We have seen that the new creation is completely one with Christ. We have seen that the new creation is one with love, and love is one with the new creation.
The new creation is the body of Christ.
This living organism, God-dominated, God-filled, is here among men and women acting love, acting in Jesus’ stead, and taking over His work, here on earth.
In the first chapter of Acts, Luke says by the Spirit, “All that Jesus began both to do and to teach” (verse 1).
We begin where He left off. We take up the work that He laid down, to become our substitute; He was the burden-bearer, the expression of love. Now he is acting in us, through us, taking upon ourselves the burdens of others. And then we cast them upon the Lord.
BURDEN-BEARERS
We are now His burden-bearers. We carry His load with His strength. We do His will with His ability.
He is living His life in us and through us.
Though perhaps we do not realize it, we know, “It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).
We have left the old development of physical sense knowledge and have learned to walk the new way, more conscious of the things above, the unseen realm.
Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).
This is not only a pathway; it is a person.
It is not a theory; it is a reality.
It is not a doctrine; it is a life.
Belief systems and doctrines have lost their significance. They are the worn-out shells of yesterday. They held us in bondage for years. Now we are swallowed up in Him.
Romans 15:1 We then who are strong ought to bear with the powerless’s of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.
This is the Jesus method. He was strong. He took our infirmities. Now His strength has made us strong. We take over the weaknesses of others.
We are not their critics. We do not condemn them because they have failed. We go down, take their burdens, and let them walk by our side, free.
We take the burden off of them, bearing their burden, so that the oppression is off of them, and then we transfer it to the Lord the great intercessor as our high priest.
The burden, has to be transferred to us, so that it is off of the person, but then we have to transfer it to the Lord, because we cannot carry the weight of it.
When one member of the body suffers, we suffer with it but then transfer it to the Lord believing him to transfer his divine nature and strength to be imparted to the weak member. This is our intercession in the spirit for our brothers and sister in Christ.
You see the weak believer will speak all about their problems to us and then feel better, because they transferred their problems to us, now we do not want to carry this burden because it will hinder our walk with the Lord, so we learn how to cast it upon the Lord, so that we are no longer carrying it.
Imaging holding a weight over our heads, it starts getting pretty heaven where we will not be able to function so we through it off of us, so that we are no longer carrying it.
Then we believe for them what ever divine attribute they need to solve that problem That will solve their problem, where they will begin to partake of the divine nature and escape the pressures of the world.
But we must teach them how to do this for themselves. So that they don’t keep coming to us when they have a problem, and then they can minister to others who have the same problems and become a burden bearer themselves.
We do not condemn the one who is held in prison by Satan, for we remember that once we were slaves. We are the strength-givers, the burden-bearers, and the light-leaders in the world of darkness.
What a ministry it is to take Jesus’s place on the earth!
What a life it is to bear the burdens of the weak, carry the loads that others should have had strength to carry, have faith for those who are faithless, courage for those who are whipped, and wisdom for those who have long walked in darkness.
We are the Jesus men and women of a new age. This is the age of the restoration of all things, not the last days of the Old Covenant.
John 15: 9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Now probably no one in the body of Christ knows all the commandments of the Lord in the New Covenant. There are called imperatives in the Greek.
But when I come across an imperative in the New Testament, I will take that verse of Scripture and put it on a document called imperatives.
But most Christians do not have a New Testament where it shows you the strong numbers for all the verbs in the New Testament to see if it is an imperative.
Just go to www.amazon.com and buy the Complete Word Study New Testament, edited by Spiros Zodhiates, TH.D. (AMG Publishers). You can get a soft cover for under eight dollars.
He published it back in 1991 and I bought a hard cover when it first came out and still have it. Before this I had a bible in leather with only the key words, not every word back in 1985 when I got baptized in the Spirit and the Holy Spirit told me to buy one.
Then get one of those ribbon book markers, I have four ribbons on mine, so it helps me find the passage of the verse I am reading and the back of the book where the grammatical codes are so I can look up the meanings of the words.
I have only found one word so far that Strongs translated wrong, Spiros gives more detailed definitions than the Strongs dictionary does. And his book is more detailed than the one I have on my logos computer software.
But I have the talking Greek and Hebrew dictionary on my computer, so that I can learn how to pronounce the Hebrew and Greek words.
We are to love as Jesus loved with the same identical love, (but not the same measure. Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure, we get a measure and then as we exercise in it, we get more and more of the Spirit until we come of full age) and pour out our lives as He poured out His.
Paul saw the real importance of this and gave it to us in this scripture:
2 Corinthians 5: 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
Beside ourselves (existēmi) it comes from two Greek words 1 “out of” 2 “the verb means to cause to stand, to place”. I have experienced this, so I know what it means.
It means to be in the Sprit, to have an ecstasy, it is like your drunk in the Spirit, a person who is governed by physical sense knowledge will say that person is out of their minds, other words crazy.
No, I am just in another dimension that your physical senses cannot perceive, but my soul is interpreting what my spiritual senses are experiencing in the unseen realm.
When you are in this realm or dimension all your senses are heightened, we get downloads of revelation from heaven.
That is why when a person dies and goes to be with the Lord, it is a cause of celebration, because I know what they are now experiencing.
Paul believed in love to the extent that he was believed to be beside himself.
Paul’s answer was, “The love of Christ has taken hold of my heart. I realize that Christ’s death was every persons’s death.” The same love that caused Christ to die for man had constrained Paul’s heart and was causing him to live for them.
The attitude of love is this, “I love them as though I had died for them.” Paul is even stronger in his description of love’s identification here:
I suffer endless anguish of heart. I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen. —Romans 9:2–3 MOFF
In reading this, we feel we can hardly come up to that level of divine love. But it is not hard because YHVU has already made us love(this is our legal redemption). He has made us like Himself and he is love. What He was in His earth walk, we are now in our earth walk. As he is in heaven so are we in this world. When Jesus was on earth, he lived in dual realms, and we are learning how to be continually filled with the Spirit, we are experiencing the unseen realm.
He has taken us over in order that we might take over His dream for mankind.
It sounds strange, but it is beautifully true that we love as He loved.
We love with His love. We look upon people through love’s eyes. We used to say, “They are reaping what they have sown.” We used to see them through physical sense-knowledge eyes.
Now we say, “Father, help me to help them. I am taking Your wisdom and Your strength to carry the load that they have failed to take strength to carry. They have been deceived by physical sense knowledge. I take their place and carry their burden, as Jesus has taken my place and borne my burden.”
We speak to them with love’s voice, with love’s message.
LOVE’S TRANSMITTERS
Our identification with Him put us on the throne. His identification with us puts us in the place of leaders, teachers, comforters, helpers, and burden-bearers. We bring God to mankind, just as He came to us. We boldly say, “Look on us.”
We are love as He is love. We are love’s mouth, love’s hands and feet.
Without wires, a mighty generator of a Dam would be helpless. Those great generators are dependent on the wires. They and they alone can bear the current that can stir the motors and light the homes.
Without transmitters, God in all His ability is helpless. His love can find no expression except through the new creation.
Can’t you see that if you fail Him, He is helpless? We limit Him…or we allow Him to be limitless.
For many ages, the power and ability of the mighty Columbia River was never utilized.
For nearly two thousand years, the limitless ability of God has been unused. The church has been weak and powerless. Sin has reigned as a master, and the church has served as a slave.
Yet that church represents the new creation, which is a Satan-conqueror.
Shall we allow it to go on?
You have seen the truth in this mighty message of identification. What are you going to do with it?
WE HOLD THE KEY
Shall God be great among the new creation once more? Shall they heal and save the multitudes? Shall the vast multitudes of men and women once again hear the message of grace from mouths set on fire with love?
Shall the Peters once more walk on the waves? Shall we hear them say, “Arise, and walk” to the crippled?
Shall we see men and women set free from Satan’s dominion? Yes, I believe we shall. We are the masters. We have arrived. We have the thing the human spirit has longed for.
We are speaking in our hearts now, “Greater is He who is in us than any opposition or any lack that may confront us.”
We are the God-created, the God-indwelt, the God-empowered, and the God-guided.
We are the ones in whom love never fails.
Come, let us go up and take the land! We are well able!
When these truths gain the ascendancy in us, they will make us spiritual supermen and super women, masters of demons and diseases.
This is an unveiling of what we are in Christ and how the Father sees us in the Son.
It will be the end of weakness and failure. There will be no more struggle for faith, for all things are ours.
There will be no more praying for power, for He is in us. There will no longer be the awful bondage of sin-consciousness, for we are the righteousness of God in Christ.
We know what we are in Christ. We know that He dwells in us.
We know the authority of His name. We are God-inside minded.
We have His ability. We have His wisdom. We have His love.
We are His righteousness. He lives in us. His lordship is a reality in our lives. His Word is written on our hearts.
We have a standing invitation to the throne of Grace. We are invited to come boldly into His presence. We are seated with Him in heaven places, and He is with us on earth.
In the presence of these tremendous realities, we arise and take our place. We go out and live as supermen and women indwelt by God.