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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Making Trees of Life, #5
Then you will look and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come. (Isaiah 60:5—NIV)
This is the revealing of the sons of God—that which will release the material creation from the bondage imposed on it, that is, the corruptible, frustrating life of flesh and blood.
That the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. (Romans 8:21—NIV)
The promise God made to Abraham that the nations would be blessed through his Seed was referring to the Holy Spirit that would be given through Christ—Head and Body.
You and I have the firstfruits of what one day will fill the earth. All people who are saved will receive the Life of the Spirit of God.
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (Romans 8:23—NIV)
There is no joy that can be compared to that of being used of God to bring eternal life to other people. The Lord Jesus, speaking during the eighth day of the feast of Tabernacles, declared that those who believe in Him will bring up the water of eternal life from within themselves.
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him. (John 7:38—NIV)
That this pronouncement was made on the eighth day, the high Sabbath of the feast of Tabernacles, not on the feast of Pentecost, is of the greatest significance to us today.
Many of the Christian churches have been at Pentecost, so to speak, throughout the twentieth century. But Pentecost is not the last feast of the Lord, it is the fourth of seven celebrations.
The greatest of the feasts, the feast of Tabernacles, has not been fulfilled in us as yet, but we are moving toward it.
The Jewish feast of Pentecost symbolizes the rain of the Spirit from Heaven.
The Jewish feast of Tabernacles symbolizes the creating of the Throne of God and Christ within the believer so the water of eternal life flows from the inward personality of the believer rather than coming down as rain.
In order to pass from Pentecost to Tabernacles, thus becoming a tree of life capable of bringing eternal life to the saved nations of the earth, we must have the Throne of God and Christ created within us. God will create His throne in us but it requires that we surrender all aspects of our personality to God.
If we do not give the Lord the key to every room in our heart He will not accept the key to any room. He is God and He will be worshiped. He will not share His Glory with another person. If we are to receive the fullness of the Glory of God we must give up our right to be an independent person. As long as we remain separate from God, retaining our right to exercise our own will, we are another god in the universe, a competitor of the only true God.
To be continued.