Excerpt from The Gospel of your Salvation
Sanctification by Water, Spirit, Blood
There are three that bear witness:WATER
The Father’s desire is for many sons. He is rich in mercy toward us and we are born of water when we hear, believe, and obey the message of truth, the gospel of our salvation, the truth of our sonship.
SPIRIT
We are sealed by the Holy Spirit and receive the Spirit as the pledge of our inheritance as sons of God. He delivers us from the bondage and power of sin so we can join the one offering of Jesus Christ, in His body.
BLOOD
In the body of Christ, a process of redemption by blood is effective as we fellowship in His sufferings to cease from sin and receive His life that brings us to our sonship.
Grace enables us to receive our sonship as we submit ourselves to the administration of Christ that is in His body, the church.
This is the gospel of your salvation!
Preface
The Lord has called His people in all ages to meet and fellowship with Him in offering. Only then can we commence our journey upon the highway of holiness, in the light of the lampstand and arrive at the mercy seat. As He did for Joshua the high priest, in the days after Judah returned from exile, He is giving us 'authority in His house' and 'places to walk'. However, from the beginning He has directed that 'none shall appear before Me empty-handed'. We should bring the first and the best. We should seek first His Melchizedek kingdom and His everlasting righteousness. But if we approach the altar with desolate offerings, then we will be rejected. The offering has frequently been desolated, either by God's own people or by those who have oppressed them. Using the prophetic language of Isaiah, He will 'whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria'.
Perilous times are coming upon the Christian church. We can be confident that God is giving a word to His church that will preserve the remnant. Those who do not receive His word are going out to destruction. The media and the education system are vocal in their atheism, so that our youth are being undermined in their faith. A whole new set of moral values is being imposed upon them. A falling away is occurring among denominations that are endeavouring to stay relevant to the world. They have no foundation or ground upon which to stand when they refuse the word of present truth. Present truth is the rock upon which the church must be built if it is to withstand the assault of the gates of hell against it.
God's extraordinary work has determined destruction upon the earth and a complete end. He is allowing the 'desolator' to overcome the nations that are bringing worthless, desolating offerings. But in the midst of desolation, God is bringing forth a multitude of sons. By one offering, Jesus has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. By the sanctifying processes of water, Spirit and blood, we enter into the finished work of Christ. As He is, so are we in this world. It is this sanctifying process which is bringing many sons to the glory of full inheritance as heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ.
In this day, the Lord is raising up a lampstand church in every nation so that His people are a light. He is establishing an administration of light in every place to show His glory and bear the testimony of Christ to the nations. Isaiah declared, 'Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you, and His glory will appear on you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising'.
We must bear the testimony of Christ in every place. The Lord Jesus is establishing an administration in a lampstand that can bring forth a multitude of sons. And He is raising up a fivefold ministry which will bring the oil of grace to every lamp on the lampstand. Only then will we 'all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ'. When this is so, what government, principality or power can assail us? The administration of Christ is raised far above all principalities and powers. It is seated with Christ in the heavenly places, in the mercy seat. It is untouchable and unassailable. The church will still endure great tribulation, but the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.
The administration of Christ has been committed to a five-fold ministry which has been sent to bring a great company of sons to glory. This administration will be protected. It will overcome and proceed to bring all things into subjection to Christ. This will be in every nation. There will be triumph once such an administration is properly connected to the throne of grace, so that an abundant supply of grace is available to every lamp. God is going to watch over this administration. And the foundation of the Lord will stand firm. It will withstand the coming flood. In our case, we are not yet prevailing because we are still 'mixed' in our culture. We have not yet purged the leaven of the sub-cultures among us. We need to hear what the Spirit is saying to us at this time. We are either raised by the Spirit to be seated with Him in the mercy seat, or we are dead in trespasses and sins.