Today I was again struck by this thought that God has a Son. This breaks any philosopher, any system – how can God have a Son? What’s the logic? Why would God Supreme and Almighty need a Son? Why not a daughter, not two or three sons? Why is it a Son? – Because through the Son we have our sonship. Because by our nature and weakness we are so far from God that there’s probably no other way to make us divine than us joining in the Son. And God bears us in His Son, and the Son is us. We are the Son, do you understand? We are the Son of God! We, the church of God, are the Son of God. You can’t imagine what kind of greatness is in this. Today we become adopted through God’s Son, through His death, through birth, when He came to us, them He died as we will all die, and rose again as we will rise, and He went to the throne and took His place there with God. He paved the way for us. In Him, in the Son of God we are made sons, therefore, the spirit of adoption cries out “Abba, Father”.
This is amazing grace of God, that we are the sons of God through the Son.
Revelation.
“God’s Angel stretched a mantle over the nations”. Today we are here from different nations, and we bring the smell, the dust of our shoes from our nations and countries. In the spiritual realm Angels can smell us and tell what land we are from.
“God’s Angel stretched a mantle over the nations, connecting them by brothers and sisters – that is, you are a part that connects. – And each of them was given the same covenant. And then all joined with each other so tight that it seemed one body, a unison, a harmony. Each one spoke his dialect, but all could understand each other, because it was a language of the spirit. And also each one worshiped and sang with his own instrument – it was such a beauty, as a sweet fragrance rising to heaven.
And here now we see what it was supposed to come to one day, when all our inner riches of Christ would be measured. It won’t be our words that will be measured. The closer we are to the Lord, the less meaning our words have. We won’t speak words when we meet God and Christ, but our works will go ahead of us.
And here now we are unveiling the flower of our inside. Not something, some day, what I desire – and you share dreams. But something unique is happening as we share now, and I’ve been enjoying hearing what is, hearing our spirits being played, and many of you have thing to say about God in you and you in God.
Another revelation: “A new well, from which the man of God was taking three things: gem stones, new keys and water, which was so crystal clear that even a molecule got in it, it could be seen. The man of God was giving to some brothers and sisters gem stones, which they used to adorn the Eastern Gates, and they new where to install them. Others were given keys, and they knew which doors they fit. Also the water was given to those who were either transformed or healed, so that they started speaking differently. – And so you will, as you return you will speak with more depth and weight, it would take less words to convey your though, but it will penetrate much deeper in a human heart than before. – But there were those who drank the water, but it produced no effect”. – Watch that you don’t miss the whole point of what is happening here.
Today media give us a picture of earthquakes, famines, deaths – it’s all there, but this is all the beginning of sorrows. And then there will come the one who will rise from amidst those who were before him, and he will bring peace and safety, the system. Freedom will cost a lot, it will be a slavery, you won’t be able either to sell or to buy. And we are all on the way to this point. The events will be spinning. It is written that at the last trumpet those who died in Christ will rise first, justly, and then we who remain living, shall be transformed taken, and shall always be with the Lord.
But how to attain this? Paul writes, “I strive to do two things: deny all that makes an obstacle and receive that which makes stronger – in order to attain the resurrection of the dead. “I have denied all things and consider all things rubbish, in order to attain the resurrection of the dead”
Today we are talking about many things, how great it is to labor in church… But remember that the highest goal is the resurrection of the dead. We’ve got to attain the resurrection! We’ve got to rise saved! We’ve got to rise with those to whom we spoke, that we don’t deceive them, that those who received our message would also rise from the dead.
We had the pandemic, and it was a great shaking, many churches lost people. Then another sorrow came, but it isn’t the last one either. But if we stand in the Lord through all this we only become stronger, and next sorrow will be even easier to endure. Perhaps it will be hard physically, but spiritually we’ll be stronger. Don’t think sorrows are over, apocalyptic events are unfolding.
And what is happening requires a special category of people. These people must be a man of God. And the church must be such that any kind of person should be able to enter it.
I like what one preacher said that God is always on the side of freedom. God always chooses freedom, He is against slavery, He is always on the side of freedom. This is amazing declaration, and it’s true, because our ministry must set people free on a big scale, not enslave them. Hasn’t the Gospel set us free?
So challenges and events require a man of God. They require the one who will overcome all this – the Son of man. Think of this status – can you be called the Son of man?
And He asks the question He asked once one man – Do you love Me? That is a major question! And He adds, “more than them”.
Our typical traditional services rarely give people an experience of God. But human spirit is hungry for God, it craves for miracle. And miracle is God. God is the major Miracle. And those who are in this miracle are miracles themselves, in a sense that your life is enveloped by a cloud of supernatural mystery.
Many people came to Christian church in search of experience and were disappointed, because instead of experience we gave them ritual and tradition. We would tell how to pray, what’s right and what’s wrong, and man would receive a table instead of wind. They were disappointed and left for “heavier” things, because drugs, for instance, give experience, so does magic and other religions. And people set off traveling, go to night clubs and rock concert, in order to experience – t hey want to be hit through, not to live a banal life. And we, the church, speak about God, but are not able to give them experience. But why don’t we let them encounter with Him?
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We’ve been speaking about getting ready for the journey “from me to Him”. We pack our backpack, as warriors, you’ve got a belt for sure, which can save your life – a belt of truth. And with this warrior’s backpack you push from yourself and make a trajectory of a long leap of faith. And you leap into the unknown, where you can scarcely name GOD emerging in the clouds. “Me” is very clear behind you, burning with fire, you understand it, but can’t stay there no way. It’s practically pseudo hell, because hell looks like you – if to take dark sides of your soul they match with hell. Therefore, move from yourself to God. What God did to us – first of all, He set us free from ourselves. He set us free not only from sin, but from anguish and fears, from the torture of ourselves – why do we get stuck there?
And this is inner journey. It is a long, round-the-world journey. We can make some stops on it, which we may as well pass, but they are still on our way.
From ourselves we go to the Book. When there’s a thought, there’s a Word, what God breathed and spoke at the same time. Jesus came as the embodied Word with the breath of God and His message. And we move from ourselves to the Word, to the Book, to the scroll, when God spoke the truth, and our own knowledge or experience, which we ground upon, are gone back and remain in the past. And we receive something, which is greater than our experience, our words or thoughts – we move from ourselves to the Book, to the Word. This is also a serious journey, because often we still press the Word down to fit us, like a pillow… But you keep moving from yourself to the Book, that is a station.
And you move on and come to the creation, to the tree, to the rock, to the mountain. Some seekers and contemplators said that sometimes a rock or a tree can tell you much more than books. Learn to hear the Voice from the creation. Learn it, because many of us are cabinet type of people, they are locked in an apartment, surrounded by family, and have no time in a day to stay alone. Especially a pastor is always among people and always talking, he is even afraid of loneliness, he always has to run and do. And then when he is with creation, he understands it wrong and is not able to take pleasure in God the Creator. He idolizes the creation.
And we keep moving to the stone, to the air to the cloud – to the creation. This is Godhead, because God created it, and the skies declare God’s glory, and the firmament speak of the work of His hands!
We’ve got to learn to live a life of fullness, life your life.
Sadly, we are people of cities, but often people of cities aren’t people of the planet. We have no idea of how the earth is made, what is the way of people living on it, we are not interested. But in these days the planet needs the Son of man, a man of God who will remain in this freedom and independence, he will remain himself and remain with God. The events that are shaking the planet causing tears and pain – they can’t wound his heart, because he is above this.
Sometimes it is sweet for us to join in, but that is still a primitive level, because nothing is supposed to touch us except the Lord God. There’ve been people who attained such walk.
So you have enjoyed it here and you come from the tree to people. Now you can do it, after you have escaped from yourself, you’ve escaped to the book, plunged in the Word, and then you went forth to the creation to see what the Word made, because God made everything through the Word. And renew, when you have lost yourself you go to people. You don’t go to people to self-affirm or strengthen yourself in people – this is pain and suffering, which are useless and even harmful, because you have conflict with people. Let people nail you to the cross, but you do not have conflict with them. Let them kill you, but you cannot have conflict with people, because you are unreachable, you are in love.
Therefore, set off on this journey, I tell you this will be difficult, this egoism has penetrated inside our spiritual DNA. And your ministry transformed through your co-crucifixion – every time you make a decision to co-crucify, every time you die and rise back again. This is a continuous process, which sin cannot catch up with, sin cannot get such a man, because he died half a second before that and rose back new. He is not fighting with sin suffering with an unfulfilled desire, but he dies and rises back.
From people you return back to God. You keep moving from yourself to God through these stations, and it’s not a distant cloud anymore, you are already inside. And you don’t have to earn by your serving, because many people serve in order to earn a reward. And when God visits such a man he feels ashamed and first thing he says is “forgive me” – this speaks that you don’t adore His presence, but you fear it. If a bridegroom returns to the bride after being away, and first thing he hears is “forgive me” – it means it’s over, because she is defiled. For God it is also a grieving thing – such a level of “Christian walk”.
Therefore, we speak of the Son of man. I never heard Jesus praying “forgive Me”, not because He never sinned, but because He was deep in love. Not a single time did He ask to forgive Him, not for the reason He had nothing to forgive Him for, but because there were no such relationships there. All Jesus had in His heart – He adored the Father and with all His life He was focused on His heart.
This has been my experience, which I want to share. I find these are incredibly different natures of faiths. There’s even a third type, when you “get used to God”, you don’t repent because your conscience has gotten hard, you have no passion for Him – this I consider absolutely unacceptable in the city of love. It is better to be on the way of “love – breakdown-repentance” than the latter one.
But there’s this higher place, when you are gone, you don’t sin with earthly thing, you leave this blazing letter “I”. Leave it. Many use the gracious gifts for themselves, they take advantage of God as their helper, not their Master and Leader. They want God to bless them because they serve Him, such “business men” of the Holy Spirit. I don’t want this, this trading will never do.
Therefore, beloved brothers and sisters, let us plunge into love, try to dissolve in love, dissolve in God. And you are no more, God alone is and admiration of Him.