The extent we will go in this walk of faith depends on how solid our foundation is; this is a test of what will come to visibility. The strength of a building is dependent on its foundation. God’s interest is that Judah will first take root downward and then bear fruit upward. Isaiah 37:31. This is why God is taking time to strengthen our foundation, irrespective of how we started.
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
The Grace that came to us when we got born again is a working of faith; that was the first time faith brought something heavenly to us. God gave the Grace by faith and the Faith must bring Grace.
John 12
Anyone that calls Jesus a prophet and not the Son of God is a liar as such a notion is not written in the Prophecy. Jesus is Christ, the Son of God. The Faith of the Son of God is connected to Jesus’ Sonship. The issue of Sonship is not a lower rank but the visibility of the invisible God, while Fatherhood means God can raise himself in the Son. Sonship has various levels which are the measures, the statures and the fullness. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God but through him God intends to begat many other sons.
The business of the Father is to raise/build his Son, which he demonstrated by raising him from the dead. The Father chose the death of the cross as the terminal process of Jesus’ obedience. He did not take Him at transfiguration because that will deprive him (Jesus) of the right to raise other sons. God however waited until the Cross to raise Jesus so as to raise other sons. God raised Christ through the Wisdom of the Law. Resurrection is not just taking from the dead but raising the building of Resurrection which is the nature of a person. John 11:25. Resurrection is not an action but a personality.
Jesus lived on the earth for thirty years to show how mortal men can attain to Resurrection and also opened up the way for us to come in through his death, burial and resurrection. Resurrection is a personality or genealogy. The Father, the Son and the Spirit are resurrection, which is why the three of them quicken, John 5:31. The Father is a quickening spirit and the Son also became a quickening spirit to quicken whosoever He wills. The agenda of the Trinity is Resurrection, to quicken. 1 Corinthians 15:35. From the point we believe in Jesus and Him crucified, our spirit was quickened from the dead because the Gospel is the power of God. Romans 1:16. Through the scriptures, the Apostles preached the resurrection of the dead, which is the Gospel and the last hope for every man.
John 12:44-48
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
The words that Jesus speaks are meant to separate two races of people comprising either the living or the dead. God is not aware of any natural race and He will not judge man by his race; the quick/living and the dead are the only two races before Him. Jesus came to partition the world into two - the living and the dead. He will judge the world (the living and the dead) through His quickening word. When a man rejects Jesus’ word, he automatically rejects Jesus; because the reason Jesus came to earth was to bring the Word. Hebrews 4:12. When Jesus is not made manifest by the Word, the world is not judged but when the message/Gospel is preached, the world is judged.
John 12:48-49
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
The words of Jesus must not be lost because it will be a total loss if His words are lost in a generation. This is why the Apostles stood and preached the Gospel despite the stringent circumstances or constraint bedeviling them. The last day agenda is raising, which will be done through commandments of Life Eternal. Any man who is not open to the power of words cannot know faith. Life is not about doing but about the power of words. Words have the ability to make men; words spoken in season are powerful. Every creature takes its habitation by words.
The Father taught Jesus the nature of words and conveyed Himself to Him by words. Fasting without words is a wasted energy, because we cannot know God by fasting but by words. Faith comes by words, Romans 10:17 and such words engender life. Only God’s words can build up and by building we have a path in God. Acts 20:32.
John 10:16-18
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Turning flesh to a resurrection nature/spirit is a teaching. A soul can degrade to flesh through corruption. In this realm, such a soul lacks the ability to be raised into spirit but remains in flesh. Flesh produces flesh; only the doctrine of Christ can turn/raise flesh to spirit. There are grades of spirits in the realm of spirit. Man has a grade of spirit, which is the living soul; this enables him to be quickened. If the human’s soul lacks the backing of the Spirit, then raising the soul will make no difference. A mere soul cannot go up but returns to the earth. That is why the souls of dead animals do not go to God but return to the earth. However, a man’s soul is not ordinary; one Abel died and his blood spoke for many years. This typifies Christ though Christ’s own blood spoke better things than that of Abel. Hebrews 12:24.
The doctrine raised Jesus to become Resurrection; therefore he knew what to say and speak. The saying is the doctrine; the speaking is the teaching and the doctrine. The saying must be conveyed through speaking. Doctrine is the commandment of the Eternal God; it makes God eternal and unveils His eternal nature. No one is permitted to stand and speak as a teaching priest if he has not received the doctrine. It takes time to raise a teacher and a raised teacher must have received the commandment. Hebrews 5:12.
The building that is being raised in us is God’s gain and He won’t stop that building until we are fully raised. Either we live or die, we are the Lord’s. Jesus received the power to raise through the doctrine.
INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES
Bricks of fire; I am bringing to you things that will make you stones, for the building of God must not be stopped and you must be a brick in the building that is thoroughly fired, separated and consecrated by Truth. You must be a brick well fired by fire, for that way, you are separated for the house of God. You must be made a stone for the raising of the house of God. You must strive with doctrines of the earth and war with strange spirits so that you can find your place in the house which God raises. For when you have been raised, you will be made as a stone in the house. Do not stop the house. We have allowed you to have everything, do not prevent our rest. We have sent our own to make out of you a house for us. Do not prevent our rest for we want to rest in you. You must be well bred, a brick that is well fired by the furnace.
Romans 16:26
But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
Without the commandments, faith cannot be made known. John 14:10-11. The building Jesus became was not that of a mere man but the one that God has raised as his tabernacle. We must not be less than works. Ephesians 2:10. These words have the capacity to change those that stay under it. John 10:20. The work is a practice. Christ became the Hope in order to be in us, just as the Father is in Him and He in the Father. He will transfer Christ and the Father to us.
Verse 21 shows that the first place of His appearance is for those who have His commandments (which are not the Ten Commandments but doctrine). What defiles a man is not what goes into him but what proceeds out of him, which comes from the spirit. Matthew 15:11. May our hearts allow only things that are profitable to our raising. Amen!