24-0308A_THE IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES PT-17 (HIDDEN LIFE IN CHRIST)
Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
*IT PERFECTLY REPRESENTS THE AGE OF
LUTHER, WESLEY, AND PENTECOST, EXACTLY, THE THREE STEPS OR DISPENSATIONS OF HIS
GRACE…
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E-31 Now, on the inside of this inner court the--called the holiest of holies, there was a piece of furniture
setting there called the mercy seat. And the covenant was in the ark. And the ark had two Cherubims. And it was on the inside. That
was the furniture inside of the holy place. Next, coming
out was the golden candlesticks, then on
out to the laver.
Now, it perfectly represents the age of Luther, Wesley, and Pentecost, exactly, the three steps or dispensations of His grace that's been given to mankind. We are in the last dispensation. I believe that with all my heart. See?
*CHRIST CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND BECOME MANNA THAT WE MIGHT LIVE BY HIM.
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E-32 Now, notice, then also in this great move, how God brought them in there in this great place. Moses one time was told by God when the manna begin to fall, the manna was a type of life: Christ coming down from heaven and perishing here on earth, that He might give us life. The manna came from heaven, laid on the earth, and the people eat it to sustain life. Christ came down from heaven and become manna that we might live by Him.
*THE MANNA WAS A TYPE OF THE HOLY GHOST TODAY.
And notice now, the people eating the manna, they had to get it quickly and eat it. Because
when the sun rose, it wasn't long till it was perished,
the type there of Christ, the Holy Spirit. The manna was a type of the Holy
Ghost today. As God brought the church in natural with natural manna, he's bringing the church today spiritual on spiritual manna. When
the church at first overcome,
come over the Red Sea, type of the blood, passed
over into the journey on the road to the promised land,
manna rained the first night. Amen.
And when the church was passed over from life unto death on the day of Pentecost, God rained a spiritual manna out of heaven, that sustained the church, until Jesus comes again or we pass into the Millennium, into the promised land. Amen.
*THEN HOW LONG WAS THIS MANNA TO LAST?...
UNTIL JESUS COMES.
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E-35 Notice, brethren. Then how long was this manna to last? It lasted the entire journey, until they hit into another dispensation over into the promised land. How long is this to last? Until Jesus comes. Peter said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost; for the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as a many as the Lord our God shall call." How long was it to last? As many as the Lord our God shall call. And as long as the dispensation of grace lasts, God will still call men and women to His service. So the Holy Ghost is just as real today. Now, He never said...
…*AND NEVER YET KNOW WHAT THAT SECRET ROOM
IS, WHAT THAT BEDROOM, WHAT THAT REST PLACE IS, THEY EAT THE MANNA.
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Now, when they eat this manna, remember, if they eat
it... Many people eat it and said, "This is it." They had to gather it fresh every day. That's right. They had to gather the manna, fresh every day, because along
about nine o'clock on their second step it would go to melting. It would
perish.
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E-36 And many times people living in God's second room, even in communion, after they've already received the Word, and come into the second step of receiving Christ into their life, and never yet know what that secret room is, what that bedroom, what that rest place is, they eat the manna. But did you notice, if they let it lay too long, it finally melted out. There was... It--it perished away. And I think a lot of people has had a lot of campground cramps anyhow, that when they go and eat of the Lord on the campground, and before another revival can come along, they're all back and twisted up in some kinda cults or something else. What's the matter, brother, you've never walked in somewhere else.
*AND REMEMBER, THAT A BELIEVER WHEN HE
WALKED IN THERE, THAT MANNA NEVER DID RUN OUT.
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E-37 God said "Moses, make you a golden pot." Hallelujah! And in there place this manna. And remember, that a believer when he walked in there, that manna never did run out. It was always fresh and new and sweet as the days went by as the years went by. And any man who comes to Christ and hides away and the veil falls behind him, he's in the Presence of Almighty God, eating the manna day and night, from one hour to the other. It's always just as sweet as it was the first day of telling to your soul. That's what we need today, is get in where the things are at, not stand off and pretend, or not stand off and act, but actually get in there. Amen. The man once...
*"HE THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL INHERIT
ALL THINGS, AND HE WILL BE MY SON; I WILL BE HIS GOD, AND (LISTEN) I WILL GIVE
HIM OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.
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E-38 Now remember, only
believers, only the elect comes into that, that God has chosen you. I believe that in Revelations 2
said, "He that overcometh." So it's promised
to overcomers.
You said, "I overcome smoking." That ain't what He's talking about. There's a whole lot more goes to Christianity besides not smoking cigarettes or drinking whiskey. "He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and he will be My son; I will be His God, and (listen) I will give him of the hidden manna. (Amen.) I will hide him away, and I will give him the hidden things the world on the outside of the curtain don't know nothing about it." Hallelujah! Though they eat manna, but they don't know about this. "I will give to him the hidden manna. I will give him a stone with his name in it." You get what I mean: entering into the adoption or the hidden place with God.
…*BUT SEEK TO ENTER IN TO THE HIDDEN MANNA
WHERE THE FULL REVELATION OF GOD IS MAKE LOVE PERFECT IN YOUR HEART, AND YOU
AND GOD AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS AT REST.
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E-39 Ministers of the gospel don't care about your denominations and what the world thinks, but seek to enter in to the hidden manna where the full revelation of God is make love perfect in your heart, and you and God and everything else is at rest. Let anything come, what may, you're hidden away. What a place to live. Oh, just let me abide there. As the song said, "Let me rest 'neath the tree where the wa--so freely flows, where the Lamb is the light, and the soul of the saved never die." Amen.
*I MEAN FROM THE DEPTHS OF YOUR HEART,
THAT SOMETHING'S SETTLED IN THERE, THAT SOMETHING'S TAKEN PLACE… BUT YOU'RE HID
AWAY, AND YOUR WHOLE MOTIVE IS TO SERVE JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S THE HIDDEN PLACE.
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E-40 Sure they eat manna out there but they didn't know about this. They'd never been in there. Have you, my dear brother? Don't despise my ignorance, but I want to ask you something. Have you ever come to the place in life where Christ meant more to you than all the arguing you could do about your church? Has Christ meant more to you than all the world? I don't mean from an emotion or a mental work-up; I mean from the depths of your heart, that something's settled in there, that something's taken place, that you don't know how it come, but you're hid away, and your whole motive is to serve Jesus Christ. Have you entered that place, my dear brother? Have you come into that place where you don't care what anyone says, not to go out and act smart, but till the love of God is so anchored into you, that you can't see nothing else, you're whole motive is to do the will of God, love for everybody, flowing free from everywhere? What a place to live. That's the hidden place. That's the place where we got to come to, my brethren. That's the place where God reveals His secret things. That's the place where God does the placing and the calling. You get what I mean?
*AND THAT ROD THAT WAS A DEAD STICK, IN
ONE NIGHT'S TIME COME TO LIFE, BROUGHT BUDS, BROUGHT FLOWERS, AND BROUGHT
ALMONDS.
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E-41 In this same place... We don't
have much time, 'cause I got to hurry, but just for another thought. In this
same place they put Aaron's rod, to make a decision who God had chosen and who
he hadn't. And that rod that was a dead stick, in one
night's time come to life, brought buds, brought flowers, and brought almonds.
It both come to life, brought blossoms, and yielded fruits, a very typical
pattern of the sinner being brought to God into the holy place.
Remember that rod passed over every one of those other elements, and it got inside the holy place still dead. But to abide... It never come to life when they first brought it in there. That's the reason the Holy Spirit's watched you since you received the Holy Ghost, see you're attitude towards His Kingdom. If it's been selfish motive, if the things that you've thought of has been in-farther a denomination, or if it's doing farther, better you, your position, if it's to make you a man looked up to in the world, if it's to build you a big church somewhere, or some popularity, or some other thing outside of increasing or in-bettering the Kingdom of God, brother, something's wrong. Amen.
…*AND HAD BE A SON OF GOD IN MY HEART,
WITH THE NEW BIRTH AND THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST DWELLING IN ME, AND HIM PROVING IT
BY THE VINDICATION OF HIS WORD AND MAKING ME LIVE.
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Tell me what you could invest in this morning and
make ten million dollars, and tomorrow be a corpse? What good would it do you? What profit a man if he gained the
whole world and lose his soul? What if you're popular, and called So-and-so,
and Deacon, Presbyter Dr., Bishop, Elder, Pope, or whatever you might be
called? That's praises of men.
I'd rather be called a holy-roller by the people, and had be a son of God in my heart, with the new birth and the Spirit of Christ dwelling in me, and Him proving it by the vindication of His Word and making me live. "The life that I once lived I don't live no more," Paul said. And yet he was a teacher and a scholar. But he changed his life, when he met Christ, and made his investment in Christ. He was a different man from then on.
*YOU WANT THE PRAISES OF GOD, THE RESPECT
OF GOD ON YOU. HE WILL ONLY RESPECT YOU AS YOU KEEP HIS WORD.
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E-64 Oh, increased in goods. Certainly this man did. You know what?
Jesus told him, if you notice here, He said, "Go, sell what you have, and give it to
the poor. And come follow Me. Take up your cross and follow Me, and you'll have
riches in heaven." See? What an investment to make, but he
chose not to do it.
Now, so has the Laodicea church age chose the same thing:
not to do it. And remember, when he got so awful rich (as the church has
today), the poor laid at his gate, and only got the crumbs that he swept off to
the dogs: Lazarus, the poor in spirit.
Jesus said in Matthew 5, "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs
in the Kingdom of heaven." We don't want to take that place,
that rutted place, that way away place of being poor in the spirit. We don't
want that. We want somebody to praise us and be big somebody.
As some brother said awhile ago, sure sealed it good,
when he said, "How can you have faith, when you have respect one to
another, or desire the--the praises one of another?" Don't care what
anybody says. You want the praises of God, the respect
of God on you. He will only respect you as you keep His Word. All right.
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