“It is EXPEDIENT (advisable, desirable, advantageous, profitable, to your interest) for you THAT I GO AWAY; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” John 16:7
Many generations of sincere Christian disciples have believed Jesus’s words with all their hearts, to have loved Him, and sought to follow Him – but, the majority were taught to know Jesus as in Bethlehem’s manger, of Nazareth’s carpenter shop, walking the shores of the Sea of Galilee and Judean hills, knowing Jesus after the days of His flesh. They know Jesus preached to the multitudes, feeding thousands with handfuls of bread, healed the sick with the touch of His hand, cleansed the lepers, and who, weeping, cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he did. They know about the raised Jesus walking along the road to Emmaus, and appearing mysteriously to His disciples behind closed doors, and inviting the doubting Thomas to thrust his hand to His side. But, THAT JESUS, was raised from the earth, and COULD NOT STAY IN AN EARTHLY DIMENSION WITH HIS DISCIPLES BECAUSE GOD HAD SOMETHING BETTER PLANNED.
“It is expedient for you that I go away.” “If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.” “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come unto you.”
The resurrection of Jesus raised Him from the dead and God raised Him from this earth. He arose from his disciplines giving only an exceeding great and precious promise of an indwelling Spirit coming to fulfill a salvation that God had promised. After all these years too many believing Christians only know Jesus as a man that was on the earth. They have not received complete inner comfort by baptism in his Spirit, to grow in being led by His Spirit. They believe the record of Him, but are taught He will come again some time in the future, they long to see Him come, yet, their longing is to see Him in some glad day to come, after a while. But the promise is now coming to those who look for it, God is presently abiding within overcomers, as a satisfying portion, to immerse us in Godly comfort.
So many Christians display yet great lack when they are given to much strife, struggle, weakness, insufficiency and limitation. Scripture clearly shows most Christians have not fully received the full measure of God’s promise: He promised to make us like Jesus. The truth is we are made complete in Jesus by the workings of a sevenfold Spirit, sent of God to reign over our earthly parts, starting in our spirit, God sends seven fold spiritual power to understand HE IS IN US…
“ Still much have I to say to you, but you are not able to bear it at present. Yet whenever that may be coming the spirit of truth it will be guiding you into all the truth, for it will not be speaking from itself, but whatsoever it should be hearing will it be speaking, and of what is coming will it be informing you. That will be glorifying Me, seeing that of Mine will it be getting, and informing you.” John 16:12-14 concordant
The absolute imperative truth in Christ Jesus is having His Spirit draw us away to a higher spiritual place, an understanding of how He is coming now by spirit and how He keeps coming again, and again, taking people away not by rapture theories but by spiritual insight that comforts our inner being. Knowing Christ by an indwelling spirit is not comprehended or fully appreciated by most Christian people. Even Paul pointed to fleshly knowledge appearing to rule in his day;
“So that we, from now on, are acquainted with not one according to flesh. Yet even if we have known Christ according to flesh, nevertheless now we know Him so not longer. So that, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: the primitive passed by. “Lo"! there has come new! Yet all is of God, Who conciliates us to Himself through Christ, and is giving us the dispensation of the conciliation, how that God was in Christ, conciliating the world to Himself, not reckoning their offenses to them, and placing in us the word of the conciliation.” II Corinthians 5:16-19 concordant
Knowing Christ Jesus only according to His earthly ministry “ is knowing Christ according to the flesh.” True disciples know Him as He is, a life giving spirit. He is coming to us spiritually, instructing us yet His house of many mansions for the most part are filled with head knowledge in those STILL KNOWING HIM “AFTER THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH.” Knowing Jesus in His heavenly ministry is the sufficiency of faith taught by His baptizing Spirit for sonship to develop within us, His offspring. We must have spiritual knowledge to see Jesus as He is now, the King’s Spirit empowers a spiritual comfort within our spirit.
The world, and the church world has not had proper vision. They are wandering about in the bondages of false religious powers, an ancient spirit keeps them busy in darkness short of the city, in the howling wilderness. Christians should know the Spirit sent by the ascended Christ Jesus, we know His Spirit, a power, that spiritual light is in our inner being. That is the way overcomers know Jesus today. Thank God for the record it is much more than knowing the scripture with head knowledge that counts as knowing Him, experiencing fellowship with Him in the unfoldment of a SEVEN FOLD (complete) SPIRIT of God, that perfects us to the utmost in KNOWING HIM. AS GOD KNOWS US, WE SHOULD SEE AND UNDERSTAND HIM AS HE IS NOW. We HEAR an exalted sound that glorifies the Lord. At the right hand of God, the greatest blessings of our Father are in fact being sent, sent by the Spirit of truth to abide within us.
It is difficult to know the leadings of Christ’s spirit under various agencies in church heavens that exhaust themselves in fleshly works, under man made programs that keep their spiritual growth suppressed to support their work. The seven fold Spirit works only on the King’s behalf. The ETERNAL plan is to know the difference. Truth challenges each of our lives to grasp that power of God’s endless life in our inner being now.
“As many as RECEIVED HIM (as knowing Him by Spirit), to them gave He power to become the SONS OF GOD,” John 1:12
All who receive His Spirit are empowered to be sons that are well pleasing to the Father, just as Jesus, welcomed on high with unspeakable gladness and kind gratitude in God’s thoughts, that is now coming to our own spirit, transforming us from one glory to another, maturing us into His image. Our spirit is being formed in union, in oneness with His Spirit to now enjoy the privileged nobility attained within the brethren, the intimacy of full fellowship and relationship with God and His Son, our Father fills us with light and life as our prize in life. Generations have longed for greater experiences with God, we have waited patiently for the guiding touches of His Spirit, the Lord is coming to our spirit by every means God Himself can accomplish to do His pleasure. A full and complete revelation of Christ is working in His body, in Mount Zion His chosen brethren will bring the consummation of the ages of which things have been prophesied since the foundation of the world, are now directed to points of fulfillment. The prophecy is now being fulfilled in us believers;
“Now the Lord is the Spirit; yet where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Now we all, with uncovered face, mirroring the Lord's glory, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the spirit.” II Corinthians 3:17-18 concordant
The Lord is that Spirit that teaches us truth! The “Lord” spoken of here, of course, is Jesus Christ; and “the Spirit,” of course, is the Holy Spirit, yet it is the seven fold complete measure. Now consider;
"If there is a soulish body, there is a spiritual also. Thus it is 'written' also, The first man, Adam, became a living soul the last Adam a vivifying Spirit." I Corinthians. 15:45 concordant
The last Adam, of course, is the man Jesus, THE WORD OF GOD MADE FLESH, who through death, resurrection, ascension and glorification became THE LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT now giving us constant insight, and daily bread, to display light on paths led of the holy Spirit. There has never been another Life-giving Spirit besides His seven fold Spirit.
“NOW the Lord is that Spirit.” II Corinthians 3:17
The Father has been manifested IN Sons, and this Sonship now comes to be formed within us by the Spirit of SONSHIP, A QUICKENING SPIRIT. “NOW the Lord IS that Spirit” is a true scriptural expression.
It never ceases to amaze me how clear He statements of truth can be made for us to stand on, trust in, and receive great wisdom as instruction, to be made to see perfectly clear the guidance of God’s sevenfold Spirit. God will grant all eyes to see Jesus, and grant ears to hear His wisdom of how to receive the revelation and the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. The Lord, the Spirit, is highly exalted, empowered, and glorified above all the ways of man!
“But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” John 16:7 NAU
God’s Word in divine revelation bursts in blazing fire upon the understanding of our inner consciousnesses. We see the main things God is after and agree He has reproduced the honor of Himself within us. For what other purpose did God create man? None, but only that man might be His home, the abiding place and tool of His expression. God is the source of the whole seen creation and unseen universes. The whole universe exists because God has chosen to have a body in which to manifest Himself as the scripture says,
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is FULL OF HIS GLORY!” Isaiah 6:3
Christ Jesus entered into the Father’s glory to this very end, that we may enter the divine gate, the spiritual way of attaining unity,
“unto the end that we should all attain to the unity of the faith and of the realization of the son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the complement of the Christ, that we may by no means still be minors, surging hither and thither and being carried about by every wind of teaching by human caprice by craftiness with a view to the systematizing of the deception.” Ephesian 4:13-14 concordant
He has entered powerful execution into this glorious plan that He might especially reign so as to raise us, His brethren into Himself, and to fill us from within to a full measure of His divine Life.
Through His Spirit, or by the Spirit, overcomers are being brought into this living relationship with God, so that He manifests perfect love within them, they have found a more excellent way. Christ Jesus is coming to FILL US WITH GODLY THINGS, various scriptures state that He will save all people, the good and the bad, they all shall eventually be His habitation, containers of His Spirit.
The birds and the bees know the outer natural creation of God, while we humans contain divine abilities whereby His Spirit can guide our spirit, we can be intelligent enough to know HIS SPIRITUAL leading. You can appreciate a cat, or a piece of land, or a rainbow for what they are, but you can’t fellowship with them. We can fellowship God as our Father because we are somewhat of the same makeup, the same kind. The heavens and the earth declare that God is spirit, the glory of God is in the firmament, it shows His handiwork. We can view it’s marvels through the microscope and the telescope, and stand in awe before the magnificence, and say “that is made of God’.” Yet, Paul had a personal relationship in mind when he wrote,
“ Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.” Galatians 4:6-7
God has made sons to be heirs of God, to be one spirit with His Son! Who are now sons through faith, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts causing true fellowship with His person, His name, His Spirit. God from the beginning created the whole inexhaustible heavens and the earth, and, having finished them, said,
“Let us make man IN OUR IMAGE, after OUR LIKENESS.” Genesis 1:26
Fallen man is still a visible manifestation of God, yet the revelation of spirit within us shows God is the source of a higher creation. Adam’s race fell from the image of sonship into a condition of darkness and death, where there is no longer any compatibility or fellowship between the Spirit of God and the spirit of man. God first constitutes us believers with a quickened spirit, being our Father sends true measures of His Word and Spirit into our inner being. God writes truth on our hearts, He is making a faithful family of sons and daughters out of those who walk in the light of day in the secret places within their being. Yes God fellowships within our soulish character, revealing His, and quickens our physical body to be found in the guidance sustained by our Father in WORD and SPIRIT!
We are made to be His dwelling place, our spirit contains divine content and we also are one spirit with the Lord. Christ fills all things. What does "fill all things" mean to you? Bottles are made to contain liquids of various kinds, cans contain food, tanks are designed to contain water, electric wires to contain electricity. If we look at these we will realize that each of these kinds of containers are “peculiarly made” to contain a specific substance. We are also “peculiar” containers, for we have been designed by our Creator to contain a specific substance, the substance of God’s SPIRIT! We are satisfied as we come to know God "after the Spirit" as overcomers of the candlestick realm do not miss the mark again to remain in the contradictions of religious bondage, to death itself. No matter how much of the wisdom of this world we imbibe, regardless to what heights of human recognition and position we may attain, notwithstanding how accomplished degrees in human abilities and functions in this present world, we are still meaningless without having God’s love, unless we CONTAIN GOD AS OUR SPIRITUAL CONTENT; being GODLY, being sealed as one of His unique purposes we are being especially and uniquely fashioned as a dwelling place of God, the source for all life!
" He may be giving you, in accord with the riches of His glory, to be made staunch with power, through His spirit, in the man within, Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, having been rooted and grounded in love, should be strong to grasp, together with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ as well which transcends knowledge that you may be completed for the entire complement of God.” Ephesians 3:16-19 concordant
Should not all Christians attain this entire complement of God? Take liberally the all-sufficient and all-inclusive measures granted in God's Word by God’s Spirit, it’s that quickened truth that gives us life!
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, WE SHALL BE SAVED (from our condition) BY HIS LIFE” Romans 5:10
Yes, some are now being saved COMPLETELY by His life! Filled by Him to the full complement, through God’s Son the gates of Eden have opened, the gates to inner paradise have been found, and have brought us back into fellowship with God, and daily communion here is the all-sufficient measure of the seven fold Spirit of the throne realm.
"Who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the ecclesias. To the one who is conquering, to him will I be granting to be eating of the tree of life which is in the center of the paradise of God." Revelation 2:7 concordant
Some of God's people inherit to experience these promises within their spirit as an all-sufficient supply right now, spirit is filling them with spiritual transformation! Everything we need to be Godly is contained in the seed of His Word, when He plants truth in our heart and it’s watered by the Spirit of the Lord, we can be one spirit with what He is now. We can become loving, peaceful, and kind now knowing God intends us to inherit godliness now, not eventually. We need not cry, or beg, or fear. We only need to believe and receive Him appropriately (take, eat his Word), we need to learn to receive personal guidance in following His Spirit. God must write His New Name upon our hearts, in such faith do we now know God is coming, giving us Life within, by the spirit.
This sets an entirely new trend of understanding in our lives. We can take the reality of God’s revelation into our lives and surrender, trusting Him, trusting His revealed will to fill us with HIMSELF. The new name of our Father is written upon our spiritual being, and in our soul to subdue it and change it now.
“Put on, then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, pitiful compassions, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, bearing with one another and dealing graciously among yourselves, if anyone should be having a complaint against any. According as the Lord also deals graciously with you, thus also you. Now over all these put on love, which is the tie of maturity. And let the peace of Christ be arbitrating in your hearts, for which you were called also in one body; and become thankful. Let the word of Christ be making its home in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves;” Colossians 3:12-16 concordant
Mankind is designed to CONTAIN oneness with the Creator! Yet, every other purpose has reigned in man to form a sorry picture of suffering under the sentence of darkness, disintegration, and death. Jesus has conquered death, and is, indeed, the ALL-SUFFICIENT MEASURE of Life! Whatever we need to be a son unto God, will come not by struggling or church works but by learning to yield to the Spirit of God sent unto our own spirit. HE WILL BE ALL IN ALL TO EACH ONE OF US!
“NOW the Lord is THE SPIRIT; yet where the spirit of the Lord is , there is freedom.” II Corinthians 3:17 concordant
The Lord Jesus Christ sends from His throne the seven fold Spirit to overcoming believers as the “whole complement of His Spirit" it is the complete measure. He gives us the complete measure of God’s Spirit, the SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD is sent, commissioned for the deliverance of all the earth.
"And I perceived, in the center of the throne and of the four animals, and in the center of the elders, a Lambkin standing, as though slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God, commissioned for the entire earth." Revelation 5:6 concordant
The full measure is the measure of Spirit that completely reveals and manifests God’s authority to accomplish His purposes. God grants eyes to saints to see with spiritual eyes that have clear understanding and firm grasp of God’s Word, a complete vision to know God's mind about history, and what is ahead in the future, and what we are to know within our spiritual mind to the smallest detail. Candlestick church ranks form heavens that to date have had only the earnt (down payment) of the spirit. To know the Lord in a full measure is what we are called to. To overcome the "I am rich and need nothing" attitudes of even the sonship camps we need to sup on God's hidden manna, eating daily bread focused on spiritual matters, until He grants a seating and placement where He abides enthroned;
"Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away. And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true." Then He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son." Revelation 21:3-7 NAU "