THE KING'S GREATEST SECRET !
By John Bohlen & John 5:19, 30.
Copyright ©1993 by John Roy Bohlen Po Box 7123, Minneapolis, MN 55407 USA
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Roy Bohlen is called to a foundational ministry to the Body of Christ. He has written four boos about marriage, raising children, life’s priorities, and successful relationships in the Church today. Several more books are in the process, including one on God's standard or the Church. He has fulfilled the office of a deacon, an elder, an evangelist, a teacher, and a pastor, for over twenty years
In 1979, during a 40 day fast, God directed John to focus on the fulfillment of the Great Commission and the importance of the preaching ": The Gospel of the Kingdom", and "The King's Greatest Secret". Since then, John's apostolic calling has taken him to Brazil, Jordan, Israel, Australia, England, Nigeria (10 times), and many places across the United States. More that 70,000 copies of the books have been distributed around the world
John is available to teach seminars of his book, doing the will of God, marriage and family, relationships, and life's priorities.
Comments About John Bohlen
John Bohlen is a person of unquestionable integrity who has dedicated his life to the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
John’s message about the King's Greatest Secret has blessed many throughout the United States, and his book are in great demand in Africa as well as in the United States. In the opinion of many, John is one of the foremost authorities on the concept of the Kingdom of God
John is an active speaker who has blessed audiences in three continents with his Spirit-led messages about Kingdom living, and what the Kingdom of God really is.
My wife and I have had the privilege of contributing to the Great Commission Ministry and felt that it has been a good investment in the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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THE KING'S GREATEST SECRET!!!!
Introduction
A SECRET! The GREATEST secret! God's Greatest Secret! The best Secret you could know but almost no one knows this Secret! That’s why it's a Secret! God kept it a Secret until just the right time! Now is the time! You may be one of the very first to get in on the secret - until now, one of the very few. The Bible calls it "The Mystery of the Gospel of the Ages"! Mystery means " A Secret"! Gospel means "Glorious Good News"! Since this "Secret" comes from The KING of Kings I call it
"The King's Greatest Secret!"
If you learn this "Secret:
God promises that you will "live happily ever after"! God promises that you will live "The Overcoming Life".
God promises you that all of your days you will be "merry and bright". God promises you happiness and success.
God promises you:
Great fulfillment Lasting accomplishment, Great personal satisfaction,
Peace that passes all understanding, Joy unspeakable,
Full of glory, Life eternal,
Riches untold, fullness of joy, And
Pleasures forevermore!!!!
IF YOU GET THIS SECRET!!!
When I tell you this "Secret", you may be tempted to say, "Oh silly, I already know about this." But do you know that lass than 1 in 10,000 born-again believers knows this "Secret"? This "Secret" is also a "mystery"! That's why you will need to pay close attention and pray especially that God will help you solve this mystery, and help you learn this special "Secret"!
Let me ask you a quick question that will help you know whether or not you already know this "Secret". Quickly list the most important things that Christ Jesus took of yours with Him to the Cross. Most Christians will rightly say, "Yes, He took my sins, so I can be forgiven." A few more will rightl This "Secret" is also a "mystery"! That's why you will need to pay close attention and pray especially that God will help you solve this mystery, and help you learn this special "Secret"!
Let me ask you a quick question that will help you know whether or not you already know this "Secret". Quickly list the most important things that Christ Jesus took of yours with Him to the Cross. Most Christians will rightly say, "Yes, He took my sins, so I can be forgiven." A few more will rightly answer, "Yes, He took my sicknesses, so that I can be healed." Please stop for a moment to answer this question.
WARNING!
Jesus prayed a strange prayer: He "rejoiced on Spirit" and prayed, "I thank you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent (of intelligence, discernment and learning), and have revealed them unto babes, (the child-like, the simple, the unskilled), for so it did seem pleasing in Thy sight." Matt. 11:25 & Luke 10:2
Can you imagine Jesus and the Father getting a kick out of telling a "Secret" that children or retarded people understand, but remains hidden from the smart, the educated, the wealthy, the wise?
There is a strange and mysterious quality about this "Secret". It can stand in plain sight for all of a person's life, and one might get the "Secret". As we said, less than 1 in 10,000Christians know this "Secret", even though it is I plain sight, in the New Testament, which means that there is no small chance that you will know this "Most Important of Secrets!". It is even possible that you will still not know the "Secret" even after you read this little book. We have done our very best to make this "Secret" plain, but God has packaged this "Secret" in such a way that you must really pay attention and sincerely ask God to make the mystery lain and understandable.
Everything that we have and are from God is BY HIS MERCY, GRACE, PITY, LOVINGKINDNESS, TENDER MERCIES, LOVE, GRACIOUSNESS, GOODNESS,
and CONDESCENSION - every heartbeat, every breath, every good thought, every kind deed, everything we give God or others - "God has worked in us, both to will, and to do of His good pleasure." And this is no exception. This grace must be coupled with your intercession - if necessary, we encourage - every heartbeat, every breath, every good thought, every kind deed, everything we give God or others - "God has worked in us, both to will, and to do of His good pleasure." And this is no exception. This grace must be coupled with your intercession - if necessary, we encourage you to beg God, and plead with Him, with thanksgiving that He graciously grants you to know - this "Secret". We encourage you to seek God, very respectively, with great persistence - until God graciously, in His great love for you, reveals it to you.
Here it is then:
THE KING'S GREATEST SECRET
!!!! !!
"THE KING'S GREATEST SECRET!"
God has a "Secret"!! He would like to tell it to You! The angels and men of God wanted to know this "Secret", but God wouldn't tell them for thousands of years. Then God told "The Secret" to the Church through the Apostle Paul and other apostles and prophets. That "Secret" was lost and forgotten again during the dark ages, but now is being told again in this special time to the Church. It's "the King's Greatest Secret!" It needs to be told so very much. Almost no one in the Body of Christ today knows "The Secret". We have ministered in many churches across the country and in most of them we ask a certain question to find out if they know "The Secret". In very few places where we have ministered, did they know. The question we asked them was, what did Jesus take of ours with Him to the cross?"
Will you take a minute to answer this before you continue?
We get answers, all of them correct but not complete, such as "He took our sins, our sicknesses, our worries, burdens, fears etc." We say, "That's true that He took these so we can be forgiven, healthy, and without worry (some folks cast their burdens upon Yahweh, the Mighty Right NOW God, but as a fisherman casts, they sit and reel these burdens back to themselves.) But the people still have not told the main thing Christ took with Him to the cross! I suppose the reason they do not know, is that it requires a revelation from God, or one who has a revelation from God, to share "The Secret, before they can know. What a Wonderful Mystery!
MOUNT PO-PO-KAT-A-PE-TEL
We believe that more than 9,999 Christians out of 10,000 relate to God in one of the following incorrect ways:
They relate to God "long distance". That is, they envision God as living way out beyond Mount Popokatapetel somewhere and that if they pray real long and loud and hard, that maybe God will hear them, and that may be, but less likely, the answer will get back. An old song says that Jesus leans out over the battlements of heaven and yells down the distance, "' Hold the fort, for I am coming', Jesus signals still. Wave the answer back to heaven, ' By Thy grace we will.'"
The other incorrect concept of God, (we shall see in a moment why these are incorrect) is that of "A little bitty God inside of a BIG person with still BIGGER problems." We invite Jesus to come into our hearts, and so He does, not as our very LIFE, in most cases, but as a sometimes-thought-of "Guest". (I don't like, nor will I say that prayer, "Come Lord Jesus, be our guest…") I don't want Him to be
a guest, I want Him to come I as the Resident President, the Master, my very LIFE!!! But some of us, when we pray come I as the Resident President, the Master, my very LIFE!!! But some of us, when we pray Jesus hiding way down deep in our hearts somewhere, we get our own echoes back as if we were talking into a well. But God wants to be very Very VERY much more real to us than these.
As my friend, Chuck Dodge, says, "God has a consuming desire to make Himself real to us and to live His life through us. In order for Him to really become our Life, we need to correctly; and in order to relate to Him in a really healthy way, we need to know "The Secret"!
THE "SECRET" !!!
"The Secret" is found in plain sight in a multitude of places in the Bible, especially in places like John 17, Ephesians, Romans, Galatians, Colossians, etc. BEWARE that when you hear this "Secret" you do not think too lightly or casually. The proof that you got "the Secret" will be that you will be able to consistently keep your heart and attitude and spirit right. In fact, if you REALLY get "the Secret", as the following scriptures indicate, there will be o difference between Who Christ is at the Father's right hand, and Who He is ----- in you!
"The Secret Mystery" is this: When Christ went to the Cross, He took US with Him there! When He died, WE died! When He was buried, WE were buried with ALL of our insufficiencies, inabilities, and instabilities!!!! Everything negative, nasty, weak, or sinful about us, He took US to the Cross. Oh, Dear One, if you grasp hold of this "Secret", it will make the difference between you trying to speak good things, and Christ speaking His words through you.
Lord Jesus, please make this plain and understandable. We believe together that You will make the Mystery clear. “I praise Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou didst hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and didst reveal them to babes. Yes, Father for thus it was well pleasing in Thy sight!”(Matthew 11:25 and Luke 10:21 KJ)
Please let me tell you more about “The Secret.” When the Lord Jesus Christ went to the Cross, He took you with Him there! YOU WERE THERE when they crucified my Lord! Christ looked ahead into the present time and saw you and decided that He could not help you any other way, that He could not beat or bless you into being what He wants you to be, could not educate or “religious” you adequately, but that the only hope for you was to take you with Him to the Cross, and kill you dead, along with all of your negative nature and qualities, and bury you. Unlike many self-help books, Chris does not try to get you to “hype” or hypnotize, “con” or convince yourself into thinking that you are really good or nice, adequate or O.K., but that you are horribly hopeless and hideously helpless, apart from Christ taking you to the Cross with Him and putting all of yourself to death and burying it in the tomb with Him. So you do not need to kill yourself or commit suicide, nor do your friends, because Jesus Christ lovingly killed us softly already. But that is not the end of the story!
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL !!!
When Christ rose from the tomb, HE RAISED US UP as a whole, new, beautiful, wonderful, adequate, sufficient, glorious, superior, perfect, able, stable, secure creation in His image in newness of Life so He can come into us and BE our Life, Live your Life, BE our perfection, BE our righteousness!!!
Perhaps you would like to see this “Secret” in the Scriptures. Because of this “Secret”, the following Verses can be attainable in the practical realm of the nitty gritty now:
VICTORY VERSES
I Corinthians 15:57 Victory
IICorinthians 2:14-16 Victory always everywhere Romans 6:7, 18, 22 Free from sin
Colosians 3:1-3 Risen with Christ our life
Ephesians 2:6 Seated with Christ
Psalms 16:11 Fullness of joy: joy unspeakable
Psalms 91 Secret Place of the Most High
Ephesians 1:3-4 Every blessing
Nehemiah 8:10 Joy of the Lord- strength
I Corinthians 2:16 Mind of Christ
Phil. 4:13 Can do all things through Christ
Jude 24 Walk blamelessly
Matt. 5:14 We are the light of the World
Phil 1:21 To Live is Christ
II Cor. 9:8 All power and authority
John 14:13 Whatever we ask
John 10:10 Abundant life
II Peter 1:1-4 We have all things for life
Rom. 8:37 More than conquerors
I John 4:17 We are as He is
Matt 19:26 All things are possible
I John 2:6 We can know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God
Col. 1:25-29 Mystery of the Gospel of the Ages
1 Cor. 1:30 Christ is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption
Galations 2:20 says,"I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME!!!! In Colossians, God says that CHRIST IS OUR LIFE! The Bible says,"For me to live IS Christ." (Phil. 1:21), and "We HAVE the mind of Christ." (I Cor. 2:16). And "A He (Christ) is, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD" (I John 4:17). Oh Dear Heart, I pray fir you with deep, unutterable longing and faith "That the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him! I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may KNOW…" (Eph. 1:17, 18)
My son, Joshua, points out here that if you really get this "Secret", that most of your deepest questions will be answered as Jesus is the "Yes" of God (2 Corinthians 1:17-20).
THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD EXCUSES
Do you realize that if God Himself stepped down from a fluffy white cloud and offered an easy way for us to be consistently victorious, that many Christians would simply not be interested?! The "Good News" message, (that we can walk before the Lord consistently pleasing in motive, thought, word and deed), would be, to many "Christians", very "bad news". A major reason is that they would have to change their "doctrine" and when it comes to doctrine, some folks would rather go to hell than switch! I have gone from door to door trying to persuade people to invite Jesus Christ into their hearts as their Lord, as a necessary FIRST step in escaping the eternal flames of hell, but instead, they most OFTEN answer, "Look, I've got my own . I was born a
., I was raised a , and I'm going to die a !" Most of them might as well have added, "And I am going to hell a !" Church membership does NOT give a person entrance into the Kingdom of God, but only being born again, as Jesus declares I John 3:3-5. and Revelation 3:20, where He tells us how. "I am standing at the door of your life and I'm knocking. If you will invite Me to come into your life and heart as Savior and King of everything, then I will come in." That's how to be born again!
But after we're born again it's very important that we don't begin to make excuses for not measuring up to God's will for us, because, contrary to what we have been taught, there is no excuse for not doing the will of God! I've often wondered what would have happened in the Garden of Eden if Adam would not have made excuses, when God came and asked him why he "messed up". Instead, Adam said, "The woman!" (Then he added) "Whom YOU GAVE to me…" I wonder what would have happened if Adam had said, "Lord, please don't blame Eve. Let all the blame be upon me. She's the weaker vessel, and I should have been looking out after her." Or, what if Eve had said the same? Instead, she blamed the serpent. The only good thing I can think of to say about the devil is that when God came to him, he didn’t pass the buck or try to place blame, (Never mind the fact that he didn't have any place to pass it!)
But it is impossible for us to be both EXCUSING and REPENTING at the same time. God will NOT forgive what we are excusing. Most Christians have been brainwashed, hypnotized, or otherwise programmed into thinking that "nobody's perfect." The excuse, "I'm only human after all….." is typical, but definitely counterproductive.
Remember, the Lord gives His Word, many victory promises: I Corinthians 10:13 says that "There is NO temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but GOD IS FAITHFUL, Who will NOT let you be tempted above what you are able, but will with
the temptation, also make a way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." And in II Corinthians 2:14, “Now thanks be unto God, Who ALWAYS causes us to TRIUMPH IN CHRIST, and make manifest the savor of His knowledge by us in every place.” (Victory=Always=everywhere!!!) And Romans 8:37, “... In ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM that loved (loves) us!” And Philippians 4:13, “I can do ALL things through Christ Who strengthens me!!!”
But, so many of us, if we were honest and consistent with our own system of unbelief and wrong doctrine, have CHANGED these very Victory Scriptures to read OTHER THAN what God has actually said!!! We have tended to say “No! God has NOT given me a way to escape!” or “NO! God does NOT cause me to triumph in every place and circumstance!” or”NO! I am NOT more than a conqueror in all or even very many of these things!” “I am not even a conqueror, much less, more than a conqueror.”
Intricately interwoven into the fabric of our thinking is some wrong doctrine that has been spuriously spread throughout nearly all of Christendom. Protestants and Catholics, EVERY denomination - it seems that hardly anyone has been spared. This doctrine of the dualism of nature concerns our attitude toward our bodies, toward pleasure, our flesh, perfection, victory, - towards Life itself! A fresh revelation realization of “The King’s Greatest Secret changes all this.
MONSTROUS MANICHEAN MADNESS
The Church was fully free of faulty thinking in this area until about the fourth and fifth century after Christ, when a funny but phony philosophy of “dualism” infiltrated the Church from a man called “the father of Christian philosophy and theology”. He introduced a warped way of thinking into the Church that was not corrected by the theologians or philosophers that were to follow. Here is the man, the doctrine and the correction to his approach.
St. Augustine, 354-430 A.D., was a Greek Manicheist philosopher prior to his coming into the Church. Here, we quote from the World Book Dictionary: “Manchiean (man’ e ke’ en) -n, a member of a Gnostic sect, arising in Persia in the 200’s AD., compounded of Christian, Buddhistic, Zoroastrian, and other beliefs, and maintaining a theological dualism in which the body and matter were identified with darkness and evil, and the soul, striving to liberate Itself, was identified with light and goodness. - In other words, while God’s Hebrews believed matter and the body to be bad or good, depending upon the use to which it was put, - the Manichiests believed, and taught, that the body was evil, and that everything that the body did, or was, or said was only always exceedingly sinful. Sound familiar? Nearly every church and catechism and liturgy we know of, has something of this within it. Some have even given the illustration: that inside every
person there is a white dog nature and a black dog nature and that the one that wins is the one you say “sic’em” to (or feed) the most. That’s what we mean by “dualism”.
Instead, God’s Hebrews properly said that matter, a pen, a human body was not bad in itself, but that its inherent goodness or evil was determined by what one did with that matter or pen or human body. This is why, in Romans, Paul says that ‘the instruments of our body are slaves of righteousness if we yield them to do righteous things, and that they are instruments of unrighteousness if we yield them to do unrighteous things.”
But the Manicheans said that the members of our body are bad because they were made of substance, of material, of matter. So, In Augustine’s writings, he says that it is a sin to watch a dog chase a rabbit. Why? Because the body gets excited and involved, and says, “Let’s see now, is the dog gonna catch the rabbit, or is the rabbit gonna catch the dog?” Augustine said, “I have learned to take my food as medicine.” In other words, he disciplined himself to the place where a big juicy piece of beefsteak tasted like cod liver oil, just so his body would not get all involved, excited, and sinful. My well-rounded mother told me one time that every act of sex was sinful. (She had four grown children!) She quoted David’s verse, “I was born and conceived in sin.” She didn’t know the Jewish tradition about David’s personal family situation. I said, “Mother, what a terrible thing to say about us kids.”
The real question is NOT “Can I keep from sinning?” but ‘Is God great enough to keep me from sinning?!.” Is He? If someone asks me. ‘Do you ever get a wrong spirit or attitude toward your wife or children or anyone?” or if they say, ‘Don’t you ever sin?” I respond, “I don’t recommend It!” or ‘We’re not in favor of it.” If they argue, ‘Do you actually think a person can get through the day without sinning?!” I respond, “we’d advise it.”
If you admit that you do not sin, they will call you a liar. But if you say you do sin, they will say. “See there! It’s not possible to keep from sinning.”
Mark Twain allegedly wrote in his memoirs. “Went to church today. Preacher preached on sin. Only problem was, I couldn’t rahtly tell whether he was for It. ‘r again’ It!” You know? Sometimes a body can’t tell by looking at some Christians’ lives and doctrines whether or not they’re in favor of sin or against it, either!!!
HOW LONG CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT SINNING?
I John 1:9 says that ‘If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just, - and will cleanse us from - (not “much”, or “most”, but) - “ALL” unrighteousness!!!” Let’s say you Just “1 John 1:9’ed” it. How much righteousness do you have left in yuh? Doesn’t it say “cleansed from ALL”?!. How long can you stay cleansed from all unrighteousness through the power of God, and by the Strength. and through the Life of God lived through you??? 5 seconds? 5 minutes, by God your Strength? 5 hours, through Christ your Power? 5 days, with Christ as your Life? 5 decades, with Jesus Christ AS YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!!!?!. (Please refer to the above list of Scriptures here. Or would you rather continue on in your excuse-making and sinning?)
IF GOD DIDN’T MAKE LITTLE GREEN APPLES IN MINNEAPOLIS
There is a false doctrine called “sinless perfection” that teaches that we can reach a state in this life where it becomes impossible for us to sin. We are NOT teaching this false doctrine. However, there is another false doctrine, which teaches that ‘we cannot keep from sinning”! Please carefully note the difference:
LIE #1: ‘Impossible to sin.” = ‘Sinless perfection”
LIE #2: ‘Impossible to keep from sinning”. = Lie of the devil.
THE TRUTH: ‘Possible NOT TO sin!!!” = Given the POWER of God, and the Grace of God, and the Spirit of God, and the Life of God, and the Word of God, and the King’s Greatest Secret, etc, etc. etc.!
Paul, in Philippians 3, uses the word ‘perfect’ in two different ways. In verse 12 he says he’s not perfect and inverse 15, he says that he IS!!! (I wonder why we only always hear that he’s not?) Imagine, if you will, a little green apple, just barely past the blossom stage, a little bitty nubbin of a thing. But it’s perfect! No worms, germs, dust, crust, must or rust. It’s not dashed, bashed, crashed, slashed, hashed or gnashed. And now, can you picture a perfectly perfect apple that’s ruby, rudy, rosy, red, ripe and juicy’? If it were any more ripe, it would be rotten: and if it were any less ripe it would be sour and woody. Please ask yourself this question. What particular things are necessary for a smaller apple’s growth and development into this mature apple? Are bruises, or worms necessary? Is ‘hanging in there”necessary? - To endure the long cold nights? - The hot summer days, the wind, and rain? Some folks seem to think that rebellion, backslidings, detours, lapses, luke-warmness, wrong attitudes and spastic silliness are all necessary to our growth and development in God. There IS a discipline, but it is a discipline that pertains to the new person or new man in Christ Jesus, and not the old man or old self or nature. The old life HAS BEEN crucified with Christ - not ‘is being”. We don’t believe in beating the dead carcass. That would be wasted effort, and futile. (Rom. 6)
So, we see that the flesh is neither good nor bad, in or of itself, BUT depending upon the use to which it is put. Adam, before he fell, had flesh, and our redeemed bodies will be flesh. Even Jesus had flesh! Hebrews 5 speaks of Jesus, ‘Who in the days of His flesh - - offered up prayers with strong crying and tears - - and - - though He were a Son, yet He learned obedience through the things which He suffered. And BEING MADE PERFECT, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him.”
Wasn’t Jesus already perfect? Of course! But here we see that He also needed to “become perfect”! Can we be perfect in the I John 1:9 ‘cleansed from ALL unrighteousness” sense? Of course, but we also need to become perfect in the ripe apple sense of ‘growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Son of God” and in the sense of Paul’s pressing “toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” - the fulfillment of our adventures and destinies and callings of God!!!
Good news! We can be totally forgiven now, and the power of God and His Life within, can KEEP us pure, but we can grow in increasing levels of faith and love and encouragement. Our increasing appreciation of God and His creation need never cease!!!
CRISIS AND PROCESS
So, there is both a crisis and a process to every experience that we are to have in God : the New Birth, the Lordship of Christ, Sanctification, (dedicated and made holy), the Holy Spirit, etc.
Ask some “Christians” if they are saved, and they’ll say, “I dunno, I’m workin’ on it.” (The Bible says we can KNOW! I Jn. 5). But because they are always “working on” the process of salvation, without the CRISIS of having been born again, they won’t be because they are always GOING THROUGH the door, but never quite get IN. But one can ask others if they’re saved, and they say, “Ya sure, I got saved 90 years ago!” But, too many of them got saved and stuck! They got through the door and then went to sleep for 89 years. The same thing is true of the Holy Spirit. Some believe only in the process of being filled, while others got “it”, and got stuck, (or sprung leaks!). And the same thing Is true with ‘The King’s Greatest Secret” — BOTH the crisis of appropriation AND the process of abiding in Him - moment by moment, both are necessary
ARE YOU NOW READY TO DIE? - THEN LIVE!!!
You simply: #1. Know and “RECKON YOURSELF TO HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED
WITH CHRIST’ (Rom. 6:6 - this is the crisis), and #2. Then “CONSIDER AND RECKON YOURSELF (here is the process) AS DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, SELF
AND satan, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord!!! (Rom. 6:11) ALLELUYAHWEH!!!
Please repeat this prayer:
Thank You, Dear Lord Jesus, for taking us to the Cross with You and for raising us up with You in newness of Life in You. Lord God, we receive You to BE all that You are, In
us, now and forever more. We receive You AS OUR VERY LIFE to BE OUR VERY LIFE!!! Please now, LIVE YOUR VERYLIFE THROUGH ME!!!
In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Jesus said, “BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN
IS PERFECT.” Matt. 5:48. Jesus, as always, meant just what He said! He meant “BE as perfect as God!” Or would you prostitute and change and twist and warp and noneffectualize the Word of God here or any other place?
It does NOT mean: ‘try to be perfect”, nor, “be perfect sometime after your body has rotted”, nor, ‘give up on being perfect”, nor, ‘it’s impossible to be perfect”, nor, ‘wish that you were perfect”, nor, “God isn’t great enough to make or keep me perfect”, nor, “be theoretically (or ‘pretend”) perfect”, nor any of that kind of silliness. ‘Would be” disciples of the Kingdom, WONT BE disciples of the Kingdom of God as long as they are messing with the commands of the King of God’s Kingdom in this way! One who changes the commands of the King is a Kingdom anarchist and traitor.
When someone asks, ‘What does this verse mean?” The best answer always is, ‘The Bible - this VERSE - means just what it says!” because the King means what He says. I believe that whenever people disagree about a Scripture, it is because one or more of them is not willing to accept what the Scripture and King say.
THE GREATEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE
In November 1960, my friend, Patty Troug at Bethel College told me, “John, as long as you are calling ‘idealistic’, ‘unattainable’, or ‘theoretical’ what God calls ‘necessary’, ‘practical’, ‘available’, and ‘attainable’, YOU are calling God a LIAR!!!” I had thrown a book away from me in disgust, FOREVER TRIMPHANT by Huegel, in which he quoted II Corinthians 2:14, ‘Thanks be unto God Who in Christ ALWAYS causes us to triumph, and manifests Christ through us in EVERY place!” (JB) ‘Victory, at ALL times and in every place! I had said “that’s too idealistic”, but then I realized, as a result of Patricia’s gentle rebuke, that I had been calling God a liar, in that He had said, “Victory always and everywhere.” And I had said, ‘Impossible”. I did not want to call God a liar anymore, So l went to my room, got out my Bibles, KJV, AMP, Gdspd, Greek
N.T., etc., and laid them out on the bed, and got down on my knees in order to see just what God DID say. Sure enough, God said, “Perfect victory always - everywhere”, AND “More than conquerors”, AND ‘Abundant Life”, AND “Joy unspeakable”, AND ‘Full of Glory”, AND ‘WE have the Mind of Christ”, AND ‘Christ our Life”, AND ‘whatever we ask”, AND “Greater works than these shall ye do”, AND ‘I can do all things through Christ”, AND ‘With God all things are possible” etc., etc., etc., etc. All these Bibles said the same thing!! So, I decided to do three things:
Three Steps to Take
- Confess every known sin, including having called God a liar
Please note: If you cannot remember a time when you specifically Invited Jesus Christ to come and live on the Inside of you, please do this NOW. That’s how to be born again!!!
- Yield COMPLETELY to the Lord Jesus I told the Lord Jesus that, If it were His perfect will, that I would be willing to be sick, maimed, killed, single, celibate, persecuted, misunderstood, forgotten, married to anyone He said (I was sure He was going to make me marry somebody really terrible). Anyway, I really meant business.
Now, these first two steps I had taken many times before, but I took them again. In fact, we should always keep up to date with the Lard, staying free from sin and staying in a totally yielded state.
- Appropriate by faith the highest-level walk in God’s Spirit, with Christ AS your Life! Invite Jesus Christ to come in to your life, and actually BE your life and to LIVE HIS LIFE through you. From the inside out, and take over completely as your Savior, Lord and Life!!!
Charles Trumble, in
The Life That Wins
, says that on this third step of faith, everything now depends. He suggests that we take a step of faith with total disregard for the presence (or lack of), accompanying signs or proofs, because the transaction must be based on faith rather than some feeling or tingle, etc. So, I remember reaching out my hand to the Lord God and saying,
“Lord Jesus, I believe You have a walk for me that I haven’t been experiencing; a relationship and an experience with You that I haven’t had before. Lord Jesus, I don’t know what to call It, and I don’t know how to get It, but whatever You call It and however one gets It, I receive It from You now In cold, blind faith., not depending on outward feelings or ‘signs’ as the proof of the transaction.
Thank You very much. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
Can you guess what happened? You guessed it. Nothing. Outwardly, or on a feeling level, that is. I felt really dead. Oh, I had accepted the Lord Jesus as my personal Saviour many years before, and I had yielded my Life to Him many times before. But the same thing had happened to me as would have happened in the Old Testament if one would have taken a clean lamb of the flock without blemish and then sacrificed the lamb under the hot Israel sun - and that’s all. Can you imagine the mess? The sacrifice NEEDED
the fire of God to come from heaven to light upon and consume the sacrifice as a sign of acceptance and anointing. I rose from my knees, in faith, really sincerely believing that a genuine transaction had taken place yet feeling nothing.
I put away all my Bibles and climbed wearily into my top bunk. After I was settled down I thought, “If anybody asked me to praise the Lord right now, it would be like someone asking me to praise a haystack.” That was how UN-emotional I felt, yet I knew that I had made a genuine transaction with God. But I was really tired and had no positive emotions.
CATACLYSMIC REVOLUTION
Anyway, no sooner had that thought crossed my mind about praising a haystack (indicating the lacking emotional level of positive feeling), when Christ BECAME my Life!, and I have never been the same since! It seemed like a great dam broke on the inside, and there came explosively gushing over me, and through me, and to me, and from me, and upon me, and around me, from deep within and from high above came the Glory of God, and the Joy of God, and the Love of God, and the Spirit of God, and the LIFE of God, and the Peace of God, and the Presence of God, and the strength of God, the Anointing of God, and the Effervescent Flooding Overflowing Fullness of the Living God!!! I have never been the same! Fabulous! Incredible! Joyful! Invigorating! Beautiful! Astounding! Healing! Wonderful! Marvelous! Lasting! Satisfying!
Miraculous! Life-changing! Christ BECAAAAME my Life! I saw myself as having been crucified with Christ, dead and buried with Christ, RISEN AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST JESUS In newness of Life, and seated IN Christ AT the Father’s right hand, far over and above EVERYTHING that is named in heaven and on earth, and GLORIFIED IN HIM – Jesus Christ! This is described in Eph. 2, and Col. 3, Romans.6,and Rom.8, Eph.3, IICor.3, Gal. 2, etc., etc. (time out - for a Glory Spell and a happy dance! Would you like to dance with me?!)
Note: From the Amplified Bible, Eph. 3: 19b - That you may be filled (through all your being) unto all the fullness of God - (that is), may have the RICHEST measure of the Divine Presence, and become a body WHOLLY filled and flooded with God Himself.” Peter says, ‘Having become PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE” and Colossians says, “When CHRIST, Who IS OUR LIFE------ and “For in Him the whole fullness of
Deity (the Godhead), continues to dwell in bodily form - giving complete expression of
the Divine Nature. And you are IN HIM, made FULL, and have come to fullness of life - in Christ, YOU TOO are FILLED with the GODHEAD: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, and reach full spiritual stature -- -!!!“
This is what is known by various terms such as The Second Blessing’, the “Fullness of the Spirit’, ‘The Exchanged Life’, ‘The Transformed Life’, “Walking in the Spirit’, and “Abiding in Christ”. The question for all of us, no matter what our theological background is: Are you FILLED WITH GOD RIGHT NOW? Jesus said, “He that believes in Me. out of his innermost being shall gush forth flooding torrents of Living Water continuously.” Talkin’ bout you?
Question - Are you full of God and His Holy Spirit right this moment? Are you up to date with Him and on excellent terms with Him right now? Do you minister and share from the overflow or are you like a “small handful of water in a big empty barrel.” Pray with me?…
Dear Father God, thank You for providing unlimited anointing and every blessing, and having “given us all things that pertain to life and godliness.” I ask You to BEEEE my life, be ALL that You ARE, in me from now on. I reckon and consider my old life to be dead. I receive You AS my “Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption”. BE my Perfection. Love through me, speak Your Words Through me, Pray through me. Thank You, Mighty-Right-Now God I believe from now on that I can do ALL things through Christ my Life, and that nothing shall be impossible IN YOU. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
LITTLE BOY AT THE BAPTISM
There is a true story of a little boy who was looking intently into the baptistry after the baptism service, when his mother came up and asked him what he was doing. He said, ‘I’m looking for that ‘old man’ the pastor said we left in the water!” You see, this is the true meaning of baptism by immersion - our total identification with Christ in His crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension and glorification.
THE THIRD COMING OF CHRIST?!?!!.
A friend of mine was in a church meeting, when someone died. There was a nurse present who verified the lack of respiration and breathing, the bodily functions ceased, the color of death was present. The people continued to worship while the ambulance was coming. About 15 to 20 minutes later, the man opened his eyes and lived a wonderful life for many more years. His granddaughter had had a dream just two weeks before that her grandfather was going to die in church, and that he would come back to life.
THE THIRD COMING OF CHRIST!
Assume with me for a moment that God wants to return to the earth in a THIRD Way. He came as a Babe, and He’s coming in the clouds. But pretend with me, that between His 1st and 2nd coming, He wants to come in a 3rd way. Imagine that this time, He wants to do it like this: Suppose someone is sitting in church, and has a cardiac attack, and dies, God forbid. Instead of rushing to give the person ‘artificial recuperation”, the rest of the people, if they notice at all, think that that person just fell asleep for a minute. Suppose that before anyone else knows of this, Christ comes into this person, blinks open his
eyes, and starts walking around in his shoes in disguise, incognito, speaking, talking, loving, LIVING, His LIFE, --- the very LIFE of Christ Himself!
The Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in the First and Second coming of Christ, but do not believe that Jesus, as God, can come and live inside of us as our Life. Because they don’t believe In this Third Coming, they are going to a hell that they also do not believe in.
Jesus wants to be glorified and magnified now in all who believe!! Notice this Scripture! “When He shall come to be glorified IN His saints and to be admired IN all them that believe, (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day” II Thess. 1:10. ‘Christ IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY!” Colossians 1:28. The LIV calls it ‘the MYSTERY which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but NOW is made manifest to HIS saints! To whom God would make known THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF THIS MYSTERY AMONG THE GENTILES,
WHICH IS - - - CHRIST IN ~ THE HOPE OF GLORY!!!”
The Williams translation calls this, God’s Glorious ‘OPEN SECRET = CHRIST IN YOU!!!” and Beck’s Translation says, THE GLORY OF THIS HIDDEN TRUTH = CHRIST IN YOU!!!” I have called this, ‘THE KING’S GREATEST SECREI”l!!!!!!!
This is none other than what The Creator King of Everything, In the Bible, calls “THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL OF THE AGES”!!!! In other words, this is the GREATEST GOOD-NEWS SECRET OF ALL TIME!!!!!! Please, dear Dear One, please do NOT let this truth pass you by! Please stay with this until this ‘Secret Truth” becomes nitty gritty gut-level REALITY IN YOUR HEART! IN JESUS’ Name, Amen.
So, back to the illustration - Say that Christ came into your available dead body and BECAAAAAAAAAAAAAME it’s Life, that is, started living His Glorious Life THROUGH you, loving THROUGH you, loving, talking, loving, walking, loving, living, loving, blessing, loving, healing, loving, BEING ALL THAT HE IS – IN YOU, - BElNG your Salvatlon, NOT giving you Salvation as an experience APART from Him, but living it, BE-ing it, DO-ing it through you!!
I Corinthians 1:30 says that Christ, “IS MADE unto us Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption”. These things: Resurrection, Salvation, etc., are not a ‘thing”, or an ‘experience” apart from Him, but are a PERSON. That Person’s Name is YAHWEH YAHSHUA, The Mighty Right Now God, The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!! Even in the Old Testament, please notice all of the times it refers to Yahweh as BEING our Sword, our Shield, our Fortress, our Buckler, our Exceeding Great Reward, our High Tower ‘I will run into Him and be safe”!!! Not “gives us a sword” but ‘IS MY SWORD”!!! Dear Heart, please - can you see the difference???
Some people come staggering into church on Sunday morning to get their “weakly” (weekly) injection fix of righteousness to last them barely till next Sunday, but Jesus wants to BE our Righteousness!!! BE our LIFE, our Salvation and Protection. Salvation
is not a ‘thing”. Salvation is a Person! And His Name is Jesus Christ! As I John says, ‘He that hath the Son hath LIFE and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”
INFERIORITY COMPLEX
They tell about a man who was down at the altar praying. ‘Lord, show me I’m nothing, show me I’m nothing.” Then the preacher came along and said, ‘Take it by faith, brother.” Story is told of a man used to have a terrible bad inferiority complex. Then somebody came along and told him he didn’t have a ‘feriority complex - he was just PLAIN INFERIOR!!! I used to do things constantly to ‘compensate” for my deep-seated feelings of Inadequacy. The ol’ one-room country school we went to was called ‘Wild Cat School”. Then we went into town to the citified junior high school, and, truth to tell, I didn’t rightly know how to act around all those city-wise kids. So, to try to do something about my 9th grade inferiority complex, I thought maybe I could get a book from the school lie-berry. The first book I got said “Act natural!” But that didn’t help much, you see, ‘cause the thing that I ‘naturally” was, I knew I couldn’t afford to publicly be!”
So, I got another book, - an’ it said, - ‘Be yourself” But that didn’t help either, because MY old self definitely WAS inferior! Later on, my friend, Lee Eliason, told me to ‘be sincere”, and that helped some, but here, as a senior at Bethel College, my discovery of this ‘Greatest Secret” fully met the needs of my life along this line because Christ BECAME my sufficiency and my adequacy!!!!!!! This really Really REALLY solved the “complex” problem!!!
So, you don’t need to die or commit suicide- because Christ wants to BECOME your LIFE by your acceptance. Accept what He did when He took NOT ONLY our sins and sicknesses, so we can be forgiven and healed completely, but He took our SELVES. (Rom. 6, Col., Eph., etc.) He put US to death with ALL of our insufficiencies, inadequacies, inferiorities, inabilities, instabilities, everything negative, nasty, weak and sinful, and took us to the Cross, put us to death, buried us and raised us up in newness of life, a whole, new, beautiful, glorious, adequate, sufficient, wonderful, able, stable creation fashioned in His Image, that He wants to actually BEEEEEEE the Life of!!!!!!
THE ELEPHANT AND THE FLEA
The story is told of an elephant that had a friend who was a flea that rode around behind his ear. They used to have lots of happy times together. One day they crossed a Jungle bridge that shook, and swung and swayed. After crossing the bridge, the flea whispered into his friend’s (the elephant’s) ear. Said the tiny little flea, “We sure shook that bridge didn’t we?!!” And at the end of each of your days, you can whisper into the Ear of your Heavenly Daddy and Friend, Yahweh, your Creator King, ‘We sure shook our world today, didn’t we?” Jesus wants to beeeeeeee your LIFE !!!!!!!!!
A BEE IN YOUR BONNET
Did you know that Christ is NOT interested in HELPING you to be righteous, or wise, or holy, or victorious, or successful, or strong, or alive, apart or distant from Himself?? He wants to BEEEEE your Righteousness,BEEE your Wisdom, BEEEEEE your, Strength, BEEEEEEE your Life, BEEEEE your Everything. He doesn’t want to HELPyou say good words, or pray, or be disciplined, or heal, or bless, or love, as something distinct, distant, or apart from Himself. He wants to pray His prayers through you by the Holy Spirit, to say His words through you, to bless with His blessing through you, to Heal with His Healing through you, to love with His love through you. Christ wants to BEEEEEEEEE all that He is, on location through you!!! Do you see the difference?
THE GLORY SPELL
I was counselling with a 70 year old woman who had problems. She had a ‘glory spell” when I told her about ‘The King’s Greatest Secret”! She said, “I was born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit when I was 10 years old and have been walking close to God ever since. But in all the 60 years I’ve walked with God, I’ve never once heard these truths, that Christ can actually BEEEE my LIFE!!” When a person truly comes to know this wonderful ‘Secret”, then the transformation in a person’s life should be just as great as if Christ Himself actually BECAAAAAAAME that person’s very LIFE!!! Interested?! Interested in sharing this ‘Secret”? Are you interested in helping us share with others, this ‘Secret”?!
THE FOUNDATION STONE!
This ‘Secret” is so very very foundational to virtually every other truth in Scripture. For example, with regard to prayer, we must believe for Christ Himself to be on location, praying His prayers through us, according to the will of the Heavenly Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit. With regard to miracles or a ministry, we are to believe that Christ is on location, ministering and BEING that ministry through us. We want Jesus to BE the parent through us, BE the spouse ?!!
We can have an experience GREATER THAN if we had a heart attack and Jesus Christ came into our newly dead body and started living in the earth disguised AS US, because, better than this CAN BE OURS by accepting that we were crucified with Christ already on the Cross in order for Him to LIVE HIS LIFE IN AND THROUGH US!!! Can you accept the fact that He killed us already on the Cross in order to do this very thing! Now He wants to BE all that He is in us, BE our life, etc. If Jesus IS our righteousness, we’ll be as righteous as the Father, because Jesus is as righteous as the Father!!! Remember, Jesus said in Matthew 5:48 - “BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT.” That’s how we do it. Simply reckon the old life to be dead (Rom. 6), and receive Christ, not only inside to BE your Saviour and Master and total Lord, but also BEING all that He is, in you, as your Life!!! Are you ready?!!!!!!
HE wants to walk around in YOUR shoes, wearing YOUR clothes, speaking HIS words, praying HIS prayers, thinking HIS thoughts, blessing HIS people, loving, healing through you. He wants to BE the Parent of your children, the Spouse of your mate, the Worker of your job, the Child of your parents, the Friend of your friends, the Leader In your church, the Leader in your community, the Changer of your world, the Establisher of His Kingdom, the Binder and Looser of situations, the Fulfiller of the Great Commission and ALL His commandments, IN YOU and THROUGH YOU!!! (Matt. 28:18- 20, I John 2). ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS FROM NOW ON as CHRIST IS YOUR LIFE!! (I John 4:17). AMEN!!!!!!
Christ wants there to be NO DIFFERENCE between Who He is at the right hand of the Father and Who He is - IN US!!!! Amen!!!
If you have any questions about this, please leave no stone unturned until you know deeeeeeeeep within your heart - - - this “Greatest Secret of the King”, if you can’t get “the Secret” through reading these words, and carefully praying your way through the Scriptures listed, then, please get in touch with us - because this MUST become absolutely clear to you, absolutely workable! It’s the Key literally to EVERYTHING you are in God.
THE MIRROR AND THE CROSS
Instead of a crucifix, I’ve often thought of having a cross with nothing on it except a mirror, as a reminder that you were ‘there and with Him when they crucified my Lord”! You were there and In Him when He rose up from the grave!!!
Here it Is then - God’s “Greatest Secret”!!! Christ living His Glorified Life in you AS your Life!!! CHRIST LIVING HIS GLORIFIED LIFE IN YOU - IN ME AS OUR GLORIFIED LIFE!!!
What would happen if Christ came to the earth to live In disguise In someone before His coming in the clouds? What if He came to live His glorified Life In Your town? Your family? Your church? Your factory? Your marriage? Your shoes? Well, that’s exactly what Christ wants to happen!!! Exactly! NO DIFFERENCE.
Will you pray with me now, very sincerely –very earnestly?
‘Lord God of the impossible, now and forever, please come and be made all glorious In me and be marveled at In me. I believe, Lord God, I believe, for You to live your life-IN ME I ask You, Lord Jesus, to come Into my heart and Life and BE my Savlour. I receive You AS my Lord, as the Commander and Boss of my life. I thank You for taking me with You to the Cross, to the death. and to the grave. I reckon my old life to be crucified! dead! and buried! I conslder my New Life to be risen! Ascended! Seated! Glorified! and Reigning! In You, and You In me - Right Now! In THIS world! In My life! As My Life!
FROM NOW ON! And to tellthis Secret” to: As many as possible!
As quickly as possible!
In as many places as possible! By as many means as possible!
I thank You for taking me with You when You raised up from the grave, and when You ascended up to heaven and sat down at the Heavenly Father’s Right Hand. I thank You that I am seated In You, Jesus, right now, here In the Throne Room of the Father!
From now on, please live Your Life through me. Speak Your Wards through me. Be all that You are In me, all the time, now, and forever more. In Jesus’ Name, Amen!
Who would dare to put an upper limit on the marvelous possibilities of this spectacular truth!, this ‘Mystery of the Gospel of the Ages!, this ‘King’s Greatest Secret”!?
AS CHRIST IS - SO ARE WE - IN THIS WORLD!!!
In the Mighty Name of Yahweh Yahshua, Jesus Christ the Righteous. we insist that this Truth not be limited! Look at the above list of Scriptures again. Here are only a few in closing:
- ‘1 can do ALL things through Christ Who strengthens me!” (Phil. 4:13)
- ‘We.. .are transformed into God’s VERY SAME IMAGE!!!” (II 3:18)
- “The works that I do shall you do, and greaterworks than these shall ye do!!” (John 14)
- ‘Even as He walks!!” (IJohn2:6)
- ‘AS HE IS - SO ARE WE - IN THIS WORLD!!!!!” (I John 4:17)
‘Now unto Him Who is able to keep you from falling (or stumbling), and to present you faultless before the Presence of His Glory, with exceeding joy, to the only Wise God, Our Saviour, be Glotyand Majesty, Dominion and Power, now and forever - AMEN!”
Review Questions
- Is it possible to live without sinning? (Explain).
- What of ours did Christ take with Him to the Cross?
- What is God’s greatest “Secret”?
- What is the difference between Christ helping you do or speak good things and Him speaking or doing good things through you?
- Why was it necessary for Christ to take you with Him to the Cross?
- Without practical revelation understanding of “the King’s Greatest Secret”, has positive thinking got much power?
- Why is suicide not necessary?
- The following phrases go with what Scripture verses?
(you may look them up from the list of Scriptures provided below):
Victory ,Victory always everywhere , Free from sin ,
Risen with Christ our life Seated in Christ , Fullness of Joy: unspeakable ,
Every blessing ,
Joy of the Lord - strength ,
Mind of Christ Can do all things through Christ Walk blamelessly
,
All power and authority ,
We are the light of the world , To live is Christ ,
Whatever we ask , Abundant life ,
More than conquerors , We can be as He is
All things are possible
We can walk as He walked Greater works ,
We can know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. The Mystery of the Gospel of the ages ,
Christ is made unto us. Wisdom
Jude 24; Phil 1:21: Eph. 1:3,4; Rom.8:37: Col. 3:1-3:11. Cor. 2:14-16;
Matt.5:14; II Pet. 1:1-4; John 14:13; Ps. 16:1; Rom. 6:7, 18, 22: Phil. 4:13;
Neh. 8:10; Eph. 2:6; I Cor. 15:57: ICor. 2:16; Matt. 28:18; II Cor. 9:8;
I Cor. 1:30: Luke 8:10; I John 4:17; John 10:10; John 14:12; Matt. 19:26;
Col. 1:25-29: 1 John 2:6.
- 2:20-Are you living?
- Can we be perfect? If not, why? If so, How?
- What did Jesus mean when He said “Be perfect!”? (Matt. 5:48).
- What is the false doctrine of “sinless perfection”?
- What is the main solution for most arguments about the Bible?
- How Is “calling ‘Idealistic’ what God calls necessary and practical” - calling God a liar?
- What 3 steps are necessary for Christ to be In your Life?
- Do you have the mind of Christ?
- In the Word, what’s the main evidence sign, fruit, or proof that you are full of God?
- Not, “have you been filled with”, but are you full of God right now? (Give yourself a percentage)
- What would happen to a clean and freshly sacrificed (killed) lamb under the hot Israel sun If nothing more happened after it was killed?
- What else is necessary?
- What is this symbolic of’?
- Who should praise the Lord with shouting and clapping? (Psalm 47).
- Why can we have an experience MORE REAL than If we fell dead and Christ was looking around for a fresh warm dead body He could move Into and raise up and become the Life of, living on the earth again - disguised as you?
- Who is the flea - the elephant in the illustration?
- What is the main difference between Christ helping us do or be something,
and Him being or doing it in and through us?
- Are we supposed to discipline the old nature or the old self?
- Does Christ want there to be and difference between Who He is at the Father’s right hand and Who He is - in us?
- Are you also willing to teach others to teach others how to share this “Secret”?
28. If you devoted the rest of your life to sharing this “Secret” - would your life be well spent?
30. WILL YOU??????
31. Would you be willing by means of your gracious giving to help us reach others through the printing of more of these small books?
CONCLUSION
What would Jesus do If Christ were my life?
PRETEND WITH ME FORA MOMENT THAT JESUS CHRIST IS YOUR LIFE!!!
What would Jesus do, if He were reigning and ruling as King, President and Lord upon the throne of YOUR life?
What if Jesus were living again on the earth - having come, in that third way - having come into our hearts to reign as King from the throne of our heart - not as resident within, but as President of the world THROUGH us!!!
Lean back in your easy chair, and pretend with me: Let’s pretend that Jesus returns to earth to be the King of the earth. The way He decided to do it this time was, at your invitation, to take over your body, your tongue, your conscious mind, (although you would still be conscious, and still able to kick Christ out, or to limit His Life in you to any or every extent, or you could let Him rule to His heart’s content!!!) What would Jesus do through you? What would Jesus say through you? How would Jesus act through you? How would Jesus think through you? What would His attitude be in you? How would Jesus through you treat others?
What if Jesus became the Life of one of the Dear Ones, and you mistreated that person - IT WOULD BE CREDITED TO YOUR ACCOUNT AS HAVING BEEN DONE TO CHRIST!!
Let’s let Jesus live His glorified, risen, powerful, lovely life through us - AS OUR LIFE!!! AMEN!
Have you learned the Secret? Simply reckon or act as though it’s true, because it is, that YOU have been crucified, killed, dead, and buried with Christ. Then, see yourself as having been raised with Christ Jesus in newness of life - ascended, glorified, and seated IN Jesus Christ at the Father’s right hand! From now on, you are to do everything in life from a Throne Room Mentality”. Psalm 91, Psalm 16, etc., - “I have set the Lord ALWAYS before me. Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.” He that dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty!” ‘In Thy Presence is fullness of joy, and at my right hand, there are pleasures
forevermore”!!!
Remember when Jesus took the children up in His arms and blessed them? Ephesians 1 and 2, especially 2:6 tells us where we are: that Father ‘Hath raised us up together and made us all sit together in heavenly places IN Jesus Christ.” Baptism by immersion signifies that WE WENT WITH JESUS in His crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension AND GLORIFICATION!!! Romans 8:30 says that those “whom He Justified, He also glorified.”! Doesn’t this mean that we have already been glorified?!
Psalm 91 says “He (or she) that dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High. shall abiiiide under the Shadow of the Almighty!’
The Bible tells us that we are right NOW SEATED IN JESUS CHRIST at the Father’s right hand. Here we are, on the Throne with our Heavenly Father, with Christ AS our life. God wants us to live here, never to leave, never to have another mentality or way thinking than agloriouslyvictorious “Throne- Room Mentality”.
Can you picture yourself going with Jesus to the Cross, to the grave, to the skies?!! Can you see yourself crawling up into your Heavenly Daddy’s lap - ‘Underneath are the Everlasting Arms”, and putting your ear up against the Father’s Heart of love, and listening to God’s heart-beat - His whispers of encouragement?!!! We can look like He looks - 2 Car. 3:18! We can walk like He walks - I John 2:6! We can be as He is – I John 4:17! You never need to leave your Heavenly Father’s lap, His Throne-Room, His Presence. From now on, (you don’t need to wait until you die!) Jesus can ALWAYS be your Life! You can always be seated on the Throne, IN Him, at Daddy’s right hand ruling and reigning with Him - forever and forever! WOW! What a glorious Secret! Looking like Jesus, talking like Jesus, being like Jesus - because Jesus has now become - your Life!!!!!! And we all lived:
HAPPILY EVER AFTER !!!!!!!
May you live happily ever after, with Jesus Christ AS YOUR LIFE
In Jesus’ Name, AMEN!!!