Understanding the World of Spirit and the Ministry of the Throne
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1. (Hebrews 1:2-14; Hebrews 2:1-5). The best that the angels can do is to minister; they are ministering spirits to heirs of salvation—those who are supposed to inherit salvation.
2. Psalms 103:19-22 shows the least of dominion is “O my soul”. “O my soul” is the realm of the living soul; it is the highest soul strata on earth, followed by spirits in the heavens. What demarcates angels is that the soul of an angel is heavenly, not earthly.
3. (Ezekiel 36:26-27). There are two kinds of spirits here. The “new spirit” is not a person, but a law. The “new spirit” is different from “My spirit”. It is not enough to have the “new spirit”; you also need “My spirit”.
4. (2 Corinthians 5:17-18). Before one can be involved in reconciliation, one must have new things; that is when one can now be reconciled to God. Reconciliation is about making one come to God, and for the enmity that is in one and God to have been settled. Many are born again but they are not yet reconciled to God. Satan has given us enmity which is higher than our minds and thinking, so we need new things to give us the capacity to make all things that are not of God go.
5. (Isaiah 43:18-21). We see in this scripture old things as against new things, and former things as against all things God. Former things are the things that are still in our hands as against “my things” or the things of God. God will give waters against old things and and rivers against former things. We see two kinds of water level – waters and rivers. Water is Christ, river is God. The rock brought forth waters, then rivers of living water. When it is a river thing, it is God. New things give the capacity for “my thing”.
6. Anything “my” is for God. “My soul” is the least in Psalm 103:22. “My soul” is of the earth, earthy. The first man was made a living soul, a little lower than angels; he was of the earth, earthy (1 Cor. 15:47). God made His angels spirits. A full spirit is he who is in the third heavenly realm. “Spirit” here is not the spirit man, but the soul which is heaven. “Earth” is not referring to the spirit of Adam; it is talking about Adam’s soul which is of the earth, earthy.
7. (Psalm 103:19-22). Heavens are divided into 3: the first heaven are principalities and power, might and dominion (Ps. 103:22). What is made obvious in Psalms is dominion, which is what we also see in Ephesians 1:21. All the realms of His dominion are in classes, that is, principalities, power, might and dominion (Eph. 1:21). Principality is a dominion, might is a dominion, power is a dominion, dominion in itself is a dominion. This means dominion is not one place, it has places upwards. The second heaven is His hosts, ministers of His that do His pleasure (Ps. 103:21). The third (last) heaven is the angels that do His commandments, hearkening to the voice of His word (Ps. 103:20).
8. “O my soul” in Psalm 103:22 has a relationship with the previous statement; it has an attachment to the places of His dominion. The disparity is not so much between Adam and works in places of dominion. So to think of man is to think of an angel of earth. If man was “my soul”, it means the man has God’s soul of earth — the God-kind of soul. When God finished the work of heaven, He started on earth from the highest to the lowest degree. Even though there were no men on earth, the strata are recorded there. It was only one man God made, the rest ought to be born and grow up to “O my soul”. So the issue of earth is growth. The gift to biologically bless or give birth to “O my soul” wasn’t given to man, but man can give birth to “O my soul” in a seed form—a candidate that can inherit “O my soul”.
9. Babies are flesh. They do not know anything. If little babies are “O my soul” at age 1, they will discern evil. “O my soul” is the living soul, it is the soul of God of earth; it is the earthly God-kind of soul. That is the everlasting soul of earth. This was the type of soul Adam had in Eden. Adam was supposed to be ageless, but he began to age because his spirit died. The soul could no longer function on its own without its light. The light of the soul is the spirit man. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
10. (Proverbs 20:27). The belly here is the inside of the soul. It means that the spirit communicates with the soul. The spirit searches the soul because it is the house of things; it is the store house. It is looking for things you put there, which are goods. He searches for them to use them. God put a lot in the soul so that the spirit of man can lighten it to give the soul a worthy prize. The spirit will increase the worth of the soul. The spirit is to move the soul into an adventure of the spiritual; it is a light to the soul. The spirit man is a light; he is a kind of man that illuminates. God made the “soul spirit” a candle. The day Adam was made, his spirit was light. The spirit was equipped to give Adam every information about earth earthy; it is to illuminate the soul with those good things and increase the worth of the soul. It is the constant illuminator of the soul.
11. (Job 33:4; Job 32:8). God does not pass your spirit to get to your soul. God inspires your spirit man and your spirit gives life to your soul. The spirit is like the teacher to your soul. God is not doing something in your soul that your spirit is not aware of (Rom. 8:27). The spirit searches the inward part of the belly; the spirit searches the heart. The purpose of the spirit is to equip the soul, so that the spirit and the soul can resemble each other. At times, our spirit is doing something but we do not know. If one has a powerful spirit, it can be equipped and strengthened so that Christ can dwell in our hearts by faith.
12. (Ephesians 3:16). The spirit and the soul should work together. The spirit should not be working and the soul is lame. To say someone is spiritual is the function of the soul, not the spirit. The spirit is more than being spiritual, it is a spirit. It is the soul that becomes spiritual, not the spirit. The spirit is the spiritual man—someone who carries out the ritual of the spirit. It is the soul that should become a spiritual man.
13. You have to know the soul to teach those things. No man knows the things of man save the spirit of the man (1 Cor. 2:11); this is because the things of a man are in the soul of a man. Word of knowledge is limited in knowing the things of a man. “Knowing” here is not a gift; it is a natural experience of the spirit. It is natural for the spirit to know the things of a man.
14. (1 Corinthians 2:4-12). God kept His wisdom in Himself and these are His things. He gave us the spirit personality of God. The spirit of God is the Holy Ghost of God. The spirit of Christ is the Holy Ghost allocation for Christ and this spirit searches out Christ, but the spirit of God goes to God and looks for it. That is why one may have the spirit of Christ and not have the spirit of God. It means the Holy Ghost releases a capacity of Himself to look for God—to look for the things of God. The spirit of God broods on the water and God said, “Let there be light” (Gen. 1:2-3). The personality here is not the Holy Spirit but the spirit of God. The spirit of God that moved on the waters speaks of the release from the Holy Ghost that should submit to God in creation. The Holy Ghost is His own person and He has different capacities. The Holy Ghost can volunteer Himself to be the Spirit of God. It means the Holy Ghost will now be in submission to who God is.
15. We have our God and we have the Holy Ghost. In the Trinity, we have God the Father, God the Word and God the Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost is the ghost of the rest of them. There is an important role of a ghost-work in the Trinity. It is a massive and wide ministry, and because of that ghost capacity, it can shed itself and be the Spirit of God. Anytime He is the Spirit of God, He is not just Holy Ghost, He has become the Spirit of God. He is submitting to them.
16. (2 Corinthians 3:17). When you look at the Lord and see that Spirit, it is exactly the Lord. Angels act like the Holy Ghost in little measure, but they cannot completely be Jesus. The best they can be is to minister. They are ministering spirits, but the Holy Ghost will do more than what a ministering spirit does. The Holy Ghost is the quickening Spirit because the Lord too is a quickening Spirit. The quickening Spirit has a quickening Spirit.
17. (Romans 8:11). There is a difference between a ministering spirit and a quickening Spirit. When “Spirit of God” is said, that Spirit and God are not different from God; it is showing a kind of God that is a Spirit. When the Spirit of God moved upon the waters, it was not just the Holy Ghost. The God that wants to work was moving on the waters and He wanted to command. He needs His person that is ghostly to get that done and that is where the Holy Ghost comes in to be a Spirit as Him. That is what is called the Spirit of God.
18. (Genesis 1:3). It is the Spirit that should move on the water. All God needs to do is to say. It is the Spirit that created light. The Spirit is taking on the nature of God—the attribute of God in spirit form. God spoke the seed, and the Holy Spirit turned it, interpreted it and brought forth the interpretation as light. But when it came to the issue of man, They said “Let us…” (Gen 1:26). This is because man will be a tripartite being and he will be the king of creation. This man will carry their image. When it came to making man, we knew They were three. They are three making consensus concerning creation.
19. The soul of a man houses things; things are properties for souls. The reason things are in the soul is so that they can be accessible by the spirit. If God did not push them into the soul, they cannot be taken and be given.
20. (John 16:13-15). The Holy Ghost is taking things from the Father and showing them to you. The Spirit of Christ does not go into the Spirit of God to take things. The Spirit of Christ is for Christ while the Spirit of God is for God to take God’s things. What we receive at New Birth is the Holy Ghost—we were filled with the Holy Ghost, not with the Spirit of God. A baby cannot take the Spirit of God, it can only take sons of God to have the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God that the Holy Ghost is, is for sons of God. Jesus has not lost the Holy Spirit, it is still inside Him. Jesus was full of the Holy Ghost but after His death and resurrection, He received the Eternal Spirit (Heb. 9:14).
21. Jesus, through the Holy Ghost, gave commandments. That is how Jesus has become an Eternal being. The only true God has Ghost. So the Holy Ghost is what Christ and God owns. That which the Father will send “in My name” has been with Them. When God writes in a soul and puts His Spirit in the soul, the soul becomes an everlasting soul. God gave Adam a law in his soul and made him “My soul”. So Adam should learn God beyond heavens because the template was already in him; “My soul” was what was inside him. He could learn, read and become “My spirit” in his soul. The soul of angels is a kind of spirit. There are angelic souls in heaven that are spiritual and there are those that are divine.
22. Adam was a divine earthly man, but Angel Michael was a divine heavenly man. So heaven is higher than earth. If Adam is a little lower than principalities and powers, it means that those angels are better in make and thought pattern than Adam. So, the Christ in heaven is higher than Adam, but what God wanted Adam to learn is a divine nature that is more than angels. Adam was supposed to jump from earth to be higher than heaven; he should know more than angels.
23. (1 Peter 3:22; Hebrews 8:2). The throne of God is higher than heavens. That is where Jesus is set. There are two realms inside the throne. The throne is a minister of the tabernacle and the only true tabernacle. It is a throne both of Eternal Life and everlasting life, so the sanctuary was added to it. The true tabernacle is the Most Holy, but Jesus actually comes to the sanctuary to receive people; He does not stay there. Jesus has entered into the Most Holy as a forerunner in the presence of God.
24. The first ministry of the throne is to give us “my soul”. That “my soul” is a throne. There are two thrones in one, that throne is called the throne of grace. To come boldly to the throne of grace is not an eternal throne, it is the throne of everlasting life. The ‘needy’ in Hebrews 4:16 are those in the sanctuary. The next level is the entrance into the Holy of Holies. Such are in need of the Father. One who is poor is needy; he needs a father. To need a father is to need a High Priest. A high priest is a father. You need a succour, someone who will save you from the sanctuary. You need a working Father, but there is a resting Father. That is our God who is using the throne of the Father to save. That is what the throne of God can do. The throne of God is not just where you sit. There are powers that constitute the throne, that emit provisions that can undo another throne.
25. He who set us in bondage was also a throne; he bounded us into his covenant of hell and death. When we talk about hell and death, we are talking about a throne. God knows that the answer to hell and death is to raise up a High Priest who can sit with Him, to engage His own throne against a throne that is at work, because a law has already been written. When we begin to engage a law, we are engaging all the forces of a throne. Every throne is an oracle. The throne is a place: where God sits is a place.
26. Revelations 22 shows us a place; chapter 21 shows us a temple. God and the Lamb are a temple, while their throne is their place. God is a house and He has a place. The person of God is a temple. When Lucifer was cast down, his place was found no more (Rev. 12:7-8). If his place was left when he was casted down, he would have gone back.
27. God expected Adam to learn above angels, then a season will come when they will come to glorify him. “This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased” should have been said to Adam not Jesus; it was a demotion for Jesus. We should not know Jesus in this capacity and go back to unrighteousness. Jesus has left His form; He no longer has that form of God. Jesus was not a man, but because of us, He became a man. This should be the truth of the gospel. The Word as a man is a terrible evidence against sin. It should be judging our compromise everyday. Jesus decided to detach to come save us, and so, that is now achievable in the New Testament. God will pick a man and say He will raise him up. This is why this message should not be stopped because someone had invested so much in it.
28. Jesus never died for us to have a car; the least of all the prophet can make that happen. God has met needs without Jesus. God used the two feet of a leper to feed a nation overnight. They took over another nation without Jesus dying on the cross yet. One cannot preach this kind of gospel and needs will not be met. Needs are being met just by preaching the real gospel. The principle of seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness works.
29. All those who are preaching this gospel are not lacking. So we should repair our hearts. More things are coming to us even in our natural lives. When we seek first the kingdom of God with your heart, all these things will be added to us. If things come to us and we are not getting the kingdom, we have gotten nothing. We should get to a place where even without these things, we are still seeking the Kingdom. We should be people looking for the kingdom of God and His righteousness. A time will come when we should boldly say “I have the kingdom”.
Blessings!