In the third death and resurrection, that which we have termedThe third area of redemption will not have been completed until the world has been reconciled to God.We are not teaching that all people ultimately will be saved. A non-Christian does not have the choice of sowing to the Spirit.If a believer continues to live in the flesh he will slay his own resurrection. If we do not, our actions testify that closeness to God is not our goal after all. The faith to believe in Christ is the gift of God to us. When we attempt to minister to another human being in the time of his or her deepest need we are as a “tinkling cymbal” if we never have had fiery trials ourselves.When Paul exhorts us in Philippians to “rejoice in the Lord alway,” and we understand he was a prisoner in Rome and being closely guarded at the time, we can take heart in the hour of our tribulation.But our real problem as a priest arises when we approach God in order to render service directly to Him.
There is a definite “more” of Jesus. They fall on the sword, the Word of God, and cannot be wounded.
Two thousand years later, Abraham’s Redeemer, the Lord Jesus, went straight as an arrow toward Gethsemane and the cross of Calvary, Himself a living dead-man.Abraham’s heart was an iron weight in his breast. The first aspect is that of our personal preparation for receiving the fullness of God into our personality.
If he should die he will be saved from the claims of Satan and his demons.Let us assume the individual was saved at the age of twenty and lives to be seventy-five years of age.
We are to not open our mouth but allow God Himself to vindicate our behavior.Christ set aside His own life to the point of death. If we lose our life for Christ’s sake and the Gospel’s, exceedingly great fruitfulness and strength will proceed from us.The high priest, as we have stated, reconciled to the Lord the Most Holy Place, the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Altar of Burnt Offering.
Then the hammering commences.The Ark of the Covenant was overlaid with gold, representing the fact that our glorious house from Heaven will “swallow up” our mortal flesh (II Corinthians, Chapter Five).Also, our deepest inner being is becoming the gold of God’s Substance. The Bride will be part of Christ, just as Asenath was part of Joseph, when He reveals Himself to the nation of Israel.In order for us to understand how salvation can come suddenly to a group of people, such as the Jews, we first must realize Christ possesses and can exercise the authority and power to forgive, cleanse, and deliver any person whom He will. The Kingdom of God is God in Christ in us, and we in Christ in God.
God has definite ideas and He takes no pleasure in having to explain everything He does before we will act, and then be required to resist our stubbornness at every turn.The eternal habitation of God is the glorified Church, the Body of Christ, the Wife of the Lamb.
But this time it will shine through the Church, which is the Body of Him who is the Light of the world.In that day, people will be able to come to the Presence of God who will be dwelling manifestly in the Church. The earth-wide revival of which the prophets spoke will occur at the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ with His saints.
His appearing is that of God’s Conqueror who will set up His reign in the earth.
Whoever will choose to humble himself as a child can have the gift of God. God is displeased with the latter action. The exercise of the power of the Holy Spirit in the deliverance from slavery is taking place now in the conquering saints—those who “through the Spirit do mortify [put to death] the deeds of the body.Deliverance requires the exercise of superior force.
However, in order to maintain our place in Him, to keep possession of our crown, we must allow the Father to bring us into obedience, into the fullness of death and resurrection in Himself.We are to follow the Holy Spirit in all matters.
But God cannot be found by the efforts of the flesh just as an ant cannot master algebra. Satan will be crushed under the feet of the Church. God does not sit on the Mercy Seat. Accept My judgment on the source of sin in your life.
 We know the ending. We know that Peter would receive the Holy Spirit and lead thousands of people to Christ in one day.
There have been a few individuals who have pressed past the rudiments of salvation and have found their joy in the Spirit of God. Forever ingrained in our memories is where we were or what we were doing when particular events have taken place or we received the news of such things for the first time.
In order for us to achieve victory in Christ, all that we are, do, and possess must be brought through the Divine fire.Conquest requires a cutting back of our “rightful” status, accomplishments, and possessions. Rather, we are referring to the Life of Christ that is being formed in the cross-carrying victorious saints who are living and walking in obedience to the Holy Spirit, who are learning to love righteousness and hate sin and rebellion, and who therefore carry the abiding Presence of the Glory of the Lord in their lives.So will it be at the appearing of Christ. Sometimes when we are tested severely by the Lord we cannot understand what is taking place. To be received into Heaven when we die requires accepting Christ in obedience to the will of God. The cost of refusing is exceedingly great. What we preach we are required to practice.