Programme: Anamnesis Prayer Meeting (Week 4_Day 2)
Date: Tuesday, 28th November 2023
Transcript Summary
1. The mysteries of Christ, the Father and God (as highlighted in Colossians 2:2) are not the same as some ignorantly think. The use of punctuation marks with the phrase “and of” after each name or person tells us that they are different. We are in the season knowing these Persons to the end. It is a great privilege to know God on earth. It is a curse for a man to have everything on earth and not know God. Satan has made this foolishness to be so deep in men. We are born on earth to know God; it is our destiny and great vocation.
2. According to John 1:1-5, Logos is Eternal, and He has a life in Him called everlasting life. This life was ordained to be the light of men. If this light is not the light of men, and a lesser light stands as our light, man will be completely submerged in darkness. The light shines in the light that Satan is (i.e., darkness) and Satan’s light could not comprehend it. It is this light that the angels desire to look into because the Godhead decided to only share this light with the least of creatures (the living soul man). Everlasting light is a life that is higher than the angels.
3. While in Eden, Adam had not yet lived by this everlasting light before he fell. Although he had the capacity to learn it. Satan cut him off in his vocation of learning. If Adam had entered the usage of everlasting light, he would have comprehended the devil enough and discerned him better. God would have given Adam the life in Him, and Adam would have become God’s own son without any need for the appearance of Jesus. Adam would have conformed to the image of God and become God’s first son. This was God’s original intention, but Adam fell off that vocation. So, God had to roll out a “plan B”, which was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8). God provided the lamb from the beginning and John the Baptist also witnessed to this (Jn. 1:15). It is this Lamb that takes away the sins of the world.
4. At Jordan, Logos physically became the light that was in Him. The man Jesus learnt that light until He became the light. Logos did not physically become that light when He was born as baby Jesus; rather He dropped to a life below it and then, He grew into the light. It is important for us to know these details. There is a reason Logos dropped below the life that was in Him. Logos became flesh, then He became Christ and later became that light. Whenever our Lord Jesus says, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12), He was referring to the light that was in Him when He was Logos. Logos had a life in Him, and our Lord Jesus later became that life. Philippians 2:6-8 describes how Logos became that life.
5. The personality that God desired to come into His image was man, not angels. However, the first person who attained the status of God’s image was Logos, not Adam. Adam was a shadow of God’s exact image. Adam was made “after” the image of God and “in” His likeness – he was a copy of the image (Gen. 1:26). The image and likeness are both life
6. “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world (John 1:9). Logos lights every man with that light that is in Him, that He wants men to have. Thereby, every man has been given the chance to believe this light. However, we have to first receive Him, before we can believe on His name. It is those who believe on His name that will receive the power to become sons of God (John 1:12). At the point of taking on the challenge to become sons of God, there is something that will be shown to us and that we must believe – His name. “His name” here speaks of the name of the life that was in Logos called everlasting life. The name of Logos Himself is a different name; it is called the name of the only begotten Son (John 3:18). So, Logos has an “in-name” or a name that is inside of Him. Whoever believes on the “in-name” will have everlasting life, while one who believes “on” the name of the only begotten Son will have Eternal Life. The word “believing” here means agreeing with the name. We need some acceptance and faith to do so.
7. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” (John 5:24). While our Lord Jesus was on earth, He was sent by the Father and the Father has a name. To believe “on” the begotten Son is to believe on He that sent Him. To believe on He that sent Him is to believe everything that makes the Father up and by this, we will have everlasting life. To believe is to be ready for the schooling that will come with the Being that sent the Son. It is to receive this Being and all that He is. A believer can decide to believe a little and not believe all of Him, such a one is not yet believing “on” Him. This means that we should know where we are going, or the location of the person we are going to meet.
8. We cannot believe on Him that sent our Lord Jesus except He is revealed, or our Lord Jesus is brought again to us. Our Lord Jesus was born as flesh and sent out at Jordan as a Son. However, there is another sending of our Lord Jesus which will not occur until there are those who will receive Him. To receive Him is to first receive Christ. To be qualified to receive the Son of God, one must have firstly received Him by acquiring the nature of Christ. We start with taking the nature of Christ until we can take the Father and then, God.
9. Those who have passed from death to life are those who have loved the brethren. They are Sanctuary brethren who are moving to the Holiest of All. They have passed the grip of condemnation. We get out of condemnation when we pass from the Holy Place to the Most Holy Place. The Holy Place is not sure; the sure place is the Most Holy Place. That is, the adversary can still kill one who is in the Holy Place (2Pet. 2:19-22). Condemnation can still get a hold of such a person. To get out of condemnation is to get out of the Sanctuary into the Most Holy Place, where we will interface with the Minister of the true tabernacle. While our Lord Jesus was on earth, He was ministering everlasting life or “so great salvation” from the true tabernacle (Heb. 8:2; 2 Pet. 1:10-11).
10. “For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;” (John 5:26). The Father gave the life that He is to the Son. While our Lord Jesus was on earth, the Father was giving life to Him from heaven. The intention of the Father is for Him to find expression here on earth. The Father’s ambition is that He wants to live among men. Our Lord Jesus got the Father before He got the Holy Ghost. At Jordan, the Holy Ghost towered on our Lord Jesus as the Spirit of the Father. What rested on our Lord Jesus was Ghost, which is weightier than the cloven tongues of fire that rested on the people on the day of Pentecost. Our Lord Jesus, who was anointed at Jordan was a Father. The Father then said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matt. 3:17). This means that this is the only man who has made Him rest.
11. The Father is everlasting life and our Lord Jesus said that we do not have the power to become everlasting life except we believe on the One who sent Him. The sent one is the one in whom the sender put himself. The apostles of the Lamb were sent, which means that they were fathers. Fatherhood as we see it in the Old Testament is a biblical principle that runs into the New Testament (Acts 7:32). To be given the power to become a son of God is to be given the Father. A son is a father. Under the light of the New Testament, a son is he whom the Father reproduced. The Father is a constitution of graces.
12. If we will have everlasting life, we need the flesh and blood of the Father in us. Both flesh and blood constitute the Father. The bread and wine that our Lord Jesus serves us is the flesh and blood of the Father (John 6:53-54). What Satan speaks is flesh, this is the spirit he gives that profits nothing (John 6:63). Our outward flesh is a description of something. When Satan is teaching us how to live on earth, he is giving us flesh. If all that Satan can give is flesh, it means he has nothing to give. This is why the gospel must be preached so that people will be made to see the nothingness in the transactions of the earth. The gift of darkness is flesh.
13. The reason for covering is fellowship, both the covering of light and darkness. This is why men will eat or become flesh the more when gross darkness covers. To eat more flesh is to go deeper into the strength of flesh. The strength of flesh is from one level to another. What our Lord Jesus was giving as flesh and blood was His Father. The Father's life is a high life. When we eat of Jesus’ flesh, we eat into the power of manifestation and when we drink the cup, we drink into the power of appearance. There are things in the spirit that have to do with the outwardness of the Father. The flesh is the seen life of the Father, while blood is the hidden life of the Father; both are inseparable. The blood needs the flesh to manifest itself. The flesh needs the blood to continue. As we eat more of Jesus’ flesh, we would gain the sense of how to manifest.
14. When we eat the flesh of Jesus, we are doing the Father’s work, which is to have the Father built completely in us (John 4:34). When we are given the Father, we should eat and drink all. Like the Passover in Egypt, we must eat all without leaving anything behind. Nothing of the Father must remain outside. We should make sure we do all the will of the Father and finish it. Whosoever loves Jesus must do all His will without leaving anything behind. If we reject some of the will, we are rejecting even the one we have taken. We should not break any commandment, because we break all if we break one.
15. The definition of a son is he who carries his father around. Our Lord Jesus was carrying the Father around (John 14:11). A man enters into the Father as the Father enters and dwells inside him. The Father does not bring anybody inside Him except He has first survived in you. Otherwise, such will murder Him. The greatest thing that can happen to a man on earth is to have an abode inside the Father. Jesus is the first Father, and we will begin to see the persons of the Father in men, through our Lord Jesus.
Blessings!
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