John 5:19 – Jesus gave them this answer: I tell you the truth, the son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his father doing, because whatever the father does the son also does.
God wants to take us to glorious dimensions in this new 20 first century. He wants to allow us to understand and to experience things that I has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man, what that God has prepared for those that love him, and that he is already granting to those who are ready to him.
Lord wants us to understand that he is made his invisible kingdom accessible to us through Jesus Christ, his son, that we can see it, hear it, feel it, and even penetrated and move within it.
Jesus came to this world with 3 main objectives:
1 – to save the world from sin.
2 – to destroy the works of the devil.
3 – to bring the kingdom of God among us.
He himself said, casting on a demon
Luke 11:20 – if I would the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
He came in order to be the path that unites 2 worlds, 2 kingdoms, 2 different dimensions: the spiritual kingdom and the material kingdom.
I asked you to open your spirit as you read these lines, since the principles that I’m about to present to you are key in order to enter in to possess the greatest spiritual riches that you have ever experienced.
Ephesians 1:9 – having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.
This is the glorious principle that we have begun to discover in this book. In Jesus, the 2 realms are united, in him the heavens are a visible, palpable reality, as well as the earth. In Jesus, there is no limitation in passing from one side to the other, and moving in one dimension or in the other. He said, whatever I see the father knew, I do. Everything I hear the father say, I say.
And this is our great inheritance, being able to enjoy both realms, being able to penetrate them, experience them, live in them, and caused the truths of that invisible kingdom to pass from one dimension to the other.
Jesus came to the world in order to manifest the kingdom of God. Jesus did not come to the world to give us sermons on behavior, or to tell us a bunch of rules about what we should and should not do. That was already written in the law. Jesus came to return to us that which was lost: the kingdom of heaven, visible on the earth. Jesus, upon coming in the flesh, made possible that the heavens and the earth become one, and that these 2 realms become palpable through 2 different kinds of eyes, the natural eyes and the eyes of of spiritual understanding. What man lost in the garden of Eden, was having within himself the image of God. God made man after his image and his likeness, and this does not refer to our external form or to the inward qualities of our soul. The image of God and Adam was what permitted him to see God openly. God and man were one, because they were from the same image. The clothing of the glory of God covered him and, because of that, he did not feel naked. The 2 dimensions were visible at the same time. This is what it means to be in the image of God.
It is Jesus’s will that we can see, feel, and move in these 2 dimensions. For this to happen, it is necessary for our spirit to be set free from the thick veil of unbelief and darkness that shadow our minds and hinder us from being what God has purposed us to be, a limitless church, according to the image of the one who created us.
Paul, who understood these 2 dimensions perhaps better than any other apostle, wrote in the second epistle to the Corinthians:
2 Corinthians 3:14 – but their minds were blinded: for until this day remain the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
I want you to notice here that the word talks about a blinding of the mind and availing of the heart that must be removed. Now, I want to take you to a deeper level than that of salvation. Here, you must understand that this conversion that the apostle is talking about is not referring only to the moment of accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior, but to the genuine conversion of the heart that makes us enter into supernatural dimensions of the kingdom of God.
The vast majority of Christians today have a lot of difficulty believing that God desires for them to be able to move in an impressive, supernatural power. And it is even harder for them to believe in the possibility of seeing the heavens open and the glory of God manifesting itself. Nevertheless, the scripture continues in Corinthian, saying:
Second Corinthians 3:17 – now the Lord is that spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
This verse of Scripture, normally used to justify speaking in tongues, dancing, clapping, or any manifestation of external expression, is not referring to these things. What the Holy Spirit wrote through Paul, talking about the true liberty of the spirit is the following:
Second Corinthians 3:18 – but we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.
Wow! What Paul is saying is that upon carrying the veil that does our understanding, we can see with open face everything that has to do with the kingdom of God. The when the Holy Spirit uses the word beholding, it does not mean feeling goosebumps, or quivers, it means: to see.
This is the promise of the liberty of the spirit for us, that everything that those are mine, the veil of darkness and spiritual limitation, is torn by the spirit, and this takes us to a face-to-face encounter with the glory of God. The real prison is found in the mind, full of corruption, of unbelief, and of human structures of understanding, that is been blinded by the devil. What we need to be set free from, is ourselves, set free from our logical, limited ways of seeing and doing things.
Second Corinthians 4:4 – in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Unbelievers are not only those who have not come to salvation, but also those who, due to their unbelief, cannot enter into the spiritual dimensions of the kingdom of God. Unbelievers are those who live a mental gospel, but who have not understood what it truly means to enter and to possess the kingdom of God. And, I dare to say, that there are millions of people who are saved, but who have never entered into possess everything that the kingdom of God provides for us. They believe that they will enter when they die and go to heaven, but this is not what Jesus came to teach. He said, the kingdom of God has come upon you.
The design of God in order to transform us into his image, is not through 1000 sermons, or 500 books by wonderful authors, but rather through being with him, but holding him with open face. Christianity today, unfortunately, in most cases, is made up of people more or less instructed and informed, but who have not been converted to the dimensions of his glory, in order to be transformed into the image of God.
Jesus came to restore that which was lost. And what was lost mainly was the image of God in man. God created us in his image and in his likeness. This does not mean our physical image or our mental and psychic qualities. It is much deeper in that.
As I mentioned before, the image of God was what gave Adam and his wife the ability to look at him with open face and the freshness of the afternoon in Paradise. It was what gave them intimate and real communion with him. It was what made them a by dimensional being – one that is in 2 dimensions at the same time.
Jesus, made flesh, is the image of God in this earthly plane, and Jesus simultaneously moved in the spiritual world and in the natural world. It is in conforming ourselves again to his image, that which will allow us to move in all the power the kingdom of God. It is having his image again that which opens the celestial doors in order to receive the most remarkable revelations of his glory.
The Scripture says,
First Corinthians 15:47 – the first man is of the earth, earthly – referring to the fallen nature of Adam: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Next paragraph the Lord wants us to have his image once again, while we are here on the earth, and, the way in which he designed this wonderful transformation is through a living, real encounter with the glory of God. When you are looking at that glory, when you spend hours looking at it with open face, your spirit begins to impregnated self with everything that he is. It is a real experience that affects your entire being.
When you look at him, your level of faith arrives at stratospheric heights, everything becomes possible, feasible. The real prison in which we find ourselves is in our own mind, full of unbelief and veils that hinder us from seeing. But, glory to God, who provided for us the spirit, so that, wherever he is, our spirit is set free, and we can enter into dimensions and extraordinary levels. This is what it means to be able to see the kingdom of God.
Second Corinthians 4:6 – for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
You can almost hear Paul grown in the epistle to the Ephesians, when he says, full of the fire of God:
Ephesians 1:16 – cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us word who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he rotten Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.
The true encounter with the liberty of the spirit will enable you to see the kingdom of God in its glory. The cry of the spirit is to see a transformed church, moving in the same power as Jesus Christ, and doing greater works than the ones that he did when he was on the earth, as he himself declared.
Can you really see God and live? Of course! This is the glorious experience reserved for all those who truly love Jesus. Jesus said,
John 14:19 – get a little while, and the world to see is me no more; but you see me: because I live, he shall live also.
He taught, saying,
Matthew 5:8 – Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God
Hebrews 12:14 – file peace with all men, and holiness, without which gnome man shall see the Lord.
Also while praying to the father, he said:
John 17:24 – father, I will that they also, now has given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou has given me
When the mantle in the prophetic anointing manifested themselves in the old and in the new Testaments, the servants of God saw the glory in many ways. The spirit of prophecy is the testimony, the revealed truth of all that Jesus is. Daniel saw the ancient of days, seated on his throne of fire – Daniel 7. Ezekiel saw the expanse of his glory and the cherubim around the throne – Ezekiel 1. Jacob saw the heavens open and Angels going up and down – Genesis 28. Moses spoke with God face-to-face, as one talks with one’s friend – Exodus 33:11. Gideon saw the angel of the Lord, who was none other than Jesus, before his parousia en the flash – judges 6. Likewise, Joshua saw him in the form of a man with a sword – Joshua 5:13. Paul was taken to the third heaven, where he saw unspeakable things – second Corinthians 12:2. John was taken to heaven innumerable times in order to see the entire revelation. And the examples are numerous of the reality of the 2 dimensions, coming together and men entering and experiencing the kingdom of God.
This will not happen in your life overnight. It takes time and dedication. You need to train your mind to quiet itself in order to be able to hear the spirit. It is necessary to learn that in the silences with the Lord, something wonderful begins to happen. It is in this search that God begins to manifest himself, that the soul, subject to the Spirit, begins to decrease and to change or, that is to say, to be transformed into the likeness of the Lord. It is there, in that moment that the veils tear apart and the first experience begins.
First, it’ll be a delicate radiance or a strong presence of a spirit. Then, it will continue to grow, and the radiance will become clearer and sharper, and to you begin to see his face. This is not imagining his face; this is receiving his image in your spirit. His image is not like the picture from the Renaissance. God is multifaceted – he has many forms. Each manifestation of his attributes, of his power, or of his name itself, changes the configuration of his image. And it is precisely this, which breaks the molds, and you begin to know him truly, as a person.
This is the promise of God for your life, and you have to appropriate it for yourself, no matter what the cost, because it is truly the pearl of great price. He said it and he will do it.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord – second Corinthians 3:17
Jesus came to manifest the kingdom of God
We are talking about extraordinary things, perhaps very new for many, because it is necessary for us to understand that we are entering into the most glorious era in history. All things are being shaken, transformed, because it is written:
Acts 3:20 – and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before it was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
The Spirit himself declares to us:
Hebrews 12:26 – whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promise, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, yet once more, signifying the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
Jesus then come to give us moral teachings, or to emphasize the law. Jesus came to bring us the kingdom of God, not for when we die and go to heaven, but now and here. He came to bear witness of that kingdom. He came to manifest, with his own life, all that the father is. The most impressive thing about his ministry was not what he said, but the supernatural nature of his deeds.
John 10:37 – if I do not the works of my father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the father is in me, and I in him.
Jesus wanted to show us everything that happens when the kingdom of God manifests itself. Why did Jesus walk on the water? Did it make sense? Did he perhaps want to make sure preachers would have a pretty passage so that they could preach about how you can walk above the circumstances? No! He wanted to manifest the kingdom. He wanted to tell us, if you move in my kingdom, this is a spiritual dimension that even dominates all matter. My kingdom is more powerful than all created things. It dominates everything.
Yes Peter, do you want to try it? Come, you can walk, too! What I’m coming to bring you and teach you is for you, too. Get out of the boat, Peter! And Peter, grabbed onto the faith that the kingdom produces, answered that the mention and began to walk up on the water.
When Jesus’s mother, upset because the wine had run out at the wedding of Cana, asked him to do something, he did not get up, filled with faith that he could collect a powerful offering and sent for wine. He preferred to manifest his kingdom. Fill the water pots with water. And then he said, draw out now, and take it to the governor of the feast – John 2:7 – 8.
When he was in front of the multitude that did not have anything to eat, and his disciples asked him, master, you want us to buy food and give them something they? He said, no. Obviously, they had money in order to buy the food, otherwise, they would not have asked the question. But Jesus wanted to manifest the creative power of his father. He wanted to manifest the kingdom. He asked them what they had. And they said just to fish and 5 loaves of bread.
Jesus took them in his hands. And what he did was to introduce them, submerge them, in the dimension of the kingdom, the realm of the spirit. At that moment, the bread and the fish stop being only a part of the natural realm. The kingdom began to impregnate them. Heaven and earth were united in that food. The multiplying, creative power of the kingdom took control over every particle of matter.
In the kingdom, everything can be multiplied. Everything can be created or restored. Then he said, pass them out. And at his order, the bread and the fish multiplied by thousands.
This is what is happening to those who are being submerged in his kingdom. This is what needs to happen to you, and you will see the most extraordinary things begin to happen.
The most important thing for Jesus was manifesting the kingdom, that they could see the father through him.
He said to Philip:
John 14:7 – if you had known me, you should have known my father also: and from henceforth you know him, and have seen him… Jesus said unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet has thou not known me, Philip? He did has seen me has seen the father; and how sayest thou then, show us the father? Believe us down not that I’m in the father, and the father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the father did dwell within me, he do it the works.
Oh! If we all could really understand this; Jesus, made flesh, the father doing the works in him. This is what he is trying to say: the kingdom of God is among us; the heavens and the earth, united in Jesus. That is the promise for our time: a kingdom generation that impacts the whole Earth, not a handful of healing and miracle ministries that we can count on her fingers, but an entire generation, bringing the heavens down.
The kingdom has the power to establish all of the designs of God upon the earth. It is the kingdom that activates the will of God in the heavens, and then his will descends in manifests itself on the earth.
When the disciples saw the greatness of the works that Jesus did, they realized that the teacher worked in such a way that the heavens manifested themselves. Then, they said to him, Lord, teach us to pray. And he gave them the key in order to bring the power of God upon the earth.
Matthew 6:6 – but thou, when thou is prettiest, enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy father which is in secret; and the father would see it in secret shall reward the openly.
Matthew 6:9 – after this manner therefore pray the: our father which art in heaven, held be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
The prayer of Jesus had its focus, first of all, in exalting the father, and then, the most important thing, was that for which he had come: that the kingdom be established and that the heavens and the earth be made one. Entering into the kingdom is the key to knowing him, and it is also the key to power. Jesus did not say, go, preach salvation only. He said:
Matthew 10:7 – and as you go, preach, saying, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, close leopards, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely you have received, freely give.
The training that Jesus gave to his disciples and the command with which he sent them was to manifest the kingdom.
John 20:21 – as my father has sent me, even so I send you.
In other words, as I came to be a witness of my father, to show you his power and his greatness, so you to have to testify about the kingdom, to be living messages, where the kingdom is so entrenched within you, that everything you do and say manifests it.
He also said,
Matthew 24:14 – and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
To preach the kingdom of heaven is not a message to convince someone in her intellect, but far from a genuine conversion. Rather, it is to produce works that will bring, as a result, authentic conversions.
Paul confronts the church, saying:
First Corinthians 4:19 – but I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will no, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not a word, but in power.
Today, this is practically never taught as a part of evangelism training, and the vast majority of churches. They teach a whole series of convincing, verbal techniques, that assist the unbeliever except a momentary prayer and, in some cases, be attracted to a local church.
In many cases, we have filled churches with people, but we have not filled them with sons, converts to the kingdom. God one sons who possess the kingdom, and he is raising a generation that understands all this, a generation of brave people, bold and holy. Men and women who know how to pray in order to bring the kingdom to earth, a people who penetrate the kingdom, at all costs.
Matthew 11:12 – and from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.