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Summary:

In this day, Christ’s body makes increase of itself in love by speaking the Word of God to one another. This washing of the water by the Word is the purifying work of the Holy Spirit. Christ’s footsteps are for us to follow. The Father’s intention is to have a family of sons. He is finishing what He started at the beginning.

Show Notes:

• Today Christ family is speaking His Word one to another.

• The Holy Spirit is leading us to be a participating family.

• The word of God out of our mouth is what cleanses and creates us.

• The family grows by speaking and hearing His Word from one another.

• The relationships in His family are created by His Word.

• These relationships are what brings forth His presence in Is family.

• As we grow in these relationships, God pours out His fire which burns up that which needs to go.

• We begin to live the life of Christ as Christ is created within us by His Word.

• How do I become? I enter into His presence, I thank Him, I rejoice with Him and all that He is doing in the earth.

 

Quotes:

• The Body of Christ makes increase of itself in love because we wash one another by the water of the Word.
• ...we're finding that as, as the Holy Spirit's leading us to be a participating family, we grow not just by hearing, but we grow by giving.
• In New Testament Church they were meeting daily, they were talking about what Christ was doing to them on a daily basis. And that is one of the things that actually builds faith.
• And as we minister to one another, as we speak the word to one another as we, as we worship together, as our hearts are together as one, the Lord ministers through us to each other, and uses that to bring us into a place of maturity.
• We've heard forever that the kingdom of God is relationships. Not any relationship, relationships that God has created by a Word…
• ...there is no way we are going to grow without the fire.
• ...when we're filled with the Holy Spirit, it comes with fire. We all know the principles, the chaff is burned. What's left is the pure wheat.
• Those who follow in a walk in the Spirit have a mark on them. You can see how God has purified them like gold and sliver they have been purified by fire.
• I think that there is a life of Christ that we live, but it only comes out of what He's created within us.

 

References:

John 15:3

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Ephsians 4:16

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

Matthew 9:37-38

(Sheep begat the sheep)

Acts 5:42

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.

Matthew 25: 42-46

I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me a drink. I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and you didn’t give me clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

44“Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’ 45“And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’ 46“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.” Matthew 3:11-12 (The Fire of God)  

Take Away:

In this day the Lord is bringing forth His family by the Holy Spirit and fire. As the family speaks the Word of God to one another, they grow and mature into what He is looking for.

Mike

The Body of Christ makes increase of itself in love because we wash one another by the water of the Word. In the washing, we're cleansing one another. Jesus said, You are clean because I've spoke to you the Word, the word is what cleansed us. The Word is what brought revelation to us. The Word is everything, because the Word is God, and the Word is in us. And we're going through this process of becoming more like our Father, all along in this process. When we start ministering to one another, the shepherd is leading us to the greener pastures of the Word. And as we get into the Word, feed on the Word, become the Word, we then can bring forth the confirmation, bring forth the life, because it's the sheep that beget more sheep, not the pastor. He's there to guide us into the greener pastures. This is the beauty of the kingdom message. We're all one in this, we recognize the beauty of the gifts of each one, the pastor has certain gifts and things, certain responsibilities, we as the sheep have certain gifts and things and responsibilities. That's how the first century church operated. They were the first colony of the kingdom of God being expressed in the now in the day they were living in. And we are a colony of the kingdom today, doing the same thing, experiencing the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, all of this together as one.

Ron

As the family begins to minister, one to another, the Word ,it's called, the washing of the water by the Word. We know that without holiness, no man will see the Lord. So the how do we get to that point of purity, and cleansing, if it's not by the Word that we speak one to another. We're cleaning one another off, if you want to say that we are imparting to one another. The family actually builds one another up, they literally create, and they also dust off, if you want to call it that, clean off one another. And so that we can enter into this new level of His presence. And we're finding that as, as the Holy Spirit's leading us to be a participating family, we grow not just by hearing, but we grow by giving. And so as Word flows through us, yes, it ministers and blesses others, but it does the same to us. Without that atmosphere of the family, ministering the Word one to another, I don't see how you enter into these levels that the Lord wants us to, to grow into to mature into.

Edward

The one thing with the New Testament Church was they were meeting daily, they were talking about what Christ was doing to them on a daily basis. And that is one of the things that actually builds faith. As you as you're talking with people about the Lord, and you're seeing what the Lord's doing in their life, and they're seeing what the Lord's doing in your life, that's actually building your faith. That's building you up to the point where you start walking in things that you hadn't walked in before. You start worshiping on a higher level, you keeping the mind of Christ in your mind, at all times. And that's because of the exposure that you get.

Deborah

As we come into each other's presence. And as we minister to one another, as we speak the Word to one another as we, as we worship together, as our hearts are together as one, the Lord ministers through us to each other, and uses that to bring us into a place of maturity. We're coming into a place of maturity, but it didn't come by just happenstance. It came because of the presence of the Lord. Getting yourself into the presence of the Lord, staying in the presence of the Lord, crying out to know Him, crying out to have more delighting in being together. That is what creates us. That's what's creating us, enabling us to minister to others, and we minister to them, we ministered to them in love.

Ron

We've heard forever that the kingdom of God is relationships. Not any relationship, relationships that God has created by a Word, and continues to create by a Word. And those relationships have went through the fire together. They have went through the fire, and you had a choice. Every day you have a choice, you still have a choice. So you can leave those relationships, you could withdraw from those relationships. But when you commit yourself to those relationships, He begins to weld you together in love, His love. He begins to purify you. It's not always fun in those relationships, because those relationships are the sandpaper ministry. It purifies you, it cleanses you, it works on you, it rubs, areas that are sore, all that type of stuff. And we've all experienced that. We're also coming out, coming out the other end of that, you know, but you feel His presence, but it's through the relationships. It is exclusive. It's very exclusive, because it's something He's created. But it's not, it's not exclusive, as if someone couldn't enter into it. They could they have to have the willingness, the dedication, the drive, and the Lord has to woo them into it.

Dale

You're laying the groundwork for how we grow. There is no way we are going to grow without the fire. Because that's what Christ said, you know, we're filled with the Holy Spirit. And when we're filled with the Holy Spirit, it comes with fire. We all know the principles, the chaff is burned, what's left is the pure wheat. And that's what God works with. And we all enter into this at one time or another. And I would say, as we grow, as we ascend to His throne, there's a thing that fuels that ascension, and it's that's the fire that we go through. And it burns away. And it also teaches us there's a lot that happens through the fire. Oh, I'm gonna believe in the Lord. I don't know about this fire thing. So I'm just gonna believe in Him. Well, that will be an elementary experience. And that's probably all you get to you submit yourself to Him, and you give yourself to Him. That's what brings that fire that cleanses and changes and burns away, and the fire does a great deal. We're talking about a baptism. That's an immersion in this ministry, that God is giving you to walk through, because it's a requirement by Him. I don't find anything in the scriptures that say we can avoid it. It's an exciting thing to behold especially if you open your heart to the immersion in it, because then it becomes thorough and complete. And that's what we've been talking to about. How do we enter into fulfillment? How do we enter into being made complete? We don't go want to go around the mountain all our life, we don't want to be eating manna all our life, we want to set down to that banquet, that He's prepared for us. But we will arrive. Because it's a process, in the sense, those who follow in a walk in the Spirit, have a mark on them. And you can see how God has purified them, like gold and silver, they've been purified by that fire.

Edward

It also comes down to the fact of living the life of Christ. Talks about those, you know, that prophesied in His name and did all these things in His name, but He didn't know them. Why? Because they didn't minister to the Body. They didn't minister even to strangers. They didn't visit them, they didn't feed them, they didn't do all sorts of things. But those that did those things, He called sons.

Ron

I think that there is a life of Christ that we live, but it only comes out of what He's created within us. You can't fake it. Oh, I'm going to do what Jesus does. That doesn't work. It has to be that you commit and submit your heart to Him. And He's is the potter and you're the clay, and He puts you through the fire. And out of that comes what you're talking about this life of Christ that flows out from you. Not that you're necessarily doing it out of Some Christian motivation, I'll say are some good motivation. But it's because it's in your heart, God's work, something has created Christ within you and that Christ begins to minister to Christ. And it doesn't matter. You're right. It doesn't matter whether it's a Christian or just any joe blow on the street, we find that those who are open to the Father, the Christ within us, draws them. And we end up ministering to them. So I agree with you, Ed. And I think that there's a life that you enter into. But again, you have to can't get the cart before the horse because if you do, it becomes religion. I'm going to go out and save the world. I'm going to go, I'm going to, you know, go evangelize, all this kind of stuff. You're getting the cart before the horse you have to become first before you do.

Dale

How do I become, I enter into His presence, and I thank Him, and I rejoice with Him and all that He's doing in the earth, and you keep coming. You keep standing in His presence pouring yourself out before Him in rejoicing over what He's doing. You're not mouthing, what he wants to hear you becoming what He wants you to be.