The Ark of His Presence Part 2
In our Church meeting
Sunday night I spoke the message below and God confirmed the Word with the most
amazing signs.
Besides this you know what [a
critical] hour this is, how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your
sleep (rouse to reality). For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now
than when we first believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the
Messiah). Romans 13:11(Amp)
Now faith is the assurance (the
confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of
things [we] do not see and the
conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed
to the senses]. Hebrews 11:1(Amp)
In the scripture
above God says His Church must awake out of her sleep-rouse to reality!
I spoke about
salvation-final deliverance is nearer than when we first believed. I spoke
about full salvation that we are entering into in 2013 and the full
manifestation of the nine gifts of the Spirit.
I spoke about Lester
Sumerall message he spoke on the coming forth of the full manifestation of the
gifts in the end-time Church. Brother Sumrall worked with Howard Carter and
Smith Wigglesworth.
The Lord gave Howard
Carter the revelation of the nine gifts of the Holy Ghost. He was the first one
to majorly receive the revelation of the nine gifts around 1910 over 100 years
ago. God taught him about the gifts and then demonstrated them to him in his
life and walk with God.
I shared some of his
testimonies of how God demonstrated the nine gifts to him.
Then I shared about
Brother Sumrall working with Smith Wigglesworth. I shared about the last time
Lester Sumrall saw Smith Wigglesworth-account below.
One day. Lester
Sumrall went to tell Smith Wigglesworth that a police officer had come to his
door and told him that everyone that was not an English citizen would have to
leave the country. Hitler was threatening to come across the English channel,
so all foreigners would have to leave. The young Sumrall came to explain to the
Elder minister, "I came to say goodbye to you. I appreciate all you have
put into me." Now, here was a young minister in his young twenties, and
here is a man in his eighties. The man in his twenties wants it, and the man in
his eighties wanted to give it to somebody.
Smith Wigglesworth
told the young minister, "I want to bless you." So he held him and
said, Lord everything that I have bless him with it, give it to him, Smith
Wigglesworth started weeping and he pulled Brother Sumrall in closer.
He was a big man and
as he held me close into him, his tears would roll off his face and hit me on
my forehead and run down my face, Brother Sumrall explained.
Wigglesworth cried
saying, I probably won't see you again now. My job is almost finished.
As he continued to
pray, he cried, I see it, I see it!
He said, "I see
healing revival coming after World War 11. It'll be so easy to get people
healed. I see it! I see it! I won't be here for it, but you will be. And there
was a healing revival right after the War.
He continued to
prophesy, I see another one. I see people of all denominations being filled
with the Holy Ghost. That was the Charismatic revival. God raised up people
from that era, like the Full Gospel Business men.
Then Brother
Wigglesworth continued, I see another move of God. I see auditoriums full of
people, coming with notebooks, there will be a wave of teaching and faith and
healing, we did experience that wave he saw, and we call it the Word of faith
movement.
Then he prophesied,
After that, after the third wave, he started sobbing, I see the last day
revival that is going to usher in the precious fruit of the earth. It will be
the greatest revival this world has ever seen! It's going to be a wave of the
gifts of the Spirit. The ministry gifts will be flowing on this planet earth. I
see hospitals being emptied out, and they will bring the sick to the Churches
where they allow the Holy Ghost to move."
Mary Ann Morgano in
our Church service after I told the prophecy of Smith Wigglesworth saw angels
around me with golden bells in their hands and every times i mentioned about
the full manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit they would rind their bells.
Patrick understood
the vision a Prophetess years ago I was involved with her ministry spoke about
a revelation God showed her that the High Priest of Israel in the Old Covenant
had nine golden bells around the bottom of his High priestly garment and as he
walked the nine golden bells would ring. One day a year he went into the Holy
of Holies and they tied a robe around him and as long as they heard the golden
bells ringing as he did his service he was fine and alive but if the nine
golden bells stopped ringing he was dead and they pulled him out with the rope
from the Holy of Holies for he died in the glory for he was in sin.
God told her as long
as the nine golden bells are ringing in my Church or operating the nine gifts,
the bells are ringing in My Church but if the gifts aren't operating in the
Church the bells are not ringing that Church is Spiritually dead like My High
Priest.
So these angels were
saying the full manifestation of the nine gifts will be ringing in our Church
and in His Church.
The Holy Spirit spoke
the understanding of this in the scripture to Patrick and he went to open his
Bible to it and his Bible fell open that scripture, this was another amazing
sign the angel opened the Book.
And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not. Exodus 28:33-35
The Ark
Know
ye not that ye are the temple
of God temple of God , him shall God destroy; for the temple of God
Know
the Reality of the Indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit
We must know the reality of the indwelling
Presence of the Holy Spirit. First John 4:4 says, "... greater is he that
is in you, than he that is in the world." Of all the mighty truths
connected with redemption, this is the apex: God Himself, after He recreated us
and made us new creatures and made us His own, is actually making our bodies
His home! When you are born again, it is more than an experience. The Holy
Ghost, the Third Person of the Godhead, a divine Personality, comes to live in
you. In fact, the Bible even goes so far as to say that God Himself is living
in you.
2 CORINTHIANS 6:16
16 ... for ye are the temple of the living
God; as God hath said, I will dwell IN them,
and walk IN them; and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
God
no longer dwells in the man-made Holy of Holies. Through the new birth, our
bodies
have become His temple.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:19,20
19 What? know ye not that YOUR BODY IS THE
TEMPLE of the Holy Ghost which is IN you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
We need to become "God-inside
minded." In other words, we need to just simply take God at His Word. We
need to believe and act like the Bible is true when it says, "greater is
he that is IN you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4)! "He
that is in the world" is the god of this world, Satan (2 Cor. 4:4). But,
thank God, He who is in us, the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Godhead,
is greater than he who is in the world!
The
Greater One Lives in Us
Thank God, God indwells us as believers,
through the Person of the Holy Spirit, today too. Because of the indwelling
Presence of the Holy Spirit, it should be a common practice in the Church today
for believers to say in every crisis of life, "I am more than a conqueror."
However, the truth is, making positive confessions based on our rights and privileges
in Christ is almost an unknown practice in the church world today.
The Christian's continual confession should
be, "I am a victor. The Creator dwells in me; the Greater One lives in me.
The Person and power of the Holy Ghost dwells in me. Praise God, He can put me
over. He can make me a success. I cannot fail because of Him." Many people
think when you say those things that you are bragging on yourself. That's not
bragging on you; it is bragging on the Greater One who is in you. Bragging on the
Greater One in you will put Him to work for you.
The
Power Source Within
You must remember that the Book of First
John and the other epistles were letters
written to the churches - to believers.
Actually, they were written to folks who are not just born again, but were
Spirit filled too. It was the exception back then for believers not to have
received the Holy Ghost with the supernatural sign and evidence of speaking in other
tongues.
But you know, when faced with tests and
trials, sometimes even people who have been filled with the Holy Ghost and have
received the enduement of power from on High will sometimes run around like a
chicken with its head cut off, trying to find someone who can help them. They
don't always realize that they have received the Powerhouse, the Holy Spirit,
who is living inside of them.
So many times, they will just run to
someone to find comfort, shed a few tears, quote a few scriptures, and call
that praying. Then they wonder why the victory doesn't come. But all the time
they were trying to find someone to help them, the Greater One was on the
inside of them, trying to help them and give them their answers. Many times,
people don't realize what they received and who they received when they
received the Holy Ghost. Too many times those who have been filled with the
Holy Ghost just think they too, have simply received a blessing or had some
kind of an experience. They miss entirely what the Word of God teaches about being
filled with the Holy Spirit. They were filled with the Holy Spirit and thought
it was just some kind of an experience or a blessing.
Later when tests and trials come, they
believe if they could just feel the way they did
when they were first filled with the Holy
Spirit, they could be victorious. Well, we
shouldn't be looking back to that
experience in order to obtain the victory we need
today. You don't need to try to have the
same kind of "experience" you did when you first received Him; just
learn to tap into His indwelling Presence and power today!
This has never been taught as it should
have been taught. How many of us have been taught to trust the God who is in
us? I'm not talking to sinners, I'm talking to Spirit-filled and born again
ones. How many of us have been taught that you have in you, ready for use, all
the power you'll ever need to put you over in life? No, we've been taught practically
everything else but that vital truth.
The way some people talk, they had some
kind of an experience back when they were baptized in the Holy Ghost and spoke
with tongues, but they've been left destitute ever since then. They might say,
"We need the power, and if we could just get the power, we would be all
right. But we don't have the power. We're still seeking it."
Actually, the potential of all the Divine
Power there is dwells in us. If we'll begin to
believe what the Bible says and begin to
confess what God's Word says, then He will
rise up in us and give illumination to our
minds and direction to our spirits and health to our bodies, and He will help
us in every aspect of life. We can be conscious of His indwelling Presence and
power every moment.
Jesus said, ". . . I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you FOR
EVER" (John 14:16). God didn't send the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, just
as a guest to spend a few days with us. No, praise God, Jesus said that the
Holy Spirit would abide with us forever. God intended for the Holy Spirit to
come and dwell in us!
Believers
Are the Body of Christ
2 CORINTHIANS 6:14-16
14 Be
ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness
with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath CHRIST with Belial?
or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God
of the living God; as God hath said, I will
dwell in them, and walk in them; and I
will be their God, and they shall be my
people.
What are these verses saying? They are
saying that we as believers are righteousness; we are light; and we are the
Body of Christ. Jesus said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches. .."
(John 15:5). You don't look at a tree and say the branches on that tree aren't
a part of the tree because they are. The tree and the branches are one. We as believers
are the Body of Christ. We are the fruit-bearing part of Christ because the branches
of a tree are what bear fruit. The Bible talks about us bearing fruits of righteousness.
As we said in Chapter 14, righteousness,
meaning right standing with God, is a gift and it is to be received immediately
when you accepted Jesus as your Savior (Rom. 5:17). Righteousness as a stage of
spiritual development is a fruit of the born again recreated human spirit and
it takes time to grow.
PHILIPPIANS 1:11
11 Being filled with the FRUITS OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS, which are by Jesus Christ,
unto the glory and praise of God.
2 CORINTHIANS 9:10
10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower
both minister bread for your food,
and multiply your seed sown, and increase
THE FRUITS OF YOUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS;
Someone asked, "What are fruits of
righteousness?" The fruits of our righteousness are the products of
abiding vitally connected with the Vine (John 15:1-8). Some think fruits of
righteousness mean being good, or just living a good life. And when they think
of being good, they think of doing good works, such as giving to the poor.
Those things are well and good, but, actually, the fruits of righteousness are
doing the works of Jesus. We are to cast out devils and heal the sick and do
the same works Jesus did when He was here on the earth (Mark 16:15-20; John
14:12), because we are the Body of Christ. Fruits of righteousness are also
produced as a result of being a doer of the Word (James 1:22), and conforming
to God's will in every area.
But the point I am making is that Jesus is
the Head of His Church and the Church is His Body (Col. 1:18). We are the Body
of Christ. As I said in the last lesson, your head doesn't go by one name and
your body by another. No, you and your body are one body. Notice also it says,
"And what agreement hath the temple
of God TEMPLE temple of God
2 CORINTHIANS 6:16 (Amplified)
16 What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God
the temple of the living God; even as God
said, I will dwell in and with and among
them and will walk in and with and among
them, and I will be their God and they
shall be My people.
We are the temple of the living God, both
individually and collectively!
We Have the Holy of Holies Within Us
1 CORINTHIANS 3:16 (Amplified)
16 Do you not discern and understand that
you [the whole church at Corinth
God's temple (His sanctuary), and that God's
Spirit has His permanent dwelling in
you - to be at home in you [collectively as
a church and also individually]?"
I like that expression ". . . to be at
home in you." God is actually making our bodies His home. No longer does
God dwell in a man-made Holy of Holies. In the Old Testament, the Presence of
God was kept shut up in the Holy of Holies. God's people had to go to the Holy
of Holies where the Presence of God was located in the Ark of the Covenant. You
remember the woman at the well of Samaria said
to Jesus, "The Jews say you have to worship God in Jerusalem
JOHN 4:21,23,24
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me,
the hour cometh, when ye shall
NEITHER in this mountain, NOR yet at Jerusalem
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the
true worshippers shall worship the
Father in spirit and in truth: for the
Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship
him must worship him in spirit and in
truth.
Jesus was indicating that the time would
come when man would no longer be confined to worship God in a designated place
such as Jerusalem for the Jews, or Mt.
Gerizim
14:16,17,23; Heb. 8:8-13).
You see in the Old Testament, it was
required that every Jewish male present himself at least once a year in Jerusalem
Just before Jesus gave up the Ghost and
died on the Cross, He said, "It is finished"
(John 19:30). Jesus was not talking about
the New Covenant being finished or ratified, or the plan of redemption being
finished because it wasn't finished just because Jesus died. Jesus had to be
raised from the dead and to ascend into heaven for the plan of redemption to be
completed. But on the Cross, when Jesus said, "It is finished," Jesus
was referring to the fact that the Old Covenant was finished. What does it
mean, the Old Covenant was finished? If you'll read in Matthew 27, you'll find
out what happened.
MATTHEW 27:50,51
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a
loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was
rent in twain from the top to the
bottom; and the earth did quake, and the
rocks rent.
On the Cross, when Jesus "cried with a
loud voice" (Matt. 27:50), and said, "It is
finished," the curtain that separated
the Holy of Holies was rent in twain or torn in two from top to bottom. Jewish
historians tell us that the curtain was forty feet wide, twenty feet high, and
four inches thick. The Bible doesn't say the curtain was rent in twain from bottom
to top. The Bible says the curtain was rent in twain from top to bottom (Matt. 27:51).
The Presence of God moved out of that man-made Holy of Holies, and God has never
dwelt in a man-made Holy of Holies anymore.
A
Better Covenant
Thank God, the holy divine Presence of the
Holy Spirit indwells us as believers! That Presence lives in me and in you. We
have carried many truths from the Old Testament over into the New Testament,
and have really failed to understand the full truth concerning our redemption
and the reality of the indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit. Many people, for
instance, mix the truths of the Old Covenant with the truths of our rights and
privileges in Christ in the New Covenant.
For example, if you are mixing cement and
you don't get the mixture right, it won't work; the cement will crumble. That
is what many people have done spiritually speaking. They have carried truths
over from the Old Testament into the New Testament and have not understood
their proper relationship with God in the light of the New Covenant. They
haven't gotten the mixture right. That's sometimes the reason the circumstances
of their lives seem to crumble around them; they've really missed what God is
saying to them under the New Covenant and are still trying to live under the
provisions of the Old Covenant. But under the New Covenant, we have a better
covenant based on better promises (Heb. 8:6). God actually dwells in us under
the New Covenant! Our bodies are God's temple or house.
God
Dwells in People - Not in Buildings
One example of believers trying to live
under the provisions of the Old Covenant is believers calling the church
building the "house of God."
Most church dedication services I've ever
attended were centered around the idea that the building they were dedicating
was the house of God. The ministers usually read about the dedication of
Solomon's Temple in the Old Testament; however,
this leaves the impression that the church building is a house of God just as
Solomon's Temple
For example, I know of a beautiful church
in one state, and chiseled across the front of the building at the top, is a
scripture from the Old Testament about the church being a temple of God
On the other hand, if we mean that a church
building is the house of God because it is dedicated to the Lord and used for
worship, that's all right. But you must be careful that you don't get out of
line with the Word of God in this area because it is so easy to become taken up
with material things in the sense realm - the natural realm which you can see -
and miss the spiritual reality.
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