Text: Colossians 2:1-2
This year has been one where various seasons have been compressed for our accelerated growth. The Lord has utilized the turmoils and pressures of this year for our good in the spirit. So much has happened in this year to bring us to this point of entrance into the realm of the incorruptible.
God is helping us to have a detailed understanding of what the term ‘Kingdom’ really means. No one can truly teach the Kingdom of God if he/she has not been taught the incorruptible. The mysteries of the Kingdom are the secrets for coming to God. We should not teach the Kingdom outside of the definitions of Jesus and the epistles of His apostles.
The message of the Kingdom is not subject to creativity; it was handed down by the Lord Jesus to His apostles. God is a God of ordinances unlike man who prefers variety. Just as we do not summarize the curriculum for our earthly professions, we should also not be too quick to summarize the details of the Father. God is both a Father and a God. The Fatherhood of God precedes His Godhood.
We cannot have full riches until we come into the fullness of the knowledge embedded in the mysteries of God, of the Father and of Christ (Col. 2:2). As we approach these mysteries, the mysteries of Christ is the first mystery that we are taught. Without the table of Christ we cannot ascend towards God. The meals that we are served are what equip us to come towards God.
Tables are made up of breads and cups (Matt. 26:26-27). In a feast, we first eat the bread before we partake of the cup. The wine of the cup is the summation of the inheritance of that table. When Jesus broke the bread, He blessed it; while He gave thanks when He lifted up the cup (Matt. 26:2). This shows that thanksgiving is a major door of entrance into the next realm.
We must drink all of the cup to partake of all the inheritance of each table (Matt. 26:27). We must drink all of the cup of the doctrine of Christ to inherit all of Christ. The inheritance of Christ is peace. This inheritance of peace is required for us to move on to partake of the realm of incorruption. The remission of sins is the process that makes us partake of the inheritance of Christ which is His peace.
The table of Christ takes us on a journey of remitting our sins and sanctifying us to be able to partake of the incorruptible seed (1 Pet. 1:23). When the incorruptible seed is committed to us, it is to make us partake of everlasting life. We must be persistent about the doctrine of Christ if we desire to partake of the incorruptible.
There is no true Kingdom without remission of sins. Kingdoms are known by the change that they bring and the images that they make inside men. The inheritance of Christ is the first portion/cup of the Kingdom that prepares us for the incorruptible, which is the new cup. Christ prepares the way for the inheritance of the Kingdom of God but the Father is the one who keeps the incorruptible seed that truly grants entrance into that Kingdom. Fathers are generally known as keepers of things. Fathers keep an incorruptible record. They are the ones who keep that which is incorruptible, undefiled and does not fade away (1 Pet. 1:4).
We need the fullness of “fat things full of marrow and of wine on the lees well refined” to be able to destroy the face of the covering cherub (Isa. 25:6-7). Only an incorruptible being can face and defeat this cherub. Jesus, in His Christ state, still had the tendency to turn and this was why Satan still thought that he stood a chance to convert him by tempting Him. Satan would not bother tempting anyone who has become incorruptible.
The remission of sins does not mean that a man’s soul has been eternally saved. A man can be without corruption but is not yet incorruptible. Jesus often called Himself a son of man because He had not yet been resurrected. Jesus acknowledged that the Father was the one who revealed to Peter that He was going to be the son of God (Matt. 16:18). The fullness of sonship was an excellence that Jesus was still in pursuit of while he was on earth. It was for this reason that He remained obedient to the end (Heb. 5:8).
The throne of God would repel a soul that is not yet incorruptible. Any person who has not yet been made divine cannot sit on that throne. This was why Jesus declared that those who have not yet drank of the incorruptible cup cannot sit in that Kingdom (Matt 20:20-22). Access to sit is the reward for keeping the inheritance. Jesus was already drinking from the cup of the Father which are the sufferings of the incorruptible realm. Suffering is a constant feature on the path to incorruption.
Our Lord Jesus is a custodian of names. In Him are several names including Jesus, the Christ and the Son. He was already Christ but was on the journey of obtaining another name (the incorruptible name) by drinking from the cup of the Father (Matt. 20:23). The disciples of Christ were already on the path that would bind them to that cup and were going to drink of it also. Following the path of Christ prepares a soul to partake of the incorruptible cup.
The cup of the incorruptible (the cup of the Father) is also a preparatory cup for the reward of sitting on God’s right hand in the Kingdom. God is not going to reward us if we have not kept the incorruptible cup. The cup of Christ prepares us for the incorruptible cup of the Father. This cup of the Father is the everlasting realm which is the foretaste of the eternal realm.
The promised land was given to fathers. Only fathers are able to inherit the land because God would only cut covenant with fathers (Heb. 1:1). Children cannot relate with God the way fathers would. Fathers have the stature that can comprehend God. If the prophets of old could speak to fathers, it means they were also fathers (Heb. 1:1). The little children, young men and fathers spoken to in 1 John 2 were also fathers in various measures. John himself was a father, for him to be able to speak to fathers (1 John 2:13).
This season is one wherein God wants to make fathers. Fathers are keepers of everlasting things. By making us fathers, we would be equipped to keep everlasting things. Jesus was also made the everlasting father. At a particular time, He also had come into the full expression of Fatherhood (John 14:9-10).
The glory of God is the reward for keeping the incorruptible. Immortality is only given to souls who have been saved to the point of being incorruptible, undefiled and unable to fade away.
Satan is a fallen father and so we must take heed to feeding well if we would face and defeat him. Cherubs are blessed beings. When Satan fell he stopped being a cup of blessing but became a curse.
The first cup of Christ deals with the first veil which is the veil of this world. This world is a cup that we must not love. If a man loves this world, he would finish the cup of this world and would begin to pant after the higher cup of Satan. The beast was a man who partook of the evil cup of Satan and was afterwards rewarded with the seat of Satan (Rev. 13:2). The beast became a cup that could contain all of Satan’s things.
God would not father us while we are still lovers of this world. This is why we are first taken through the course of Christ to purify us to be able to bear the incorruptible cup of the father.
Every walk has a work attached to it. As Jesus was walking in the incorruptible life, He was doing an incorruptible work. We are not made perfect if we are not being made incorruptible. To be perfect is to be eternally saved (Heb. 5:9).
There is also a perfect man in Christ (Eph. 4:13). The perfect man in Christ is not yet incorruptible but should journey to becoming incorruptible. When a man obeys Christ, the law of Christ (Faith, Hope and Charity) becomes his own to live by. We would not be given a law as ours if we have not obeyed it. God would see us live the incorruptible life first before it becomes ours to inherit. There is a reward for those who have inherited the incorruptible nature. This reward is God.
Jesus received a more excellent name than the angels by inheritance (Heb. 1:4). God wants to share His glory with sons. Our Lord Jesus is the first Son in glory and He intends to bring many other sons into glory (Heb. 2:10). It is those that journey to the end that would obtain eternal salvation with glory (2 Tim. 2:10). It was for this cause that Paul endured all things and no longer lived his own life. Demas saw this kind of life and was discouraged (2 Tim. 4:10).
There is an attitude with which we are to take the cup that is being served for us. We have to be quick in our response to the incorruptible to get to the end of the journey.
The salvation in Christ is the inheritance while the Eternal Glory is the reward (2 Tim. 2:10).