Stop Playing Church • Feb 18, 2026
Jun 01st 1988
This message journeys back to the dawn of creation, exploring God’s two distinct realms—the visible and the invisible. Discover humanity’s original design as a unique interface between these worlds, a being of spirit and body. We explore the tragic impact of the fall that severed this connection, and how Jesus Christ, as the “new Adam,” has gloriously restored this dual nature within us. Finally, understand the Church as the foretaste of our true habitat, a spiritual community destined for complete oneness with God. Come, delve into the eternal relevance of this transformative truth.
Well, I want you to know that the door swung open on numerous occasions. I wonder if you can help me. Maybe it’ll come to mind. That door did swing open on occasion. Let me tell you one time when that door swung open. That door between the two realms swung open, and a gentleman by the name of…yeah, I never thought about that…Enoch walked through that door. And one day, Abraham was standing there feeding his pigs. He was feeding his pig, and the door opened, and a priest walked out, who didn’t have a father or a mother or any lineage. And he ran over and offered tithes and offerings to this one who had stepped through the door. One who was a priest of another realm. Are you following me?
One day, an old gentleman saw that door open…now listen very carefully…he looked up into that other realm, and he saw a building, some awesome building. God said, “Build a replica of that.” “Out here in this desert? God, there’s no way.” Well, do the best you can. So, he said, “Well, we won’t make it out of cloth because we don’t have that, and we’ll build it with this and that and the other.” And he said, “Bring your gold, and bring your silver, and bring your bronze, and bring your fine linen. And they built a little symbol of something he had seen. The door opened. Are you with me?
Another time, a man was riding down the road, and the door opened, and the man was thinking…I think he was trying to figure out a way to make a fast buck…and he was thinking, but the donkey looked up, and he saw an archangel. He was a lot smarter than the man. The door had opened, and an archangel had stopped the man.
There was another time when the door opened, and a king looked up into the other realm, and he saw the same building. The only difference was that it was getting bigger. And he was awestruck, and he wrote down some possibilities for building a replica of that. And he gave it to his son. And he said, “Son, build that. It is a symbol of what I saw in the other realm.” Are you following me?
Okay, there was another time the door opened, but it was bigger than a door opening. This is a young man, and he was chosen by lot to go into that replica here on earth, which was built by Solomon. Are you following me? A replica of some glorious thing up there. And he walked, and he opened the curtain into this cubic room that you are only allowed into once a year. And he went in there to perform the rites of the priesthood, and he was in a symbol, a replica, a picture of the other realm. That’s what that room is. And he was about to do something, and it was like someone had taken giant hands and pulled the wall apart. And I saw the Lord high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. And there were these flying creatures crying, Holy, holy, holy. And all I cried was, Have mercy on me, God, I’m a sinful man. The door had opened, and a man had seen for one moment the other, glorious realm that he once had had title deed to. Are you following?
Well, you know, it’s very interesting. There was another man who went into the same room, also appointed that year to be the priest who would go in and officiate, and he was going into this room to do something, and this is a room that has just this one entrance; you can’t get in any other way. And he’s about to do whatever he’s supposed to do, and there stands an angel. The door had opened again, and an archangel had come through. And his name was what? Gabriel. And the man he was talking to was Zachariah. And he said, Zachariah, you’re going to have a son; and Zachariah snickered. And the angel struck him dumb. But he had a son. That door had opened.
Well, dear brothers, follow me now because something monumental is about to take place. Can you see how that door moves around? Please understand that the door moves; it’s not stuck in one place. That door could appear most anywhere. I mean, just anywhere. And you cannot understand that it opens up to a non-dimensional realm. You can’t measure that realm. It’s not big. It’s not small. It’s just. It’s there. You say, well, it’s bigger than our creation, yes, but it’s small enough to fit anywhere and take the whole thing with it. It is non-dimensional. And now that door is going to open under the most strange of all possible circumstances, and a new…listen, a brand-new creature is about to be introduced. A brand-new creature is about to be introduced into this realm. A new creature is going to step through this realm. He’s not an angel. He’s not exactly anything from that realm. He’s not exactly a thing from this realm. He’s New; nothing like this has ever happened before or appeared before. The portal opens, and here comes good news, folks. Oh, do you know what that portal is? That portal is a woman’s womb that allows something incredible to come out of the other realm into this realm, and there lie in a barn.
Let’s look at this creature. Tell me, does this creature have a body? It’s likened to Adam’s body, and there’s no sin in it. Does this creature have a soul? Ah, and the soul is without sin and without damage. Psychologically perfect. Undamaged. That’s great. Does this creature have a spirit? Aha, a duplicate of Adam, if you please. Look at this, a duplicate of Adam. He has a living spirit. So, he is Adam again; we have a new Adam, a second Adam, right? Wrong. This is not a duplicate of Adam in any way, for there’s one other thing in him that Adam never had.
Had Adam eaten the tree of life, he would have had it. But there is inside this little baby not only a body that is not corrupted by flesh, a soul that is not damaged by the fall, and a living, pulsating spirit that comes from the other realm. But he also has not only the breath and wind of the other realm, but he has the very Father of creation. God lives in him. That never happened to Adam.
Do you understand that this baby has brought God out of the other realm and put him in this realm? Do you understand that we have before us now a creature who belongs to both realms? Do you understand this? One is back again. When he grows up, he can stand in this realm. Get clear on the saints; he also stood in this realm. He was in both realms at the same time. And this is why I would say never tie Him down to His Jewish culture. Listen, He’s as much—I’m going to use the word human here, it doesn’t fit, but let me use it—He’s as much human to that realm as He is to this realm. Do you understand? He’s as native there as He is native here. He is as much in that realm as this realm. I don’t mean that He remembers it, I mean He’s in it, just like Adam.
Brothers and sisters, here He is. The only difference between Him and Adam is that He doesn’t have a habitat to live in. He’s got no habitat. But He’s going to change that. Praise the Lord. He’s going to get Himself a habitat.
Alright, can you see Him? Watch Him grow up. He gets about this size physically. Well, He gets about this size spiritually. When He grows up to about this size physically, he is also growing spiritually. That’s in the New Testament. He’s growing this way. So that if He knows this much about His humanity, He knows this much about His divinity. If He knows this much about this realm, he knows this much about the other realm.
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