He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princely nobles, and inherit a seat of honor; for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, And He set the world on them. 1 Samuel 2:8.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I love you, I believe in you, and I live in you so you may live by My power and life.
Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father; to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Revelation 1:5-6.
I have clothed you in power from on High. It is time that you woke up to who you are, who I am, and what you have ahead of you forever. And what you are doing now will determine your forever.
You cannot justify yourself so I have justified you. What you could not do in the flesh, I did.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1-4.
I want to talk to you about many things today and they all have to do with Kingdom. I have made you a kingdom, priests unto Me in Christ. You belong to a Kingdom. I have translated you from darkness to the Kingdom of My beloved Son. You are a member of that Kingdom and you have certain rights, benefits, and responsibilities. I gave you your life and being, and the world around you, as a steward under a royal mandate and a sacred duty. You are reigning in life through Him by receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness that Jesus came to give you. I have empowered you, and washed, cleansed, forgiven, and formed you so that you may proclaim to all the world My excellencies of that bring you into My own marvelous light.
Once, in Adam, you were no longer My people, but now in Jesus you are My people. Once, in Adam, you had not received mercy, but now in Jesus you have received mercy. And how do you respond to this gift? You abstain from fleshly lusts that wage a war on your blessed soul, you keep your behavior excellent, for you are My witnesses to the world, you honor all people (do not abuse or demean them), love the brotherhood of believers, revere (fear) Me, and honor the king, above all, the King of kings. 1 Peter 2:9-24,
Eternal life is a Kingdom life. It is walking in newness life as you leave what is passed behind and go forward at a whole new level, translated out of darkness into My marvelous light as a royal priesthood, a holy nation, nd a people set apart.
JESUS CAME AND REDEFINED LIFE. He brought abundant life that overflows your cup and is eternal. He gave you authority over demons and all the devil has done to undo it and restore the years he stole from you.
Your life is not ended in physical death as some ungodly people would expound. Even the Sadducees of Jesus’ day said this and they were the priests and scribes! Blind leaders of the blind that bound up the people with heavy loads. You do not end as a little pile of ashes in a box left at someone’s door by FedEx from the mortuary. You are taken up in glory (the mystery of godliness).
I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. 16 By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in the flesh, was vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory. 1 Timothy 3:15-16.
Do not face passing over from this life with fear, fearing an end as a little pile of dust and ashes. No. Never. Absent from the body, you are present with Me.
For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10.
I call death falling asleep and waking in My delightful presence for those in Christ Jesus, for He lay in the dust of death for you, Psalm 22:15, and tasted death for everyone, Hebrews 2:9, so you never have to lay in the dust or taste eternal death.
The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.’ John 8:52.
But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:9.
He paid your judgment giving His eternal life in the flesh in payment for the one you lost in Adam, and He took your sentence, “dust you are and to dust you shall return” and satisfied it in full, so that whether you are awake or asleep you will LIVE together with Him. All are alive for Me.
You will not end as a little pile of ashes, I have given you beauty for your ashes. In you is resurrection power! When you are born again by My Word, in your spirit there is implanted an imperishable seed that is able to save your spirit, your soul, and your body by shedding the seed coat and blooming into a glorious imperishable body to house them forever in glory and splendor. Do you remember that Jesus said:
And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 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.” John 12:23-24.
Now listen and understand what is going on in your born again spirit in which is implanted the imperishable seed of My Word that is quickening your mortal body and has eternal life in it.
I liken My Word to seed and give you parable about it growing to harvest. I want you to consider now the germination of a seed and you will understand that your glorified body is already in you, you are not only dust and ashes. Those are only the seed coat! The outer covering of a seed that breaks open to allow the plant to emerge during germination is called the seed coat. The seed coat serves as a protective layer, shielding the embryo and its food supply (endosperm) from damage and drying out. Feed yourself with spirit food, not flesh food. Nourish that seed within you. Protect and guard you heart for in it are the issues of life.
Let us go deeper in the process, for all who believe and have been born again have the imperishable seed of My Word that contains eternal life within your spirit, that is, within the inner man of your heart.
A seed contains a miniature plant, called an embryo, that can develop into a fully grown plant. The outer shell of a seed, called a seed coat, protects the embryo. Inside the seed a nutritious material provides food to the embryo.
But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4.
Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.” John 6:27.
So 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 yourselves. 54 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. John 6:53-54.
What triggers germination of the seed? When a seed is exposed to the proper conditions, primarily water (living water), oxygen (seated above at My right hand), and the right temperature (let My face shine on you for it is more radiant than the sun in all its strength), it begins to germinate. But that is only the beginning.
The seed absorbs water (a process called imbibition), causing it to swell and the seed coat to soften (removing the hard heart dead to Me, giving you a living heart flowing with the well sping of living water within). The pressure from the swelling embryo, especially the elongating embryonic root (radicle), eventually causes the seed coat to rupture, allowing the radicle to emerge and anchor the plant in the soil (putting your roots down into Christ, rooted and grounded in love). And that is where you have to be grounded to bloom into eternal life.
“For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:40.
Following the radicle, the embryonic shoot (plumule) then begins to emerge, growing upwards toward the light and developing into the plant’s stem and leaves. It is then the seed coat breaks off entirely and falls to the ground as the plant shoots up and its leaves appear. Just so, for your glorious body to break out of the ruptured seed coat, the seed coat is shed in physical death to return to the dust from which it came and the mature plant of your glorious body blooms into eternity, imperishable born out of the imperishable embryo within the seed coat.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44.
Do you understand this Scripture now:
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession (your body), to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:13-14.
That lifeless, inert shell in the coffin, that everyone will gaze at and mourn the “loss” of their loved one, that pile of ashes in cremation, for the believer is only the outer hull of the seed coat ruptured and left behind as the glorious plant contained within is bearing fruit unto eternal life, caught up with My Son, brought home to plant in My house forever.
Do not fear death, it is only the birth pangs of eternal life. Just know the seed coat is rupturing as you are rapturing. Unless the seed falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Your mortal body, your seed coat, deep within is nurturing the embyo of your glorified body unto eternal life. Feed that embryo and let it begin to germinate as you put your roots down in Christ, for the redemption of your spirit and soul is complete, in the spirit you are raised up with Christ and seated in heaven at My right hand. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. Romans 8:23.
Are you beginning to look at death for the believer in a whole new perspective?
Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your 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. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:50-58.
Do you see now why it is so important that people receive the implanted word of truth into their hearts, believe I raised Jesus from the dead, and confess Him as Lord? Without being born again by receiving My imperishable Word you have no embryo of eternal life within you to rise up and blossom on the last day.
Jesus is My Word. And in My Word is eternal life. Do you understand this Scripture now?
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. 1 John 5:11-12.
And to give you that seed of everlasting life, My Son first had to bear all your sins and cleanse your heart, removing your hard dead heart of sin and giving you a living heart sensitive to My Word and indwelt by My Spirit so the eternal seed could plant, imbibe, and grow with resurrection power. And it is rooted and cultivated in love. If you haven’t got the root down in the right soil you will never have the right shoot upward. Now you can understand why Paul prayed that Christ would dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, would be able to comprehend with all those being sanctified the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you would be filled up to all My fullness.
I love you. Have you received the implanted Word that can save your souls? Guard that seed, don’t let the devil steal it as he did with Adam, don’t let the thorns choke it or the weeds stop its growth. The best way to grow the seed is to rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and give constant thanks, that is My Will for you IN Christ Jesus. The more in Him you are, the more your embryo of eternal life will grow.