Debrecen Messages #9 – The Functioning of the Human Spirit and Adam Invited to the Fellowship of the Godhead

If you want to die and go to heaven, you just go right ahead. I have my eyes on something nicer than heaven. I have my eyes on a place that’s got heaven beat and earth beat. It’s a little of both, and it’s where Jesus Christ will dwell forever. And that’s where I mean to be.

We’ll get to that later. Now, brothers, we’ll jump ahead in the story and discover that we got pushed out of our home. And so we wandered. And then he gave us a picture of our home when he gave us the tabernacle. Then he gave us a picture of our home when he gave us the temple. Then he gave us insight into ourselves, and that home when he gave us Jesus. And then he came and gave us the second-best thing to heaven, the second-best thing to an unfallen heaven and an unfallen earth. He gave us that which the temple, the tabernacle, the temple, and the Lord pictured for us. He gave us the Ecclesia.

And it’s a short walk from the Ecclesia to that garden. And when I have to say, when I have to say he gave us the church, and you and I think of a building, it makes me want to cry. It should never have been a building, saints. There’s not a Christian in the first, second, or third century you could have sold them a church building and say, here, take this instead of the Ecclesia. They will walk away from you. Why would I take a building instead of the body of Christ? Why would I take a building instead of community? Why would I take a building when I can have a garden? The garden of pleasure, a garden in the midst of pleasure.

When we come back, we’ll take a look at our home, and I tell you, from this point on, the book of Genesis chapter 2 to me is beyond belief, how this could have been so early, I don’t know. It really is beautiful, but if you’ve got anything to learn today, it is you’ve got a spirit to touch your Lord and you have a soul to touch one another, you’ve got a body to touch everything that’s physical. And you also have a place to live. And you’ve got the right to live in that place, so go get there. Go get in it and bring God’s people back to their rightful place.

Obviously, the enemy of man does not want us living in our home. He doesn’t even want us to have a home.

And may I, in closing, say, when we look at Adam, we see the image of God.

Now, when we see Jesus Christ ascend, we see that which Adam was created in the image of. Christ was complete when he ascended. He had a resurrected body that had destroyed death. His soul was always perfect. And he had a spirit that had passed through death into resurrection.