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15   For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.    16   For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.   17   For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; ~ II CORINTHIANS 4:15-17

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“But though our outward man perish…” The objective of Calvary is to remove the curse of the garden, where Adam chose the control tower of his own humanity to guide him instead of the Headship of God. Just as the earth, which the Bible says “passes away”, but is not destroyed and passes from one form to another, our body does not “perish”, but is put back into its original condition of subjection to the Word. Paul is clear that the perishing of the outward man is related to this “earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved” in II Cor 5:1. The inward man is renewed by the realization of this death recognition.

16   That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;    17   That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,    18   May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;    19   And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. ~ EPHESIANS 3:16-19

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What is this “inner man”? Whatever it is it seems very important to our comprehension of the Kingdom of God and the knowledge of our position in Christ. What was Jesus’ “inner man”? “The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” (John 14:10) Would it be correct to say that His inner man was His Theophany? Words spoken by the Father were the same Words that created the whole world. Looking at the speaking of the Word through Jesus gives us the answer of Third Pull operating through us. It is the Father that doeth the works. All this blends together into a position revealed by the fullness of the Word.

16   Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.     17   But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.     18   For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.    19   For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. ~ GALATIANS 2:16-19

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Living a life by faith means we are living in a reality we cannot see. This is true justification. Paul is telling us that since we KNOW that man is NOT justified by the works of the law, or keeping of commandments, then how can we seek to find our justification in things we can see? “If I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.” How can we live in a faith reality, KNOWING we are already crucified IN Christ, and look in the mirror hoping to find a sinless condition? Our flesh is not the thing that testifies of our justification, it is only by faith.

If you got Eternal Life, there is only one form, that's God, and you are an expressed attribute. See? If you... If you're not, you're not going to be there, anyhow. "No man can come to Me except My Father has drawed him." See? Which, "passes away," all these old things; but these Things don't, so it speaks of Eternity. The Holy Ghost is Eternal. Then, you are in Eternity, where you was all the time, but you've just recognized what happened. ~ 64-0802  THE.FUTURE.HOME

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“Then, you are in Eternity, where you was all the time, but you’ve just recognized what happened.” When Paul tells us “You ARE come…” in Hebrews 12:22, he is telling us that the perfection we will come to in the end time is the condition you have always had, but didn’t recognize it. The fullness of the hour must bring us to a theophany awareness. You can’t make Headship, Capstone, Seventh Seal, taking of the Book, Third Pull, preeminence of Christ, anything other than full maturity and placing.

And we lived through all these types in here, but, when you hit the eighth, you go on into Eternity. You don't come by laws, and rituals, and orders. You come by predestination. Amen! There is a genuine, holy convocation! See? And we're ending the seventh church age, church age, the Pentecostal age. Do you see it? We're entering that holy convocation. We are entering into that real, genuine, Eternity, where the Church is called; not to some station, some denomination, but into Eternity with their Eternal King. See? We don't have it at all, no such a thing as days, and things, and times. You've passed into Eternity, where you come from. You was There, to begin with. See? ~ 64-0802  THE FUTURE HOME

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The new birth has always been the revelation of Jesus Christ personally to you, but in the end there is a fullness of the Word, a fullness of redemption, a fullness of time, that allows a fullness of position to be manifested. This is not the earnest, not in a time of fullness. Heavenly places is an eternal position in Christ. That is something you can’t see, feel, taste, hear or smell. It is declared only by a faith sense, but it is more real than this body we live in. It is more real than your job, or your sickness. “You’ve passed in Eternity, where you come from.”

6   Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:    7   But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.   10   But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   11   Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, ~ II PETER 3:6-7, 10-11

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Paul tells us in Romans, that creation is groaning to be restored. Peter shows that creation going through the same plan of redemption we do. It is groaning to be clothed with its condition from heaven. Notice that Peter uses the same term, “dissolved” that Paul uses in II Corinthians 5. If the earth’s Baptism of the Holy Ghost is the “dissolving” of the old condition, won’t the promise of theophany in this day do the same thing. Jesus tells us to be clothed, “that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear” (Rev 3:18).

Christ came and called the Church to repentance, baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission; sanctify the Church; and with the Fire of God come down and burn out all the filth, and come and dwells in the human heart. Now, the world, to be redeemed for this redeemed person, He uses His same method. He baptized it in water, after the antediluvian destruction. Shed His Blood upon it, to sanctify it and claim it. It's His. Satan tried to say, “I’ll give it to You.”  He said, “No, sir, I’ll buy it.” Let it be a witness. He was lifted up, for an ensign, that He bought it. He purchased it. ~ 64-0802 FUTURE HOME

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This is a very familiar theme to many of us. God takes the earth through the same plan of redemption that He uses to call His Bride. The final stage of the earth is a new heavens and earth that have been renovated and the complete evidence of sin removed. There is no more sickness, sin, disease, in other words, it is restored back to God’s original thought. If that is the final stage of redemption for the earth, then what about us? Shouldn’t the Baptism of the Holy Ghost in the end time, when the Lamb has taken the Book of Redemption, put us into a condition with an eternal perspective? I believe that is exactly what was being taught in “Future Home” and why that message has been so important to me.

But the Son was the... Not eternal sonship, but the Son that was with the Father in the beginning was the Logos that went out of God. And it was the Theophany of God that went out, the human form that didn't have eyes like you see: a better eye. It didn't have ears like you hear, but a far more hearing. See? It was a Theophany, that all this rainbow condescended into a--a Theophany. Moses saw It when It passed through the rock like that. He saw the back parts, said, "It looked like a man." ~ 57-1002  QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON HEBREWS 2

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We walk by faith and not by sight. It doesn’t mean we close our eyes, but it means we walk by the influence of another eyesight. Faith is a seeing, a knowing the Mind of Christ that comes from the Logos revelation. Do I understand it, or do I just believe it. It is the result of the fullness of the Word being waved before the believer in the hour we live.

So I believe this with all my heart. I believe that we're nearing the age that when people are going to recognize these things. That we've had so much vain philosophy, and so forth, and teachings that ought not to be, until it has set the human mind to a revolution of thinking on matters of this and that, and taking it away from the Word of God. As I've said, faith doesn't come by fasting. Faith doesn't come by praying, reading a book. All of that's good: fasting, praying, and reading--reading a book. But faith comes by a--a settled something that's in the human tonight... When you come home, you told your wife you'd be home after the service was over, you do that unconsciously. You just go out and get in your car and go on home. Now, you could not do it, unless you have faith you could do it. You'd never move from where you're setting, if you didn't have faith you could raise up. But you've done it so much, and you just become so accustomed to those laws, till it's a natural thing. ~ 55-0113  THE FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATION FOR FAITH

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“Faith doesn’t come by praying, reading a book.” Simple faith is a knowing. You just know. Faith is getting your memory back. It comes because you hear the Voice of God and it stimulates a spiritual knowing, something that you are. You hear that something familiar and it sounds like the place you came from. You may not be able to explain it but you know.