Darkness Part 1 Darkness Part # 1 The Opening Unto the Shepherd The following statement is about the Apostle Paul’s direct interaction with the God that up to this moment, he had been serving without having had any direct interaction with. The way in which he was going to be serving after this interaction was going to be completely different. So different, that the one team that he was against he was for; and the other team who he was for, he was against. Christ appeared unto Paul in a heavenly vision in order to make him into a minister of the opening, which is for the turning of others from the power of satanic darkness unto God, so that aphesis [859] could be received in all that it means. Herein those of its forgiveness [859] have deliverance [859] from bondage in order to have the Christian liberty [859]: All of this is within the sanctification by faith from a minister of the opening (Ac. 26:16, 18-19, and 28 cf. Lk. 4:18). Note: that none of these things [859] are in the gospel of salvation because these things are in the grace of Christ for salvation. This was the audible, visual commission of the Apostle Paul, which radically changed his ministerial direction. We happen to believe that it takes a direct intervention by Christ for us to be made into ministers. This is what is missing in almost every minister that we have bumped into; they have not been commissioned by Christ. Paul was able to turn others because he was being helped by God (Ac. 26:20 and 22). Until Paul got this help from God to turn people unto God through the opening, he had been a part of the ongoing and continuous problem, as one without sound solutions to intractable problems. Paul had a radical adjustment to his theology, for him to set forth the opening, speaking of the entrance through sanctification by faith. It is not just that God needs to help His ministers, but that God needs to help those who are being ministered unto by His ministers, if they are also going to see the light. God’s ministers are called the porters that open so that eyes can see and ears can hear Jesus, as the Shepherd, who can then give unto them the life of light (Jn. 10:3 and 11; 1:4 and 9). As Shepherd, Christ is not giving His life at the Cross; He is giving life to those who believe on Him, as the life giver. This opportunity to see the light to have the life must be opened up for us by one who is able to minister the entrance, speaking of the opening into the Kingdom of heaven. Jesus gives this abundant life to those who enter in to the pasture by Him, as their door (verse 10-9). We are naturally closed up to this need to enter in to have life and be saved. Again, this opportunity to have life and be saved must be opened up unto us, if we are going to have the experience of Christ as the Door, which we are entering into through the opening. If we could find this opening ourselves, and climbed in without a designated porter, we would be nothing more than robber thieves (verse 1). The only way that Jesus Christ can get a hold of us to bring us into Himself is through a porter of the opening. It is an amazing thing how ministers who have been made into ministers by some theological institution do not minister this entrance into the Kingdom of heaven. Man-made-ministers know almost every other saying, but this saying. This is why there is such a division over this saying (verse 19). The intent of this verse is to communicate that this division is profound! This is one of the most amazing statements in the Scripture, which is ignored by almost everyone who is in some division over the content of what is being said in this chapter of the Gospel of John. The only ministers that understand what this means are those ministers of the opening. Everyone else passes over this section without noticing their division against the needed opening of the door in order to enter into Christ. There is not one minister of the opening for the entrance today because this division has become so great! Before the Apostle Paul’s commission, he was a part of this division against the opening in order to enter into Christ. Jesus is not talking about His death, when He was talking about giving of His life of light for the sheep (verses 17-18). There is no division over His death; however, no matter which church we go to, there is an immediate division over Christ giving us life through those of life. The question is can Christ give us His life, yes, or no? The life that was in Christ is the life that is in those who have been lit to be a light of the true Light (1:4 and 9). This has nothing to do with the giving of His life at the Cross. Any gospel of Christ against this life of light is another gospel, which is of darkness by comparison. There is none of this truth for this grace, which has come by Christ in organized Christianity today. This is how Jesus is now giving life (10:28). This is a work of the Father through those who are sanctified (verses 37-36). Remember Christ-made-ministers are working upon those who are being sanctified by faith within the needed turning from darkness to the light unto God because of gospel justification (Ac. 26:16, 18-19, 28; Rom. 4:25). This work needs to be believed in (Jn. 1:38). Christ has commanded His porters, who are His servants, to be in this watch with all authority (Mk. 13:34). Any authority that is without this watch is a usurping authority of men against the servants of Christ, who are called His porters. We asked a minister of a big church, if he had any porters, and he responded that porters are not needed now because anyone can come to Jesus. The reason why there are no porters in many churches today is that senior pastor’s love to have the preeminence (3Jn. 1:9). Archbishops are even called “his eminence” notwithstanding the fact that it is Jesus who has the preeminence (Col. 1:18). We would remind the ministers of their error against the need for porters, these words shall never pass away (Mk. 13:31). As such, porters shall always be needed. Only those who have all authority can speak about this thing/saying/doctrine, which is said to be of the grace of God (Tit. 2:15 and 10). Everyone who asks for this opening can seek to find it opened unto them to receive Christ by entering into the Kingdom of heaven (Mt. 7:8, 13, and 21). What a tragedy, that anyone can have this opening opened up unto them by simply asking. Believers are not asking because pastors are not teaching. Those ministers of error against needing one of the above ministers of the opening need to read the following: We can only receive Christ, if we can receive those who He sends (10:40; Jn. 13:20). We can go and find many who can help us believe on Jesus; but as to having someone help us to receive Jesus, we know not what to ask for or what to look for because we have been made ignorant of this saying by the men of preeminence. Anyone who believes on His name can have the power to be born again in order see Him to then receive Him to then be a child of God (Jn. 1:12-14). We cannot pray unto the Father, unless we are adopted, as one of His children. When we bring all these things together, we find that the only way to receive Christ is to receive who He has sent unto us to help us have the power to see Him. We need to receive grace through the spiritual impartation of it to then have the power of the Son of God to be in spirit to be in His holiness (Rom. 1:5-4 and 11) to see Him and to receive Him to be adopted. There are those who would rather have the preeminence, who are called “his holiness”, speaking of “their own holiness” rather than the holiness of God in Christ. These rarely ask God for anything because they get everything from others instead. These never get anything from God is exactly why they have to get everything from everyone else. We need to understand for our conversion; and we need to hear and see Him for our healing (Ac. 28:27). The salvation of God is for those who hear about this truth (verse 28). How many believers want to hear about how to see Christ in order to be healed? Believers would rather have those religious quacks, who heal others without them hearing from God or seeing Christ. Isaiah said, they hear but not to understand; they are into seeing but not by perception (verses 25-26). We heard a pastor once say that God was speaking to his heart. After the service we approached him, saying that we do not meet many people who have God speaking directly to them. We then asked him if he had seen God recently. No, he had not. We responded with the plain fact that we cannot hear who we are not interested in seeing, when we are not following Him to see Him. Behold how few believe in these things (verse 24). Isaiah said, who believes in the report of those who are sent with the good thing, as the glad tiding of finding the God who can manifest Himself (Rom. 10:16-15 and 20)? Israel questioned this unto becoming disobedient to this (verses 19 and 21). Has the visible outward church become any different? It is just like Israel of old, wandering around kicking up dust because it has got nothing to do without abiding in Christ (Jn. 15:5). The church, as Israel did, has become darkened because it has stumbled herein and thus fallen (Rom. 11:10-11). The moment people question how God can manifest Himself unto us, they begin to stumble at this truth and fall from this grace. Men love this darkness rather than a light, who reproves of their evil deeds (Jn. 3:19-20). Look at the amount of evil dusty deeding that is going on to keep people in the dark about God manifested unto us? This [reproving] light is the glorious of the gospel, which we have been commanded to shine as our light from our hearts in those who are of darkness (2Cor. 4:4 and 6). We are commanded by our commanding officer to shine forth this light, once we have reproved those of darkness. The introduction to this chapter talked about the glorious, which was without glory, is that which has been done away with for this glorious that is exceedingly glorious. May the Lord lift up this (glorious) light, which is of His face upon you too (Ps. 4:6). Many pastors end their sermons with this glorious benediction, but without the means to have it accomplished upon those who need it. The world is full of those who instruct others out of the law, as a light unto those who are in darkness (Rom. 2:18-19). However, the glory of Moses has been done away with for the ministry of the spirit, which is glorious (2Cor. 3:7-8). Our glorious light is our spirit, which we can minister as a blessing unto others. We have yet to meet a pastor without the shining light, who is not in bondage to some law with his Jesus! Believers sing, “May the glory of the Lord shine upon us, let it shine, let it shine.” But when those with this shining ability come to them, they are not received! Thus many churches are without this glorious blessing unto this day. We have this ministry of manifesting the truth of the light life of Jesus in us unto blinded minds (4:2, 4, and 10). The light life of Jesus can be made manifest in us, so that it can be in others, who can be with us in the same spirit of faith by grace to be raised up by Jesus Christ for the glory of God (verses 11-15). Believers have got to be enabled to get into those of light because this is for the glory of God. Rather than being in some form of this truth [without glory], we need to be in obedience to this truth [for glory] (Rom. 2:20 and 8). As (the glorious) light can be put on so can Christ then be put on, let us cast off the works of darkness (13:12 and 14). It is important to recognize the process herein outlined. The glorious light can be shined upon us so that Christ can be put on us because we have cast off any dusty works of darkness against this blessed truth, which is for this amazing grace, which in turn shows the glory of God in Christ through the Holy Spirit. Let us for the sake of this truth be for this truth. Let us believe in this truth and love it. The foundation of repentance within the gift to be a partaker of the Holy Spirit is to be without dead [dusty] works [of darkness], if we are going to have faith toward God in the doctrine of Christ, which is for the perfection of those who enter where Jesus, their forerunner entered (Heb. 6:1, 4, and 19-20). Perfection is found on the other side of this entrance. This is where righteousness and true holiness are also found with Christ, wherein He is stationed at the right hand of Majesty on high, in the heavens. This gift is what we have ministered and do minister, which is our labor of love (verse 4 and 10). We do not just love in word and in truth, but in this [glorious] deed, which is to give the light of our life for others (1Jn. 3:18 and 16). To those who say that we cannot give spiritual life, we agree with them. We also believe that God does not give spiritual life without a human agent of the spiritual gift, unless by an exceptional work. We are responsible to these means, which are herein outlined for the edification of the ignorant. This [glorious deeding] is how people know that we are of the truth; and that we are not condemned (verses 19-20). There is no veracity in our death for others; this is a gross blasphemy of the death of Christ. There is no greater love than this, that we could be used by God at work so that the life of Jesus could be in others. It cost Jesus Christ His life so that we could have God transfer the abundant life of Christ out of us and into others through the spiritual impartation of the blessed gift. This is why we keep the following commandments (verse 24): We believe on the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, as commanded; and we thus love others, as commanded not just by word, and by truth, but also by giving our life as light (verses 23, 18, and 16). This is three times that we have shown that we are commanded to shine our glorious light. We have this life abiding in us to thus love (verse 15 cf. Mt. 5:14-16). See attachment on Shepherd: Shepherding attachment to part # 1 We have demonstrated from the above Scriptures that there are ministers, who are called the porters that open so that eyes can see and ears can hear Jesus, as the Shepherd, who can then give the light life [through the shining] for others (Jn. 10:3 and 11). Christ makes ministers of the opening, which is for the turning of others from the power of satanic darkness unto God, so that aphesis [859] could be received in all that it means. Herein those of its forgiveness [859] have deliverance [859] from bondage in order to have the Christian liberty [859]: All of this amazing truth for amazing grace is within the sanctification by faith, which is from a minister of the [glorious] opening (Ac. 26:16, 18-19, and 28). Let us not just breeze past Jesus is the Shepherd, as we did earlier because we were focused on the doorway or entrance into Him through those with Him in them. Only as our Shepherd can He lead us within the shining forth of His face (Ps. 80:1 and 3). Those who are outside of the above blessing without the shining forth of the glorious light cannot have Christ lead them as their Shepherd. There is no way to break this Scripture to establish another means for Christ to lead us. Anyone who says that they are following Jesus, as a follower of Christ without this blessed shining of the glorious light, they are incorrect. These are as those who are deceived, who have become deceivers, when they propagate their lie against the truth for grace unto glory. Their lie is that they are following the Lamb instead of the Shepherd. To those who are following the Lamb, this will lead them in sin unto death because they are not in obedience to the doctrine, which has been delivered unto us so that we could be free from sin (Rom. 6:16-17). The sin herein expounded is against the gift of God for the life that is through Jesus Christ (verse 23). This is sin against being under grace because another dominion is over those who are in lusts (verses 14 and 12). This is why we are to flee lusts in order to follow after righteousness by faith unto love (2Tim. 2:22). This is why we need the work of a husbandman for us to be strong in the grace, which is for this fruit (verses 6 and 1). The Protestant, knee-jerk reaction to the biblical priesthood, is unworthy of the truth (1Pet. 2:5). For there are those who can offer up others unto God in the spiritual sacrifices, which are living (Rom. 12:1 cf. 1Pet. 2:5). This is why God has commanded us to shine our light, which is of the glory of God, when it has the image of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2Cor. 4:6 and 4). Don’t just say, “I don’t understand.” We all have a responsibility to believe before we can have an opportunity to understand. To understand without belief is the worthless exercise of intellectualism working against faith for hope! We have this treasured face of Jesus Christ in us by the power of God (verses 7-6). It takes the power of God for us to be by the glory of God to have this truth in us. We can manifest the life of Jesus in us, as our shining light (verses 10 and 6). In Him was this life; and this life is now the light of those who have been lit by the true Light (Jn. 1:4 and 9). The spirit of those who can search the inner parts of others is the light of the Lord (Pr. 20:27). We are not talking about rocket science; we are explaining out-of-sight science herein. What people cannot see anywhere in the New, we can see in some places of the Old and in every place in the New. This is because we bear witness of the true Light, who lights us up (Jn. 1:8-9). Those of darkness do not realize it, when the light is shined into them (verse 5). Our senses must be exercised in order for us to perceive this truth as the very pleasant, present reality of righteousness (by faith for love) (Heb. 5:14-13). We are in condemnation if we love darkness rather that the light that has come into the world, so that we can be seen to have come to the light (Jn. 3:19 and 21). God who loved the world sends His Son in a reproving light in the world, which we are to love and not hate (verses 16-20 cf. Ac. 3:26). In John 3:16-17 there are two events, and not just one event: God giving His Son [gospel]; and God sending His Son [covenantal]. When God first gave His Son, it was for condemnation; but now He is sending His Son to save us. Those who are in the gospel without the above covenantal turning have God judging them by Jesus Christ (Rom. 2:16). The gospel could not save Christ, and it cannot save us! Rather we are to be saved by grace through faith in the gift of God (Eph. 2:6 and 8). The only reason why Christ survived the gospel judgment, is because He was made sin for us, as the One without sin, who could then make those in Him into the righteousness of God (2Cor. 5:21). Without this truth, we receive grace in vain (6:1). We are to receive grace for obedience to this truth (Rom. 1:4; 2:8). The above judgment of God is according to the truth (2:2). It is possible to be holding the truth in unrighteousness in the wrath of God, as one who has changed the truth of God into a lie against the above glory of God (1:18, 25, and 23). Those who love Jesus are into keeping these words for Him to come upon them to abide with them (Jn. 14:23). Unless we are abiding in Him we can do nothing for Him (15:5). This is the truth about Him going away to then come unto us through the Comforter by a reproving light (16:7-8 and 3:19). Note: if we are not of Christ to be of righteousness, we cannot see Him; and as such we are of judgment in condemnation (16:9-11 and 3:19). A spirit of truth can lead us into all of this truth because whatever he has heard, he speaks in order to glorify Christ (16:13-14). Just as Christ was sent; so are we herein sent with the sanctifying truth, as those who are sanctified (17:3 and 18-19). We can give others the glory that has been given to us so that they may be one with us, as we are one with God in Christ (verse 22). We can be in them, and they can be in us so that they might be made perfect in one, as those who love Christ (verse 23). These can be where He is, beholding His glory (verse 24). All of this is so that love might be in them, as it was in Christ by the Father (verse 26). Jesus was so inclined to be what He said, that He made Himself into what He said: I am the way; I am the truth; I am the life (14:6). Today, we can say this as Jesus did, for we are of the way in the truth for the life, which is our light. Herein we too have taken possession of this way, this truth, and this life. There is no separation between us and these gracious things, which we have received to be by in and of. This is why we preach Christ Jesus, the Lord, and ourselves as His servants in the spirit of faith with the light that can be given, so that life would be in others (2Cor. 4:5-6 and 13-12). All we ever hear from preachers today is about Jesus Christ. This is little more than a Jesus only cult called modalism. In this shining forth it is said that Jesus Christ is stirred up in His strength to come and save (Ps. 80:1 and 3). There is no salvation without the shining forth of the light for the true Light that saves us. Now it is said that God is presently sending Jesus Christ to save us from the condemnation that has come upon us because Christ was once given in judgment. The promised life is not by us but by the power of God (2Cor. 4:12 and 7). Although we are in the loop, spiritual life is not by us it is by God from us in Christ. Unless we are turned [through His porters] to see His shining face, we cannot be saved (Ps. 80:7). There is another turning, which is without turning because millions who have allegedly turned still cannot see Christ’s shining face. No one is getting turned to see Christ in the churches of today. Only Christ made ministers can turn believers to the light unto God in Christ. God needs to visit us to put His hand upon us to plant us and make us strong unto Him (verses 14-15 and 17). God visits us through the shining forth is why we have been commanded to shine our light. This is for the quickening of those who call upon His name to turn them to see His shining face so that they could be saved (verses 18-19). Who is not interested in God laying His hands upon them, but those who would rather have men lay their hands upon them. The word of faith has us believe unto righteousness unto salvation within our calling upon Him to manifest Himself unto us, so that we could say that we have found Him (Rom. 10:8, 10, and 20). This is so that we could say as reported elsewhere, “He came upon me; He visited me; He saved me.” There is no way that we would ever call on Him, unless a preacher of this glad tiding was sent unto us (verses 14-15). We could be in the Scriptures for a thousand years and never come to the knowledge of this truth. Without those who are like us, what are you calling upon the name of the Lord for in order to be saved (verse 13)? The bottom-line is nothing, because you already believe that you are saved by the gospel, which you do not know is merely judging you without the above outlined truth for grace and glory. Most people are thanking Christ for saving them, when they are not saved because they do not love the above truth, which they do not believe in because they have been strongly deluded by God to believe in a lie against salvation through sanctification by the truth in order to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (2Thes. 2:10-14). People would rather stand on grass at some baseball field, than stand upon the truth in order to be a pillar of the household of God.
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