Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, (2Co 4:16-17)
We live lives with an eternal weight of glory which exceeds our struggles. Though we are set in a temporal context with its attendant issues, there is within each of us and collectively together a destiny which can thrill our hearts if we can but grasp it. This destiny is reflected in this world but is NOT of this world!!
This is so important to grasp. We are living lives for eternal crowns, not temporal trinkets that are mere physical ornaments dressing up dead bones. It isn’t for external approval that we live for but for His Glory. Yeshua spoke about this in Matthew 23:26-29
Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, (Mat 23:26-29).
It isn’t the outer success that man approves of that really matters. What matters is what is enduring and eternal, what is happening on the inside, in that part of us that is the Glory of God.
That Glory is the seed, that is incorruptible and yet refined by the trials of life. You see God has seed, potent and full of identity and destiny. That seed is deposited in the womb of our lives by His Holy Spirit, as His Word, His Torah, alive and making alive unto eternity. That seed then has a glory. That glory is the weight from eternity in the seed.
You can buy different seeds. you can buy common seed, organic seed and something called heirloom seed. The DEFINITION:
“Heirloom seeds produce vegetable varieties that have been around for 50 years or more. These are the vegetables your grandmother grew. These are the vegetables that were around before the food pyramid, before the Department of Agriculture, before the huge agribusiness's that create most of the "food" on store shelves today.”
The seeds may all look similar but there is an entirely different plant depending on the seed and its potency and power.
God’s living Torah, His “heirloom” seed, the one that produces His children, His heirs is producing a fruit, His children that are living on the inside with destiny. This destiny contains eternal glory.
Glory is also another word for value. We weigh things on scales that evaluate glory based on measurements that compare and contrast with a standard. We used to have a country that was based on the gold standard. That meant that every dollar produced was an instrument of commerce that was backed by a measurable quantity of gold that was stored in a treasury. Gold is actual wealth. It contains unique properties of scarcity and tangible value. Land is actual wealth. That’s why God made a Land based covenant with Abraham for Israel. It is tangible and has properties of provision, being fertile, and identity as a home. A land deed is like a dollar used to be.
Today that “glory” of currency has been unlinked from the gold standard to man’s speculative value. We have currency markets that determine the value of currencies based on pure speculation. This means man’s opinion has been elevated above God’s standard of gold which He connected with value by calling it “tov” or good.
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. (Gen 2:11-12).
This should makes us pause in our understanding of what God values. He is NOT anti-Gold. He is against mammon.
Man, relying on speculation has undermined the age that we live in and is actually anti-God or anti-Christ. In the last book of the Gospel, called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which could be called the 5th Gospel, the Anti-Christ is personified:
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Rev 13:16-17)
Many have been expecting a physical “mark” and so have been a little paranoid about chips, gps, passports etc. Another perspective is that the right hand is the biblical symbol of power and authority and the forehead is where the face or image of the seed is seen. Look at Deut 6:4-9
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deu 6:4-9)
The seed of God’s living Torah, His seed is expressed in covenant through the hands, the symbol of our power and talents and gifts expressed, through our foreheads, the place of His countenance in our lives, and on our homes and gates, the consecrated Land that He gives to us to be stewards over. All of these are elements of true wealth, the wealth that comes from God giving the us the power to get wealth in order to establish His covenant. Deut 8:18.
This is expression of His eternal Glory in our lives.
As an aside the speculation of man and his anti-God, anti-Christ value system will also be attacking our tangible property wealth and convince us that their is no value in land ownership. This is really what is underlying the banking scandal. The banks crashed because of what? They made loans based on speculation. They used to make loans based on wealth, a mans word and God given talents, character. They ditched that and used speculation. This is a devilish wisdom source that seeks to make everyone renters subject to the authority of the man’s speculative value system. Can you see the link??
This is also occurring in the attitude towards Israel and their covenant Land of Promise. Speculation, man’s “demonic” wisdom as embodied in the man centered institutions of power and identity, the UN and assorted coalition entities that rely on military power and other man centered “glories” are sitting in counsel deciding the fate of Israel and the miracle of Her return as proclaimed in the Scriptures.
Speculation is nothing more than glory or value being derived by man’s opinions and NOT by God’s standards. Ultimately it is about devaluing ALL that God’s Torah has breathed into existing as Or, Light, which is His created order and substituting death-ladened perversions of marriage, sexuality, parenting, etc.
God proclaimed this as a shaking, in Hebrews 12:26-29
whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "YET ONCE MORE I SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO HEAVEN." Now this, "YET ONCE MORE," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. (Heb 12:26-29)
We are living for that unshakable kingdom which is working inside of us, to produce the vision of God in the seed that is in us. So, we have to remember that our afflictions are NOT a problem but a refinement or a proving, a testing which produces in us an eternal weight of glory.
Lisa and I were watching a movie about violins. There is a man named Stradivarius who made the most amazing violins, in the early 1700’s. He developed a method for treating the wood that has not been improved upon to this day. His classic violins sell for millions of dollars. Why? Because the gift of God that was in Him produced something of wealth that the world has never duplicated. That is the glory of god, His seed in Stradivarius. The irony is that the super rich have made these violins super costly, because of speculation. The violins are rare and exceptional, but man always tries to make the fruit his own without learning how to go to the root, the inner glory.
You have the same thing, a seed with an eternal weight of Glory. It is priceless beyond compare. It is the pearl of great price.
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. (Mat 13:45-46)
The pearl is the seed of your unique destiny. The Kingdom of heaven scriptures are mostly about the inner qualities that are in a person who has that seed in their hearts. Yeshua is telling us that being sold out yo a destiny-seed and selling all, that is of the old man to pursue it is a quality of the Kingdom. Remember all of His listeners knew about leaving Egypt and that was of Egyptian life and pursuing a destiny! Let’s back yup a few verses here in Matthew and we can see it. Beginning in verses, Mathew 13:37-43
He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Mat 13:37-43)
You have a destiny! There is seed planted in your heart. It will bear incorruptible glory!! This is glory which carries the weight of eternity!
The Lord is speaking of a separation of harvests from different seeds. The seeds of the world, the outer glory are the fares and are gathered to their destiny. The seeds of The Lord, incorruptible are shining like the sun, in the Kingdom!
Look at one final Scripture to build your faith for the time you live in and what this ministry is in your lives:
Malachi 4:1-6 (NKJV)
MALACHI 4
The Great Day of God
[4:1] “For behold, the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the LORD of hosts,
“That will leave them neither root nor branch.
[2] But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
[3] You shall trample the wicked,
For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet
On the day that I do this,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
[4] “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,
Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and judgments.
[5] Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
[6] And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
We see again the division between those whose seed is death and it's glory. They are burned like stubble , both root and branch. This means that the seed itself is destroyed.
The righteous seed arise with the sun of righteousness, shining in their glory and destiny!
Moses is the seed, the Torah. Elijah is the Spirit of prophecy and prophetic awareness.
Restoration of honor and relationship is the fruit! T his is what Destiny House is all about. We are Destiny House and we are building Destiny House.
This destiny is being refined in our lives through trials. Many may evaluate you by external standards. But God evaluates you with eternal values, His plans and purposes for you. The plans are glory producers, They are value enrichment.
No comments:
Post a Comment