Beyond the Veil – Part 1 – Ephesus
Christ didn’t come to earth to make God man, but to bring man to God.
Christ didn’t come to earth to make God man, but to bring man to God.
The path of trial and chastening seems to be completely out of the mind and heart of the world church, yet God is not moved by church opinion. He will continue to allow trials in our path, and will continue to chasten us when we . . . .
TO THE CHRISTIAN: Don’t you think that it’s about time you grew up! . . . .
In the supernatural realm of the Spirit of God, Christ draws near and knocks on the door of the heart. It is up to you to open the door. If any opens that door the Supernatural Man from heaven will come in and sup with that child of God. The Holy Spirit is telling that heart to open the door, open it wide for the Christ of God.
Man would have to see the full extent of the vileness of sin. He would have to see and experience his own lack, and his own infirmities, he would have to feel the judgment of God against man’s sin, he would have to see the upheaval of the world around him because of Adam’s sin. Nothing could be left out in the history, in the description, and the vileness of the sin of Adam.
As His eternal sonship was foreordained before the foundation of the world, so also His eternal priesthood was foreordained before the foundation of the world.
A spiritual thorn in a child of God can be just as painful, and just as infectious as a physical thorn.
In the anointing of Aaron, God wanted to be part of their lives. It was the distance that sin had created that God had to overcome, He could not dwell among them, nor commune with them unless His righteousness was upheld. He could only dwell among and with them on the basis of blood sacrifice. Blood removed the distance of sin.
The Book of Hebrews is little in the eyes of the Church when it comes to study, and it is often put on the back burner, and yet, it is the only book in all of Scripture that even mentions the priesthood of the Lord Jesus, and deals with all of the benefits of that priesthood to us, as the children of God.