Friday – June 10, 2016
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. It is Friday so soon and time again to receive the Word of God and to pray for the Church, the body of Christ, which is the body of the Anointed One and the body of the Anointing (the ones upon whom the Holy Spirit rests and fills) in the earth. The Church building pictured is the Holy Resurrection Church located in Kodiak, Alaska. The Russian Orthodox have been in Kodiak from 1796. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Colossians 3:1-4 (KJV)
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
We have ascertained that our mission and our main hope is not focusing on Heaven and going to Heaven but on what our orders are right here in the earth from our Lord. We are seated with Him at the right hand of Majesty on high. We can see things in Him just as He sees them. We are taken by surprise only because we are not paying attention or have not been taught what our position is in Christ Jesus. We are not a bobber on a fishing line just being tossed to and fro. We are to move on purpose in obedience to our Master.
Colossians 3:2 (MSG)
2 Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.
Notice in Colossians 3:3 the Word says that we are dead (to sin) and our life is hid with Christ in God. Not only are we seated with Jesus on the Throne of Majesty on high, at his right side, the side of power, we are in Christ Jesus, and He and we are in God the Father.
John 17:20-23 (KJV)
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane just hours before He would hang on the Cross redeeming each of us from certain eternal death. Eternal death means separated from God eternally fully conscious in hell. In the preceding passage Jesus prayed for those with Him but He looked ahead and saw you and He saw me and He prayed that night for us both. He speaks to the Father saying that the Father was in Him and He was in the Father, you can’t get much closer than that. The desire of His heart that night was the same as it was at the foundation of the world (the casting down of the prior creation) and when He walked between the pieces of Blood sacrifice of Genesis fifteen. That desire was that mankind be restored to his former position in God. He talked about unity among the brethren. As impossible as that may seem we will all come together just before the end. It did not have to become what it is today with a multitude of denominations all thinking they have nailed it when none have nailed it. The unity will come in the midst of a massive storm with many turning further from the Truth and many turning to the Truth. It will be a time of distinct demarcation. People exercising their free-will, self-will, preferring to make themselves god have followed the lusts of the flesh, lusts of the eye, and the pride of life which is the path to destruction.
Jesus says that the same glory (Glory, goodness, the person of the Holy Spirit) that the Father gave Him He has made possible for us to have as well. Jesus not only wanted us one with Him and with the Father but that we would know that the Father loves us the very same as the Father loves the Son. Do we dare believe this?
By Dr. David R. Wood, Bible Teacher, Author, and Prophetic Voice
