THANK YOU MY LORD FOR TRUTH AMEN !!!!!!! The Lord which was is also the Lord which is! The present tense of God’s manifestation in Christ is expressed by the apostle Paul when he said, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal. 2:20). Jesus Himself prophesied of this manifestation of God in His people, saying, "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with (in) him" (Jn. 14:23). "God is in you." "God dwelleth in you." When we think of God manifested in the flesh we think of the man walking by the shores of blue Galilee, walking among humanity, in His humanity, demonstrating what humanity was intended to be. But God has raised our vision beyond He who was and is causing us to see Him who is! "Now ye are the body of Christ." Christ is no longer walking in that body that tread the sands of Galilee! He is walking in another body today, in your body, in my body, in all those sons whom He is bringing to His glory! In the realm of Him who is we find a glory beyond the was which enables us to press into and participate in the is. While many still look for the coming of the was in the clouds, we have now experienced the One who IS COMING TO BE GLORIFIED IN HIS SAINTS! Would God that Christians could be awakened to the glory of Him who is! The same John who in spirit beheld the glory of the many-membered Son of man on Patmos, penned these significant words to the children of God: "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also" (I Jn. 2:22-23). Now what does John mean when he speaks of denying the Father and the Son? Let us make no mistake about this! A little further on John enlarges on this statement so that we need not be left in the dark. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH IS OF GOD: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and now already is in the world" (I Jn. 4:1-3). Now let us get these statements clear in our minds! We have heard many wild speculations about who the antichrist will be, but John declares the antichrist to be one who denies that Jesus is the Christ, which is denying the Father and the Son. But how does he do this? BY NOT CONFESSING JESUS CHRIST HAVING COME IN THE FLESH! But what does this mean? It states that we know the Spirit of God by His confessing Jesus Christ having come in the flesh. Does this mean that Roman Catholicism is the Spirit of God? It confesses that Jesus Christ was a man, born of a virgin. It confesses that He came in the flesh as a babe in Bethlehem. They even parade Him before the world hanging upon a cross, crucified. Millions of others around the world, representing every kind of religion and false cult existing admit the same historical facts. Do all of these represent the Spirit of God? These verses have a deeper meaning! They are not speaking of the fact of Jesus Christ having lived on earth as a man. Almost anyone will admit that! But the profound truth which all of popular religion has missed, is the fact of the Christ actually coming into this flesh, my flesh, your flesh, and becoming an eternal and inseparable part of us! Millions confess Him who was, but very few in this dark age confess Him who is! "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ IS (NOW) COME in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist...ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them (the antichrists): because GREATER IS HE THAT I-S IN YOU (your flesh), THAN HE THAT I-S IN THE WORLD" (I Jn. 4:3-4). Every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ IS come in your flesh and in my flesh, beloved, — is antichrist! Why? Because Greater is He (Jesus Christ) that IS IN YOUR FLESH than he (the spirit of antichrist) that IS IN THE ADAMIC FLESH OF THE WORLD! Our very own natural, human consciousness would deny that the Almighty God of the universe dwells, and lives, and in all things triumphs in us! So don’t worry about poor old Mussolini or Henry Kissinger being the antichrist — truly he is enthroned in our own carnal minds! He that is in you will never leave you nor forsake you! This is the Christ from whose love no power nor creature in heaven or earth can separate us! Paul preached not himself, but Christ Jesus the Lord. After stating this himself, he follows on to say, "But this treasure (Christ) we have in earthen vessels" (II Cor. 4:7). Christ is now being formed in our earthen vessels! Just as God was formed in Jesus within the womb of Mary, so is Christ being formed in the womb of our mortal flesh! Only the complete, mature formation of Christ within us will bring us to manifestation as sons of God. Sonship is the actual quickening of the Christ life who has become the new man within. Great is the mystery of God-like-ness! Christ in us is both ageless and deathless, the actual Son of the God of heaven. He is being formed in all His nature, wisdom, glory and power in this human frame, even as He was formed in the firstborn Son, Jesus, to perform His mighty works. By personal application, if my spirit does not confess that Christ is come in my flesh, I am antichrist. The confession of my spirit is a much stronger confession than might be made by my mouth. With the mouth confession is made unto salvation, but with the spirit confession is made unto sonship. The confession of one’s spirit bespeaks an expression arising from an inner state of being, not merely a belief of the mind. If my spirit is confessing that Christ is come in my flesh, it is confessing it by a living manifestation! As I live out Christ in the nitty-gritty of every day experience, in every situation and circumstance, doing all the will of my heavenly Father upon this earth, I am confessing with my spirit that Christ is come in my flesh! Ah, I might say with my mouth that Christ is come in my flesh, that I am a son of God, ready to walk on water and glow in the dark, but my spirit speak just the opposite, as the fountain of my life sends forth polluted waters. Multitudes have a mouth confession of the presence of Christ within whose "spirit confesseth not that Christ is come" in their flesh! Oh, that men might believe it! Truly, Christ in us is our only hope of glory! HE IS the glory! But antichrist will hear of no such hope of glory. His hope does not rest wholly in the Christ within, but in his own ability and works, his own faithfulness or endurance. He is cluttered about with laws, regulations, creeds, ordinances, observances, rituals, ceremonies, programs, traditions, and religious exercises of this order and that, all of which are designed to assure his right standing with God. He is thus denying the Father and the Son, for the living Christ alone is not his life! Anything that adds something to the Christ life within, to fill some place or function in our lives that is not filled by THE LIFE OF CHRIST ALONE, — is antichrist! The word "antichrist" is made up of the Greek preposition anti and the word for Christ. Anti bears the meaning of that which is "opposed to" by "supplanting" or being "instead of." During the Middle Ages, a man who was considered a hostile, self-substituted, usurping Pope — one occupying the Pope’s place and receiving his honors and exercising his functions — was called an "antipope." This term is commonly used in history in this connection. Such a "Pope" was not merely a person who was against the Pope. Martin Luther was against the Pope, but he was not an antipope because he never went to Rome and usurped the Pope’s seat, making himself the Pope! An antipope was a person who was against the Pope by attempting to take the Pope’s place. This happened on occasion in previous centuries. In like manner, the antichrist is that spirit, mind, nature, personality, consciousness, activity, enterprise, work, function, method, program or any other thing that comes TO TAKE THE PLACE OF CHRIST in our lives — and by so doing opposes Christ! Therefore we find that most of the candidates for antichrist promoted by the preachers haven’t even come close to being antichrists! Antichrist signifies one who sets himself up in the place of Christ, by appropriating some of the prerogatives and attributes of Christ. That is, antichrist appears as Christ and by so doing is actually against Christ — usurping the place that rightly belongs to Christ alone! Anything that is placed instead of Christ, is literally antichrist. The very moment the love of God, the truth of God, the glory of God, and the power of God wanes from the spirits of the Lord’s people, flying out the windows of their souls, a whole host of attitudes, ideas, beliefs, doctrines, rules, regulations, rituals, ceremonies, sacraments, ordinances, forms, methods, organization, and traditions stalk boldly through the door to take the place of reality and life in the Spirit. Any little form of substitution that supplants the ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF THE INDWELLING CHRIST LIFE — is ANTICHRIST! Those who have truly received the call to sonship have now learned, and learned well, that there is no need for these or myriad other religious trappings in the walk of sonship, for CHRIST WITHIN abundantly supplies everything they can possibly ever need! In order for Christ to be "all in all" He must first become ALL! God was in Christ, and God in Christ is in us! From the moment that the Father declared Christ’s sonship the spirit of sonship moved in and through Him and His whole life became the revelation of His Father. The nature, mind, will and power of His Father manifested through Him, and it was the same power of the Father in Him that raised Him from the dead! And now a vast family of His "many brethren" have received that same spirit of sonship, even the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells within us and shall also quicken our mortal bodies by that spirit that dwells in us! Beloved, if He that was is now He that is within you, what, under all God’s heavens, could be added to you from without? Let us bow in holy reverence to worship and adore, and to live and walk in the blessed reality of such an high and holy calling! Stop seeking anything at all from or through the myriad substitutes pawned by the countless modern day antichrists of the church systems of man. These external religious observances will not suffice for those destined for the throne! CHRIST HIMSELF IS SUFFICIENT! In the name of Jesus Christ, divorce yourself completely and forever from all the substitutes, the realm of the instead of. You will find absolutely nothing in any of it that will satisfy the deepest cravings of your heart after God. CHRIST WITHIN IS ALL YOU NEED! This is the Lord who was Jesus of Nazareth, but who now is the many sons of God in the earth! God is bringing many sons to glory and we are being conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son. The eternal God never changes, but this Lord who was, and is, and is to come does change from glory to glory!
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:48:29 +0000
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