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PREFACE:
The Western
Society we live in, we would all agree, is one of extremes in regard to
Fat. There is the problem of obesity,
too much fat, and then as if to correct this problem many have gone to the
other extreme resulting in anorexic situations, with NO FAT.
When we read in God’s Word, and see His words “All Fat is
mine,” it should create a question to those who care what God says, as to know
what was God‘s reason for saying this, considering that God is in the spiritual
and we are in the physical.
I used to laugh and
guessed that God loved barbeques because that is when fat is very nice to eat
and smells so good especially with onions.
Upon consideration I guess He would not want the onions or even its
smell.
ALL FAT, NO ADDITIVES,
IS MINE SAYSTHE LORD GOD.
I do see the error of my
foolishness, in which I was not amused so much at God’s words ‘ALL FAT IS MINE’
but what one could concoct and assume by these words.
What can be assumed from
God’s words? NOTHING! It will take some study we think in order
to understand.
We know that all Fat was
to be burned and to smell good. There
was to be smoke to rise up.
What does the Father
mean by this?
We can see that all of
this called for PRECISE ORDER, God’s ORDER, to obey His order for this to happen.
Does this apply to us as
Christian believers today? How could it
because we do not sacrifice animals and so many will assume that this is only
Old Testament stuff and no longer applies to us of the New Testament dispensation,
and so why bother to know God’s reason for claiming all Fat as His.
But we must question
because God balanced this command with a penalty for disobedience. Are we to give God His Fat, whatever it may
be. But wait on, Jesus was our
sacrifice: and so all is well. But is
it really?
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LET’S CONSIDER to know :-
WHAT IS TO BE KNOWN OF THE FAT and how God set up the sacrifices which supplied
the Fat of which God said was to be all His.
Leviticus 3: 16
“All the fat is Mine.”
The study of the
sacrifices might appear tedious, but God’s
emphatic preference of Fat should cause us to consider what is the serious
reason for God to declare, “All fat is mine,” because this is not said in
isolation but was a part of God’s orderly, concise stipulations and regulations
of sacrifice which were sealed with a judgment
for disobedience.
His claim of the Fat is not to be seen as some
selfish ‘gutsy’ want. The question is,
what is our Fat and how do we give it?
We do know that we must obey God and come to Him in His way
and His stipulations and so it would appear that stipulations and regulations
of sacrifice are a good place to start to get to know, why is The Fat so
important to God and does it apply to Christians today?
THE STIPULATIONS AND
REGULATIONS ARE GOD’S LAW AND
ARE CLEARLY SET OUT FOR US IN LEVITICUS
CHAP. 1-7
THE STIPULATIONS: are
to state, to be part of one’s terms, the thing to be done, this only NOTHING
FURTHER : to insist upon as ESSENTIAL.
A demand stated as a condition of consent to or validity of an
agreement.
THE REGULATIONS: are regulating or being
regulated, prescribed Rule according to, of correct pattern.
Their meanings alone could be intimidating as there
is no suggestion of comfort, but of Rule and Order.
It is suggested that Leviticus Chapters 1-7 are
read in order to understand God’s perfect orders in regard to the animal
sacrifices, whether for sin, guilt, fellowship, burnt offering.
Each sacrifice was named
and was for a particular need and only covered only that which was indicated by
the varying regulations and
stipulations.
Instructions were given of the required place of
sacrifice, where the blood was to be put and how, whether by sprinkling or
pouring, which ordered whether it could be eaten or not, and if so where it was
to be eaten. What was to happen to the
animal in order to sacrifice and how to present it and its disposal of any animal part that was not
used for sacrifice. Instructions were given concerning the altar, the fire and
its burning and the arrangement of the wood and any specific work for any
specific sacrifice. Some Fat was
remembered, to be waived and then burnt, or to just be burnt, depending upon
the sacrifice and what it was for.
These were very precise instructions which varied according to the
sacrifice.
It is the fellowship offering that presents the Fat
before it is burnt. It is waived before
the Lord with the breast of the sacrifice.
Together they are presented for fellowship. This is unique and its requirements and regulations can order the
believer today to observe this fact that the Fat speaks Fellowship.
Instructions stated
orders of what clothes the priests were to wear and to whom the sacrifice
belonged after its sacrifice, which depended upon where the blood was
taken. The utensils had to be specially
cleaned. What was to be done with the Fat was a serious part of the
sacrifices.
All of this can not be
dismissed as irrelevant, however much we may believe so because it is not just
to come and know Jesus, say a few
words of belief and that one is born again, any more than one of Israel would just turn up with a sacrifice and kill it,
indiscriminately. One may say this is
all very interesting but why relate all of this to how we may come to Jesus? Because the work that was accomplished according
TO ORDER, to please God, was carried out on the cross. Because
Jesus died as a Guilt Offering and as a Sin Offering.
Because Jesus was these named sacrifices THEREFORE
THEIR WORK ACCORDING TO THE REGULATIONS AND STIPULATIONS apply to us today, in
order to be a participator in God’s New Covenant promises.
This is essential to
understand that God’s order for any believer in coming to know Him
are as the stipulations and regulations specify of the particular
sacrifice. For us the guilt offering
and the sin offering, both contain the order to give God the Fat and so this
does apply to us.
Isaiah 53:10 Romans 8: 3 Ezekiel 44: 5
43:10-12 Matthew 13:
37-42 Matt. 13: 47-50
Leviticus 3
Leviticus 1: 7-8 & 4 :19
Hebrews 8: 8-13 & 10: 14-18
THE EXITS AND
ENTRANCES ARE GOD’S ETERNAL BOUNDARIES AND LIMITATIONS TO MANKIND, which
have been established by the stipulations and the regulations of the sacrifice,
of the guilt offering and the sin offering , which Jesus was.
Therefore this relates to the work of the cross where we can see GOD’S STATEMENT ON LIFE AND DEATH and OF TWO KINGDOMS, which were physically set in place in The Tabernacle and has been spiritually fulfilled in Ezekiel’s Spiritual Temple which believers are in today.
The S and R of the
sacrifices in the Tabernacle dictated
boundaries, exits and entrances, by where the blood of the sacrifice was ordered to be taken.
The measurements of the
Spiritual Temple were given to ensure emphatically the Temple exits and
entrances into God’s presence, which are progressive and not just ‘one jump and
a leap of faith’ as many would believe today, in coming to God. Many
will find this hard to appreciate simply because they are not understanding
God’s order of coming to Himself through Christ, in the light of what sacrifice
Jesus represented.
Isaiah 53: 10
Romans 8: 3 Ezekiel Chaps.
40-47 Exodus Chaps 25 – 40
Leviticus Chaps 1-7 Ezekiel 43 :
10-12 Ezekiel 44:5 Matthew 13: 37-42 &
13: 47-50
BOUNDARIES AND
LIMITATIONS THAT WERE SYMBOLICALLY IN THE TABERNACLE.
GOD’S
KINGDOM WAS = Tent of the Meeting
OUTSIDE IN THE
COURTYARD - THIS REVEALED SEPARATION FROM GOD’S KINGDOM AND THE MEANS OF GAINING ENTRANCE INTO HIS
KINGDOM BY THE WORK OF THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING AND THE LAVER . – Blood and
Water.
OUTSIDE
OF THE COURTYARD = Outside the Enclosures – the world: other
than Israel.
THE BOUNDARIES AND
LIMITATIONS, THE EXITS AND ENTRANCES TODAY
IN EZEKIEL’S SPIRITUAL TEMPLE WHICH RELATES TO THOSE
SINCE THE CROSS.
THE NOW
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN =
THE SANCTUARIES OF THE TEMPLE HOLD THOSE
WHO
ARE ‘IN CHRIST.’ 1 Corinthians 12:
13-18
BAPTIZED
WITH HOLY SPIRIT.
CHRIST’S KINGDOM = IN THE COURTS OF THE TEMPLE, ARE THOSE
WHO
ARE UNBAPTIZED.
Where the altar of
burnt offering stands, it is to do the work of
Sin Offering
- its blood and that of Fire to give entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. Matt. 3: 11-12
OUTSIDE OF EITHER = THE WORLD: NO
EXCEPTIONS.
THE BURNT FAT OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT SACRIFICES WAS TO CREATE SMOKE WHICH CONFIRMED GOD’S LAWS OF SACRIFICE,
AND MAN’S FAITH.
WE
WONDER:
Did the Israelites wonder about
God’s Law concerning the Fat?
What did the smoke mean to the
Israelites, who became used to seeing it continually rising up and upwards day
and night. Perhaps the call of repentance
from sin and the call to sacrifice in the path of righteousness with the fear
of judgment. Because they had seen
God’s judgments upon those who had disobeyed His Word. Numbers Chap.10 Aaron’s sons, Joshua Chap.7
Achan’s disobedience. Does the church
need to have fear of judgment because of being neglectful of being in awe
of God’s ordinances, in connection to the sacrifices we have
trusted in. Because in coming to God
through Jesus as the Guilt Offering and Sin Offering that concerns the Fat
which God said must be given to Him and the smoke to give a ‘sweet aroma’.
Leviticus
3: 16 Romans 8:3 Isaiah
53: 10 Leviticus 7: 25
GOD’S
SIGNS OF AGREEMENT :
The smoke was to be the evidence of a sacrifice
whose Fat had been given to God, manifesting obedience that the Fat was fired
and as a result there was smoke that smelt good.
NO FAT, NO SMOKE, MEANT DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD WITH NO
AGREEMENT.
The Fat was to make
smoke to give that sign of agreement
with God.
The significance of the smoke and its message of
God and man’s agreement has been neglected to be - Translated into the New
Testament translations, being at variance with the Hebrew Scriptures which emphasize
this important work of the Fat which was to be seen as smoke and to give an
aroma. We see the same neglect of the
work of Christ as Baptizer with Holy Spirit because of varying opinions as to
the reason of its purpose.
The lack of
the witness of the smoke and of its aroma was seen as disobedience to
God’s Law and Order in His Way of coming to Himself then.
In the New Testament dispensation it is the baptism
with Holy Spirit which manifests agreement on the part of all concerned : God,
Christ and man. Our agreement with an
OPINION being a belief based on grounds
SHORT OF PROOF, that is our Faith.
NO BAPTISM WITH HOLY SPIRIT [NO
SMOKE] HAS NO AGREEMENT BY THE FATHER SAYING ‘JESUS IS LORD.’ BUT ONLY
CONDEMNATION Mark 16: 14-18 or
Romans 8: 1
WE ARE TO AGREE AND TO HAVE AN
OPINION.
WE ARE TO BELIEVE AND TO AGREE
WITH GOD.
JESUS WAS
GOD’S OFFERING FOR MAN. He was a Guilt
and a Sin Offering.
JESUS WAS
GOD’S PRIEST AND LAMB. John 1: 29
JESUS SACRIFICE WAS EXACTLY CARRIED OUT ACCORDING TO THE REGULATIONS OF GOD.
MAN IS
TO ACCEPT THE SACRIFICE MADE FOR HIM SO THAT HE BE REDEEMED. 1
John 3: 8
MAN IS
TO ACCEPT THAT THE BLOOD WAS SHED ON HIS BEHALF:
FIRST
THE GUILT OFFERING, Isaiah 53: 10 THEN
THE SIN OFFERING.
Romans
8: 3 A progressive work.
GOD’S ORDERLY REGULATIONS RE
THE BLOOD OF THE GUILT OFFERING
Lev.
5: 14-19 1-10
MAN REPENTS
BY BELIEVING: RECEIVES FORGIVENESS OF
PAST SINS AS ADAM’S CHILD.
MAN RECEIVES
THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST AND IS COVERED BY CHRIST’S
RIGHTEOUSNESS. THIS IS GOD’S
CONSENSUS. Romans 8: 10 &
4: 7 & 3: 25
MAN IS
PLACED IN THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST Colossians 1: 13-14
MAN IS
TO ASK CHRIST TO BAPTIZE WITH HOLY SPIRIT.
John 14: 13- 17
THIS
IS A COMMAND OF CHRIST, THE WORK OF WHICH GOD THE FATHER HAS ORDAINED FOR HIM
TO DO.
Acts
1: 4-5 Acts 2: 31-36
Matthew 3: 11-12 Mark 16:
14-18
THE
BELIEVER IN FULL AGREEMENT IS TO PRESENT HIMSELF TO BE BAPTIZED WITH HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE THE BELIEVER MUST HAVE THE BODY OF SIN DEALT WITH AND DELIVERED OUT
OF THE DEATH REALM BY THE WORK OF
THE INSTANTANEOUS SPIRITUAL PROCESS AND PLACED IN LIFE BEFORE RECEIVING GOD’S
CONSENSUS BY BEING BAPTIZED IN HOLY SPIRIT AND PLACED IN CHRIST AND BE ABLE TO
SAY
“I AM BORN AGAIN”.
Romans 6: 6**
Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2:
9-13 John 14: 13-17 Ephesians 4: 5-6
2 Corinthians 5: 17 Romans 2: 29 1 Corinthians 12: 3
John 15: 26
GOD’S ORDERLY REGULATION OF THE
BLOOD OF THE SIN OFFERING
Romans
8: 3 Leviticus 4 :3-21
THE INSTANTANEOUS SPIRITUAL PROCESS COMES INTO
OPERATION BY WHICH -
MAN IS
TO COMMIT THEMSELVES TOTALLY TO GOD.
MAN IS
SPIRITUALLY CRUCIFIED, BURIED IN DEATH TO BE RAISED BY
GOD,
OUT FROM IT. Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13
CHRIST BAPTIZES WITH HOLY SPIRIT, THE BELIEVER IS
SEATED IN THE HEAVENLIES John 1:
33 Matthew 3: 11-12 Acts
2: 31-36
GOD THE
FATHER BAPTIZES THE BELIEVER INTO THE SPIRITUAL BODY OF
CHRIST. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO BY HIS SPIRIT CAN DO
THIS.
1
Corinthians 12: 13-18
Matt.15:13 Ephesians 4: 5-6
THE
BELIEVER IS FORGIVEN ALL SIN AND BECOMES A SON OF GOD
CO-HEIR
WITH CHRIST. HE IS SEALED BY GOD AND
GIVEN HIS OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND IS BUILT INTO THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE AS THEY
ARE
TEMPLES OF GOD.
Romans 8: 17 Ephesians 1: 13-14 Philippians 3: 9-10 Colossians 1: 28 Romans 8: 11 Romans 4:
8 1 Corinthians 3: 16 1 Peter 2: 4-11
The smoke of the sacrifice of the Tabernacle was a
consensus meaning an agreement of
opinion by ALL CONCERNED that is with God and man.
Jesus consensus with the Father was to agree on his
part in God’s plan FOR MANKIND.
It was Jesus’ words to the Father in the Garden of
Gethsemane that revealed his total agreement when he said, “Your will not
mine.” Jesus trusted His Father to
raise him up and restore him into God’s presence with the same Glory he had
with His Father before the world began, not fully realizing the glory to which
he was to be exalted.
John 17: 5 & 24 Acts 2: 31-36
God’s consensus with Jesus as the Son of Man was:
“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear him.” He raised Jesus from out of Death and
exalted him to Christ and Lord.
Acts 2:31-36
Ephesians 1: 19-23
FROM THE CROSS GOD’S AGREEMENTS:
Man’s consensus with God is to repent and accept
His Son and his full work given by God to do.
It was Jesus’ full consensus with His Father that,
as our priest he fulfilled faithfully his part in the carrying out of the
sacrifices for man’s redemption. He
continues faithfully to be our High
Priest because of His Father’s appointment because of their continual
consensus of agreement.
N.B. When
any man of the Old Testament had confrontation with The Angel of the Lord it
was likened to be dealing with God Himself.
Not that the Angel of the Lord WAS GOD but so
perfect was he as God’s chief messenger, that whatever errand between man and
God was to be undertaken for God, he was the exact representation. There was no varying of mind or purpose but
of a complete oneness of agreement with God, whatever the circumstances.
Jesus fulfilled his role as The Son of Man in the
same way. If he had not done so the
work of redemption for mankind would have been ineffective and we would never
have been able to come to full consensus with God as we have through Christ who
worked, and still works in full agreement with his God and Father.
This is why man who would repent and desire to be
righteous are to commit themselves to God by obeying Jesus’ commands for
Baptism because Jesus said, as God would have him say “If you love me and obey
my commandment then you shall receive the Spirit of Truth”, which is one of
God’s seven spirits.
By water Baptism man displays his agreement with God that he is a
sinner.
By Spirit Baptism God displays His agreement with man, and Jesus’s
work in all of this, by declaring “Jesus
is Lord.”
Total consensus comes together for Jesus and the
Father as they both wait for man’s repentance and commitment which is man’s
consensus with them which is SIMPLY TO ASK OF THEM.
Man’s consensus with Jesus was to love him and to
obey his commandments and believe in God’s given Order of the Instantaneous
Spiritual Process, because until this is done, the believer cannot be baptized
with Holy Spirit by Christ and know God’s agreement.
The Baptism with Holy Spirit is God’s
Consensus. At the moment of Baptism,
the shortness of proof for man is diminished by THE REALITY OF GOD HIMSELF
TESTIFYING HIS AGREEMENT BY DECLARING
‘JESUS IS LORD’ AS JESUS SAID
HIS FATHER WOULD.
Genesis 22: 16 Genesis 31: 11 Exodus 3: 2-4 Job 16:
20-21 John 16: 13-15
John 14: 13-17 John 16: 23-28 John 3: 16 John 1:
29-33 Acts 2: 31-36 Acts 20: 21 John 14: 13-23
Colossians1: 23 Mark 16: 14-18 Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians2: 9-13
Galatians 2: 20 Romans 2: 29 Matthew 15: 13 1 Corinthians 12: 3
John 15: 26
We are seeing that the church’s opinion is
generally not based on agreement with God the Father’s Written Word. The ‘fractured rudiments’ of God’s basic
agreements has been made rudimentary. i.e.
Ineffective. The Agreement that one by coming to the cross, can say
that they are Born Again at that moment, and any agreement that a child without
any belief, can be said to be ‘In the Body of Christ’ are false
agreements. These opinions have been
created by men bent on assuming opinions and are not God’s Consensus which are
based on God’s Regulations and Stipulations which dictate the terms of exits
and the entrances in coming to Himself, with Jesus as The Way to God, giving us
access to Him.
At the cross God gave the sacrifice and gave the
offer of Eternal Life. John 3:16
To obtain Baptism with Holy Spirit man is to give
himself as a sacrifice to be in perfect agreement with God.
Galatians 2: 20 Romans 6: 3- 14
Colossians 2: 9-13
God has plenty of proof of
mankind, of the evil they are capable of.
However He is subject to an opinion on every individual until proof is
revealed. What He looks for are men who
would walk righteously, desiring, always to be in constant agreement with His
will however or whatever it may be for them to do for Him This is God’s Criteria to inherit Eternal
Life for SONS’ OF GOD WHOSE CONSENSUS
WITH GOD IS THEIR FAITH IN GOD THE FATHER, which God expects to exceed the
need of proof, by those who are called sons of God, with overwhelming evidence
that their faith is in agreement with
God. Romans 8: 26-27 John 16: 13-15
THE SMOKE WAS THE EVIDENCE OF ISRAEL’S OBEDIENCE TO
GIVE GOD ALL THE FAT OF THE SACRIFICE.
BAPTISM WITH HOLY SPIRIT IS THE FATHER’S CONSENSUS
WITH THE BELIEVER WHO HAS AGREED WITH GOD BY GIVING THEMSELVES SACRIFICALLY TO
GOD. THAT IS THEIR FAT.
NO BAPTISM NO CONSENSUS NO AGREEMENT WITH GOD
NO FELLOWSHIP
Matthew 3: 11-12 John 1: 33 John 3: 16 Acts 20:
21 1 John 1: 3 1 Cor. 12: 3 –18
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WHICH EXTENDED THE WORK OF THE BLOOD AND OF THE FAT OF THE TABERNACLE FOR ALL MEN TO ENTER IN WHERE NONE HAD ENTERED BEFORE.
To appreciate the Fat that God would say is His, we
must appreciate the value of sacrifice.
The first sacrifice was carried out by God Himself
with the purpose of clothing Adam and Eve because of their disobedience to God,
they had lost their spiritual covering.
Because of their disobedience God cursed all
mankind, and heaven was closed to all mankind.
Romans 5: 12-14 John 3:13
Therefore sin entered the world through one man and
Death through sin and in this way Death came to all men because all
sinned. Before the Law was given, sin
was in the world but it was not taken into account, when there is no Law. Nevertheless Death reigned from the time of
Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by the breaking of a
command, as did Adam who was the
pattern of the one to come.
ADAM TO NOAH :
Man is cursed, Death and sin reign, sin not taken
into account, heaven remains closed.
What was man’s hope? Genesis 3: 22 God said man had become like God knowing Good and
Evil
Genesis 4, the story of Cain and Abel confirm
this. Man was responsible to judge for
themselves what was right or wrong.
Abel did what was right in God’s sight. If Cain had given a lamb as his sacrifice,
it would not have been accepted, because he did evil in his life. Both lived with the knowledge of Good and
Evil. Because in God’s sight, THE
SACRIFICE REPRESENTS THE GIVER. 1 John
3: 12
Just as Esau’s sacrifice was not accepted because
he did that which was evil.
Men like Enoch who did right in God’s eyes were
credited with righteousness and when
they died they were taken to Paradise BECAUSE HEAVEN WAS CLOSED AND REMAINED SO
UNTIL JESUS ASCENDED TO THE
FATHER. Matthew 27: 51-53 Hebrews 9: 24
Genesis 6: 1-8. Men became
evil by their own choosing and God decided that His Spirit would not contend
with men and made their mortal years to 120 years. He destroyed the living creatures and all mankind except those in
the Ark.
It is after the Flood that it is noted that Noah
built an altar and sacrificed a Burnt Offering whose smell pleased the LORD.
God made a Covenant with Noah in which He decreed for all mankind to continue to be
created in the Image of God which would be the only hope for mankind through
the following dispensations, and would be the point of excuse as to the
availability given by God to man to have the power to do right or wrong. This will be the crux of God being justified
in His judgment and condemnation of them.
Revelation 20: 11-15 Genesis
9: 5-6
God DEMANDED AN ACCOUNTING OF EVERY MAN.
He DEMANDED AN ACCOUNTING OF EVERY ANIMAL.
He DEMANDED THAT EVERY MAN BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR
OTHERS.
BUT SIN WAS STILL NOT ACCOUNTABLE.
God established and
confirmed the fact that a sacrifice represented a man and this was highlighted by God in His Covenant with Noah by
the demand that all animals used in
sacrifice to God representing man were to be accounted for. This established the coming act of God who
would give His sacrifice, the one we
know as Jesus, as His Lamb, who would die in His place, in order for Him to
fulfill His obligations to His Covenant of Genesis 9: 5-6.
Acts 20: 28 John 1: 29
For God to revoke His own Word regarding the curse
on all mankind, to deliver him from the Death Realm and to open heaven required
God Himself to create a Covenant agreement by calling men to shed blood by His
command in order that He could justifiably place Himself in a position of
obligation to man to
shed His blood because He was the One who had caused them to shed blood. This
was His agreement: His plan which could fulfill His purposes by Jesus as ‘The
Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world’.
BECAUSE IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY MAN to shed his
blood for all men’s redemption, from the curse and its effects, God devised
this plan that He would be called to shed His blood WHICH WAS THE ONLY WAY GOD
COULD REVOKE HIS OWN WORD.
Psalm 49: 78
Genesis 9: 5-6
BUT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO SHED HIS
BLOOD. He used what He had established
in order to carry out the redemption of mankind. JESUS WOULD BE HIS LAMB - HIS STAND IN, and be the last actual
physical sacrifice of shedding blood to God.
Man would have to answer to “God’s shed blood” by His Lamb, which was His
obligation to those who had shed blood in spite of the fact that they were the
initial cause of all this trouble.
God’s shed blood, by His Lamb, still calls for all men to give
themselves to God, seen as shedding their blood, which is obligatory, to the
Father to give Eternal Life. Obligation
means to justify, or to be justified.
Many of the sacrifices
carried out in Genesis held prophetic pictures of God’s Plan of redemption for
all mankind, they illuminated the
stipulations and the regulations of the sacrifices of Leviticus which in time would
be fulfilled at the cross.
Genesis 15:6-21
Isaiah 53: 10 Romans 8: 3 John 1: 29 Acts 20: 28 Romans
3: 25
Colossians 1: 19-23 Romans 6: 1-12 John
3: 16 Matthew 7: 21-23
Genesis 22: 8 reveals
prophetically just how that this would
happen by God Himself providing a Lamb
which
illuminates His Covenant with Noah for all mankind.
THIS IS GOD’S CRITERIA FOR THE BLOOD OF THE
SACRIFICE.
From Abel to Jacob sin was still not being
accounted for but the sacrifices were.
Genesis 35: 14
THEN CAME MOSES.
SIN WAS MADE ACCOUNTABLE, because the sacrifice had become precise. The many types and works of sacrifice were
fulfilled at the cross. They were full
of meaning for those who would know the blessings of deliverance out of Death
and the Power of Sin, forgiveness of all sin and entrance into the kingdom of
heaven, and be housed in Ezekiel’s spiritual Temple.
Leviticus Chaps.
1-7 Romans 6:3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13 Matthew 13: 47-50
Ephesians 2: 6 Ephesians 2: 18-22 Ezekiel Chaps 40-47
All sacrifices in the ordered Levitical sacrificial
system were seen as holy by God, so much
so that if they could be eaten it must not be outside the Tabernacle Court,
which gave meaning, purpose and understanding to Jesus’ words when he
spoke of his death saying ‘take eat, this is my body’, because he was the Guilt
offering, as God’s Lamb. This sacrifice
could be eaten ONLY because its blood WAS NOT TAKEN to the Tent of the Meeting,
symbolic of God’s presence.
Now Jesus was also a sin offering, that declares that the
sacrifice CAN NOT be eaten because its blood WAS TAKEN into the tent of the
Meeting. This same work applies in its
completion for the New Testament believer because it fulfills Jesus’ work as
our Sin Offering and whose blood was poured out.
In giving ourselves as living sacrifices in order to know
Baptism with Holy Spirit, the sin offering becomes operative. Jesus’ words in Luke 22, regarding the
giving of his body and the poured blood of The
New Covenant are the confirmation and example for a believer to do the same :
to give themselves, as Jesus did, WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN GAIN ENTRANCE TO
THE FATHER’S PRESENCE. THIS IS WHAT JESUS MEANT WHEN HE CRIED OUT “IT IS
FINISHED” because he, as our sin offering, gained entrance into God’s presence
for us by the blood : whereas the blood of the guilt offering does not give
entrance into God’s presence, but qualifies them to go on to do so.
By Jesus as the Guilt offering the BELIEVER CAN
TAKE AND EAT. They receive Christ’s spirit.
With Jesus as the Sin Offering the BELIEVER GIVES
THEMSELVES AS THE SACRIFICE. They do
not eat. They are Baptized with Holy
Spirit by Christ. This should give
understanding of the Fat and why we are to give ourselves to God.
If the blood can speak
so strongly to the church, why can not the work of the Fat be heard?
Leviticus 4: 3-21 &
7: 1-9 Leviticus 6: 30 Matthew 26:26 Luke 22: 20 1 Peter
1: 2
Romans 12: 1-2 Galatians 4: 6 Romans 8:10-11
Colossians 1: 27-28 John 1:
29-33
Jesus, the Son of Man, as God’s Lamb, on the cross
was God’ plan and necessity TO FULFILL HIS COVENANT AGREEMENT of Gen. 9:
5-6. This enabled The Holy Ones of the
Old Testament to be raised at Jesus’ death, by God removing them out of Paradise and Christ took them
to heaven, because heaven was opened
by the work of the blood. They now sit
with Christ in The Heavens, and are the
Foundation Stone of The Temple because they gave God their Fat by their faith
and obedience. God saw all of them
before the work of the cross. He had
promised them an ‘eternal city’ and in order to accomplish this He set out His
plan and conditions by His own ‘word’ of Genesis 9: 5-6 and which continues to be viable for all
those who would believe, until the fullness of God’s time.
The Holy Ones are still
in waiting to enter The Eternal City, in order to enter together with those
whom Christ will judge to inherit Eternal Life because they did the will of The Father.
John 17:17-19 John 1:29 Acts
20:28 Genesis 9:5-6 Leviticus 4: 31 Hebrews 9:15-16
Matthew
27: 51-53 Ephesians 4:7-10 John 3:16 John
3:13 Hebrews 9: 24 Ephesians 2: 6 Ephesians 5: 20 2 Corinthians 5: 10 Matthew 7: 21-23 Hebrews 11: 39 -40
13: 12-13
ALL IS SEEN AND
SMELT
BY
GOD.
God knew the Holy ones and accredited them with
righteousness in His sight. He saw
their hearts as He did with those who heard His Son.
THE EVIDENCE OF THIS IS LEAD TRUTHS DROPPED BY
JESUS and which spoke volumes of immediate fulfillment of God’s Promises.
THESE HAVE BEEN AS HEAVY TO UNDERSTAND AS IS THE FAT.
The words Jesus dropped
like ‘lead Truths’ appeared to be against the ordinances of God. His words in parables were very potent. Every word
was given by God to say and it would be agreed that the Father is not
One to use words for embellishment but to establish His intentions of which His claiming of all Fat, as to what that
means must be remembered and obeyed.
****John
12: 47-50
Most of ‘the lead
Truths’ that Jesus dropped upset the Pharisees and the Sadducees. For instance concerning God’s Temple which
Jesus said that he would build in three days of which we know he would be the Corner Stone, the Holy Ones its
foundation, and into which those who would believe on the full work of the
sacrifices, Christ would build them into it.
John 2: 12-24 1 Peter 4 -10 Ephesians 2: 18-22
The disciples were
mystified when Jesus said they were to eat of his body and to drink his blood,
which Jesus had already spoken about in
the Synagogue at Capernaum by relating himself to being the Bread from heaven,
the Bread of Life.
The listeners apparently did not understand what
Jesus was meaning and many of his disciples left him, finding this too hard to believe,
because Jesus had made this a condition of Eternal Life. What understanding did they have of the sacrifices
and their stipulations and regulations
that were being carried out in their present temple?
John 6: 40 &
47-51 & 54
Matthew 26:26
Relating to himself as a
sacrifice in which his blood would be ‘poured
blood’ and ‘sprinkled blood’ speak volumes in relation to The Sacrifice
that he was to be, a Guilt offering and a Sin Offering. This was not generally understood nor
appreciated any more than it is today.
Luke 22: 20 1 Peter 1:2
He spoke of subjects or servants of a Kingdom who were
self satisfied in themselves believing
they were in God’s Kingdom, Abraham was their father yet they did not
obey God’s commands an he would, compared to those called sons, because they
would do the commands of Christ, given from God for man.
Matthew 8:12
John 15: 14-17 Romans 8:
17 Ezekiel 46: 16-18 John 14: 13-17
His Oneness with God, and words in relation to
Spirit and Water which were in relation to the coming Promised Spirit of God
the Father and God’s condition to see the Kingdom of God upset many. The promised Spirit spoke of the Baptism
with Holy Spirit that followed on from the words of John the Baptist that Christ would baptize with Holy Spirit and
Fire.
John 7:37-39 John 3: 3-8 Hebrews 10: 22
Matthew 3: 11-12 John 1:29-34 Acts 2: 31-36
He spoke of himself as
The Sacrificial Lamb, a Gate, the Good Shepherd and as the Door.
Ezekiel 46: 8-10 John 14:6 Luke 13: 22-30
Jesus spoke words but
there are examples of his acting out the role of the Messiah which should have
spoken volumes when the people waved palm branches and shouted recognition of
Jesus as one who had come in the name of the Lord. Jesus’ response was to get a donkey and to sit upon it. This was a “lead truth’ which even the
disciples did not recognize, but which
the teachers of the Law should have, by knowing Zechariah 9:9 which says “ See your king is coming seated on a donkey colt.”
It was the use of the
palm branches by the people in association with Jesus as the coming Messiah
that should have been considered by them to be strong evidence by Jesus’ manner
of entry into Jerusalem.
The palm branches were a
fulfillment of an ongoing prophetic
statement of the Messiah and the Prince whose image was engraved on the temple
walls with palm branches in profusion.
It is the Palm branches and the tree
from which they grow, which can also be seen to describe the body of Christ and
how that each individual who is placed in the Body is joined together. The trunk of a palm tree reveals rings which
mark for the total life of the tree just where each palm branch was
incorporated into the life of the palm tree.
There are many varieties of palm trees, and all have the same
feature.
It was the lack of the knowledge of God’s Prophecy
regarding the Prince, the Messiah, revealed in Ezekiel’s spiritual temple that
caused their blindness to Jesus’ dramatic entrance into Jerusalem on a donkey,
with the accompanying palm branches.
Ezekiel 40: 16 &
31-37 Ezekiel 41: 17 -26 John 12: 12-16
The most weighty and
unappreciated Truth of Jesus is that God is Spirit and His worshippers must
worship in Spirit and in truth. John 4:
21-23 This was prophetic of Ezekiel’s
spiritual Temple where believers would worship not with physical altars etc.
but a spiritual altar provided by God Himself.
This is The Father’s House where
Jesus said that he was going to prepare a place for those who would believe.
Jesus words, as GOD’S WORD, were EMBLEMATIC OF THE
EFFICIENCY BY WHICH THEY WERE TO PRODUCE WHAT GOD SAID WITH ALL
SURITY AND DESIRED EFFECT AND THAT INCLUDES THE GIVING OF ONE’S FAT BY GIVING
ONESELF AS A LIVING SACRIFICE, KNOWING THAT WE HAVE COME TO GOD BY HIS
STIPULATIONS AND REGULATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DISPENSATION, CARRIED OUT BY
JESUS AS GOD’S LAMB.
This is why Jesus said “The day is coming when
those who worship God will worship Him, the Father, in Spirit and in Truth.
They are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks.”
God lives in the Spirit Realm and so must His
worshippers to WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN God’s TRUTH being taught by God
Himself, who is The Spirit of Truth, which is one of God’s seven Spirits by
which He does His own work by His own Spirit.
Ezekiel Chaps 40 - 47 Ephesians 2: 6 Ephesians 2: 18-22 1
Peter 2: 4-12 1 Corinthians 12:
13-18 Matthew 15: 13 Matthew 13: 47-52 John 1: 1 Exodus 4: 16 Matthew
12: 47-50 John 14: 30-31
John 15: 26 Romans 1: 3-4 Romans 8: 1-2 & 15-16
Ephesians 1: 17 Hebrews 10:
29 1 Peter 4: 14
Revelation 1: 4 Revelation 4: 5
This is the PRESENT DAY SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, which is to
be set forth by those who are in it.
All its Glory, which is not so much what it is like
as an attraction but as to who is there within: God and His Son and what we
know of their care which sets us spiritually apart from the world.
God and Christ by their spirits in and through us
will bring, conviction of sin by the comparison of the unbelievers hopes and
dreams to those of the believer who has confidence because of their real
fellowship with God and Christ because of fulfilling God’s will and not theirs.
The Temple and ones place in it determines ‘Eternal
Life and the hope of inheritance’.
Ezekiel Chps.40-47
Romans 8: 10-11 John 17: 3 1 John 2: 24-25 John 14: 23 Matthew 7:
21-23
In the description of Ezekiel’s Spiritual Temple we
see the Courts which stand outside the Temple itself, in which are the Outer
and the Inner Sanctuaries. Its plan
appears to be the same but there are spiritual differences, which have great
meaning.
In it there is no gold, silver or brass but wooden
doors, windows, tables and an altar and wooden walls with carved palm trees on
them. This is the Temple which is
described in Ezekiel Chps 40-47 into which those who would believe to come
the way of the cross and Baptism with Holy Spirit are placed, by God the
Father.
The Courts contain the
unbaptized. The Sanctuaries are seen as
the heavenlies which contain the Baptized who are free to go in and out of the
Temple. Matthew 13: 37-42 & 47-50
This is the Temple that
Jesus spoke of that he would build, into which we are given access by Christ’s
full work and built into as Living Stones, and Christ is the Cornerstone and
the Holy Ones of the Old Testament are its Foundation. John 2:12-24 1 Peter 2: 4-6
Ephesians 2: 18-24
This is where we are
seen as Chosen People, the Church, the Elect, the Saints, a Royal Priesthood, a
Nation belonging to God for the purpose
of declaring the Praises of God who has called us out of Darkness into His
Wonderful Light. WE ARE A PEOPLE OF GOD
WHO HAVE RECEIVED HIS MERCY. We are
those who have given ourselves as ‘living sacrifices’ spiritually shedding our
blood, continually giving of what is ‘our fat’.
The Courts are where
spiritual sacrifices are still providing for the work of the guilt offering and
then the sin offering These sacrifices are spiritual and not physical as they were in
the Tabernacle.
Many believe that the
sacrifice of Jesus has taken them straight from the cross into God’s
Presence. They will do this work but not at the same time. He is, first, man’s Guilt Offering and then
his Sin Offering which Ezekiel’s Temple reveals their progressive work and
their extent. The altar is where
the Instantaneous Spiritual Process work is done, in the Inner Court, that gives an Exit from the Courts and
Entrance into The Temple. It is
here where our fat is given by us and
where it is fired.
Matthew 3: 11-12
The Law of the Temple has been given to those who
know it intimately: “their message to the world.” Not foremost is the message of sin and wickedness, but they are
to have described to them, THE TEMPLE.
Men are to be ashamed of their sin, upon hearing the description of the
Temple. They are to consider THE PLAN
and then, if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them THE DESIGN of the Temple, its arrangements,
its EXITS and ENTRANCES, its whole design and all its regulations and
Laws. These are to be written down, so
they can faithfully be followed and come first to Jesus Christ who will take
the believer to the Father by the ordered processes of The Regulations and Stipulations of sacrifice.
This is how men are to come to God today.
This will be the last Temple because God’s Word
states that there is none in The Eternal Kingdom of God. Revelation 21: 22
This is the Temple that
is spoken of in Revelation 11:1 & 19 Rev.15: 8 – 16:1 that John saw where those who had been delivered from
persecution on earth will be taken.
Revelation 7:9-17
This is the Temple which
reveals to us Christ’s work and gives understanding of him, as one who was with
God where we see his story in relation
to man’s salvation engraved on its walls.
We see the face of a cherubim with two other faces, of a man and of
a lion, which depict the fulfillment of him who was the Angel of the Lord, came
as the Son of Man and will rule, as Christ and Lord on David’s Throne as the
Lion of Judah and will hand all back to His
Father at the very end.
Ezekiel 40: 3-4 John 1: 1 Ezekiel 41:17-20
& 44: 3 &
45: 3-16 & 46:1-18
Colossians1: 13-14 John
16:13-15 1 Corinthians 15: 22-28
CHRIST’S PROGRESSIVE WORK IN THE TEMPLE:
The Tabernacle spoke symbolically of what Christ
would be and do, to bring mankind into God’s presence.
Ezekiel’s Spiritual Temple speaks fulfillment by
revelation of what is Christ’s present work which was accomplished due to his
exaltation as Christ and Lord. This is
where we gain understanding of what belongs to Christ given by God to do, and
of what is his work now, which is apart from that of God the Father’s work but
which by their works together produces the well-being of those who would
believe.
In the Courts and the
Temple Christ operates as the Prince
under God’s Law of the Temple against Spiritual Prostitution and Idolatry. As the Prince guards the Gates and the Doors
of the Courts. Here we see Christ is as the Door. There are many rooms which in the Courts
grow narrower as they are built up, whereas those in the Sanctuaries widen as
they are built up. Ezekiel 42: 5-9 41: 7
***The Courts are Christ’s present spiritual kingdom for the unbaptized with
Holy Spirit, which is not to be confused with his 1000 years reign kingdom
The inhabitants of the
Courtyard are encouraged that when they come in by one Entrance gate, they are
to go out by another, giving the picture of
no turning back but to proceed. The
Prince is to be among them in their coming in and their going out.
He is to encourage those
in the Courts to go to the Inner Court where the altar of Burnt Offering stands before the Entrance into the Outer
Sanctuary. This is where the unbaptized are to PRESENT THEMSELVES WITH CHRIST
THE PRINCE, where the believer is to know what God would have him give to God
to please Him – HIS FAT.
The Prince brings the believer here. He fulfills his promise to never leave nor
forsake those who have come into the Courts by the Guilt Offering, until he
brings them into The Inner Court to see the fulfillment of the sin offering.
Acts 2:
31-36 John 16: 13-16 John 5: 17 2 Corinthians 1: 1-13
Ezekiel 43: 6-12 & 44: 5
Ephesians 4: 5-6 Ezekiel 42:
5-9 41: 7 Matthew 13: 37-42
Colossians 1: 13-14 Ezekiel
45: 8-10 43: 13-17 Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13
Matthew 3: 11-12 John 14:
13-17
THE SPIRITUAL COURTS ARE THE PLACE OF DECISION,
TO CHOOSE GOD’S OFFERING OF A WAY TO HIMSELF.
THE PLACE WHERE ONE DECIDES ABOUT THEIR FAT.
It is here that God has ordained the Prince to
supply the Spiritual Sin Offering and
go WITH the believer to offer themselves as the Burnt Offering and the Grain
Offering to fulfill the work of Romans
6 : 3-14 and Colossians 2:9-13 to be
baptized / BURIED INTO Death WITH CHRIST, IN ORDER TO BE RAISED OUT OF THE
DEATH REALM BY GOD and then to be
baptized with Holy Spirit and Fire by Christ and then Baptized / placed by God
into the spiritual body of Christ.
Entrance is given into the Outer Sanctuary and we become a Priest, a Son
of God co-heir with Christ.
Spiritually we enter the Heavens, spiritually we
enter the Sanctuaries where God’s Throne is.
*****But the Prince guards the door to the Inner Sanctuary,
which to enter is to be the reward to those In Christ to go into where God’s
Throne is. This door is narrower than
the door of the Outer Sanctuary. Christ
speaks of the Narrow Door which few will enter into. This is that door of the inner sanctuary.
The condition of
entering The Inner Sanctuary is not to be guilty of idolatry by hanging on
to Jesus as if he were a peg, idolizing him as God. This fault can only intensify unless the believer understands
that their initial faith in Jesus as their Lamb and Baptizer with Holy Spirit
is truly justified because it was Jesus’ work given by God to do in order to
bring us to the Father. However once
baptized in God’s Spirit believing that God the Father is God alone the
believer can deal with idolatry and un-peg themselves from Jesus
as God. THEN they will be given entrance by Christ into the Inner Sanctuary
where and by whom they will be taught and share God’s Holy Offerings AND His
Holy things which God will reveal by His own mouth as the Spirit of Truth.
Luke 13 22: 30 Ezekiel 41: 1-4 Leviticus 4: 13-18
Ezekiel 45: 16-17
Isaiah 22: 20-25 Ezekiel 44: 10-14 Ephesians 1: 17 1Corinthians 2: 9-10
Matthew 13: 52 Ephesians 5: 20 John 16: 23
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To continue in the idolatry of Jesus as God, is to
divide the Body of Christ. The
Spiritual Body where all Baptized with Holy Spirit are placed by God and are to
be one.
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As priests and sons of God, our high priest is
Christ. They must be careful to remove
their clothes of ministry when they enter the Courts so those in the Courts
should see the difference of those who are in the Sanctuaries by exercising
their knowledge and live the difference between the holy and the common, the
clean and the unclean, the condemned and those not condemned.
Well known Pentecostal music ministries are an
example of neglect in fulfilling their positions as Priests and sons of
God. By their songs and music they have
spread like a great garment their spiritual position over on to the churches
that are in disagreement with them, in regard to the Baptism with Holy Spirit
in particular. They give the assumption
of a oneness with them by the error that Jesus is God, and the doctrinal
differences, they do not see, to really matter.
Romans 8: 10-11 Colossians 1: 27-28 Romans 4: 7-8 Mark 16: 14-18
THE BURNT OFFERING: IS THE BELIEVER.
The Burnt Offering is a
very particular Sacrifice. Its work was
incorporated with The Sin Offering and
played out once a year on the Day of Atonement. Leviticus 16: This
work continues spiritually to this very day, every time a believer would come
to be Baptized with Holy Spirit.
Jesus as the ‘Sin Offering,’ the believer as the
Burnt Offering and Grain Offering [the giving of oneself as a grain of wheat to
be buried, in order to be raised.]
Like the Olympic Flame its
fire, as of the Burnt Offering was never to go out It is only in the work of
this sacrifice that the total insides of the sacrifice was washed with
water, which Hebrews 10: 22 gives understanding of this work. We are washed
with Spirit Water not blood.
The head of the
sacrifice was burnt its ashes were removed as being Holy, by the priest who
must change into special clothes to do this.
The ashes were put at the side of the altar. The R. and S. of this
sacrifice, in burning the head is decidedly different from all other sacrifices
in the dealing with the body of the animal.
All this is spiritually symbolic of
a ‘once and for all’ work for the
believer when we give ourselves to God with our minds, that is our heads in
full understanding of what we are doing and must continue to do, because our
mind determines what “I am”.
As living sacrifices we are to renew our minds by
doing the will of God. The fire every
morning was replenished with the Fat of the sacrifice. The fire of the Spirit in us is never to go
out and it is our commitment of ourselves, day by day, to God that speaks of
the wood. We are the wood who are to be refined as
gold by God’s Fire. Christ, the Son of God the Head of the
church, is the refiner’s fire with eyes of Fire, to deal with those who would
be ‘trees of righteousness’ as they grow.
Here, God Himself is the
gardener, who prunes any unfruitfulness.
The Burnt Offering is
the only sacrifice which receives the
words, “This is accepted” This occurs spiritually for us when we are presented
by Christ as a Burnt Offering. The
Father will declare by His Spirit, “Jesus is Lord,” when all is complete being
raised out of the Death Realm and placed in Life by God, which is our certification
as a Son of God, co-heirs with Christ, as they have seriously delivered their
Fat.
Leviticus
16 Leviticus 1: 1-13 Hebrews 10: 22 Romans 12: 1-2
Matthew 3:11-12 Malachi 3:
2-3 1 Corinthians 12: 3 John 15: 26 Romans 8: 10-11
Colossians 1: 27-28 Revelation
2: 18 John 15: 1-8 Romans 4:
7-8
CHRIST THE PRINCE SHARES HIS INHERITANCE: Ezekiel 46: 16-18
Those Christ Baptizes
with God’s Spirit, are called Sons of God co-heirs with Christ. The
promise of inheritance however is given conditionally, to the sons of God and
the potential sons of God, who are those who are as yet unbaptized with Holy
Spirit.
The UNBAPTIZED in the Courts of the Temple have not
given over to God what He wants that belongs to Him. They will be denied inheritance, unless they come to gain
deliverance from The Body of Sin because they are still in The Death Realm and
therefore under condemnation, because of unbelief, or as with so many,
ignorance.
If they fail to do this Christ’s Angels will deal
with them, and God Himself will judge them.
There are many who will never leave the COURTS IF they continue to
ignore Christ’s command to be Baptized with Holy Spirit. They are forfeiting his work as Baptizer and
also God’s promises.
Colossians 1: 23 Romans 6: 1-12 Colossians 1: 13-14
Matthew 13: 37-42 Romans 6:
6
Romans 8: 10 not 11 Colossians 1: 27 Not 28 Mark 16:14-18 Romans 4: 7 not 8
The BAPTIZED WITH HOLY SPIRIT, with their condition to inherit ETERNAL LIFE CAN ONLY BE FULFILLED IN THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD
IF ONE HAS DONE THE WILL OF GOD THE FATHER, AS JESUS DID. Christ will judge them. SONS OF GOD CO-HEIRS WITH CHRIST, PRIESTS OF
GOD, who are to be kept cleansed and purified by confessing of sin and never to
be partakers of DELIBERATE, WILFUL
ONGOING SIN, because ***The Guilt Offering The Sin Offering BOTH WERE THE WORK OF THE CROSS. And so to sin deliberately therefore is to
sin as did Adam, and the Guilt and the Sin Offering are blasphemed. That is why God has said that there is NO
FURTHER SACRIFICE FOR THOSE WHO EXPECT CHRIST TO BE CRUCIFIED AGAIN.
We are to be over-comers to gain the promise of
Eternal Life. We are to be over-comers
by God’s power, trusting in the Father as God and not Jesus as God to overcome,
because the power given to overcome is by God Himself and the authority for us to know this power of God is because of
the work of Jesus. This is why we
proclaim our ‘Access Word’ of “In the name of Jesus”.
Revelation
2: 7 & 11 & 17 & 26-29
Rev. 3: 5 Rev. 11-12 &
21-22 Listen to what God says,
to those of the church.
WE ARE TO GIVE OUR FAT FOR ALL GOD AND CHRIST’S
WORK TO REMAIN IN US AND BE BUILT INTO US AS WE DO GOD’S WILL. ANY REMISS OR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH GOD’S
ESTABLISHED LAW OF THE WAY FOR SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST, WILL KNOW GOD’S
JUDGMENT AND THOSE IN THE SANCTUARIES THE JUDGMENT OF CHRIST.
Romans
6: 6 Mark 16: 14- 18 Romans 8: 10-11 2 Corinthians 5:10
Romans 8:17 Matthew 7: 21-23
1 John
1: 7-10 Hebrews 10: 17-39
Hebrews 6: 1-12 Revelation 2:
7 & 11 & 26 Rev. 3:5 &
11-12 & 21
1 John
5: 1-5 Revelation 3: 11-12 1 Timothy 4: 10 Ephesians 5: 20
WE MUST LEAVE IT HERE.
From God’s Throne flows
the spiritual River in which those ‘In Christ’ WHO ARE IN THE SPIRITUAL BODY OF
CHRIST are to enter. They are the church, the elect, the saints and
priests before God. Christ is our High
Priest.
This is the River that
will continue to flow in God’s Eternal Kingdom. We are to enter this River and proceed to go deeper and deeper
into the knowledge of God the Father and fellowship with Him and with His
Son. As we do His will as Jesus did,
God our Father is the answer to all our needs as healer, provider, protector,
deliverer, comforter and teacher and revealer of His Truth
As we go deeper into His
River we give Christ’s aroma to the Father, by not being selective in doing God’s will, we will know the full work of
God the Father. He will deposit in us,
His Fullness, the Fruits of His Spirit and that of Christ, which shall remain
to be seen as we are known at our judgment by Christ. The
river of God is not just to be observed, neither is it entered by ‘jumping into
it.’ It is only entered by ‘Faith in
God the Father as God alone’, as those who have fully committed themselves that
is their Fat, to God, by and through God’s way of coming to Himself through and
by Christ.
Ezekiel 47: 1-12 Ephesians 4: 5-6 1 John 1: 3 1
Corinthians 12: 13-18 Ephesians 1:
17
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 1 John 2: 24-25 Ephesians 3: 14-19
Galatians 5: 22-25
2 Corinthians 2: 14 2 Corinthians 5: 10 1 Corinthians 13: 12 2 Corinthians 4:11 2 Corinthians 1: 21 John 14: 6
THE
MEANING OF THE FAT:
In the sacrifice of the
Old Testament the fat of the animal was not an organ but the cover of the organs, their protection,
buffer zone. All of this God wants to
be for all mankind. This can be
viewed as the total answer as to what The Fat symbolized. However one may wonder if that is the answer
to the meaning of The Fat and why God wanted all of it given to Him. It does not answer how do we give our Fat
and what is our Fat, while we do
understand that God wants to be ‘our cover’ and protector. Does God want to take what is not good for us for our own good? It is rather that what He gave to us we
have made it partially inoperable, ie. The Image of God which He allowed to be
created in all mankind.
One may question as to
why there was the need study all of the sacrifices. The reason for this is to gain - this understanding.
Jesus sacrifice was done for
God’s purposes and not for us individually.
Its work was efficacious but when applying this we are to understand
that it was God’s plan of love and mercy for us who would believe, that Jesus’
sacrifice was in our stead.
THE GIVING OF THE FAT IS THE FINAL ACT, NOT, TO GIVE
CLOSURE, BUT BY THE FIRE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE BAPTISM TO INDICATE CONTINUITY
OF AN AROMA THAT IS PLEASING TO GOD.
WHAT
IS OUR FAT?
It is the ‘I Am’ of a man; the self made man. The ‘I am’ of man is what God asks of
us.
What I am in my mind and
in my heart, that is what I am.
It is of what God gave to man and allowed him after
the flood to continue to be created ‘In the image of God’, being unique to
mankind.
This has become polluted by man’s independence from
God, being his own god in his life.
From the rich to the poor from male to female from slave to free man
from Gentile to Jew. All have sinned
and come short of His glory. Man’s
righteousness is as filthy rags, yet God would call all mankind to give
ourselves in order to know full redemption: to give us our own righteousness to
be seen as holy and blameless.
Our Fat is our sense of well being, no matter or
whatever the circumstances: it is the awareness of self and of the spiritual
realm with the power to choose righteousness or unrighteousness.
It is the image of God in all men that was meant to
enforce God in the man and lead to the consideration of the spiritual realms
relating to the One true God, and eternal life. This power renders mankind to be ‘without excuse’, as
far as spiritual awareness of their need to be righteous and of impending
judgment by God.
The ‘image of God’ in man, when taken over by the
mind and heart of disobedient man, became the man’s self image. The “I am” control. The underlying power and control which goes
against what God would say can be strengthened by the awareness of the
spiritual realm, which can give ‘false leadings’ by false decisions, by false
Spirits that establish a false authority apart from that of God.
Our Fat in us, is our security founded in our own
solutions which God would say “give this to me”. By offering our selves to God, we will manifest that which DOES
BELONG TO GOD His Wisdom, not ours, His Truth, not our assumptions and
imaginations. To know what to touch or not, to go and to do when
and how, to consent or to ignore, to praise or to condemn, to speak or to be
silent, to understand from God’s thinking how to judge a matter and what is the
Truth of the matter. We are to know His
direction and the supply of our finances our health and comfort in our sorrows.
We are to give to God
our Fat, the image of God in us. We are
to walk in holiness and righteousness which He has reinstated to us by the work
of the Guilt and the Sin Offering.
We are to know and ask
of God the Father in all things, to treasure revelation of Himself and Christ, IN ORDER TO GIVE THE AROMA OF CHRIST WHO
GAVE HIS FAT [ALL THAT HE WAS] TO HIS GOD AND FATHER.
Philippians 3:
10-12 Hebrews 5: 13-14 2 Corinthians 2 :14
NO FAT, NO SMOKE, NO AROMA.
Our Fat is my ‘I am’, which is to be given to God
when WE HAVE FULFILLED GOD’S ORDER AND WAY OF COMING TO HIMSELF BY CHRIST AS
THE WAY.
This is why God is
emphatic about the Fat of the sacrifice
being His, and why the giving of it is placed at the very end of the sacrifices
regulations and stipulations and this is why we have to study the sacrifices in
order to see that God requires OBEDIENCE TO HIS ORDER OF COMING TO HIMSELF IN
ORDER TO GIVE OUR FAT. HIS ORDER IS HIS
WAY ONLY.
Anyone who would attempt to come to God without
coming God’s way to Himself and believe they have given themselves to God
without coming through Christ Jesus are in a state of delusion.
As God accredited the sacrificed animals as holy,
how much more the man who comes to God Himself, according to His set order,
giving his Fat to God because this is perfect obedience to God’s Law.
As already stated, the sacrifice at the cross
declares two works, which are progressive and hold God’s understanding of the mind and heart of man in
that when God’s way is made known to the
believer he would say, “I WANT
FOR ME.”
It is in the second phase of the sacrifices of
Jesus, the Sin Offering, that the believer will say,
“I WANT TO
GIVE TO GOD” and make the step of Faith to go spiritually through “The
Instantaneous Spiritual Process” which is carried out spiritually on the altar
of Burnt sacrifice, where the Fat is given.
When the believers’ Fat as a living sacrifice,
their “I” is fully given to God in accordance to the believers’ heart and mind
in their knowledge of what they are and what God would want, is to be continual
not to be seen as once given, but every day every circumstance every situation,
in order that my ‘I’ is seen by God and ‘I’ am seen as one who has faith in
God, fulfilling my obligation to the Father as a Son of God, BECAUSE I love Him
and Christ. Ephesians 5: 20
Colossians 1: 23
The Fat and its burning with smoke was the last act
of the sacrifice and so it is to be with us, until the very end of our days
: to be seen and smelt continually as
Christ, who will only grant Eternal Life to any Son of God if they have done
the will of God His Father, which is only accredited by the continual giving of
our Fat – which is ‘I’ to God. This is
our obligation as sons of God.
THE INNER HEART AND MIND. Psalm 86: 11-13
Romans Chap
7 displays the struggle;
Romans 8: 1-2
IS THE RESULT gaining no condemnation before God, by His and Christ’s
work.
The power of the blood
of any sacrifice to achieve its work before God, LIES IN THE MIND AND HEART OF THE GIVER.
If
the believer’s heart and mind is not fully and wholly in belief and has no
heart to love Jesus as a person, they will not obey his command to be baptized
with Holy Spirit.
A SEEKING HEART AND MIND WILL
BE KNOWN BY GOD, and He loves that,
because it will go on in knowing a peace the passes all understanding
and fellowship with the Father and the Son; doing His will as Jesus did.
A heart and mind that lacks
knowledge of who is God and is not obedient to Him nor His will is to take
notice of how God deals with disobedience.
1 John 2:
24-25 John 15:1-17 1 Corinthians 13: 12 1 John 2: 15-17 1 John 1: 3 Matthew
7: 21-23 Romans 12: 1-2 Romans Chp.7 John 14 : 13-17
Romans 8: 1-2 John 17: 3 1
John 2: 24-25
NO FAT, NO SMOKE, BECAUSE GOD CANNOT BE SEEN IN
DISOBEDIENCE.
THE FAT AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE SACRIFICE
DISPLAYS THE GOSPEL STORY.
THE BELIEVER AS A LIVING SACRIFICE:
In every sacrifice the heart of the believer is to
be totally in it. Jacob was a good
example of this for us today, who would give ‘the fat’ of their sacrifice to
God. He hungered and thirsted after
God.
The evidence of a true sacrifice is the continual
giving of oneself to God.
Jacob, was his heart right? Jacob is generally seen as dishonest and
devious. If this was the case, why did
God bless him and through him create a history of God’s goodness to his sons
out of which lineage came Jesus Christ?
Why did God bless him? : because God knew his heart.
So what have we generally missed? Scripturally Jacob honored his parents,
while Esau did not, which was revealed by his marriage to pagan women not
realizing that this offended his parents who were God fearing. Jacob at 40 years was unmarried because he
knew of his parents’ Godly convictions.
Isaac favoured Esau and as he grew old he knew that he must pass the
blessing of his Fathers on to his eldest son. Rebecca favoured Jacob and she
devised a plan for Jacob to receive this which Jacob believed it to be deceitful,
and feared to be cursed and not blessed by God.
However he did as his mother said and his father’s
constant questioning of Jacob as he carried out his mother’s plan strengthens
our understanding of Isaac’s discernment.
Esau had already sold his ‘birthright’ to Jacob, but desired his
father’s blessing. How true this is of
many Christians today.
Any blessing given was not some religious set of
words, and memorized but would be what
God would give Isaac to say.
God knew that it was Jacob, He knew Jacob’s heart
was towards Himself and desired to gain His favor, which was not the heart of
Esau who desired to have all men’s
favor as did his father Isaac, by God’s
decree.
It could appear that Rachel’s plan was unnecessary
because the prophecies Isaac gave to Esau and to Jacob fitted WHAT GOD KNEW OF
THEIR HEARTS.
Both prophecies have come to pass and the
descendants of Jacob and Esau still hold centre stage in the International
Stage of World Events. Genesis 25:
23 27: 27-29
The confirmation of
God’s favor and ultimately His purposes for Jacob and his descendants were
joined by God’s Covenant with Noah and Abraham.
Jacob is shown a stairway to heaven: prophetic of
an open heaven, with angels ascending and descending with the LORD standing
above it. God declared Himself to be
the God of ‘Abraham and Isaac’. He
promised land to his descendants, all over the earth, which is prophetic of the
Gospel for all mankind He promised that
He would be with him and watch over him wherever he went and would bring him
back to his father’s land. He would not
leave Jacob until He had done what He had promised Jacob. Jacob was afraid as he had not known this
before.
He took the Stone he had
placed under his head and set up as a
pillar AND POURED OIL UPON THE TOP OF IT : A FELLOWSHIP OFFERING.
Jacob’s vow to trust the LORD as his God was based
ON GOD’S PROMISE TO HIM.
The Stone that he set up as a pillar was prophetic
of Christ as the Cornerstone of God’s House.
This is the House in which we live spiritually
today in fellowship with God and Christ.
Jacob believed God’s promises, his heart was full
of love for God.
God gave him a new name, with the promise of a
nation and community of nations to come from him. Jacob confirmed his belief by setting up a stone pillar where God
had talked to him and he poured out a ‘Drink Offering’ on it and also oil,
which spoke of fellowship and of Jacob’s sacrifice of himself to God. God gave him a view of the Eternal
City. This was his hope.
We have received God’s Promises, and conditions to
receive Eternal Life. Spiritually we
are to know His love and care, healing and deliverance, His provision and
protection. We are to know His voice
in order to know His Will and by our obedience, we who are living stones in
God’s Temple are being strengthened widened and built up to the glory of God
and Christ.
Jacob trusted in the living God and His Promises
just as we also are to do. Knowing God
our Father to be The Lord God Almighty, God alone, the One True God, to whom
all praise is to be given : giving Him
our Fat to extend our spiritual positions which are to fulfil the total plan of
God’s redemption for mankind.
Just as Jacob testified
of God’s unfailing care and the help of The Angel of the Lord so do we, of our
God and Father, in whose Spirit those In Christ are : baptized into by Christ and Christ his Son whose Spirit
lives in our spirit, given to us by God.
Because of their faithfulness to God’s plan and man’s faith in them they
dwell in us in their fullness :God our
Father, the Lord God, and Christ who was Jacob’s angel.
John 14: 23
Ephesians 3: 14-19 Ephesians
4: 5-6