Wednesday – March 23, 2016
Praise the Lord for another day to destroy the works of the devil. Our Heavenly Father has given us authority in Heaven and earth and our faith powered by love overcomes the world so there is no place that we are not an absolute victor in Him. It is also hump day and our Arabian camel is shouting “praise be to the Lord most vehement!” Now back to God’s Word for today.
Colossians 2:6 (KJV)
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
I am talking about walking in Him which is having a life that emulates His and is a revelation of Jesus and the Father with no question they are working through us by the person of the Holy Spirit. I pointed out how this started in the Garden of Eden. Sin created the need for a Savior but God was not caught flat footed. However it did take some 2000 years to find a man who would enter into Blood Covenant with God thereby putting in place the legal apparatus to bring the Redeemer. Than it took another 2000 years to bring about the actual birth of Jesus. This was not because God enjoys seeing people suffer and plunge into hell without a Savior but because He had to find men (and women) that would do His will declaring the will of God into the earth thereby giving the legal authority to the Father to bring it about in the earth.
Amos 3:7 (KJV)
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Let us look at the first use of the term “in him”.
Genesis 18:18 (KJV)
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
From a Biblical Numerology standpoint the numbers of this verse are fascinating and illuminating. Genesis is the first book of the Bible and one is the number of unity. Then there are two eighteens and two is the number of union or division. Two also can represent the second person of the Godhead, Jesus, and the Word. Eighteen is the number of bondage. Wow, man entered into bondage when he bowed his knee to the serpent, the devil. Man was in union with God but with sin was separated (division) from God and needed a Savior, Jesus. Because of the Savior we are now in union or one with God through Christ the Savior, and released from the bondage of death of the law of sin and death. O Praise Be to God, the Almighty!
We see that this verse is very much like Genesis 12:1-3 and we notice that little phrase at the end “shall be blessed in him”. Do you did the sense that in him (Abraham) is like in Him (Jesus)? Bottom line, no Abraham, no Jesus. I wonder how many people God talked with and wanted to make this Blood Covenant but they would not?
Romans 4:16 (KJV)
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Remember that the faith being talked about is faith in God, in His Word, and acting upon it without hesitation and without wavering in thought, word, or deed. Grace is the Holy Spirit of God. When we move in faith then God the Holy Spirit is loosed to bring about the desired result (will of God). The promise was the return of the Holy Spirit for all of mankind, the redemption from sin, and deliverance of our physical bodies from this corruption to incorruption by the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit. The seed are the natural seed which are the Jewish people, and the seeds by the same faith Abraham possessed which is you and me. Abraham is the father of the Jew and Christian alike. The Jewish or Hebrew people came of Isaac, the child of promise (the promise of God) and the second generation of Hebrews. In the lineage of the Jews came Jesus and we are in Christ Jesus and grafted into the same root as the Jew who for a season are cut off.
Romans 11:17 (KJV)
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Let’s now take a look at the first use of the phrase “in Him” in the context that we have been discussing. We find it in John.
John 1:1-5 (KJV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
We have now come from the promise to nearly the full implementation of The Blood Covenant which occurs in the process of Calvary and the Resurrection and the presentation of the innocent Blood of Jesus at the Mercy Seat of Heaven even in the presence and sight of the Father with our Advocate at His right hand. In the preceding passage we see that the Word is the One who came, God Himself, the One we call Jesus. The Word is God and has always been with the Father, He is the second person of the Godhead, in the womb of Mary He became the Son of God named Jesus. In Him was life, and life is in the blood. The shedding of that Blood brought life, eternal life to men. The Word is the light, God is light, that light shows the way to the Kingdom of God and eternal life. His shed Blood was the price.
By Pastor David R. Wood
