Living in the Invisibles Part 4: Sons of God, Faith & Being Clothed in Christ

Now, brothers and sisters, we have space and time as you’ve never seen in your life. I would say you’ll never run up against a verse of scripture to deal with more than that one as far as dealing with invisibles. By the way, I’ve told you before that you’ve never seen a baptism. You’ve seen a symbol of baptism. Here is baptism.

Let’s say that He comes out because He, too, was baptized and He did that for our sakes. By the way, He said, “Let’s do this for the sake of men. I want to challenge you with something. Don’t rush this, but one day, when these things have become more a part of you, and they become really serious things to you and precious and holy, take this verse, Galatians 3:28, and go out here to your lake. Can you get into that lake? Get in that lake, and let the church in St. Cloud, knowingly and together, plunge herself into that water. But with eyes that belong only to God, don’t see the water, see Christ. Are you following me?

And know that in that instance, when you’re all under the water, that you are sons of God and daughters of God, and that you have put on Christ, not righteousness, and know that you’re not going to come up, and you never come up. Well, of course, because you’re in the material world, you are going to come up, but make sure you’re clear that you’re not coming up. And make sure in that instance, when you’re down in that water, that you are one person, the new human. And while you’re under that water, there is desolation and addition. The desolation is your gender, your social status, and your race. You’re no longer a Jew or a heathen. You’re no longer a slave or free. And you’re no longer a man or a woman. When you come up out of there, yes, you can come out of there as Christ…that is…His body. And you can come up out of there as sons and daughters of God. But most of all, you come up out of there utterly, totally surrounded by the completeness of the new man. You don’t know what I’m talking about.

You emerge out of there, floating around somewhere inside of Jesus Christ, having lost all identity other than him, and you say I don’t want to lose my identity. I like my personality, and I don’t want to get lost in that way. Well, then you need to remember, brother, sister, that the personality you got is a reflection and a part of, a tiny bit of, the personality and the individuality of Jesus Christ. Every person in this room will live as a believer expressing some part of Christ because Christ is in you, the hope of glory. You will come out of there in union, with oneness, part of, and lost in Christ. And when you come out of that water, you’ve got to believe that you’re still in it. You’ve got to believe that that water is not water, but it’s Christ. And you by faith will take things that are unseen and make them seen.

And who are the people in St. Cloud? I want this little plaque, brothers. Hang it on every wall, for we are those who take things unseen and make them seen by faith. We see what is not seen, and we declare those things that cannot be visible as though they were visible. We declare that that which is not visible is visible. We declare that which is not as though it were. We declare that which is not as though it is. That’s who we are in St. Cloud. And one more verse: if you belong to Christ, so do you belong to Abraham, and you are heirs to everything in the book of Galatians.