ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: A NEW ONOMA, Part 14

A New Onoma,  Part 14

April 29, 2013

Rich Warren and I have just returned from a three-day FGBMFI men's retreat where we led worship for roughly 120 men.  This was our third year of being involved with this particular retreat, and it is safe to say that we saw and experienced a dimension of the presence of the Lord in worship the like of which we've never seen in a corporate setting like this. 

You know that Holy Spirit is at work when you have a variety of different individuals tell you that they visibly saw demons fleeing the place in the midst of the worship.  You know that God is at work when His Glory is so thick that it rests like a huge blanket over the assembled group, and people's lives are transformed, men receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and others receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit -- all in the midst of worship.

We've shared this before, but what we do is to allow ourselves to become the instruments that Holy Spirit plays.  My guitar and Rich's bass are nothing more than extensions of ourselves.  We become the instruments that are played.  The sound of the Lord goes forth bringing healing, deliverance, restoration and wholeness to those who will hear His voice and respond.  We don't always sing.  Much of the time we prophesy with our instruments.  People see visions.  At times they are transported into the Heavenlies.  Others hear the voice of Holy Spirit speaking into their spirits ministering life and breaking bondages.  The music becomes the voice of Father bringing His authority against the power of the Enemy.

We've had the addition of Craig Manley on drums, along with three young lads from Heritage Christian High School who've joined us with their instruments.  Every time you add another musician to the mix -- normally, at least -- you add another layer of complexity and another individual (or individuals) who must respond and play the same heretofore brand new music they've never played, heard or seen before, and have no sheet music in front of them.

As I noted in sharing with someone else this afternoon, it's akin to having a group of people all speaking in tongues at the same time -- the difference that everyone is speaking the same tongue at the same time, and no one has a clue as to what comes next.  In this case the tongues become the music that we've never heard before, never played before, and have no idea whatever where we're going with it.  Nevertheless it literally flows like a river with the presence of the Lord.

Anyway, Good Morning!  Pour yourself a 16-ounce cup of that java and let's get started with today's discussion.

6. The doctrine of “Eternal Judgment” is the sixth stone in the foundation of our new onoma.  We have already talked about the Spirit of Judgment and Burning as being one of the seven spirits of the onoma of Jesus Christ.  Just as it is foundational to His character and makeup, so must it also become foundational to ours.  Because of His unique perspective, and ability to see across time from beginning to end, He makes (and has made) judgments which will stand through eternity.  “The judgments of the Lord,” David sang, “are true, and righteous altogether.” (Psalm 19:9)

He has pre-judged (from our perspective in a time-space world) His Bride, and all those individuals who corporately consist, as righteous.  In the same manner, He has pre-judged all those who have accepted Him as Lord and Saviour, but have not (or will not) overcome all things in order to become a part of His Bride.  Even though they have not been incorporated into His Bride, the invitation has gone forth to them to attend the Wedding Feast as His guests and friends.

Those who have refused Jesus Christ, those who have rejected His claim as the Bridegroom, those who have rejected His payment of their dowry, and those who have continued their willful walk of agreement with Satan’s lies have all likewise been judged.  Their judgment is as final and eternal as those who are a part of His Bride.

In what I sometimes call “The Letter to the Bride” (better known as The Revelation), John graphically describes the unfolding of events which we have all been living through.  He underscores the judgment of the Lord to all who accept the thought processes of the Beast (which we understand and define as that system and power by which the world operates in this present age), or function and do business after the manner of the Beast (i.e., take “the mark of the Beast” in their forehead or right hand).

That judgment is the lake of fire.  John likewise speaks of the judgment of the Antichrist (that pervasive spirit of humanism which saturates our society today), and those who succumb to that spirit.  Likewise do we read of the judgment given to that great whore, the spirit of Jezebel, which has led or driven so many of God’s people to destruction.  And on and on it goes.

So, how is all of this foundational to our onoma?  The judgments -- the decrees of the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ -- must be so integrated into our character and makeup that we live them daily.  His judgment towards His people is mercy and truth.  His judgment towards His Bride is love and power.  His judgment of those wicked spirits (and their father, the devil) which permeate today’s world is imprisonment and containment in a bottomless pit for the next thousand years, a short span to be let loose to try the generation of that age, and then final destruction.

For the Bride of Christ, those judgments must be ingrained into the very essence of her existence.  She must live – today – His judgment and authority in the realm of the spirit.  The millennium to come is only the staging ground for eternity!

Now do you understand that these are only the very basic foundations for relationship with Jesus Christ?  Now do you see why there must be a “going on to the completion?”  These fundamentals set the stage for relationship with Him, but they are not that relationship.

Isaiah prophesied of the onoma of Jesus Christ, saying, “The government shall be upon His shoulder, and His shem (onoma) shall be Wonderful (Pele -- miracle), Counselor (Ya.ats -- advisor, resolver, deliberator), the Mighty God (Gibbowr -- {see previous discussion of gebuwrah} -- the champion warrior), the Everlasting (Ad – perpetual) Father (Ab – founder, the progenitor, the ancestor: hence, the source of creation), the Prince (Sar – the head, the source of all dominion) of Peace (Shalom – health, wholeness, soundness, safety: and, as a direct consequence thereof, peace).  (See Isaiah 9:6)

No prophecy could have better underscored what Jesus manifested during the years of His public ministry as well as the two millennia that have passed since.  His shem is Miracle.  There is no aspect of the natural realm over which He does not exercise complete dominion.  The laws of science as we know them -- the laws of physics – are subject to His will and His word.  Jesus was and is naturally supernatural!  So are we to be.

His onoma is the Spirit of Counsel and Might!  Jesus described Himself as the first comforter, and then said that He was sending “another comforter” (Paraklete) whom we have come to know as Holy Spirit.  We are both recipients and bearers of that spirit of counsel, that ability to resolve, that ability to deliberate in every situation, not to mention the ability to war in the spirit as champions.

Jesus infuriated the religious people (the Pharisees and Sadducees) by saying to them, “Before Abraham was, I AM!”  In so saying, He made clear that His existence was perpetual.  But He was more than perpetual: He was and is the founder, the progenitor, the source of creation!

It was Jesus who spoke the words of creation (witness the mathematical demonstration of His number, 8-8-8, incorporated into the phraseology, “And God said…..” throughout the Genesis account), and it was He who fathered Adam, forming him by His hand from the dust of the very same earth He had spoken into existence.  In like manner, Jesus Christ – as our Bridegroom – has fathered us, has brought about our ability to exist in Him, with Him, and for Him as His counterpart, His co-equal, His beloved Bride!  And He has seated us with Himself, giving into our onoma that same creative power which went forth by His Word!

In Him is all dominion.  In Him is all health.  In Him is all wholeness.  There is nothing about Jesus Christ that is not perfection.  In Him is soundness.  In Him is perfect safety.  He is, therefore, the Prince of Peace – the King of Glory – the great I AM!  He is the Alpha and the Omega – the Ab (pronounced, awb) and the Achariyth (pronounced, ahk.ar.eeth) – the beginning, the end, and the future!

He is the originator, and He is the reward.  No wonder He could speak the word, and disease would flee.  No wonder He could speak the word and storms would cease.  No wonder He could say, “I AM the Way, The Truth, and The Life.”  He was.  He is.  It is His onoma.  And it must be ours!

And by the Plan He set in motion before time began, in spite of all that Jesus Christ is, yet has He been incomplete.  It sounds like a contradiction, doesn’t it?  Under any normal circumstances, and unless it be revealed to you by Holy Spirit, it is impossible to see Jesus Christ as anything but complete.  Yet, He has been anything but sub-standard.

Have you begun to understand this new onoma – this new name?  It is new because it has never been up to this time.  It is a new onoma, and though envisioned by our Bridegroom and shown to us in the realm of Holy Spirit,  it has always been a Plan and a promise of Father to the Son.

Father promised to the Son that on the day of His reward, He would receive a Bride who would complete and fulfill Him – a Bride who would have become Him, even as He had become her.  And thus it is unfolding before us.

Hence, the promise of the Son, the Bridegroom, to that people called out and formed unto Himself, the Bride: "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out; and I will write upon him the onoma of my God, and the onoma of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God; and I will write upon him my new onoma!"

This is a conditional promise, made to the overcomer – not to those who seek to escape tribulation, not to those who run from the fire, not to those whose thoughts are focused on “the rapture,” and escaping from the “wrath to come.”  It is a promise made to those who rise above their afflictions, the tribulation of this day, and the terrors which are befalling the wicked generation in which we live.  It is the promise to those who have overcome the seven nations – the principal ruling spirits of the Enemy.

It is a promise made to those who speak Life and Truth in the midst of increasing death, those who bring health and mercy to the afflicted, those who live agape, might and soundness.  It is made to those who overcome all and endure all until they be presented to the Bridegroom by the Paraklete: those who can say in Truth to Him, “All that I am is yours.  I am One with you, and you are One with me.  We are complete!”

This is not a boast.  It is not being presumptuous.  It is an absolute necessity, and Jesus Christ has so ordained it.  While we certainly are beneficiaries of this reward, His completion in and with us is His reward.  This Plan was set in motion by Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for their sake!

Do you understand the significance of this promise to the overcomer?  It is multifaceted and all-encompassing.  First, the promise is that we will become a “pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out.”  This statement is a parallel to some phraseology used by Matthew.  Matthew, being an orthodox Jew by birth and upbringing, used a typical Jewish metaphor when he quoted Jesus, saying, "shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens."  John, on the other hand, uses a Graecism to identify the very same thing: "...make a pillar in the temple of my God..."

They both identify "rulership in the house of the Lord."  They both illustrate becoming part and parcel of the dwelling place of the Lord.  And this promise is to "the overcomer."  For those who have learned to rule in the midst of every situation in this present age, a new dimension of rulership lies ahead.

The very next part of this promise is, "...and I will write upon him the onoma of my God..."  The phrase, "I will write upon him," is unique to middle-eastern thought, and is found in the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Chaldean languages.  It means: to strike a visible mark with the identifying characteristics of a person, place, or thing.  In this case, the identifying characteristics are seen as, "the onoma of my God."

But that is not the end of the promise.  "..And (I will write upon him) the onoma of the city of My God, which is New Jerusalem..."

From the time of Shem, the son of Noah, and throughout the history of the nation of Israel, Jerusalem has been a picture of the Bride.  Shem initially established this as the city of Salem, building it as a citadel – a place of protection and honor for his bride.  Because of Shem’s extraordinary stance and reputation as a representative of righteousness, the Canaanite peoples who dwelled in the land, referred to him as Malkiy-Tsedeq, “The King of Righteousness.”

Anglicized in modern translations as “Melchizedek,” Shem demonstrated the heart of the Lord for His Bride with Salem.  Hundreds of years after Shem’s death, David took the city away from the Jebusites, who had renamed it, Jebus, in honor of their ancestor (one of the sons of Canaan).  He called the city “Jerusalem,” and immediately set up his tabernacle with the Ark of the Covenant on Mount Moriah.  He thereupon established a  picture of the Bride which has stood throughout the ages.

John’s picture of the New Jerusalem was a picture seen in the spirit.  The natural city of Jerusalem represented a physical picture of that which has been being established in the spirit by the Bridegroom.  What John saw was the Bride of Christ coming down from Heaven.  He saw Father presenting Jesus with His long-awaited Bride and counterpart.  The promise, therefore, to the overcomer was that they would be incorporated into the Bride.

The final phase of this promise was, “and I will write upon him my new onoma.”  And here we are!  This has been what it is all about: our change, and His change.  Together, we make up one new being!

The transformation has resulted in a people whose entire existence   revolves around what the Lord desires of them at that moment – a people who are immersed in Him.  This is a people who eat from "The Tree of Life" -- "life" being, in this case, the living presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.  That is a tangible, definable, discernible, quantifiable reality, experienced in the realm of the Spirit – one which we have all tasted of and experienced in true worship!

With this completion of His onoma, His character and makeup, comes a new dimension for all of us – a future radically unlike that which we have known.  With that future awaits an expanse of rulership as spiritual beings which transcends the natural, physical realm – and yet encompasses it.

The New Onoma is for the overcomer – and the overcomer only!

My beloved brothers and sisters: for Jesus’ sake, and for yours, let nothing stand in your way!  Let there be no whim of the flesh, no attachment of the past, no afflicting or tormenting spirit, no vain imagination of any kind prevent you from being that overcomer.  Let us together go on to the completion.

When Paul was writing to the Philippians, he put it like this:  “I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.” 

“Brethren, (Sisters), I count not myself to have apprehended, or to have laid hold of that total completeness.  But this one thing I do: forgetting the past, and reaching forth unto those promises and goals which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (i.e., being One with Him)."

“Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect and complete, have this attitude; and if in anything your attitude differs, God shall reveal even this unto you."

Blessings on you!

Regner

Regner A. Capener                                                            
CAPENER MINISTRIES
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ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: A NEW ONOMA, Part 13

A New Onoma,  Part 13

April 19, 2013

G' Morning!

David Herzog is about as unconventional as they come among those of the prophetic community.  As I begin writing this Coffee Break, I've just finished streaming his time of sharing, teaching and prophesying at Paul Keith Davis' S.O.S. gathering for this week.  Although he shared a whole lot tonight, one thing in particular really stands out. 

I'd venture to say that there's not a one of us who hasn't prayed for healing or deliverance or resurrection for someone.  Ever wonder why we don't see more results?  OK, think about it like this.  Your Aunt Sally has cancer and you're praying for her to be healed.  Everything in you says that you're praying according to the will of God.  You know the Word of God!  You know -- at least you quote the Scripture from I Peter 2:24 from time to time -- that "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." 

It's an accomplished fact!  Right?  Jesus already paid for all the healing we could possibly need for every disease under the sun.  There's nothing He didn't already provide for by His death and resurrection!  The operative phrase here is, "ye WERE healed"....... PAST TENSE!

So how come Aunt Sally isn't getting better?  Why aren't you seeing the answer to your fervent prayer?  Here's the problem.  Our mind -- our subconscious thoughts -- are interfering.  Subconsciously, we're planning Aunt Sally's funeral.  Here's how David Herzog put it: "We need a miracle of mind-renewal!  We need an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the restoration of our minds and thoughts!"

OK?  I could spend this whole Coffee Break on that theme, but maybe we'll come back to that at a later time.  Onward with our discussion on the transformation of our onoma!  Pour yourself a cup of some of that good really dark roasted French Roast coffee and pull up a chair.

3.  The “Teaching of Baptisms” releases within our onoma two things essential to our transformation.

The first is baptism in water, which signifies our agreement with, and testimony to, the efficacy of Jesus’ shed blood on the Cross.  Jesus’ death on the Cross was an event with legal implications.  His blood represented “life for life.”  He allowed Himself to be murdered by Satan so that the sentence of death hanging over the human race could be nullified.

Roughly 20 years ago, I wrote an Open Letter to the Ekklesia titled, It is Finished.  Parts of that article have been quoted from time to time in various Coffee Breaks in which we have talked about the necessity of canceling Satan’s legal hold over the human race.  A Plan was set in motion before time began which would provide the means for us as created beings to overcome and defeat his authority in our lives.  Jesus fulfilled the first and most essential part of that plan by being murdered on the Cross, by taking with Himself on the cross all of our bondages to Satan, all of our failings, all of our sicknesses and diseases – and Satan himself – to the death!

Then He nullified death by rising from the dead on the third day.  By so doing, He set the stage for all who would agree with His position as the Son of God, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Bridegroom who eagerly awaited His Bride, all who would agree with His death and resurrection, all who would agree with His  ascendancy and superiority over Satan, and empowered them to die and rise again from the dead even as He had done.

The simple act of agreement with Jesus’ power over death was demonstrated in water baptism.  The “agreer” died as he or she was immersed – buried, if you will – under the water.  The “agreer” then rose from the dead as he or she came up out of the water.  The act of agreement with Jesus Christ legally freed the agreeing individual from any penalties for sin which would have been incurred as slaves to Satan.  The act of water baptism testified before the Universal Court, and before Satan and all his cadre of evil spirits, that their legal hold was broken.  This, however, was only the first phase of the “teaching of baptisms.”

The second phase was being baptized in the Holy Spirit.  Baptism in the Holy Spirit was the means by which those who agreed with all that Jesus Christ had done, was doing, and had purposed for them, enacted legally their acquiescence to being betrothed to Jesus Christ.

It signified their willingness to be taken into “the King’s house,” even as Esther had done, to begin the “time of preparation and thlipsis” in order to be readied as a co-equal counterpart for the King of Kings.  Baptism in the Holy Spirit also set the stage for the “betrothed” to begin receiving her dowry: the gifts which were the promise of things to come – a foretaste of the changed onoma, the promise of being “like Him.”  That dowry – those gifts – were to be manifested as that which we have come to refer to as “the gifts of the Spirit.”

Let me pause for just a moment.  Are you seeing the picture of “foundations?”  Are you beginning to understand how all of these things are only the “baby basics” – how they must precede true intimate relationship with Jesus Christ?  Salvation does not create relationship with Jesus Christ – it only sets part of the foundation for that relationship.  Faith in God does not create relationship, but it is essential to our existence if a relationship is to develop.  Baptisms do not create relationship – they set the stage for our preparation by the Holy Spirit for that relationship.

4.  “The Laying on of Hands” brings us to another foundation fundamental: the impartation (or actual transmission) of the power of Jesus’ onoma.  One of the basics of a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ necessitates the transference of that which we generally refer to as “the baptism in the Holy Spirit,” as well as His healing virtue, and the dynamic of true revelation which comes through and by the Spirit.  The transference of that dunamis (power, “dynamite”) is consummated through the physical touch which comes when a person already imbued lays hands upon another who is asking for “the baptism of the Holy Spirit,” healing, etc.

Generally implied – although there are exceptions to this – is the fact that the one  laying hands upon another has already entered into a place of relationship with Jesus Christ, and has matured in that relationship.  The onoma of Jesus Christ must have already been at least partially developed for that transference to occur.  While the laying on of hands should imply a degree of fellowship and intimacy between the individual (who performs the act) and Jesus Christ, it is not necessarily an indicator of that.

By way of illustration, when our son, Chris, was six years old, he was laying hands on other children who were suffering from various afflictions including legs or arms which were too short or crippled.  In each and every case (without exception) a miracle of healing and/or restoration occurred.  He was not even yet baptized in the Holy Spirit when it happened.  The Lord simply took the opportunity of that simple expression of faith as a means to demonstrate His grace and love for those children whom Chris touched.

He did not receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit until six years later when he asked me to lay hands on him for that purpose.  When Mike Scudder and I laid hands on Chris, he instantly received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and began to prophesy.  Not long thereafter, Chris likewise laid hands on one of his friends, Chris Schlotfeldt, who also received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

The laying on of hands, therefore, is a simple fundamental of Jesus’ onoma.  It is part and parcel of His nature and makeup; and those who respond to His expressed desire to manifest His grace, or love, or power towards some individual become nothing more than a vehicle or a pipeline for His onoma.  By the laying on of hands, the Holy Spirit chooses to move through one individual into another; and then into another, and then into another, etc., etc., ad infinitum, until the heart’s desire of the Bridegroom be accomplished and fulfilled.

5.  “The Resurrection of the Dead” encompasses both the spiritual and the natural realm.  This is one of the most basic of truths at the foundation of all relationship with Jesus Christ.  First and foremost, it has spiritual significance and importance.  It is this dimension which is of greatest concern to the Lord – and probably the one to which we have accorded the least attention.  From the moment Adam and Eve partook of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they (and all their descendants) became infected with what I have come to refer to as the “knowledge virus.”  Beyond the consequences imposed upon their natural, physical beings, (i.e., death) their spiritual genetic makeup also became infected.  Every human being born into this world since has had an appointment with death.

That it has been, first and foremost, a death of the spirit is demonstrated among those who make “knowledge” to become the priority of their existence.  That knowledge inflates the ego and the self-will, leading individuals to walk according to that which they have learned intellectually, setting aside the responses of the spirit to the Lord (because they are not logical to the trained mind).  The more they rely on their own intellect and mental skills, the more this “knowledge virus” becomes ensconced as the HIV of the spirit.

An aging scientist friend of ours lamented one day in a luncheon conversation with us that he would give all that he has to know the Lord personally and enjoy the revelation he has seen us walk in on a daily basis, but that he just can’t seem to set aside the reasonings of his mind.  I said to him, “My friend, your problem is that you are so brilliant, you are stupid.”  (A former colleague of Einstein’s, he has an IQ exceeding 200.)

Dr. Joe had intellectually assented to the knowledge of God and the claims of Jesus Christ, and on more than one occasion even prayed “the sinners’ prayer,” but says he feels completely lacking in a personal relationship, and has readily admitted that he cannot cope with spiritual things because “they don’t make any sense.”  He has become a victim of the “knowledge virus.” Without deliverance from that virus none of us can walk in the Spirit.  Stated another way, Joe's “knowledge” and brilliant mind are separating him from a living relationship with Jesus Christ.

John the Baptist prophesied of Jesus on the day of his baptism in the Jordan river, “And now the axe is laid to the root of the tree.” (Matthew 3:10)  What tree?  The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  With Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, therefore, He reversed the course of the “knowledge virus” for all those who would become one with Him, making it possible once again to have the same intimate love-relationship that Adam and Eve experienced during all those years they walked and talked with Him in the Garden.

For Adam and Eve, death first occurred for them in the realm of the spirit when they ate of the fruit of that tree.  The immediate consequence was their forcible eviction from the Garden and separation from intimacy with the Lord.  Jesus’ first priority, therefore, was to “lay the axe to the root of the tree,” severing the possibility of a recurrence of that death; and then raise from the dead all those who would choose to enter into life in the spirit with Him.

During the three and a half years of His public ministry, He demonstrated His power over all death by raising the dead.  He sent forth His disciples with the command, “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons; freely you have received: freely give.” (see Matthew 10:8)

None of them had been raised from the dead in the natural realm, but all had been raised up in the spirit.  Thus, they were able to give what they had received.  And they went forth doing just that: healing the sick, cleansing the lepers, raising the dead, casting out demons, etc.  This should be the hallmark of all those who live in a place of genuine relationship with Jesus Christ.

Both Della and I have experienced raising the dead on at least two different occasions each.  On one occasion, I was the one who was raised from the dead.  My father was raised from the dead as a six-year-old and given to the Lord as a direct part of that incident.  Many of you are aware of Della’s part in raising Marcia from the dead after she was killed in an accident a number of years ago.  This is, and should be, the norm for all of us – not the exception.

Resurrection from the dead was first established by our Bridegroom, Jesus Christ, on our behalf.  It was not a mark of our relationship with Him.  He did it so that we could have an intimate relationship together without the curse of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil hanging over our heads.  He did it so that our onoma could be changed to compliment His onoma.

He likewise gives it to those who will enter into that place of love and intimacy – not so they can prove that they have a relationship with Him, but that His heart’s desire will be met for a completed Bride.

Next week I'll try to wrap up this series as we conclude with The Doctrine of Eternal Judgment, and do a final overview of God's purposes and destiny for us as His people.

Blessings on you!

Regner

Regner A. Capener                                                            
CAPENER MINISTRIES

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ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: A NEW ONOMA, Part 12

A New Onoma,  Part 12

April 12, 2013

This past Sunday we were really blessed to have Don Pirozok and his wife, Cheryl, as our guests.  Don is known nationally for his prophetic ministry and the accuracy of his prophecies.  Sunday was no exception.  I really appreciated the manner in which the personal and family prophetic words were given.  We took a few people (perhaps three or four) at a time, shared with them and then took a break for a time of worship.  More people would be ministered to, and that would be followed with more worship.  This process was repeated again and again.  Our time of gathering for fellowship, praise and worship, and ministry -- both corporate and personal -- along with fellowship around the table, lasted just over eight hours.

While we don't often have that much time together when we gather, five to six hours is pretty common.   Our times of gathering are designed to be a true expression of Ekklesia -- NOT church.  While I'm not condemning folks who still utilize the traditional mode of church gathering -- and certainly we've seen the Lord work very mightily within the church from time to time -- the Greek word "Ekklesia," which has been almost uniformly translated "church" for the past four hundred years or so -- represents a kind of gathering that is anything but the conventional structured mode we see in the contemporary churches.

Ekklesia is really nothing more than the assembling together of the Betrothed by the Bridegroom.  (And when I say that they have been assembled together by the Bridegroom, it is just that!  This is not a club you can join.  If Holy Spirit doesn't draw you and bond you to the group of people, you're just playing "church.") Ekklesia is a company of people -- not more than 12 families -- who've been drawn together among whom Holy Spirit is developing a close-knit bonding, a place of absolute trust, a level of confidence that each person in the Ekklesia has your back -- and at the same time, is willing to administer reproof and correction in love when needed.

I could literally spend this entire Coffee Break talking about Ekklesia, and the things Holy Spirit has taught us about Ekklesia as a lifestyle and a processing period in our lives to prepare us for the Bridegroom.  But that's not where we will go today.  Let me continue where we left off last week.

Throughout my years of walking with the Lord, enormous change has taken place in me.  Yes, responses have been required of me.  Yes, obedience to the word and will of the Lord has been mandatory.  But the change, and the glory which is manifested, have come because of the indwelling work of the Paraklete, and the sovereignty of the Bridegroom in His choices for me.

This is what the onoma of the Lord Jesus Christ is all about!  His onoma -- which  incorporates the Spirit of Judgment and Burning, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and the Fear of the Lord, The Spirit of Grace and Supplications, the Spirit of Truth, and the Spirit of Glory (all summed up in agape) -- has been the onoma of a Bridegroom-to-be seeking after a Bride, a Bridegroom who has sent a Paraklete to prepare, mold, train, equip and dress that Bride for the final day of joining: the Marriage of the Lamb!

All those things which we have treated as doctrines: Salvation, Water Baptism, Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Deliverance, Sanctification, Holiness, etc., etc., have only been stepping stones in the process to have a Bride.  Those things which we have known as "the gifts of the Spirit" are simply a dowry, given as a promise of that which would become the natural, everyday operation and function of our lives and existence.  The gifts of the Spirit have simply been the "interest," given to woo us onward toward the changes and processing necessary which would result in those gifts being a 24-hour-per-day reality -- a part of the life and breath of our onoma.

The intention of the Lord is that we become so like Him that these things which we have known as “gifts” are no longer gifts, but the natural operation of our beings – an integrated part of our very existence.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.  His purpose is to make us naturally supernatural, and supernaturally natural.  Expressing it  another way, His intention is to see that which we have regarded as “miraculous”  become the norm of our daily breathing and living.

Take a quick look at this process from the beginning through the perspective of what we have often heard, and what has been taught to us as foundational doctrines:

1. Salvation: the legal act of Jesus' death on the cross in order to free a people from bondage to Satan, and bondage to the Law of Sin and Death: a legal act necessary to make possible a way for people to respond freely to His wooing and romancing.

2. Water Baptism: the legal act necessary as the first response of those who accept Jesus' offer of freedom: a legal act which says to Satan, "the old me, born into this world as a slave to you, subject to the Law of Sin and Death, has died and been buried.  The new me has been resurrected by the power of Jesus Christ, made alive and freed to respond without your curses and penalties hanging over me."

3. Baptism in the Holy Spirit: the first joint-legal act of the Bride-to-be and the Paraklete, in which we release our tongue to Him and He evidences that release by using it to speak in previously unknown or unlearned languages as a sign of the release of our entire being, which then gives Holy Spirit the right to begin the process of house-cleaning, change, and restoration of the individual into the image and onoma of the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ.

4. Deliverance: the legal right, and necessary act of the individual now undergoing the housecleaning process of the Paraklete to expel all those spirits He identifies, which have worked to shape and mold us into the onoma of Satan.

5. Justification: a legal act, consummated by Jesus Christ, which establishes our right to come before the Father as freely as both the Son and the Paraklete.

6. Sanctification: the processing of the Paraklete to enact the necessary changes of our onoma so as to conform us to those requirements of the Bridegroom prior to the day of the Marriage of the Lamb.

7. Holiness: the change which is wrought to our makeup, our character, the very essence of our being so that we become like our Bridegroom.

Now, I realize that the way I have defined some of these "doctrines" may not be the way some of you are familiar with them, but bear with me for a moment.  Intriguingly enough, only the first three "doctrines" in this list are so mentioned in Scripture.  The last four are not.  They are concepts which have been taught as doctrines, often to the exclusion of those which Paul taught as "stepping stones."  In an Open Letter to the Ekklesia entitled, The Strait Gate, which was sent out a number of years ago, we talked about those doctrines which are laid as foundations in our lives; and the necessity of leaving them, once established, so as to "go on to the completion."

I won't try to cover all that ground again, but in brief (see Hebrews 6:1-3) Paul talks about "not laying again the foundation of (1) repentance from dead works, and (2) faith in God, of (3) the teaching of baptisms, and (4) of the laying on of hands, of (5) the resurrection of the dead, and (6) of eternal judgment."  (Without getting into any argument on the subject, I will repeat that we assume for the sake of this discussion Paul to be the author of Hebrews.)  The point he makes is that it is necessary to "go on."  The aforementioned teachings are simply the foundation place of our relationship -- not the end!  To make the assumption that we "have arrived," once these are locked down in our understanding is to fall short of the Glory of God.

“Change” is the operative word.  Consider again the significance of these foundations of which Paul writes.

1.  “Repentance from dead works.”  We have often expressed this as “Salvation,” but let’s look a little farther.  The “dead works,” of which Paul speaks, takes on a different perspective in the light of his letter to the Hebrews.  Dead works are the keeping of the law, the performance of duties and rituals “because they are expected of you,” the observance of commandments because “they are ordered,” etc., etc., etc.  Make sense? 

(In case we forget, let’s remember that the objective of all of this is the most intimate of relationships with Jesus Christ.)

O.K!  Where’s the relationship if we keep the law?  Where is the relationship if we observe His commandments just because they were ordered of us?  Where there is a love relationship – an intimate love-relationship – these things happen as a natural byproduct of that bond between us and the Lord.  There is no place for ritual in relationship.  There is no place for “duty” in relationship.  There is no place for a careful observance of the law.  These things are all “dead works.”  Where there is a bond of love and intimacy between us and the Lord Jesus Christ, His heart’s desire becomes as normal to us as breathing.  It is integral to our onoma. 

Let me use the relationship between Della and me as an example.  Suppose when we first got married that I handed her a list of requirements: ten “do’s” and “don’ts” which she was required to carefully observe on a daily basis, with the threat of punitive action on my part if she failed to keep them.  Suppose she had been given a list of duties and requirements – whether written or unwritten – by which her commitment to me would be required.  Sounds insane, doesn’t it?  What kind of relationship would we have?  Zero!  O.K., well, maybe a master-slave relationship but not a marriage of  counterparts, co-equals, or one in which true love was genuinely manifested. 

Now let me take it a step farther.  Suppose Della took all of my letters and writings over the years, along with various accounts of my accomplishments which have been reported in the news media, Who’s Who volumes and other publications, and pored over them daily so that she would get to “know me better?”  Are those letters and writings, and news reports going to give her an in-depth knowledge of me, my makeup and character, my personality, or my love for her?  Of course not!  It’s ridiculous!  Especially when she has me in person, and we can communicate personally, sharing  ourselves with one another on the most intimate basis. 

So it is with the Lord Jesus Christ.  To trade that which has been written, said, and done for a personal intimate sharing relationship on a daily basis with Him is to live in “dead works,” ritualism and legalism.  “Repentance from dead works,” therefore, begins with Godly sorrow over our having lived legalistically and ritualistically, repenting or turning from such dead living, and embracing Jesus Christ as lover, as  Bridegroom-to-be, and even more – as the totality of our existence without whom we neither live, nor breathe, nor have our being.

2.  “Faith in God” likewise has a deeper significance than that which we have  commonly accepted.  Jesus made it clear that “Without faith it is impossible to please God.”  Then He identified the means by which that faith comes by saying, “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  Faith, therefore, is not faith if we have not heard the Lord.

Does that make sense?  O.K.  Let’s try it this way.

The Lord often speaks through many  different methodologies.  For example, we hear His Spirit speaking within our spirit.  Sometimes we are reading and a scripture will stand out.  There is a quickening in our spirit by the Holy Spirit that this is a truth He is applying to us, or to a specific situation in our lives.  Then there are the occasions when He speaks to us directly in dreams or visions.  On rarer occasions, we are permitted to hear the audible voice of the Lord in our ears.  In each instance – no matter what method He utilizes – He will confirm that “word” through multiple avenues so that we can know of absolute surety that we have heard Him.

Once we have heard Him, faith is generated.  That faith becomes the very substance of that which He has spoken by virtue of the creative power of His onoma.  As we speak out of that substantive faith, we speak our agreement with that which He has spoken.  When we agree with Him – not intellectually, but in our spirit – within the very core of our beings, life explodes.  Creative forces are unleashed.  Our faith in Him, therefore, becomes a practical reality with signs following.

“Faith in God,” therefore, is not some mystical, ethereal hope within our hearts.  It is a life-giving force with the very same creative dynamics which were unleashed when Jesus Christ spoke the worlds into existence, and set in motion the inevitability of His Bride.

We'll stop here and continue with "The Teaching of Baptisms" as we continue to share on this onoma transformation.  See you next week.

Blessings on you!

Regner

Regner A. Capener                                                            
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