(tm) Day 25

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: (John 17:22)

Who can comprehend a promise as tremendous as this?

God the Father has given to Christ His own glory—the very Glory of God. It is the awesome, blazing majesty that the firmament declares. Christ in turn has given this same glory, this supreme majesty, to the saints. Each saint who receives of the Glory of God becomes one with every other saint and one with Christ in God.

Here is the crucial element of the Kingdom of God. All else is secondary. It is important that the individual believer seek and find his or her place in the Being of Christ. This is the central issue of Christianity.

Doctrine and practice that do not bring us into union and identification with the Godhead are not of the Holy Spirit.

God’s eternal purpose is to express Himself: first in Christ; then in those who are in union with Christ; finally in every member of the saved creation. Such fruitfulness and dominion are created in and by the fires of Divine love. Only in union with the Father through Christ can any human being find rest. All other goals are of self, of Babylon (man-directed, institutional Christianity), of confusion.

Many forces will be applied to the people of God in order to bring us into the one Body of Christ. The greatest of these forces is the Glory of God. There will come into being a perfect and complete Body of Christ. When the perfected Body is joined to the Head and filled with the Presence of the Father and the Son, then the world will believe God has sent Christ into the world.

Those who have come into the Charismatic movement are in the place of the greatest danger and also of the greatest opportunity. If we seek to use the things of the Spirit of God we will fall into deception. If we use our gifts and knowledge to enter union with Christ in God we will be brought to the fullness of Divine Life. We then, as Christ guides, will be able to release the material creation into the liberty of the children of God.

We are God’s firstfruits. We shall receive the double portion of the Spirit of God, not so we can become proud and self-seeking but so we may assist each member of the elect, and eventually the people of the nations of the saved, as he or she seeks to find righteousness, peace, and joy in the Spirit of God. This is the Kingdom of God that is coming into the earth at the appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven.