Authority is invested in those who are seated with Christ Jesus in spiritual heavens. Even now our spirit can become one spirit with Jesus Christ in the heights of spiritual Mt. Zion. Now we are surrounded with a heavenly host. Those positioned to see Jesus “sing a new song,” they shout with joy, and have danced through many heavenly places in pure enjoyment!
Each of God’s sons and daughters are placed where His Spirit can reveal the PURE from the POLLUTION. They see the RELIGIOUS MIXTURE, the BEASTLY NATURE of the natural man. T hey see through false RELIGIOUS judgments. They are not found using FALSE WORDS of guile. No lying comes from them:
"Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth. These are the ones who have not been defiled with women [false church systems] for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb. And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.” Revelation 14:1-5 NAS
“And they sang a new song, saying, ‘Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.’ You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth. Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.’" Revelation 5:9-12 NAS
It is true, although our part in this matter of reigning may not be completely realized. Even today, His reign is extended over just men coming to Mt. Zion. He is reigning over the earthly ways of our “soulish minded person.” Christ within us reveals the maturity needed to be real sons of the Father. Should not we be expecting a complete salvation which He promised?
The maturity of Christ grows within our inner spiritual person make of us new persons filled with God. This wonderful hidden work is taking place in overcoming sons to grant the authority of His reign over our earthly ways. The nature of God is being sealed within us. It is revealed as we are raised from earthly concerns and viewpoints as well as released from religious dogmas. We are raised to new heights where death is removed from our minds. The light of His Word is shining within our souls. Our inner agreement with the Word of God is mostly hidden but, now in heavenly places, just men receive God’s quickening life to perfection:
“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,” Hebrews 12:22-23 NAS
“Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you." Luke 10:19
The King James Version states Christ Jesus gave disciplines “authority" to tread on serpents and scorpions. That word authority in the Greek is ‘exousia’ meaning to master, have AUTHORITY or JURISDICTION over, as in being free, being right, and liberated. ALL the adversaries of Christ in every area of life, must be conquered, including every form of death.
His POWER is expressly sent to bring us into His life. It gives us understanding of His mind. We see that Christ Jesus is providing clear contact with the AUTHORITY in His Spirit. His authority is destined to control every other power. We can yield to what He speaks, to be made greater than any power working in death. Our Lord Jesus now rules over all the powers of lying serpents and backbiting scorpions!
For an illustration in authority, observe automobiles moving along a road. Although each auto has power to move separately, state laws are uniform to all, enforced by traffic policeman who have authority over our freedom of movement. If the police officer stops us or blows his whistle, we must conform to the instruction to stop, and if our car was speeding the driver deserves a fine.
Another illustration of authority is seen in a nation’s army with powerful weapons of warfare. Men are using guns, in tanks, and in airplanes dropping bombs, but only at the direction of the commanding general. He only has the authority to direct their use. When the commanding general gives the order, the army must obey. He has authority to use fire power to control the people within his grasp. He exercises powers of life and death.
Jesus decrees all will live subject to a POWER THAT NEVER FAILS. It causes us to rejoice, and thank God that Christ Jesus has been given all AUTHORITY over the POWERS of death, the last enemy! Therefore, the authority in Christ now reigns within us over the enemy’s powerful suggestions of fear and greed.
We who are called to sonship are being made one spirit with the Lord, step by step. We are daily renewed into God’s complete salvation to reach a summit of justification in our spiritual experience. We REST in what God has promised. He fulfills His Word within and through us as we are made complete through His salvation. We are being transformed now to the extent that He can reign WITHIN,AND THROUGH US to fully accomplish SAVING US TO THE UTTERMOST.
Furthermore, the reality of reigning is being completely realized as the SPIRIT OF THE LORD comes MIGHTILY to rest fully within our tabernacles. NOW we are the sons of God. TODAY God the Father’s work is of perfection. It’s not being displayed within “babes in Christ”. It is only to those given faith to overcome the faults in the candlestick church heavens, who COME UP HITHER to live in the throne realm.
Those who are caught up in the spirit realize the point of reigning in the life in Christ Jesus has begun. Most Christians do not know this yet as they ought. They know more about their church’s format and traditions than about being led by the Spirit of God. The "sons of God are led by the Spirit of God. Being apprehended ones, overcomers are dealt with as sons and daughters in this hour . Sons are disciplined ones who find forgiveness and mercy reigning within as they gain power to overcome their own religious nature.
Overcoming sons find the place of very real victory within their own spirit. They are jointly seated with Jesus Christ in heavenly realms, FAR ABOVE all principality, power, might, and dominion of earthly powers. Sons learn from their Father daily lessons of reigning over ALL THINGS EARTHLY. Inner power unveils what He is doing within every Christian rank.
While generations of church believers shall yet be raised, overcoming sons now do justly in the affairs at home, in business, and in every other encounter in their lives and environment. Christ shows us true life, how to live patiently as He actively reigns over our own earthly ways. He enables us to conform to a correct standard.
At any time there may be banishment and discouragement, despair, sorrow, and dread being brought out in those who are learning to REIGN with Him, yet the called and faithful are becoming those governed of God. They are tried in fires that seal them into the Father’s will. Being taught, they are groomed by God to be distinct sons or daughters.
Sons are authorized to execute God’ Word. It rises from within and it flows out from their inner enthronement with Jesus as He is. They are washed from every lie. They stop accusing others and wait for the Lord’s judgment in dealing with all the mixed up carnal reasonings that work in Mystery Babylon.
Christian people make up Mystery Babylon, and they have taken liberty for an occasion of their flesh. They dominate with church programs in hierarchies who willfully miss the ultimate order. They miss coming to the throne, they would rather stay in that order that is ending. That order of mixture must be washed away before men everywhere will see how we are raised to a common homeland, the city, New Jerusalem, far above the candlestick church heavens.
Today His glory is being made manifest in His sons and daughters. They are walking toward perfection, being made perfect (complete) in understanding in order to find Zion. This is a place of rest, the spiritual sphere with a dimension of God working to now perfect our spirit and qualify us for heavenly wealth. We are being enriched with heavenly qualities that are given those called up hither to the throne.
Many are destined to reign over the soulish life, thereby opening heaven’s gates allowing greater portions of God’s glorious light to shine into us. Being shown the light of the third Day, we see within the body of Christ. A worship of God today by Spirit-filled and Spirit-led members are becoming expressions of God’s governmental reign in spiritual mount Zion.
In Zion, God is expanding His reigning sphere works to perfect the spirits of just men, His called people. There are those who come first because God’s plan brings them. His purpose is that ALL MEN BE SAVED, saved from death, saved from hell, saved from every pit of despair. In proper time ,God’s harvesters will eventually appear!
Our Father will reveal the Lord Jesus Christ has destroyed death and all of its power in a people. It is through union with Him the true blessings of this people flow, He will yet fulfill the Abrahamic covenant through them so that all the families of the earth will be blessed with peace and righteousness. Thus, the highly honored Lord of the kingdom has established His will and testimony, that must be done. Through His decree, commissioned brethren gain joint heirship. Some reign even now as His brethren, as the sons of God.
God’s purpose in all our processing is to complete a promised redemption, using a sevenfold spirit containing the SPIRIT OF MIGHT that rests within each one of us. The might of God brings down strongholds, thought patterns, and ways that are enemies, “STRONGHOLDS” within so many of us humans. Even many Christians have strongholds of literal understanding. Some are not further advanced in spiritual understanding, continually interpreting scripture through carnal understandings. These are given to a prevailing worldly viewpoint that corrupts various spiritual teachings.
Christ, however, is enthroned within the hearts of a great many people! They are in political power, some are military people, some are police that uphold local laws, some constitute those of our legislatures:
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. For the weapons of our warfare are not physical weapons…but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, inasmuch as we refute… reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into obedience of Christ, the Anointed One.” II Corinthians 10:3-5 Amplified Bible
Now understand, the highest heavens have been opened. God sees all our inner motivations and He gives His judgment concerning all of us. His judgment is seated within us and only His judgment qualifies us, seals us to be sitting with the great King. He is the one with POWER to deliver humanity from death itself — with all its powers that error, religious confusion, and all our fleshly ways, including our earthly mindsets —to truly become NEW CREATURES IN CHRIST JESUS. We become ones who KNOW God, just like He knows us now, the habitation of God, as God makes ALL we are as ALL HE IS!
His perfecting work imparts understanding of the scripture, so that we understand the spiritual viewpoints of His Word. The very Spirit of the Word is coming from the Father. His written instruction are engraved in men’s hearts so they may see to gain even more and more of the treasures of Godliness, heavenly treasures!
I am following Jesus which is what God intended! May we be dwelling in peace, placed of God to have a life factor that is supremely important to His reigning within our inner person. Godly men and women do the right thing. Their righteousness is not in what they eat or drink. They obey Godly instruction, and that brings Kingdom light into their hearts.
We see a city of people who have their MINDS and METHODS CHANGED, their HEARTS TRANSFORMED and their SPIRITS QUICKENED. Why, this is the true hope of the church of Jesus! He builds it from the very beginning and is still exhorting men to REPENT. Repent means “to take a new mind.” The mind of Jesus still stays with me:
“Repent [take a new mind]: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” Matthew 4:17
Soon, thought the prophet of God, the NATIONS SHALL REPENT!
“And He [Christ, Head and body] shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Isaiah 2:4
The peacemakers are the governmental people in Zion, those who follow the Lamb, and have taken the Father’s name. They, indeed, TAKE A NEW MIND and walk in the light of the Lord. Thus God has sanctified many men, His will is being done in them, and therefore His authority shall be manifested within them. Their weapons (instruments) are not the carnal weapons used for physical, social, political, military, or police power. This government of God is provided SPIRITUAL WEAPONS (truth in righteousness and love). The MIGHT OF GOD springs up to put down man's prideful reasonings and every vain imagination working death in man’s inner parts.
The SPIRIT OF HIS MIGHT is the omnipotent, invincible power of HIS MIGHT placed in our spirit and in our mouth, with no guile allowed:
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might….” Ephesians 6:10
Paul claims that IN CHRIST the TRUE “PLEROMA” (fullness) is found. As the firstborn Son of God, He has a plenitude — all — of the Godhead in a full measure that is running over!
“For it has pleased the Father that all the divine fullness – the sum total of the divine perfection, powers and attributes – should dwell in Him permanently. For in Him the whole fullness of Deity continues to dwell in bodily form – giving complete expression to the divine nature.” Colossians 1:19; 2:9 Amplified
“For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.” Colossians 2:9-12 NAS
God gives life to the members of His body, JUST AS all the fullness of God is dwelling permanently in Christ Jesus. We who are IN HIM are made complete. We gain divine PLEROMA. It is becoming our perfection in God as truth comes into view. True wisdom and knowledge, power to be strong in the might of love and holiness — THESE GODLY QUALITIES are destined to fill up the measure of our capacity, to be our life’s treasure:
“For in Him dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily… and ye are complete in Him.” Colossians 2:10
We are complete in Him. The word “complete” comes from the Greek word PLEROO which is the root from which is derived PLEROMA. Thus, Paul is saying that CHRIST IS FULL of the Godhead and IN HIM we are MADE FULL of the very same substance. The Greek text states “Ye are in Him, made full.” In Him dwells the fullness, and that same fullness dwells in us as He comes to reign within, making an abode within us!
His coming is constant and beyond finite perception though the natural mind makes such truths sound silly. To us who believe, however, that the true depths have opened, a great increase is coming to experience knowing God as a Father. As His brother, we follows the firstborn brother of the family. Paul certainly wanted us to have a clear realization of such incomprehensible fullness of mind and spirit when he wrote:
“May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory… to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man...that you may be filled [through all your being] with all the fullness of God [that is, may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself.”] Ephesians 3:16, 19 Amplified
The King James version reads:
“…that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesian 3:19
A better translation from the original language is:
“That you might be filled unto all the fullness of God.”
"…leaving the word dealing with the rudiments of Christ, we should be brought on to maturity, (not again disrupting the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith on God, of the teaching of baptizing, besides the imposition of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and of judgment eonian). And this will we be doing, that is, if God may be permitting." Hebrews 6:1-3 concordant
"Let us pass on then to what is mature, leaving elementary Christian doctrine behind…" Hebrews 6:1 Moffat
"Therefore leaving elementary instruction about the Christ, let us advance to mature manhood..." Hebrews 6:1 Weymouth
"Therefore let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ... advancing steadily toward completeness and perfection that belongs to spiritual maturity." Hebrews 6:1 Amplified
We are spiritually instructed to leave behind the FIRST ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES — the teachings and the doctrines — working within church realms. These are enumerated to us as: (1) Repentance from dead works (2) Faith toward God (3) Baptisms (4) Laying on of hands (5) Resurrection of the dead (6) Eternal (eonian) judgment. Leaving these teachings means leaving the fellowships built upon these very popular elementary principles.
Now He leads us still out from every Christian camp that would hinder or hold us from being completely filled with the knowledge of God. Know God as a Father, be separate from the unclean things, because the kingdom of God is not just in word, but in POWER. Sons will not be heralding themselves, but Christ Jesus as the Lord and themselves as servants of Jesus. Such bondservants get revelation as they come out of darkness. Light shall be shining on sons of God now. It is shining in our hearts with a view to the illumination and the knowledge of God. This is the glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
Now we have this “treasure in earthen vessels” that the transcendence of the power may be of God and not of us. “For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and love, and of a sound, sane mind. “And this will we be, that is, because God’s authority is permitting it!