The Kingdom of God!

Chapter 66

Last week I told you that I was going to share with you the fact that so many Christians have a mistaken identity of who they really are. The Church has majored in teaching and preaching fundamentals because it was safe for them to do this without any controversy. Paul said in Heb. 5:8-14,

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec, of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing. For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not strong meat. For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."

And in Heb. 6:1-3

Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit."

As a result of this a very large portion of Christianity do not have a proper image of who they really are. Listen, anytime you take away the power of the gospel you will end up with Christians who are unaware of the power the Body of Christ has in this world. They preach the word and become experts in the fundamentals of the word but never experience the power of the word with signs and miracles happening in their services.

Just take a mental scan of the church you attend. Have you seen the elders of your church lay hands on the sick and declare them healed? Have you ever had a healing service in your church? Have you ever had someone stand and give a word of prophecy to your church?

I simply ask you the question, "Why not?" You are a student of the Bible and if you look closely at the word, you know that it talks about these things happening in the early church. Fortunately, there are multiple churches today where this does happen. Jesus said that these things would happen in Mark 16:16-18,

"And these signs shall follow them that believe ; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

The word name also means authority. Jesus was saying that by His authority we shall do these things. Peter told the rulers and elders about this in Acts 4:8-10,

"Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name (or authority of) Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but who God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed."

What Jesus said in this scripture is not a distortion of what He said. You must ask yourself, "Why, then, are not the elders of my church doing this?" James, the brother of Jesus, said in James 5:12-15,

"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."

This is the power of the gospel that should be happening in our churches! The reason it doesn't happen is because we have been taught the wrong image of who we really are. Listen, the word of God is powerful and sharper than any two-edge sword.

We need a revelation of Christ within us and we need to discern the difference between the Adamic consciousness and the Christ consciousness. Most of God's people today do not realize that the human ego, the carnal consciousness, needs to be totally consumed by Christ. Christ is our true identity, not the human consciousness. The Adamic consciousness is what keeps us bound and limited. The carnal consciousness knows that it cannot possibly live as Jesus lived on the earth. The human consciousness cannot possibly multiply the loaves and fishes. Yet because we do not realize that we are living by a mistaken identity, we keep trying to perfect the Adamic consciousness in us.

Because of our false identity, we feel condemned, because we cannot do that which we know deep inside of us (our Christ consciousness) we should be able to do. When your eyes are opened to see that Christ is your true identity, then you will begin to realize that all the struggling you have done in Adam is to no avail. You then can focus your attention on the reality of the law of the Spirit of Life within you. This Law of the Spirit of Life is much more than head knowledge. I knew for years that Christ was in me and the Law of His Life freed me from the Law of Sin and Death, but I had very little experience living in it and no one to teach me how.

This is a progressive revelation. The more you turn your attention away from your Adamic consciousness and focus your attention on Christ within, the more you will experientially walk in the Spirit. Jesus is the door to show us the way to the Father. As the door, He is the example to demonstrate to us the way to our true identity. He used the illustration of the vine and the branches to show our oneness with Him. The vine and branches have the same life. The life of the vine in us is our true identity.

Jesus had a human consciousness, but He realized that He could do nothing of Himself but only that which the Father willed Him to do. He lived by His divine consciousness, not from His Adamic consciousness. He knew that as a man He was limited, but as the Son of God, His true identity, He could do all things.

The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (our new nature) supersedes the Law of Sin and Death (our old carnal nature). Every life has a Life Law. Adam, our carnal nature, has a Life Law that constantly brings us into sin and death. You cannot defy a law. For example, let's look at the law of gravity. If you get on a building and jump off, the law of gravity is going to pull you down. You cannot live out of Adam without the Law of Sin and Death pulling you down.

I don't care how strong your desires for God are, I don't care how bad you want Adam to be conformed into Christ; he cannot be. The law of his life will continually pull you down when he tries to be godly. God designed it that way, because in the Tabernacles realm there is no place for carnality, none! Even in the Old Testament, it said, "No man can see God and live" (Ex. 33:20). The moment that Christ begins to appear within you, you will see that Adam is dead. And when you realize this, then you will understand the scripture that says,

"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" (2 Th. 2:8).

In Genesis, we have learned that God created man from the dust of the ground or the dust of the earth. God is now establishing His Kingdom in this earth. The earth that the Kingdom of God is now being established in is man. Those who are now beginning to understanding the eternal plan and purpose of God are not waiting for anything to happen except the Kingdom becoming more and more manifest in their lives daily, from one degree of glory to another. The days of waiting for God to appear are over because God is appearing within us. Paul said in Romans 8:2,

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death"

This has been a very intriguing scripture to me for many years because from this we can see that man has two Laws that he lives by. He is either living by the Law of the Spirit of Life that's in Christ Jesus, his true identity, or he's living by the Law of Sin and Death, which is the law of the Adamic life, which is his mistaken identity. The Law of Sin and Death is your carnal mentality (your wisdom derived from your five senses) and your carnal understanding of things. We are birthed into this carnal Adamic realm of life as mortal people, not really knowing where we have come from, who we are, what we are here for, and where we are going. So, because we do not know these things, we take on the false identity of an Adamic life. This Adamic life has a Life Law, and this Life Law is one of Sin and Death. No matter how many times he goes to church, no matter what he does, Adam is under the Law of Sin and Death, because Adam definitely has a mistaken identity.

Today we are beginning to minister from the realm of Tabernacles. We are not ministering from the realm of Pentecost, because Pentecost represents the Holy Place. In the Holy Place there is both you and God. The Holy Place is that period in our lives when we recognize that God is in us. We have the living God of the universe in us but there is also the false sense of our ego or self-life. In other words, Pentecost is a mixture. In Pentecost, I have had my eyes unveiled to the reality that God lives in me, but it's still me and God. In my temple is both the Adamic consciousness and the Christ consciousness and the Adamic consciousness is under the Law of Sin and Death.

When I begin to see that Christ is really in me, the Adamic life in me wants desperately to continue on to perfect Adam in me. I know God is in me and I have somewhat of an understanding of what it would be like to fully manifest His life because I can learn how Jesus lived when He was here. So, I set out to try to reproduce in Adam what is in Christ. As a result, even though I have Christ in me in the Holy Place, there is within me a mixture. In the Holy Place, we can feed on Christ because we have the light of life and it's a wonderful experience, but in our minds, it is still Adam and Christ together in one temple.

Today, by faith, we have entered into the Feast of Tabernacles. We may not be fully expressing all that God is, but we have crossed the threshold of living totally in the spirit. We have left the Pentecostal realm and we have entered the realm of Tabernacles. In Pentecost, you are still fighting devils, you are still battling the flesh, you still have sickness, death, and disease. It's all still there in the realm of Pentecost because Pentecost is a mixture. But once you begin to enter into the Most Holy Place, or Tabernacles, even in a small degree, you will discover that there is nothing left in you but God.

In the Holy of Holies, it's no longer me and God, it is no longer Adam and Christ, it is only Christ. This is only hard to understand because our hearts have been blinded by the mistaken identity that we have had in Adam. Paul said in 1 Cor 6:17, (KJV)

" But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit."

"(NIV) But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit."

He also said in Eph 4:4 (NIV)

"There is one body and one Spirit-- just as you were called to one hope when you were called.

We can see from these scriptures that when we are joined to the Lord there is only one Spirit in Christ and that Spirit is His Spirit. Brethren, we have been deceived by the duality that is in Adam. In Adam, we see ourselves as being spirit, soul and body and having the Spirit of Christ living in us also. This is why I say that in Pentecost we have duality; that is Christ and me. We must begin to realize that when we walk in the spirit, we are one with Christ and it is all Him. Paul said in Galatians 5:16 (KJV),

"This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."

When you walk in the Spirit it is all God because there is only one Spirit in Christ. Paul said in 2 Cor 5:17 (KJV),

"Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

Notice that it is in Christ that everything has become new and the old has passed away!!!! In Pentecost, or the Holy Place, I can taste deeply of His riches, and I can try to be conformed to His image, but it's still Adam trying to be as God. In the Holy Place, we learn to feed on the Bread of Life until the Adamic consciousness is swallowed up by Christ. Then we are ready to enter into Tabernacles.

When I enter into Tabernacles, the Holiest of all, the God of glory appears, and in that place, there is no Adam. In Tabernacles, Adam is fully dealt with. There is no more desire or ambition. There is no desire for personal gain and there is no ambition to be something, because the Adamic consciousness is gone. We no longer desire to be or do anything but the will of the Father. Adam, the carnal human consciousness, is always doing, planning, and organizing and trying to produce the Kingdom of God in the earth through carnal means and methods.

In Tabernacles, you do not try to do or become anything; you are just what you are. In Tabernacles, we are seated with Christ in a state of being and consciousness, and we live by Christ without trying to do anything. Christ is not worrying about how to establish His Kingdom, and neither are His sons. He is unfolding within us, just as a flower unfolds to reveal the glory of the flower. There is no struggling and no striving because there is just a state of being and enjoying life. This is the abundant life that Jesus taught us that He came to give.

Some of God's people are hearing this message of Tabernacles with Pentecostal ears. You cannot hear the message of Tabernacles without being given the ears to hear about it. By this I simply mean that His Spirit must reveal it to you. As the Holy Spirit continues to unveil the Christ within us, He is replacing our limited human consciousness with our true consciousness, which is Christ. If you are not able to accept the fact that the real you and God are one, you are still in Pentecost, and it will be hard for you to hear this message. By one I mean that the prayer that Jesus prayed in John 17:20-21, (NIV), has come to pass within me.

"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."

Jesus taught very plainly that God and man are one. In John 10:34-36 (NIV) He said,

"Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods'? If he called them 'gods,' to whom the word of God came--and the Scripture cannot be broken-- what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'?"

We need to have the Adamic veil lifted from our eyes as the apostle Paul prayed so many, many years ago in Eph. 1: 17-20, (NIV)

"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms"

And in 2 Cor. 3:12-18 (NIV) Paul wrote,

"Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was fading away. But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."

I knew for years that Christ was in me and the Law of His Life freed me from the Law of Sin and Death, but I had very little experience living in it and no one to teach me how. Until, one day, I went before the Lord and told Him that I give up because there is no way that I can keep His commandments. He said that He had been waiting for me to realize that and He revealed to me that I was holy because He is holy and He filled me with His Spirit.

He revealed to me that I didn't need to struggle to become what I already was in His sight because I trusted Him and believed in Him. He told me that I was righteous because He was righteous and my faith in Him was credited to me in His Fathers sight and that made me righteous. Wow, what a load off my shoulders. I could now approach the Fathers throne in boldness and address Him as my Father. He said that if my flesh made a mistake and committed a sin that all I had to do is to repent just like the Apostle Peter told the crowd on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2:38!

This is a progressive revelation. The more you turn your attention away from your Adamic consciousness and focus your attention on Christ within, the more you will experientially walk in the Spirit. Jesus is the door to show us the way to the Father. As the door, He is the example to demonstrate to us the way to our true identity. He used the illustration of the vine and the branches, in John 15:1-2, to show our oneness with Him. The vine and branches have the same life. The life of the vine in us is our true identity.

God is purifying the hearts and the desires of His people that they no longer want to do anything that is not of Him. The Law of Sin and Death is simply where our carnal nature is still, in some degree, operating in our life. Every time that our carnal nature has a godly desire, the Law of Sin and Death has to come into effect, because the Adamic nature has to be brought to where it is utterly destitute, like Paul, when he cried out, "Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? (Rom. 7:24)

The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (our new nature) supersedes the Law of Sin and Death (our old carnal nature). Every life has a Life Law. Adam, our carnal nature, has a Life Law that constantly brings us into sin and death. You cannot ignore a law. For example, the law of gravity. If you get on a building and jump off, the law of gravity is going to pull you down. You cannot live out of Adam without the Law of Sin and Death pulling you down.

I don't care how strong your desires for God are, I don't care how bad you want Adam to be conformed into Christ; he cannot be. The law of his life will continually pull you down when he tries to be godly. God designed it that way, because in the Tabernacles realm there is no place for carnality, none! Even in the Old Testament, it said, "No man can see God and live" (Ex. 33:20). The moment that Christ begins to appear within you, you see that Adam is dead. And when you realize this, then you will understand the scripture that says,

"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" (2 Th. 2:8).

He destroys that Law of Sin and Death that is continually pulling you down and not allowing you to operate in the realm of spirit. The Law of the Spirit of His Life, however, raises you above the Law of Sin and Death. The only way you can defy the law of gravity is to get into a higher law, the law of lift. An airplane can defy the law of gravity. In like manner when you begin to enter into Tabernacles, the Law of His Life supersedes and raises you above the Law of Sin and Death.