God says,
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
Here are five truths:
- In the first century God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
- Jesus went to heaven and is with God
- Some days later, because Jesus went to heaven, the same Holy Spirit that was in Jesus filled the first 120 saints in the upper room on the day of Pentecost.
- Now, God is in the Body of Christ finishing the job of reconciling the world to Himself.
- Until Jesus comes again you, and all those who name Jesus as their savior, are the manifestation of Jesus (YHWH saves) on the earth.
To begin with, trust implies vulnerability or putting yourself in someone’s hands, believing that they will deal carefully, compassionately, and kindly with your body, heart, soul, and feelings. People who trust another with something very important to them, demonstrate faith that the person they put their trust in will do them no harm. Likewise, those who trust in God expressed through His son, Jesus Christ, will find that they are loved, cherished, protected, and ultimately saved from their sins.
The Tabernacle move of God’s Spirit is about the love relationship between Jesus (YHWH saves) and the Bride of Christ (the Body of Christ composed of many members). It is about love expressed through each one of those members to the other parts of His body.
We must be allowed to love as God leads
Right now, due to shame and doctrine, the Body of Christ is not allowed to love as God leads. We have been put in a straightjacket of earthly propriety that denies our Heavenly Bridegroom the expression of love He so desires.
We are given an example of what God wants through the picture we see of love here on earth. When a man and woman love each other they hold hands, they sit near one another, they talk face to face, they snuggle, kiss, and make love. Love desires to merge and be one and we instinctively understand this to be the natural and proper course of true love. It is God’s design.
So too, it is the same with God and His body uniting spiritually in both heaven and earth. God, who is an unseen Spirit fills us. What is unseen becomes manifest or revealed in our flesh, just like God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. As such, what we do as we are moved by His Spirit expressed through our words, our eyes, our lips, and our bodies is a divine expression of God Himself, and thus holy.
We have been told for so long that physical expression of love between people, especially men and women, is inherently dangerous because it can so easily lead to sexual sin. Thus, we are admonished to avoid closeness at all costs, except in highly regulated situations. We have been taught to fear the intimacy that we desperately need. In effect, the Bride of Christ is being monitored by a fearful clergy that will not let us be intimate with our Bridegroom in the ways He longs for.
Whatever God does through your body is holy
A Holy Kiss is holy because it is God flowing through your lips to express His love to another. When a brother, led by the Spirit, holds a sister, married or not, because the Holy Spirit in him desires to love her, it is holy and safe. If a sister, led by the Spirit, sits closely and talks of intimate things with a brother, married or not, it is God ministering to that man. As we enter into these latter days, the move of the Spirit will be one of intimacy beyond anything that we can imagine. God will have His Bride in the way He desires, and no one will gainsay or resist his love.
When you make love, you do not analyze the feelings, you simply move as your heart desires. You open yourself up to receive love or give it, holding nothing back. Likewise, when loving our Lord, should we not yield our body, soul, and spirits to His desires, becoming whatever he wants or needs? Frankly, if you are going to be the Bride of Christ, and share His bed for eternity, is there anything you would not do for and to Him now?
Those who love as God leads, do not commit sin.
Our bodies are not sinful if we allow God’s Holy Spirit to take us over and flow through us. If we love someone as He desires to love them, all we do by His Spirit is pure and good. Moreover, we don’t need to understand why to say yes and let Him live through us; we simply need to trust.
I have both seen and personally experienced Divine Love, and it is a revelation. It is like seeing for the first time after being blind from birth. All those people who fear love and its holy expression are simply wrong – wrong like a blind man describing the colors of a rainbow. The absolute purity of it feels like the Garden of Eden, like a home we knew existed, but couldn’t find our way back.
It is not the act of expressing love to another, but how and why you do it. If God is leading you to hold someone who is hurting, male or female, married or not, it is God in you who is doing it. You are simply agreeing with your Lord’s heart and allowing Him to use your body to express His compassion.
Lastly, many Christians believe that even if God asked them to die as a martyr, rather than deny Him as Lord, it is His right. How much more (and far less unpleasant) is it God’s right to lead you to kiss another saint to show them, most intimately, that God loves them?
Dear Connections,
We walk straddle two creations, one imperfect, the other perfect. Our present creation, tainted by sin, cannot be made straight, while the world to come, the New Heavens and New Earth, already is perfect (those with ears to hear, let them hear).
Furthermore, because you are filled with His Holy Spirit, you possess a foretaste of your inheritance, which is His New Creation. You are in the process of being Born Again into that realm of newness of life. When the perfect comes, even your very bodies will be glorified and the last vestiges of your this creations imperfection will fall away.
To strive to be perfect as the natural man conceives of perfection is impossible for fallen man. The only way we can be perfect is to take on God’s perfection by allowing Him to fill us and be all in all through fulfilling Paul’s admonition – not I, but Christ that lives in me. We are being recreated in His image and in His Likeness every time we say yes to His voice and do His will.
We should stop trying to be holy and simply allow Jesus to be Himself through us. Let us realize that only that which we do as led by His Holy Spirit is holy and anything we do in and of ourselves is already less than perfect.
What has happened to the church is that, because inward perfection through their natural efforts have failed, they have settled on looking good outwardly. Thus, as long as things look okay, they believe they are okay. However, Jesus said,
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.”
Matthew 23:27
If we are not clean on the inside, simply looking like we are clean on the outside doesn’t impress God at all.
When I speak about the coming move of Tabernacles and the intimacy that God is about to show in and through His people, I do so, because I know that we have been set up for failure. The Devil has caused us to be so natural minded and superficial about what is and is not sin, when pure and holy love is expressed between saints by His Spirit, many will reject it and call it of Beelzebub.
I urge all of us to begin to only trust the Holy Spirit and rely solely upon His voice. Refuse to judge others by doctrine, but rather allow God to speak to your hearts and tell you whether or not a certain action of another continues His divine will or not.
This final step in the church’s spiritual reformation will break and destroy the facade of the normative church. In fact, as the Bride of Christ loves her Bridegroom, most of the visible church will be revealed for what it already is – the Harlot Church that sits upon the Beast of Revelation.
Amen.
Dear Connections,
There is what I call a cult of purity. It’s followers believe that Christians should live a pure and sinless life. Failing that, they should at least look like it to other believers and talk the talk. It doesn’t matter if we are all failing, it only matters that we pretend together and support each other in our deception.
Many times the leaders of this cult are clergy who pretend like they live what they preach. Thus, when they fall, they are sacrificed to the false purity they said they worship.
As God comes to His church, if you want to follow Him and leave the cult of purity behind, you will lose everythimg in this world, but live to see the world to come.
Blessings,
Michael