The Psalm 23 Adventure, Part 52
August 11, 2017
It’s hard for me to
believe that I’ve been writing on this 23rd Psalm adventure for a
solid year by now. And that doesn’t
count a couple of short breaks we’ve taken just to take a breather. This truly has become a revelation as much
for me as it has for those of you who’ve stayed with it during this time. I sit down to write and things just begin to
flow in my spirit. Sometimes it’s hard
to simply stop. I just keep writing, and
ultimately have to break it up into multiple Coffee Breaks in order to keep
things down to a readable limit, practically speaking.
Anyway, I’m not done
with this picture of the running over cup, and it is likely that we will
continue for one more week on this topic before we move to the next phase.
John 1:12-13: But as many as believed in
and responded to Him, to them He gave the authority and ability to become – and
be transformed into – begotten children of God, specifically to those who
entrust their future existence and well-being by faith in His name, rank, position,
character, personality and being; who were begotten, not of flesh and blood,
nor because human flesh determined it by its own decision, nor because the mind
and intellect of man seized upon it and willed it into existence, but by God as
a sovereign act of His Will and determination.
(RAC
Translation & Amplification)
Jesus was the Word made flesh. We become the Word made flesh when we confess
with our mouths the Lord Jesus Christ.
We become the Word made flesh when we — with Christ in us — speak the
Word that He spoke, and speak it in agreement with Him and the Father.
The Holy Spirit — dwelling with us and in
us — energizes and empowers that Word so that it has the same creative force
that it had when Jesus spoke it. We’ve
been drinking of the Word, Himself! What
needs we have, we ask the Father for in the onoma
of Jesus. The Father — in Jesus — enacts
those needs for us by means of the Holy Spirit who is both with us and in us.
Are you beginning to grasp this
picture? Are you getting the significance
of “Christ in us, the hope of Glory”?
The apostle Paul expressed it like this
when he was writing to the Ekklesia in Colosse:
Colossians 1:26-27: Even the
mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made
manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches
of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the
hope of glory:
This is a revelation — the concept of
Christ in us. With that revelation comes
the understanding that it is not only Jesus, the Son with His anointing, but it
is the Father in us as well. More than
that, we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, filling us and permeating us with
God’s presence!
With The Holy Spirit indwelling us as the
power-generating force that gives life to the Word (who is Jesus), we become
Jesus to the world around us.
The light that radiated from Him was that
same light that exploded into being when He spoke those first words of
Creation, “Light be!” That’s the light
that dwells in us when we are in the Anointed One and His anointing — and He is
in us!
John 8:12: Then
spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the
light of life.
John 9:4-5: I
must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh,
when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world.
And Jesus commanded us to duplicate that by
being in Him.
Matthew 5:14-16: Ye
are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick;
and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they
may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
The parallel that Jesus is drawing in this
statement is that He didn’t light us up with His presence just to stick us
under a bushel and hide us from the rest of the world. He illuminated us with Himself so that the
Father would receive the Glory.
Matthew 10:7-8: And
as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick,
cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received,
freely give.
We haven’t become Jesus to the world to do
anything less than Jesus did. He healed
the sick. He raised the dead. He cleansed the lepers. He cast out evil spirits with His Word. He broke the chains that held people
captive. He restored crushed spirits. And all of the power and authority to
accomplish everything that Jesus did has been invested in us. That’s why Jesus made a point of stating that
ALL authority was His, and His to dispense.
And this is something that most of us don’t realize. He HAD to dispense this to us. It was mandatory if we are going to be Him in
the world, if we are going to be the running over cup.
Matthew 28:18-20: And Jesus came and spake unto
them, saying, All power (exousia—authority) is given unto me in heaven
and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you
alway, even unto the end of the world.
Amen.
ALL POWER — ALL AUTHORITY! Get it?
That’s what resides in us by virtue of the Father being in the Son, the
Son being in us, The Holy Spirit being with us, in us and filling us … AND … us
in Jesus!
Let’s try this again, expressing it just a
bit differently.
The Father and Son merge with one
another. You see one — you see the
other. The Holy Spirit is the energizing
power — the same power that upholds everything in the universe — of God the
Father and God the Son.
And that’s the same power that resides in
us. And that’s the same power that we
reside in. So how come we don’t
experience this 24 hours a day?
The answer is simple enough. If we don’t see it, we don’t believe it. If we don’t believe it, we can’t have it
experientially.
Jesus’ prayer ought to be the
standard by which we gauge who and what we are.
First, notice how He begins:
John 17:1-5: These words spake Jesus, and
lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy
Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all
flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they
might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have
finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world
was.
Jesus makes clear that the Father gave Him
power over all flesh so that He could give eternal life to as many as received
Him. Next, He says that the Glory
revealed in Him before the foundations of the earth is the same Glory He would
now have. We skip forward in Jesus’
prayer to see that we are a people set apart because of Him.
John 17:17-19: Sanctify
them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world,
even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
This word “sanctify” comes from the Greek hagiazo, which means: to
purify, to consecrate, to make holy, to set apart unto the Lord as
blameless. This is where we get the
radiant picture of light emanating from the Lord — and from those whom He has
set apart.
John 17:20-23: Neither pray I for these
alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one,
even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in
one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them,
as thou hast loved me.
Jesus has given us His Glory. How?
Do you see the specific wording in this part of His prayer to the
Father?
“That they all may be one;
as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may
be one in us:”
There it is again! The Father is in Jesus and He is in the
Father. Again, I remind you of the
picture Jesse saw of them going back and forth into one another. There are no limitations — no laws of physics
— in the realm of the Spirit. This is
why our cup simply cannot contain the life that has been poured into us!
Jesus and the Father are One! But Jesus’ prayer was that we would be One
with the Father and with Jesus, and that they would be One with us. Do you think His prayer gets answered?
Absolutely!
Consider this. If we are One with Him, and One with Father,
and One with Holy Spirit, our natural beings are going to run over. We simply cannot contain all of this in these
vessels. We have to give out all of this
excess to the world around us in order to bring the Kingdom of God to its
fullness in the Earth.
This, folks, is exactly how our prayers are
answered. We come boldly before the
Throne of Grace — first, because both the Father and the Son dwell in us; and
secondly, because we are coming in the onoma of the Lord Jesus
Christ. We have that onoma because Jesus sent
the Holy Spirit to be with us, and to be in us.
When we pray in the Spirit, we are praying
according to the will of the Father and the Son. We can’t be “in the Spirit” and pray out of
God’s will. The Holy Spirit simply will
not permit anything to flow through our lips that is contrary to the expressed
desire and will of the Father.
Therefore, we can know with full assurance
and full faith that what we pray for we receive: no question, no doubt, no
unbelief.
This is the revelation of Christ in
us. It is the revelation of His onoma fully functional
and operational in us. It is the
revelation of Jesus, the Anointed One, and His anointing upon us, working
through us, and manifesting the Glory of both the Father and the Son to the
world around us!
Here it is, one more time!
II Corinthians 5:17-19: So then, if any person
is grafted into and immersed in the Anointed One (and His anointing), he is a
new fabrication -- a newly formed being; the previous life [the lifestyle and
the old characteristics thereof] has perished; you can see and perceive for
yourself that every part of one's being is an unprecedented substance -- a new
species.
And all that has happened and taken place has its origins in God,
Who did this purposefully to reconcile and restore our relationship with Him
through Jesus Christ, Who has given us that same ministry, namely, that God was
and is in Christ, restoring the world to that intimate relationship with Himself,
and not indicting the world for its sins and failures;
He has committed to us that Word (and the responsibility) of
reconciliation and restoration. (RAC Translation
& Amplification)
Now,
watch as we see what is unfolding. We
are becoming the cup-bearers to the world!
The
picture that Paul draws is that not only was Jesus in the Father, but that the
Father came to earth IN JESUS!
Have
a look at another scripture.
Colossians 1:19-22: For
it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell; And, having
made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto
himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or
things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your
mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh
through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his
sight.
This
passage is a revelation all by itself.
Go back to the Cross and take a look at Jesus hanging there. It isn’t just Jesus: it is you hanging there;
it is me; it is all of us hanging there on the Cross.
And
this is where we will call it a day.
Still have a way to go with this picture. We’ll try to wrap this up next week before moving
on to the pictures of goodness and mercy.
For those of you who’ve been participating in
our Monday night Healing Prayer Conference Call, we just want to let you know
that beginning with the month of July and continuing until the first Monday
night in October, we will be taking a break for the summer. We’ve found during the past three years of
doing this call that participation during the summer months drops significantly
because of folks taking their vacations, and being involved in other activities. That said, we will resume our prayer calls on
Monday night, October 2nd.
At the same time, in
case you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment of Ekklesia, our
Sunday worship gatherings are available by conference call – usually at about
10:45AM Pacific. That conference number
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available by Skype. If you wish to
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later. The video call, of course, is not
recorded – not yet, anyway.
Blessings
on you!
.
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Temple, Texas 76504
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