{"id":5326,"date":"2019-11-29T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2019-09-28T06:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:23:15","slug":"another-coffee-break-our-covenant-part-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-our-covenant-part-9\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: OUR COVENANT, Part 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"307\" title=\"defaultblog1\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1-400x269.jpg 400w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=WordSection1>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;\ntext-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;\ntext-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;\ntext-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:27.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#984806'>OUR COVENANT, Part 9<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;\ntext-align:center;line-height:normal'>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>November 29, 2019<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;mso-themecolor:accent6;\nmso-themeshade:128'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>Our unity with the Lord Jesus Christ\nis something that Jesus determined from before the foundations of the\nearth.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Stop and think about it!<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We are told that Jesus \u201cwas the Lamb slain\nbefore the foundations of the earth.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>Why?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>Because He, Father and Holy Spirit\nknew the end from the beginning.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Adam\u2019s\nfall did not take them by surprise.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>A\nplan had been set in motion before time began.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>That plan was to have a family that would be the exact counterparts of\nthe Lord \u2013 the Godhead, if you will.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>That plan was to have a species of being who would be able to fellowship\nwith the Lord on His level.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>In order for that to take place,\nthere had to be an unfolding and a preparation of this species of being that\nwould prepare them to be One with Father, Son and Holy Spirit.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Hence my statements in the past that the\nearth was created as a kind of laboratory in which to grow up a people with\nwhom the Lord could be joined \u2013 a people who would be His Counterpart, His\nOther Self.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>Thus, all the adventures that we\nexperience in the Lord are designed to develop the character and nature \u2013 the\nvery essence \u2013 of Who Jesus Christ is.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\n<\/span>In other words, we are being changed, transformed, renewed in such a way\nthat His <\/span><\/b><b><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#0F243E;mso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>onoma<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'> is our <\/span><\/b><a name=\"_GoBack\"><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#0F243E;\nmso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>onoma<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a><span\nstyle='mso-bookmark:_GoBack'><\/span><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;mso-themecolor:accent6;\nmso-themeshade:128'>!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>Understand?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Picking up\nwhere we left off last week and repeating one of the statements I've been\nmaking, one of the primary concepts of covenant is the giving of all that we\nare, all that we have, and all that we ever expect to become to our covenant\npartner.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Once\nagain, Covenant is not just a bunch of benefits.\u00a0 Covenant involves a\n\"Katy, bar the door,\" pull out all the stops, full-speed-ahead\nresponsibility in our responses to the Lord, who has likewise pulled out all\nthe stops on our behalf.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>If Jesus\nChrist is going to get His benefits from the covenant, He has made with us and\non our behalf, we MUST become His co-equal partners.\u00a0 I keep saying this,\nand it is at the center of all covenants: those who enter into covenant regard\neach other as co-equal.\u00a0\u00a0 Covenant shores up our weaknesses.\u00a0 I\nknow some folks have a struggle with the idea that Jesus has any weaknesses --\nand from our perspective, He absolutely does not.\u00a0 From Jesus' viewpoint,\nhowever, until we have been transformed and conformed to His image and\nlikeness, He is incomplete, lacking, and minus His counterpart, His other self.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>This is\nwhere I want to take today's discussion and show you the concept -- from Jesus'\nperspective -- of His being made complete in us.\u00a0 That, my friends, is\nwhat being co-equal is all about.\u00a0 That is what THIS covenant was ordained\nfor.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Take a\nlook <span class=SpellE>a<\/span> something that Paul writes in his epistle to\nthe Romans.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>\"For those whom\nHe [the Father] could foresee and know [their choices and decisions]\nbeforehand, He also did ordain and determine to become jointly formed and\nfashioned into the image and likeness of His Son, so that He might be first\nbegotten son among a multitude of brothers and sisters.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>\u201cFurthermore, those\nwhom He ordained and determined [by virtue of knowing in advance their choices\nand decisions] He also called, beckoning them in their inner beings; and those\nwhom He called, He also determined and declared to be innocent [rendering\njudgment of them beforehand]; and those whom He determined and declared to be\ninnocent, He made glorious [magnifying them as He magnified His Son].<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>\u201cWhat shall we say,\nthen, regarding these facts?\u00a0 If God the Father be for us, having made\nthese determinations on our behalf, who can possibly succeed in opposing and\nwithstanding us?\"<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>\u00a0 <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(Romans 8:29-31, RAC\nTranslation & Amplification)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Now are\nyou beginning to get the picture?\u00a0 Do you see where we stand with the\nFather?\u00a0 Do you see where we stand with Jesus Christ?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>God the\nFather has determined to have for Himself a family.\u00a0 He -- in concert with\nJesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit -- made this determination before\nCreation ever unfolded.\u00a0 If you take the concept of family, you understand\nthat you WILL have an older brother who is the firstborn.\u00a0 But that older\nbrother is going to have younger brothers and sisters; and those brothers and\nsisters have all the same rights of inheritance and access to the resources and\nassets of the family that the older brother has access to.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The older\nbrother's position gives him some rights of determination and delegative\nauthority on behalf of the younger family members, but positionally he is\ntreated as co-equal with his brothers and sisters.\u00a0 All of the siblings\nhave equal access to, and use of the family resources, along with the family's\nauthority and power by virtue of their extreme wealth.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Put that\nin context, now, to Jesus Christ as our older brother.\u00a0 Consider His\nstatement to the disciples as He prepared to leave them<span style='color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>:<b><i> <\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>\"All <\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#0F243E;\nmso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>(exousia<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>) <\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>privilege, force, authority, power\nand jurisdiction is given unto me in Heaven and in earth.\u00a0 <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>You go, therefore, [by\nvirtue of your relationship to and with me] and disciple, instruct and teach\nall nations, tribes and ethnic groups and peoples, immersing them in the<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'> <\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#0F243E;\nmso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>(onoma<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#0F243E;\nmso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>)<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;\nmso-themeshade:191'> character, the makeup, the power and authority -- the very\nessence -- of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them\nto observe, guard and protect all that I have charged you with [in every\nrespect, without compromise or redaction]; <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>And take notice of the\nfact that<\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'> <\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#0F243E;\nmso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>(eimi<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#0F243E;\nmso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>) <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;\nmso-themeshade:191'>[all that] I am [have been, and ever will be -- the\ntotality of my existence] with you, even unto the final and total completion of\nthis age.\u00a0 So be it!\"<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:\n191'>\u00a0 <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(Matthew\n28:18-20, RAC Translation & Amplification)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Jesus,\ntherefore, was commissioning His disciples to go forth in, with, and through\nALL of the power and authority that He had -- and Brother, was that ever SOME\npower and authority!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Look at\nwhat Mark records concerning this same event.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>\"[All of] you go\ninto every area and segment of the world and proclaim, herald, declare and\npreach the good news [that I have given you] to every single creature.\u00a0 <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>He that believes,\nimplicitly trusts in, exercises faith, and is immersed [in the character, makeup\nand essence of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit]] shall be saved,\nhealed, delivered, preserved, caused to prosper, and made completely whole; but\nhe who disbelieves [refusing to trust in and exercise faith] shall receive\nsentence and judgment [according to the Law].<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>\"And these<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'> <\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#0F243E;\nmso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>(semeion<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>) <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>distinguishing signs, evidences,\nwonders and proofs [of my commission to you, and your relationship to and with\nme] shall accompany and closely follow you: In my<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'> (onoma) <\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>character, makeup, power and\nauthority -- the very essence of who I am -- they shall cast out demons (evil\nspirits); they shall speak with fresh new [and previously unlearned] languages\nand tongues; <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>They shall take on\n(serpents) artful, cunning and malicious persons whose arguments cannot and\nwill not dissuade; should they drink or partake of any deadly, poisonous thing,\nit shall not hurt or injure them in any way; they shall lay hands on the sick,\nthe infirm, those who are weak and without strength; and they shall recover,\nmend, and see their infirmities cease.\"<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;mso-themecolor:accent1;\nmso-themeshade:191'>\u00a0 <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(Mark 16:15-18, RAC Translation & Amplification)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>No promise\nor prophecy of the Lord could better describe our co-equal status.\u00a0 These\nare the distinguishing signs and evidences that followed and accompanied\nJesus.\u00a0 Fully one-third of all the miracles that Jesus performed as\nrecorded in the Gospels incorporate the casting out of demons, as Jesus\nexercised the authority that was His to exercise.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\nremaining two-thirds of His recorded miracles include the raising of the dead,\nhealing of the sick and infirm, cleansing the lepers, commanding the weather,\ncommanding plant-life such as trees, walking through walls, disappearing in the\nmidst of crowds, taking on<b> the<\/b> Serpent following his 40-day fast, along\nwith other (serpents) artful, cunning and malicious Scribes and Pharisees whose\nlegalistic and twisted demonic arguments from Scripture could not and would not\ndissuade Him, and -- surprise, surprise! -- remitting the sins of people even\nbefore He had gone to the Cross.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I've\nalways been a bit amused at folks who think that Jesus was advocating the\nhandling of snakes.\u00a0 EVERYTHING He prophesied of and to \"them that\nbelieve\" was a demonstration of exactly what He had accomplished and\nfulfilled during His three-and-a-half years.\u00a0 Jesus never handled snakes,\nbut He DID take on serpents -- regularly!\u00a0 He referred to the Scribes,\nPharisees and Sadducees on more than one occasion as a <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000;\nmso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>\"generation of\nvipers,\" <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>meaning\nof course that their lives, their motivations and their speech were artfully\ncrafted to manipulate people and lead them into further legalistic bondage,\naway from the relationship with God purposed from the beginning.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Everything,\ntherefore, that Jesus promised to and prophesied of His followers was something\nthey had a proof text for in His life and ministry.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I know\nthat some folks have tried to become so technically picky (legalistically\nartful and manipulative) with the Scripture as to suggest that these\n\"signs\" and evidentiary proofs of the<span style='color:#C00000'> <\/span><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000;\nmso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>\"Lord working with\nthem and confirming the Word with signs following\"<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'> <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(Mark 16:20)\napplied ONLY to the apostles and disappeared shortly after the turn of the\ncentury.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>These same\ndoubters and unbelievers promote the idea that apostles and prophets died out\nin that same time frame, and that Paul's statements in I Corinthians and\nEphesians are to be ignored because the body of Christ has already<span\nstyle='color:#C00000'> <\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;\nmso-bidi-font-style:italic'>\"come to the unity of the faith,\"<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'> <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>having been\nperfected at the Cross.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>It really\nis one of the looniest doctrines I've ever heard.\u00a0 It defies any rationale\nconcerning Paul's preaching on apostles and prophets roughly 30 years after\nJesus ascended, and forces one to dismiss whole portions of God's Word if they\nare to believe such nonsense.\u00a0 Those who \"artfully craft\" and\n\"maliciously use\" God's Word so as to seduce believers and keep them\nfrom their full covenant benefits are nothing more than a modern\n\"generation of vipers.\"<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>If <b><u>we\nare seated with Christ<\/u><\/b> in heavenly places -- as Paul writes in\nEphesians 1:20-23, <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#C00000;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>\"Far\nabove all principality, and power, and might and dominion, and every name<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'> <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(<b><i><span\nstyle='color:#0F243E;mso-themecolor:text2;mso-themeshade:128'>onoma<\/span><\/i><\/b>)\n<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#C00000;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>that is\nnamed, not only in this world but that which is to come: and hath put all\nthings under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the\nEkklesia (not church) -- that called out and betrothed company of people by the\nBridegroom -- which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in\nall,\"<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\ncolor:#C00000'> <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>then\nwe most certainly ARE co-equal with Jesus Christ!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>When have\nyou ever seen a body-less head accomplish anything?\u00a0 When have you ever\nseen a headless body accomplish anything?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>NOW do you\nunderstand covenant.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>We've been\nfitted together and joined together with Jesus Christ as a living, breathing\nextension of Him.\u00a0 If you'll pardon the rather oversimplification, He is\nus, and we are Him.\u00a0 Whatever He does, He does through us.\u00a0 Things\ndon't happen without our participation.\u00a0 Jesus Christ does not randomly,\nmystically, perform miracles in the earth, or work some kind of sign and wonder\nin the earth without the direct participation of His covenant people.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>We have\nand live a covenant that requires our all.\u00a0 Jesus has made a covenant with\nus that requires His all -- and the last time I checked, He hadn't left\nanything out or stopped His covenant partners from living in and operating in\nall that He is and has.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Folks, His\ncovenant is as alive and breathing today as it was when He said, <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>\"All<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'> (exousia) <\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#365F91;\nmso-themecolor:accent1;mso-themeshade:191'>privilege, force, authority, power\nand jurisdiction is given unto me in Heaven and in earth.\u00a0 You go,\ntherefore\u2026.\"<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>\u00a0(RAC\nTranslation & Amplification)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>That's OUR\nresponsibility.\u00a0 Our covenant responsibility to the Lord is to do the\nworks that He did, to preach the Word that He preached, and -- moreover -- to\nfulfill His prophetic Word, <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\n\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>\"Verily, verily I say unto\nyou.\u00a0 He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and\ngreater works than these shall he do because I go unto my Father.\"\u00a0 <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(John 14:12)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Complete and direct obedience to the Word\nof the Lord always produces tangible and life-giving results.<\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><br>\n<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\"'><br>\n<\/span><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>In case you are\nmissing out on real fellowship in an environment of Ekklesia, our Sunday\nworship gatherings are available by conference call \u2013 usually at about 10:30AM\nPacific.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>That conference number is <\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>(712) 770-4160<\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>, and the access code\nis <\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>308640#.<\/span><\/b><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'><span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We are now making these gatherings available on\nvideo using ZOOM.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If you wish to\nparticipate by video on ZOOM, our login ID is 835-926-513.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If you miss the live voice-only call, you can\ndial <\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>(712)\n770-4169<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#002060'>, enter the same access code and listen in later.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The video call, of course, is not recorded \u2013\nnot yet, anyway.<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>B<b>lessings\non you!<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Majestic;mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div 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Should you desire to\nparticipate and covenant with us as partners in this ministry, please contact\nus at either of the above email or physical addresses, or visit:\u00a0<\/span><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.riverworshipcenter.org\/\"\ntitle=\"http:\/\/www.riverworshipcenter.org\/\"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'>http:\/\/www.RiverWorshipCenter.org<\/span><\/a><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'>.<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our unity with the Lord Jesus Christ is something that Jesus determined from before the foundations of the earth.  Stop and think about it!  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