Finish God's work

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.John 4:34. This verse really is very meaningful. What is the work that he came to finish?. In Genesis we can see that God created the heavens and the earth and he said that it was good. Furthermore he created mankind after his own likeness and told man to multiply and replenish the earth. Furthermore  He gave them authority to rule over the earth and all living things that were upon the earth.  God said that it was very good and rested and he was refreshed.  He took the seventh day off to enjoy his masterpiece or all the work that he just had accomplished. The heavens are created for the earth and the earth for mankind and mankind to become God's kind.

 His intention was to have a corporate man that would multiply, express Him and rule over the whole earth. God's intention was that man would rule for him on the earth and subdue everything in his dominion or Kingdom.  But it did not take long before man choose to become independent, Man disobeyed God and even left the presence of God. No longer listening to God's word but doing what whas right and evil according to their own imagination. When they left the presence of God they build cities in which to dwell and exalted themselves to the uttermost. Babel was a prime example where man did everything according to their own imagination to exalt themselves by building a tower with all their names written on to reach the heavens and challenge God.

But God did not give up and continued his work to subdue mankind and He raised up some God fearing ones to do the work that he originally started, which is to rule and reign with him on the earth and let his Kingdom come and spread on earth as it was in the heavens. It took several generations of prophets, priests and kings to accomplish what God was trying to do and eventually God gained a group of people who no longer worshipped idols but continued to maintain his testimony on earth by building a tabernacle that  eventually was replaced by the temple where God and man could meet and move upon the earth.

God's work has never ceased and continues even today. Jesus said that He come to do the will of the Father and to finish his work. He is the real high priest and king that gathered God's people into one corporate Body both Jews, Greeks and Gentiles. He not only came to work amongst them to heal the blind, lame and sick but continued to raised up many disciples who became the real priesthood and kings who eventually will finish the work of God with Christ when He comes back to rule and reign over the whole earth.

 Today there are still many who are called and chosen to carry out Gods work. All those who are born of the Spirit have entered into the kingdom of God and are God's children, having being born of the Spirit. They not only live by the Spirit but also walk by the Spirit and become the Sons of God who express him and rule for him wherever they may be.

 He said that he would build his church and that the gates of hell would not prevail against the build church. The church today is not a chapel in the air or a huge building on a hill or center of a town but the many members of the Body of Christ who are spiritually united and build in Him to express him and rule for Him wherever they are.

Christ has build, re-constituted and given some as apostles, shepherds and teachers for the perfecting of the Saints unto the building up of the Body of Christ. As the many members are being perfected they function as true priests, not merely being ordained by mankind but by having become the true representatives or ambassadors as it were for Christ upon the earth. Furthermore they rule for Him whenever they come together and pray according to the will of the Father that is being revealed to them via the Spirit of Christ or the anointing within their being.

 Are you a called one, born of the Spirit, a true representative of Christ on the earth today fulfilling the Fathers heart desire?. Are you expressing and ruling for him on the Earth as he intended you to do?
We all should ask ourselves this question to ensure that we keep on the right track to express God and rule for him which was his intention and purpose from the beginning and for what God has created you for!

 Again let us  read the scriptures for they unveil to us all the counsel of God so that we may live a peaceful and tranquil life while participating and accomplishing Gods will upon the earth as it is in heaven. Praise the Lord that he came to finish the work of the Father!

A Stone cut out without hands....

Becoming a stone cut out without hands....

The book of Daniel chapter 2 verse 34 speaks about a stone that was cut out without hands a stone that struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke it into pieces. In Daniel chapter 2 verse 35 it  goes on to say:" Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

What we see here in the book of Daniel is a prophecy regarding the great image that represents four kingdoms upon the earth. Kingdoms that even today are still prevailing upon the earth. Furthermore it speaks about a stone that is cut out without hands that struck the great image or kingdoms upon the earth. So this prophecy deals with two aspects, first the kingdoms of this world and second the stone that relates to Christ as the Stone that is gathering his people from every nation and tongue into a corporate dwelling place not made with hands but by the Spirit of Christ that is being poured out upon all those who believe and receive Him.

 On the one hand, today many people, nations, tribes, including ourselves pay much attention to the first aspect of this prophecy and sometime we get bombarded with the latest news about the great image that relates to the kingdoms of this world  including all the world events that have taken place over the past centuries.  On the other hand we sometime forget or know little about the second phase or aspect that is related to Christ as the Stone that is cut out without hands.  Have you ever considered that the second aspect is actually more important than the first aspect since Christ and his followers will turn the age and bring in a new kingdom, the millennial kingdom to restore all the nations?

 There are many references in the New Testament regarding the Stone. In the beginning we can see that Christ was rejected at the beginning of his human living on earth. But actually, when Christ came to the earth He became the cornerstone who joined both the Jews and the Gentiles into one spiritual house that will eventually become a corporate stone, cut out without hands to become a great mountain that fills the whole earth.

1Pe 2:4 tells us to come to Him, a living stone, rejected by men, but yet precious and chosen by God. Besides in verse five, we also, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.  Furthermore 1Peter 2:6, 7 says, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame. Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,"

John the Baptist said in John: 3:30 "He must increase, but I must decrease.  Here we see a principle of the stone that is increasing, not relying upon ourselves to become someone or somebody but by simply allowing Christ to make Himself at home into our hearts.  Christ does increase day by day into all those who believe and are joined to him spiritually. He who is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.   Zechariah 2:11 also said that many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become His people. And that he will dwell in their midst and then they will know that the God has sent Him to us.

Paul in Philippians 1:7, Hebrews 3:14 and 2 Peter 1:4 shows us that we should become partakers of the Grace of Christ and partakers of the Holy Spirit once we  have tasted the heavenly gift that is freely bestowed upon all who believe into Him and receive Him. We become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world.

The way to become His increase is by simply coming to him, by enjoying Him and becoming partakers of him as Grace and the Holy Spirit. It is in this way that He imparts His divine life and nature. The way this has been carried out is by the ministry from Paul and the teachings of the apostles. Paul planted and Apollo’s watered and God gave the increase or caused the growth. ( 1Corinthians 3:60). Today many born again believers, Christians are being perfected and like Paul and Apollos  continue to plant and water all those who believe so that the prophecy in the Book of Daniel may continue to be fulfilled. The stone that the builders, religious ones, rejected is becoming a corporate stone that joins all the true Christians or believers into one Stone that will become a great mountain and fulfill God’s heart desire in the near future. We should come to Him the living Stone and become partakers of him so that we can become the living stones, corporately expression that is joined to him.

In Colossi ans 4:11 Paul says “These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God; they have proved to be a comfort to me. We should let Christ dwell in our hearts by faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, (Ephesians 3:17-19) may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, length, depth, and height so that we may know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, until we are filled with all the fullness of God and become the corporate stone that will end this age and usher in the new millennial kingdom.  

There is a prophecy in Joel 3:11 that says Hurry and come all you surrounding nations , and be gathered. There cause your mighty ones to descend O Jehovah.....We know that this refers to the end times when the Lord Jesus comes back to invite the overcomers, the mighty ones, His army to defeat the Anti Christ, a ruler who will come in Europe to set up his kingdom. These will also become the co-kings in the millennium.

 There are two wills in this universe God's will and man's will. Today there are many little kingdoms allover the earth and the reason so many nations are at war or fighting is that there is a difference of opinion amongst themselves having a will separate from God's will. The best way to know God's will is to read the Bible. In the Bible we align ourselves with Gods will and the end result will be that we will be saved, regenerated by receiving his life and nature, transformed and eventually conformed to the image of His Son who is the head of the Body of whom we are all members. 

Gradually we all become like minded. Romans 12:2 says to not be conformed to the pattern of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. Ever considered that when you read the bible you receive God's words that has been spoken to all mankind whereby we get renewed? God's will is to bring in His Kingdom and we enter in to it by being born of the Spirit and water, John 3: 4-6. The Lord is working as the Spirit into all those who have received Him and all those who have been raised with Him in His resurrection according to the scriptures. 1Peter 1:3 says that Christ according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the death.We all were born naturally and were dead spiritually, but now we have the fact that through the resurrection of Christ from the death we have been regenerated unto a living hope. The resurrection Life of Christ is available to all mankind who believes and will receives him as the life giving Spirit into their spirit.

Called into the fellowship of His Son

In 1 Corinthians 1:9 we see that some were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ.To be called into such Fellowship or union with God trough His Son is only the first step. Paul, a co-worker who also had entered into such fellowship, encouraged the believers in Ephesians 4:3-4 to keep the oneness of the Spirit. Many people are called and enter into a union with the anointing of the Spirit of Christ. But Paul goes on to say to be diligent to keep this oneness in the uniting bond of peace into one Body and one Spirit.

 God's intention in calling us is to have One corporate Body of believers, regenerated by the Spirit or anointing that unites  all into a unique bond of peace. When I used to go to church meetings as a child I only knew Christ from the many paintings and portraits that clad the halls on the walls of buildings where my parents used to take me. We had no choice in the matter whether we wanted to go or not and simply learned some of the basic truths regarding the death and resurrection of Christ. These remained mere  objective facts of some of the truths that are revealed in the first gospels. I never endeavored or learned the truths that unveil the whole truth or the full knowledge of the truth. It is God's will after all that we all should be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth.  It is like you stand in front of a judge when he or she asks to tell nothing but the whole truth. God desire is the same and he is the Judge of all. Recently I read in Henry Mathews writings that if  a man commits an offence or sin against another human being, God can forgive him but if we commit a sin or an offence against God who else is there to forgive us or set us free?

It was not until later in life that I began to search for the full knowledge of the truth by reading the new testament or all the books of the new testament. By arriving in Canada someone gave me a new testament and i started to read it. It was not long after that  I learned more regarding God and the anointing of Christ exponentially that brought me into a fuller knowledge upon having the subjective experience of the truth that is revealed in God's word.

 I was the same like the apostle Paul who formerly was called Saul. Before his subjective experience of the anointing of Christ he only knew God as the objective truth as revealed in the old testament. He zealously defended this truth that was passed on to him from his forefathers until the anointing came to him on the way to Damascus as revealed in the book of Acts, chapter nine.  When he met the Lord he said "who are thou" And the lord answered Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?. He was actually persecuting the believers in Christ, the first Christians who were already living in the reality of the Body of Christ since the day of Pentecost when they had corporately entered into the reality of the Spirit of Christ after being immersed or baptized into the anointing or the Spirit.

 This subjective knowledge of the truth or reality  can only be experienced subjectively when we enter into such a relationship with the anointing of Christ. Not long after Saul's encounter he called on the name of the Lord and entered into the same reality and fellowship having a subjective knowledge of the truth that was worth more than all his former training and teaching he had received previously. Later in one of his epistles he counted everything as dung in comparison to the subjective experiences of Christ.

Today we also can enter into this reality by simply calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we call Lord Jesus... we enter  into the fellowship of the Son or the fellowship of the Spirit, the anointing of Christ., First I merely received the objective truths about Jesus Christ and many teaching of the church.  But later and once I called on his name I entered and was baptised or immersed into the reality of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.  This truth about Christ being the anointing became subjective and now I also like the Corinthians endeavor to be diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace, into one Body and one Spirit.

To live in this reality, the key is to walk according to the Spirit as Paul points out in the book of Romans. He said that if we live by the Spirit let us also walk according to the Spirit. When believers who are called have entered into such a fellowship they diligently maintain this oneness and God's desire is truly being fulfilled. The body of Christ is a corporate expression of the Spirit with the brothers and sisters who maintain and live in the reality of the oneness of the Spirit.  Praise the lord that today we know the secret to maintain this oneness to have a corporate expression where the fullness of Christ is exhibited in whatever church or locality we are. The church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. (Ephesians 2:16)

The Joy of the Lord is my strength

A coworker said that he was impressed with some famous people and a movie stars demeanor when they got up in the morning at the hotel he worked. One star mentioned that he did not want anyone to come near him while he was trying to find himself that morning. He insisted to forget about all the attention, admirers, things that needed to be done or the hustle and bustle to come. He said that inspired him also. I reflected upon my experience and mentioned that I have a similar beginning each day but only by coming into the Lord's presence upon getting into his word.

In John 1:1 it shows us that in the beginning was the word and the word is with God and the word is God . The scriptures also tell us that God is Spirit and that God is embodied in His word. When I read His word and take it in, I receive the Spirit of Life that is embodied in His word. The word is also  truth, reality, not just the knowledge  that we acquire but the reality of the words we believe in. This is the infusing of the essence of God that we call Faith.

Before hitting the  highway and hustle and  bustle of my days I experience the reality, peace, joy in the Holy Spirit. Every day, I experience a renewing, a renewing of my spirit, soul and body. This reality of the Spirit in His word becomes my joy and strength. The Joy of the Lord is my strength daily and I Praise the Lord that the truth or reality of Christ as the anointing Spirit refreshes me daily. Whenever I spend some time before going about my day in the reading of His word my faith is renewed. It simply comes by the hearing of the word of God!

Taking care of our conscience to enjoy the divine fellowship

Whenever we give the Lord the preeminence in our hearts we are submitting ourselves under His throne and dominion. In Genesis chapter one, God's intention was that we express Him and  have dominion over all the earth. Whenever we have a clear sky as the living creatures in the book of Ezekiel, we allow God's presence with His dominion to come within our hearts. With His presence we receive His authority and corporately move with Him according to His will wherever we are. It is only when God can find men and woman who maintain a clear sky before Him That He has a way to carry out His dominion upon the earth. We see a similar example with the Apostle Paul. He said in the book of Acts that he had a clear conscience  before God and man. Here we see a man of God who had a clear sky. A man  who  carried out God's commission upon the earth. It was so with all the apostles. They not only expressed the human and divine attributes of God such as love, meekness, patience, endurance but moreover His intention or dominion wherever they went.  Whenever two or three are gathered into His name or the reality thereof while having a clear conscience or clear sky, they can truly pray and ask for all things to be done according to His will on earth as in heaven.
I look forward to the days when small groups of Christians  raise up to pray to carry out God's authority and dominion upon the earth, just as it was in the days of the apostles.

Oh Lord Jesus.....

The scriptures say that no one can say Lord Jesus except by the Holy Spirit.(1Corinthians 12:3) When we say Lord Jesus we acknowledge Him as the Lord in our hearts and enthrone him in our lives. When we say," Lord Jesus" we give Him that very instance the preeminence in our lives. In the book of Corinthians, 1:2,  the believers called upon the name of the Lord everywhere... So why not call upon the name of the Lord today?. Romans 10:13 says that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved!...Every day when I call, " Oh Lord Jesus"... I experience the joy of His salvation.