The Ephesians Story (Part 5)

Continued from Part 4 –

…not the Jesus of Nazareth. Yes, He’s there, but I mean by that, we’re talking of before creation. This is that eternal, glorious Lord who will rule and reign one day. Here He is. He (the Father) goes into His Son, who is eternal with His Father, and He takes a chip of Christ. Now, according to scripture, everything that is the Father and the Son and the Spirit is in that small chip, because there’s no dimension. All of God is in every part of God. All of the Spirit is in every part of the Spirit. But He chips off, if I may, He chips off a piece of Christ, and within that chip there is uniqueness, some portion of the personality of Him, unique to that little chip. And this is eternal.

And He not only says, Boy, I’ve got to be careful here, “This will be Jerry.” He says, “This is Jerry.” Not your body, not your soul, but one day this will become one with you. And there’s an element there, brother Jerry, that is uniquely Christ that cannot be found in any other part of it, and that’s the personality. Something there. I don’t know what the word is. He chose you in Christ before He created. This is settled. Now, sister, He did the same thing with you. It was a chip of Christ, and now we can say that, and that’s what the scripture says, that you were in Christ before the foundation of the ages. Can God deny His Son? Then neither can He deny you. You’re in there. And God did something that day; He’s never changed. That day, He saw you in Christ; He’s never seen you anywhere else since then. Say, “Praise the Lord.” Say, “Praise the Lord,” sisters. He has never seen you anywhere but there in the depths of the center of God, and the depths and center of Christ. You have never left that place.

You and I may not understand this, but within that situation, within that, that scene, within that scenario, is the new creation. The new creation waits for what happened there to be visibly seen. Now, did He also do this with you? Yes. He marked you off. A better word than predestined, He marked you off in Christ before the foundation of the world. And now there are many pieces of Christ. And those pieces have been deposited throughout church history. I am sorry, Martin Luther, that I cannot have fellowship with you, because you do not belong to my time, though you may belong to my space. If I’m in Germany, I belong to his space, but I don’t belong to his time; therefore, I cannot have any fellowship with him. And you can’t either.

And there are Christians right now in Wittenberg, Germany, and they cannot fellowship with Martin Luther, even though they’re in his place, they’re not in his time. 50, 75 years from now, there will probably be some Christians gathered here, but they cannot fellowship with us. They’ll be in the same place, but they won’t be at the same time. Now may God give me utterance as to what I’m about to say. There are little chips of Christ, pieces of my Lord, that have been scattered throughout all of space, throughout space in many spaces, many places, and throughout time. Jerry, you cannot find the time, though you can find the place of Martin Luther. You cannot find the time, though you may find the place of Christians yet unborn. But Jerry, you can find the place of people in your time, or you can find in your time the people who are in your place. Do you understand what I just said? Do you have any idea what I just said? I just talked to you about the Church of Jesus Christ. And forget the definition you’ve ever heard of the ekklesia. The word ekklesia means assembling together. And brother, that is in your space and your time. The chips all come together, and they reassemble. Did you hear me? The chips of Christ, each unique, are scattered throughout time and space. There is a space: it’s Atlanta. There’s a time. It is now. And the pieces of Christ come together, and they are assembled. Please tell me what is seen. Tell me what is seen. Christ. He is visibly seen in your bodies, but He has claimed those as His possessions, and the body of Christ is seen. May God open your eyes to Christ, and may God open your eyes to the assembling, to the Ekklesia. And may God open the eyes of everyone, everywhere, to bring those chips back together again, the reassembling of that which was marked off in eternity past.

Really, that’s all you’ve got to do while you’re in this space and this time, Saints, is to get back together again with the other chips. Now, hallelujah, one of these days, He’s going to end the time, and He’s going to end the space. And I’m going to spot Martin Luther, because he’s going to be free of space. We’re all going to be at the same time. There will be no time at all, because that which is physical and mass will have disappeared, and it’s going to be a meeting on what a gathering that’s going to be. And we won’t be standing on anything physical. I’ll tell you where we’re going to be in just a second, but Martin Luther and Zwingli and Conrad Grebel, and Melanchthon, if all those men were brothers, and all the people who met in this room 5 years ago and who might meet here 70 years from now, and space and time is going to be gone, and all those parts of Him that were marked off in Him in eternity past, and we’re going to be on the threshold of eternity future, all those pieces are going to come together. And there’s going to emerge the most beautiful girl there ever was. Do you understand what a wedding is? A wedding is a celebration of 2 ceasing to be two and becoming one, and we’re no longer speaking of physical things: we’re speaking of spiritual things. There are two getting married at a great celebration, and here are all the chips. Are you with me? And they have formed; they have finally assembled. She’s the church, and then they get married.

Brothers and sisters, the pieces are coming back to where they started from. We’re going to end up where we were. We’re going to know as we’re known, and we’re going back into the center of God the Father. We’re going back into Christ, where we came from, because we will be a totally spiritual entity. We’ll have a body that is spirit and a soul that is spirit and a spirit that is spirit, and we will be once more dissolved into Him, and we will be in Him, and He will be in us. All that’s in us will be Christ, and all that we are will be in Him. And that will be the great last finale, when He shall become All and All. And the Church of Jesus Christ is a demonstration of that, and the Church of Jesus Christ on this Earth is an experience of that. Holy ones in Colossae, you were marked off in Christ before the foundation of the world, and you are still in Him right now. He gave you all the spiritual blessings in heavenly places. He also marked you off in Christ before the foundation of the world. You are an eternal entity. You are a part of a greater whole, and while you’re here on this Earth, you’re supposed to assemble. All the pieces are supposed to get together, and I want you to know, piece, you’re lonely and hungry for the other pieces. And everything that Christendom can think up will never satisfy that loneliness. The only thing that will satisfy that loneliness is the assembling of those pieces. And that’s not how we meet; that’s why we met. We meet for those pieces to find one another. They used to be together. They’re going to be together, and now they must be together. And that’s how you meet, and that’s where you meet, and that’s why you meet. Praise His name.

Now, where was the brother who got beaten over the head? Was that you? We had a slave who got beaten over the head this morning. That was you. You already forgot, and it kind of got to your head a little. That steward of that field really gave you a hard time, didn’t he? Isn’t it nice to be with your brothers and sisters tonight? And you know when they look at you, you know what they see? They see a holy one. They don’t see a slave who got beaten over the head. Isn’t it nice to be back with the pieces? And there’s this sense of the presence of Jesus Christ as you and your brothers and sisters sit here together, fellowshipping and enjoying Him who is the head of this body. The head is still in the Father; the chips have been allowed into space and time while remaining in the eternals. Now there’s a sentence for you. The pieces that have been marked off have been allowed into, scattered throughout space and time, while yet remaining in Him.

How do you feel now that you’re in a meeting with your brothers and sisters, even though you have a big knot on your head? Do you feel worthy? Do you feel clean? You feel holy? Well, I want to tell you something: He wants you to know that you were marked off in Him before the foundation of the world so that on your sojourn through time and space, with a physical body that’s really hardly worth mentioning, that while, when that which was marked off in Christ, which is Christ and which is part of the divine nature, comes into this rail and makes His abode, this eternal one who now becomes one with you, therefore joining you to the eternals and joining you to His spirit and joining you to Christ and joining you to the Father, and you’ve got to now make it about 70, 80, 90 years, that while you are going through that time, He has done all this to reassure you that what you were then, you still are now, and that right now, He sees you in this space and this time, even though you’re in a body of corruption. He sees you now as He saw you then in the depths of the Son and will see you when all of those parts assemble and come back into God. For He has done all of this so that you might know that you are holy and blameless as you stand even now in His presence. Well, don’t just sit there. You have no right to just sit there. Say something.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the holy ones who meet in Colossae. All of this that he speaks of is so that you might understand that while you are here on this Earth, this fallen, corrupt, sinful, God-forsaken, benighted, miserable hole, the first cousin of hell, that the eyes of the Father that saw His Son within its depths and marked off something in Him that was utterly holy, and who in that era, in that eon, in that age would not have had anything to blame anybody about anything, saw you as an eternal portion of Him now placed in you, a treasure in an earthly vessel, that when He looks at you, you may know you are still holy and absolutely beyond and above all blame. Praise the Lord. Brother Slave, the man was wrong when he beat you over the head, swore at you, and blamed you for getting that wagon load of hay stuck in the mud. He was wrong. You are without blame. Praise the Lord. Now, sister, dear sister, you have a husband, who sometimes, out of the nature of his fallen body, gets on your nerves and blames you. It’s not true. Sister, in the eyes of the Father, you are now what you have been and what you will be; you forever and eternally are. You live in the now of His holiness, and in the now of His blamelessness. Praise the Lord. By the way, there’s a reason He did all this. I’ll go one more line. “In love, He marked you all to the adoption as sons through Christ Jesus to the Father according to the kind intention of His will.” I’m going to just end here.

I live in New England. In 1740, there was another Edwards living in New England. Do you know what he’s famous for? Sinners in the hands of an angry God. I would like to take this moment to apologize for Jonathan. He was a little Twitty. In Christ, you have been adopted, become another son, and there will be a physical reveal of that someday, that that chip has become another son of God. Not like His begotten Son, but a son in equal standing. Please understand that the Father cannot blame the Son for anything, and until He does, He can’t blame you, because that which is the immortal in you is His Son, mixed in together with your spirit now eternal. And He has made you a son, which means you have always been a son, and you always will be a son, and you will cease to be a son when the Father allows His Son to cease to be a son. And not until then.