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righteousness of God through faith. Enoch (without the
law) and Elijah (under the law) are living proof that since
the transgression man could attain to resurrection life and
perfection if he or she believed God for it.
Adam was 687 years when Enoch was born. Enoch was 243
years old when Adam died at the age of 930 years (Genesis
5). Enoch must have learned first hand from Adam what
he had in the garden and then lost it through his foolish
arrogance. Enoch yearned for the Father-son relationship
Adam had with God and also to walk with Him in the
garden as Adam did. Through faith he discovered the
fountain of Life, the source of Light, the epitome of Truth,
which is the Creator of heaven and earth. He walked with
God and He began to teach him like He did Adam. Enoch
was a preacher of righteousness emphasizing that men
should watch over their souls; hold on to the fear of the
Lord and service to Him, and to serve Him in
righteousness, innocence and justice in humility and
purity. He also prophesied of the mighty ones who are
soon to be released on the earth (Jude 14). He believed God
so much he began to experience the joy and strength that
man knew before the fall. He started to live in the
penetrating light of God that filled all the earth but cannot
be confined in anyplace or anything or by anyone. Life
became so great in him that he would have still remain on
earth if God had not taken him to dwell with Him in
heaven. He was too full of life to die, so God took him
bodily into heaven so that he did not see death and could
not be found among the sons of men. Before God took him
he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Without faith it
is impossible to please Him (Hebrews 11:5-6).
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the covenant of the Law were that if the Israelites kept the
covenant they would be a special treasure to God above all
people and they shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy
nation to Him. If they diligently obey the voice of the Lord
to observe all His commandments the Lord will set them
high above all the nations of the earth and all His blessings
shall come upon them and overtake them. If they violated
the covenant, they would be cursed (Deuteronomy 28). The
obligation was with man to keep the covenant. Because the
law is spiritual and perfect the righteous requirement of
the law could only be fulfilled in those who do not walk
according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Romans
8:4). Through the flesh (power and might) the righteous
requirements of the Law could never have been fulfilled
but only through faith. Faith is the doorway to the Spirit
where God dwells. The covenant of works utterly failed
because it could never be fulfilled in the flesh. To be
outside of God’s inside (His body) is death for you can do
nothing without Christ in you the hope of glory. The
excellence of the power is from God and not man.
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man with a nature like ours. When he succumbed to the
flesh, where doubt and fear rule, he fled for his life before
Jezebel and prayed the Lord to take his life. The Lord
asked Elijah what he was doing in the cave (past) spending
the night (bad times) in that place (thinking about the bad
of the past). He was meditating on how Jezebel was killing
the prophets of God in the past and that she was busy to
hunt him down. He was supposed to be positioned in the
place of his anointing (his garden), the presence of God.
After that episode he walked with God and he obtained
the testimony that in his walk with God his fire never
dimmed. Then God took him. Elijah was a prophet of fire.
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When you are reading the word of God, praying or waiting
on the Lord you should only drink living water, enjoying
God. You should not be concerned about not bearing fruit
out of season because your relationship with Him is a
natural process of growth. If you abide in the Vine you will
bear fruit in the time of your season.
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The parallel to the birth of Jesus is to be born again. If
anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His
(Romans 8:9). You cannot see the kingdom of God unless
you are born again. If you believe in God and in His Son,
Jesus Christ, God will place you in His Son and you will be
delivered from your sin and guilt and you will be justified
in His sight. You will be joined to the Lord Jesus Christ and
become one Spirit with Him. It is not a mixture of your
spirit with His but you become one spirit with the Spirit of
Christ. A mixture of spirits means a mixture of your fleshly
glory with the divine glory of Jesus Christ. God shares His
glory with no man. One spirit with Him means there is
only one glory, the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Father has given us only one glory, Christ in us the hope
of glory. This glory is the image of His Son, the only image
He gave us to grow into by faith.
If you are born again you are in Him (in His body) and He
is in you (one Spirit with you) so that the excellence of the
power and glory is from Him who lives in you. You relate
to God with your spirit because it is that part of your being
which is alive to Him and one Spirit with Christ. The
kingdom of God is all about relationships. It implies that
you should have an intimate relationship with God, to
manifest His mercy and grace to your neighbor and to love
and respect the earth. Relationships that are not in Christ
are dead because it is severed from the Vine. Many will say
to Me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your
name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders
in Your name?” And then I will declare to them, “I never knew
you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!” (Matthew
7:22-23). Works outside of God is from the flesh, which
counts for nothing. It is Christ’s relationship that you share
with Him that minister love, trust and fulfillment to God.
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Love and trust do not develop outside of a relationship.
The bottom line is whether He knows you and whether
you know Him. It is all about the substance of love you
have become in Christ, to God.
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relationship with God. Acting is works or performance
without a relationship. Remind you of a harlot, doesn’t it?
Man can only relate to God through faith, hope and love in
His word. As we live no longer but Christ lives in us, it is
His faith, hope and love in operation. Our ability, which
flows forth from that part in us that is dead to God, which
is our flesh, cannot please Him. That which is dead to God
indicates a separation and independence from Him, which
is of necessity death. The flesh is the tree of the knowledge
of good (law or legalism) and evil (lawlessness). Good is
better than evil but it is still death. It is one thing to have
knowledge about the goodness of God but another thing to
know God as Good through a deep relationship with Him.
I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes
see you. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes
(Job 42:5-6). Knowledge of good and evil puffs up,
produces the fruit of arrogance and renders you vulnerable
to the ignorance of futility and bareness. Faith, hope and
love edify and yield the fruit of righteousness, humility
and wisdom, and harvest joy and fulfillment in God.
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though you cannot see its fulfillment. Expressing faith is
the evidence or proof of the unseen hope, revelation or
vision. Without divine vision, revelation or hope people
perishes. Hopelessness is void of faith, which is sin.
Without faith you cannot please God.
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to walk by faith. Some say it is hard. I do not deny it but I
believe it depends on how much you hunger after the
reward of the higher calling of God in Christ Jesus. To walk
by faith is a onetime opportunity and privilege in all
eternity that God granted to all men during their stay on
earth. So do not waste your opportunity for it is your one
and only chance to obtain a witness that you please God.
The witness of pleasing God has nothing to do with your
righteousness before God – the sacrifice of Jesus was
sufficient. It is a freewill offering you bring Him because
you love Him. It is to bring Him joy and fulfillment.
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Paul reached into Christ through faith that he may know
Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship
of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any
means He may attain to the resurrection from the dead
(Philippians 3:9-11). Life is not seated in formulae or some
steps of conformation but in knowing Christ, which
emphasizes the relationship. Eternal life in spirit, soul and
body is in knowing God and Jesus Christ whom He has
sent. In knowing Him, the fountain of life, Paul pressed on
to conform to His death and resurrection in hope that he
may attain to the resurrection from the dead. He presented
that which was dead to God as if his whole man was alive
to Him. Not that he has attained or was already made
perfect, but in faith he pressed on as if he has attained and
was made perfect. He laid hold of Christ in the same
manner as Christ has laid hold of him.
With this quality of faith Enoch and Elijah have not seen
death but received a witness that they were pleasing to
God before they were taken. Their faith demanded that in
their world of reality they were alive to God, spirit, soul
and body and in their world the spirit and natural realms
have become one. Their faith brought substance to a world
where heaven and earth is united in the one world of
Christ. In their world the will of God has being done on
earth as it is in heaven. As far as they were concerned the
New Jerusalem has come down and heaven and earth has
become one. They had so much life in them that God had
to take them.
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waiting with confidence and patience for the fulfillment of
God’s promise in the future. In the Spirit there is no time
barriers. When Enoch and Elijah, by revelation, saw the
end from the beginning they immediately start walking in
that hope by faith as if they have attained to resurrection
life and perfection. In God’s books faith is the substance of
His promises even if you have not received it. It will be
accounted to you as if you have received it, which is the
evidence of unseen realities. This is the type of faith that
the Enoch-generation, the mighty ones to come, will
manifest. The Enoch-generation will always regard the end
from the beginning as the present.
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