Sharing from Shari:
Hello again from your friend in Oklahoma! The Christ in me is being compelled to share and edify in Love. We should be seeing more of this as John compels us to do "so much more as we see the day approaching", Heb 10:23-24. The context of Hebrews chapter 10 begins with Jesus’ worshippers discarding the "shadow"" Law, who once purged should have no more conscience of sins. His Body must purge out this old leaven that we may be a new unleavened lump, 1Cor 5:7. The old Law served its purpose for the Age for which it was sent. Just as Moses did not enter the Promised Land, the New Creation cannot bring the old leaven forward into the New Age of the Millennium. There has been a change of the Law from Moses to Melchizedek, to the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. He is at the right hand of Authority seated in the Divine Court and has become the Law of God written on our hearts of flesh by the finger of God, His Spirit. We must put to death our identity with the Law of Moses and gird our loins with the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. As kings and priests, we must identify with Christ the King and Melchizedek the Priest.
We all KNOW this, but our words are Messengers therefore our choice of words is VITAL to the MESSAGE we convey and the IMAGE we show forth. We have to get our Message right to Manifest the Angel of His Presence and bring forth the Manifestation of His Sons.
Discernment came forth on October 19 that concerns IDENTITY. "We are what we say we are", just as "We are what we eat". The Body of Christ cannot have any old leaven that could cause DOUBLE MINDEDNESS and distort His IDENTITY. The Physician must heal Himself by clearing up His marred Image. When Jesus was in the world He basically said, "stop offering YOUR sacrifices and start preparing Me a Body", Heb 10:5. It is His Bride, His Body that prepares Herself and makes Herself ready to receive Him, her Head and Husband. This cannot occur until we come into Unity with One Another in Him, as "bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh".
We must remove any division that could cause a speck in our "eye" and create double mindedness. We must get our eye off of SELF. If what we say is self-serving and does not Manifest Christ, then we must spit it out and cast it to the ground as salt that has lost its flavor. We are One Body, and our Profession of Faith must not waver, as this produces double mindedness in our members. Just as the Israelites got tired of eating Manna, some of the "Spiritual Bread" we have been eating is just as stale and void of flavor as the wafers we swallow and call "Communion". This is what Disunity tastes like. Peter and Paul had a difference of opinion, Jew vs. Greek. Instead of THIS or THAT, it was BOTH. If BOTH are TRUE, then Love of the Truth requires that BOTH be eaten in COMMON-UNION. Read 1Cor 11:16-34, and dig into the Strong’s meanings of those words.
The last thing Jesus did with His disciples before the Cross was share the Lord’s Supper. He told us we must eat His Body and drink His Blood, which brings me back to Heb 10:23-24, as there is so much MEET in this verse. John is describing the "Assembling of the Lord’s Body".
"HOLD FAST" describes possessing the LAND, or bringing the Internal to the External, Heaven to Earth. http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G2722&t=KJV.
The verb is "echo" http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G2192&t=KJV. That word in English implies that Jesus hears His Bride’s VOICE in us clearly calling out to Him, with no distortion or disunity. The meaning of the Hebrew word "echo" is to have, own, and possess external things such as pertain to riches (treasure), furniture, utensils, goods or food used by those joined to any one by the bonds of natural Blood (inheritance) or Marriage or Friendship by duty or by law (legal right) of attendance (tending to) or companionship (in the Presence of). Just as Jesus was in Mary at her wedding, as we clean SELF out of our treasure trunk His Bride makes herself ready with His Manchild and calls out to Jesus for the Wedding Supper.
John says to "CONSIDER One Another to provoke unto Love and to Good Works." The Good Work being "prepared" in His Bride is CHRIST IN US. The wise virgins are watching, taking HEED, and filling their lamps with the OIL of Christ. This oil must be extracted from His Olives (all-lives) as His many members take heed to consider one another. "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their Angels do always behold the Face (Presence) of my Father which is in heaven. Mat 18:10. What we do to the least of these, we do to Christ in us.
The Hebrew word for flesh is the masculine noun "basar" whose verb means to bear news, bear tidings, publish, preach, SHOW FORTH, to gladden with good news, to announce (salvation) as good news. The Hebrew word Adam used for his wife, or "bone" of his bone is the feminine noun "etsem" which means essence or substance of and its verb means to be vast, be numerous, be mighty, to make strong, to shut (the eyes), close (the eyes). Chew on that awhile!
The flesh and bone Body of Christ SHOWS FORTH the Good News, His Word Manifest in Flesh. His many Members are mighty in strength because they walk not by sight, but by the Spirit. Likewise the closing of the eye indicates that SELF has been put to death in order to put on Christ and open the eye of the Spirit. The natural man gets his life from his blood. Since Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, SELF must be sown in death to be raised in Life with a Flesh and Bone Body like unto His. This is the First Resurrection at the Last Trump. The New Creation is the Temple of God and the Wine in His Vessels is the Lifeblood of the Holy Spirit. The Flesh and Blood of the New Creation IS the Bread of Heaven and the Wine of His Spirit served at the Lord’s Supper.
Everyone who has this Hope PURIFIES Himself, just as He is Pure, 1Jn 3:3. We should be seeking the Lord and feeling after Him to find HIM in Whom we Live, Move, and have our BEing–for we are His Offspring (Acts 17:27-18). To bring forth the Manchild’s Birth, we must bring the Internal to the External, but first we must assemble His Body. HOW DO WE DO THIS?
Every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven [must be] like unto a man that is an householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old, Mat 13:52. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: which when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into VESSELS, but cast the bad away, Mat 13:47. We must NOW reach into this dragnet and sort through all the fish. Fish are not people, they symbolize spiritual food. There is much "food" being eaten and proclaimed as the Lord’s Supper that is NOT His Flesh therefore does not proclaim Him. We must sort out the good from the bad, and gather the good into Peter’s net of 153 "large" fishes http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3173&t=NKJV. This net symbolizes the Manchild with Pure Blood in His VESSELS.
After this, Jesus said “Come and eat breakfast.” This morning Meal symbolizes the Dawn of a New Day, the Kingdom Millennium. The disciples did not recognize this Man as Jesus but they KNEW it was Him when He came and took the bread and gave it to them, and likewise the fish. This IS NOW the third time Jesus showed Himself to His disciples after He was raised from the dead (Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles). So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus posed the same question to Peter 3 times, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” Each time Peter said Yes, Jesus gave Him a Command. Jesus is showing us that if we Love Him, we will do what HE Says.
“Feed My lambs." (Passover)
“Tend My sheep.” (Pentecost, "tending" indicates a "tarrying")
“Feed My sheep" (Tabernacles)
These three times Jesus questioned Peter symbolize Him making an assessment of His Church. It stands to reason for this assessment to come at the Head of the Year since that is when we expect to hear the Last Trump. To be "trumpeted" as His Body or His Assembly we must have a Pure Heart that has His Pure Love running through our vessels. For Perfect to come, we must come to the Unity of the Faith. There must be is a Consensus of Agreement.
There was a Census taken last year that I believe initiated the Lord’s summons of His Members to change the Water of Instruction into the Wine of His Spirit. Silver coins were collected to represent His Remnant. Silver represents Redemption. This is pictured in Mat 22:19-21 when Jesus said, "Show me the tribute money." (like Jerry Maguire). And they brought unto him a penny. And He said unto them, "Whose is this IMAGE and superscription?" They say unto Him, "Caesar’s." Then said He unto them, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s." When Silver changes to Gold, we will possess His Divine Nature. When the face on our coins reflect His Image, then He will pay His Tribute to God. We must be about Our Brother’s business of fishing out these coins!
We cannot rob God, being prevented by our false humility and fear of stealing His Glory, John 7:18. When He gave us His Holy Spirit, He gave us all power and authority to do the Greater Work of producing Christ In Us, therefore Jesus Himself enlisted the New Creation and made this a JOINT effort on our PART, Eph 4:16.
We are His House-Holders. His Kingdom is at our hand!
We must identify ourselves as Jesus, the Son of Man. If "We are what we say we are" then:
Instead of our own "prophetic" works, "We must Do ONLY what we saw Jesus Do."
Instead of our own "Divinations", "We must Say ONLY what we saw Him Say.
He who has ears to hear, Let Him Hear.
The New Creation is the Son of Man and rightful King of heaven and earth. We are transitioning out of Babylon into the Kingdom of His Dear Son. Beltshazzar was the last king of Babylon. He was dethroned after he saw the handwriting on the wall because he drank wine out of the vessels from the temple of God. He was weighed in the balance and sentenced to death. I see this as a type of death in the old becoming Life in the New, 2Cor 4:12. When Jesus the Master of the Feast has tasted PURE WINE in His vessels from His Temple, the Mind of Christ in US, He will confirm that the old has passed away, and sound the Last Trump to declare "Behold, I make all things new.", Rev 21:5.
May Christ be lifted up.
Love in Him,
Shari