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Summary:
We walk with God today, not in some distant future time. This life that we are living is very important in reaching into a deep relationship with Him. We can determine what level or place of residing in Him we will have in His kingdom now. The Father has so much more to give us; will we humble ourselves and walk with Him today?
Show Notes:
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We reach into a deep relationship with our Father today.
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We walk with Him in the Spirit right now.
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There is no limitation on what we can have right now in our relationship and awareness of the Lord.
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There are many levels of abiding in His kingdom.
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The Father is wooing us into a deeper relationship with Himself today.
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The Father is purifying a people’s spirits now so they can stand in His presence.
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We must humble ourselves before the Father so that we can receive what He has for us today.
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We come to mount Zion, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect. That’s happening for us now.
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We’re not looking for something way off, when we die, that’s going to be so much greater. Some event in the future of Jesus coming or whatever. We walk with Him in the Spirit right now, we know Him.
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There’s nothing that we can’t have right now, in our hunger to know the Lord.
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The desire to please Him, to know Him, God put in there. That is His working in us both to will and to do His good pleasure.
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Are you going to humble yourself before Him so that He can minister this to you? Live right now!
Scriptural References:
Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Revelation 21:3
And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among the people, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,
Philippians 2:13
for it is God who is at work in you, both to desire and to work for His good pleasure.
John 14:1-3
In My Father’s house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and I will take you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.
Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Revelation 11:16
And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
Hebrews 12:22-27
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Take Away:
The habitation of God among men is happening now. God is purifying a people’s spirits to stand in His presence so that they can appropriate all that He has for them. Today we come to know Him in a deeper way.
Transcript
Roger
If we walk with God now, and these bodies quit on us, there is no big fanfare. You just keep right on walking, you understand, because it's the thing of Spirit anyway. We're not looking for something way off, when we die, there's going to be so much greater. Some event in the future of Jesus coming or whatever. We walk with Him in the Spirit right now, we know Him. In that transition from a dead body means absolutely nothing, our consciousness, everything just continues right on, into whatever is on the other side - not even important. There's nothing that we can't have right now, in our hunger to know the Lord. And if our bodies give out and we do what we call dying, there's no distinction. What we were before we “died” and what we are after. We're there, because we've come into our walk with God in our spirits. That has to be what all of the things that God has done and doing in us is about. It's not to prepare us to die, where we can meet the Lord and know Him. We're coming to know Him right now. And I believe that's what God is; He's after, in us, Christ in you the hope of glory. The habitation of God is, you know, as among men or in men, this is happening now. How great can that consciousness of the Lord be? I don't think there's any limitation on it. We can have that consciousness right now. Not just because, well, by faith I accept it, maybe that's the beginning of something. But it has to be an experience. It has to be more than that; it has to be a way of life, that's real to us.
Ron
The kingdom of God is going to have all kinds of levels of where people have resided. He will continue to woo them forever, into to a greater relationship with Him or a greater level, however you want to say that, but there's no limitation for us now.
Dale
There is so much that we we need to realize that we are actually walking in the Spirit.
Roger
We've come to the place where the desires that we have now, they're there because God put them there. The desire to please Him, to know Him, God put them there. That is His working in us both to will and to do His good pleasure. And I've had dreams in the past where I had died. And I was looking around to find the glory of God and the radiance and all that stuff. And I had a person a being, whoever they were, he said, “You're not ready for that yet.” And I was quite disappointed. This life that we're living right now counts. Our appropriation of His life, nature and all that stuff is important. That revelation of the cloud of witnesses, is akin to that 144,000 you read about in Revelation. They are with him on Mount Zion there in His presence, those elders around a throne, all that symbolic of a people. I want to be part of that. I want to hear when I die; “well done good and faithful servant.” And that's because of the way we live, to walk with Him now that it matters. And I think we can walk right in, if these bodies quit on us without skipping a beat, because we've already attained something in our spirit, you know, and that's going back to that business of, we've come to Mount Zion, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect. That's happening for us now. It's not like when you die, it happens. Maybe it can happen when you die, things keep on. But I've heard enough stories from men of God, of appearance of people seeing things,. It's obvious that it's not go to heaven or hell. There are realms and planes of existence that people end up on when they die. And from there, I guess the dealings of God continue to purify them. We want to be purified in our spirits right now.
Dale
He took the victory over the law of sin and death. And He did it on the cross. And then we walk into that fulfillment of Christ, the pattern son.
Mike
"For the law of this Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. When he said it is finished, it is finished.
Debbie
The Holy Spirit is faithful to reveal to us as we are able, as we walk out, what He shows us to do. You want to know me? Okay, here it is. Here's one piece of it. Are you going to humble yourself before Me so that I can minister this to you? Live right now! The importance of being present in His presence right now. That if He took me, I would still be in His presence. That peace and that knowledge of coming to know who He is and how much He wants to give us. He has so much more to give me, so much more to give us all. We have to live in His presence. This moment. Today is the day. Today is the moment today is the time. Know Me today. Feel My presence and know Me, worship Me. Honor Me and humble yourself before Me today.