Other Tabernacle sermons:
http://mikeblume.com/jul1501a.htm
Confidence to Enter and Enjoy the Fullness of Christ
http://mikeblume.com/wis4.htm
WISDOM - A TREE OF LIFE
http://mikeblume.com/jan0310p.htm
THE SOURCE OF POWER FOR OVERCOMING DAILY
http://mikeblume.com/veil1.htm
Sprinkling the Conscience
http://mikeblume.com/aug2708.htm
BRANCHES RECONNECTED TO THE VINE
http://mikeblume.com/tbelch1.htm
TAKE A BITE OF ETERNAL LIFE - Ch. 1
http://mikeblume.com/oct2908.htm
KING AND PRIEST NOW ON THE THRONE
Here are some notes dealing with ONENESS:
Jesus Christ as Son of God was a man as much as any other man could possibly be. But that is not all He was. He was also God. God did not send anyone besides Himself from Heaven to the earth. God, Himself, manifested in the flesh. He did not become flesh, but manifested in the flesh (
1 Tim. 3:16). He dwelt or "tabernacled" among us (
John 1:14). Jesus referred to His body as His temple when He said, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." His body was the temple of the divine Father who dwelt in that body. This is the same with every born again believer. Our Bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost. The deity that Jesus Christ had within His Body was the Father, because we read "God was manifest in the flesh."
There was no Son of God before Adam. God's Spirit was intended to indwell Adam, the son of God. God planned to manifest thousands of years later in flesh a Son of God, and according to that pattern, God made Adam. This is not unlike the tabernacle. There was no heavenly tabernacle as such before Moses' tabernacle. But the pattern from which Moses' Tabernacle was made was a plan that God would have a CHURCH thousands of years later. The tabernacle, then, was made in the likeness of that Church that was to come. Man is a tabernacle or Temple. The spirit, soul and body of a man correspond to the holiest place, holy place and outer court in the tabernacle.
Some teachers propose man is spirit, soul and body because God is Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and God was so for eternity. Yes, man is made in God's image. However, man is not three persons, but one person with one name. Man is made this way so as to be able to manifest the Person of God, which Person manifested thousands of years later in three mannerisms. Since Adam was made in the likeness of "Him that was to come," we see that the reason God made Adam with the faculties of spirit, soul and body was not because because God was already manifesting as Father, Son and Spirit. Son had not yet been begotten! The very meaning behind SON implies a beginning by reference to the fact that a Son is a CHILD. A child is by reference in existence soley because of two parents -- a mother and a father. But Adam was created "after the pattern", or in the likeness, as what God Himself would manifest in flesh.
We must see there is only one true Spirit of God. There is only one true Person of God. We are intended to be members of the Body of Christ as Adam's descendants would have been of Adam's body, per se. We are meant to be expressers of God's single person. As a whole, the Church expresses God's Single person.
Jesus Christ the Son of God expressed the Father. The Father manifested in Jesus' life on the earth. The Father literally indwelt the Son as much as the fruit of Life would have indwelt Adam had he eaten it. The aspect of indwelling the Son is contrary to many people's doctrine, but is essential to the understanding of Christ as Son and our example of how to live and what we were created to live like.
...from
http://mikeblume.com/oneimpli.htm
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