THE WAY YOU KNOW
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus proclaimed a knowledge, to be in his disciples, that they themselves, claimed not to have. Consider the pacific Salmon. It hatches from an egg deposited in an upstream tributary. It makes it’s way to the ocean, where it spends the majority of it’s life. It makes it’s way back, at it’s appointed time, to the location it began as a fertilized egg. It does not have GPS. It did not go to Salmon Seminary. It is not taught by anyone or anything, how to accomplish this amazing feat. When it was an egg, the moment it was fertilized, it “knew” the way home. It was born with the ability to do this. This “knowledge” was part of it’s constitution. And Jesus, alluding to this form of knowledge inherent in one’s constitution upon conception, told Philip of it. “Where I go you all know, and the way, you all know”.
There are many places in what we refer to as the Old Testament, that bear record of this form of “knowledge”. The state of being created with knowledge of origin, and being able to pass it on.
As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever. [Isa 59:21 KJV]
But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. [Jer 31:34 KJV]
The Lord declared that His covenant was with one individual. When you read that out of Abraham came one individual who was the heir of all things, the one in whom all the promises were ratified, you are reading of the new covenant of constitution. Jesus was made, conceived, of the substance of The Father. He grew into perfect knowledge, and understanding all things, knew that he came from God, and that he went to God. This is not a journey of locomotion. It is one of conception, and growing in all things, into that. When Jesus was not of sufficient age to teach, he circumvented this by asking and answering questions. Later, now of age, he taught in the synagogue, and they marveled. “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Where did he get this knowledge and understanding?”. He did not “get” it. He went to no school, sat under no governor or tutor. He did not derive who and what he is from scripture. He is the Word made flesh. He was made this way. The scriptures did not produce this in him. They witnessed that he would be thus created. The firstborn among many brethren. The author and finisher of faith.
If you read Isaiah 59, and Jeremiah 31, regarding the new covenant, this was accomplished 100% entirely in Jesus Christ. Putting His law in Jesus’ heart, and writing it in his inward parts, is the covenant of constitution. He was the Word MADE flesh. He was the first, thus made. He said, you MUST be born again. This does not mean all over again. It means from a higher place of origin, for the first time. You must be begotten to God, for the first time, in Christ. Conception, gestation and birth, all in faith, from beginning to end. What was begun and completed in Him, we are added to in faith. We are not works in progress. We are added to the work that was finished in Him.
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [1Pe 1:3 KJV]
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. [Jhn 12:24 KJV]
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. [Jhn 14:3 KJV]|
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. [Isa 8:18 KJV]
He is the Israel of God. And all begotten to God in him. Flesh and blood can not inherit this. It can not procure this. It can never die and be transported to this place. There is but one way, that is by being conceived and begotten to God, in Christ, who is the one in whom all is fulfilled.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. [Jhn 1:10 KJV]
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: (((Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God))). 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.
The new covenant that Jeremiah proclaimed, was fulfilled when Jesus was made the first of his kind. He was made of the Father. Not made with an ability to “keep” the Lord’s ways and judgments, not written in the inward parts with symbols, words, or any set of instructions, save the instruction of his divine genetic inheritance. But begotten of the very substance of the Father. The first “seed”, thus created, partaker of the divine nature by conception and birth. He declared that unless a seed fall to the earth and die, it abides alone. It is, in the earth, the only of it’s kind, until the veil of it’s chaff part, and it is raised into what was “written” in it as it’s genetic inheritance, as DNA in the fertilized egg.
If you read Matthew 1, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, there is a generational accounting of 42 complete generations from Abraham to Christ. If you count what is written, when you come to the man Jesus, you are on the 41st generation from Abraham. Jesus, the one seed promised to Abraham, heir of all promises, heir of all things far beyond stuff and junk. God told Abraham, “I AM your shield and your exceedingly great reward”. The same Jesus, the Jews sought to kill , because he said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God, as the first begotten of God. The book of the generation of Jesus CHRIST, concludes in the 42nd and final generation are not accounted until he was raised. It is not a flesh-and-blood generation. It is everyone added to him by faith, from the time he rose, until now, and until such time as the Father closes the age, and shuts the door. Bound up in you, by direct inheritance of birth, just as in every almond that was on Aaron’s resurrection Almond Rod, is the complete inheritance of the first seed that fell to the earth, died, was raised, and in himself, prepared a place for you. Arron’s raised Rod, and it’s generation in the form of seed, were placed in that state, in the ark of testimonies. The Holy Spirit thus testifying that while each seed is full heir, the fullness will be revealed together with Christ, in the consummation of the age. The kingdom of God is within you.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. [1Jo 3:2 KJV]