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John 20:25 talks about the marks left in Jesus’ hands.

Romans 5:14 speaks of the pattern of Him that was to come. The Last Adam.

The Greek word τύπος typos, means “a figure formed by a blow or impression.” This word reminds me of molding or casting. I think of Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt and other athletes. Each of these athletes were or are at the top of their sport. Everyone within their sport non-professional and professional look up to them because of their exceptional talent and ability. Players like this seem to take the sport to another plateau or level of existence and excellence.

Many claim when Michael Jordan entered and left the NBA he changed basketball like Julius Erving. Michael Jordan looked up to Julius Erving and the baton with passed so to speak. Now, you have Kobe Bryant and Lebron James. The same has happened with Tiger and Usain.

So, what about humanity or mankind? Who is the Michael Jordan τύπος typos, or pattern, for this planet? Does one exist?

I believe there have actually been two, but really one. The first Adamic pattern, Adam, and the Last Adamic pattern, Christ, 1 Cor. 15:45. God created man in His image: spirit, soul, body. Adam was created after another pattern that already existed, God. And in this body all fullness of the Godhead dwells, John 1:16, Eph. 1:23, Eph. 4:13, Col. 1:19, Col. 2:9. Can we even begin to imagine what that means? All the fullness of God in the body?

How do we get there? Romans 1:17, “The just shall live by faith.” We cannot get there without the complete ministry of the church. The five-fold ministry is part of the church. Jesus is the Chief apostle of His church and has given gifts to men. He is the pattern. He imparts this pattern to those who believe by grace and faith. The apostle and prophet impart the pattern of sound doctrine. This sound doctrine lays foundation and changes lives. It imparts the pattern of Christ unto the fullness of God. Exponential cannot begin to describe fullness. It is bigger than that. How can I say that? Then you tell me how big God is.

Col. 1:15-18, “¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. ¹⁶ For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. ¹⁸ And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.”

All things are held together by Him. From every atom and molecule to galaxy. Hebrews 1:3, “He upholds all things by the power of his word.”

In cafeteria this morning, 10/22/09, getting coffee. I noticed a woman next to me. I sensed her fear. The thought came to mind, “Self-imposed law creates fear.”

So, what is this ‘self’ apart from Christ? It seems like a fragmented, dead, insecure, self-willed, non-redemptive, unregenerate, spiritually uncircumcised, willfully ignorant, stubborn soul and dead in spirit.

Paul speaks of the ‘old man.’ The old man does not know love. Perfect love casts out fear and torment forever.

So, self-imposed law, Col. 2:14, creates an expectation and need for approval. It is never satisfied apart from Christ. The old man along with the intrinsic self-imposed law creates fear because of judgment and condemnation. Fear or the lack of the knowledge of perfect love can manifest in various ways, Gal. 5:19-21. The flesh manifests itself because of fear. The fruit of the Spirit bears itself because of grace and revelation. Therefore, the just shall live by faith or His faith in them. The just shall live their lives on this planet in revelation of Christ in them through faith and grace. This is the New Covenant.

Had a dream last night, 10/19/09.

It was me, my friend, John Peter, and my two sons. It was relatively late at night and we were driving through the country. John Peter was driving. All of a sudden we hear something like a sonic boom. Everyone in the car passes out unconscious. I wake up and wake up my sons. I notice John Peter is still not conscious. I lay my hand on him and he wakes up. He says, “You may want to close your eyes and ears.” Then he grabs a sawed-off shotgun and we drive into a city. I keep my eyes open. We drive into a tunnel and I see a 10-15 foot skeleton like creature roaring at us. I think we swere out of its way and go through the city. People are running and screaming everywhere. I see spirits and creatures everywhere as well. The city is in total chaos like the end of the world or something. The creatures are trying to jump on our car. And then I wake up.

John 1:14, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

1 Cor. 5:8, “…the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.”

Today, 10/16/09, the Lord told me, “I dwell in reality and sincerity.” I see reality as absolute and undeniable truth. The root of the Greek word for sincerity in the above verse, 1 Cor. 5:8, can mean ” ‘to separate,’ hence, ‘to be of opinion’, approve, esteem”. Truth is the decision and determining factor. He is truth and truth stands alone. Things that are not true do not stand with truth because they are not genuine. That is why when the foundation of a house cracks or falls it is because it was not established on something immovable. Truth is immovable.

Our identity is hid in Him, Col. 3:3. Our identity is only in the truth. Otherwise, what kind of identity would it be? It would be a self-imposed identity based on what I think is real. This is not necessarily truth. Truth does not budge an inch because it is truth. Truth does not lie or decieve because it is truth. In truth, there is all liberty from all things that are not true. Truth does not have to prove itself because it already is.

If my nature is righteous because of His faith in me and His Spirit apprehending me by grace then I am becoming truth in my triune being. Perhaps, you could say I am even becoming more real.

James 4:7, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

Paraphrase from the Greek, “Passively be subjected under God’s grace by the revelation of Christ in you. Resist, oppose and STAND (not sit) against the enemy or adversary and he will flee and take flight.”

Why does the adversary flee and take flight? Because Christ in you is enabling you to STAND established in Him by His grace and you have not moved because it is not within your nature to move or compromise.

If real Light is in me according to hearing the word of faith and the revelation of Christ in me by grace, then resistance to anything dark is passively accomplished due to the nature of the light and revelation of the word in me. The light of the word is truth and reality in me.

Col. 1:12-14, “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers (or something that is a portion or part of something else, His fullness and nature) of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered (rescued and preserved) us from the power of darkness, and hath translated (transferred and transposed) [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:”

His work is more real than anything else apart from Him. In Him, my conscience is not aware of the judgment or penalty of the self-imposed law of my heart. Now, in Him, there is NO condemnation ever, but grace unto righteousness, holiness and glory in Him.

Due to its nature darkness cannot apprehend light. He is the hope of glory and light of the world in us!

Jeremiah 1:5 (YNG), “Before I form thee in the belly (mother’s womb or uterus), I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.”

How is this possible?

Let’s say hypothetically my existence does not depend on time because I am not time-dependent. I also created a world and time was integrated into it. I still exist outside of time and have always existed because time is irrelevant to my existence and nature. Therefore, I know whoever exists in time. Those who were born into time are time-dependent. In this hypothetical example, I am not.

God the Father is also the father of our spirits, Heb. 12:9. He does not exist in time either. John says in John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In Christ, we also were in the beginning, Eph. 1:4. If my identity is hid in Christ by His grace, faith and revelation of Him in me, Col. 3:3, and the truth is in Jesus, Eph. 4:21, and truth is not relative to time either, then in Christ, I am meaning I have always been and always will be. Christ is my elder brother.

Jonah’s focus and concern was on a broad-leaf plant rather than having mercy on the people of Nineveh. The plant the Lord prepared was for Jonah not Nineveh. This is key. When the sun came and the worm ate the plant Jonah’s focus became even more evident…self. Self-imposed law will enable us to focus on self. We will always fail to fulfill it creating continual self-disappointment. Jonah’s eyes were on the plant rather than the Creator and Giver of the plant because of self-imposed law. I am reminded or Rom. 1:25, “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

Jonah 4:1-11,

¹ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry. ² So he prayed to the LORD, and said, “Ah, LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness, One who relents from doing harm. ³ Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!” ⁴ Then the LORD said, “Is it right (functionally good) for you to be angry?” ⁵ So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city. ⁶ And the LORD God prepared a plant^[a] and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant. (me, me, me) ⁷ But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm (destruction), and it so damaged the plant that it withered. (all that can be shaken will be shaken) ⁸ And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” ⁹ Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “It is right for me to be angry, even to death!” (temper tantrum) ¹⁰ But the LORD said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. ¹¹ And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”

John 1:5, “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended (καταλαμβάνω katalambanō) it not.”

Darkness cannot take hold of Light because of its inherent nature.

If the Light of of foundational truth and sound doctrine is in me then darkness cannot comprehend it ever. I cannot even get in the way of Truth in me. My thoughts apart from Christ are vain and empty. If truth and light are real and understood then it cannot go away because it is undeniably true and real. This is starting to sound redundant, but as Jesus said if the winds blow vehemently against the house on the Rock then the house will stand. Why? Because the foundation of the house is hupostasis. It is something that cannot be seen, but is more real than what we even think is reality as we know it. Therefore, darkness has no place. Hallelujah! Thank you Lord. Wow. Praise God. Preaching to myself now.

Light also must know it is genuinely real light. Huh? I must know Light in me and its reality. Otherwise, if I guess, assume, presume or use intellect it is not light. If it is Light in me and I know it is Light in me and what is the Light then darkness is not able to take hold of it EVER. Amen Lord!

Romans 5:5, “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”

Ashamed: καταισχύνω kata + ischynō

– The prefix or preposition kata- means diffusion or osmotic. So, ashamed could mean a diffused, intrinsic attribute and characteristic of the old man or nature. The Greek word, aischynō, means to “suffuse (or pour over like a liquid) with shame”

Shed Abroad: ἐκχέω ekcheō

– God’s agapeo supernatural love is infinitely, continually, exponentially, surges out.

I believe what Paul is saying is that the New Man, Christ in us, is apprehending us by grace and revelation of Him in us, according to the co-mingling of the Holy Spirit in us. In the communion, fellowship, and bond of the Holy Spirit with our spirit His love, righteousness, holiness, power and nature is overwhelming insomuch that the old man is obliterated and made obsolete. We love because He first loved us. We love if we know Him. Perfect love casts out fear and continual torment. Perfect love casts out shame. Perfect constantly surges or gushes out from God because ALL FULLNESS is in Him. He has no lack.

Today I heard the Lord tell me, “You don’t have to love people.” I said, “Excuse me, huh?” “You don’t have to love people.” This is true. I don’t. If I have to then is that real and bona fide motive from my heart?

Romans 6:17, “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.” I am, I do and I be because He is in me. His grace and will alter my will and motivation to do and be. Nothing else can genuinely make this claim and keep it because they are at best shadows.

This blog builds a little more on a previous blog, The substance of His will.

Hebrews 10:1, “¹ For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things (or substance of will or His will), can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.”

I believe “substance of will” is sincere, real and true motive. It is substance. It is immortal, eternal, ever-motivating substance because of fullness and no lack whatsoever. In Him, is all fullness of the Godhead bodily. This substance deposits by diffusion into my spirit by the Holy Spirit by grace through faith of hearing the word of truth in its fullness. This revelation changes my life. Thank you Lord.