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The
Lord has appeared principally to destroy the works
of the Devil, Chief of which is death
[1
JOHN 3:8]. His appearing is like the
kingdom of light and life invading the kingdoms of
darkness and death. He came to reveal that which is
true, that which was in the beginning without flaw
or guile. All things were created good in the
beginning but man in his folly has devised all sorts
of things that has cast Him into a state of trouble
and indeed man is in DEEP trouble [ECCLESIASTES
7:29]. The son of God did not appear to form
religion nor did He come to improve on the many dark
schemes and devices of men, He came to take us back
to the original
scheme of things. That original order is truth and we
all know that after the truth comes the lie
because for a lie to manifest there must first of all be truth. As our
eyes begin to behold the light we begin to come to
terms with the fact that all men, I mean all men are
liars [PSALMS
116:11].
We must
forsake all the forms of falsehood that we have
obtained in this world; falsehood about ourselves
and relationships we have had in this world. We must
lay our hands on the truth and unite ourselves with
that truth. As long as we continue to observe the
lying vanities of the world we deny ourselves of the
tender love and mercy of the Lord that is purposely
reserved for us.
Jonah 2:8
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own
mercy. |
In
uniting with truth and true righteousness as is know
of God we will receive blessings beyond the
comprehension of mortal man. It is in uniting with
Him and His purposes that the streams flowing with
milk and honey flow forth once more.
Psalms 85:10
10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness
and peace have kissed each other. |
Heaven looked down upon the inhabitants of this
world and saw the misery, the fears, the torments
and the faithlessness of men. Heaven beheld men
drift away continuously from the glory and the power
that they were meant to enjoy. Men have their feet
and foundation on sinking ground and they drown
endlessly into the sea (PIT, THE DEEP) of
destruction.
God
sent His only begotten son to restore man back to
that glory we lost in the beginning. He has come to
restore the faith of man towards the living God. He
has come to restore the fellowship we all once knew
in God before this material world was [ROMANS
7:9-11]. In this
fellowship with the living God that sense of
nakedness and guilt is covered up by the light of
His countenance. The fellowship of love and unity
with the Father and the brethren is the health tonic
needed to heal humanity.
He has
come to give us His word of truth to set us free in
our conscience and in every department of our lives.
As we receive this word of truth and abide in this
truth we can now do all things. Yes all things are
possible in this union that God is calling us into.
DO YOU
REALIZE THAT WE WERE THE ONES WITH THE FATHER IN THE
BEGINNING WHEN HE SAID LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE
AND IN OUR LIKENESS. DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE WORK OF
THE MINISTRY IS TO CREATE MAN IN THE IMAGE AND
LIKENESS OF GOD.
Man in
his fall has forgotten His true state and glory from
the foundation of the world. Men fall and suffer
like mere mortals because they walk in the dark not
really knowing who they are, where they come from
and where they are headed for. They suffer the sense
of lack because their eyes of understanding has been
darkened, so that they grope and stumble in the
graveyard of
humanity. Jesus in the days of His earthly ministry
reminded them that they are gods.
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John 10:34-35
34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your
law, 'I said, "You are gods" '? 35 If He called them
gods, to whom the word of God came (and the
Scripture cannot be broken), |
He was
quoting verses from the book of Psalms.
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Psalms
82:5-7
5 They do not know, nor do they understand; they
walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the
earth are unstable. 6 I said, "You are gods, And all
of you are children of the Most High. 7 But you
shall die like men, And fall like one of the
princes." |
Men die
off and suffer because they do not know who they
really are, they identify themselves with their
mortal flesh
and blood roots
and understand only after the appearance of things
in the carnal realm. Men do not know that in reality
they are gods, sons of the Most High. Jesus who is
the leader of our faith knew who
he was and confessed that good confession unto the
end. He confessed that He knew where He came from
and He knew where He was headed.
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John 8:14-15
14 Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I bear
witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know where
I came from and where I am going; but you do not know
where I come from and where I am going. |
His confession of
this truth caused rumbles
among the principalities in His days, but even His mighty works
and His fruits of faith, love and peace spoke
for themselves. He could remain calmly asleep when the
waves became turbulent. he could walk on the sea
calmly without sinking. He did not worry about what
to eat or what to wear because He lived by that
greater faith that men
in their fallen states have lost a grip
of. He lived in the
consciousness of the omnipresent and omnipotent
one; He rested in that consciousness.
The
secret behind the glory and power Jesus manifested
is simply because He was united in one
in Christ who is one with the
Father. WITH GOD all things are possible, He
experienced that oneness with God and maintained
Himself in That oneness till the end.
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Mark 10:27
27 But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it
is impossible, but not with God; for with God all
things are possible." |
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John 10:30
30 I and My Father are one." |
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John
16:32-33
And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with
Me. |
When people beheld Jesus they were not beholding the
baby born in a manger some 30 years earlier on, they
were behold the Father revealing Himself through
Jesus. Jesus was one with the
Christ in a
relationship called marriage
and we know Christ is one with God eternally. In marriage the male
and the female join in intercourse and a seed known
as the son comes forth. The male and female unite
into one and become one flesh. That one flesh is
seen in the seed called the Son.
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Ephesians 5:30-32
30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and
of His bones. 31 "For this reason a man shall leave
his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh." |
This
was the perfect union that made Jesus walk a walk
higher that that of the ordinary carnal man. He did
not just appear to show us this mystery that was
manifest in Him, He came to give us the opportunity
to partake of this glorious spiritual union called
marriage.
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Jesus did not come to edify us on the marriage that we see in this
world today. The world has enough marriage counselors to do that.
When he spoke of marriage in mysteries and in parables, He was
referring to the original spiritual marriage in the heavens. The
marriage in this world is only a shadow of the true heavenly
marriage that was before we took up identities of mortality in this
material world. The marriage in this world is temporal and profits
little. Marriage can only be truly profitable if we understand that
which was from the beginning of the world. We can feel true love and
prosperity in our earthly relationships only as we hang on the the
true marriage seen by the eyes of the spirit.
It
is in the
original
union of
the male and female that true Dominion and
fruitfulness can be revealed. We see that first union in the
beginning when God
generated the perfect Man as a union between male
and female.
Genesis 1:26-28
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our
likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the
birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created
man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and
female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to
them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and
over every living thing that moves on the earth."
That man created in the beginning in the image of God is Christ,
because Christ is the image of God
[2
Corinthians 4:4] & [Colossians 1:15].
That man created in Genesis Chapter 1 is the cooperate body of
Christ, which is in reality the church
(body)
in union with
Christ
(The head). The
female aspect of the relationship in this respect is the Church
(The body) or
in other words the spirits of just men gathered unto the name of the
Lord. The male aspect is Christ Jesus who is the head of the body.
Paul spoke about this union several times in His letters to the
Hebrews.
Ephesians 5:23-25
23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ
is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ,
so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
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1 Corinthians 11:3-4
3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is
Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ
is God. |
Theologians and different men have used the letters of Paul to bring
out new doctrines and laws which relate to the marriages that we see
in this world. They are greatly mistaken, one day they will awake
and realize that the communication of Paul to Timothy and the rest
of the Churches were generally spiritual. The major thing he wanted
to put across to them was the mysterious union of marriage that we
have with Christ. With all prudence and wisdom He was simply trying
to pass the message of the true marriage model in the heavens
without offending people. Blessed are those who are not offended at
Christ when He reveals the truth in this last days. Blessed are
those who mind the things that be of God.
When Jesus spoke of the 10 virgins [MATTHEW 25:1-13] He was simply
pointing to two categories of people, the foolish and the wise. The
foolish never come to the knowledge of the truth because they refuse
to allow the spirit of God illuminate them with the truth of this
marriage union with the Christ. The wise ones on the other hand
occupy themselves with the truth and acquire knowledge of this true
union with the Lord. While the foolish virgins lay idle
in the realms of religion and man's moral standards, the wise
virgins labored in the thing that will give them entrance into that
glorious union with the Christ. If we occupy ourselves with these
truths not being carried away with the vanities of this age we will
be granted entrance into the inner Chamber of blessings with the
Bridegroom (Christ). To Him that increases in awareness of this
mysterious union of marriage in Christ to Him more awareness will be
given until He comes to the place of total oneness and victory.
Those who wallow in ignorance not increasing in understanding of
themselves and their true identities as one with the Christ will
remain in outer darkness and torment. They remain dead in their
consciousness of sin and condemnation caught off from the presence
of the living God. The little understanding and sanity they had will
be continually snuffed out.
When Jesus gave the parable of the wedding feast [MATTHEW 22:1-14]
He was simply talking about an eternal invitation to a union with
the true bridegroom. The Man who organized the party for His Son is
God the Father and the son is Christ. The invitation is going out to
the ends of the earth now, to invite people into intimate fellowship
in light with the Lord. Those who rejected the invitation by holding
on to their false identities of self in this world remain in outer
darkness and suffer judgment because they reject the truth. They
reject the truth of our oneness with Christ and the fact that we are
not our
own but we belong to the Lord. Those who accept this
invitation, normally peoples of low estate in the eyes of the
religious world, will enter into eternal glory and joy in the
kingdom of light. In the feast they are illuminated by the truth and
their true oneness in love with the Son becomes apparent. They are
joined in one with the son and manifest the glory of God. That
manifestation of God's glory in the obedient ones eventually
convicts those without in outer darkness, those who rebel against
the word. The one who was cast out into outer darkness because He
did not have a wedding garment is the one who had a revelation and
understanding but did not keep Himself in the truth. It is only as
we find ourselves in Christ that things become beautiful again. This
is the marriage union that the world is groaning and awaiting to see
because it will bring forth the sons of God who will set the
creation free from the bondages of corruption and sin.
The eternal purpose of God and good will towards men is to gather
them in one in Christ [Ephesians1:9-10].
It is only as we gather unto Him in oneness of spirit that we find
the peace we seek. In this union we submit to Him in love, we wash
the feet of saints, we do His will knowing He is the Head, we become
co-laborers with Him. As we gather in Him a pattern emerges that is
infallible, a pattern that actually reveals God manifest in the
flesh.
Matthew 18:15-20
118 Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on
earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I
say to you that if two of you agree on earth
concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for
them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or
three are gathered together in My name, I am there in
the midst of them." |
Jesus Christ was speaking on a mysterious union here, He never meant
to say that you should Gather with one, two or more brethren in the
flesh to agree in prayer then God is in their midst. This is
communication to those of us who have ears to hear. The gathering
that Christ is speaking about is the Gathering of the Church in
union with Christ and also that union that Christ has with the
Father. No one can get to the Father except you are joined to Christ
[JOHN
14:6].
When this union is achieved mountains will moved into the sea and
the prison doors of death and hell will be opened. The Shackles of
sin and corruption that causes man to possess a guilty conscience
before God are all loosened so that men will come forth with full
faith once more. In that day salvation is yours. This is the end of
the faith that Paul talked about. When we unite with the Lord in
love and the sense of guilt from a defiled conscience is dissolved
so that we agree in one all things are possible. When we keep
ourselves in this mystery of oneness with God we shall ask for
anything and it is done because we earn great boldness and faith
because we are one in love.
In
the marriage union we become one with the Christ who is one with the
Father so that our lives are hid in Christ and Christ in God. He
also is in us and the Father in Him so that what people actually
behold is the Father revealing Himself through us. This mystery was
expounded upon the table of the last supper. In gathering unto Him
is fellowship, He opens ours eyes to this sacred union that brings
the very glory of God at our disposal. On the table our eyes our
opened to understand that He lives in us and we live in Him. We begin
to understand that all along He never left us but we were blinded by
the darkness of this world. We begin to comprehend the fact that the
very love of the Father that kept, protected, honored and raised
Jesus from the dead is very much at our disposal. As we walk in this
reality we are continuously caught up into the presence of the
Father. We as ascend with Christ into glory above the travails of
humanity. We are caught up in the rapture of love into His presence
where there is the fullness of Joy and where nothing that offends
can touch you.
John
17:20-26
20 "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those
who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they
all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You;
that they also may be one in Us, that the world may
believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You
gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as
We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may
be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that
You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved
Me. 24 Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me
may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory
which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the
foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The
world has not known You, but I have known You; and these
have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to
them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with
which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
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This Union of oneness is Shown in the diagram below.
Our lives become completely hidden in Christ so that for evil and
offenses to get to us it has to get to the Father first, then to
Christ, before reaching us. Our atmosphere and the very breath we
breath becomes the Lord Himself. This is the three fold chord that
king Solomon spoke about. It is the union that can not be touched by
the powers of death, it is the union as strong as death [SONGS
OF SOLOMON 8:6].
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ECCLESIATES 4:9-12
9 Two are better than one, Because they have a good
reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, one will
lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when
he falls, For he has no one to help him up. 11 Again, if
two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can
one be warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered by
another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is
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Like Solomon says in
ECCLESIASTES 4:9-12,
the only way
we can actually get gain reward , is when we labor together with the
Lord otherwise our works are in vain (Verse 9). It is only in union
with the Lord that we can we lifted up from the snare of death that
we all found ourselves in, for we all fell short of the glory of God
and were being delivered unto death. Woe unto those who do not come
into this union with the Lord, they remain in condemnation
and death
being taken captive by the evil one (Verse 10). If we seek for true
love and companionship we can get it only as we unite with Christ,
if we stay out of this union we remain in the harsh cold of this
world, cut of from the love of God. If we stay out of this union we
abide in the wrath of God, which is also likened to the wilderness
condition Adam was cast into (Verse 11). The only way we can
overpower the evil one and all the powers of darkness is in our
oneness in Him. No man can overcome the evil one on His own no
matter how they try. The problems of humanity can only be solved as
we unite ourselves in love to the Christ (Verse 12). The threefold
Chord is revealed in that union between the Father, Christ and the
Church. This is the union
which reveals all the power and blessings of the
Lord (Verse 12).
Let us come before His presence and unite with in the Lord, the
trumpet is sounding gathering the nations into Christ so that the
may receive of the blessings of the Lord. Be blessed as you seek His
face in good words and love towards the name of the Lord and the
brethren.
Amen
Trevor Eghagha
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