NEW NATURE
The “grafting in” begins with that tree called "the cross". Literal Israel was blinded so that they would place Yah's flesh upon that tree where it was rent, and sinless blood poured out. He died as a seed sown in the ground to spring forth with much fruit. If the Jews remained blind after YahShua’s resurrection it is because of pride and by their own choosing. YahShua was preached in the streets of Jerusalem by the disciples, they have no excuse.
YahShua came as the light of the world “which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of Yah, even to them that believe on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of Yah.”
All the prophecies of the Old Testament, as well as the things YahShua said and did, must be seen as being spiritually fulfilled, not naturally. Yah came in human flesh, not to deliver literal Israel, but to birth a spiritual one. Though literal deliverance was what was in the mind of the people in YahShua’s time, spiritual birth was in the heart of Yah.
When YahShua was on trial before Pilate and being questioned He answered: "My kingdom is not of this world: if My kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is My kingdom not from hence. It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."
He did not deliver literal Israel at His first appearance because the flesh was not what Yah was concerned with, and physical Israel is still not what He is concerned with. His kingdom is spiritual and that spiritual kingdom will some day come to earth and be seen. His purpose for coming to earth was twofold. First, He died to set men free from sin, and, secondly, He came to give them a new life through His resurrection, bringing many sons into His glory, immortality, and to birth spiritual life. It is not a natural inheritance that belongs to the child of Yah, but a spiritual one. Yah’s promise was not unto seeds, but unto seed, as one. And, that one seed is the new creation man birthed in each of us.
YahShua said "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of Yah." And again, YahShua declares, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Yah. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."
We are not Abraham's seed, nor are we the seed of Adam. The old man of the earth died in YahShua Messiyah, and we are a new creation. We are born of incorruptible seed. Abraham's seed, even those who obtain righteousness through faith, are flesh, natural and dwell on earth. Messiyah took part in that so that He could bridge the gap between physical and spiritual. He is the ladder Jacob saw in his dream, and we, who have been born of the Spirit, are the heavenly beings that ascend into the realms of heaven, authority, through Him. And, we are also the ones who will descend to do His will in the Kingdom Age. YahShua said, "And no one hath ascended into heaven, but He that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven." Then He reveals before His death, "That where I am, there ye may be also."
Messiyah died on the cross having no seed or descendants. His flesh lineage died there at the foot of the cross, but, after He went back to the Father, He has birthed many sons after His image, spiritual beings, and after His likeness, having holy attributes. Things produce after their kind. That is why YahShua did not have natural offspring while on earth. It is not a god-man that Father wanted to produce in the earth, but a new species of being, born of His Spirit.
"Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of Yah. And if children, then heirs, heirs of Yah, and joint-heirs with Messiyah, if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together."
A New Day
The manifestation of the sons of Yah will issue in a NEW DAY, and things will move from grace to a new and living way for us to walk. Now, I am not saying that grace will be done away with, but that accountability will be added. Yah will no longer wink at ignorance, but demand that all men everywhere become responsible for their own actions. Just as a young man, in the natural world, can no longer use the ignorance of youth as an excuse to cover his actions as a man. Yah, too, will begin to require from those who are His to grow up, and walk in holiness and spiritual understanding. You might say that “The Age of Grace” is our youth, and the “Kingdom Age”, which is about to come, is our adulthood. It is the goal which we press toward. In the Kingdom Age His will shall be done on earth as it is done in heaven, for the kingdom will have come to the earth plane. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Adonai, as the waters cover the sea."
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, Yah's Kingdom, coming down from Yah out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, the earth. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of Yah is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and Yah Himself shall be with them, and be their Elohim. And, Yah shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
This will be a glorious time for some, and pure hell for others. It is the “great and terrible” day of the Adonai. Great for those who have a heart and mind for Yah, and the worst hell ever encountered for those who live outside His holiness in a self-righteous, religious piety. Why should the same thing that brings such joy to some be a curse to others? Why should blessing for some become someone else’s nightmare? Yah the Father's pure holy presence will so permeate all things until we who are His can not contain all of that glory, and will be transformed and swallowed up in it. For others, the very guilt of darkness with its sin and corruptness will be revealed in horror for the eyes of all to behold. Now that is hell! This is not the hell that religious mainstream Christendom teaches, but the lake of fire, the cleansing and refining fire of the presence of a holy Elohim. “Our Yah is a consuming fire.” Only holiness can stand before His presence unashamed. Even while having right standing, and access to Yah by faith through Messiyah many will stand there ashamed, being convicted by His holiness. In that day many will seek death, but will not find it. There will be no relief from His omnipotent holiness. It will be like eternal fire upon their heads.
“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith Elohim, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith Yah. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases, the living bodies, of the men that have transgressed against me, for their worm, flesh, shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.”
The scripture above has yet to be fulfilled, and it will not be fully fulfilled until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom Age that is about to appear upon the earth. As was stated before, the true fulfillment of prophecy is not natural, but spiritual.
“Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.”
Many look down upon the Jews because it was at their hands the Messiyah died, and in the Kingdom Age it will be very grievous to them. But, they are not the only ones who pierced Him. Many are doing the same thing today by living unholy, sinful lives all the while declaring that they are His people. The one who will grieve the most is the religious man who thought he was serving the Adonai only to find that he was only serving religion, whose righteousness is as filthy rags, and whose pious acts will not even be acknowledged. Let's not stand before Him defeated, but as conquering overcomers in His righteous holiness!
Holiness
There is a difference between holiness and righteousness. Righteousness is our standing with Yah, and is freely provided to us by someone else, YahShua Messiyah. Holiness is something we must do ourselves. YahShua said, “Be perfect, holy, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” Though righteousness comes through Messiyah and is a free gift, holiness comes through conduct in life and is our reasonable service. It is our responsibility.
Holiness is not acts, but is the attitude of the heart. It is that which is on the inside coming to, or being manifest, on the outside. Holiness is a total commitment to become what we already are in Yah, with the nature of Yah being displayed by degrees until we are changed into the image of the Son of Yah. If the Spirit fails to gain our co-operation, then we are not following after holiness and will not be holy. How do we become holy before Him? We simply allow the offending part to be cut off, not our physical parts, but our attitudes, ideologies and character traits that offend. We go to Yah with the offenses, and the great Physician surgically removes them from our hearts if we will submit to this procedure.
Holiness is when we are no longer interested in pleasing man, but are interested in pleasing Yah. He becomes our measuring stick, not the preacher in the pulpit, the Bible, or the one upon the stage. We can know holiness only as our “whole” attention is upon Him, and we allow Him to become pre-eminent in our lives. This is not a word thing only, or simply a mouth confession, but it must be in our hearts, for it is out of that tabernacle that we truly live.
"For this purpose the Son of Yah was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of Yah doth not commit sin, for His seed remaineth in Him, and He cannot sin, because He is born of Yah."
New Name
We have learned through science the part genes play in our character. We can now see how traits, whether good or bad, are carried along from one generation to another. Yah has instilled within each one who is born of the Spirit the inherent knowledge of what is right and good, and we must follow that with our “whole” heart. All that we are as sons of Yah has been implanted in us at the new birth. Those traits lie dormant there until triggered by the genes, or Holy Spirit, as we mature and as we grow in the knowledge and admonition of Father Yah. As any child in the natural must do, we must exercise these traits to perfect them in us.
One of the things we learn in Revelation is that we will receive a new name. Name means nature. When we are born of the Spirit we have a new nature birthed inside us, and we will be known by that nature. When YahShua walked the earth He called Himself the “Son of Man”, for He was flesh. After His resurrection He was called the “Son of Yah”, or offspring of Yah. His name changed to signify that we were born out of His new name, not the flesh name. “…And I will write upon him the name of My Elohim, …and mine own new name.” Like natural genes that identify us as children of our parents in the physical, we are sealed, or stamped, with the spiritual code that identifies us as sons of Yah. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise and given the power, the spiritual counterpart of genetic makeup to become sons of Yah.
Like the Israel of the flesh we have made many blunders, and gone our own way, but Yah was faithful to bring us back onto the right path even though sometimes it brought loss and hardship upon us.
Since you heard the call to "come out of her, my people," how many times have you found yourself in Egypt again? Egypt being some bondage that held you as a slave to do the will of another, and under religious authority. How many times have you been to the Jordan, but you were afraid to go over despite all the miracles you have seen? How long do you wallow in the pig pen before you finally come back to Father? He has been waiting with your forgiveness, and is holding the ring of kingship and the robe of priesthood for you. Have you ever watched a baby trying to make his hands grip something? He works tirelessly until he becomes skilled at the task, It then becomes a part of his makeup. His attention is then turned to another task such as walking and so on. When the work is finished you have a mature young person after the image of his parents.
This is a lesson that can be learned by the Father's spiritual children. We, too, must continue to exercise our inherent traits of holiness and righteousness until we can stand in the Kingdom Age fully mature, living out of our new nature, and about our Father’s business.
The Hope of Glory
Note: The literal accurate transliteration from the Hebrew/Aramaic scrolls of the word rendered “Christ” into Greek should be “Messiyah”. This is the name the disciples used, and this is the name I will use.
The Messiyah has been speaking to my heart lately about the new nature, the born again nature that is. I heard that old doctrinal phrase, "Messiyah in you the hope of glory" and it just hit me wrong. For a long time now that declaration has bothered me. Why would something so fundamental to my salvation bother me? So, I began to seek from Father what He was trying to show me. He made me to understand that until His sons start living out of the new nature, which is sonship, the sons of Yah will never be manifest.
For some time now I have noticed the anointing had fled from me, and I was not moved upon to do things or write new articles. Then Father began to show me that the anointing was given to bring in sonship, and was not always to be my motivational power. The Holy Spirit, for the Father's sons, was as the anointing of the first Son at the baptism of John. This was to declare to the world who He was, and to set Him into His ministry. Then, the Spirit led Him into the wilderness of temptation. But, the Spirit is not seen operating through Him, because He operated out of His nature, the fullness of who He was.
We, on the other hand, are immature and can only move out of our new nature in part. The Holy Spirit then becomes our tutor and governor until we come to maturity at the appointed time of the Father. “Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be master of all. But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. And because ye are sons, Yah hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of Yah through Messiyah.” Thus we must come to maturity.
YahShua said, "I do what I have seen of My Father." In other words, He was doing what was His nature to do. He told Nicodemus, "You must be born again." Then He goes on to explain His statement by saying, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." When we are born of the Spirit of Yah we become sons of Yah, and the nature that makes Yah to be Yah becomes alive in us. As the sons of Yah come into their maturity, it is no longer the anointing that should motivate, but the nature of the Father that dwells in them by virtue of who they are. You might say I am speaking contrary to scripture, but the scriptures are only foundational truths. As time goes on we are to build upon those truths with revelation knowledge, or understanding, given to the sons by their Father. In doing this we will go on to perfection.
If it is "Messiyah in you the hope of Glory" then we have not yet received that glory, but only hope for it. "For we are saved by hope, for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." The hope of glory keeps us, or seals us, until we come into maturity, and experience what the anointing causes us to hope for. So, since "Messiyah in you" is only the hope of glory, then there remains the glory we are still hoping for. "The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of Yah to be revealed. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, "Messiyah in you", groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." The hope of all of mankind is the manifestation of the sons of Yah. "Messiyah in you" is not the hope of mankind, but the hope of the glory that awaits us as the sons of Yah.
Living It Out
So, Father has been speaking to my own heart about "living out of" the nature of the spirit life born in me, just as I "lived out of" the nature of Adam when I were born in the flesh.
When we were born of the flesh we did what was the nature of the flesh. We did not need to be prompted, it was natural. The same is true with those who are born of the Spirit. These will find themselves doing what is natural for a spirit being to do, and this does not take the anointing or the unction of the Spirit. This takes maturity.
All created things do what is their nature to do. Dogs bark and wag their tails, because it is their nature to do so. Caterpillars instinctively make cocoons, because that is what they were created to do. Man is inherently evil because it is his fallen nature to be so. The sons of Yah do Yah’s will, and walk in spiritual understanding, because it is their nature, and furthermore, they will put on immortality because that is what they are. They are born of incorruptible seed. They will speak from the spirit, and walk in the spirit born in them, because they are the sons of Yah. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of Yah, they are the sons of Yah." This is another step up the ladder to manifestation.
We must come to understand this and begin to walk in that light as He is light. When we become skilled in this Yah will then be able to manifest His sons to the world. This is the Father's good will, to bring many sons into His glory through YahShua Messiyah. I am always available to answer the questions of a hungry heart. It is Yah's will that we help one another up the hill to transfiguration. However, keep in mind that it is not revelation knowledge that we should seek, but "HIM". Spiritual understand will automatically come as we become more aware of "HIM" and become more like "HIM". Many fall short of full sonship by becoming too caught up in the revelation, and not caught up "IN HIM". "HE" must have preeminence in our life even in our getting of revelation knowledge. I can not stress this enough.