We Have this Treasure In Earthen Vessel (Continue)

“WE HAVE THIS TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS THAT THE EXCELLENCY OF THE POWER MAY BE OF GOD AND NOT OUT OF US”

Those Who Receive the Gospel of Glory through Our Shining Having Christ as the Precious Treasure Dispensed into Them; Then, like Us, Their Being Earthen Vessels Containing This Priceless Treasure

Those who receive the gospel of glory through our shining will have Christ as the precious treasure dispensed into them; then, like us, they will be earthen vessels containing this priceless treasure (vv. 4 , 6-7). Surely, it is a privilege and a delight to be the channel through whom someone receives Christ in this way and to realize that the Christ who is in us is now in them. If between now and the end of 2025, each one of us brought one other human being to salvation by being such a channel, we all would be uplifted, thankful, and full of praises to the Lord. Moreover, the enemy would be put to shame. This can be carried out not only by some gifted speakers giving gospel messages but also by all the ordinary brothers and sisters in the Lord’s recovery. It is through Christ shining in them and shining through them that others are brought to salvation. We all must realize that we have this capacity within us. Others can tell by our expression that the Lord is shining out of us because He will be shining into us at that moment..

“WE ALL WITH UNVEILED FACE,BEHOLDING AND REFLECTING LIKE A MIRROR THE GLORY OF THE LORD,ARE BEING TRANSFORMED INTO THE SAME IMAGE FROM GLORY TO GLORY,EVEN AS FROM THE LORD SPIRIT”

Second Corinthians 3:18 says, “We all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.” As we are beholding the glory of Christ, whatever He wants to apply to us is through the Lord Spirit; however, we all must come to Him with unveiled face. We can begin every morning in a simple way. We can pray, “Lord, I turn my heart to You.” We do not know where our heart is when we wake up each morning. Most often we do not wake up abiding in the Lord and He abiding in us. He will not abide in us unless we first abide in Him; thus, we need to turn our heart to the Lord by exercising our mingled spirit.

To Behold the Glory of the Lord Being to See the Lord Ourselves; to Reflect the Glory of the Lord Being to Enable Others to See Him through Us

To behold the glory of the Lord is to see the Lord ourselves; to reflect the glory of the Lord is to enable others to see Him through us. Through His shining, Christ as the precious treasure is dispensed into others. Then like us, they will be earthen vessels containing the priceless treasure. Our body especially is an earthen vessel, and the time will come when we will be in Song of Songs 8 in our experience. In this chapter the seeker is already mature; she is the Shulammite and a companion for Solomon. In chapter 7 they are co-workers, and, in a sense, she even takes the lead, saying, “Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; / Let us lodge in the villages. / Let us rise up early for the vineyards; / Let us see if the vine has budded, / If the blossom is open, / If the pomegranates are in bloom; / There I will give you my love” (vv. 11-12). While they are serving together, she gives her love to the Lord.

Then in 8:1 she says, “Oh that you were like a brother to me, / Who nursed at my mother’s breasts! / If I found you outside, I would kiss you, / And none would despise me.” This signifies that she wants to see Him outside of her present, physical body. We will not have this feeling and should not try when we are seventeen, perhaps not even if we are fifty-seven years old. The time will come when we become elderly and can only physically do the best we can. Although we have to remain in our physical body, there is the positive yearning for a transfigured body (cf. Phil. 3:21). Until then, we are still earthen vessels, but we should not be conscious of being earthen vessels. We are aware of it, but what we are conscious of is the priceless treasure, not only in ourselves but also in others. It is easy to see the weaknesses, the limitations, or the peculiar things in one another and then to have some thought or feeling about it. Instead, we need to exercise our spirit to see one another in and through the Lord, to see that we are all in the process and that eventually what we are inwardly will be outwardly expressed when we are all transfigured, when we are all raptured alive. If we all live until the end of the first three and a half years of the seventieth week, the Lord will come, and we may all be raptured. Perhaps this will happen with the majority of us. This may sound like a dream. Let it be a spiritual dream. If I do not see you here again or somewhere else, I hope to see you at the throne when we all are raptured together.

The Glory of the Lord Being the Glory of the Resurrected and Ascended Christ, Who Is the Life-giving Spirit Dwelling in Us to Make Himself and All That He Has Accomplished, Attained, and Obtained Real to Us So That We May Be One with Him and Be Transformed into the Same Image as the Lord from Glory to Glory; in This Way His Making Us the Same as He Is

The glory of the Lord is the glory of the resurrected and ascended Christ, who is the life-giving Spirit dwelling in us to make Himself and all that He has accomplished, attained, and obtained real to us so that we may be one with Him and be transformed into the same image as the Lord from glory to glory; in this way He is making us the same as He is (Luke 24:46 ; Heb. 2:9 ; 2 Cor. 3:18 ; Rom. 8:29). We need to know and experience the resurrected and ascended Christ, who is the life-giving Spirit. He is not visiting us but dwelling, living, in us to gradually make Himself and all that He has accomplished, attained, and obtained real to us. What a spiritual future we have!

One of the Lord’s accomplishments when He was on the earth was to destroy the work of Satan (1 John 3:8). On the cross He terminated every negative thing. When this becomes real to us and when we come to know Him as ascension, we will have such a certain assurance. We will realize that while we are on the earth, we are simultaneously in ascension in the spirit, with the Lord, looking down. The enemy is in the air, which is why we have the position to apply Christ’s victory to the evil powers for the will of God to break through the air, reach the earth, and be done on the earth as it is in heaven, so that we may be one with Him and be transformed into the same image. We all will eventually have the same image. Although we will be able to recognize each other somehow, we will all eventually have the same expression, the same image, as the Lord. He is making us the same as He is by transforming us from one degree of glory to another degree of glory.

The high peak of the divine revelation is God becoming man that man may become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead and not as an object of worship. All parents know that their children, who are born of them, have the same life and nature as they do but do not have their position and function. Likewise, we have the same life and nature that God has, but we do not have the Godhead.

This Being an Ongoing Process in Life in Resurrection

This is an ongoing process in life in resurrection (2 Cor. 3:18). God is making us the same as He is. When a brother and a sister are married, the main difference is that the brother is male and the sister is female. Otherwise, they are both mature adults who are mutually attracted to and compatible with each other. In the same principle, when the Lord comes for His bride, she will be like Him in many ways, but the difference will be that He has the Godhead. We worship Him. God is actually making us the same as He is through an ongoing process in life in resurrection. We should not try to feel the process, just as a young person cannot feel that he is growing taller. We should not be self-conscious about our growth in life; we should instead simply realize that we are in a process. We should also not compare with others the process we are in or where we are in the process. We are a big family and are all in different stages. What is in our heart is that we all will arrive at maturity to be rapture ready before the Lord comes back.