people:  vs 20: Saying, “This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you”.

In Genesis there were people already here, when God created Adam (male and female) in His image, but He chose a people out of a people to make them (male and female) like Himself and said, “Let us make “man” (male and female) in our image and after our likeness, but we’re going to make them with God-blood in them, and the blood God put in man was “innocent blood” (not guilty blood)!

Genesis 2:7: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The “life” of the flesh is in the blood.  In Genesis 2:7, when the LORD God breathed into Awdawm’s nostrils, He was literally breathing God’s blood into him (male & female), which was the “innocent or not guilty blood”]!

Through the fall of mankind, man’s blood became contaminated or guilty of sin.  But God, the Elohiym (eloheem’) God had a plan to purify man’s guilty blood by the innocent or not guilty blood of Jesus the Christ and did!

·         Hebrews 9:24-26: For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us [and He has]:  nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world:  but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself!

The human blood is red because of the protein “hemoglobin”, which contains red-colored compound called “heme” that’s crucial for carrying oxygen through your bloodstream.  The circulatory system is a “river of life” for the human body.

 What the “woman” (church) with the diseased issue of blood connected with when she touched the “HEM” of Jesus' garment was the “Eloheem” or (heme)“hemoglobin” of God’s blood and it stopped the flow of the “guilty blood” and changed it to “not guilty blood, or innocent blood”!

·         Matthew 27 (Judas said):  vs 4: I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood (the not guilty blood).

WHY OF PURPLE? (Exodus 28:33): Purple is the color of royalty.  It was worn by kings (Judges 8:26; Song of Solomon 3:10; Daniel 5:7); priests (Exodus 28:4-6).  That’s what the “woman” (church) had connected with, “kingly and priestly” authority!

·         Revelation 1:7: 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)

Exodus 28:33: And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: 

·         Vs 34: A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.

·         Vs 35: And it shall be upon Aaron to minister:  and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he comes out, that he die not.

The “golden bells”:  golden is from the root word zahab’, meaning to shimmer (shine with an unsteady light); gold-colored (yellow as oil).  This is denoting “the anointing”, because it’s “the anointing” that destroys the yokes (Isaiah 10:27).  It is the anointing that gives us the power to do what we have to do for God’s kingdom for His glory.  Jesus said to the disciples in Luke 24:49: I send the promise of my Father upon you:  but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem until you be endued (put on; clothed or arrayed) with power (dunamis) [miracle working power] from on high.  In the book of Acts we see the acts of the Apostles under the unction of the Holy Ghost!

·         Romans 10:17: So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

The “golden bells” connoting “the hearing of the Word of the Living God”!  It’s our receiving of God’s Word that gives us His “divine nature” as His representatives in the earth.  2 Peter 1:4: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:  that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature (love), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

The arrangement of the golden bell and the pomegranate was alternating, denoting the resounding of the Word of God throughout the ages!!

The word “hearing” is from a root word akoe’, meaning to give audience or hearken.  It goes to another word akou’o, meaning to come (to the ears), to “understand”.  So then faith comes by understanding the Word of God.  

·         Ephesians 4: 17-18: This I say therefore and testify in the Lord, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

This word “understanding” comes from the same root word “mind” that Peter spoke of in 1 Peter 1:13: Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  They both come from the root word dian’oia, meaning “deep thought, the faculty (mind or its disposition); its exercise; imagination”.  We are to cast down “images” of religious order and gird up the loins (reproductive areas) of our minds with truth, and launch out into the deep mysteries of God to bring ourselves above sea-level into the heavenlies (higher realms of spiritual elevation)!

·         Proverbs 4:5: Get wisdom, get understanding:  forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.  Vs 6: Forsake her (wisdom) not, and she shall preserve thee:  love her (wisdom) and she shall keep thee.  Vs 7: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:  and with all thy getting get understanding.

It was the darkening of man’s understanding of God and himself that alienated (not annihilate) him from the eternal life of God!  But now God through the revelation of who He is in us and who we are in Him, we are now through Jesus Christ, restored back to eternal and everlasting life! 

·         John 3:15: Whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal (quality) life.  Vs 16: God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting (unending) life.

What the church NOW has to do to rid herself of the “diseased issue of blood” caused by vain deceit, traditions of men, condemnation, and death that she now has, is to reach out and take hold of the “true understanding” of the Word that everything she need is in “HIM” (Jesus Christ) and HE is in her “right now” and make that right connection by touching “the hem (hem – oglobin)”, that Zoe life that is contained in the blood, then she (we the church) will come to know that she (we) shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord (Psalm 118:17).  She (we the church) shall be (are being) “made whole” in heart, soul, mind, and body!

The breath that Jesus breathed on the disciples in John 20:22 had God’s blood in it!  On the day of Pentecost when the gift of the Holy Spirit was given as a universal gift that was the breath of God Himself that was breathed upon His people that contained His blood!  We have that same “life giving” and “life sustaining” blood in us NOW!

Remember what “connect” means:  to join or unite; associate oneself with; to link or bond with.  This connection doesn’t just give us “life”, but the “abundant life”:  (John 10:10): I am come that you might have life and have it more abundantly!  The abundant life is not just having life, but knowing that you (we) “are life”.  If you just have life, someone can take it, but if you are life, no one can take it!  Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE” (John 14:6).  As he is, so are we, in this world (1 John 4:17).

·         John 10:17-18: Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.  No man take it from me, but I lay it down of myself.  I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.  This commandment have I received of my Father.

This “life” Jesus laid down here is not the “Zoe life” (the eternal and everlasting), but it was His “soul”.  And because His soul was delivered from hell (not from down in the center of the earth, but a state of unrest; torment) to show us that through Him our soul structure can also overcome the ferocious acts of the devil we’ve experienced in times past, present, and future, because the "greater one is in us!!!

·         3 John 2: Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.

Matthew 9, this “woman” the church took hold by faith, that all she needed was in “HIM” (CHRIST), and all she had to do was “make the right connection” with “the hem” or the “hemoglobin” of the blood of Jesus!

This is what the church today has to grab hold of by faith as well, that all we need is in “HIM”, “CHRIST”, but it’s by the Spirit, not waiting for Jesus' flesh body to come back and get us, because that’s not going to happen. He's here by SPIRIT now, dwelling in us! We are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones (Ephesians 5:30).  He's not "coming back to clean this mess up down here" as many say, He has done that already and finished the work the Father sent Him to do (John 17:4).  It’s up to us now the body of Christ, the sons of God to do what we’ve been assigned to do for His glory and that’s to rule and reign on the earth over the creation.

·         Romans 8:19: The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

This word waiteth doesn’t mean to sit and wait for Jesus to come back and deliver us, but it’s from the root word apekdech’omai, meaning to expect fully:  it goes to another root word ekdech’omai, meaning “to accept from some source”.  What source?  God’s anointed sons of God (male & female), that’s Jesus’ body, his flesh, and his bones (Ephesians 5:30) in the earth.  Those that God has anointed to preach the gospel to the poor (those dangling over the pit of religion); he hath sent to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives (prisoners of Babylon (religion), and recovering of sight to the blind (spiritually blind), to set at liberty them that are bruised (crushed by the mother of harlots), and to preach the acceptable (approved) year of the Lord [The continual manifestation of CHRIST - The Anointed One and His Anointed throughout eternity]!

So “make the right connection today” and connect to “Christ’s Body”, of which he is "the head"!

Pastor Gracie Perry