[from 02/03/2009]
If it is true that the highways to Zion are in our hearts, and that we are already seated in heavenly places in Christ, that we have already come to Mt. Zion…
And if it is further true that God has rested from His works and we are told to enter that rest…
And if, in fact, after the New Birth, the Triune God—the Alpha and Omega—is the only Spirit dwelling in these earthen vessels…
And finally, if we are told to do greater works than Jesus did as His Body in the Earth [as He is, so are we in this world]…
Then we need to understand how He walked, how He operated! He operated in both realms—the physical and the spiritual.
We see in many places where the veil is lifted for us to glimpse the unseen—the Spirit—and are in fact told to walk in the Spirit. We are also told that all things are given to us, and that all things are possible for us.
Quantum Physics theorizes that there are, in fact, innumerable universes based on probable outcomes. For example, there is a universe where you marry one person, and another where you marry someone else. One where you live in New York, another where you don’t. Etc, etc.
Endless branchings occur from each choice—there’s a universe where you’re rich, and one where you are not.
The Kingdom of Heaven
The universe where God dwells is called the Kingdom of Heaven, and it is inside of you! It is the place called ‘In Christ’ where every promise of God is ‘Yes.’ It is ‘In The Spirit,’ ‘The Unseen,’ ‘The Heavenly Jerusalem’…and it is eternal. It is how God could show a prophet back or forward in time, and in that place, there is authority over the physical world.
Jesus operated in both the corrupted physical universe and In the Spirit. Adam also walked in both realities, until he chose to cut himself off from the Father. The Word says he was expelled from the garden, not that that garden was rolled up and put away! Angels were set to guard the entrances.
When there was no wine at the wedding of Cana, He switched to that place of endless blessing and supply where the pots were in fact filled with the finest wine. He knew it would be there—that’s how He could, in confidence, send the steward a ladleful of what appeared to be [and in fact was, to start with] only water.
When he told Peter to go get a fish out of the sea and it would have a coin in it’s mouth to pay the tax with, He switched to the place of infinite possibilities where a fish had just scooped up a shiny object from the sea floor—He knew that it was possible, because all things are possible to Him who believes…so He chose with His mouth!!!
When He needed somewhere to eat the Passover with His disciples, He told them to go to a specific place and tell a specific man that He needed his guest room…Mark’s versions actually says ‘My’ guest room! He chose with His mouth that possibility! That man, that room!
Same with the colt He would later ride into Jerusalem. He sent them to get a specific donkey tied up at a specific place...how did He know it was there? Because He knew He was the heir of all things, and that He could choose a potentiality with His mouth. He knew the donkey would be there because He said so, and He knew that what He said would happen. [Mark 11:23]
Every healing, every deliverance, every resurrection that He performed was based on an understanding of how things really work. He was the very agent of Creation, the Word Incarnate, and He knew that the physical, natural world that we see with our natural eyes is not all there is.
Couldn’t Touch Him…
Even when murderous mobs tried to throw Him off of a cliff or stone Him, He chose the reality where they couldn’t/didn’t touch Him, and turned and walked off. He understood the fullness of blessing, operating from the Kingdom of Heaven, where all is whole and abundant and complete. And He chose each probability accordingly.
When the soldiers came for Him and asked Him if He was Jesus the Nazarene, He said “I am He” and they all fell to the ground! Even then, He had a sense of humor…I guess He just stood there, rolled His eyes and waited for them to get up and get over the shock of what had just happened. Then He let them bind Him and take Him away, proving for all time that it was His choice to go and die for us all.
He knew it…He saw it…He said it. Faith, in the heart and in the mouth, is the agent of choice.
God told Israel ‘I have set before you blessing and cursing, life and death. So choose life…’ Jesus explains that, in the New Covenant, He IS that life, and He dwells in us, with the Father, by the Holy Spirit. All possibilities are ours, and we, like Him, are to choose life in every situation.
God has rested from His works—they were finished from the foundation of the world. [Hebrews 4:3,4] Every promise is already fulfilled in Christ. And we are already in that kingdom, raised up with Him and seated with Him in heavenly places, His joint-heirs! When the Holy Spirit, through Paul, said that He has given us all things richly to enjoy, He meant it! Every good potentiality is ours for the choosing!
And that’s how He did it!
