The Secret GEOGRAPHY of the Christian Life

I want you to see Him raised from the dead in a mystery beyond mysteries. The body no longer hides God. We are now looking at the glorified Christ. Oh, I guess I’m a little ahead of myself. That would be the Lord in His ascension. For the sake of His disciples, the body is hiding the indwelling Father, but the body is totally spiritual. I want you to know that the body belongs as much now to the other realm as His spirit does. His body can traverse time and space and walk through a wall.

Now, brothers and sisters, if His body can walk through a wall, it can also walk through a rib cage. Now that’s why we speak of Christ being in us. Anyway, He has the ability to move through physical matter, and there is a group of men hiding. It’s the day the Lord rose from the dead. A group of men is hiding in a room. The room is sealed, and He suddenly appears. He just walked right through the wall. He is free, not only of time and space, but of matter, and now we have something truly new on the earth. We have something that’s visible that belongs to the spiritual realm. Totally. Before, everything that belonged to the spiritual realm was invisible.

I want just you to know something. If right now you and I could walk through that door and look around, we couldn’t see anything because we’re blind to the invisibles; at least with these eyes we are. Not with these, but with these we are blind. But we could see something up there or out there, wherever it is; we’d see a man. He is visible right now in other realms. He can be seen. There is a man, at this moment, on the other side of that door, and He is visible. Praise the Lord. And yet He is totally spiritual. And that’s the resurrected Christ as He stands in that room that night.

Then the scripture says the most unbelievable thing. It says, “And He breathed not on them.” That is not a correct translation. He breathed into them. He breathed what into them? Did He do what He did when He made Adam? Did He breathe into man the winds of heaven? No, not this time. He breathed into them the spirit of God. That is, He breathed into them another life form. At that moment, they did something that had never been done before. They moved on the biological chart. One species changed places. They now had, in them, the life of God. There were 12, no 11, no 10. Thomas wasn’t there; the other one had lately committed suicide, the treasurer. 10 men. Oh, it’s very much like what happened in the Garden of Eden. I can see it: coming out of this one who can now share His life because He’s risen from the dead. If you don’t understand that, you understand wheat. A wheat seed fell into the earth. A wheat seed came up, many wheat seeds, yet still one wheat seed. He came up many, yet one. He took His life, and He could now share it just as one wheat seed grows up, and you can make bread out of it. Still the same wheat seed, the very same wheat seed. He is now many but one. And He breathes into them and impregnates them with the very life of God. He breathed into them not what He breathed into the nostrils of Adam, not the wind of heaven, but the very spirit of God; the highest Life form went into them.

Now, here’s what happened. As God’s life came down through their nostrils and into the lungs, and I can see His life once more; if we can see the unseen churning, pulsating, billowing, and begins to move into the deepest part of that disciple and comes upon that dead spirit, long forgotten, never used, dead since Adam, in tuned deep within the soul. That Spirit and that Life which Himself, or itself, has lately risen from the dead, now has the power of resurrection.

We have died once. Our spirits have died already. And there they sit…there it sits, inside the disciple, and here comes the Spirit of God, the highest Life form in the universe, God Himself, in a form dispensable to those who believe. This churning, glowing, wondrous life of God comes near this dead spirit. It quivers. Closer and closer, the life of God comes, and finally there’s contact, and the dead spirit comes alive, and it’s back in correspondence, and it has… It’s living again, but please remember, it came from another realm, and it can contact that realm again, and it’s got what Adam’s got. Yes, the veil of the flesh is still there, not broken, but the spirit’s alive. When Adam had a veil of flesh in his body, his spirit was dead, but our veil of the flesh has been forgiven, and our spirit has risen from the grave by the power of the God, the eternal spirit that raised Jesus from the dead and has made him one, who can resurrect because coming in contact with that dead spirit is the Resurrection. I am the resurrection, and I am the life.

Can you see the meaning of those words now? Here comes resurrection Himself, touching the human spirit. The spirit ignites, and here comes Life: the highest Life form on the biological chart. Eternal life. The Life of God. And now the Life of God not only touches the human spirit but penetrates the human spirit. Hallelujah. And there’s an explosion. There’s some sort of something that happens, and I’ll just tell you what the New Testament said. I’ll not try to interpret. And the two became one spirit.

Now you tell me what that means. There’s a dissolution. The two become the same element, and now there are in that room 11 men with living spirits and 11 men with a Life, the highest Life, in them. Not one man, but 11 men can get out of bed tomorrow morning and live by a life not human. 11 men can get out of bed tomorrow morning and live by the Life of God. 11 men can live by the Life of God himself, the very Life God lives by. The new species that has come to earth is breeding. It’s getting bigger, and there’s a new species, a bride in the land, a new creation, because it doesn’t belong to the old creation. It is biologically unique. And that’s me, and that’s you. Praise the Lord.

That’s the history of the spirit; that’s its history right there. I’ll tell you just a few more things, that when that Spirit of God resurrected…that which is Resurrection and Life comes and touches that dead spirit and makes that dead spirit alive, that living pulsating eternal life comes and brings not only resurrection and life and God’s spirit, and not only makes the two one, but that pulsating life of God brings with it, if I can use the word it, brings with Him, brings with it, the history, the history, the experience. The history moves in too. Hallelujah.

You know what really happened? I’ll tell you what really happened. Just as simple as it can be. Before God ever created, before He ever made an angel, before He ever made this physical realm or the spiritual realm, He made a simple decision. Somewhere deep within the sea of the Godness of God, He marked out a small portion of Himself, and He said, “That’ll be Andy on the day of redemption. That’ll be Andy’s, but all of Me will be in that little piece of Me and all My history. Past and future are there.” And in any…in a really, really real way, there you were. I mean, that’s the real you because brother now the spirit is central, or it’s going to gain centrality. It might hit a real war, but it’s going to gain centrality.

And all in the world that happened to you on the day you got saved was He just plucked that which He had marked off from all eternity past; marked off in Christ before the foundation of the world. Says predestined. That’s an English word. Marked out in Christ before the creation of the world. He just put from His inmost being, that which is in Christ, and implanted it in you. And that life came down, raised your spirit from the dead, and they became one. Now you have the Lord in you, and that portion of you has always been alive, has a great history, and will always be alive, and it will live forever. And given half a chance, it’s going to reach out and change your soul, and the body is going to be cast off; changed. You know how it’s going to get changed? Another mystery, and then I got to quit, or you’re going to go on overload, because in some mystery beyond all mysteries, there is inside the Life of God the seed of a new body, so small that it is too small to be found. And that body is like unto the body of your Lord, your Lord presently, and on the day of the trumpet, the trumpet will call forth that little bitty seed, and that seed will come out of the spirit and out of the soul. As the old body dissolves, the new will take its place, and you and I are going to have bodies that are as spiritual as our spirits, and I mean by that, not spiritual in their religious nature, I mean as spiritual in their composite in their substance, as spiritual as our spirits, yet visible. We’re going to join the Lord in the invisible realms, and we’re going to see the unseen with our very eyes, not with our spirits. We’re going to know just as well as we are presently and utterly totally known. John said, “I don’t know what we shall be, but I know this. We will be like Him.” Praise the Lord.

Well, now that’s the history of the deeper Christian life, and that’s the history of your spirit. I just want you to remember something when you go home tonight, you get in bed, pull the covers up around you, remember that your spirit’s alive, and like Adam’s spirit, it came from realms unseen. It may have died in this realm, but it came from the other realm, and it’s got a right to be in that other realm. It came from that realm. It belongs to that realm, and you are now part of two realms. You have been saved by the redemptive power, the death and resurrection of your Lord, and through the effectual graces of His blood, you have been cleansed, saved, and redeemed, and your spirit has been made alive. You may not have a glorious body, and there may be a stoppage out here, but internally, you have what Adam had. You have a functioning spirit that can see unseen things. And within your spirit is the Life of your Lord, and you can turn to that spirit, to that realm, to that life, and live by a life not your own.