13 THE FOUNTAIN OF GOD’S GRACE
THE FOUNTAIN OF GOD’S GRACE
Joel 3: 18
And it will come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip with new wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water; a fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Acacias.
“In that day” speaks of the prophetic future ("And it shall come to pass afterwards That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions."). We will experience deliverance from the captivity of ignorance of not knowing truly, who we are in God.
Isaiah 41: 18
I will open rivers in desolate heights and fountains amid the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Ignorance is the cause of spiritual unproductivity and it will take the remnant of the sons of God (Isaiah 37: 31) to be able to connect to the spring that will enhance their growth in this time of spiritual dryness.
If we are to catch the light of the fountain of God's grace, it is important to consider the understanding of these for keywords:
1. GOD
2. THE WORD
3. THE LIFE and
4. THE LIGHT
To define the keywords as I have stated, it is paramount to know that everything begins with a deliberate intention and there is a deliberator, which could be either God or the devil. When the deliberate light is missing, the evidence will be darkness, which now gives a form as if darkness is real, while in reality, it is only an illusion caused by the absence of light.
God is indescribable but known in the capacity of our knowledge as the Creator of all thing (Genesis 1:1). He is actually beyond what we know Him to be.
God in the Old Testament, we know as the creator, while in the New Testament as the saviour who saved man and recreates him anew into the perfect image of God in accordance to His likeness as ordained.
The Word (John 1: 1) is the revelation of God that became flesh. We beheld the glory of the Word, but somehow, our knowledge became limited as a result of not having the full revelation of Him and we started thinking even as taught that He is only but the Son of God. We do not know that for man to be able to see God, God certainly has to take the form of a man because no man has seen God (John 1: 18). A reality we can only understand when we have received the life of God from Jesus Christ as commissioned into the office of God here on earth, as sons of God (John 1: 12). Knowing the grace of God is the first step to the reality of true faith and this is simply accepting the knowledge of who Jesus truly is. This is the A of reality connecting the B known as BELIEVE, which connects the C known as CONFESSION. Therefore, to understand the reality of God's grace, we must know the ABC of True Faith, which is ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, BELIEVE and CONFESSION.
The access of Grace is acknowledgement, which is a form of attitude called HUMILITY (James 4: 6). When we humble ourselves in the sight of God, He will lift us to such that when men are saying, "There is a casting down, we will say, "There is a lifting".
Acknowledgement of the person of God (Jesus Christ) guarantees true belief and true belief guarantees true confession and the true confession of faith in Christ.
Having explained briefly, what the Word is, what is THE LIFE?
Scripture will answer to question because I do not have an answer.
John 14: 6, 1: 4
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through Me. In Him was life and the life was the light of men.
Now look at this, having the creator of all thing in mind:
Who is Jesus Christ?
Is Jesus the Son of God or God?
Jesus is the Word of God…
Do you believe that Jesus is the Word of God?
Now see!
John 1: 1
In the beginning, was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
What is the Word according to John 1:1?
Are you not with your body?
If you are with your body, then you should understand what it means, "The Word was with God". This simply means, the Word of God in the form of God, which defines His body that is not subject to time and space but can assume the form of a man because He has made for Himself that provision by making man in His image by His likeness (Genesis 1: 26). God made man in His image in accordance to His likeness to introduce the condition of His love as GRACE, which we define as unmerited favour and what is that favour? That favour is the price for the wages of sin (Romans 6: 23), which is His very life.
Therefore, the fountain of God's grace is His life and the spring is His light in our hearts. Grace connects God's life, while truth connects God's light and Jesus was full of grace and truth.
To answer the question, "Who is Jesus Christ?" having the creator of all things in mind.
John 1: 3
All things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Jesus is the creating or the creator in action, as the container of reality. Therefore, Jesus as the Son of God is the Divine Office, which God occupied to confirm our redemption from the wages of sin and now appoint us into the same office that we should reconcile men back to God and occupy that office till He comes.
What are you occupying until He comes?
Simply put, the light is the manifestation of God's life.
Permit me to build on what I am discussing in this chapter as "The Fountain of God's Grace" having established the foundation.
The fountain of God's grace is the good stream of knowledge.
The good stream of knowledge is the true revelation of who Jesus is.
God sent me to you my brethren with this scripture:
Isaiah 6: 9
And He said, "Go ad tell this person, keep on hearing, but do not understand, keep on seeing, but do not perceive.
Isaiah 9: 6
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of peace.
Unto us, a Son is given simply indicates unto us the office was given and when we accept His knowledge, Believe in His name and Confess Him as LORD and saviour, we sign in to the same office as sons of God, where He has given us all authority pointing Matthew 16: 18 to Matthew 28: 18.
Matthew 28: 18 – 20
And Jesu came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciple of all the nation, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age, Amen.
I AM with you always, speaks of God is with us, which implies, Immanuel is still ever-present, but in the dimension of the Spirit, and that is why we must walk in the spirit, not in the flesh.
We can see that the Great Commission received light in the New Testament, but it is an ordinance in the Old Testament as clearly revealed in Isaiah 6: 9 "Go and tell this person".
The question is what will you tell the people?
The Samaritan woman went back and told the people about Jesus Christ and Jesus alone is that testimony. Testimony of Jesus Christ is our message to the world and His testimony is the spirit of prophecy and that prophesy is Jesus is God (1 John 4: 8), revealing Himself as LOVE to evolve us from carnal mindedness to spiritual mindedness. Love is the weightier matter of the law, the emphasis of our faith in God.
Let the love of God rule your heart in Jesus name!
The fountain of God's grace is His life spring and God's life spring is Light.
Genesis 1: 2, 3 reveals life as above everything, pointing to an ordered sequence of the manifestation that led to the revelation of the thought of God.
The thought of God is light and out of the abundance of His heart, He spoke His light.
Our rising as the sons of God is with the incidence of light (Arise and shine for your light has come (Isaiah 60:1)).
You cannot arise to rise when you are not rising to the light of God's Word. The true experience of any believer of Christ is in the light. If you have not experienced the light of God, you are in darkness.
The experiencing of the light of God is the only guarantee of our manifestation as the sons of God and the world is eagerly waiting in earnest expectation (Romans 8: 19).
I need to clarify this even as the Spirit of God is leading me before I conclude this chapter.
What does Jesus mean by, "No one comes to the Father except through Me"?
Does He mean He is not the Father?
Jesus does not mean what you may be thinking, He simply means, we have to return to the position where we left Him as the WAY (Genesis 3: 9, Jeremiah 6: 16) and it is therein Jesus we can have true rest (Matthew 11: 28).
Jesus means no one can reach the dimension of realizing that He is the Father except through Him (the divine established an office in the form of man) called the Son of God by the leading of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8: 14). This simply explains that Jesus has birthed into the dimension of LIGHT of His glory (Colossians 1: 13).
I bring you the concluding revelation of our testimony…
Why do people find it very difficult to believe the truth of whom Jesus is?
1 Timothy 2: 5, 6 (AMP)
For there (is only) one God, and (only) one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all (people, a fact was) attested to at the right and proper time.
Did you read, "For there is only one God"?
Did you also read, "Only one Mediator between God and men"?
From the scripture, we just read, "Who gave Himself as a ransom for all people?"
This is the right and proper time for the truth to be known and the truth is to merge as one 1 Timothy 2: 5 and 6 with John 3: 16. John 3: 16 reveals the content of what the Word is full of as Grace and Truth as captured in John 1: 14, where grace brought us knowledge as in John 3: 16, while the truth brought us the revelation in the right and proper time as 1 Timothy 2: 5 and 6. By grace, I mean Jesus Christ, while by truth I mean the Holy Spirit, while by Life I mean God the Father.
Now let us read together 1 Timothy 2: 5 and 6 with John 3: 16, which says, "For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 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."
What else do you need to believe in this absolute truth?
Can you see that God, in reality, gave Himself because 1 Timothy 2: 5 and 6 clears the ambiguities in men's hearts. After all, the knowledge is not for that time, but NOW… say, "NOW!" are you thinking what I am thinking?
Let us think it into the scripture (John 4: 23, 24).
1 Timothy 2: 5 renders and blend the unblended truth as "The man Christ Jesus" who gave Himself as a ransom for all people. Jesus gave Himself as ransom to all people to hatch the revelation that has been incubating for a very long time. We can now see the value as the dark becomes the background, the light in the eyes of the heart of men becomes the figure in our eyes as, that man in 1 Timothy 2: 5 is the God who gave His only begotten Son in John 3: 16.
Do you still have any question to find out if Jesus is God or the Son of God that people are now creating distinction as if the Son of God is different from God?
Finally,
As the Mediator, God cannot come with the name God, but with the name "God is with us" Immanuel, which is a form of man, but that does not make Him the man that we think He is as flesh. I mean what scripture meant by "The Word became flesh" and this was never a carnal being as we have chosen to when we left the WAY with Adam in Genesis 3: 9. He is a spiritual being, not that He was, as we will present Him when we speak with the knowledge that He became flesh and dwell with men as man bodily and in men as spirit spiritually.
God is a Spirit hiding from carnal eyes and He is hidden in light (Daniel 2: 22), therefore no man can see Him, but Enoch saw Him, how? Because Enoch became a man in Him as ordained and could now see from the dimension of light, not darkness (carnal domain). The dimension we can see God is the dimension of Holiness because without Holiness no man can see God. So in reality, this is possible in Zion, because upon Mount Zion and the children of Jacob shall possess their possession.
Deliverance must be from carnal mindedness.
The highest level of carnal mindedness is ignorance because ignorance is the driver of self and self is the current of the thought of the devil in the heart of men who have not accepted the truth and this what defines unfaithfulness, and without faith, it is impossible to please God. It all boils down to LOVE, it all begins with God and it will all end with Christ.
I do not know what your Christ is, a man or a God? If yours is a man, it is the Antichrist, but if it is not a man, then, He is God. LOVE is God (1 John 4: 8).
Love is what is missing in our world today and that is why there is so much hate and hate that grows into crisis, as crisis grows into wars.
If only we can love each other truly, they will be no wars.
