Debrecen Messages #10 – The Revelation of Our Habitat and The Tree of Knowledge

He still has a place that’s part heaven and part earth. And I want you to know that you are a hybrid. You look like a human being, but you are not. You are a new species disguised. We’re running around here disguised as human beings, but we’re actually a new species. Now, you can’t tell this until you look inside of us. This old species running around here has a dead spirit. We’ve got a living spirit. And, but Gene, that’s the same species. One’s just dead and one’s alive. Yes, but we’ve got something that the dead species doesn’t have. And if that dead species got a live spirit right now, it’d still be a different species from us, because we have something else in us. We have God. The life of Jesus Christ. Divine life. Uncreated life. In us.

Now listen. That is a hybrid. Here is the human spirit and the divine spirit, and they become one, and they unite you with the heavenlies. Therefore, you are part of heaven. You’ve got a clay body. It’s made literally out of clay. It will turn back to dirt, and it has all the elements that dirt has got in it. Did you know that? There’s no distinction between a human body and a lump of dirt. It has the same elements. You can ask a biologist this, and he will tell you: exactly the same elements. Now then, when the divine spirit and the human spirit got together and your soul got redeemed, you became a hybrid. And you’re walking around with Jesus Christ in you, just as Jesus Christ walked around on this earth with the Father in him, but he also had a human body.

Now, he is… Don’t compare us. There’s a difference. Our soul is fallen but forgiven. His is unfallen. His body was not fallen nor sin dwelt, but there is still the basic combining of the heavenlies and the earth. There is a combining in Him. There is also this basic same combining of heaven and earth within us. Therefore, we cannot be happy on this earth. It is not possible. And we will be seekers till the day we die if we try. There is no peace, Buddhist, no matter how much you deny. There is no peace, Muslim, no matter how much you believe. In your religion. There is no peace. Hindu. And you know that. You even teach that.

And to you, Hebrew, dear Hebrew, there is no peace on this earth. And you can’t make peace on earth, and you can’t get peace on earth. And the angels didn’t come and say, peace on earth, goodwill toward men. They came and said, peace to men of goodwill who are on the earth. I’m going to tell you something, Jonathan. You can’t be happy on this earth, and you don’t belong here. Abel, when God said to fallen Adam, get out of the garden, he said to him that a fallen man can’t live here, but then he pushed man out into a place that’s not his natural habitat. It would be, Kalea, like we threw you off of the earth and told you that you’d have to live the rest of your life in the ocean. Kalea, you could not find peace in the ocean. In no way on earth you could. And furthermore, you wouldn’t live out there very long. It’s not your natural habitat.

Well, that’s the way Adam felt the day God told him to leave the garden. He was out of his natural home. And he still is. And the sons of Adam cannot find a place of peace on this earth. And we don’t belong just to heaven. Do you know that I’ve got a point in here somewhere? Peggy, what’s my point? Do you know what my point is? That we’re created to live the way we are. We’re created to grow better. For something else.

But now we’ll tell you something. Right after God started this new species on this earth and got it where you could see it, he said, I’m going to give you back your habitat. You’ve got a place to live on this earth, just like Adam. And it’s part heaven. And it’s part earth. It’s not the total fulfillment. I’m working on that, the Lord said. I’m turning that garden into a city, but I’m giving you a foretaste of that city. You were born in that city. You may not know it, but you were never born again. You know your Bible says born again, right? It’s not a correct translation. Go look in the margin. You were born from above. Your mother is a city. She’s a girl. She’s a woman. She’s unfallen. And God knows we’re going to live there forever with Him. And the throne is there. And that means that’s better than heaven. And it’s sure better than even the new earth.

But in the meantime, He’s got a place for us to live. It’s our habitat. And it’s got the kiss of heaven on it. And it’s got the kiss of earth on it, but it’s also got the kiss of the two combined. It has the kiss of Jesus Christ, the glorious high bread, holy man, and utterly God. It’s not a dirty, good-for-nothing, low-down auditorium with chairs in it facing some sort of ridiculous-looking altar. It’s just like the new Jerusalem. It’s heavenly. And you can’t really see it until all the parts come together. Then you can see it. And I’m at a loss to tell you what the community of believers is, but I can tell you that the church of Jesus Christ is your rightful home.

Abel, Danielle, Pishti, it’s our business to be in that city, to be in that house which is becoming a city, which is to be in that body, which is made up of many parts, to be part of that girl who is made up of many members. The Christian life doesn’t work on earth. The Christian life works in a garden. A pleasant garden. It’s becoming a beautiful city.

Kalia, in case this message is ever, ever, ever shown in Albania. You know I’m angry. We should have treated your country very special. And we didn’t. You know what we didn’t give you in Albania? We didn’t give you your habitat. You are so many saved people in Albania, but we didn’t give you your habitat. We saved you and left you on the earth, put you in an auditorium on Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. To have a home for God’s people. The hybrids. There weren’t any hybrids in Albania. They were all fallen humans. Now you’ve got hybrids. Part heaven, part earth. They’ve got a right to a place that’s part heaven and part earth. It’s the church of Jesus Christ. And it’s a community. It’s a citizenship. And it’s a place. And you don’t live there one hour a week. You live there. And it’s not of earth.

It’s a pleasant place. I tell you, when you’re there, you sense heaven. And you sense an unfallen earth. And you sense the glory of heaven. And you sense the divine. And you sense the redeemed human. Even the glorified human. And you sense peace, and something in you cries out, Hey, this is home, why didn’t you let me get here sooner? This is where I belong. This is home. And anybody’s ever walked into her gates like Adam walked into the gates of the garden. This is home. This is where I belong.

Daniel, bring her to earth. Abel, give her to this planet. Give her to Romania. She’s a civilization. Now I’ve told you before, there are some things that keep my oven hot and keep my engine going. Boy, I’m in the business of joining heaven and earth. That’s my business. And giving God’s people a place that Jesus Christ built. We have a right to be there. It’s our home. Yeah, there are tears there, but there is joy there. And there’s loneliness there sometimes, because it’s a foretaste. But boy, there are times you taste heaven. There are times you taste the throne. And there are times you see him. And there are times he is on that throne leading you. And it’s where you belong. It’s home.

You have a habitat. On this planet, since the day of Pentecost, it’s called the Ekklesia. Well, why do they call it that? That’s a strange word. It’s not either. If you take a foot and a leg and a hand and an arm and a torso and a neck and a hip and an elbow and a knee and a head and you assemble them, then you’ve got heaven and earth combined. You’ve got Christ, the glorious Lord of heaven and earth. And his bride is the body. Praise his name. Whenever you see his eternal purpose, it will be something that has to do with the combining of heaven and earth. And making them One. Not just combining them but making them One. And the garden was the making of both of them – One. He took all the glories of the heavens and all the glories of earth, and he made them One. And Adam, seeing the unseen, played with angels and walked with God. And God was in the garden. And God is with us in the new Jerusalem with his throne. And God is in his house. The house of God. And if that doesn’t make you want to run out of a church building and take a dive right into an adventure, I can’t help you. If you walk out of that living room where you’re listening and say, Oh, really good message. I really liked that. He really touched on a lot of glorious things. Hey, that was nice.