Ron:
In the church age, you have apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors. When you're entering into the kingdom, those are being not discarded necessarily, maybe transformed would be a better word for it. Because as everyone is being brought up to the full measure of Christ, what are they becoming? You have people that are becoming kings and priests of God.
The Lord is bringing forth a complete submission in those who are to be kings and priests of the kingdom. This word of submission, it is the key for us moving forward. True submission comes by revelation. Because I don't think that you can submit truly to the Lord or even to the Lord in your brother and sister without a revelation of Christ.
If it's an attempt to submit because it's the right thing to do, or you're told to do it, or you read in the scriptures that you should do it. It's an attempt on a fleshly level, and it doesn't produce what the Lord's looking for. But it has to be by revelation. As the revelation comes of Christ in your brother, and you submit to the Christ in your brother, it's, I think it's more of an automatic. As you see Christ. It's an instantaneous response.
Dale:
See, submission is a thing of the heart, not the mind. In the military, we're taught submission of the mind, following orders. But submission is a thing of your heart. What comes out of your mouth, comes from your heart. We prepare our hearts for this new level of worship. It will mean the total submission, spirit, soul, and body to Him and His kingdom on this earth.
Ken:
We've learned submission through each joint that's supplied in the body of Christ. And we've come to a day of total submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Now, in that Lordship of Jesus Christ, we have come to the place where we can hear what God is speaking, and be those priests that stand before the Lord. But without that submission to the Lord, without that completion that we found through going through the work of the cross and through learning submission through the individual parts of the body. It is the process which brings you to the place where you can be those kings and priests before God
Ed:
God gives gifts, and when He gives a gift what do you do with it? You use it - and like the person with talents - you get five talents and you give Him back ten. And what does He do? He puts you in charge - He makes you a king over ten cities. It goes back to the gift, and how faithful you are to bring it forth, and to bring it to the body because that's your submission to Him. He's making you a king and a priest because of your submission.
Mike:
This thing of humility and submission, they're synonymous with one another. Without it, like Ken was sharing, we cannot achieve or fully participate, and contribute, and understand. Because it's like a monkey wrench in the gear - keeps the whole thing from flowing when somebody's off doing their own thing or they're not being submissive or however you want to describe it. It's a, like a disease would be in our midst. It really is key.
Ron:
The more that the Lord's presence is being manifested in our midst, the more obvious these principles are . And it's something that you can't escape, and you can't hide from it, and you can't fake it for sure. As it becomes as that obvious, people are convicted, and they repent, and they turn and things are start happening in their spirits that should have been happening or should happen.
But the more we have of God in the earth, the more these imperfections in His family are exposed and dealt with . Not harshly - They're cleaned up because we're coming to the place without spot or wrinkle.
Dale:
One of the keys to submission is humility, and that's a very important key. Another key to our worship, true worship, comes out of the humble heart.
It seems that a key to divine order is those who walk in divine order, walk humbly. before the Lord. That's a work of Yahshua Messiah. It's the work of the Father. What His workmanship is all about. But we have a heritage. Our Lord and King are providing us with a humble legacy and ancestry to carry on.
Ken:
I don't know that we understand humility is one thing, but the love of God connected with humility is everything.
The Apostolic Ministries in Ephesians chapter 4, they created in them a level of love, and humility that enabled them to be the kings and priests.
Dale:
See, that's the divine order of things. One ingredient turns loose the next. You can't walk in one thing without the other. Many times God will teach us like humility , and from that we learn love - from that we learn submission. Try to submit to somebody you don't love it flies like a led zeppelin Oh, that was a rock and roll group . That's the key each one in a divine order makes it happen.
Lord, forgive us our reacting to everything too much on a human plane. Forgive us, oh God, where the relationships that we have in the Body have not yet been completely subjected to Your will. Let brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, parents and children, husbands and wives, all of them together, Lord, submit to You . What rises up to rebel, let it be smitten by the sword of the Spirit.
