The Unveiled Gospel part II

Part two of The Unveiled Gospel:

O Yehovah-Yeshua, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.
If we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection; knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; for he that has died is justified [made righteous] from sin.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is into the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself up for me.
They that are of (in) Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof. If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. Now this is not speaking of actually putting the flesh of man to death but rather living what might be called a fasted life. This fasting is unlike any other in that it is a fasting of the things of this world's lusts, false needs, religions, idols and a host of other unnecessary things. We've responded to the Lord's calling of us to be holy as I am Holy, to come out from among them, not based on works of the flesh but rather a willingness to surrender all things into His hands and authority, to let go and let God.

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been Crucified to me, and I to the world.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. The death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. (see Hebrews for the revelation on the new/ better covenant of Grace) What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching* to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. [*follow the example of that which is taught in and under Grace.]

The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loves us, Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--- and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. This is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works [Law as contained in ordinances], so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works [love unfeigned and full of glory], which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (As servants of God’s Grace we offer His Grace back to God in worship and then it is to be shared to the lost and unbelieving, in His power or authority.) It was for this end that Christ both died, rose, and revived, that He would become Lord of both the living (those united with Him) and the dead (those separated from Him).

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: having foreordained us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved: in whom we have our redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

As touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, “’I am’ the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?” God is not the God of the dead, (Today those who chose to remain a part from God as Jesus paid the price for our reuniting with God in spirit and in truth.) but of the living. (Those who have made the free-will choice to apply the principle of the cross to their flesh and daily crucify it and walk in the narrow way with the LORD.)

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (Fruit bearing only comes through death in this case it’s the death of mans flesh, the veil, and the sin nature contained in it. To be reunited to God in regeneration of our spirit coming back to Him in life eternal with Him again as at the first.)

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (Notice He did not say produce fruit but rather bear fruit, that is to carry fruit.)
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide [made a live, come to life] in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide [Are made alive, to draw nourishment from, to grow in the knowledge of Him to bear fruit in every good work.] in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit [because of My life and light in him.], for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the Gospel of the Grace of God.
(The new covenant is given to all mankind, through the blood, the water and body of the Lord in Love for all His creation. This covenant was first given to Abram [Genesis 17:4- 7] and Paul reveals that it reached even into the Law and ordinances of Moses and that it is a better covenant because it is based on the Blood of Christ.)

Yehovah(Yeshua-Messiah)Elohim formed Man, from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [the very nature and character of God, a spiritual being, light]; and Man became a living soul [An angelic or spiritual being in a earthly body with the seed of God in his soul to reproduce others of like kind. This seed was put into woman at the instant that God put enmity between her seed and the beast’s seed].
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring.
Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

He was in the beginning God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In Him is life, and the life was the light of men.
As long as my breath is in me the spirit of God is in my nostrils.

[They [Pharisees] sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and care not for any one: for you regard not the person of men.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must [this He demands] worship in spirit and truth."
Then [Jesus] said to them, "Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's (tribute, taxes, tithes), and to God the things that are God's (spiritual service)." [The spiritual worship from our inner most being in the reality of the truth that He requires us to have knowledge of.]

[A quote from William Law 1686-1761: “It is His will to all goodness that brought forth angles and the spirits of men so He can will nothing in their existence but that they should live and work and manifest that same spirit of love and goodness which brought them into being. Everything therefore but the will and life of goodness is an apostasy in the creature and its rebellion against the whole nature of God.”]

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. [This is not talking about His earthly ministry while on earth, it is how ever talking about His life, and Spirit now in us.]
They are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let not man separate."
[This is a parenthetical inserted that opens up the following verses.]

Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
The LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh [man was complete in himself, no salvation is necessary here]. The rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [A marriage made in heaven is a union of two parties that become one spirit, one love, one heart, one mind, as Christ is in His body, as long as it is submitted to him.]

Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with God: and he was not seen again; for God took him. [Our first view or record of the taking out of a righteous man of God.]

When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."
Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. Noah had three sons, Shem [a righteous man, the first born male], Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. [Because of the fallen angels and mans bestial nature.]
Yehovah-Elohim saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
[In Hebrew, pitch means: redemption price, its base word means: to make atonement (at- one- ment), to make reconciliation, again a figure of the taking away of the righteous that are not to see the wrath of God.]
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your entire household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. The LORD shut him in.
[A figure of the Body of Christ being called to Him.]

By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Now Yehovah-Elohim said to Abram, [the father of FAITH, a Gentile at this time] Get out of this country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you: and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing; and I will bless them that bless you, and him that curses you will I curse: and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
[Abram was the eleventh generation from Noah, but was taught the ways of the Most High God by Shem in his youth. This is what has been taking place, during this age or dispensation of Grace, along side Israel’s partial hardening and the veil over the eyes of both Israel, and nations: carnal, natural man those veiled to the truth by the god of this world order or system.]

[The father of circumcision Abraham; to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of faith as our father Abraham had while he was in uncircumcision. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. For he counted God faithful who had promised while he and Sarai were yet dead bodily. This is not some sort of replacement theology as some are teaching. It is to show the operation of Faith.]

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may 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 (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made you) before him whom he believed, God, who gives life to the dead (This has a double meaning as those now living start out in their life dead separated from God to one born from above jointed to God again by regeneration a spiritually a live person.), and calls the things that are not, as though they were. (Again as just shown the new birth is in the control of God and is by His Grace through our faith, as a grain of mustard seed.)

The word of Yehovah-Elohim came to me, saying, Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast; though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, said the Lord Yehovah.
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast; though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. [Now here we have Yehovah-Elohim, God, God the Son, son of man or Jesus as He will be known when He puts on Flesh to walk among men speaking in His position of the third person of the Godhead. Telling us that it is each mans responsibility to acquire his own righteousness, that there are no free lunches.]

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. Behold, the veil of the temple was rent [split] in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent/split;
Jesus uttered a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. The veil of the temple was rent/split in two from the top to the bottom. When the centurion, who stood by over against him, saw that he so gave up the ghost, he said, truly this man was the Son of God.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost. When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, certainly this was a righteous man. [Here we have three accounts of the crucifixion of Christ. In the first we find a ; this is a time break in scripture and the rest of the verse is what happened early in the dawning of the third day or some time after six P.M. on Saturday. What we would call Saturday evening as the Jewish new day starts at sunset the day before our full day. Now remember to that in the early beginnings the days did not have the names that we call them now, as our days are named after a gods foreign to us and our understanding.]

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished [The work that had been finished from before the foundation of the world and the secret things of God that had been hid in God are soon to be revealed.]: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

The soldiers therefore came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him: but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they broke not his legs: howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came out blood and water. [This open wound can become a place of entry into the now spiritual Body of Christ, the secret that is about to be revealed or published to Saul of Tarsus by the risen Lord Himself, which is part of the finished work of the cross, and away of entry for those who find it. Remember that Christ is a spirit that put on flesh and was fashioned like a man.] He that has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knows that what he says is true, that you also may believe. For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled; a bone of him shall not be broken. Again another scripture says, they shall look on him whom they pierced.

Jesus said to him, because you have seen me, you have believed, blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. [This takes place after His death, burial, and resurrection and before He is taken up, during the time that He was teaching, after talking to Thomas.]

Now I make known to you brethren, the Gospel [This is the Gospel of the Grace of God that saves both Jew and Gentile.] which I preached to you, which also you received, wherein also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, except you believed in vain [Some require something else be added to this word, as the chapter that is the base for this teaching states; the eyes are veiled to the truth.] For I delivered to you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried; and that he has been raised on the third day according to the scriptures;……… By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is within me. [The seed of God that is dormant in mans soul. The Light that pierced the darkness and created or separate the darkness unto the dawning of the new day which brings forth life, the unity of God and man again.]

Now has Christ been raised from the dead, the first fruits of them that are asleep. For since by man came death, [This is physical death caused by Satan’s evil nature and the separation from fellowship and communion with God that man was created to have in HIM, our first state.] by man came also the resurrection of the dead. [This is speaking of two mystery resurrections. One for natural man to judgment and the other of spiritual man, the one born into Christ, quickened or made alive even while in this flesh, to reward.] For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ, the first fruits; and then they that are Christ's, [the second or main harvest] at His coming. [In this coming He does not touch the ground but rather is in the heavens above. (*) “At His coming” is in reference to His second advent towards the end of the tribulation period.]

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power (by authority): it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written, the first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit [This is not speaking of those who attend some type of religious institution that call themselves “Christian.”, Christ paid the price for His Body, The Church, God's spiritual family and God has one and only one way into His Kingdom, not many ways as some teach and believe.] Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven [spiritual]. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. [God has one way into His Kingdom and that is through the death of our old nature that is born into evil and corruption, that is why we need a preacher that knows the mysteries and has the spiritual knowledge or one born of the Spirit of Christ that has been approved by God and not man or his religious institutions.] Now this I say, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (This is all to happen in an atomic second, as a flash of lightning.)
Jesus said to them: “but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.”
Jesus, being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answering them said: “The kingdom of God comes not with observation. Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.” He said to his disciples: “The days will come when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man. You shall not see it. They will say to you: See here, and see there. Go not after, nor follow them.” (Jesus’ warning of the false Christ’s that were and are now appearing around the world as they have been since His resurrection.)

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
As the lightning that lightens from under heaven shines to the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in His day. First He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. As it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built. In the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even this shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed [*].In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back. Remember Lot's wife.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it. I say to you: In that night there shall be two men in one bed. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left. Two men shall be in the field. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left. They answering, say to him: Where, Lord? Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, there will the eagles also be gathered together.
[*2Th 1:7 To you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of His power.] (This is not at His second advent but rather when He comes for His spiritual body, His church or family members. They are not what so many have been taught and lead to believe by the false prophets over the ages and even now the elect are being deceived, and are part of the lawless one.)

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. [This again can be two resurrection types.] For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, and then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (In Christ all are freed from this curse and have passed from death into the regenerated life in Christ Jesus our head. Therefore physical death of this body holds no sting for us as we now walk in Christ’s victory and have triumphed over Satan as he is under our feet.)
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, cursed is every one that is hung (nailed) on a tree: that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
No man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, the righteous shall live by faith.
Christ is the end of the law to righteousness to every one that believes, put their trust in Him.
What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works required of the law.

For we know that if the tent [our flesh] that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. [A body like Christ had when He was raised from the dead, new as from the beginning without sin, as Adam had before his rebellion.] In this tent we groan, [This is heavenly language talking with the Father.] longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked [We are clothed in Christ Jesus, for we have put on Christ.]. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened--not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. [The fullness of Christ that we had in our father Adam before his fall.] He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

In one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
As many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. [This is not into water but by the action of the Holy Spirit and the working of God’s Grace upon us and inside of us.]
Be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. [This is the seed of God first placed in man, which gave him the power to become a son of God, and gives God the right of ability or authority to take action on our behalf when we willingly submit our authority into His.]
We are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. (We are not to be like Israel who trusted in the concrete or carnal life of what was visible and taken in or known by mans senses, we are to live as a spiritually awaken person from the dead perishing visible world around us.)

The love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded (KJV says “judge”) this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and He died for all, that those who live might (KJV says “hencefore”) no longer live for themselves but for Him who for their sake died and was raised. [The first fruits of many saints.] From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, [As a man walking on the earth.] we regard Him thus no longer. [As He is now a Glorified Body.] Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. [This is to be one with Christ, in His spiritual Body or Church.] All this is from God, [This is not a work of our flesh because the flesh is not able to do this kind of work, only God can do this, it is resurrection power regeneration and the sealing with the Holy Spirit of God, it is of FAITH in God’s word.] who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us [Literally trusting us with this stewardship.] the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able even to subject all things unto Himself. [This is the body that we had in Adam, united with God a little lower than the angels, with God when the Kingdom of God was the norm in the garden.]
These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in his name.

Jesus looking upon them said to them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. They were astonished exceedingly, saying to him, “then who can be saved?” Jesus looking upon them said, “with men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.”

I would not, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part has befallen Israel [let not this hardening happen to you], until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. [To fill or complete the Body of Christ, we are His completion as woman is mans completion. This can also be a number required to build up mans own wrath for his tribulation.]
He shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you." [Or literally in you.]

He said to the disciples, "The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. They will say to you, 'Look, there!' or 'Look, here!' Do not go out or follow them.
For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. [The whole of the earth will experience this at once.]

Those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Answering they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.” [This is indicating the direction that the body will be taking on its being taken out, during the main harvest of spiritual mankind.]

The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: [This is the second harvest the main crop of the wave offering; the first took place early in the morning of the day when Christ came out of the tomb, it was the early harvest of the believers held in Abraham’s bosom.] and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
To him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you with exultation blameless before his glory, to the only God our Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the whole age, and now, and to all the ages.

These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb wheresoever He goes. These have been bought from men as first-fruits to God and to the Lamb: and in their mouths was no lie found; for they are blameless. [The power of the new birth, justification, sanctification, and righteousness before God, to see things through Gods eyes, as at the beginning because of being regenerated.]

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, you offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that obeys not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on [in] him.

Much more then, being now justified by His blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
To wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

God appointed us not into wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.
Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, [The bema seat of the Lord’s judgment, that gives reward, this is not the white throne judgment that will take place later, which by the way we’ll not have a portion of.] we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, take, eat; this is my body. He took a cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink all of it; for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many to the remission of sins.
On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, "Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
They were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, take of this is my body. He took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them: and they all drank of it. He said to them, this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
The day of unleavened bread [show-bread] came on which the Passover must be sacrificed.
When the hour was come, he sat down, and the apostles with him. He said to them, with desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer: for I say to you, I shall not eat it, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, take this, and divide it among yourselves: for I say to you, I shall not drink from henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave it to them, saying, this is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. The cup in like manner after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood, that which is poured out for you.

[Here we have the three letters that describe the Passover; the Lord’s finishing of the super, on the day that the first lamb was sacrificed. Now the value of what was said and done:
a.) until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God: Lately introduced to our knowledge; not before known; recently discovered; as a new, recently produced by change; as a new life. Renovated; repaired so as to recover the first state. New is much used in composition to qualify other words, and always bears its true sense of late, recent, novel, fresh; as in new-born, new-made, new-grown, new-formed, and new-found. In this use, new may be considered as adverbial, or as a part of the compound. To live in salvation a new in the presents of God eternally.
NEW: To make new. [Not used, not old.]
b.) the fruit of the vine: In botany, the seed of a plant, or the seed with the pericarp. Effect or consequence. To receive eternal life from death, when connected with drink and blood, is that which is begotten or born again, that which is received into the soul light and new life from that light.

c.) Bread: Support of like in general; maintenance. Is the reward of virtue, bread? The body of Christ is eaten, or to receive New Life, manna from heaven, and the word when received into the ear and heard rightly brings light/fire to the soul of dead men [evil natured man]. To the appropriating to ones self the saving results of the violent death endured by Christ.

d.) Blood: Kindred; relation by natural descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity. Life. Fleshly nature; the carnal part of man; as opposed to spiritual nature, or divine life. The death and sufferings of Christ and the appropriating to ones self the saving results of eternal life through His death.

e.) Drink: To take in by any inlet; to hear; to see; as, to drink words or the voice. To take in air; to inhale.
To drink in, to absorb; to take or receive into any inlet. All these describe what is required to receive the Grace of God in His Gospel that gives new life to fallen mankind by His Spirit.

f.) Abide: To rest, or dwell. To continue permanently or in the same state; to be firm and immovable. To wait for; to be prepared for; to await. To bear or endure; to bear patiently. To grow in the knowledge of His person in the power of love and humility.

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. [This last day is when He comes to call His mystical body out, it is the last day or the end of this age of God’s Grace being poured out on all flesh, because the door will be closed that no man can open.] For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. [This is to become one with Him as at the beginning, The passing through the veil of His flesh and the removal of the veil from our eyes, ears and hearts, to experience regeneration and the kingdom of God within you, God’s Temple of His worship.] The living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."
[Speaking of the revealed revelation that was about to be released after His death, burial, resurrection and ascension and the entry of the kingdom of God in the Holy Spirit and His operations in the revealing to those who would turn to Him. We are to continue in humility and His Love, His faith, His righteousness, His sanctification, His justification, His holiness, His light and His glory. When we do we are heirs of Christ and His promise.]

I will put enmity between you [the serpent, all evil, bestial desires, devilish] and the woman, [God’s seed is now part of her being, in her soul and is passed onto all her heirs until it receives light and the word of truth to give new life, it contains the power within it to receive again the nature and character of God through regeneration a work of the Holy Spirit.] and between your offspring [Those now born into the world by fallen man, with the self centered will and bestial appetites i.e. natural man, earthy, sensual, carnal.] and her offspring; [Those of the seed of God in them, angelic by nature, heavenly, spiritual, those who hear and respond to His voice.] he shall bruise your head, [This is true of all those who turn into Christ, they put to death the evil, bestial nature within them.] and you shall bruise his heel."

Luke 1:35, 37-38, 45 The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy--the Son of God. ------ nothing will be impossible with God." Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." The angel departed from her. ------ Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord." (Again a revelation given to Paul revealed, notice what the angel said “the power of the Most High” the term used of the priest who met Abram on his return fro m battle, who was also identified as the king of Salem (the city of God’s peace) now known as Jerusalem. Mary also speaks as a humble child and as one who surrender’s his will into the Fathers hands. May the spiritual meaning that is here seen.)

“When this Seed of the Spirit, common to all Men, is not resisted, grieved, and quenched, but its Inspirations and Motions suffered to grow and increase in us, to unite with God, and get Power[God's authority]over all the Lusts of the Flesh, then we are born again, the Nature, Spirit, and Tempers of Jesus Christ are opened in our Souls, the Kingdom of God is come, and is found within us. On the other Hand, when the Flesh, or the Natural Man has resisted and quenched this Spirit or Seed of Life within us, then the works of the Flesh, Adultery, Fornication, Murders, Lying, Hatred, Envy, Wrath, Pride, Foolishness, worldly Wisdom, carnal Prudence, false Religion, hypocritical Holiness, and serpentine Subtlety, have set up their Kingdom within us.”
The above quote is taken from a book on “The Spirit of Prayer” by William Law, 1686-1761.

Now it should be noted that there are three facets that are required for redemption they are; 1. it takes a person; 2. it takes blood and 3. it takes power. One other thing every alienated person has been reconciled to God, every human being has access to salvation. However it has to be appropriated by each individual person by faith. It is not a blanket statement and God’s not going to bring everyone to glory sooner or later as sum suppose. “God is love all is well, He only wants good for all after all we are all part of His family” sounds good but is it? There are NO free lunches or a free pass out of jail. We are to carry our cross daily because we are tempted daily by the evil of the world, that tasty morsel of desire of thought for what ever form that it may take whether of eats, desire for more money for stuff or things, a bigger home, more land, a new boat, the young girl next door…..what ever it maybe that is our weakness even the words that come out of our mouth in anger or the heat of debate. These can all become a snare to entrap us and bring us back under bondage to the evil one, even the order of religion or religious ceremony that we are a part of.

From here we’ll move on into the secret of Christ that has been hidden in God before the foundation of the world. Held veiled to all until after Christ’s resurrection and ascension back to His place beside the Father’s right hand. Many skirt around this area as they do not understand it or just do not know anything about it because it requires one to be spiritual. We’ll turn our attention to Romans chapter 16 verse 25 and the mysteries attached to it. But first a sample revealing of a hidden truth; written by my wife Glenda.

This morning I awakened at 5:15 am. I didn’t really want to get out of bed that early, but Chesha was whining and that told me she needed to go outside and take care of some very personal “doggie” business. I thought to myself that it would be a great opportunity to do some listening to the word.
I was listening to (reading) Romans 5 in the latter part of the chapter, to some scriptures I’d read in a friends blog the night before, and was continuing on into chapter 6 when I began to feel a nudge on certain words and phrases.
Verse 1 “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” The word “Continue” started wiggling around in my brain…verse 2 “God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?” Wait just a minute! WE WHO DIED? Continuing on to verses 3 and 4 “Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Vs 4 “We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Here in verse 4 and again in verse 5 we have "like and likeness" when researched they mean to be conjoined with, which means:
To join together, without any thing intermediate; to unite two or more persons or things in close connection; as, to conjoin friends; to conjoin man and woman in marriage. To associate, or connect. Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already. And conjoined: Joined to or with; united; associated.
From this we've learned that to say that we are united with Christ is weak in strength of meaning as we are actually conjoined with Christ. This has the same application found in Matthew 18:19 with the word "agree" which has for a base root word “alike” or “agreement”. This same thought can be found in Genesis chapter 1:26-27 in the words “our image after our likeness”.

These words and phrases started “pulsating” as it were, at me, as though they wanted me to notice them. So, I did. Then came the one that just started shouting at me! Verse 5 “For IF we have BECOME UNITED with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

We all know that the very small two letter word IF is huge in what I would call its personality. Then you add WE to it, and it becomes conditional. IF WE HAVE BECOME…become what? UNITED WITH HIM IN DEATH. Now look back at verse 4 where it says “through baptism unto death” this word UNTO is a positional word, unto death. This means that we are to be IN death or die with Christ to sin. I don’t want to get ahead of myself so, verse 6 “knowing this, that our old man (the fallen sinful man) was crucified with him, that the body of sin (mans flesh) might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; verse 7 “for he that hath died is justified (or freed) from sin.” This is not a physical death, but by faith this body of flesh controlled by the divine spiritual life within. IF this death has taken place in you, then you are free from sin, it has no hold on you. The things you used to do, you will not have a desire for anymore! You will be a changed life! If you feel you are having to work at being good, then you have not died. If you feel you have to force yourself to be nice and read the Bible and memorize scripture and “churchie clichés” or vain babblings, then you have not been crucified with Christ.

Now comes the awesome part….after we go through death (actually see ourselves on the cross, dead) we see verse 8-10, “But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death no more has dominion over him. For the death that he died, he died unto sin once:”

There is ONLY ONE DEATH and IF we go through this death with Christ, we shall die no more! This physical body that I live in can die, but I NEVER WILL again! One of our promises from God in the New Testament is that those who are IN Christ will never see or experience the wrath to come. Why? I am glad that you asked! Because we in our identification have already experienced God’s wrath as it was poured out on Christ while hanging on that tree. Our being identified in Him at that time we have also had that wrath poured out on us and we will not experience the second death or the lake of fire. These are mysteries that had been hid in God from before time started, in His plan which will be covered in greater detail in the following pages of study.

All scripture is from the KJV, Weymouth New Testament, American Standard and English Standard Versions of the Bible with limited editing for modern usage.