THE NEVER OF TOMORROW AND THE FOREVER OF TODAY – Ron McGatlin
GOD IN JESUS IN YOU BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A GREAT MYSTERY OF HIDDEN WISDOM!
The truth of God is never subject to our believing it. The truth of God will always be true whether we believe it or not.
The people of God are only benefited or blessed by the portion of the truth of God that we receive and believe. Yet we are always governed by truth either to our betterment or to our detriment.
Alignment with the truth of God is a blessed life of righteousness, peace, and joy. Misalignment with God’s truth always produces a life of varying degrees of unrighteousness, trouble, calamity, ill-being, misery, and strife of various kinds.
All lies are distortions of truth that are designed to deceive and take away the benefit or blessing that is in the truth of God. Deception must cover the truth with replacement lies or in some other way divert the truth away from reality and manifestation.
The word of God is written in the original writings of God by His inspired men and has been compiled and translated into the Bible. God in man by the Holy Spirit can reveal God’s truth into the hearts of God’s people from the inspired words of the Bible.
GOD’S PEOPLE ROBBED OF MASSIVE BENEFITS AND BLESSINGS
This is not speaking of the natural people without the indwelling Holy Spirit of God. Natural human beings that do not have the Spirit of Christ in them by the Holy Spirit cannot hear or know the things of God. They are foolishness to them. This is not specifically addressing these natural unbelievers. However, it may awaken some to seek to know God in Christ Jesus as savior and Lord. (1 Corinthians 2:13-14).
THIS IS SPEAKING TO CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS, born-again churchgoers who truly seek to live a godly sinless life, the best that they can. This is even for those who are baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit. Yes, this is for those who truly believe the gospel as it has been taught to them from the Bible and are assured of heaven when they pass from this life.
Obviously, you and I could not be deceived about the fundamentals of the scripture. Satan would only waste his time and effort to try to convince us that there is no God or that the word of God is not true. He could not convince us that Jesus was not the Son of God who redeemed us at the cross. Neither could he make us believe there is no heaven or that His kingdom was not real and that Jesus was going to establish His kingdom on earth.
Please read on carefully, you may be missing the most fundamental and greatest truth of God’s benefits, blessing and productiveness for your life now in this world!
Satan has had to come up with a much more cunning narrative to steal some of our most precious potential in and with God.
Probably Satan’s most productive scheme for stealing the truth of God, which is clearly spoken in the Bible and cannot be reasonably denied, is to postpone it or assign it to another day.
He must cause the people of God to believe that the specific truth occurred in the past or will occur in the future, yesterday or tomorrow but NOT today.
If the devil can keep us believing that a most significant part of God’s truth is NOT FOR TODAY, but only for some time in the future or was only for a certain time in the past, we will not believe and receive it for this time and this life.
AS LONG AS HE KEEPS US BELIEVING IT IS FOR TOMORROW, WE WILL NOT HAVE IT NOW OR EVER. The people will always be looking for it tomorrow and each new day or year or decade or century or millennium forever waits for tomorrow. Truly tomorrow never comes. And today is forever.
Satan did not steal the event or deny it. He only convinced us that it is not for us now. He has done the same for over two thousand years generation to generation believing in the kingdom of God coming TOMORROW!
“But the Bible says that Jesus is coming back some set day that no one knows to set up His kingdom and….” This and many other important teachings are simply slightly twisted from original writings to imply a different narrative of timing and nature, etc.
In this writing, we cannot deal with all the specific erroneous narratives presenting a totally future scenario of a truly now reality.
Please know that I understand the doctrines of the fundamental Christian faith and have believed and taught many of them in the past. Over forty years ago God opened my eyes and ears to the mysteries of His word that were misunderstood or unknown to the theologians establishing Christian doctrines in past centuries. Since the 1980s I have been studying the Bible in depth and receiving clarity from God regarding His kingdom that Jesus spent most of His time on earth teaching and demonstrating with His life.
Please pray for God to open your heart and your spiritual eyes and ears to hear and see the truth from His written and spoken word regarding His kingdom and your part in it now in this season of the manifesting of Christ in you changing this world with His pure holy love, power, and wisdom from heaven.
THE GREATER LIFE OF PURE HOLY TRUTH IN LOVE
Jesus told His disciples that He was coming back to them. He said some of them would not taste death until they saw HIM COMING IN HIS KINGDOM. (Matthew 16:28) (John 14:17-18).
He came back to them in the Holy Spirit as He promised at Pentecost in the upper room to 120 disciples. (Acts 2).
Jesus is seated at the right hand of God in heaven and at the same time now abides in His Body on Earth. His Body now on earth is the temple of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:15, 19-20) (Galatians 5:20) (Romans 12:4-5) (Ephesians 4:12).
Love is the first and foremost characteristic of His kingdom, first love for God and then love for His people. (Matthew 22 37-40) (1 John 4) (Ephesians 5:30-32). (1 Corinthians 13:13).
Christ Jesus the King of glory now abides on earth in His Body of believers to do the works that He did in His incarnate body and even greater works. (John 14:12) (Mark 16:17-20) (John 17:20-23).
Christ Jesus has returned to earth, so what is the second coming?
The word mistranslated “coming” in many scriptures means literally present or manifest. (Parousia = manifest, presence)
King Jesus is manifest on earth in His people who BELIEVE that Christ Jesus returned at Pentecost to now live in them, those who lost their past life for the sake of His life. (Matthew 10:39) (Matthew 16:25) (John 17:20-23).
The kingdom is established in and through the Body of Christ into this world. The Glorious manifestation of Christ changing this world into the kingdom of God is clearly the fullness of the coming or manifesting of Christ that began at Pentecost. That is the awaited reality of the manifesting or presence of King Jesus on earth ruling and reigning establishing the kingdom of God on earth.
Christ in you is truly the hope of Glory in this world. (Colossians 1:26-27).
There are natural flesh and blood bodies and there are spirit bodies. Flesh and blood do not inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 15:50).
The kingdom of God is first Spirit that manifest into the natural world. Spirit God manifest in our natural bodies to change all the world back to its original design. Thus, God is making all things new. (Revelation 21:5).
Father God and Christ Jesus abide on earth in our bodies. And they abide with us in their manifest presence on earth in their Spirit bodies. (Revelation 21:22-23).
Our old man is crucified with Christ and the resurrected Christ lives in us. Our mortal has put on immortal. Christ Jesus the King of Glory lives in us to fill the earth with the Glory of God. (1 Corinthians 15:51-54) (Galatians 2:20).
Now experience the presence of God and Jesus with us or among us and within us to the glory of God. (Revelation 21:22-27).
Let Spirit God in Christ by the Holy Spirit establish the kingdom of God now on earth in our bodies and into this world. Let the Body of Christ become the Bride of Christ in the marriage of the Lamb, becoming one with God. (Revelation 19:6-9).
I know for some of you some of this may seem very strange or even heretical. Please, pray and do not quickly throw away this time of the greatest awakening to the reality of the revelation of Christ living in His people and bringing forth the reality of His kingdom of love, power, and wisdom of King Jesus on earth now.
Agreement is not dependent upon seeing every detail the same way at the same time. Love, God’s love, knits us all together as different parts of the same body. The many membered Body of Christ.
Ron McGatlin
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