Philippians
3:20a
"For
our conversation (citizenship) is (where?) in
heaven…"
How
did our citizenship get transplanted from the earthly domain to
heaven? Colossians 1:13, God the Father has transplanted us from the
dominion and power of darkness (Satan) into the Kingdom of His dear Son, the son of His love.
This
is not to deep and yet very few people have the concept. But, Very few
people understand that when they were saved (Redeemed),
they were literally made a citizen of a heavenly kingdom, which will
tie us then to Christ's return and the setting up of His kingdom on
earth. We will be part of that. Our citizenship is in Heaven. And
less you think it’s a play on words, Paul, by inspiration, tells us
exactly what heaven he is talking about. The abode of God. From
whence we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ. So that is what
God has done by virtue of our trusting which will become faith in
this Gospel. We by way of the circumcision of heart receive the
ontological essence of Christ's own Spirit restored within us. Jesus
said that both He and the Father would take up residence or would
indwell us again if only we would believe Him. He has opened our
spiritual eyes, broken those chains of darkness and removed the veil that
covers, and He has transplanted us into the Kingdom of His dear Son.
Through the divine illumination of the meanings as here revealed, the
purpose of the Lord's Supper and all that followed it. Because through the understanding of this we become heirs of the promise first spoken to woman and Adam in Genesis 3:15 (Colossians 1:12, 14). Now let’s
look at verse 14 of Colossians 1 and the first thing we should notice
in many of the new translations the word "blood" isn’t in
here. For whatever reason, we are not going to make comment on it,
but our good old King James still has it. And here it is.
"In
whom (that
is in the Son up there in verse 13) we have redemption through
His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:"
Let’s
go to Hebrews and look at a verse that we have not used for
awhile. I certainly have in the past but it’s been awhile. Hebrews
chapter 9 and verse 22.
Hebrews
9:22
"And
almost all things are by the law (back in the sacrificial
economy and customs) purged with blood; and without shedding of
blood is no remission."
We
call that an absolute. You know, they were trying to tell me today
that there are no absolutes. I beg to differ. There are absolutes and
this is one of them. Without the shedding of blood there would have never
been any forgiveness of sin, which is Redemption. You go right back to the Garden of
Eden with Adam and Eve after they had sinned and were expelled and
what is the first thing that God does to restore them? He kills the
animal, which causes blood to flow and uses the skin to cover them. It was a blood sacrifice, an
absolute. Because those of Adams own seed learned to do the same and
those who did not what happened, we get a Cain and Able. This by the
way is what Jeremiah 6:16 calls an “old path,” an old path way
when understood and taken brings us back to God through Christ Jesus' own blood, which flowed.
And the kingdom lost and hidden from all sin filled flesh. Hidden by the
flesh of sin, the dead foreskin of mans own heart. This remains so
even during our progress through Redemptions school where we were
first given the right to become sons of God, again, through our being
sealed with the Holy Spirit. But where and how is the sin filled
foreskin of our heart removed through a willful, living sacrifice (Romans 12:1-3).
Such as is seen in the Lord's Last Supper (in the types and figures
[shadows] of the elements of the meal) which then takes us on through
His blood and water in a type of death (it not being a physical death as many of the sin nature suppose it to mean), to the sin filled flesh which
covers our heart, to His resurrect within that now new heart of
sinless flesh [now pure before God by death or the blood of death our
new seal of covering, open to God, where only God can open this door but we can close
it] and our being in His ascension to be seated in (with) Him at the
right hand of power (Romans
8:34, Hebrews 10:12, Ephesians 1:15-23, Colossians 3:1, 2:12-13,
Romans 6:4-5, 9-11). The place from which we do not ever want to
leave, but sadly many have of their own volition (even when done in
the ignorance of unknowing the Truth), from which there is no
returning forever. This is what the grieving of the Holy Spirit
is....
It
remains amazing just how that Satan counterfeits everything that is
perfect in God’s economy and adulterates it in the process. If you
know anything about paganism, if you have ever had missionaries come
to your home or been to New Orleans, especially during the paganism
of Mardi Gras, from some of these almost uncivilized areas, what
were they constantly doing in their tribal or voodoo rituals? Killing
animals, roosters or birds and even goats for the purpose of sprinkling or spattering
the blood all over. Why? That is Satan’s counterfeit. And so almost
every culture up throughout human history has had a constant bath of
sacrificial blood. But that was the counterfeit. That was the
adulteration and fornication with the world. It does not matter what some good meaning religious person may tell you, it is sin, which brings about the second death. This was the same situation that John the Baptist and Jesus were born into.
I would rather submit to God and suffer the second death while still being alive in the here
and now.
The
true system of blood sacrifice was what God instituted with Adam and
Eve and then bought it up and perfected it with the Law (that's why
we said it was spiritual and pointed toward the day of the Lord) and
the Temple worship. And it all was centered on the animal sacrifices.
You know all of that. The Passover Lamb and we’ve shown you from
Scripture that when Israel would sin a particular sin, there was a
particular sacrifice that they would have to bring. It could be a
turtledove, a goat or whatever, but it was always a blood sacrifice.
Because without the shedding of blood there has never been
forgiveness. Now we know that today we don’t hear anything anymore
about the blood concept. But listen, it’s the way the Sovereign God
ordained it. That without the shedding of blood there can be no
remission of sin. This all has to do with when woman was taken from mans side, where blood was shed in the process. And since then woman has had a flow of blood every month during her cycle, which by the way is govern by the seasons of the moon. And of course, we feel that the reason for that
is that back in Genesis chapter 9 it tells us that life is in the
blood. We cannot get new life without death happening first
and death is signified by shed blood. And so you follow this all the
way through God’s dealing with the whole human race leading up to
His own Supreme Sacrifice, which had to be a shedding of blood.
That’s why He could have never been hung. He could have never died
a death by hanging which was a typical capital punishment way of
putting people to death besides stoning. But it wouldn’t have worked because then
there wouldn’t have been the shed blood. And it had to be a death
where there would be that shedding of blood. It had to be! Because
this is the way the Sovereign God ordained it and who are we to say
that the shed blood is no longer of consequence. Well, anyone who
does is in danger of Hellfire because without the shedding of blood
there is no remission. Just as without the illumination of the Lord's
Supper there is no conjoining of two in the New Covenant which this
meal brings about as a finished work. And with that said then the
rest of what Paul reveals remains so because when its taken in an
unworthy fashion (1Corinthians 11) as is the custom of some it is condemnation upon
them. For they make light of both the meal, its purpose and the death
and blood of the New Covenant. Now let’s see how Paul enlarges on
it. Come back to Romans chapter 3 starting at verse 23.
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