Winona Conference Part 3 – The Great Mystery of Christ and the Church – Two Kinds of Christians

Come here, Peter, you’re first. Brothers and sisters, here is the first person, after Adam and the Lord Jesus, who’s going to get a living spirit. He is the first man ever other than the Lord who is going to get the divine nature in Him. Stand up here, Peter. I want you to watch what happens. Deep within the Lord Jesus Christ is His own living spirit, like Adam’s, that which belongs uniquely to the Lord Jesus. However, within His own unique spirit, there is also the living God, the divine nature of God.

Now watch and see what angels could see that neither we nor Peter could see. Watch, watch His Spirit, risen from the dead, risen from the dead, and therefore can die no more. Watch His divine nature within His Spirit coming up out of the inmost part of His being. You know where it’s flowing from? It’s flowing from a door and here that goes into the other realm, to the throne, to the Father, and out of the Father, out of the Father, who’s living in the Lord. Don’t ask me to explain this. And it is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And there is the life of the Father. And there is the living spirit of Jesus Christ. And then this glorious, living, pulsating thing comes up out of the Lord. And the Lord goes (he breathes), and we are told he breathed into him. Into him. And what?

Watch this sparkling, glistening, glimmering spirit go into the nostrils of Simon Peter. And as soon as Him – not it, Him – touches Simon Peter’s dead spirit, what happened? There’s a resurrection. Been dead for thousands of years. And for the first time, a human spirit rises from the dead. Praise the Lord. We have a cleansed soul, saints, and we have a living spirit pulsating inside of Peter. That’s not where our story ends, thank God. As that spirit came alive by the touch of divinity and the touch of the Lord’s own spirit, then there entered into this pulsing living spirit the very nature of God. And his spirit and the nature of God became one. Do you follow me?

And when he was old, Simon Peter remembered that historic night, and he wrote you and me a letter, and he said, We have become partakers of the divine nature. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you for your double witness, Simon-Peter. Praise our God. Well, this happened to John and James, and it happened to Thomas later. It happened to Matthew and Jude, and Judas not Iscariot, and who else? Simeon and Thaddeus. And each one of them, if we could see, had this glowing inside of them. And Adam was green with envy.

Out of his wounded side had come that which he had died for and was now the DNA of his DNA. Genetic code of his genetic code. There was a woman hidden inside the Lord. Jesus Christ, and she came forth to be seen by the eyes of God – by the eyes of God, visibly on the day of Pentecost. But that part of her was caught in time and space.

Now, brothers and sisters, I’ll tell you about one more time that door opened. No, it didn’t open; it’s open now. The Lord kicked it in on the day of the crucifixion, and it will never close again. And do you know where that door is located? Do you have any idea where that door is located? Say that again. Brother, stand up and do that, would you? (Pointed inside himself) Thank you. Will you just show us, right? Come a little lower. How about right there? All right, brother, that’s where that door is located.

And do you understand, dear friend, that Jesus Christ had one foot planted in one realm and one in the other? And do you understand that you’re now a species of his species? Do you understand that you’re now genetic code of his genetic code? Do you understand that you are now a part of his DNA? And do you understand that you now belong as the redeemed to both realms? Praise the Lord. Now hold on to that and don’t let go because that gets important, for the subject under discussion is the spiritual community of the believer. Alright, you haven’t forgotten that. Alright, thank you, brother.

Hey, listen. There is one thing missing. A habitat. A habitat for this new creature. For this new creation. This new…when we say, ‘new creation’, we’re not talking about a new creation. We’re talking about a new creation. Do you understand? There is the old creation, and the new creation, and the new one’s just as big as the old one. We’re not talking about “I am a new creation,” as if I were something made new here. We’re talking about how God did away with one and started another. This is the second creation, the new creation. I’m looking at it right now.

Alright, now, an old man goes up one Sunday morning, real early…not 11 a.m.…and somebody thrusts his finger into the fabric of our universe and rips it open. Well, the old man is sitting here like this. He’s looking this way. The fabric of the universe has been ripped open this way. John! John! And what did he see? He saw a door open. What did he see? He saw the Lord. And he couldn’t even describe it. What else did he see? He saw a door open. He saw a door open.  He saw the future, and I want you to go with me to that place. Would you come with me now to that place? And let’s look up. And that door is open.

And you know what we see? We see the place where God is housed. Now, saints, follow me very carefully here. Look up with me. What do you see? You see, coming out of the other realm…are you with me? That means it doesn’t belong to that realm…toward earth, the new earth…this doesn’t make any sense. Here comes a city. Not a building, not a tabernacle; this thing has grown to the size of a very large city. What is going on here, my brother? Let me tell you what we see.

Can you recall at any time ever before where there was a place where there was a tree? Can you recall a place where there was a river flowing with living water in it? Think with me. Wasn’t there some place that had a tree and a river with flowing water and gold and pearl and precious stones and God and a man? Where was that place? Where was it? Eden. It was the interface. It was the place where two realms touched, joined, and overlapped. Are you following me?

Well, it doesn’t look like any garden to me, but it’s got a tree and a river and a God and a man and gold and pearl and precious stones, and the garden has grown and become a city. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Here comes my habitat! Praise the Lord. It’s coming back. The cherubim have been dismissed. The sword has been put aside. The flame is gone, and here comes my habitat. Praise the living God.