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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Coming to the Disciple and Coming to the World, #9
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. (John 14:18—NIV)
There is a definite coming of Christ to His disciples, a coming that will occur before His historic coming in the clouds. It is not a "rapture" of the believers to remove them from trouble. It is an inner work that will enable the believer not only to stand triumphantly in Christ throughout the dark days that are ahead, but also to be a source of deliverance when Antichrist has driven the true Christians into the wilderness areas of the earth.
It is deliverance by the Presence of Christ rather than deliverance by escape. A much better deliverance, don't you agree?
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. (John 14:19—NIV)
I think the Lord is drawing close to us these days. I know Jesus is more real to me than He ever has been. I do not claim to be able to "see" the Lord as well as I would like. But I am looking each day for an increase in His Presence in my life until my thoughts, words, and actions are proceeding according to His felt will and Presence. I want to be able to know what He is doing so I can do the same. How about you? This is the eternal Sabbath rest of God—to cease from our own works and faithfully and diligently do what He is impressing us to do.
On that day you will realize I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. (John 14:20—NIV)
"On that day." "That day" is our personal day of the Lord, not the Kingdom-wide Day of the Lord but our personal day, when the Day Star, Christ, rises in our heart to herald the dawn of the Kingdom-wide Day.
When all of our idols have been thrown down we will know that Christ is in His Father, and we are in Christ, and Christ is in us.
Salvation introduces us to Christ.
The baptism with the Holy Spirit introduces us to the Spirit.
Now we are moving forward to the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles. We are being introduced to the Father.
Of course, the Father, Son, and Spirit are the Divine Godhead. Yet, as we press forward in God, we begin to realize there are three distinct Persons. How wonderful to know the Father! He is the Father of Jesus Christ! He also is our Father! There is nothing more wonderful than this!
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him. (John 14:21—NIV)
Again, we absolutely must keep Christ's commandments, we must obey them, if we claim to love Him. When we love Christ the Father loves us. Also, Christ will love us and reveal Himself to us. All depends on our obeying His commands. It is not enough to believe the promises. We must also obey the commands. If we do not obey the commands we are part of the great rebellion of the last days, the rebellion that will open the way for Antichrist to be revealed.
To be continued.