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Begotten Of God
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Your relationship with Me was formed through Jesus Christ. You see Him as unique in character and power. But I have said, “He is the first among many brethren” (Romans 8:29). He is an example for you in every sense of your existence. You are begotten by the same Spirit. This must be, if you are to lawfully intercede for your brethren who are left in the world. Nevertheless, you have concluded the flesh to be your lower nature, thereby acknowledging a dual nature. This is not true. In your heart you think to justify your doctrine, so you say, “How could Jesus be the Son of God and the Son of Man without having a dual nature?” I want you to do more than read the scriptures I will present to you here; I also want you to consider My purpose in them.
St. John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
This is the testimony of Jesus Christ before He went to the cross. At that time, He was my first and only begotten Son. He is the mediator between you and Me, being the Son of God and the Son
of Man as well. He is the bridge between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. But you must understand why it was lawful for Him to be a mediator of the two testaments.
Look at Mary who was to bring the Savior into the world. She was born of the seed of Abraham. The promise of a righteous seed in Genesis 3:15 was fulfilled in her. Nevertheless, before I would
put the righteous holy seed in Mary, My Spirit overshadowed her, to sanctify her flesh, even as I sanctified your bodies. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God (St. Luke 1:35). It was because of the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost that the child conceived in the womb could be called a holy thing (1 Cor.7:14). If I had not overshadowed her, to circumcise her flesh, then her offspring would have been born of sinful flesh (I don’t put new wine in old vessels). Jesus was born of a woman whose flesh was sanctified (circumcised or made clean).
Therefore, He too was born into a body that had been sanctified (circumcised in the womb of the woman) before He ever came forth. Jesus testified beforehand. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me (Heb. 10:5). Here Jesus acknowledges that I had prepared His body to be the sacrifice for the human race. Remember, Jesus came through the seed of Abraham, by Mary. Thus, He is also the Son of Man. This is a new creature: the Son of God and the Son of Man in one. It is flesh (the body) that allows Him to be a Savior to mankind and the Spirit that establishes Him as a brother to the Church. But remember also that it is the Spirit of the body that provides the creature with its nature. Therefore, Jesus came forth with My nature. Nevertheless, though He dwelled in a body that was circumcised by the Holy Spirit, He never abandoned His relationship with mankind. Understand that this is what made Him an excellent intercessor for mankind. Amen.
Hebrew 10:6-7
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Now Paul explains:
Hebrew 10:8-9
8 Above (before or first) when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
In other words, Jesus establishes the fact that the Father was weary with the sacrifices offered by the Law. Therefore, He came in a body that fulfilled all that was written of Him simply by doing
only those things that were in My will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. He established the sacrifice of a perfected human body as the only propitiatory sacrifice and intercessor for mankind.
Hebrew 10:10
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Because you are in Christ, the bone of His bones and the flesh of His flesh (Eph. 5:30), it is by this offering that you are now able to present your bodies holy and acceptable unto to Me, as living
sacrifices for mankind (Rom. 12:1-3).
Hebrew 10:14
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
I have sanctified you wholly, spirit, soul and body (II Thes. 5:23). Even as all were in Adam, now all who believe are in Jesus Christ. All of Adams’s children were born in sin and their bodies
were described as the shape of iniquity. All those who are in Christ’s body have been washed with pure water (Heb. 10:22) and quickened alive unto Me. You must accept the fact that your fleshy body is sanctified and made free from sin. To be made free does not mean that you are unable to sin; it simply means you are now able to walk in the liberty of My Spirit. You now have a choice, wherein in times past the work of the devil took away your ability to choose.
I wrote My laws in your heart and mind, but there are times when you choose to think evil thoughts. It is not because there is any captivity of the enemy left in you, but rather that you choose
to disobey My commandments. Again, I say that Jesus is your example in every manner of your salvation. I raised Christ from the dead, and He will die no more, for death has no more dominion over Him. But when He died, He died once because of sin. He paid the penalty for the sins of Adam. But in that I raised Him from the dead, He is alive unto Me. Now you too must regard yourself as dead to sin and alive unto me through Jesus. Sin has no more dominion over you. You are no longer weak because of the ruling power of sin in your flesh. You are under My grace, and the life you live in the flesh now you live by the life of Jesus, your Lord. Even as you have yielded your body to the works of uncleanness and iniquity, you can now choose to yield it to righteousness and holiness. Did not Paul speak of these things in the 6th chapter of Romans?
Romans 6:16-19
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
This is the sanctification I have worked in you. I put my laws in your hearts and in your minds. I did not leave anything for you to do relative to redemption except obey. I sanctified the
mind and the body, the soul and the spirit. The mind is holy. It has been purged of dead works, even as the rest of your being. I did not create a new creature with an old mind. No, I renewed the mind by writing My laws in your mind.
In times past, you thought renewing the mind was something you had to do. The mind in itself is not your enemy. It is you, Son of God, who creates your own “thought wars”. You were birthed
into the body with the mind of Christ. Therefore, Paul could testify, “it is with the mind that I serve the law of God” (Rom7:25). Perhaps you are wondering, what does this all have to do with prayer? It is relative to your perception of yourself. You must understand that it is impossible to receive from the Lord without first believing in the work He has done in you. Without faith in my finished work, you will remain sin and Satan conscious, always living in the fear of falling and never accepting or believing that you are as much a Son in every sense as Jesus. You must accept
that He is simply the first of many brethren.
Hebrews 10:19-20
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh...
Be careful to understand what Paul is saying here. You were birthed into the “Body” of Christ which is holy in mind thought and deed. When you walk in the righteousness you inherited
through Christ, then you are able to enter into My presence. Jesus is the only man that was able to enter behind the veil into the Holy of Holies. I prepared that body to be a sacrifice and
an intercessor. It is those who come in the righteousness and consciousness of that vessel that are received. Every aspect of Christ must be evident in our attempt to petition Him; His mind, purpose and love for mankind. Listen to the following: Hebrews 10:22 says “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water”. The flesh must dwell in the integrity of Christ and the heart must be pure in all things. Unless it is your heart to repent and acknowledge sin, you have no audience with Me. It is Christ that is the new consecrated way behind the veil. It is His life that I will always respond to.
In our ignorance there were many prayers that we thought the Father answered due to our persistence, but in actuality, we were only echoing things He had purposed to do anyway. Hebrews 10:23 tells us, “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised;” If all these things be true, you will always be received. You will dwell in the presence of the Most High and know that it is so. You will speak and you will be heard. You will ask and you will receive.