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Would you like to look into another dimension with me? -- into mysteries of a spiritual realm? Jesus said (Luke 8:10), "Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God".
The first (and perhaps the greatest) mystery we find is Christ, Himself; because He is not of this world, but of the spiritual kingdom of God. The John 1:1-5 and 1:14 passages reveal that Christ is "The Word of God". This mystery is confirmed in Revelation 1:10-20 and 19:11-16. These Bible passages reveal Christ to be the eternal living Word of God who was made flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth. He (the Christ, The Word of God) fills the entire Holy Bible and reveals the Father to us. He is the Door into the realm of the kingdom of God and its amazing mysteries. These mysteries are not comprehensible in the mortal mind (See 1Corinthians 2:9-14). Rather, they are revealed to us in the mind of Christ by the Holy Spirit, whom the Father has sent in the name of Jesus to teach us all things (See John 14:26). Yea, the deep things of God.
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. If so be it that you have been born again into the spiritual body of Christ; then, have you not become one with Christ? -- a part of The Word of God? Are you not then a member in particular of The Word of God? (See 1Corinthians 12:11-14 and 27) -- a part of the Divine Vocabulary, so to speak? If these thoughts and questions seem far-fetched to you; do this. Go to the first book of the Holy Bible and read this in Genesis 1:27, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Then go to the last book of the Holy Bible and read in Revelation 4:1-11 what the image of Him that is seated in the throne of God appears to be. Do you see an image of a human-like physical form, such as the vain mortal mind might lead one to expect? Abstract thoughts and questions about God's spiritual nature of things may seem like foolishness to the world. But Jesus Christ told us that He is not of this world. And He also told us that those whom He has baptized with the Holy Ghost, into the spiritual body of Christ, also are not of this unstable, temporary world (See John 15:19 and 17:14-15). If you have been born again you are of the everlasting spiritual kingdom of God, which is not of this world. So look deep within for the spiritual essence of what you are, and ask, "Am I a word that was made flesh?". Have I now been translated into the divine language of Jesus Christ? Words can be translated. Have you been translated? Enoch, the seventh from Adam, vanished. He never died, but was translated (See Genesis 5:23-24 and Hebrews 11:5), because he had the testimony that he pleased God. Well, just what does "translated" mean? The several dictionary definitions all give the same nature of meaning: "to change from one to another". In addition to translation from one language to another, these meanings are also given: to remove to heaven without death, to transport, and to enrapture. In the New Testament, the word, "translated" is, in itself, a translation of the Greek transliterated word, "metatithemi", which has the basic meanings of transpose, change, and transfer. It is interpreted as "translated" in Colossians 1:13 to mean born again, and it is also interpreted as "translated" in Hebrews 11:5 to mean enraptured. If by now you consider it possible that spiritually you are a word, does it make you just a little bit curious about what you will find your true essence to be after you die, or after you become lifted up in the rapture (See 1Thessalonians 4:13-18) upon the return of Jesus Christ? Have you been asking yourself questions such as these?
Am I a word?
1John 3:2 ~~ 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. |