We are on a journey or an adventure together discovering how to engage the spiritual realms .Discovering those realms within us around us & the heavenly realms .On this journey we are going to follow the pathway of relationship and responsibility .
John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written. Works and the greater works as the Son of Man and Son of God .
Matt 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Yoked to Jesus .Up close personal and intimate .Joined to Him .Let Jesus reveal Himself to you today .Open your hearts open your minds .Open your spirits .Engage Jesus the way the truth the life
Lord Jesus Christ not just title or name .Jesus is the person .Jesus whose name means saviour or salvation .Lord is His position e.g. Lord of lords .Christ is the authority of the person for the position .
Christ 510 the anointed one and His anointing .The Lord Jesus Christ 22 .Jesus Christ 133 .Christ Jesus 87 .Christ Jesus the Lord 1
8 statements where Jesus said as I am .Jesus as the resurrection and the life .Jesus and the cross .We are Jesus’ adopted brothers – God’s sons.Jesus as the door .Jesus as our High Priest.
The central point in history was the cross .The cross where Jesus took our place and carried our sin and sickness.The cross where we died with Him .The cross the pivotal point in the Christian faith.
Cross is the key point of the convergence of time and eternity .Death of Jesus and our death as we have been crucified with Him .Buried with Him and resurrected with Him .Ascended with Him and seated with Him in heavenly places.
LOVE: THE GREAT EXCHANGE . I loved you enough to die for you. I chose to lay My life down for you, My cherished and adored ones. When I was whipped and beaten, I thought of you. My love is so strong it helped me to carry the cross through the streets of Jerusalem. The strength of My love for you helped Me to willingly lay My life down on the cross.
My clothes were ripped from Me and I hung there naked and in shame. I took your guilt and shame so you wouldn’t have to feel guilty or ashamed. When you come to Me and accept My work on the cross on your behalf, then you truly understand that I took all your sin. This is the great exchange: I took your sin and gave you My love. I am trading your shame for My glory.
Engage Jesus the Resurrection & the Life
John 14:20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. I am is in you .Ex 4:14 Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”;
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am .John 8:58 Before Abraham was, I am .Eternal I am is in our spirit .We are connected to eternity where the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world .
John 6:35 I am the bread of life .John 8:12, 9:5 I am the light of the world .John 10:9 I am the door .John 10:11 I am the good shepherd.
John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life .John 15:1 I am the true vine .John 11:25 I am the resurrection and the life.
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, •Heb 2:15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. We are on a journey from the slavery of death to sonship abundant life .
1 Cor 15:54 .. “Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. The power of death and the power of the fear of death is broken.
2 Tim 1:10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, John 6 – we can live for ever, therefore we can have everlasting life with the quality of eternal life . When we take communion we are applying the victory of the cross.
Act 2:23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. 24 But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. True life will always overcome death.
Act 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross. 31 He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Saviour, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Eph 2:6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, As Jesus is raised up to heavenly places so are we .We can be set free from the bondage of earthly slavery to embrace our heavenly positions of authority.
1 Cor 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. The cross in its full meaning represents death, resurrection and ascension .Is it foolishness or the power of God?
Col 2:13 .. He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
YHVH – יהוה .Jod – as a symbol of a hand denotes power and, figuratively, ownership it is representative of the Father. Hei – represents gentleness and means to behold, to show or to reveal representative of the Holy Spirit
Vav – signifies a nail, peg, or hook. It also conveys the meaning of being nailed or bound together. Hei – divine breath, revelation, light, represents God’s creative power the living word, Jesus the Son.
In English right to left .”BEHOLD THE NAIL, BEHOLD THE HAND!“ Or, “Behold the nailed hand.“ Name of God is synonymous with our salvation the cross.
Gal 5:14 But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 2 Cor 5:15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
Matt 27:51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many .
The Covenant Exchange at the Cross.
SIN & SICKNESS DEATH OLD LIFE BONDAGE TO SIN OLD NATURE GUILTY CONDEMNED SINFUL JUDGED SLAVES TO SIN
FORGIVENESS & HEALTH LIFE NEW LIFE FREEDOM FROM SIN NEW NATURE INNOCENT AQUITTED RIGHTEOUS JUSTIFIED SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
1 Cor 5:21 God made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Rom 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Rom 6:5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.
The yoke of Jesus .1 Cor 6:17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Being united with Him .Being joined to Him .Being one with Him.
The Christian life is “life in Christ,” in union and communion with Jesus. Ephesians 1:3 we have all spiritual blessings in Christ. Every blessing is only received by being united, joined or yoked to Jesus.
1 Cor 15:19 hope .Rom 3:24 redemption .Gal 2:4 freedom .Phil 3:14 heavenly reward .1 Cor 1:30 holiness .Eph 4:32 forgiveness .Phil 1:26 Joy.
We receive everything He has from Him . His justification – as if we never sinned . His sanctification – our transformation . His perseverance – His joy our strength . His perfection – our holiness . His resurrection – our new life . His glorification – engage with heaven . His adoption – our new family .
Every blessing of the new covenant comes through our union with Jesus. Our adoption as sons . In Christ, we become His sons and daughters & God becomes our Father. Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Everything comes through faith by grace .
Rom 8:15 you have received a spirit of adoption as sons .Gal 4:5 To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God’s sons]. Into a royal family we become royalty .
Rom 16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. Daily choice to surrender by denying self rule.
Eph 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,
Gal 4:6 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” Rom 8:15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
Covenant of Adoption
Old Life. Old Identity. Old Family. All recorded decrees against you All your past sin Date of birth.
New Life New Identity New Family No guilt, condemnation Righteous Date of adoption 7 witnesses .
Heb 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, What is this glory? Access is a synonym for heaven.It is so much more being the essence of who He is and who we can be .
Who is this Jesus? Heb 1:3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. Col 1:17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Rom 8:19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Adoption envelops the whole created order for our good and God’s glory, and empowers sons to participate and enjoy God’s mission. As God’s children in His family we have the privilege of participating in His mission to redeem and renew creation.
John 14:18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. John 14:23 … We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
John 15:15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. There is a transition in discipleship from servants and stewards to SONS.
John 10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 9 I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. As the door Jesus has opened heaven for us to go in and out .
Jesus our High Priest .Heb 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, 20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 10:19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near.
Eph 1:20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. He has ascended and is seated in the place of authority.
Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, We are ascended to sit in places of authority with Him .
2 Cor 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. Transformation, Transfiguration Metamorphosis .Glory of sonship is our inheritance.
The Covenant Exchange at the Cross
SIN & SICKNESS DEATH OLD LIFE BONDAGE TO SIN OLD NATURE GUILTY CONDEMNED SINFUL JUDGED SLAVES TO SIN
FORGIVENESS & HEALTH LIFE NEW LIFE FREEDOM FROM SIN NEW NATURE INNOCENT AQUITTED RIGHTEOUS JUSTIFIED SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
Engage Jesus Resurrection & Life
Close your eyes .Begin to think about Jesus .Begin to fix your eyes on Jesus .Activate your imagination as the doorway to encountering Him .Begin to picture Jesus on the cross.
Jesus is love receive His love . Jesus is on the cross looking at you . Look at Jesus look into His eyes of love . Open your heart and receive all He has done . Experience the Power & Love of the cross . Begin to think about everything you want nailed to that cross .
Sin nailed to the cross . Guilt shame condemnation nailed to the cross . Your old life nailed to the cross . Sickness nailed to the cross . Allow the hidden things in your life to be nailed to the cross . Every hurt and pain to be nailed to cross.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life .Surrender everything to Him choose to die to self, past, ego, pride .Let Him give you resurrection life as He raises you up to a new life .Be united with Him and receive all that belongs to him as a joint heir.
Receive your adoption into His family .Receive the truth that you are royalty .Receive the truth that you are a son of God .Receive the truth of the limitless possibilities of who you are .He is the door let Him take you through the veil.
He is our High Priest let Him take you to your throne in the heavenly realms .Let Him show you your position of authority as a son of God .Let Him invest you with authority giving you a crown, sceptre & mantle .Let Him show you your eternal reality.