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The Daily Word of Righteousness
A Conduit Versus a Tree of Life, continued
As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and then led me through water that was ankle-deep. He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through water that was up to the waist. He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross. (Ezekiel 47:3-5)
After we pass through waters to the ankles, the knees, the hips, and finally waters to swim in, we then will be filled with all the fullness of God. Then we will be able to bring forth the water of eternal life to whoever of mankind will come and drink, to a much greater extent that is possible to us today.
The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come!"
This is the Kingdom. This is why he or she who is least in the Kingdom is greater than the greatest of the prophets. Let us proceed to explain.
The people God has used in the past, particularly the Hebrew Prophets, were conduits for the Glory of God. Most of them were righteous men, such as Elijah and Elisha. But they still were of the first man, Adam. They were members of the flesh and blood creation, the prototype of what God has in mind for His royal priesthood.
We can notice in some of them, Samson for example, that the Divine Glory that operated with and through them did not change them. They were conduits for the Presence of God but their personalities were unrighteous, unholy, and self-seeking.
Perhaps the same is largely true of Christians who are given the gifts and ministries of the Holy Spirit. God works through them but sometimes they themselves are not changed.
We Christians have been forgiven through the blood of Jesus. We have the authority to enter the Kingdom of God because of the atoning authority of the blood.
Some of us know how to pray and serve in the Spirit. This gives us the power and wisdom to enter the Kingdom of God.
We have the authority and the power.
But the Kingdom itself is something else again. The Kingdom of God is not a forgiven, empowered son of Adam. No matter how the Glory of God flows through a child of Adam this still is not the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom of God is Jesus Christ, the life-giving Word of God, not an empowered Adam.
How then do we enter the Kingdom and become a life-giving spirit?
First we must be born again. To be born again means that the Divine Seed, Jesus Christ has been born in us. Now we have two lives. The first life descended from Adam The second life is of Jesus Christ; it is the Kingdom of God, the life-giving spirit.
The gifts and ministries of the Spirit operate through the first man with the purpose of bringing us to the second man.
Paul summed up what it means to be part of the Kingdom of God, a life-giving spirit.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me. (Galatians 2:20—NASB)
To be continued.