After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you see Me; because I live, you will live also. John 14:19.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
The Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. These two gifts that come with THE GIFT of My Spirit are about your relationship with Me and My Son revealed in you by the fellowship of the Spirit. Ultimate and highest knowledge is knowing Me even as I know you. And you come to know Me in My Son for seeing and knowing Him you see and know Me. And that is why all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are found in Him. Eternal life, life itself, is only about one thing, knowing Me, the One true God, and the One I sent, Jesus Christ.
Because I live you also live. And after rejecting Me and severing that flow of relationship, now you can only live because Jesus lives. I sent you a lifeline and His Name is Jesus, Yeshuah, Salvation, and with joy you draw the living water, the water of life, from Him, so that because He lives you live. He came to give you life, life in abundance, life that overflows with goodness.
And in these present few days, you are celebrating the remembrance of the life, sufferings, death, burial, and resurrection of the One who loves you beyond all you can ask or imagine. Which brings you knowledge of who I am and the lengths I have gone to save you and set you free, the lengths My Son and I have gone to pursue union with you. And how much He is there for you now, always.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:15-21.
The fear of the LORD is a tremendous treasure if you understand what it is. It is a mutual respect that you and I hold sacred together. You have to understand something to be completely open and filled with My love and it is just this: I have called you to partnership with My Son and He is in partnership and divine fellowship with you now. You are to Me just like He is.
Life is all about union and fellowship, love and partnership, and honor that make us One in Him and one another. And all is based on loving obedience to My Words, which are commands and not suggestions if you want the fullness in your life.
It all comes down to this: If you love Me you will keep My Words. If you do not keep My Words you do not love Me. If you say you love Me but you disobey Me by unforgiveness for others, gossiping, judging, and speaking against others behind their backs, you do not love Me but are mocking Me to My face.
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. John 14:18-24.
As you watch Jesus in the Gospels dragging that cross down the streets of Jerusalem, weak, bloody, scourged, crowned with thorns, rejected, mocked, beaten, and seemingly defeated you begin to see the hideousness of sin and the beauty and tremendous dimensions of My love for you to remove your sins and the punishment of eternal death, to make you righteous, holy, and blameless, to give you a glorious future and a sure hope anchored behind the veil in the very presence and knowledge of Me, your source, your life, your peace, and your great reward. How can you behold Him dying for your sins and not be moved to repent and firmly resolve to never give in to sin again? For I have, in Jesus, made you the master of all that would drag you away from Me or in any ways harm you. When you are resting in the knowledge and fear of the LORD, there is nothing and no one that can steal your joy ever again. But like Daniel and his three friends there is no one that can pull you into anything that would defile or compromise our oneness either.
We are partners in Jesus and the Spirit. We can flow together as one, each unique but totally united, joined as one in love. There is no snatching out of My hand, and when you abide in My Word, that is, live it, think it, speak it, and do it, the evil one cannot touch you anymore than he can touch Me. He cannot. There is no darkness, no deceit, no hatred, no ill will in Me. I am love and I am light and that is all you will find in Me and that is who you are in Me as well. And I have given you the Way to be just that so you do not stay dwelling in the tents of the wicked but in My house. And in My house, My Son has prepared a place for you so that where He is you can be as well. Joint heirs with Christ.
I have rescued you out of darkness into My own marvelous light and put you in the Kingdom of My Beloved Son and by His blood He released you from your sins and all that would bind you so you too can live in the glorious freedom of newness of life, resurrection life.
And you can know Him as one like you and through Him you know Me and that is knowing love, but in a personal way—in the way of My love for YOU, the love that brought Christ down to raise you up.
Each time you would turn away from love and light in anger, lies, unrestrained lust, offended pride, jealousy, or wicked schemes that harm another in revenge or greed, you are telling Me you do not love Me. That you do not value what that bloody, scourged, thorn-crowned, Son of God underwent to save YOU. Instead you are trampling it underfoot in unconstrained sin that you can master with My grace and a willing heart. Wake up to who He is to you and what I have done for you in Him and you will avoid sin as a plague, for that is what it is.
I am offering you a life filled with My power, My Spirit, My love and My grace, a life of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit as joint heirs with the first born, would you cast it away for a bowl of beans as Esau did? He cared little about his birthright so he lost it to one who did care. Be faithful in little things and you can be trusted with greater and greater union with Me. Be willing to let Me raise you up and make you great, but that will only come if you are serious about keeping My Word no matter how you feel.
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears. Hebrews 12:14-17.
In My presence is fullness of joy. In My presence is fullness of love. In My presence is fullness of light. Come and live in, abide in, and rest in My tremendous love for you. It is there you will find all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and all the riches that come in their train.
I love you. Remember Me and all I have done for you, with you, and in you in My Son. He is your Lord but He is also your servant. Think about that.
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which 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 He took the cup also 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. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26.
How do you know you’re forgiven? How do you know your sin’s gone? How do you know we’re united? How do you know nothing’s wrong?
He made peace through the Blood of the Cross! Reconciling all the lost to Himself through His Son, making us as one, with the Father who loves us so!
How do you know you’re accepted? How do you know you’re His own? How do you know you are welcome? How can you come to His throne?
He made peace through the Blood of the Cross! Reconciling all the lost to Himself through His Son, making us as one, with the Father who loves us so!
How do you know you’re be-lov-ed? How do you know you are blest? How do you know He’s forgiven all of the sins you’ve confessed?
He made peace through the Blood of the Cross! Reconciling all the lost to Himself through His Son, making us as one, with the Father who loves us so!
How do you know He’s rejoicing? How do you know you’re His Song? How do you know He’s delighted to call you home through His Son?
He made peace through the Blood of the Cross! Reconciling all the lost to Himself through His Son, making us as one, with the Father who loves us so!
With my Father who loves me so! The Sign from the other side.