ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: February 2014

Thursday, February 27, 2014

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: APHIEMI HEALING, Part 19

Another Coffee Break:

Aphiémi Healing, Part 19

February 28, 2014

A couple of quick notes before we get started today. Last week I opened up by talking about our Sunday gatherings being available by telephone conference call. Because I neglected to mention the beginning time of the call, it created a lot of confusion and many folks called in to find nothing available. To top it off, we had phone issues which interfered with the process and those who did listen in were treated to a fairly distorted call with very poor audio. Those issues have been resolved, and if you would like to participate with us this Sunday (or on future Sundays) we trust you will be able to listen to very clear and clean audio.

To repeat what I said last week, we gather from house to house on Sundays, meeting in a different home each Sunday reaching from Prosser to Ellensburg. The spiritual dynamic in the home setting far transcends anything you'll ever get in a traditional "church" setting. That said, the number to call (should you like to join us) is (559) 726-1300, and the access code is: 308640#. We are usually "live" on the conference call by 12:30 PM Pacific (3:30 PM Eastern) or very shortly thereafter.

A couple weeks ago we began paving the way for a discussion on the Table of the Lord as a picture of multiplication, and that picture has many facets. Today, let's begin by going back to the beginning of the Blessing of the Lord, and the way it first appeared in the Garden.

Genesis 1:28-30: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

The Blessing that God pronounced upon Adam didn’t end with dominion; it incorporated total provision for Adam – AND total provision for everything under Adam’s care and dominion. We need this revelation in order to properly understand just what God was declaring and decreeing for Adam.

The original Blessing including the following:

1. To be fruitful (parah) to increase and increase and increase. The framework of this word is that there is no end in sight – in other words, no death.

2. To multiply – (rabah) this is God’s concept for multiplication – having authority over the entire domain where multiplication takes place; to abound beyond one’s capacity to store up; to excel in every area.

3. To replenish – (malé) to fill up, to furnish, to restore to a place of total satisfaction and completeness.

4. To subdue – (kabash) to conquer, to subjugate, to tread down, to bring under firm control.

5. To have dominion – (radah) to prevail against, to rule over, to take possession of.

6. To have every provision for food and for life.

7. To have not only provision for the “now” but for the future in the form of seed for planting.

Notice what happens to the Blessing, however, when Adam and Eve sin and are cast out of the Garden. It vanishes. Virtually every part of the Blessing is reversed.

But watch how the promise of God specifically to Eve provides not only the hope but the actual expectation of the return of the Blessing. Her seed will crush the head of the serpent!

Genesis 3:14-19: And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise (shuph – overwhelm, cover [figuratively, to grind]) thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; ¹⁾ in sorrow (‘etseb – painful toil) thou shalt bring forth children; and ²⁾thy desire (teshuqah – stretching out after, longing for) shall be to thy husband, and ³⁾he shall rule (mashal – govern, have power over) over thee.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: ⁴⁾cursed (‘arar – to execrate; this is reverse of the blessing) is the ground for thy sake; ⁵⁾in sorrow (itstsabon – pain, worrisome toil, to carve or fabricate with hard labor) shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; ⁷⁾Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; ⁸⁾In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and ⁹⁾unto dust shalt thou return.

Are you seeing it?

The first thing to happen for Eve was the loss of ease in bringing forth children. What was – up to that time – easy and painless now became laborious and painful.

Eve also lost her position of co-equality and partnership with her husband. Now he would be her ruler, and she would answer to him in everything. For Adam, because he didn’t cover his wife, immediately reject the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and ask God to forgive her, he lost his dominion over the earth. It became cursed under him, bringing thorns and thistles (weeds) became a plague to his efforts to plant and bring forth a harvest.

The earth would still bring forth; seed would still be there, and life would still be in the fruit of the tree and the grain harvested, but in order to see that harvest, Adam would now have to work the ground in hard labor. No more would the trees which came forth of the Tree of Life be the primary source of his sustenance: now he would have to plant fields and eat the herb of the field in order to sustain life.

This was the condition of the earth, therefore, for some 1500+ years until Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord. Noah’s secret in seeing the blessing of the Lord restored to him came because of his obedience IN EVERYTHING God commanded!

Genesis 6:22: Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Notice, now, the very next thing that Noah does – and how the Lord responds because of Noah’s act.

Genesis 8:20-22: And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Noah’s first act after leaving the Ark was to worship the Lord, to build an altar to the Lord and to offer up as burnt offerings one of every clean beast and every clean bird. And because Noah was obedient in every respect to the Word of the Lord to him, we are told the following:

Genesis 9:1-3: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

Now God is going to take this a step farther with Noah. Not only has the blessing been restored, now God makes a covenant with Noah.

Genesis 9:8-11: And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there anymore be a flood to destroy the earth.

So Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham & Japheth, all become recipients of God’s Blessing and Covenant – and the Blessing is restored in the earth.

But something happens to bring the curse back. As the years go by, Noah plants a vineyard and begins to produce wine. One night he drinks far too much wine and gets himself drunk.

Ham, the middle of the three sons, walks into his father’s tent and finds him uncovered. He, unfortunately, had been contaminated by the some of the same sin that brought the wrath of God upon the human race and caused its total destruction. Ham commits a homosexual act upon his father, taking advantage of his father’s drunken state and inability to resist Ham’s act, and then comes out of the tent and (the Hebrew word used in the Genesis 9:22 text is: nagad: to boldly declare, to brag, to expose, to announce or rehearse with praise) brags to Shem and Japheth what he has done.

Shem takes the lead, and with Japheth immediately takes a cloak and – walking backwards into the tent – goes and covers their father. Verse 24 tells us that Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his son “had done unto him.”

Now a curse is going to return into the earth.

Because God had specifically pronounced the Blessing upon Ham, Noah didn’t revoke that Blessing, but instead pronounced the curse upon Ham’s firstborn son, Canaan.

Genesis 9:25: And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

But Noah takes it a step farther by pronouncing the same Blessing that he had received of God upon Shem.

Genesis 9:26-27: And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Thus, Shem becomes the dominant Blessing in the earth. Canaan becomes a slave to Shem and his descendants, Japheth lives in the dwellings and dwelling-places established by Shem, and Canaan also becomes servant to Japheth.

In the 1840’s, British explorer and archaeologist Sir. John Gardner Wilkinson was digging through some ruins of ancient cities in Canaan when he discovered a clay tablet outlining some of Shem’s history. Though not recounted in Scripture the writings on the tablet told how, following Nimrod’s rebellion against God, Shem took a band of twelve men from the citadel of Salem he had established and hunted Nimrod into Egypt where he had fled following the Tower of Babel fiasco. (Ancient Egyptians, Vol 4, pp 330-332)

Shem killed Nimrod, cut his body into twelve pieces and sent a piece with each of the men who had accompanied him to the kings or leaders of each of the twelve nations inhabiting the region. With each piece of Nimrod’s body came this message: “Thus shall it be done to those who rise up against God.”

The fear of Shem came upon the inhabitants of the land, and they began thereafter to refer to Shem as Malkiy—Tsedeq: (the King of Righteousness). We know this title (it is not a name) better in its Anglicized form: Melchizedek. He was characterized by the phrase, “without beginning or end of days” because he pre-dated the Flood, and because he continued to live in the land and exercise both authority and power until the year that Joseph was 17 and sold into slavery in Egypt.

Meanwhile, Shem’s great-great-great (10 generations removed) grandson, Abraham was called by God out of Ur of the Chaldees — the first time at either age 50 or age 55. [Note: If Abraham was first called at age 55, and began to respond to God, he was given 120 years to live from that point in his life.) (See Acts 7:2-4)

For some 300-plus years, the Blessing had been resident and manifested in the earth in the person of Shem. We know from Genesis 9:1 and 26 that God had blessed Noah and Shem; and that following the grace Shem showed in the face of his brother’s sin against Noah their father, Noah declared and reinforced the Blessing upon Shem. It was not resident or manifest anywhere else in the earth.

Following Abram’s victory against the armies of the four most powerful kings in the world of that era, as he returned from battle, Shem — in the position and Godly title of Melchizedek — came out to meet him with the symbols of Covenant: bread and wine.

Genesis 14:18-20: And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

God had promised to bless Abraham IF he would be obedient to the command of the Lord (Genesis 12) and follow Him in the land where God led and showed him. And God kept that promise beginning with the last person to receive the blessing in the earth: Shem/Melchizedek.

Shem, acting as the priest of the Most High God in the title, rank and office of Melchizedek, was the first person to actually speak the Blessing over Abraham. The fact that he met Abraham with the symbols of Covenant meant that God’s Covenant of Blessing was being established in him. Never before had God made a covenant with a man of this nature. Yes, He had covenanted with Noah never to again destroy the earth, but that was a wholly different kind of covenant. This Covenant Blessing would be a Melchizedek Blessing — one to which the apostle Paul would later refer. (See Hebrews 6:20)

The Covenant with Abraham was to be one that would affect every part of his life, and that of his children, grandchildren, and every generation to follow — FOR EVER! This Covenanted Blessing would essentially give to Abraham all the benefits of Eden.

1. He would never lack for anything.

2. His household would prosper.

3. He would never suffer sickness or disease.

4. He would be fruitful.

5. He would multiply.

6. Nations would come forth of his loins.

7. He would have such dominion that other kings would request a covenant of peace from him.

8. His enemies would be under his feet.

9. His name would become so great because of his relationship with God that anyone who blessed him (or his seed) would be blessed by God.

10. By the same token, all who cursed him or rose up against him (or his seed) would suffer the judgment of God.

Consider now, the character of this Blessing. It was so great that Paul tells us the following:

Galatians 3:6-9, 13-14: Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

He reinforces this with his general letter to the Hebrews when he writes:

Galatians 3:6-9, 13-14: For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

There's more -- a lot more -- to share on the Blessings of the Lord as a part of the Table of the Lord, and we'll continue with this next week.

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ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: APHIEMI HEALING, Part 18

Another Coffee Break:

Aphiémi Healing, Part 18

February 21, 2014

Before we get started with today's discussion, let me invite you to participate via conference phone in our spontaneous worship gatherings on Sundays, along with the time of sharing, teaching and fellowship. A few weeks ago, we started making our gatherings available by telephone where folks could call a designated number and listen in. What prompted this move was the fact that we have folks spread out across well over two hundred miles who don't always have the opportunity to be with us in person.

As most of you already know, we gather from house to house on Sundays, meeting in a different home each Sunday reaching from Prosser to Ellensburg. The spiritual dynamic in the home setting far transcends anything you'll ever get in a traditional "church" setting. That said, the number to call (should you like to join us) is (559) 726-1300, and the access code is: 308640#.

We've been discussing the significance of Jesus' Blood, the transformation that is taking place in us at the Table of the Lord, the connection between light flowing in our veins and the transition taking place in us each time we remember Jesus' sacrifice, His death on the Cross and His resurrection. Today, let's revisit Jesus’ statement to the disciples as they sat at the Last Supper:

Matthew 26:26-28: "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia provides us with an explanation and a rather detailed description of blood showing the many purposes it serves. Once you see this description you can't help but recognize the spiritual parallels.

1. Blood carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body.

2. Blood washes the body of waste products, (a) dispersing carbon dioxide out of the body through the exhaling of breath from the lungs, and (b) sending urea and uric acid to the kidneys where they are converted to urine and eliminated.

3. Blood serves as a means of transporting life throughout the body.

4. Blood becomes the vehicle by which chemicals and hormones are moved throughout the body to regulate the function of the various organs.

5. Blood fights disease, resists infection and keeps the body’s immune system operating properly.

6. The flow of blood throughout the body keeps one part of the body from becoming overactive and overheated by triggering the enlargement or shrinkage of blood vessels in order to regulate our body’s temperature and keep things in balance.

Now are you seeing the spiritual parallels?

1. The Blood of Jesus carries with it the breath of God to all parts of the Body.

2. The Blood of Jesus washes our spirits and our souls of those things that contaminate our daily walk with God. Consider these following Scriptures for a minute:

Revelation 1:5: And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Revelation 7:14: And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

3. The Blood of Jesus – when shed on the Cross for our sins – canceled out the curse of death and restored eternal life for us.

Hebrews 9:27-28: And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once [and for all time] offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

4. The Blood of Jesus is the means by which we as believers in Christ Jesus become one Body. The Blood of Jesus (now, the light and life of Jesus) regulates the development of the Body through the transport and movement of “spiritual chemicals and hormones” and ensures proper growth and development.

Let me pause in this illustration to remind you of a point that we’ve discussed in previous times of sharing – namely, that when Jesus shed His Blood and died, He was raised from the dead by the Spirit of God. Paul, writing to the Romans, said:

Romans 8:11: But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Notice that when Jesus rose from the dead it was because He was raised by the Spirit. There was no fresh infusion of blood to make Him alive. He was alive now by Holy Spirit. We, likewise, are made alive in Christ Jesus by the Spirit of God. It is the Spirit – replacing the Blood, and acting in the place of the Blood – that flows through the Body of Christ.

That same Spirit regulates the growth and development of the Body of Christ by His choice – not ours. That same Spirit appoints and moves throughout the Body, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors (shepherds) and teachers for the regulation and upbuilding and strengthening of the Body as a whole.

Ephesians 4:11-16: And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

“That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

“From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

From this picture, Holy Spirit becomes the blood-flow of the Lord Jesus Christ – the light-flow and life-flow – that regulates and stimulates growth through the five facets of Jesus’ ministry character and makeup.

5. The Blood of Jesus provides the legal means by which we fight off the infection of sin and iniquity. The Blood of Jesus legally provides us our immunity – both from Satan’s contamination and in a literal sense from disease, sickness and infirmity, weakness, poverty and everything that renders us powerless against the infection of sin.

The apostle Paul put it like this: Romans 8:1-2: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

6. Just as blood in a natural sense regulates the body’s temperature by increasing its flow when certain parts of the body become too overheated, and restricting its flow by shrinking the size of the blood vessels in order to cause the body to warm, the Holy Spirit regulates the temperature of the Body of Christ by moving throughout with what we’ve come to refer to as “moves of the Spirit.” The regulation of the body’s temperature – in a natural or physical sense – enables us to walk and live healthy lives.

As we all know from history, the Body of Christ became extremely ill – virtually dormant – for centuries. The Dark Ages, with religion that had all but snuffed out the flow of the Holy Spirit, was very properly named as such since it was a dark and sick time for God’s people. The body of Christ was, for all intents and purposes, in a coma. Watch the sequence of events that began to take place as the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus began the process of restoring life into the comatose body:

(a) The Reformation was the beginning of a new flow of life within the Body as the Holy Spirit began to transport some life and heat back with the revelation that “the just shall live by faith.”

(b) The Reformation was followed by several sequential “moves” as the sovereignty of God was revealed, water baptism by immersion; and next, a crack in the Nicolaitan doctrine of “power over the people” by an elite few began to widen into a complete break with “high church” (or hierarchical) structure, as well as with "democratic" church structure or the congregational form of ministry where leaders were "elected by the people".

(c) A “Great Awakening” to salvation through Jesus Christ by grace and faith began in Ireland and England in the early-to-mid 1700's and came to full flower in America (exhibited in the ministries of John Wesley and George Whitfield) just as the United States became a cohesive nation.

(d) That was followed by a second “Great Awakening in the 1800’s in which evangelism began to flourish as never before in history.

(e) At the turn of the 20^th Century, we saw the Azusa Street Revival and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues and the gifts of the Spirit in full manifestation. A young generation of spirit-filled believers were nurtured in the midst of a visible cloud of Glory that lasted for days, weeks and even months.

(f) The Azusa Street Revival caused a flame of the Holy Spirit to begin spreading throughout virtually every denomination and church association, altering forever the lives of pastors, priests, bishops and other titled leaders such that they either voluntarily left their organizations because of opposition and persecution or (as was the case of my grandfather, Howard Capener, who was a Methodist preacher) they were summarily removed as heretics because they began exhibiting the gifts and miracles of the Holy Spirit, including speaking in tongues.

(g) By the 1940’s and 50’s, the Latter Rain movement took hold with miracles on display such as the world has never known.

(h) During the 1950’s and 60’s and 70’s we saw great evangelical moves with individuals like William Branham, A. A. Allen, (both of whom were intrinsic to the Latter Rain movement) Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, T. L. Osborn and others. Mass evangelism began to be seen on a scale the Body of Christ had not previously seen. (My mother's best friend became the interpreter for William Branham when he traveled abroad in the Scandinavian countries, and my father was a classmate of A.A. Allen.)

(i) The early 60’s and throughout the 70’s brought the Charismatic Renewal, and in the 1980’s, there began to be heard a depth of teaching and a flowering of understanding of “the five-fold ministries" including the apostolic and prophetic with folks like Bob Mumford, Derek Prince, Ern Baxter, Charles Simpson, and many others.

(j) The late 1970's brought the advent of Christian television via satellite and global evangelism on a scale hitherto unseen. It was my great privilege to be associated with the Christian Broadcasting Network for seven years during this period to bring the ministry of Christian television into remote bush communities throughout Alaska.

(k) The late 1980’s saw the development of ministries such as IHOP and Morningstar with an accent on the Tabernacle of David and 24-hour praise, worship, prayer and intercession.

(l) At the same time folks like Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Fred Price and Charles Capps (men who already had proven and seasoned ministries) emerged as powerful teachers and proponents of God’s people being restored to prosperous living. In many ways, Kenneth Hagin and Charles Capps fathered and fostered the explosion of this revelation.

(m) Concurrent with the message of prosperous living for God's people, a prophetic call began to go forth in the earth for a people willing to pay whatever price necessary who would come far beyond the traditional foundational teaching into an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ so as to become a part of a fully mature, seasoned body of believers walking in and demonstrating the realm of the miraculous, known as the Bride of Christ.

(n) In the past decade and a half we have seen prophetic and apostolic ministries flourish as the Body of Christ has once again begun to come alive and assert the anointing and authority of the Kingdom of God in the earth. Folks like Bob Jones, Bobby Connor, Paul Keith Davis, Chuck Pierce, Rick Joyner, Steven Shelley (just to name a few) and many others too numerous to identify here have become prominent voices in the sharing of what God is doing and saying to the Bride of Christ in the earth today.

Throughout the ages there have always been a tiny remnant of God’s people keeping the blood-flow of the Lord Jesus Christ alive and moving; and despite numerous attempts of Satan to snuff out the life of the Spirit, the flame of the Holy Spirit has continued to burn and move from place to place.

There have always been teachers, preachers, evangelists and missionaries throughout the centuries who have had personal visitations from the Lord and have been faithful to the Word God has given them in order to keep the blood-flow and the life-flow of the Holy Spirit alive and moving throughout the Body of Christ. Many of them have been virtually unknown “no-names” whose faithfulness in sharing the life and revelation of the Holy Spirit has led to other, more prominent teachers and leaders – apostles and prophets and evangelists – restoring the life-flow of the Holy Spirit to the body at large.

We’ve seen an ebb and flow, but the life of the Body of Christ has continued to grow, mature and take hold in the world as the original vision and purpose of God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit has been being brought to fruition.

The Body of Christ IS growing up into HIM – a whole body, a living body, a ruling body; and it all began to happen when Jesus shed His Blood for us.

Jesus' Blood did a whole lot more than simply remitting our sins. It forever restored our access to the same relationship with the Father that Adam and Eve once enjoyed. It restored our access to the Heavenlies. It took away the penalty for death and restored eternity.

Jesus' Blood eradicated death and the dying process. Along with the dying process went all sickness, all disease, all bondage to Satan (no matter what form that bondage takes), and all weakness or infirmity.

Jesus' Blood restored the Abrahamic Covenant -- and the Blessing of Abraham.

Jesus' Blood canceled the curse of the Law.

Jesus' Blood canceled poverty. Jesus' Blood canceled the need to work for a living and redeemed work so that we can now "work for a giving" instead -- just like He did!

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)

Are we good? Excellent! See you next week.