Glory On The Church 03-17-04

The Glory on The Church

The church was prophesied about in the Old Covenant, especially in Isaiah, where the Gentile were to be joined to The Lord, Isaiah 42:1-5, Isaiah 49:6-7, Isaiah 60:1-5, but what remained a mystery was that Jew and Gentile were to be joined in one body. The glory is risen as with Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5. This concept was far beyond the Jewish mindset. Talmud… I thank you God that I am not a Gentile, a woman, or a dog.

Glory in first mention is Jacob in Genesis 31:1-3, glory is weight, but only in a good sense, wealth, splendor. Tie this to Proverbs 13:22, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

To his glory he brought them out of Egypt with silver and gold and none feeble as in Psalm 105:37. The wilderness was just enough, The Promised Land was more than enough, it was weighty with every good thing. The silver and gold was to build His sanctuary, and the rest they could keep. God first and then me. Mt 6:33.

Are you the head or the tail??? Proverbs 23:7, “for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Deuteronomy 28:1-14.

Matthew 16:15-20 and the Church Universal, keys of the kingdom, Gates of Hell not prevailing as in Genesis 22:17. Keys denote authority and power, as in The Key of David Revelation 3:7, and Christ holding the Keys of Death and Hades in Revelation 1:18. Christ mentions the church, ecclesia only twice. This message was preached at Caesarea Phillippi, a seat of Satanic worship. Ek is to be taken out, and klesia are the called ones. We are the called out ones, or the saints of God. We as the church in large part do not consider ourselves as saints, and if we miss who we are in Christ, we will not consider ourselves as priests of God. WE DON’T KNOW WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST!!! We are “in Christ,” “in Him,” and “in whom,” over 200 times from scripture.

Ephesians 5:22-33 the church likened to a husband and wife, Paul speaks of the mystery of the church, mysterion. A mystery is a secret, or to shut the mouth. God had spoken this mystery to the prophets, but the revelation of the church was a mystery, until Paul was given direct revelation from the risen Lord. Colossians 1:27, Christ in you the hope of glory.

Matthew 18:15-20 the Church Local. How His body is to deal with one another.

Luke 4:18-19 the Anointing of Christ, is the same anointing that is on His body the church. The head and the body must have the same anointing, or we are merely dismembered and separate from each other. Jesus of Nazareth received His Anointing from on high at his baptism, and we receive the very same anointing from on high at our baptism in the Holy Ghost.

John 14:12-14 is Christ telling His body that they will do greater things than he did. There are one billion of us who call ourselves Christians, and as such there “should be,” one billion carrying His Anointing with us, and through us. We will not do greater things if we cannot see ourselves as saints and priests unto the Most High God, and to “know” that we carry the same anointing as Christ, now as his corporate body, and begin to do His Works, and not what we can do.

Effects of not being a church with which God can pour out His Glory, Jeremiah 13:10-11, and the linen belt that Jeremiah was told to bury along the Eurphrates. This belt is thrown away as worthless, as a mildewed worthless belt, when all the while, it was to bring glory to its wearer, as Israel was to bring glory to God. We are to be to His glory today!!!.

Believer in Jesus, can you gaze upon him without tears, as he stands before you the mirror of agonizing love? He is at once fair as the lily for innocence, and red as the rose with the crimson of his own blood. As we feel the sure and blessed healing which his stripes have wrought in us, does not our heart melt at once with love and grief? If ever we have loved our Lord Jesus, surely we must feel that affection glowing now within our bosoms.

“See how the patient Jesus stands,

Insulted in his lowest case!

Sinners have bound the Almighty’s hands,

And spit in their Creator’s face.

With thorns his temples gor’d and gash’d

Send streams of blood from every part;

His back’s with knotted scourges lash’d.

But sharper scourges tear his heart.”

We would fain go to our chambers and weep; but since our business calls us away, we will first pray our Beloved to print the image of his bleeding self upon the tablets of our hearts all the day, and at nightfall we will return to commune with him, and sorrow that our sin should have cost him so dear.

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[1]Spurgeon, C. H. (1995). Morning and evening : Daily readings (March 31 AM). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.