Tag: Only Named Lamb of God

Invisible Bridge of Love

We miss so many things on a daily basis. It saddens my heart when I see myself and others running over to quickly the things that matter most. I may never be debt free, financially set, possess all the things I dream about, bless my children, or go to the places I desire. You and I can have some things no matter our status in this physical world. I see us taking steps towards the invisible bridge of love by our eyes of faith into the sweet and blessed fellowship of the Spirit of God and His word. The only cost is our time and after that whatever our heart wills. We, unfortunately get to busy in this life in what “WE” call living. We rush by some of the most important treasures we could have in our minds, hearts, and souls that no physical things of this world could ever give us. I am making myself slow down and savor every moment with God and His word. For I know it is making me a better person inside and out irregardless of my classification in this world. Walk with me and see this invisible bridge of love that is in front of us everyday that all we have to do is look.

Jesus the man, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, with the fullness of God inside of him (Col. 2:9) walking among us headed towards a town called Nain (Luke 7:11). I believe this fullness of God inside of Jesus had the perfect Love looking upon us with patience, kindness, no envy of our earthly possessions, not boastful of who he was, not proud with a better than you attitude, not rude towards us, not selfish, not easily angered by our faults, keeping no records of our wrongs – but forgiving, no delight in evil, rejoices with the truth, always protecting us in various ways, always trusting for a better outcome, always hopeful for us, always persevering for our good, a love that never fails us (1 Cor. 13:4-8). As Jesus walked towards this town with a large crowd following him to see what he would do, but inside his eyes was the look of God’s invisible bridge of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Gal. 5:22) gazing into all the souls.

Coming Down the Road:

As Jesus and the large crowd following him approached the gate to enter into Nain a large crowd was approaching the gate to go out of the town of Nain. The crowd with Jesus going into had the resurrection and the life with them. The crowd the mother going out had the death and the loss of a precious life with them. Life going in and death coming out. Life meeting death at the gateway of the town.  Jesus, God manifested in the flesh, saw the mother with a sight of complete clearness of her heart, mind, and soul. What Jesus saw specifically inside of her is unknown exactly, but whatever it was drew the compassion out of him to cross over the invisible bridge of love and said to her “Don’t cry” (Momma don’t cry). The life crowd and the death crowd are meeting face to face. Jesus walking past the mother touched the coffin and said “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The man who was in the grip of death was loosed by the hands of Life sat up and starting talking. Jesus gave him back to his mother (Luke 7:11-15). This is what I see: Jesus with one hand holding the young man’s hand sitting up in the coffin and his other hand holding the mother’s hand to receive her son. Jesus between them in a bodily form of the cross showing us the invisible bridge of love God has towards us.

Jesus changed the uncleanness of death to purified of life. He returned that which was lost to the mother all because he saw something inside of her that redeemed a second chance. The crowd of life following Jesus witnessed the crowd of death turned into life. Jesus said the time is coming and has come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear (key word is HEAR) will live crossing over from death to life (John 5:25, 24). This crowd was seeing a type and shadow of what Jesus was going to do on the cross for all of mankind. In one hand of the cross he had death and sin, the other hand he had forgiveness of sin by the blood of the lamb of God. He returns us to the fellowship of God no longer separated by the laws of death. All that is required of us is to have that something inside our hearts that causes Him to redeem us with a second chance.

That Something Inside:

After Jesus died on the cross, was buried in the tomb, and rose again to life on the third day he passed on the ministry he had received from God the Spirit to his apostles. A crowd was gathered again around the apostles and was made aware of their death sentence state, even though they were physically alive death was upon them. They wanted to know what should they do to be free from this coffin of death waiting for them. The invisible bridge of love from death to life was revealed to them to repent (turn away from sins) and be baptized in water in the name of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God applying the blood of the Lamb, which is in the name of Jesus, for the forgiveness of sins and receive the Holy Spirit just like the apostles for it is a promise to you, to your children (generations) and for all who are far off (Acts 2:38, 39). Jesus is still the bridge of love between us and God made visible by the word of God and His Spirit.

Let Jesus say to your heart “Don’t cry” (sorry for your sins), feel Him touch your spiritual coffin of death (water baptism in Jesus name), hear Him say the words of “get up!” (receive the Holy Spirit of life), and let Jesus return you to the fellowship of God our Father. Those same eyes are upon us right now as you are reading and as I am typing. I want my eyes and your eyes of faith to see this and feel this ever-present bridge of love every moment though invisible to the flesh, but undescribingly present upon our spirit. Are our thoughts alive and sensitive to Him? We cannot afford to read God’s word so quickly. His word is full of Spirit and life. May you start your daily journey with God having a quickness to hear with perception and understanding and a slowness to speak and anger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Within Himself – Part 1

“God is spirit…” and “…spirit hath not have flesh and bones” (Jn. 4:24 & Lu. 24:39). God the Father is Spirit and it is easy to see how God in His Spirit is omnipresent, which means He is everywhere at the same time. He is unlimited in Spirit whether you want to think in size, width, height, length, left, right, up or down. He is all these things at the same time. Being present everywhere at the same time makes Him vast beyond our comprehension. An attempt on our part to wrap our minds completely around God’s existence is an unapproachable and explosive to our thoughts (key word completely). In Job under the inspiration of the Spirit of God asked us a question, “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?” I am here to tell you, “Yes, you can know the mysteries and secrets of God because He wants us to know Him”, but you have to be willing to take those steps yourself. He has given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven to us, but not to all (Mt. 13:11). This is the part where we have to make ourselves stop bringing God down to our boxed in minds and lift our minds up into the heavens and see from His Spirit like Peter. Flesh and blood did not reveal to Peter the words he spoke to Jesus, but God the Father who is Spirit (present everywhere at the same time) gave this mystery to Peter’s mind (Mt. 16:13-18). The key words are flesh and blood did not reveal this unto Peter, but the all present Spirit of God was heard inside of Peter. All things came from within God as our faith from within ourselves see outwardly with understanding that the physical was formed by the invisible all present God (Heb. 11:3). I hope as you read that the Spirit will reveal to you how “From Within Himself” God has done everything and is still working from the Within.

 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Gen. 1:1). We can look up into the sky and see clouds, birds, and the sun shining. At night we can look up into the sky and see stars and the moon. From air crafts in the sky we can look down and see the land and great bodies of water. From space we can see the earth, stars, and other planets. Man can stand on a mountain top on a clear day and his eyes can gaze upon 100 miles of valleys, streams, lakes, rolling hills, and forests. What is difficult for man is to take what his eyes can see and perceive that God is everywhere at the same time in all that his eyes can look upon and beyond – the visible and the invisible. If our physical eyes could see from the ground of the earth all the way to furthest discovered star or planet we would still fall short in reaching the present everywhere at the same time God. As a small example when looking at God: physical computers upload and download billions of communicating information using electricity or battery power to do what they do. God’s presence, knowledge and power is in everything uploading and downloading with zero lag or down time. God is outside of time because He is eternal. We are inside time. He sees us the same clearly from the farthest known star system or from the smallest atom closest to us. This is how He can be the One God He revealed to Israel and in the Bible because He is everywhere at the same time – hence One God. You cannot divide omnipresent. God the Father, who is Spirit, cannot be divided. A house divided against itself cannot stand (Mk. 3:25). Can you imagine God in all His vastness trying to explain His Omnipresence to creation? There is no creation outside of God that can handle or comprehend God’s omnipresence, omnipotent, and omniscient completely? God has always gone through things to communicate with creation for He is that unapproachable Light that no one has seen or can see (1 Tim. 6:16). It is easy to see God in plurality forms when looking from the earth and the heavens because we cannot get outside of Him – He is One Omnipresent God (everywhere at the same time) only “From Within Himself” can we see. God reveals Himself in only a way that we can understand (Rom. 1:20) leaving us with no excuse.
God the Father, the unapproachable Light, the everywhere Spirit went through a spirit Image from within Himself of what He would be like for creation to be able to have interaction with Him and not die (key words – not die). Even God’s spirit Image, the Word “From Within Himself” that He communicated through to His creation was so powerful to the point of unapproachable that the Angels, eternal beings, had wings that covered their faces to His Holiness(Is. 6:2). It may be sinking in about now how a fearful understanding this is about the One True God being all present everywhere at the same time when you start to think He sees my soul, my spirit, my bones, my flesh, my thoughts, my attitude of my heart right now, that nothing in all creation is hidden from His sight. “Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account” (Heb. 4:12, 13 NIV). This adds a whole new meaning to all scriptures for instance: “For in him we live , and move , and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets have said , For we are also his offspring.” Acts 17:28. Everything is uploading within God instantly with zero lag.
From Within Himself:

God created everything from within Himself because you cannot get outside of Him – He is omnipresent (everywhere at the same time). The present everywhere God chose to speak through His Spirit Image, the Word, which is the only approachable part of God, a heaven and an earth into existence. In Genesis God in the Hebrew language looks like a plural God as gods and sounds like a plural God when He speaks. Keep in mind this One True God the Father is Spirit present everywhere with a spirit Image of Himself between us and Him because of the unapproachable light that we would die in if exposed to its purest Holiness. God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule…” It is strange to us when someone speaks to themselves, but it would not be strange if we spoke to our self if we existed all over the world. If I was standing in a market square in the United States and I also existed everywhere else including downtown Japan and started talking to myself in Japan it would not be strange, but completely normal for me because I am there and here at the same time. It is not strange that God the Father, the Spirit, present everywhere said to Himself, the approachable spirit Image “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule…” (spirit and form) because we are made in His Image. We are made of body, soul, and spirit – one person. For anything to be made in an all present everywhere at the same time God could only have a likeness to Him. No creation has the capacity to be God. This is why God chose and shared with the Abraham and his children that they may know, believe, and understand that He is “I am who I am”, “I am He”, and no god was formed, nor will there be one after Him, He alone is the savior (Is. 43:10, 11). God said, I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God (Is. 44:6). There is nothing outside of the One, True, All existing everywhere at the same time God. All births came “From Within Himself”, God created Adam from within the earth and from the breath within God. Man is made in the likeness of God. The complexity of man’s body design pales in the pureness of God Himself, but it is a pattern and symbols of God (Head with eyes, ears, nose, mouth, brains…, chest with heart, lungs…, lower body creation, legs…, all connected in one by nerves, blood veins… almost a solar system within itself). God created His children from within Himself. He, also, created woman from within man (took a rib) and the children of mankind are born from within. All births come from the inside.

This now leads into “From Within Himself” Part 2 understanding of why God placed inside of man the promise seed to deliver mankind, His children, from the hands of death, hell and the grave. From within man the savior would be born. God placed His spirit Image (the approachable), Word inside the birth generations of mankind creating the perfect Lamb of God to redeem His children another example of “From Within Himself” (Col. 1:13-22). I hope you see the fearful awe of God being everywhere at the same time. You will never be the same as you look around yourself and the creations around you, nor will you read His word the same seeing Jesus knowing and doing things that only an all present God could give to him to say and do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Follow the Lamb – Part 1

A great and powerful wind can blow tearing up the mountain sides and break rocks into pieces, the earth can quake with such unsettling force, and fires can blaze with such extreme heat, but nothing can compare when that still small voice of the Lord that speaks inside your ear (1 Kings 19:11, 12). With such clarity that still small voice spoke to my spirit and said, “Follow the Lamb“. The steps of the lamb go far deeper into fulfilling God’s word and seem to be hidden from our eyes. This quiet, innocent, and humble creature silently walks past us almost unnoticed. The lamb side of Jesus seems to maintain the same quiet, innocent and humble status of sacrifice for our second chance at life, but past the surface reveals the astonishing staying power of redemption and the house we are born into by the blood birth. Just like Elijah the loud wind tearing up things, the earthquake shaking, and the blazing fire did not affect Elijah as much as the whisper of God’s voice in his ear causing him to wrap his head in his cloak. The power of Jesus over demons, leprosy, all sicknesses, the storms, and death are well observed, but the still small quiet whisper of the blood of the Lamb of God is silently missed by the many today and quickly accepted as a second chance, but no deeper. I hope that holy whisper of God’s voice speaks to you in the life changing glow as He has with me.

No Named lambs:

After Adam and Eve sinned and broke the one law of God the sacrifices of lambs and other creatures have temporarily rolled forward the debt of sin for a season. God loves us so much He took his one law that Adam and Eve broke and added to the law a promise to fulfill it and pay it in full for His children. A promise of a future Lamb that would totally and eternally pay the debt owed to the law of God.  Since the beginning of time first-born male lambs have been sacrificed to temporarily put off the debt of sins. All the lambs in the Old Testament never had a given name mentioned for their sacrifice on the altar. There was no lamb recorded in the Old Testament with a given name that was sacrificed on the altar for man’s sins because lambs were of the earth only. This is a key element that the lambs are 100% of the earth and were not powerful enough to totally save mankind from the wages or debt that was owed for breaking the law of God. Lambs were not made in the image of God containing the earthly and heavenly in one vessel. No named lamb stood before judgment accepting the paid in full debt for mankind on the altar of sacrifice. Sacrificing lambs in the Old Testament was a part of their daily lives from the wilderness tent tabernacle all the way to the building temple. This was a process that was a very involved step by step event. The altar with fire where the lamb was sacrificed, the laver full of water for washing, the shewbread, the golden candle stick, the altar of incense, the curtain before the ark of the covenant all things to be done before reaching the Holy of Holies. All the nameless lambs over the decades upon the altar for our sins just for a temporary fix. A name is a powerful thing to God and man. The Old Testament has several names applied to the one true God. This is a crucial understanding of the nameless lambs (plural) of the Old Testament versus the One Named Lamb of the New Testament.

The death penalty of the one law God gave in the garden of Eden in the beginning of time with Adam and Eve covered their existence completely of both body and soul. Mankind is made of the dust of the earth and inside the body God breathed the breath of life and created a living eternal soul. The lambs of the earth were and are of only one part – earthly. To save us, mankind, having been made of the earthly and of the heavenly the lamb would also need to be equal to plus more to redeem us totally from the debt the law required of us. All the nameless lambs could only temporarily give some relief being completely earthly, but a Lamb made of the earth and of the heavens all in one could save us.

Only Named Lamb: 

Joseph and Mary are pledged to be married. Mary is pregnant by the Holy Spirit before they came together. Joseph does not want to public shame Mary, but wants to privately divorce her being a righteous man. An Angel appears to Joseph in a dream while he is thinking about divorcing Mary and said to him “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” Matt. 1:20. First born male child conceived by the Holy Spirit and named by an angel, a messenger, from the Omnipresent (everywhere present) God for the purpose of a lamb to save his people from their sins. The only Bible named Lamb from God, of God, and for God’s purpose. God gave Isaiah a prophesy of the future that a virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means God with us (Is. 7:14). Again, an innocent virgin giving birth to a first-born male child with a given name meaning “God with Us”. Jesus the male first-born child has both the earthly and heavenly ingredients to completely pay the debt of mankind to the law of God forever. Jesus is the One Named Lamb by the One true God that all things centralize through to be free of death, hell, and the grave. Jesus is the Lamb with the entire package to fulfill everything the temple did to restore fellowship with God directly. Jesus had the birthright of the first-born of true priesthood of the family of God, inherited the judicial authority of the Father, has the pure blood to cover all of the law, and the One true God inside of him “God with Us”. The Word became flesh (Word is God Jn. 1:1,2) dwelling among us with all the fullness of Deity in bodily form (Col. 2:9), God giving him the Spirit without limit (Jn. 3:34) since we, God’s children, were of flesh and blood God shared in our humanity (He. 2:14), reveals understanding when Jesus said, I and the Father are one (Jn. 10:30) and when you have seen me you have seen the Father (Jn. 14:9). Jesus had the dual nature mankind needs to be redeemed – God and man. The man Jesus had the example for us how to be, the blood, and the ability lay down his life for us. God in the man showed His love for us in words, miracles, and resurrecting the man providing a doorway for mankind to be redeemed and re-establish fellowship with God directly. Jesus fulfilled the temple building with his body creating the new temple by which mankind can enter into the direct fellowship with God. Jesus brought into one all things of the temple: the altar, the laver, the shewbread, the golden candlestick, the altar of incense, the curtain, and the ark of the covenant. His name, Jesus, contains everything for us to be saved. He is the Named Lamb of God whose blood is in his name, Jesus, for our redemption. You now see the lamb side of Jesus is not just a quiet, innocent and humble status of sacrifice for our second chance at life, but past the surface you see the power of his blood changes everything. The born again of water is a blood birth of the Lamb of God washing away our sins. Is there anything else more powerful than the blood of the Lamb of God? I say, No.

Follow the Lamb:

What was inside the only named Lamb of God – Jesus? He had flesh that hungered as we do, but he also was God that could take fishes and loaves of bread to feed the multitude of people.  He shared, suffered, and died in our humanity to destroy the power of death, to free us from fear, to become a merciful and faithful high priest, atoning for our sins knowing our trials and temptations (He. 2:14-18). Jesus was not an ordinary lamb like those of the Old Testament  Jesus is the one Named Lamb of God that combines all of the temple. He united in his body the altar, the laver, the golden candlestick, the shew bread, the altar of incense, the veil, and the ark of the covenant. This is why Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (Jn. 14:6). He was that Lamb’s blood on the altar for us. This is why when the people asked on how to be saved the disciples told them to repent and be baptized every one of them in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of their sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for it is a promise for you, your children, and for all who are far off (Acts 2:37-39). Water baptism in Jesus name is applying the only Named Lamb of God’s blood on you for the washing away of sins, the blood birth. I know Jesus said in Mt. 28:19 to baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was identifying the first stage of God’s ministry to us as the Father of creation, the Son’s second stage ministry of Redemption, and then the Holy Spirit third stage of Restoration with us now until He comes back. Jesus is the name of the Father because Jesus said, “I am come in my Father’s name” (Jn. 5:43), of course we know the name of the Son – Jesus, and the name of the Holy Spirit is Jesus because Jesus said, …the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you… (Jn. 14:26). The disciples in the Bible never used the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in water baptism. They used the name Jesus Christ because it is the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit and it also has the blood of the Lamb inside the name of Jesus. You cannot kill the Father. The Father is an all present (Omnipresent) Spirit that does not have flesh and bones (Luke 24:39). You cannot kill the Holy Spirit again – no flesh and bones. Only Jesus the man had blood that could be shed for our sins. Following the Lamb of God is to be baptized in his name Jesus Christ applying the blood of the only named Lamb of God for the washing away of sins and gaining access into the Holiest of Holy for salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12). Can you imagine the power of the blood of the named Lamb of God being applied to you washing away sins greater than the no named lambs of the Old Testament? The blood is in his name, the death we were meant to pay is in his name, burial we were to be buried in is in his name, but also the resurrection is in his name – everything we need is in his name. Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me will live, even though he dies (Jn. 11:25). Jesus said, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth (Mt. 28:18).

Follow the Lamb of God and you will enter into the greatest born again experience that a human being could ever enter into because his name is the doorway to God’s house. Jesus is now the temple where we can enter into the presence and fellowship of the All Mighty God because it is covered by the blood of the Lamb. An example of being born of the water and what would be said over you as you are being baptized, fully submerged in water: “I baptize you in Jesus name applying the blood of the Lamb of God for the washing away of sins and you shall receive the Holy Spirit for it is a promise.” Follow the Lamb into the temple of his body being restored with a second chance with the heavenly Father.