The awesome New Covenant Revelation God gave us tells us that He, and only He, is able to equip and empower His Last Days New Covenant disciples to fulfill their identity, purpose, and destiny. He is the one and only True Source. To look to anything besides our one True God is idolatry.
And now we have God’s own Spirit living and operating in us, and it’s time for us to realize what this means how radically new and different this Reality makes us to be! Grasping this is a major goal of our boot camp training beloved. We must now be thoroughly trained to remain focused on our indwelling God, looking to Him for all things in every situation. We must master the art of drawing whatever we will need in the future, solely from our Messiah’s indwelling Presence, Authority, Power, and All-Sufficient Grace!
Holy Spirit is in us to train and equip us to face and deal with any surprises, changing situations, and any obstacle, set of conditions, and demonic forces the Father of Lies may set up against us. We must be fully enveloped by the absolute certainty that God and His Peace, Joy, Confidence, Assurance and Wellbeing are covering and protecting, and providing for us and is guiding our steps at every moment, regardless of whatever we may encounter in the days to come. And by the obedience of faith that our brain rewiring, mental reprogramming and the training of our ongoing mindset recalibration process will instill in us, we will be able to go forward in the absolute certainty that Christ Himself is our Life, Strength, and Perseverance who equips us to endure and overcome in every situation!
“At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well pleasing in Your sight. All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son determines to reveal Him.
“Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is comfortable, and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:25-30 NASB)
So once that amazing New Covenant Life-exchange takes place within us, Christ will be our Life! He will equip us to operate at His supernatural level which, in the past, was beyond the reach of the previous generations of Jewish and non-Jewish children of Abraham. All Sin-corrupted, mortal, fallen human flesh can never attain and maintain such exalted standards of being and doing! It is only thanks to our ability to exchange lives with our Messiah, that this miracle can take place! And this is why the Last Days ‘Stephen Generation’ of disciples, must learn mastery of the Resurrection Mode of valiant, effective New Covenant level warrior performance. This level only develops as a result of the training and discipline that God’s Living Word and Holy Spirit are able to impart. And this is why God must make us ready, willing, and able to defer to Him, and stay out of His way, so He can satisfy and fulfill His Father’s Perfect Standards and Requirements… in our name!
Notice that as Yeshua began His public ministry, He began to introduce and display this deeper, unprecedented New Covenant level of being with and knowing and understanding God. He was continually embodying and demonstrating these Realities to the disciples that were following Him. And what they saw coming out of Him did overwhelming violence to their time-honored earthbound paradigms, biases, assumptions and expectations.
“When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. And behold, a violent storm developed on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep. And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing!” He said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm. The men were amazed, and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” (Matthew 8:23-27 NASB, Emphasis added)
Can you see that the Lord was operating from a Heavenly level that far exceeded anything they were able to do from the fallen earthly level in which they were currently trapped? This is why He was continually shocking and pulling the rug out from under their mental and emotional feet. He was showing them first-hand what the New Covenant Spirit-empowered lifestyle would make available to them in the near future! So all the while this was going on, the Lord kept attacking and dismantling their deep-seated earthly perspectives, attitudes, and assumptions. And this was happening while the disciples continued to operate from at the level common to all fallen Sin-corrupted children of Adam. And during our training, we’ll go through the same confusion and befuddlement that they had to experience along the way… until… the inner workings of our brains and souls are upgraded and renewed, and we’re equipped and ready to operate at that New Covenant Christ-in-us wavelength frequency.
Notice that the Lord always came across as maddeningly unpredictable, ‘unorthodox’, and ‘other-worldly’ to them and the others around them. He continually upended their expectations and turned their worldview upside down. This is why what He often said and did was so shocking and at times seemed to be so blasphemous and heretical! But in Truth, He was revealing and unpacking His Father’s Heavenly Perspectives and New Covenant Realities before them, and contrasting them with what is so common to those who do not know God and His awesome New Covenant ways:
“Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked abandon his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. For as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:6-9 NASB)
“And He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,
- Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth.
- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for Righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
- Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
- Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
- Blessed are those who have been persecuted (by enemies like your Roman oppressors) for the sake of Righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Blessed are you when people (Jews and Gentiles alike) insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in Heaven is great; for in this same way they persecuted the prophets (God sent to Israel) who were before you.
You are the Salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by people.” (Matthew 5:1-13 NASB)
Beloved, this perspective and level of Reality is totally beyond the ability of the natural, earthly, Sin-corrupted minds and hearts of men, including those of God’s chosen people who still know nothing of God’s New Covenant Reality-Shift with its Resurrection Mode of being and doing. Yes, God had given them hints and clues through the writings of Moses and the prophets that He would be sending Someone to them in the future who would take them beyond what Moses had been able to lead them into, but it was so novel and beyond their ability to imagine, that none of the Lord’s first century contemporaries were prepared for what He would be to them once He finally arrived among them in the flesh! And that’s why even many of His fellow Israelites are not able to catch on to what Moses was prophesying about Him.
“Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” (John 5:45-47 NASB. Emphasis added.)
Even His disciples kept stumbling over the newness and the depths of the way He described and defined these novel New Covenant viewpoints and requirements He was describing and embodying. They couldn’t grasp the fact that He wasn’t talking about what fallen humans are required to do FOR God. He was announcing how God’s Spirit was about to begin to reveal about what God’s Word made flesh would soon be and do to them, for them, and through them, in and through His New Covenant Spirit-empowered Reality-Shift! None of what Yeshua was teaching and demonstrating was going to be about us, and what we might think of doing FOR God, or LIKE God. He was announcing that in the New Covenant everything was going to be about GOD… and what only He is able to do to us, in us, for us, and through us, in our name!
“You are the (God-imparted) Light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lamp stand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Your (God-imparted) Light must shine before people in such a way that they may see your good works (revealed through you by the way you embrace, and come to know, relate to, and interact with… God’s Living Word. And as you do this, you authentically serve), and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.
Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law (Torah) or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill it (Myself in your name. I will elevate and perfect you, by My Absolute Authority and Perfect Finished Works, according to what is written in Scripture! And I will do it all, THROUGH YOU! I by My Authority, will establish My Kingdom on Earth and fulfill My Promises) from the New Covenant ‘Christ-in-you’ level. And l will perfectly satisfy My Father’s Perfectly Perfect Heavenly Standards in your name)!
For truly I say to you, until Heaven and Earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished (by Me and the works that only I can do through you)! Therefore, whoever nullifies one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall (keep getting in My way, and will) be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. For I say to you that unless your righteousness (that I will be as I live in and from you through My New Covenant) far surpasses that (Self-striving Covenant of Sinai level of understanding and flesh-originated religiosity) of the scribes and Pharisees (who strive to observe that Covenant by relying by their well-intentioned personal efforts), you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven!” (Matthew 5:14-20 NASB, Amplification and emphasis added)
Wow, Beloved, can you even begin to imagine the mind-smashing impact that Yeshua and statements made, like those cited above, would have had on the people of that time? What He said above was utterly shocking and incomprehensible to them! It stirred up enormous amounts of what we call today ‘Cognitive Dissonance.’ And even many among our modern Jewish and non-Jewish contemporaries still do not grasp His meaning!
Nevertheless, when we become aware of the New Covenant Resurrection Mode that is now available for us, we can begin to see why, in God’s sight, no fallen Sin-damaged human can be saved by his or her own efforts and striving! We have never had it in us to originate and perfect our own healing, restoration, and Salvation! The Word of God, Jesus the Messiah, had to become flesh and be one of us, so that He could, as our God-appointed Representative and Champion in God’s Eternal Covenant, actually be to us and for us, our personal Wisdom, Sanctification, Righteousness and Resurrection-level Redemption! Only what God’s Word is free to do in us and for us and through us can meet God’s Perfectly Perfect Standards! (See 1 Corinthians 1:26-31).
So this New Covenant Revelation is what the Lord began to impart to Israel in the first century. And that blessed generation of His post-Ascension disciples, was entrusted with the commission to proclaim, and to personally begin to demonstrate, launch, and spread this awesome Revelation that their Master had demonstrated for them! And since then, each generation of believers has had the opportunity to inherit, embrace, and incorporate this glorious Legacy for themselves and for the world around them! And now, it’s our privilege and honor and responsibility to be part of His earthly Body as He brings His awesome New Covenant miraculous Transformation of Creation to its Ultimate Eternal Consummation and Fulfillment!
God’s Word is in us and with us to completely override and cancel out, the wisdom of this fallen Self-adoring world! So it’s easy to see why our Lord, and His original New Covenant Jewish disciples, were always ‘stirring up’ hornets nests of controversy, misunderstanding, and irate opposition even among their own Israelite people! This happens whenever influential teachers and leaders speak and act from this awesome New Covenant Era Resurrection Mode level! This always goes directly against the grain of the world’s time-honored comfort zones, traditional sensibilities, and status quo expectations of each generation.
“And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! All the miracles that we heard were done in Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’” But He said, “Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.” (Luke 4:23-25 NASB)
“As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew sitting in the tax collector’s office (a man utterly despised and rejected as a traitor to Israel, by his own fellow Jews); and He said to him, “Follow Me!”… (Beloved, get this: A TAX COLLECTOR! He chose a traitorous, greed-driven, renegade Jew who had become a Roman ‘toad!’ He called him to join His own personal inner circle! Really?… Yes, REALLY! Israel’s Messiah invited sinful, Self-preserving pariahs like Matthew, and Simon the ex-murderous zealot, and Judas Iscariot, and Mary Magdalene, and Zaccheus, to join His inner family circle of disciples and trusted friends! He did it to demonstrate the Resurrection Mode heights into which God’s New Covenant Reality-Shift is able to bring all men into!
So it is obvious that His Father most certainly sent His Living Word to turn this fallen world upside down and inside out! And this New Covenant revelation was so important to God and for the purposes of His Eternal Kingdom, that no matter what cost Yeshua and His disciples would have to pay to fulfill their commissions… for all of Creation, the end result of what Yeshua was sent here to do would be well worth the cost!
“And he (Matthew) got up and followed Him. Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house (of Matthew), behold, many tax collectors and sinners (former colleagues of Matthew) came and began dining with Jesus and His disciples.
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, “Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?” But Jesus heard this, He said “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. Now go and learn what this means:
‘I desire compassion, rather than sacrifice,’for I did not come to call the righteous (those who assume they have arrived and have need of nothing), but sinners (who know they’re bankrupt and desperately need God to cleanse, cover and redeem them)!”
Then the disciples of John came to Him, asking, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
But no one puts a patch of unshrunk (New Covenant) cloth on an old(Covenant of Sinai) garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. (So, because Jeremiah clearly revealed that despite her best efforts, Israel failed miserably in trying to fulfill her part of the Mosaic Covenant, God sent His Word to become one of us… to become the Divine/Human Fulfiller of the Mosaic Covenant, and to institute and fulfill God’s New Covenant with Israel IN THE NAME OF ALL MANKIND! This was the ‘Good News’… the ‘New Thing’… that God had promised to do for Israel, through the prophets.)
Nor do people put new wine (Your Messiah’s New Covenant Redemption) into old (Covenant of Sinai) wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new (New Covenant) wine into fresh (New Covenant disciple) wineskins, and both (that is, what God gave through the Old, and what He gave through the New) are (both) preserved (and fulfilled).” (Matthew 9:9-17 NASB, Amplification and emphasis added)
‘Old torn tattered garments’ in need of patching? A need for ‘brand new wineskins to contain a fresh new vintage of wine? What was that all about? What was Yeshua saying to His thoroughly confused and shocked contemporaries? Hadn’t the sages of Israel diligently pored over the written Word of God and the wisdom of Israel’s finest scholars, rabbis, and wise men since ancient times? So how could they not have known what to expect? Well, they thought they were ready, but they’d forgotten that they too were fallen children of Adam. They too inherited fallen, Sin-corrupted flesh! And when Yeshua arrived on the scene and began to institute, launch, demonstrate, and explain the innovation and depths of meaning contained in the New Covenant, they simply proved they were nothing special by their knee-jerk negative flesh-originated reactions to the glorious Heavenly Gospel that He came to proclaim and introduce into this fallen, Sin-adoring, desperately bankrupt world:
“And the Father who sent Me, He has testified about Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. Also you do not have His Word remaining in you, BECAUSE YOU DO NOT BELIEVE HIM WHOM HE SENT!
You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have Eternal Life; and it is those very Scriptures that testify about Me; and yet you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have (God’s New Covenant Eternal) Life!
“Let the wicked abandon his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from Heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it produce and sprout, and providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My Word be which goes out of My mouth; (unlike the strivings of your fallen flesh, the work My Living Word does…) It will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the purpose for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:7-11 NASB, Amplification and emphasis added)
And this is why Messiah Yeshua said to the spiritual leaders of His Jewish contemporaries:
“I do not receive Glory from people; but I know you, (Sin-corrupted children of Adam) that you do not have the love of God in yourselves (despite all of your religious striving). I have come in My Father’s Name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe, when you accept glory from one another, and you do not seek the Glory that is from the one and only God?
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope. FOR IF YOU BELIEVED MOSES, YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME; FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME! BUT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE HIS WRITINGS, HOW WILL YOU BELIEVE MY WORDS?” (John 5:37-47 NASB, Emphasis added)
Yeshua came to unpack the meaning and impact of what Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and other prophets had foretold. And it shocked and stunned most of first century Israel because this Treasure had been hidden within God’s heart since before the foundation of this world! Only God could have comprehended what was in it! And only He could have brought Humanity into its Fulfillment!
So this radically different new territory was what the New Covenant Last Days disciples were commissioned to explore, absorb, embody, and proclaim! And it was so shocking and unexpected that even most of God’s chosen people denounced, rejected, and condemned their own Messiah for being an evil blaspheming heretic and false prophet. They judged Him to be worthy of death, according to their understanding of what Deuteronomy 13 contained! And this is why Yeshua said to them:
“The one who is of God hears (believes and obeys) the Words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you (the fallen Sin-loving race of Adam) are no longer (part of the original Creation) of God.”
The (religious Judean leaders from among the) Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not rightly say that You are a Samaritan, and You have a demon?” Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; on the contrary, I honor My Father, and you (children of the Fall of Adam can do nothing but) dishonor Me.” (John 8:47-49 NASB, Amplification and emphasis added)
So right after experiencing the trauma of witnessing Yeshua’s arrest, torture, and brutal execution… and then undergoing the even more overwhelming shock of seeing Him standing before them in His resurrected Reality… can you get a sense of the overwhelmingly awkward, bewildering, and dangerous situation in which His disciples found themselves? He ascended into the Heavens to return to His Father… leaving them behind… gaping open-mouthed at the clouds… into which He had just completely disappeared! So now what were they supposed to think and do? And what would God be expecting of them from that point forward? The answer to that was simple; but it would be excruciating to learn and master!
Living From the Obedience of Faith
Now they had to learn to rely and trust EXCLUSIVELY upon what God’s Living Word had already done to create, redeem, reconcile and restore everything! And despite how wicked, imperfect, and ‘unfinished’ this Sin-adoring world appeared to them, these disciples had to be trained to become firmly and unshakably convinced that God, from His Eternal Perspective and Will, had already done all of the necessary work to make everything, past, present, and future, RIGHT! So their job would be to serve as witnesses to all of this, even though at present, it seemed obvious to everyone else around them who viewed everything from their fallen, carnal, grossly limited perspectives, that nothing at all had changed! And so it was amid that clash of the two vastly different mindsets and viewpoints the New Covenant disciples began to learn what the term ‘the obedience of faith’ really meant. And, on that basis, Holy Spirit equipped them to believe God’s Word and identify with its revelation which gave them the courage and motivation necessary to persevere and invade the enemy territory and eventually overcome Satan, Sin, and even Death itself!
This is why they had to be trained, drilled, and recalibrated to know beyond the shadow of any doubt that their Messiah had already done all the work that needed to be done. They had to learn to rest, and abide with Him with total outrageous, unshakable confidence. They had to be ready to continually receive everything God had already given them… FROM HIS INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT… by the obedience of faith in what God’s Word had done and said. No longer could they be led around by whatever they saw, heard, imagined, thought or felt! They had to realize that God sees everything from the perspective of His Eternal Perfection. From that perspective, everything is already perfectly done and consummated! But in our fallen state, we can only see it in our time and space past, present, and future viewpoints! We know some of the past, and some of the present… but we cannot see or get in touch with anything that is still future to us.
So it is purely by faith in God’s Word that we must be trained to depend on our indwelling Lord on a step-by-step, moment-by-moment, need to know, military-level basis! What is perfect and complete in Eternity is what Holy Spirit will be imparting to us in step-by-step, one day at a time portions. So we must be weaned from our habit of relying on our own understanding, and believing our fallen Sin-corrupted faculties and senses. We must die to our habit of insisting on knowing everything in advance before we get started. Now we must be trained to step out in faith, and abide in, and interact with, and receive everything from our indwelling Commander… purely by our total trust and reliance upon GOD’S REVEALED WORD!
“And when you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But as for you, when you pray go into your inner room, close your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles (pagan idolators) do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him!” (Matthew 6:5-8 NASB, Emphasis added)
According to what Moses and other prophets had revealed, God does not need our help or advice at all! The New Covenant doesn’t depend on Man’s present or future inadequate performance. Man has already been given full opportunity to try to meet and satisfy God’s Standards through the Covenant of Moses. And we have all failed miserably! So now… in the New Covenant, we can know for sure that everything depends on God… and the Completed Performance of His Infinitely Perfect, Eternal Word’s Works of Creation, Redemption, Reconciliation, and Full Consummated Restoration! And Genesis has already revealed this:
“And so the Heavens and the Earth were completed, and all their heavenly lights. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.” (Genesis 2:1-3 NASB, Emphasis added)
And texts like the following one from Hebrews amplify the meaning of what the Torah introduced above:
“Therefore, we must fear if, while a promise remains of entering His Rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also did; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united with those who listened with faith. For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My anger, they certainly shall not enter My rest,”… ALTHOUGH HIS WORKS WERE FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; and again in this passage, “They certainly shall not enter My rest.” Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who previously had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts!” (Hebrews 4:1-7 NASB, Emphasis added)
So, beloved friends, please get this: this is the Revelation God now has to impart to us, the way a white-hot branding iron imparts their owner’s brand upon their hide! Our brains and souls must have this Truth branded indelibly into the sure and certain assurance that our Commander has already created, redeemed, paid for, and given to us EVERYTHING we will ever need to fulfill our God-given purpose, identity, earthly commissions, and destinies. And He has truly made us to be God’s Blood Covenant sons and heirs! There’s nothing left for us to try to attain! It’s what we now are in our Messiah that matters! He is our Perfect and Complete Treasure, Covering, Perfection and Eternal Triumph! He is the Full Armor of God that now covers us! And this is the operational level for which our brains must now be rewired, and our minds and wills must now be recalibrated and reprogrammed, so we can actually embody it and PROVE that it is so, right in the midst of the fiercest, most intense spiritual combat!
“And God saw all that He (through His Living Creative Word) had made, and behold, IT WAS VERY GOOD. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31 NASB, Amplification and emphasis added)
“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, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the Glory of His Grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved.” (Ephesians 1:3-6 NASB, Emphasis added)
Beloved, God’s Living Word made flesh was, and always will be, the Infinitely Perfect Living Image and Likeness of His Father! To be with one with the Son, is to be one with the Father! To love and know the one, is to know and love the other. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are forever inseparable. And in the New Covenant, it is now possible for our Living God to live and act and reveal Himself in and to and through each one of His Word’s New Covenant disciples! So no longer do true disciples go to God’s temple. No, God has done a brand-new thing. From now on, these blessed, highly privileged, glorified disciples who will be forever one with their glorified risen Messiah, ARE the Living Stones that constitute God’s New Covenant Temple! And that will always be GOOD ENOUGH!
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