2 Cor 3:18 …are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. Process of change to display glory – the manifest presence of God on earth as it is in heaven. We can choose to embrace, pursue the process of change or maturity. Can’t stay babies, toddlers or infants.
Transformation = Metamorphosis. A complete change of form. Body-Soul-Spirit to Spirit-Soul-Body. Human being – spirit being – living being – godlike being.
Cocoon, cloud, wilderness. Place of testing. Place of preparation. Place of hearing. Place of calling. Be willing to face and embrace the places of change.
Altar. Crucible or furnace. Fire. Heat comes through situations, circumstances and relationships. Things buried or covered up will come to the surface or into the light.
Isa 35:8 A highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The Highway of Holiness is built in our hearts so heaven can flow through us to the world around us. Righteousness is gifted to us so we can choose to be holy.
Rom 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Where are sacrifices made? On an altar. What happens on an altar? Fire. Where is refining and purifying done? In a crucible or furnace. How? Fire.
Matt 3:11 He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Zech 2:5 ‘For I,’ declares the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’ To enter glory you must go through the fire of transformation.
Exod 19:16 …there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain… 18 the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
Heb 12:28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is a consuming fire. Fire transforms the molecular structure (wood: the outer structure gets very hot; it releases gas and turns to charcoal)
Heating – temperature rises. Transition – softening of bonds. Degradation – bonds break. Decomposition – release of gases. Oxidation – combustion. Transformation – change of substance (wood to charcoal).
Lev 9:24 Then fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
2 Chron 7:1 Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
1 Chron 21:26 Then David built an altar to the LORD there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called to the LORD and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
Rev 8:5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake. The fire is heavenly. We can access heaven.
Malachi 3:1 “ Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple… He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts. 2 “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. 3 He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.
Matt 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. No mixture – refined and purified. 2000oc heat. Dross – impurities rise to the surface. All gold is pure 24 carat. Mixed with other metals.
Proverbs 17:3 – The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tests the hearts. Isa 48:10 “Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.” Job 23:10 But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, 7 so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; 13 but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.
Ezek 36:26 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. The heart carries the testimony record of our life and past generations. We need pure hearts.
The heart forms from the sperm and the ova joining to form the first cell. The heart contains 23 + 23 chromosomes from mother and father. The heart contains the DNA record of our seed line. The heart carries cell memories of our past generational blood line. Only the pure in heart can see God.
2 Cor 3:3 …you are a letter of Christ… written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Transformation is the process of rewriting our hearts.
Deut 12:3 You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place. What is written or encoded in our hearts has to be transformed.
What are your idols? What are your family idols? Where are your high places? Where are your family high places? Where have you sacrificed? Where has your family sacrificed? What have you traded with? What has your family traded with?
Where is the altar? In the tabernacle. Where is the tabernacle? In the heavenly realms. Macro scale – pattern of the heavenlies. Micro scale – an actual dimensional place.
Seraphim and fire.
Isa 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. 5 Then I said, Woe is me, for I am ruined! 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is purged.
Sacrificial lamb was prepared.
Ex 29:16 And you shall kill the ram 17 And you shall cut the ram in pieces and wash its entrails and legs and put them with its pieces and its head, Slit the throat (dead) and drained the blood. Skinned it. Split it open and washed the inner organs. Split open the backbone to reveal the marrow. Chopped off its head. Cut off its legs.
By faith enter through the veil, the way into the court to the brazen altar. To our High Priest, Jesus, who prepares the sacrifice. Cut the throat and drained the blood.
Luke 9:23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. 24 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.”
1 John 1:7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Father, I thank you that through your mercy you have made a way for me to access your heavenly presence. I choose to deny myself, take up the cross and follow your way. I choose to lose my life to gain your life.
I step in through the veil of Jesus through the way of the cross. I step into the realm of your government. I come to trade on the brazen altar of covenant exchange.
I exchange my sin for your righteousness. I exchange my rejection for your acceptance. I exchange my guilt for your forgiveness. I exchange my sickness for your health. I exchange my old life for your new life.
I exchange my old identity for your new identity. I exchange my old name for your new name. I exchange my old nature for your new nature. I exchange my old bondage for your new freedom.
I exchange my old records for your new record. I exchange my past for your future. I exchange my darkness for your light. I exchange my weakness for your strength. I exchange my thoughts for your thoughts.
I exchange my character for your character. I exchange my ways for your ways. I step back into this realm forgiven cleansed and clothed with righteousness. I am empowered for transformation to manifest your glory, bringing heaven to earth through my life.
Do this every day. Step in and step out. Exchange old for new at the cross. Be transformed. Make this a way of life, daily denying yourself, taking up the cross, and following Him – into the realms of heaven.
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.