THE SOVEREIGN GOD pt6
Pastor Charles Holmes
01-13-2013
EPHESIANS 1:3-6
3 ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT IS A RELATION TO GOD PREVIOUS TO THE NEW BIRTH.
WE WOULD ALSO HAVE A RELATION WITH CHRIST PREVIOUS TO THE NEW BIRTH BECAUSE THERE IS NO RELATION TO GOD APART FROM THE MEDIATOR.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
163 What's His purpose now? Express Himself as a Son, see, and, now, that in Him might dwell "the fullness of the Godhead bodily." I'm, I've got Colossians laying here, right before me. See? That, all through the Scripture, that's what God purpose was. Then, through this Life of this Son, His cross, "the Blood," it says here, "of His cross," that He might reconcile to Himself a Body, a Bride; which is Eve, second Eve. And God give it in a type, like He did Moses and all of them. The same thing He did in Adam and Eve, giving a type, that they were Christ and the Bride. He is the second Adam; the Church is the second Eve.
THE.IDENTIFICATION.OF.CHRIST.IN.ALL.AGES_ BIRMINGHAM.AL THURSDAY_ 64-0409
75 Now, where you are now, you have to die, because you're yet... Just like snapping a picture. You're the negative. Any negative has to go into the darkroom, through acids, to develop the picture, to make you see what it is. We are now in the expressed imagine of Him. It's the negative has been taken, we're human life. But we must go in the darkroom, down into the grave, to go through the developing, to come back forth in the image; oh, my, young forever, all the old age and all the dis-... defects and everything will be taken away.
76 Then we are redeemed, God's attributes, right back. God, material, with Christ in the Church; just like man and his wife, that's right, Christ and the Bride. Cause, it redeems back, His thinking, and His thinking is expressed out.
THE ELECT ARE GOD’S SONS AND ALWAYS WERE.
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.TWO.2_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0825E
170 We don't see all things.
But we do see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for... suffering of death,...
For it becometh him, for whom are all--all things, that by whom we have all things, in the begin... many sons... and be made the chief captain of our salvation... through suffering.
The only way He could become the Captain of our salvation, He had to suffer.
171 Listen to these beautiful Words here now. Now listen.
For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all... one:...
Oh, don't you see the Vine and the Branch there? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All One.
... for which cause he is not ashamed to be called brethren,
See? Why? Listen, the next verse.
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praises unto thee.
And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which thou has given me.
Forsomuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through the death he might destroy him which has the power of death, that is, the devil;
And deliver them who through... for the... through... for death were always kept subject unto bondage.
BEFORE OUR LORD CAME INTO THIS WORLD, IT WAS SAID,
MATTHEW 1:21
21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
THOSE WHO WERE TO BE SAVED BY HIM WERE “HIS PEOPLE” BEFORE HE BECAME INCARNATE.
THERE WAS A MYSTICAL AND ETERNAL UNION BETWEEN CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
SO THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES AND CLAIMS EACH ONE THAT WAS IN HIM AND THIS BRINGS ABOUT THE MANIFESTED SONS OF GOD.
IT.IS.I_ GRANDE.PRAIRIE.AB WEDNESDAY_ 61-0517
It's God in you. All that God was He poured into Christ; and all Christ was He poured into the church. So it's God above us, God with us, and God in us. No wonder we are commissioned to baptize using Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. It's not three different Gods: three offices of one God. See? God above us in the Father, God in--with us in the Son, cleansing His way, condescending, coming down, making a way for me; to get back. And bring His people back to manifested sons of God, like they had them in the garden of Eden. The whole world's a-groaning and waiting for that hour for the manifestation of the sons of God.
He has no voice tonight but our voice. He has no hands but our hands. He has your hands; that whose hands it is. He said, "I am the Vine; you are the branches." I hope that you'll listen to this poor voice tonight, and the little still voice of the Spirit that can speak in your heart, and hear Him say, "It's I; be not afraid." Will you believe?
SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
But to go on. These elect were not only the eternal thoughts of God which were to be expressed in flesh in their due season, but these same elect are called by another name.
Romans 4:16.
"Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all."
Romans 9:7-13,
"Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
And not only this; but when Rebekah had also conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him That calleth;)
It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."
Galatians 3:16,
"Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."
Galatians 3:29,
"And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise."
According to Romans 4:16 we find that God has given a Sure Promise to ALL of Abraham's seed, and Paul puts himself and all believers under that designation because he says "Abraham who is the father of us ALL." Then he goes on to not only narrow down his definition, but rather to finalize it for in Galatians 3 he identified the SEED (singular) with Jesus, and counted "the seed children" as children of promise, and promise as having to do with "election", or "the choosing of God". And that is exactly what we have been saying. These who are of the Royal Seed are the elect of God; are the predestinated, fore-known of God, and were in the mind of God and His thoughts.
In very plain language the True Bride of Christ was in the mind of God eternally, though not expressed until each came forth in the designated, decreed season. As each member came forth it became EXPRESSED and took its place in the body. Thus this bride is the literal SPOKEN WORD SEED BRIDE. And though she is feminine in designation she is also called the "body of Christ". It is very apparent that she ought to be called that for she was predestinated in Him, came from the same source, was eternal with Him, and is now manifesting God in a many membered body whereas once God was manifested in ONE MEMBER, even our Lord Jesus Christ.
THE ETERNAL DECREE OF JEHOVAH GAVE TO CHRIST A BRIDE BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
PROVERBS 8:27-31
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
LET’S NOTICE SOME TYPES IN THE NATURAL OF THE ONES FIRST, HUSBAND AND WIFE.
ISAIAH 54:5
5For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
REVELATION.CHAPTER.FOUR.1_ JEFF.IN ROJC 551-584 SATURDAY_ 60-1231
90 Listen how this Scripture reads here:
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. (Get it?)
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. (Praise be to God.)
THIS MARRIAGE-UNION PAUL APPLIES TO CHRIST AND THE ELECT.
EPHESIANS 5:25-32
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
PAUL ADDS THIS.
31This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
JEHOVAH.JIREH.3_ LOUISVILLE.MS SATURDAY_ 64-0404
233 Now, as sure as Adam and Eve had to be the same spirit, Christ and the Church has to be the same Spirit, the same ministry. "The things that I do, shall you do also." You see what I mean? They had to unite together. Flesh and blood, and God, had to come together and be one Spirit. And Jesus Christ and His Church is one Spirit. How can the church deny creation, how can the church deny the thing that Christ told them to do, how can we deny It and then say that we are of Christ? "If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ask what you will and it'll be given to you. I am the Vine, ye are the branches, and the Life that's in the vine goes into the branch to bear the fruit." Fruit-bearers!
THE.FUTURE.HOME.OF.THE.HEAVENLY.BRIDEGROOM.AND.THE.EARTHLY.BRIDE JEFF.IN
292 And when the holy Fire of God sterilizes the earth with the Chemicals; He has lifted His Bride, which can come into Heaven with Him, while this is going on. And comes back upon the earth again, a New Heavens and a New Earth. The cold winter can't hurt it. The hot summers can't hurt it. The deserts will blossom as a rose. Sin and sinners are gone.
293 God, and His creatures and creation, is dwelling together in perfect harmony. As the heavens and the earth is husband and wife, so is Christ and the Church, and they all meet in one big glorious plan of redemption and is brought right into the bosoms of God again. You see it?