The Supernatural Man – Part v
The Invisible Christ – Part 2
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; (2 Peter 3:15)
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.(2 Peter 3:16)
Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. (1 Timothy 1:16)
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. (1 Timothy 1:17)
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.(Revelation 22:13)
Peter declared that many of the words that the Spirit of God had given to the apostle Paul were hard to understand, however, it wasn’t to detract from the Spirit’s voice through the apostle Paul, but it was to reflect the lack of the unction of the Spirit of God within them (2 Peter 3:15,16) (Hebrews 5:12,13): the mysteries of God can only be revealed by the infinite, immortal, invisible God. The words of the one true God are a description of an endless Being who walks in eternity as the breathe and power of creation. The invisible creates the visible and in the visible He continually walks as the invisible. He continues to create both the visible and the invisible. Through the many names that God uses to describe Himself as the one true God we are allowed (with limitations of spiritual vision) to get a glimpse of His immortal Being; as these names are threads woven in a divine tapestry. The names display His total effulgent Being: the Eternal God, and the great I AM God steps through the window of the invisible, He displays Himself in the visible according to His own will and purpose. In the invisible He has power over the visible, and in both visible and invisible He is the power that holds both in His infinite will.
The Supernatural Man: The I AM
As the great I AM, as the invisible God, He proclaims His everlasting Being three times in Revelation, Chapter 22, verse 13: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. I am the Alpha, I am the Omega, I am the beginning, I am the end, I am the first, and I am the last. I am the Alpha and the Omega is the first in this brief list, and yet, it is the most profound, for it is more than the mind can conceive.
The Supernatural Man: The ALPHA and The OMEGA
Alpha is not only the first, nor is it only the controlling factor, but it is the greatest and the highest point of thought and reality. The Alpha encompasses the greatest expanse, and the deepest depth of imagery. It expands the first thought over a ocean of descriptive words of the one true God. The Omega comes at the finished counsels of God. The Omega brings in the new heaven and the new earth. All is new in the finished work of the Alpha and the Omega. From Alpha we travel into eternity in the great continuous loop of God’s will. We are but a creation of His own will, for His own purpose, and for His own good pleasure. We travel as fibers or grains of dust in an ever expanding history of man that will come to it’s full in the new heaven and in the new earth. As each grain of dust catches the light it becomes a visible flicker, and so our life passes before the sunbeam, we are visible for a small moment in time, but present for all eternity.
The Supernatural Man: The Beginning and The End
Whether the tree produces good fruit, or bad fruit, the journey continues, and the next part of this wonderful statement of the great I AM: I AM the beginning and I AM the end. This statement envelops what is tangible, and what is not tangible, this is the breathe of His thought before it is spoken or revealed. This is the breathe of His Spirit, God’s inner power before He expresses it by His Word. (John 1:1-3) This is the great expanse of His Spirit that surrounds eternity, it is through the Eternal, Immortal, Invisible that we receive and set our understanding of a Being who creates beginnings. For each and every child that is born of the seed of Adam has been a creation of His own divine Creator. There has never been two of the same, even in twins, one differs from the other; throughout time God has been creating this matchless creation that we call man. And from Adam’s fallen race God (the eternal, the immortal, the invisible) reaches down from heaven with His love and creates a new being, or beings in the children of God. When He creates this child of God, He removes Adam, and leaves the life of His beloved Son. God brings an end to the flicker of dust in the sun, yet, He holds that speck of dust in the great expanse in His eternity. He is the beginning and the end in the worlds: in the cosmos, in the stars, in the smallest molecule, in the smallest atom, and in the largest mass, all of these pulling and pushing at God’ command and will.
The Supernatural Man: The Revealer
As the great revealer of secrets He gives us thoughts of Himself. These thoughts are to overcomer the decadent and immoral world around us, and in us. He has overcome sin by the death of Himself on the cross. And as He reveals secrets, He revealed His purpose and His plan almost two thousand years before the cross to His servant, Abraham. (Genesis 22) God, Himself, proclaimed that He would in His own manifestation, and in His own Being become the visible sacrifice for the redemption of man. The invisible God would become the visible in the fullness of time. The Alpha became the visible Word, the beginning became the fullness of time, the first became the power of life in His resurrection: the first born from the dead. He declares with all His power and majesty from the cross (not from heaven) that It is finished; for He had put an end to both sin and death. He would become the beginning of a new race in His infinite self. He would of two make one new immortal Supernatural Man. For the Supernatural Man would become the super — super — natural — man. He would end the dominance and the rule of sin over man in His death and resurrection. He, as the divine Creator, through the mystery of His will descended into the darkness of death, so that in life He might descend into the heart of every believer giving them eternal life with Him. In His divine nature He is become one with us, we become attached to both the beginning and the end in Him. The immortal God shares His immortality with us, and we see the end as only a continuous loop of His beginning; and therefore, as children of God, we are carried into the eternal Being, we become both visible, and invisible in Him. We are translated into His kingdom (which we ourselves cannot see) yet, believe that we have been snatched from the grave (and in the mystery of God) we will return to dust, nevertheless, we shall share all eternity in and through the image of Christ: for we shall be like Him. It is God who has presented and revealed these mysteries to us, and it is God who has given us faith to believe in the invisible. We face the invisible each and every day, there isn’t a man, woman or child who does not believe that the next second of life will appear and they will behold it. And yet, all eternity with Jesus Christ is before us if we but believe in the only begotten Son of God Almighty.
The Supernatural Man: The ETERNAL BEING
The word of God is just as infinite as the God who gave us the Word. For the word of God will never pass away. The word of God is contained in the One who gave it. It is upheld by the same Being, the same Alpha, the same beginning, the same first, the same invisible God who created the visible, the same Almighty God (the Revealer of secrets) as He reveals Himself through His Spirit and through His Word. He displayed and magnified His eternal power over all things when He revealed His immortal Being as He spoke the worlds into existence. He is the beginning of the tangible, He is the beginning of faith, He is the beginning of grace, and He is the beginning of ever lasting life. He is the eternal, the immortal, the invisible, and truly, the only wise God. He is the God of heaven, and has reconciled the man of the garden of God in a new man, in a SuperMan from heaven.
The Supernatural Man: JESUS CHRIST
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. (Hebrews 2:9)
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; (Hebrews 2:14)
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews 2:15)
The first man was Adam, and he brought both sin and death into the world. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:(Romans 5:12). The second man was the glorious Man from heaven, Jesus Christ. On the cross of Calvary He destroyed both sin and death by going into the deep mire of death and bringing life from it’s carcass by His glorious resurrection. The new man of life was free from the tree of Adam. He is the true vine of life, (John 15) and brings us into His life by His supernatural power. He creates within us, that is the visible, the invisible image of God. This, of course, passes all the natural understanding of man; He has brought about spiritual beings that Adam and his descendants cannot understand. What is spiritual is spiritual, and what is natural is natural.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.(1 Corinthians 2:9)
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. (1 Corinthians 2:10)
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 2:11)
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (1 Corinthians 2:12)
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (1 Corinthians 2:13)
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2:14)
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. (1 Corinthians 2:15)　
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:16)
In our present evil world it is the natural man who has all the attention of the world for both the spiritual and the spiritual man is rejected. The reason is quite evident, for the spiritual man is not compatible with this world. He is attached to heaven through his divine Creator and Savior, the Man, Jesus Christ: the natural man has all the attention of the world, and the spiritual man has all the attention of the Man in heaven. The spiritual man is empowered by the Man in heaven who is eternal, who is immortal, and who is invisible. The mortal man does not live for the immortal, he lives for the tangible, and the possessions of life. He does not care for the spiritual, and has rejected the Spirit of God for the mind of Adam, but those who are under the care of the immortal have the mind of Christ. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:16) If the power within man is of Adam we then belong to the present evil world. If the power within us is Christ Jesus, we then have His power of an endless life and the power of the worlds to come. We walk in the power of the worlds to come, and in the power of His endless life for He is the immortal. As the Spirit of Christ dwells in us we have been put under the power and the grace of the invisible Christ. We now walk in the Spirit of Christ who is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He is the Alpha, He is the Beginning, and He is the First, and with all His divine power, He Himself transcends both all creation and eternity. He is the Omega, He is the End, He is the Last; this is the SuperMan of the cross. It is this Man who shook both heaven and earth by the death of Himself on the cross of Calvary. The darkness that came over the land, and over the cross where Christ bowed His head was the greatest darkness that ever descended upon this world, and upon Adam’s race. As the eye lids of the immortal God closed on the visage of man, Christ descended into death to destroy death, and bring life and light out of the darkness of the invisible. The invisible Christ then took on the glories of the new Man of resurrection through the total power of the Godhead bodily, He unshackled the chains of death for every man. All power both visible and invisible has been placed into His divine hands. What are these scars in thy hands? (Psalm 22:16) These are the wounds that I received in the house of my friends. And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. (Zechariah 13:6) Man had rejected His house, man had rejected Him, man had killed the Prince of life, man was not capable of understanding the power of the divine image that hung on the cross of Calvary between heaven and earth.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; (Hebrews 3:1)
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. (Hebrews 3:2)
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. (Hebrews 3:3)
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.(Hebrews 3:4)
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; (Hebrews 3:5)
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.(Hebrews 3:6)
All the divine power of God was working in the invisible power of redemption both in the visible sacrifice, and the invisible Man who was not seen. Through His finished work on Calvary He has built a new house filled with those who have been bought with His precious blood. The sum of all He was became the total of who He is.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; (Hebrews 5:7)
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;(Hebrews 5:8)
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;. (Hebrews 5:9)
We have the supernatural Man in heaven who has been made perfect for us through His sufferings. The invisible God had never suffered on the cross of Calvary, it was an act of His own divine obedience that He surrendered Himself and laid down His life for us. The immortal swallowed up death as He brought forth the rivers of everlasting life. He overcame sin and death for us. The immortal embraced death and crushed it, the invisible has become visible in a new man in resurrection power, and He by His Spirit has witnessed of His resurrection by giving life everlasting to those who believe on Him. We can never understand the sense, or even the reality of Christ’s triumph over all the things that opposed God; there will truly be things that we cannot comprehend. This is the statement from the resurrected supernatural Man, we need to muse upon it, and not only in a natural sense, but in a spiritual sense. (John 21:5) Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. The temporal also has spiritual meaning, the food of God in a spiritual sense must come from above, must come from the Lord Jesus, and in His compassion for us He continually asks that same question in the spiritual realm, Children, have ye any meat? In our spiritual life we are taken from the earth, and we are sat down together with the Lord Jesus in His Father’s throne. (Revelation 3:21) To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. The Supernatural Man has been made higher than the heavens, He has sat down with His Father in His throne, He has embraced us there, this is God’s rest to both find and acknowledge in our spiritual being that we are seated with Him in His Father’s throne. If we understand this position and the divine power that holds us there then we will never doubt God’s guidance and care. We will always see His hand as we travel through His will and purpose for us. We will dwell with the immortal, with the eternal, and with the invisible. He will behold us and He will keep us. (Romans 8:33)
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. (Romans 8:33)
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.(Romans 8:34)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?(Romans 8:35)
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.(Romans 8:36)
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.(Romans 8:37)
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, (Romans 8:38)
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39)
As we receive the image within our spirit of the invisible Man, Christ Jesus, we see the Eternal, the Immortal, the Alpha, the Beginning, the Omega, the End, the Invisible, the only wise God, the first born from the dead, the last man who is the Man of eternity, the invisible Man who moves and maintains all His tangible creation, we see the Supernatural Man who reigns over heaven and earth, we see the SuperMan who is the Amen and the Amen.
I refer you to Handel’s composition of the Hallelujah Chorus, and also to God’s anthem for His Son — Revelation 5:6 – 14
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.(Revelation 5:6)
And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. (Revelation 5:7)
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. (Revelation 5:8)
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Revelation 5:9)
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10)
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; (Revelation 5:11)
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.(Revelation 5:12)
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. (Revelation 5:13)
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. (Revelation 5:14)
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