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.
I had explained in part one that when it comes to something being “real” that means it is legitimate, actual, genuine, authentic, and true.
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.
In part one I talked about Adam’s wife, whom he called Eve, because
she was “the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20).
In our text, Galatians
4:26, mention is made of Jerusalem
which is above who is free, is called “the mother of us all”.
The question was asked, “Who is your real mother”, and whether it
was the “mother of all living”, or was it “the mother of us all”?
I left off at Genesis
3:14 [when the LORD God pronounced judgment upon the woman, the serpent, 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 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 eats– but flesh) shalt thou eat all the days of thy life”.
[Briefly]: Deuteronomy 28:15-68 (speaks
of punishment for disobedience): vs 20: The LORD shall send upon thee
cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou set thine hand unto for to do,
until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly: because of the wickedness of thy doings,
whereby thou hast forsaken me. Vs
21: The LORD shall make the pestilence (de’ber) [murrain (an infectious disease; a
plague; epidemic; or crop blight] cleave unto thee, until he have consumed (kalah’) [to end; cease, be finished; perish;
destroy utterly; waste] thee from off the land, whither thou go to possess it. Vs 22: The LORD shall smite thee
with a consumption (shache’pheth) [emaciation (abnormally thin or weak, due to
illness or lack of food)], and with a fever (qadda’chath) [inflammation, ie febrile
disease; burning ague] and with an inflammation (dalle’qeth) [a burning fever] (all kinds of arthritis), and with an extreme burning (charchur’) [fever (as hot)] , and with the sword (che’reb) [a drought; a cutting instrument; desolate;
dried up], and with blasting
(shedephah’) [blight;
to scorch], and
with mildew (yeraqown’) [paleness of color; yellow in color] (jaundice is a sign of liver disease): and they
shall pursue thee until thou perish (abad’) [wander away, ie lose oneself; perish
(destroy; void of; have no way to flee].
Many of
these diseases, inclusive of other illnesses, cancers, etcetera, work,
until it literally and physically consume or eat up the flesh
bodies of people, unless God performs a miracle. That’s the “serpent eating dust”.
Genesis
3:15: 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 that God in His infinite
love, grace and mercy through Jesus Christ, would restore back to the creation,
the victorious dominion, authority, and power it had in the beginning through
the “true church” who is “the real mother of us all”!!
That’s why in 1st Corinthians
15:22, it’s stated, “In
Adam all die, but even so in Christ shall all be made alive! It was in Christ that all things began,
and it would be in Christ that all things are restored. 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, 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 “the mother of us all, who is free” (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 was a name written, MYSTERY BABYLON (confusion) THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS (bdel’ugma) detestations [idolatry] OF THE EARTH!
In our physical anatomical makeup, the “forehead” houses the frontal lobe of the brain, that deals with personality; higher intellectual processes;
concentration; planning; decision making; verbal communication.
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, instead
of a help to the people. 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, etcetera, 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!
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 (log’os) [something said (including the
thought); preaching; tidings; speech] may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly
(parrhesi’a) [all outspokenness,
frankness, bluntness, publicity, assurance; confidence; freely, openly, plainly
(ness)], to make known
(gnori’zo) [to know;
certify; declare; give to understand] the mystery of the gospel (euaggel’ion) [a good message; announce or
declaration of good news]. The “good news” is the message of “life” and
not “death”! So I have no choice but to obey this
mandate from God, and not man, to do what I do!
Back to Revelation 17:5, in relation to the “harlot” as being an idolater. 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:
·
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! Paul wrote, 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!!
·
Galatians
4:26: But Jerusalem which
is above (an’o) [upward; on the top; in a higher place (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
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.
·
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.
·
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].
·
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:
·
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 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
Mother?
Let me tell you when
the “Real (true) Mother” stood up!!
Matthew 27 (after Jesus’ crucifixion and
resurrection):
·
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.
·
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.
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)!
·
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! Again, as Paul said:
·
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.
·
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.
Revelation 21:2: 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
the “new heaven”, being in Christ, the old
heaven that we use to think, was up beyond the blue, that
lie has passed away!
·
Ephesians
2:6: For he hath
raised us up together and made us to sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus.
So we are already in heaven, in Christ Jesus, enjoying the marriage supper with
the Lamb, our Husband, right now!!
·
Revelation
19: 7: Let us be glad
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:
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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.
·
T: (TRANSLATED): Colossians
1:12: Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (worthy; fit) 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 [which is the kingdom of light].
·
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.
·
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
(true) MOTHER OF US ALL, (the true body of Christ) please
stand up and glorify the FATHER!!!
Pastor Gracie Perry
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