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A CALLING UNTO PRIESTHOOD 

I had a vision middle last year that Father only now have revealed to me the meaning of.  It was very simple, but very powerful.  I saw Jesus in His high priestly clothes standing on a green hill.  His hair was white as snow as well as His beard.  He was just standing there majestically and full of authority.  He was waiting.  And the message is..."I am calling you unto priesthood".  

In my previous devotional, Rented Heart, I wrote about the heart of God that was rented for us to enter in.  The cross is what it took to rent that veil and nothing less will be required of us should we desire to enter in by faith.  Our own hearts are to be rented in sanctification.  This devotional will go a bit deeper.  You will note that the requirement is ultimate, for our God is an ultimate God.  He has made a way for us to enter by faith.  We are His workmanship and not only does our heart have to be rented in repentance, but the requirement is HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.  Not a moment in time, but a way of living.  This is ultimate and only possible by His grace. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen. (Romans 11: 36)

Hebrews 12:14

¹⁴ Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

We are a royal priesthood and a chosen generation (1Peter 2: 9).  The Bible is a Hebraic book and unless we understand the essence of what it is to be Hebraic, we will fall short of the weightiness of what it is to be priestly.  To have an understanding and to know the heart and fibre of something you have to go to its inception.  Our western understanding is limited to priests of the Roman Catholic Church or Anglican Church.  We look upon the ceremonial sacrifices as archaic and irrelevant.  Yet these things are for us as a type and shadow.  We now fall under a different priesthood.  No longer under the Aaronic Priesthood, but the Order of Melchizedek.  This in itself requires of us to have a closer look at who Melchizedek was and what does it mean for us as a royal priesthood called under this order.  We cannot just wear the name priest around our neck as something that was given, without being it.  We have to BE something before we can proclaim it.  And unfortunately, there have been a lot of proclaiming of us being priests unto the Lord without the reality.

In Revelations 1: 5 – 6 we read:

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

⁶ And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

The meaning of the word Melchizedek is "my King is Righteousness" .  Melchi is King and Zedek is righteousness. We need to consider that the Word, being inspired by the Spirit of God, do not pair words for no reason.  There can be no Kingship without righteousness in the Kingdom of God, which is to say Kingly Priests.  And this is exactly what He is making us to be.  I had a dream last week wherein I was told by one person that I will rule a certain city and later in the same dream I was told of another city that I will rule over.  Sons and Daughters of a King can rule, those who are made priests after the Order of Melchizedek.  To be a son of God is kingly and priestly.

Luke 22: 29 - 30

29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

When Moses saw the Israelites whoring after the idol of Baal, he asked the whole of Israel, “who is on the Lord's side?”  Only one tribe out of all twelve stood up to stand with him, the Levites. What was his instruction from the Lord?  They had to each one strap their sword to his side and go in and out of the camp and slay every man his friend, brother, mother, father and neighbor.  It was on that day that He consecrated the Levites as priests.  The word consecrate means “blood on your hands” (Exodus 32: 26 - 29). The requirement for this consecration of the Levitical Priesthood was indeed ultimate and in all honesty who of us are able to stand before the Lord today and if required to do this would literally slay our family or neighbors?  The reason I am asking this is to bring home the Hebraic heritage and sense of just how ultimate our God is.  The God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New Testament and that very same God came in the form as a man to be our High Priest.

Hebrews 3: 1

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Priestliness is vitally connected to the Apostolic, and also the Prophetic.  If we lose sight of the one, we stand to defile the other or even forfeit it.  The main purpose of the Apostle and Prophet as priests, is to present God to the people as He truly is and not as what they would like Him to be.  To set the standard, the plumb line before the people, which is holiness unto the Lord.  

We read the following about Melchizedek…

Hebrews 7: 3

 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

We can easily say that we are no longer required to slay our loved ones and neighbors, but there is something to this “without mother, without descent” that we should take note of.  Why was it necessary to include this in the holy writ?  Does it make a difference whether He had a mother or a descent?  No one knows from where this Melchizedek High Priest came from, but what we do know is that Jesus is now our High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, which is an eternal Priesthood to which we are called to.  There is more to this as we can see this ruthlessness in Jesus addressing His mother at the wedding of Canaan, saying, “Woman what have I to do with you?” (John 2: 4).  I don’t know about you, but my mother would not take kindly to me addressing her like that.  We also hear Him saying to His disciples when they told Him His parents were looking for Him, “Who is my mother and my brother and sister?”  And when at age 12 found in the temple after being asked where He was, He said, “I am about My Father’s business”.  If my 16 year old daughter had to say that to me, I might have some choice words to say to her, never mind a 12 year old.  And yet, we see Him not shunning His responsibility as a son, even on the cross, as He tells John that he is now to look after Mary as his own mother.  He also tells the one disciple who wanted to bury his father, “Let the dead bury the dead...follow Me”.  Taking all of these examples into account we can see that there was a certain disposition that He had that was true to the Order of the Melchizedek priesthood.

This priesthood, even the Levitical priesthood, requires a savage neglect of legitimate concerns for our own flesh.  If you cannot be ruthless to yourself, you cannot be a priest.  A Melchizedek Priesthood is without father and mother, which is to say without the soulties that bind us of a fleshly kind that would keep us rooted in sentimentality and to be nice, when at times we are required to take up our sword.  After all, God is love and you are supposed to be a Christian.  And Christians make nice.  We just cannot allow our “niceness”, our sentiment to deny our place of utter obedience unto the Lord.  There is no such things as being subject to a mood when you are a priest.  Priesthood is not only beyond father and mother and neighbor, but also beyond culture, patriotism, creed or institute.  The only way for this to be is because the sword has been against the priest’s own flesh in every category of his life.  This is why we read that blood was placed on their ear, right thumb and right toe, which is saying every area is to be consecrated.  

The priests were told in Leviticus 7 to wait for 7 days at the tent of meeting after many sacfirices  before they were allowed in.  This number 7 is the number of completion.  It is not saying we are to wait for 7 days, rather we are to wait until completion.  He is the one making us into priests according to Revelation 1: 6 and we are His workmanship.  It is He who slays us with the Sword of the Spirit and butchers us to death on the altar.  Even piercing into the bone and marrow, dividing our souls and spirit and discerning the motives of our hearts (James 4).  It is a bloody affair and not a surgical and clinical procedure.  One could not differentiate between the priest and the sacrifice as they were slaughtering the different animals on the altars.  Even so our High Priest was slaughtered on the altar of the cross and we are told to take up our own.  Not a neat little beam with no splinters. Our identification with our High Priest is also in the death we die.  In the sharing of His suffering.  The cross was the slaughtering of the spotless lamb, which was the High Priest sacrificing Himself in order to make atonement with His own blood on the mercy seat.  Jesus could not enter the Holy of Holies in the heavenlies as our High Priest without the atoning blood.  We too as a royal priesthood are to wait at the tent of meeting until the work He has started in us is complete.  Covered as the priests of old in blood, where we truly are living sacrifices.  Our ears, thumb and toe concecrated. And waiting is worship.  To the degree that we have entered into His death is the degree that we find ourselves in our High Priest.  Being priests is something that He makes us into so that we not just  verbalize it, but that we can be it.  Romans 12 says that we are to give our bodies as living sacrifices. Meaning no longer bulls, sheep or any other animals to be the sacrifices, but ourselves.  We are to lay our lives on the altar concerning every category of our lives.  If we do not give all, can we really say we have given our lives?  The requirement is ultimate. 

At first glance we can in our own understanding easily say what is holy and what is profane.  But we are called to more than that as priests.  There are many people to be found in the world that would put some Christians to shame with regard to how “good” they are.  Real discernment is to discern between good and perfect.  A priest is acutely honed into what purports to be nice, right or moral, knowing that even that is a threat to that which is holy and perfect.  It is all about the glory of God and without sacrifice there can be no glory.  Even so we know that the Apostles waited for 10 days in the upper room before the glory came down.  And who can say what kind of ultimate sacrifices in the spirit happened at that time.  They were not told that they would have to wait for 10 days, but to wait until.  It just so happens that the meaning of the number 10 is also completeness.

The Levites who at the beginning stood up and sided with the Lord, also eventually profaned the priesthood by defiling themselves in compromising with the gentiles. (Ezek. 44)  They were told that from now on they could no longer serve the Lord, but are to be serving the people in the outer court.  A necessary function, but a very costly price to pay.  How much more are we to jealously guard the holiness of God in our lives as royal priests, lest we too stand to lose it?  Not holiness as we see it, but as He sees it. The purpose of the priests is to teach the people the difference between the holy and profane.  Through their lives and service unto the Lord His sanctity and holiness is expressed, preserved and maintained on the earth. This will be the standard that will be upheld in the coming Kingdom of God on this earth.

We have to maintain our distinction.  And what is this distinction of a priest apart from holiness?  Amongst many things it is a sense of dignity and poise one carry yourself with.  You are set apart and not one of the boys or girls.  You do not get to say what you want to, or even do what you want to when you want to.  All of your life is an act of worship.  Whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do it for the glory of God (1 Cor. 10: 31).  It is a service unto the Lord, because the priests belongs to the Lord and no longer to themselves.  They did not get to do what the rest of the tribes did, neither did they receive any inheritance.  The Lord is their inheritance and their portion.  The moment any service is done unto man or to serve self, is the moment that defilement comes.  All is worship.  There is no secular and religious with a priest.   We have to have a priestly mindset that speaks of dignity where we ask ourselves whether what we are doing, no matter what, is indeed priestly.  Does it defile?  Very often that which we search out in the name of truth comes with a heavy price where it causes defilement.  Holiness is to be at the forefront of all our considerations.  We have to be able to BE holy without saying a word, for in our being we are communicating the sense of God as He truly is. 

The priests of Zadock were the only ones who did not turn away from the Lord when the Levites turned their backs.  They were given the privilege to minister unto the Lord.  This Zadock is also the “zedek” that forms part of the name Melchizedek. 

Zadok (or Zadok HaKohen, also spelled Sadok, Sadoc, Zadoq or Tzadok; Hebrew: צָדוֹק הַכֹּהֵן‎, meaning "Righteous, Justified") was a Kohen (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant from Eleazar the son of Aaron (1 Chron 6:4–8).

We maintain our Melchizedek priesthood to the degree that we are in Him and to the degree that we are without father, mother, neighbor or ancestry.  That is to say from above and not below, our identification with Him verses our identification with family and neighbors and that which is earthly.  Priests are above, heavenly…they have their citizenship in heaven.  There is no Jew, Gentile, American, South African or Indian.  They are all together other!

Not to enter is an affront to the great privilege bestowed to you in the rending of the veil of His flesh that has kept you out previously.  He is saying, “I have made a living way for you to come, not only to come, but to abide forever, for this priesthood is eternal."  It comes from out of the indestructible life of God.  We are to approach the mercy seat with faith and boldness, but we can only do this with a clear conscience. 

Many of us have been prepared like the Levites having no longer father, mother, neighbor or ancestry.  No longer holding on to the credo of this world, but have become all together other, even unto our own brethren.  However, you have not yet entered into priesthood.  What I mean by that is that you do not see yourself yet as a royal priest and therefore do not commit to the standard required. And because you do not truly see yourself as a priest, you do not live up to the name and therefore do not abide.  You still cut the corners here and there and are still playing it safe.  You are still going in and out of the Holy of Holies and not having your being from out of that transcendent place.  You are existing beneath that which He has formed in you thus far and not even knowing it.

We are called a royal priesthood, but in order for us to BE this royal priesthood we have to lay down our lives so that we may enter in and abide. And the only way to truly communicate who He is as He is, is in the Holy of Holies.  When you come out from that transcendent place with Him, you carry within your fibre and being the aroma and indestructable life, which is to know Him. 

As David says in Psalm 27:4

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after.  That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.  To behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in His temple.

Let us earnestly seek to enter into the veil, where we may meet with Him at the mercy seat.  Let us enter by faith.  Unto us who are but dust He has made a way through His Son that we as Sons and Daughters of the Most High may walk in obedience as His Son did and lay our lives down. Waiting as long as it takes for Him to complete the work in us to be that royal priesthood after the order of Melchizedek.  Let us not think that we will never be able to enter and in that find ourselves in unbelief because we are looking to ourselves.  We are to look at the author and finisher of our faith who endured the cross for the joy set before Him (Hebrews 12).

Scripture ref:

Leviticus 7 and 8

Hebrews 3

Hebrews 12

PEARLS OF WISDOM

 

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PEARLS OF WISDOM

I had a beautiful vision the other day during my quiet time.  I was sittng with my feet in a river next to Jesus.  My head resting on His shoulder.  It was just nice to be with Him.  I could feel the warmth of the sun on us, and the coolness of the river.  Just in a place of rest.  I needed this because I was feeling heavy in my spirit.  

I started speaking to Him saying "Lord, it is very difficult to do what you ask of me. To give Your messages and then for most people to just ignore it.  It breaks my heart."

The next moment He gave me this beautiful red apple.  "Am I seeing correctly here?  Why are You giving me an apple?"

"Taste and see", He said.  

I bit into the apple and I could taste the sweetness of it.  But the next moment as I swallowed it, it became rotten.  This made me think of the mannah the Israelites received each day and how it grew rotten towards the end of the day.

"Groce!" 

"Such is My word, bitter and sweet. Both for the hearer and the giver of the word. Like precious pearls trampled underfoot by swine."  

This made me so sad, because what He reveals to me is just so precious to me.  I often do not want to share it for this very reason.  Sometimes I write in agony as the Spirit comes over me and I feel His heart in me.  I often write in tears.  

"Do you remember the pearls I gave you?", He asked.  (These pearls are the wisdom He gave me in a 40 day fast I did in 2020)

"Yes Lord."

"Have you done what I have told you?"

"No Lord, I love those pearls, but I have not kept them all". 

The next moment I saw a string of pearls around my neck.  I immediatly knew that these were the pearls He gave me during that fast. They were all different color pearls, with a slight different shade to it.  Suddenly I was dressed in a wedding dress and when I looked down I saw that the bodice had gold woven into the beautiful lace and the pearls that were around my neck, were now woven into this as well.  So beautiful!

He said, "I beautify My Bride with pearls of wisdom".  And then, He gave me a peck on my cheek and said...

"Don't loose My pearls".

The next morning I opened up YouTube and the first thing I saw was a picture of the Bride in a shell, like an oyster surrounded with pearls.  I asked Father if this was His way of saying I must share this vision and the pearls of wisdom He gave me.

"What good is wisdom if you only keep it for yourself?"...

With that I am going to type some of the pearls of wisdom He gave me for those who have ears to hear.  To maybe place it in a place where you can be reminded of them as you journey further.  One would think in the light of the present climate of this world that this could not possibly be important now.  And yet, my wedding gown was embroided with these pearls.  I want them to move from my neck to my bodice, there where my heart is.  I want to beautify myself, and make myself ready for my Bridegroom with the pearls He has given me.  Maybe you have collected some pearls through the years that you have perhaps placed in your "jewelry box" and have forgotten about.  It is easy to do that in the grand scheme of things. Espeicially if you are in ministry.  We forget the "small" in the light of the "big".  Maybe it is time to take them out again and search your heart...

Just some scripture to consider:

Proverbs 3: 3

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:  

Verse 13 - 15

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.  

Psalm 45: 10 - 17

10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

Pearls of Wisdom 

(Some are sayings and others instructions)

I AM ONLY YOUR EVERYTHING WHEN I AM ALL YOU HAVE

LOVE YOUR FRIENDS, BUT DO NOT PLACE THEM IN YOUR HEART...I WANT YOUR WHOLE HEART.

DO NOT ALLOW OTHERS TO PLACE YOU IN THEIR HEART.

YOU MUST BE ABLE TO WALK AWAY ANY MOMENT I ASK OF YOU.

HUMILITY IS YOUR BEST FRIEND...KEEP HER CLOSE AT ALL TIMES.

DO ALL THINGS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

THE ONLY SACRIFICE THAT MATTERS IS THE ONE I MADE.

FEAR GOD

BE WILLING TO BE MY NOBODY, EVEN FOREVER.  

BE THE WORLD'S NOBODY

JUST LIKE I SAVED YOU WITHOUT YOUR HELP, SO I WILL RAISE YOU WITHOUT YOUR HELP

DO NOT TRUST YOURSELF - YOUR HEART IS DECEITFUL

WHERE YOUR FOCUS IS, IS ESSENTIAL - ONLY JESUS

LONELINESS IS A GIFT, NOT A PUNISHMENT

I AM YOUR SOURCE - COME TO ME FIRST, WAIT

SERVE ME, NOT MAN OR YOURSELF

ABHOR THE APPROVAL AND PRAISE OF MAN - YOU ARE NOTHING.

JUST AS HUMILITY IS VITAL FOR HOLINESS, SO APPROVAL FROM MAN IS VITAL FOR PRIDE.

SEEK MY PRESENCE RIGHT THROUGH THE DAY

KISS THE HAND THAT SMITES YOU...RELISH EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO DIE TO SELF

BOTH IN ABUNDANCE AND IN WANT THE SOUL IS NEVER SATISFIED.

DO NOT WORSHIP THE WORKS OF MAN'S HANDS.

DO NOTHING IN A HURRY - SLOW DOWN

DO NOT TRUST MAN'S DREAMS AND VISIONS, ALL IS CORRUPTED BY WHAT THEY HAVE NOT YET DEALT WITH.

HOLD EVERYTHING LOOSELY IN YOUR HANDS

COMPARE YOURSELF WITH ME, NOT WITH MAN.

BEHOLD ME WHEN YOU LOOK AT OTHERS - I AM THE STANDARD

THINK LITTLE OF YOURSELF

AS YOU ARE ON THE INSIDE, YOU JUDGE...DO NOT JUDGE

A SAINT MUST WALK ALONE

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOOD - GOD

YOU ARE NOT INFALLIBLE, NEITHER ARE THEY - ACCEPT IT AND FORGIVE

DO NOT BOAST IN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU - BOAST IN ME

THE HEART OF THE LAW IS LOVE

I CAN ONLY BE STRONG FOR YOU WHEN YOU ARE WEAK

THE INFILLING OF THE VESSEL IS FOR OTHERS, BUT THE VESSEL IS MINE

I AM REALITY

DON'T PUT ME IN A BOX, I WON'T FIT

BE SILENT, SPEAK ONLY WHAT IS NECESSARY

DON'T CELEBRATE OBEDIENCE, IT IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE

DON'T PRIDE YOURSELF IN YOUR HUMILITY

DO ONE THING AT A TIME

SIMPLICITY IS A GIFT

SOLITUDE IS A GIFT

SILENCE IS A GIFT

TAKE ALL YOUR THOUGHTS CAPTIVE

YOU DO NOT HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT

WORSHIP ME IN TRUTH, BUT DO IT IN SPIRIT...I AM SPIRIT

YOU CANNOT WALK AFTER THE WORLD WITHOUT REJECTING ME FIRST

MAKE ME YOUR FIRST AND LAST PRIORITY

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SIGNIFICANT...ONLY I

YOUR OPINION DOES NOT MATTER...LISTEN RATHER

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SPEAK

I STILL LOVE YOU

I AM NEVER LATE AND NEVER IN A HURRY

FEAR CLUTTERS THE HEART.

POSSESS NOTHING IN YOUR HEART, BUT ME

EAT LESS, AND SLOWLY

IF YOU WANT ME TO SPEAK TO YOU, SILENCE THE VOICES AROUND YOU.  IF YOU WANT ME TO SPEAK THROUGH YOU, SILENCE YOUR VOICE.

DON'T SHARE EVERYTHING I TELL YOU

SOMETIMES YOUR OBEDIENCE TOWARDS ME WILL HURT THOSE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND

YOUR SPIRITUAL PRIDE STINKS!

A SINGLE EYE LOOKS ONLY TO ME, AN EVIL EYE IS DIVIDED

FAITH IS SIMPLE, NOT COMPLICATED

IN THE MIDST OF A CROWD, YOU CAN BE ALONE WITH ME

A RENTED HEART

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 A  RENTED HEART

Somehow we have come to believe that the veil torn to allow us entry into the Most Holy place is only that of which constitute the temple.  Studying the details of the temple reveals to us astonishing revelations all that pertains to our blessed Messiah. We see Him in the washing of the water, the menorah, shew bread and so much more.  All three sections of the outer court, the inner court and Most Holy were veiled.

The purpose of this rented veil of Christ, His flesh, is that we may commune with God there at the mercy seat.  There He will speak to us.  A timeless and eternal provision.  The instructions Moses received were to make an exact replica of that which is in heaven.  However, no longer are we required to enter into that which is earthly, but that which is heavenly.  He has made a way.

We can only enter by faith.  The truth is that it took the death of the cross to rent that veil so that we may enter.  And yet, some of us find ourselves still in the outer court or inner court.  Have you given it any thought that we are found in the heavenly tabernacle of God when we enter the tent of meeting?  There where we go to find mercy and grace to help in the time of need.  Even though we are stuck in our stuffy rooms surrounded with crying kids and demands that require our attention, we have actually entered into that realm that transcends time.  No wonder it takes faith.  If you are prone to see things only from a now perspective, that which is earthly and bound to time, you will miss that which is spiritual, transcends time and  eternal.   Our bodies, our very entrapments in our sin, holds us still on earth, but the spirit meets with God there in the eternal.  Did He not say that the Kingdom of God is within us?

Instead of us literally coming to Him, He has made a way for heaven to come down to us, even in us.  Oh the mysteries of God!!  The tabernacle being triune is in fact the image of man, being body, soul and spirit.  The body representing the veil of the flesh still having to be torn in some of our lives.  All that which still lusts and beastly.  The soul which comprises of the intellect, the understanding and human wisdom and knowledge, seems to be an even thicker more tenacious veil, still set in place like an iron curtain.  And then our spirit which is our heart - the very essence of who we are.  Not only our personality, but even that who we were before the foundation of the earth.  As He said to Jeremiah, “Before you were born, I knew you.”

 The truth of the matter is that He meets us where we are at.  If we are still to be found outside of the outer court, He pursues us by His Spirit to repent and come into the “fold”.  The moment we do we find ourselves having to wash ourselves first before entering the inner court, it is there that He as the prodigal Father embrace us and kiss us fervently, along the way.  Once we have entered the inner court, He communes with us on a daily basis to confront and convict us of our wayward thoughts and unrenewed mind.  He enters into our state wherever that may be.  He enters into our hearts, our very being by His Spirit, there in the Most Holy place of our lives.   All of these divine encounters is God with us.  It is a mercy and a grace.  He has entered in, but have we?

What would the tabernacle represent in light of us being a triune being and being the earthly pattern of that which is heavenly?  Made in His likeness.  Which is to say triune.  For just as there is protocol to enter into an earthly King’s courts, so it is in heaven.  We see this preparation in the type and shadow of the priests who served in the outer and inner courts. Even more so in the type and shadow of the High Priests, the type and shadow of our High Priest, Jesus Christ.  Sin was still present in those who served in the outer and inner court.  How do we know this?  Because a mercy was shown to them that was not shown to the High Priests who entered with fear and trembling into the Most Holy Place.  We are not told how many of the High Priests throughout history were struck dead, only to be pulled out by the rope they were bound to.  But what we do know is that no flesh could come into His presence and live.  Why?  Was His presence then not in all the different sections of the tabernacle?  The truth is that His presence was, but not His glory.

David refers to His soul as his glory.  That is to say not that which constitute his intellect and reasoning, but his essence, his being.

Psalms 108:1

“(A Song or Psalm of David.) O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.”

 

This glory is H3519 in the Strong's Concordance which is the word Kabod.  The meaning is weight. When we speak of God’s presence, we speak of the weightiness of His presence.  That glory that fills the temple with its weight so that the very air becomes thick.  David is saying he will praise Him with his kabod.  His heaviness, which is to say his whole being.

Something transpired in heaven before it was manifested on earth, on the cross. The Son had to leave the heavenly and enter into our earthly.  He had to enter into our weakness, our temptations, pain and sorrow.  He had to enter into the anguish of fighting against sin and the onslaught of the enemy.  He had to enter into the realm of hatred and murder from that place of perfect peace and love.  It meant entering into our humanity, that which requires us to relieve ourselves in our bodily functions.  Entering into our dependency on a mother’s breast and the guidance of a fallen earthly father.  He had to enter into the heart of what it means to be man.  He became the Son of Man.  It is not only what He left behind, but also what He entered into that we need to consider.

And the word says the following of His earthly struggles and agony:

Hebrew 5: 7 - 10

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

⁸ Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

⁹ And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

¹⁰ Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

In this we see how He rented His soul in anguished prayer.  But there on the cross, He rented His heart as well as His flesh.  There where His glory resides. And as it was done in heaven, so it was done on earth when God rented His heart for a broken and lost world.  The veil before the Most Holy Place was torn from top to bottom so that we may enter into the Most Holy Place…that is to say not just into the type and shadow as seen in the earthly tabernacle, but into the rented heart of God, as He has entered into ours.  A real felt eternal place in Him.  In this place we are called to abide in Him as He abides in us.  To remain and not just visit.  Not just once a year, but forever.  My question is, have we truly entered into the rented heart of God?

The way into His rented heart has unfortunately been cheapened  by the hyper grace deception where His holiness and a rightful fear of God has been replaced by an unbalanced view of God as only a loving Father ready to allow all into His glory.  The truth is He did make a way and what a grace it is!  Jesus is the Way into the heart of God, the Most Holy Place.  He took upon Him our sin so that we may be the righteousness of God.  But He was being made perfect to become the author of eternal salvation unto all them that OBEY Him. 

Hebrews 5: 8 - 9

₈Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

⁹ And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

This obedience is an ultimate obedience, just as He as the Patterned Son had to do in order to be made perfect.  In Matthew 5 Jesus says the following:

Matthew 5: 48

⁴⁸ Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

He makes it abundantly clear in John 15 that if we love Him we will do His commandments and abide in His love.  And love is the fulfillment of the law.  Walking in obedience as He did is the very act of love towards Him and others.  For it asks of us an ultimate obedience to love as He did, and therefore to be perfect as our heavenly Father.

In Hebrews 4 we read that the Israelites could not enter into His rest due to their unbelief. This unbelief is described as a hardened heart.  Countless times they were found to be adulterous, compromising and murmuring, desiring to go back to the fleshpots of Egypt.  But God was not mocked by their sin and refused that they should enter into His rest. 

The rented heart of God is a very real place that He has made a way through His Son that we may enter in.  This eternal place is where the spirit of man and God, the Eternal Spirit become one.  Paul says we have the mind of Christ and know all things.  It is a place of knowing, the transcended place Jesus prayed in His High Priestly prayer in John 17.  In this place He reveals His rented heart to those who have come through the Way, that is to say, through the cross.  There He reveals His grieving for the lost damned for eternity without any hope.  It is filled with an indescribable love for His own.  It is a suffering love, a humble love, and eternal transcended love.  It is a sacred place of holy hush and awe where we are undone…it is His glory.

Let us not cheapen His grace by thinking we can enter boldly without considering the cost and therefore think we have entered when in fact we still find ourselves in the outer or inner court.  Those who will enter, enter by unspeakable grace and therefore should not for one moment think that we can deserve it by our obedience.  Rather, the obedience is unto the perfection of the saints, so that we may enter.  We do not allow just anybody into our hearts.  This is wisdom.  Why should He?  Once you have entered, you will come out like Moses from the mount with glory shining on his face, but we will be unveiled because the veil our hearts have been torn and now we see.  We see because we have entered into the rented heart of God.

Let us then therefore endeavor to enter into the Most Holy, renting our own hearts and allowing Him to discipline us.  For there is also a joy set before us to endure our own cross.  Let us therefore enter.  I would like to say that I have entered, but if I am honest, I have not.  I am not yet glorious.  He has extended the invitation to me over and over this week.  I have run from Him because I know in the depth of my being, that when I do, there is no turning back.  He is not inviting me to enter into a place where I am still in control.  He is inviting me into His kabod.  His rented heart, where two hearts beat as one. And so, by this devotional, He is inviting you to enter in. 

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Hebrews 12

1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³ For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

⁴ Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

⁵ And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

⁶ For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

⁷ If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

⁸ But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

⁹ Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

¹⁰ For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹ Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

¹² Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

¹³ And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

¹⁴ Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

¹⁵ Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

¹⁶ Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

¹⁷ For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

¹⁸ For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

¹⁹ And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

²⁰ (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

²¹ And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

²² But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

²³ To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²⁴ And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

²⁶ Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

²⁷ And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

²⁸ Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.