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Establishing Glory! By Pastor Bill Taylor A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 12/ Issue 1 I shall establish glory in the land of the living. (Ezek26:20) Prophecy: If you hadn’t experienced the things which I’ve permitted you to suffer these past years how could you understand what your new brethren are going through? And how could you comfort them had I not permitted you to experience these afflictions first? Thus you see the wisdom of God and the love of God; that if you’re to be a blessing to your brethren you have to first suffer what they’ll suffer so you’ll know how to help them in their afflictions. And I’ve equipped you for that so you can be a great consolation to many. For you’re blessed of the Lord that you’ve suffered and overcome, so many others may find hope in your victories and overcome also, saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House”) But if he won’t hear, take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. (Mt18:16) This will be the third time I’m coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established. (2Cor13:1,2) According to God’s Word to say or hear something once doesn’t establish it. In Glory of His Grace book “Establishing the Covenant” we showed you how God says things twice to establish them as permanent and irrefutable. How many times after our services at “My Father’s House” we’ll go home to read our bibles and find what was just preached being said again in a different place or a different way. That’s God confirming His Word! Every time God says something He repeats it through another source to establish us in His Truth. It’s the work of the Holy Spirit to do this in the true saints. In Ezekiel God speaks of bringing down the pride of Tyre. Tyre was a very prosperous seacoast city but God destroyed it. I’ll make you like the top of a rock; you’ll be a place for spreading nets, and you’ll never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken. (Ezek26:14) Today you can go to the place where Tyre used to be and fishermen are spreading their nets on the rocks there. This prophecy was awesomely fulfilled. Then I’ll bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I’ll make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so you may never be inhabited; and I’ll establish glory in the land of the living. (Ezek26:20) God will glorify His name not just in heaven but right here in the land of the living. When God prophesies what’s going to happen, you don’t want to be on the wrong side of His prophecy because if He says for example, He’s going to have a glorious church and you’re opposing the kind of church He wants to have, God is infinite in power and you aren’t, which means your power is nothing in comparison to His. Nothing finite can be compared to infinite. The largest finite thing is a piece of dust in comparison to the measureless reaches of infinity. And God is infinite, all powerful, omnipotent, unchangeable, immutable, irrefutable, and unconquerable. You’re like an ant trying to stop a steam roller. How can you be setting yourself against God when His Word said this is what He’s going to do and the whole of creation including your existence are upheld by His Word. Upholding all things by the Word of His power. (Heb1:3) God says He’ll have a glorious church and you’re going to argue about whether it’s possible to become a glorious church? You won’t survive. You may get a temporary victory, but your victory will be an illusion. Remember how those who came against our Thursday outreaches looked like they had the victory right in their hands and it turned into ashes in front of their faces in matter of a few years. That wicked “leader” and that slanderous bunch with him who thought they’d won a victory over us, are now all gone! Everybody! And while a few years may seem like a long time to wait for judgment it’s not long in God’s timetable. The righteous reign forever; the wicked get a few years. They have an illusory victory; it seems like they’ve won but suddenly everything starts to fall apart! Everything crumbles! Whatever they were celebrating they aren’t celebrating anymore. What did they gain? Nothing. What God says in every case when men come against Him is “Then they shall know that I’m the Lord.” (Ezek7:27) He repeats this over and over. “Then they shall know that I’m the Lord.” (Ezek11:10,20; 12:15,16; 24:27; 25:5,7,11,14,17; 28:22-24; 30:25,26) I’ve a testimony from an inmate who was receiving the Glory of His Grace but arguing with many of the things God was saying. He made himself obnoxious to the true brethren. It seemed like he knew the Truth, but just didn’t want it. So what kind of reasoning is this? When someone knows what’s right but rejects it? The root of it is “the price is too high,” and he doesn’t want to suffer in the flesh (1Pt4:1) so he’s trying to go a different way. Does he really think he can make it to God by a different way? In his testimony he confessed he knew what we had was of God, and there was real conviction in the Glory of His Grace. But “I don’t want to lose my life! (Mt16:25) So I’ll go the easy way like most of the other non Glory of His Grace ‘believers.’ I can have my fun,” he thinks, “and do things my way, and still ‘be saved’ even though I’m not under the Spirit’s control.” Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD. For he’ll be like a shrub in the desert, and won’t see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness. Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD. For he’ll be like a tree planted by the waters. (Jer17:5-8) Only fools think they can follow their own way to God without going the narrow way. (Mt7:14) Fools think God will accept another way and “there’s a whole lot of other people going this way too so He won’t reject us all.” But “Broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.” (Mt7:13) The very fact that you’re following the “many” means you’re doomed. And when someone chooses that way they’re trusting in flesh. Everything starts to dry up around them and they miss out on all the good God’s doing to the people who are planted by His rivers and who are being watered by His Spirit. When we heard how this man was troubling the true believers we dropped his name from our Glory of His Grace mailing list. A few months later he wrote us back repenting for his sins. He confessed to feeling his dryness. He knows he’s not getting watered and is asking God to have mercy on him and let him back in. Amos says There’s going to be a famine of the Word of the Lord. “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD, “That I’ll send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of the LORD. They’ll wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they’ll run to and fro, seeking the Word of the LORD, but won’t find it.” (Am8:11,12) That’s what this man is feeling and he’s realizing that without the Word of the Lord he’s starving. When he had the Word of the Lord he took it for granted. We’ve cut a lot of people off our mailing list in the past because they were taking the Glory of His Grace for granted, never even saying thank you. Obviously this inmate was being fed by our books even while he was an enemy. “If your enemy’s hungry feed him.” (Rom12:20) But there comes a time where we have to say this isn’t financially responsible. We can’t be wasting money on people who are continually ungrateful and show no evidence that our efforts and the Spirit of God are producing anything godly in them. What was it producing in this man? He’s receiving the Glory of His Grace and acting as an antagonist to the true brethren yet he thinks he’s got some God in his life because he can argue about “religion.” So he goes on being wicked and believing he’s not totally separated from God because his religious contentions make him feel like there’s some knowledge of God in his life. It’s insane isn’t it? Because he reads our books, he feels he knows something about God but then he attacks the very people who are feeding him. So we cut him off and then he realized he really has no God in his life. The source of God in his life was us. And when we cut him off that’s when he experienced the famine. That’s when he started looking for God again and that’s when he realized there isn’t a different way to God; God isn’t among the false christians he’s been fraternizing with. He’s listening to the baptists and getting nothing. He’s dying. They’ll wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they’ll run to and fro, seeking the Word of the LORD, but won’t find it. (Am8:12) In some cases like this one that’s what has to happen. There are many places where God talks about cutting unfruitful “believers” off like a dry branch. Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD. For he’ll be like a shrub in the desert, and won’t see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which isn’t inhabited.” (Jer17:5,6) Yet the fortified city will be desolate, the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness; there the calf will feed, and there it’ll lie down and consume its branches. When its boughs are withered, they’ll be broken off; the women come and set them on fire. For it’s a people of no understanding; therefore He who made them won’t have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor. (Is27:10,11) If anyone doesn’t abide in Me, he’s cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they’re burned. (Jn15:6) The dry branches are people who lack understanding. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night therefore the ungodly won’t stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. (Ps1:2,5) Sinners and the ungodly are the dry shrubs. If you don’t feed on the Lord, meaning on God’s Word, you dry up. Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” (Jn6:53) His flesh represents the Word of God. I’m the bread of life. (v48) Bread represents the Word, and His blood is the Spirit. Then there’s also the washing of the water of the Word. Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. (Eph5:25-27) If you don’t stay well watered by Christ you’re sure to dry up and when you dry up you’re no good to anyone. You’re unfruitful and God cuts you off. (Jn15:6) When we send people the Glory of His Grace we and God are watering them. But a field that’s been well watered and doesn’t produce good fruit is near to being cursed. For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it’s cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it’s rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned. (Heb6:7,8) We’ve watered a lot of people at our expense. Most “ministries” use their “newsletters” to solicit donations. We send the Glory of His Grace almost exclusively to prisons – there’s not much chance of getting donations there. It costs us thousands of dollars per month to do this and we receive no outside help. The expense is borne by our church members, as is all the work of printing, packing, posting. The Glory of His Grace is a work foreordained by God. During a prolonged season of prayer, Jesus told me to publish the Glory of His Grace and even named it from Ephesians 1:6. I don’t mean I had some feeling in my heart that I’m calling “Jesus” telling me to do this – I mean HE TALKED TO ME! That means the Glory of His Grace is of God in a very real way unlike many “man-made” ministries. Now you know God is watching over the Glory of His Grace very carefully. To the believer who receives the Glory of His Grace rightly, in whom it’s bringing forth good fruit and true Christ-likeness, there’ll be much blessing from God. But to those who are wasting God’s resources and bringing forth nothing worthwhile you know God’s not going to put up with that for long! There comes a time when He’s got to cut them off. (Jn15:2) They’re stealing from God at the very least. (Rom2:22b) Now with this man we cut off a few months ago, how long did it take him to realize the Truth about himself? With God things don’t always happen instantaneously. But, beloved, don’t forget this one thing, with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (2Pt3:8) What we think is two years is two minutes to God. So how long does it take someone to realize “I’m drying out! What was the source of God in my life? When did it stop?” Then they start to wake up. “I’m not getting fed in my ‘church.’ I’m not getting fed by ‘christian’ TV. I’m not getting fed by the so called “brethren” around me. It was the Glory of His Grace that was feeding me.” See how this man came back in a few months when he realized where the water was coming from. These things are happening in front of our eyes! And God is establishing His glory. But look at the wickedness in many so-called “christians.” They bite the hand that feeds them. They’re unthankful, inconsiderate, (2Tim3:1-7) and they can’t behave anything like a real Christian. So we must cut them off. If we keep feeding them they just keep on taking us for granted. Like this man, as long as we were helping him he was blind. He could think God was blessing him because we were feeding him. But how can he hate us and love the God he thinks is blessing him even though we’re the ones God’s using to feed him. (1Jn5:1) It’s amazing how some people can rationalize their sin. But when we stopped sending him the Glory of His Grace he realized, “God isn’t blessing me anymore. Actually it was those Glory of His Grace people God was using to bless me; those people I treated like enemies.” Many believers have very weird ideas about God and their relationship to Him; ideas that are so untrue, so ungodly, and so insane that in order for God to “establish His glory in the land of the living” (Ezek26:20) He’s got to destroy their misperceptions, He’s got to cut people off from their illusions and delusions to get them to see how He really operates. Casting down arguments (imaginations-OKJ) and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. (2Cor10:5) He gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the Truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who’s the Head -- Christ -- from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (Eph4:11-16) All of which demonstrates the body of Christ, His true church, grows because the members minister such things to one another in love as cause each other to grow up into Christ. So apart from the church there’s no growth. Jesus operates through His church and if you think you can have a completely independent relationship with Him apart from His church, you’re deceived. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I’m the vine, you’re the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (Jn15:4,5) Abiding in Christ includes the idea of abiding in His church; His body. Your relationship with Christ can’t be solitary. You can’t bear fruit unless you have brethren to give the “fruit” to. Even now you’re being fed through His church at “My Father’s House.” Jesus is with His true church and He isn’t where the lone wolves or independent “christians” are, except when a true brother is isolated from the body by uncontrollable circumstances as Paul was during his imprisonments. But even there Paul says, “Though I’m absent in the flesh, yet I’m with you in the Spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.” (Col 2:5) And Paul kept his communion with the churches by many letters. So Christ will cut off those who think of His Church as nothing and pridefully believe they can have a relationship with God independent of His church which is Spiritually a vital source of our relationship with Christ. I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the Truth. (1Tim3:15) Wake up to who God’s using, who His true people are or you won’t be where He is! (Jn12:26) How can you worship God in Spirit and Truth (Jn4:24) apart from His church when His church is the pillar and ground of the Truth. If you forgive the sins of any, they’re forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they’re retained. (Jn20:23) To forgive or retain sins is a providence of Christ’s true church, which means His church has great powers of judgment, to heal or cut off – to retain sins is to cut off the unrepentant sinner; his sins will be retained, and he’ll not be forgiven unless he truly repents. God is going to establish glory in the land of the living. (Ezek26:20) He’s going to have a glorious church. (Eph5:27) He’ll establish Jerusalem a praise in the earth. (Is62:7) Which means He’ll establish His church a praise in the earth. This is the tide of God, the direction in which He’s always moving and in which He can’t be stopped. Concerning anyone who tries to stop Him, Gamaliel says, “Lest you even be found to fight against God.” (Act5:39) Which caused the Jews to understand if they fight against God they’ll be crushed so they let the disciples go. (v40) But soon they forgot and went back to fighting against God until He crushed them totally; destroyed their temple, broke down Jerusalem’s walls, killed most of them and sent the rest into captivity; scattered amongst the nations for two thousand years because they did indeed fight against God. That’s what happens when you fight against God. You can’t fight against God and win. Even if it appears you’ve won the victory is temporary and illusory. At the cross, for example, satan and the wicked Jews thought they’d won but it was a false victory. For three days they got rid of one Christ, but soon they were facing dozens, then thousands of Christs! So everyone who’s on the wrong side of God might think they’ve won for a while but shortly everything they’ve won is gone. I’m sure that wicked baptist who brought false charges against us had dreams of creating a great ministry. But all his desires have crumbled and today he’s a nobody, while that which he tried to destroy is growing and multiplying and “My Father’s House” is becoming famous all over Florida, whereas he’s become a mockery; he’s becoming known as someone who fought against God and lost. God shall likewise destroy you forever; He’ll take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and uproot you from the land of the living. The righteous also shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him saying, “Here’s the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.” (Ps52:5-7) God said, “I’ll establish Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Is62:7) and the Lord’s house will be established on the tops of the mountains and many people will flow to it.” And she’ll be established in righteousness. (Is54:14) Everything God says will certainly come to pass. However there’s a struggle in bringing it to pass. Those in whom God’s working to fulfill His will (Word) must overcome those who resist it. But those who resist will be destroyed. Though at times they may seem to gain a little victory, their gains will be temporary and in the end they’ll be consumed. He’s going to establish glory in the land of the living. (Ezek26:20) Can you relate to this verse personally? How can I be a part of His establishing glory? For example, Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, you’ve been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes though it’s tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (1Pt1:5-7) Has your faith been tested in such a way that it glorifies God? Are you glorifying God because your faith holds on through the trials, afflictions and fires until His Word comes to pass? That’s one way you can glorify Him. He sent a man before them -- Joseph -- who was sold as a slave. They hurt his feet with fetters, he was laid in irons. Until the time that His Word came to pass, the Word of the LORD tested him. The king sent and released him, the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom. (Ps105:17-22) See how Joseph’s faith glorified God! For You, O God, have tested us; You’ve refined us as silver is refined. You brought us into the net; You laid affliction on our backs. You’ve caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and water; but You brought us out to rich fulfillment. (Ps66:10-12) Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You’ve heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord -- the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. (Jms5:11) God will establish glory and He’ll have a people who’ll glorify Him and one way they’ll glorify Him is by holding onto their faith in Him until His Word comes to pass. If you’re reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He’s blasphemed, but on your part He’s glorified. (1Pt4:14) Have you stood for God’s Truth against the many lies that fill the false churches? Are you standing up for Jesus’ Word even now? Then you’re glorifying Him. Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1Cor10:31) Are you making sure when you eat it’s to the glory of God and not to the satisfaction of your flesh? God’s going to have a people that are “to the praise of the glory of His grace.” (Eph1:6) He’s going to have a people that He’s made acceptable in the beloved and they must be a people that glorify Him. When the brethren look at us they should be saying, “Wow! God what grace You’ve used to make this person a useful member of Christ. What a mighty work You’ve done!” I receive many letters from men who are very thankful for the Glory of His Grace. Recently a young man wrote of how much good I’ve done him through the Glory of His Grace ministry and what a powerful effect it’s had in the prison where he’s incarcerated. Though I appreciate letters of thanks and often share such letters with “My Father’s House” congregation, we don’t always have the time to write back. But because this man expressed so much sincerity and gratefulness, I answered him saying, “I’m a gift given to the church because Jesus loves you. I try to be the best gift I can be. But what I am, I am by the grace of God.” By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me wasn’t in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. (1Cor15:10) “Whatever you’re thankful for about me it’s Jesus in me; He’s in me that way because He loves you. If you think I’m doing good and I’m a good preacher then look to Jesus because it’s Christ in me that makes me what I am. And if I’m a good preacher, then I’m glorifying Jesus. I’m doing the work that glorifies Him and shows He gave the church a good gift in me so they can be thankful to Him for the gift.” Christ in me is fulfilling the Scriptures: To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Col 1:27) For it’s God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. (Phil 2:13) That the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. (Phmn6) Everything useful, helpful, good that I am is Christ in me. He’s making it happen. If I’m helping you why did Jesus put me here? So He could help you through me! If I’m a really good help why did Jesus give you such a good helper? Because He loves you! Since you were precious in My sight, you’ve been honored, and I’ve loved you; therefore I’ll give men for you, and people for your life. (Is43:4) He loves you enough to give you someone through whom He can help you effectually and that’s to the praise of the glory of His grace. (Eph1:6) You must get past the facade (veil) if you want to see the glory. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there’s liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2Cor3:16-18) You’ve received a glimpse of Christ’s glory in what I just shared with you and if you haven’t seen that before then Christ in me must have taken off the veil to give you a look at His glory. The glory is there but in the past you may not have had the liberty to see it. By the Spirit you have to look past the flesh to see the glory. Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is His flesh. (Heb10:19,20) Therefore, from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we’ve known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. (2Cor5:16) God is in everything good. If He’s there His glory is there. You just have to get the cover off. So I’m getting a lot of compliments that God has given His people a good gift. The true saints are appreciating it. Many of the brethren in the prisons are thankful for it. Well, let’s give the glory where it’s due. Give the glory to God who gave the gift. At the same time you can’t despise the gift, and mistreat or abuse it. He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. (Mt10:41) He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me. (Lk10:16) Now a very pertinent question is “Are you a gift to the church?” “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.” (Phil 1:3) Why does Paul say that? “I thank God for you because you’re a gift from God to His church. And the good you do delights me so I’m thanking God who gave you to us and put it in your heart to do all this good. Do you want a life changing lesson? Answer this – Did God give you as a gift to His church? How good a gift are you? If you really draw near to God and ask Him to make you a blessing, how great a gift could He make of you? The better you can demonstrate the grace by which He’s made you a gift to the brethren the better you’re establishing His glory. The Glory of His Grace is establishing God’s glory! It’s showing what salvation really is; what God can do and what the believers should be. And the Glory of His Grace has come because of the gift Jesus has put in me, but it’s His gift; it’s Christ in me! Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift! (2Cor9:15) Some men are appointed to be a special gift to Christ’s church as: “And He gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.” (Eph4:11) But truly every believer should be a gift to the brethren, since the leaders are examples the brethren should imitate. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. (Phil 4:9) Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ. (1Cor11:1) So how good of a gift are you? If you’ve received your calling and want to give your whole heart to fulfill it then, present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what’s that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Rom12:1,2) You must have faith in God to make you a really good gift that glorifies God! The better the gift you are the more God is glorified in being the one who gave it. And since the tide is running towards glory He’ll establish His glory in you if you’ll get in the flow of His Spirit and pray in faith, “Lord make me glorifying to you.” If you’ll get involved in establishing God’s glory then you’ll have God’s power with you, even though the currents of the world are running against you. But that’s the point God’s teaching us – who’s going to win? If we must endure some resistance from the world, that doesn’t change the Truth that God can’t be stopped, nor can anyone who’s in the will of God, because we have His infinite power behind us to fulfill the scriptures that His glory is going to be established in the land of the living. (Ezek26:20) But are you really a part of that; are you bringing Him glory in the land of the living? I’ve set my heart to be a good gift to the church. And by faith in Christ I’m bringing Him glory and He’s helping me do it! (1Th5:24) Now what about you? Prophecy: I’ll establish glory in the land of the living. And when I say that I’m also saying I’ll have a glorious church in the land of the living. The power of My Spirit will fulfill My Word and is working even now that I may have My glorious church. And My church will be My glory in the land of the living as it’s written the church is the glory of Christ. So everyone who’ll help Me establish My church will be blessed of Me and will know My Spirit is working with them. But everyone who opposes My glorious church, opposes Me, opposes My Word, opposes My will and My Spirit will work against them and bring them down. For My Word will be established. My glory will be established. My people will be established. I’ll surely establish My church to be My glory in the land of the living, saith the Lord. Prophecy: To My elect and to those of My church I tell you, you were bought at a price. I’ve bought you, I own you and I’ve given you as a gift to My church and therefore all who are Mine are no longer living a life independent unto themselves. For you now have a life that’s part of and connected to all the other lives I’ve put together in My church. And when you see that I’ve given you as a gift and when you see it’s now your life’s purpose to fulfill your part in the confederacy of My body then you’ll see that all your joy and all your praise and all your glory comes out of the brethren, comes out of your part and the brethren’s all coming together into unity and perfection; whose end is the establishment of My glory throughout the earth. So I tell you now My children, My elect, My body, My bride, rejoice that you’ve been called, yes but seek Me diligently now to perform the part to which you’re called until every part I’ve given as a gift has done its share and brought My church to her fullest glory. This is not a far off thing. I’m working in you now. As you seek Me I’m using you to bring My glorious church forth even now, saith the Lord. (Prophecies delivered at “My Father’s House”) I shall establish glory in the land of the living. (Ezek26:20) This verse is an explanation of God’s end purpose in connection to many other things God has prophesied. For example when God establishes the mountain of the Lord’s house to be above all the mountains so the nations will flow to it, (Is2:2) that will also be an establishing of His glory. The things which God has prophesied are absolutely unstoppable, they’ll certainly come to pass. And the power of God is working even now to bring them to pass. Everything that resists God’s will in these things must bow the knee or be crushed by the power of God. There’s much resistance to God in this world but soon all resistance will fail. God will prevail! Therefore Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He’ll come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth. (Hos6:3) His “going forth” speaks of His second coming, of course, but also of His Spiritual presence “going forth” even now in the earth to accomplish His will. It’s absolutely certain He’s coming forth! He’s going to overcome all opposition and dwell with us. So what should you be doing? Get to know Him now when you have the chance. Seek good and not evil, that you may live; so the LORD God of hosts will be with you. Hate evil, love good; establish justice in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to you. (Am5:14,15) In other words get prepared for His going forth (His coming). God said He’d establish a New Covenant and it’s already here. All you need to do is get into it. And His final going forth (second coming) is when He’ll save His New Covenant people completely. Therefore I’ll save My flock, and they’ll no longer be a prey; and I’ll judge between sheep and sheep. (Ezek34:22) To those who eagerly wait for Him, He’ll appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Heb9:28) Not everyone who claims to be a “christian” is acceptable to Jesus. For they’re not all Israel who are of Israel. (Rom9:6b) Is it too little for you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture -- and to have drunk of the clear waters, that you must foul the residue with your feet? And as for My flock, they eat what you’ve trampled with your feet, and they drink what you’ve fouled with your feet. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD to them: “Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat and the lean sheep. Because you’ve pushed with side and shoulder, butted all the weak ones with your horns, and scattered them abroad, therefore I’ll save My flock, and they’ll no longer be a prey; and I’ll judge between sheep and sheep. (Ezek34:18-22) So Christ is going to deal with the false “christians” – the pushy, the proud, the heretical who’ve muddied the clear gospel water with their wicked and carnal lies. I’ll establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them -- My servant David. (Ezek34:23a) This is speaking of Christ He shall feed them and be their shepherd. (v23b) The process of bringing that to pass is going on right now. In so far as we’re actually His New Covenant church, He’s already established that one Shepherd over us. There’s one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who’s above all, and through all, and in you all. (Eph4:4-6) Whenever so called believers are having “church” but aren’t obeying that one Shepherd there has to be a shaking and judging and dealing with them to actually bring them into this covenant and establish that one Shepherd over them. So in as much as this isn’t yet completely fulfilled there’s still an establishing going on. (1Pt5:2-4) In righteousness you’ll be established. (Is54:14a) Are you being established in righteousness? Then You’ll be far from oppression, for you’ll not fear. (v14b) When we’re established in righteousness there’s no condemnation. (Rom8:1) Indeed they’ll surely assemble, but not because of Me. (Is54:15a) Wicked people may try to attack us but Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake. (v15b) God is an enemy to our enemies. (Jer30:20) As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you’ve been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. (Col 2:6,7) To walk in the Spirit isn’t an option. It’s a command. To be established in the faith is to be completely united to Christ. I’ve been crucified with Christ; it’s no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (Gal 2:20) I don’t pray for these alone, but also for those who’ll believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe You sent Me. (Jn17:20,21) A real Christian is full of thanksgiving for his unity relationship with Christ. He loves this new Christ-life God has given him. He doesn’t see it as being burdensome. It’s an awesome and wonderful blessing to be accepted in Jesus. (Eph1:6) To know Jesus so intimately as to abide in Him is an honor and a gracious privilege and we should be very thankful to God for it. Therefore, when we could no longer endure it, we thought it good to be left in Athens alone, and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith. (1Th3:1,2) For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some Spiritual gift, so you may be established. (Rom1:11) The false “churches” like the baptists believe you must be established in believing you’re “saved.” They tell you, you can’t lose your salvation and then they encourage you to keep coming to church so they can keep trying to convince you “you can’t lose your salvation.” The Truth is if they really believed you couldn’t lose your salvation it wouldn’t matter if you believed it or not. If you can’t lose your salvation, you don’t need to keep coming to “church” to hear them tell you over and over, you can’t lose it – if you can’t lose it you might as well stay home since once you’re saved there’s nothing you can do that would “unsave” you. From this you can see in their hearts they really know they’re teaching a lie that they have to repeat over and over lest you “forget it” and what? Lose your salvation! They act as though believing you can’t lose your salvation is what keeps you saved which is a contradiction in itself since if you can lose your salvation by not believing you’re saved then “once saved/always saved” isn’t true. And they know in their hearts it isn’t true which is why they labor so hard to get their victims established in the lie of “once saved/always saved” and keep them there. The Truth is real salvation isn’t found in believing you’re “saved” – Muslims, Hindus and even the Jews in the days of the apostles could murder innocent people and think they’re “saved” while doing it. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1Jn3:15) Real salvation is found in believing you’re one with Christ and behaving accordingly. You’re saved only if you’re “In Him!” In Him we’ve redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. (Eph1:7) And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who doesn’t have the Son of God doesn’t have life. (1Jn5:11,12) So the true church is working to get you established “In Christ!” in the faith that produces the reality of you being in Him and Him being in you. To attain to this faith (Eph4:13) you must crucify and eliminate from your thoughts and behavior everything that isn’t like Jesus, everything that’s a contradiction to Christ actually living in you. This is the faith you must be established in - to be like Jesus because you’re in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. (1Jn2:6) So the ministry of the true church is to establish the saints in the faith for Christ to live in them not just to believe we’re “saved,” though of course if Christ is in us we are “saved.” And if you wish to be “saved” and stay “saved” you must be working in that direction also, praying to be established in Christ and receiving whatever virtues or “gifts” as are necessary to help you become established. But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you’ll be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you’ll never stumble. (2Pt1:5-10) For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so you may be established. (Rom1:11) How important is understanding these Truths to your becoming established? (Pr24:3) If you don’t understand what you need to do to become established, how can you do it? Therefore the false christians who have no understanding aren’t saved. For it’s a people of no understanding; therefore He who made them won’t have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor. (Is27:11) Again, becoming established is a process. And He gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the Truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who’s the Head -- Christ -- from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (Eph4:11-16) This passage is clearly describing the process of becoming established. As part of that process every saint in the church is to minister to the others and each must do his share to build the others up in Christ, till we all come to the perfect man! Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily. (Col 1:28,29) It’s obvious most so called “churches” aren’t even trying to fulfill this Scripture. The wicked baptists like to say “perfect” means “complete” as though by this ploy they can avoid admitting to the scriptural requirement for perfection. The Truth is, however, the greek word “telious” which can be translated to be “complete” means to be completely finished – lacking nothing. In other words, to be complete means to be perfect. So again, we can see how wickedly foolish these baptists are in their “trickeries of men in cunning craftiness, of deceitful plotting.” (Eph4:14) One very important thing to understand concerning God’s establishing His church is to fully establish her He must establish every true believer who’s in His church. If we’re His we have an absolute promise from God that He’ll establish us. The only reason any “believer” should fail to be established is they haven’t obeyed God to take hold of what He’s offering because He’ll surely do it if you’ll have faith in Him to do it. It’s ironic that those who believe “once saved/always saved” and think just because they’ve started to believe in Jesus they can’t be lost, will be lost; whereas for the true saints if we continue in the faith there’s a place we can arrive where we’re so firmly established in Christ we can never be lost. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you’ll never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For this reason I won’t be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present Truth. (2Pt1:10-12) The foolish false christians will never be established because they believe the lie that they’re already established therefore they won’t allow God to establish them. Jesus said, “If you were blind, you’d have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.” (Jn9:41) The Pharisees because they claim to see, remain blind. And the baptists because they think they’re already eternally secure (saved) and can’t lose their salvation won’t do the things necessary to become secure – so they will lose their “salvation!” Peter says, But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. (2Pt1:5-7) In doing this we’re actually adding more and more of Jesus until we’re solidly established in Christ. But the baptists won’t do this because they think they’re already secure so they’ll not pursue the things necessary to their being established. Thus they’re not only not “once saved/always saved” but in a very real sense they may be “once damned/always damned.” Because instead of becoming established in Christ, they’re becoming established in lies that they already have what true Christians must be diligent to acquire. Anyone with a decent conscience knows in their heart they can’t continue in sin and be “saved.” Their conscience continually convicts them. That’s why the baptists must keep repeating the lie of once saved/always saved to overcome the guilty consciences of their people. In a true church we come together to learn more of Christ. Every gathering is a new lesson showing us Jesus in richer, better ways that we may be conformed completely to Him. In the baptist-type churches every meeting is a repetition of once saved/always saved. They must keep coming back to hear the lie repeated over and over to quiet their guilty consciences. Eventually the conscience becomes “seared.” (1Tim4:2) This is satan’s strategy in the baptist church to damn their souls. When their conscience becomes “seared” they’re indeed “once damned/always damned.” Thus these baptists fulfill the Scripture being those who perish, because they didn’t receive the love of the Truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who didn’t believe the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2Th2:10-12) They’ll perish if they don’t get out of their lies. Whereas we who understand the Truth and are diligently pursuing God to establish us in Christ will attain to the very thing the baptist claim to have and don’t have. We can attain to a place where we’re so solidly established in Christ we can’t lose our salvation. In doing this we become His sheep. (Gal 5:24) Because His sheep know His voice and won’t follow another, no one can snatch us out of His hand. (Jn10:27,28) And those who are Christ’s (His sheep) have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (Gal 5:24) These foolish baptists claim to be His sheep when they haven’t crucified their flesh. So the thing that they claim to have they don’t have. But because we’ve crucified our flesh and won’t follow any spirit but Jesus’ we won’t be snatched out of His hand. For if you live according to the flesh you’ll die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you’ll live. (Rom8:13) We’ve submitted unto God’s way of attaining to “eternal security” and the process of being established in Christ (2Pt1:5-11) which because the baptists haven’t submitted unto, they won’t be saved. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, (their own way of salvation) haven’t submitted to the righteousness of God. (Rom10:3) To be in Christ’s hand you must be in Truth because Jesus is the Truth. And to be in His hand you must be His sheep who know His voice and won’t follow another which means you must be led by His Spirit and be completely obedient to Christ or you aren’t His and can’t be “in His hand.” Thus these foolish baptists who think they’re eternally secure because true believers can’t be snatched out of Christ’s hand aren’t even in His hand, because they’re not in His Truth. So they’re not His sheep. They’re in lies and don’t know His voice, the Spirit of Truth. They aren’t led by His Spirit but are very disobedient even to Jesus’ Words in the Scriptures. So baptists and those like them aren’t saved, but very much lost. If they want to be saved they need to repent and stop claiming they can’t be lost and ask Jesus what they must do to really get saved and stay saved. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil’s taken away. (2Cor3:16) But for those who won’t repent and do that it’s as though some sort of immense practical joke is being played on them, some awesome ironic judgment, that the very thing they so much want to believe they have, they lose! Whereas the true Christian can attain to a secure salvation by becoming established. All the things Peter, Paul, John, Jude and the other apostles and teachers are teaching us through the Scriptures are intended to establish us. They want to bring us to the place where our salvation is secure and our union with Christ is complete and unassailable. And they’ve a firm confidence God will get us there if we’re true Christians. Being confident of this very thing, that He who’s begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. (Phil 1:6) Every true Christian should be striving towards that goal. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I’ve suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I’ve already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I don’t count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. (Phil 3:8-15) May the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, so He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints. (1Th3:12,13) In this passage more of the process of being established is revealed. What does Paul say? Abounding in love to one another is a necessary foundation so God may establish your hearts. Thus he doesn’t just pray for the Lord to establish us, but teaches for the Lord to establish us we must abound in love. The Lord make you abound in love to one another so He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints. (1Th3:12,13) You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Mt22:37-39) Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Rom13:10) There’s no sin in love because it does no harm but only good. So if your heart is filled with Godly love then you’ll be blameless because the only thing that could cause blame would be to do something harmful that’s not of love. Thus for God to establish your hearts blameless in holiness, He requires you to abound in love to one another. And He gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but speaking the Truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the Head – Christ – from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (Eph4:11-16) Christ’s true church is a family of brethren who love one another. And they must love one another in an effectual way where they actually express their love in doing good for one another and these good things they do must include spiritual offerings to help establish and perfect each other in Christ. You also, as living stones, are being built up a Spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up Spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1Pt2:5) By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (1Jn3:16) Without love you won’t do anything useful because without love you don’t really care about your brethren. (1Cor13:1-3) But if you abound in love towards one another you won’t stop praying and seeking God until He gives you something effectual to help each other (Lk11:5-8) because true love compels you to effectually benefit and bless your brethren. If the love is real it’s going to show in deeds of love. And if the church is to be established in Christ the brethren must have a real love in them that expresses itself in testimonies, revelations, spiritual blessings and good works, where every member has a heart that desires deeply to edify and perfect the others. So love is the key to being established. Now can you see how this completely demolishes the false doctrine, that you can be a “lone wolf christian.” You’re not going to grow up in Christ unless you’re a part of a church where the brethren abound in love towards one another, because the growth comes from the brethren ministering to one another in love. (Eph4:16) But, speaking the Truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who’s the Head – Christ. (Eph4:15) Also you can see how many false “churches” think they’re fulfilling the command to love one another just because when they come to church they hug each other and say they love each other, when in reality they’re doing nothing to build up or edify each other in Christ. By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in Truth. (1Jn3:16-18) Hugging someone and saying I love you isn’t the same as laying your life down, or doing something helpful. Hugs and kisses are a mere token of obedience and not the kind of love Jesus commands. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I’ve loved you, that you also love one another. (Jn13:34) If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you don’t give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? (Jms2:15,16) In the greek the word “hypocrite” means to “act” as an “actor” in a play, in other words to pretend. The false church is made up of pretenders who pretend to love while they never do anything really helpful for each other. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. (Jms5:8) What does it mean to establish your hearts? Draw near to God and He’ll draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. (Jms4:8) But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he’ll receive anything from the Lord; he’s a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (Jms1:6-8) A doubled-minded man doesn’t have a pure heart. His heart is divided. To purify your heart you must eliminate or crucify every interest that conflicts with God’s will. Don’t be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it’s good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which haven’t profited those who’ve been occupied with them. (Heb13:9) To be established by grace you must be calling upon the Lord in faith to establish you. (Heb4:16) To be established your hearts must be pure, full of faith, single in purpose (not divided as in double-minded) and confident in Christ’s sufficiency empowering you to serve the Lord. Your hearts should be filled with love that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height -- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Eph3:17-19) If Christ is really in you then His love for His bride will come out in your effectual workings and labors of love towards the church on His behalf... Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God. (2Cor1:21) The work of establishing the saints is a work only God can do and He does it by grace. (Heb13:19) Yes the true brethren must be doing this work for one another but it is God in us doing it. One way we do this is whenever we see something in us that isn’t like Jesus or something lacking that we must possess to be like Jesus, we pray for God’s grace to change us. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Heb4:16) Without God’s help we can’t change ourselves. “For without Me you can do nothing.” (Jn15:5) But with His help all things are possible. (Phil 4:13) If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. (Mk9:23) So if we truly desire to be made like Jesus and we pray in faith for God to conform us to Christ, He’ll work powerfully in us to answer our prayers. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. (Jms5:16) To be established by grace means we’re being transformed by the Spirit of grace (Heb10:29) into the image of Christ. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2Cor3:18) And we receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:14) For the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. (Eph4:12,13) I’m the vine, you’re the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (Jn15:5) For this to work God must be in charge which means every believer involved in the work of establishing the brethren must be led by the Spirit, working in obedience to God by the “hearing of faith.” (Gal 3:2,5) It’s most certainly God’s will to establish us so He’ll do it if we ask Him in faith and in a true love for the brethren. No-one can stop God’s will from coming to pass except on an individual basis. If you reject Him His will won’t come to pass for you but it will come to pass for the person who has faith and believes. Concerning the things God has prophesied He’ll do in the Scriptures, nothing can stop them; not satan nor a world of unbelievers. But when it comes to your personal participation in these things, that depends on your faith. (2Cor1:24) Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work. (2Th2:16,17) God has many ways He can establish glory in the land of the living. (Ezek26:20) Under the New Covenant the way He’s going to establish glory is by establishing His people. A people who do all to the glory of God. (1Cor10:31b) A people who are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Eph2:10) Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. (Tit2:14) God’s establishing a zealous people who’ll do such works as will glorify Him in the land of the living. Having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1Pt2:12) But the Lord is faithful, who’ll establish you and guard you from the evil one. (2Th3:3) If you want to be guarded from the evil you must let God establish you which includes establishing you in the good works which glorify God and edify the brethren. The false christians like the baptists etc. will not be guarded from the evil because they’re not letting God establish them. Concerning the true brethren remember Jesus said, “I don’t pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.” (Jn17:15) Jesus prayed for God to do this. The Father isn’t going to disappoint Jesus. As true believers we’ll be kept from the evil if we allow God to establish us. Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith -- to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. (Rom16:25-27) Again God is going to establish glory in the land of the living (Ezek26:20) by establishing a people who are obedient to the faith. There’s a process involved in His establishing us but if you’ll receive His process and allow Him to establish you He will. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you’ve suffered a while, (the process) perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. (1Pt5:10) The true believers have a sure promise of being established in Christ and in glory. The only thing that can stop this from coming to pass for you is your lack of faith to receive it. We have a sure promise of being established individually and we have a sure promise of being established corporately as a church. Also we know and have a sure promise that the “tide of God” is rising and will ultimately establish His Kingdom, His people, His church, as a glorious church in this world. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (Rom8:19,21) This all has to happen. It will come to pass. It can be rejected only on a personal basis when you reject the faith; if you won’t mix the Word with faith. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the Word which they heard didn’t profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. (Heb4:2) If you mix the Word with faith God will establish you, and that’s something to praise Him for. God shall establish glory in the land of the living. (Ezek26:20) Prophecy: I’m doing a mighty work in many places through the Glory of His Grace as you can see with your own eyes; the power of God is working mightily to bring forth real men and women of God who are demonstrating a true Spiritual Christianity. And I’m well able to raise up ministers to council these new believers, ministers of My righteousness that these new ones may be fully established in Me. I’m well able and have all power to raise up even the young men in “My Father’s House” to be mighty ministers of My Spirit to My children in the prisons and churches. These are My babes, My fruit; and I watch over My gardens carefully, saith the Lord. But I tell you if you’re to be the young man that I choose to send into My vineyards, I’m not going to reward you on your mother or your father’s faith. My working in you doesn’t come forth only through your parent’s and your brethren’s prayers. But I’m looking for you to have faith. I’m looking for you to come to Me and ask and seek and knock until I open the door for you! For I’m looking for the one who has a heart to serve Me; a heart that loves the brethren as much as I love them. And when you come to Me with such a heart, the heart of Christ, and lay your life down for these new babes that I’m now raising up then I say to you, you’ll have a position in My church. And until you come to Me with that heart you won’t see a door open for you. But I tell you to have faith because I’ve much work for you to do and I’ve not called anyone to sit and do nothing in My church. Get up and minister and be a blessing right here to the brethren in “My Father’s House” and I’ll raise you up to be a mighty blessing to My new ones in many other places, thus saith the Lord. Prophecy: I’ve said in My Word that the lesser is blessed of the better. You can’t be a blessing to others unless you’ve something to bring to them that’s better than what they have. I can’t send you to bless My people if you’re less than what they are; you’ll bring no blessing unless you can bring them something better than what they already have. So you must have a faith that allows Me to use you in ways to bring forth greater things in you than what’s in those to whom you minister that you may truly bless them because you can only bless when what you give is better than what they already have. And what you must have is more of Me, saith the Lord. In regards to that how can you establish others if you’re not established in Me yourself? What can you do that would establish them if you aren’t already yourself established? As the husbandman must be first partaker so you must be established in Me that you may establish others in Me, saith the Lord. (Prophecies delivered at “My Father’s House”)
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