Shofar

OUR FATHER'S MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION   Pt. 1

Scott Paris

Stockton CA

Christ is immeasurably multiplying Himself in you and the whole of heaven and earth. He catches us up into Himself-making us "Himself ones" Jude 14, Emphatic Diaglott. When you were born of "The incorruptible Seed, the word of God" which is Christ Jn. 1:1, 1 Pet. 1:23, that made you a "partaker of the Divine nature. 2 Pet. 1:4.

 In the letter to the Romans Paul teaches the gospel as the message of salvation of all people. The Father did it through Jesus Christ on the cross. In his death, all humanity, from Adam onward, including all generations receive "justification and life," the many are made righteous. Rom. 5:18, 19. That is Father's Magnificent Obsession, His one and only purpose through Christ the first born's blood (life). Through Paul's other letters this many splendored redemption means humanity in its entirety, and Christ's multiple membered body is the "harvesters." This has been ignored by the church at large, who has relied on mans teachings (tares). All that the Father has said is the "wheat," and all that man teaches between the lines is "tares." At this point in time Father is sending His angels (ministries) to gather up the tares (traditional teachings) and cast them into the fire to be burned. That includes all the pagan teachings (lies) that man has slipped in as being truth for the last 18 hundred years to now. even the reformers allowed the tares in, and taught them as truth. Now the "Knowledge of the Lord (in the brightness of His love) is beginning to cover the earth (literal) as the waters cover the sea."

The Father called and charged the apostles with this ministry, and through the foundation that they laid in and on Jesus Christ, His multiple membered body resulted from their teachings to serve Him in His saving to the uttermost ministry. Under the Lord's Kingly rule, His "brethren" is leading those who do not know Him back to the Magnificent Father of Love.

 Our Father's nature is love, and His character is Grace. Therefore He is our Center of worship. We need not look at people who are indifferent, disobedient, perverse, not as incorrigible deviants, but as opportunities of love and Grace. Our Father has not always given us a particular word for every circumstance of our life, but He has given us Himself. That speaks volumes.

"Oh death, where is your victory? Oh death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 15:55-57.

 Father has a purpose for us, that is, we should never "see" death. To us who are "in Christ," victory over death is not when it swoops in to take one to the grave. We "in Christ" have an immortal incorruptible body now. Many of the brethren have declared they were going to live forever. They knew nothing of the "innerman." They were witnessing of their "outer-man."

Heaven is not a distant hope for the InChristed, heaven has already come to us. Father taking up His residence within brought heaven with Him - He is heaven. We see Him who is invisible, like Moses. Heb. 11: 7. We live never seeing death, we only see life in Christ. "We are dead and our life is hid (from death) with Christ in God." My life is swallowed up in victory, and death has no dominion over me, for Christ has come, and we are One. Oh love that will not let me go.

"We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." Eph. 2:10.

"God's workmanship," is the Greek word ( poema ), from where we get Poem. Father has birthed us to be His heavenly fragrant piece of poetry, living on earth. All because Christ lives in the Center of our being.

 "He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit." 1 Cor. 6:17. Beloved, our union with Christ goes beyond a formal, idealistic, functional, or harmony - rapport. We have a genetic union. Even a genetic relational God syndrome personality.

By our birth from above we become genuine members of Father's divine family ( Eph. 3:15), actual sons of God. 1 Jn. 3:2. Thus all believers in Christ are "partakers of the divine nature." 2 Pet. 1:4. Being begotten of the Father's " genes" called "incorruptible Seed, the living word of God." 1 Pet. 1:23. Now we bear His heredity, and are next of kin to the Godhead.

 All who are in Christ are exact replica's of Father's firstborn Son. Father has constituted us His kingly progeny forming His administrative co-laborers to govern His kingdom. We are aware of the distinction between the "firstborn Son" and the "may sons" birthed into the divine family. Our heredity is the result of being born of the Spirit. Thus Jesus Christ is conscious of us being bona fide  Spirit born brothers.

 "Beloved, now are we the sons of God." 1 John 3:2. We now know our Father, for we are sons born of His essence. Christ the firstborn Son is the prototype after which we the "New Man" is birthed as "heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ." We are begotten of Him, incorporating into our being, nature and character the very DNA of our Father. Christ has not kept His glory for Himself alone, as He has prayed, "Father, the glory which you have given me, I have given them." Jn. 17:22.  Thus, the Heirs of God with Christ share His glory, his rulership, and dominion as "Melchezedek kings and priests" in His kingdom.

 The incarnation of Christ was not just a one time event. But an ongoing manifestation since the Day of Pentecost in the :many sons whom He, Jesus Christ is bringing to glory. Rom. 8:29. Our divine origin was in the Father before time began. We are nearer the Father than the archangel's. Rees Howells spoke it so beautifully: "So nigh, so very nigh to God, I cannot nearer be; For in the person of His Son, I am as near as He."

 We are in union with Christ, and are seated with Him in the heavens. Eph. 2:6. While our feet are yet walking on earth, as we engage in daily occupations. Your actual being is spirit, is reality. We eat of the "Tree of life" which is Christ in the Father. There is a mountain of difference between the "Tree of Life" and the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Mans physical essence is to desire that which he can see and learn about by reading in the natural. We think it is more sensible to trust what is written than what comes to us by the revelation of the Spirit. The Spirit revelation is life and peace.

 Father has torn the veil of our heart from top to bottom. He has entered in through , and beyond our natural mind. And has sit down in His love seat, the throne of our heart. In this closeness of relationship, he illuminates us in the power of His love. it is only His unconditional love that subjects us without reservation to Himself.

 We used to live our lives as we pleased, and usually it was for our own self.

Self was king of the hill! Now the King of glory has come, and resides on His throne-our heart. Now our love is One! Christ the Lord is our all in all. He is King of kings, and Lord of lords, so there has to be some kings and lords here somewhere.

 After giving up our right to rule our life, "great peace" has begun to manifest in our life."Great peace have they that love your law." What law? :"The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." Rom. 8:2. When the Father tore the veil away from our flesh mind, and comes in, He declares Himself Supreme Father of Love. He lifts us up from kneeling , and clothes us in the king priest garment of Himself, and we are conscious of sitting down with Him in His throne.

 Now living in our Father and His love and presence sustaining us is the supreme power over flesh mind. Christ destroyed the devil, sin and flesh on the cross. The devil can only deceive people into thinking that sin has dominion over them, but he is a liar from the beginning. WOW! No archangel ever was that liar. He was created to fulfill his role on earth. Isaiah 454: 16, "I have created the waster to destroy." Job 12:16, "The deceived and the deceiver are His."  So the old ancient deceiver is on a leach and like a puppy, can only do as his Master allows. All that because of Jesus 'finished work" on Calvary's cross.

Now we live and abide in Abba Father, and the consciousness of sin is remembered no more. We are conscious of love in all its majesty and awe. We are not now struggling for His acceptance, "He has made us accepted in the Beloved." Eph. 1:6. We are victorious through the blood of the cross, which power will break the hold of the flesh in any mans life.

In Father's provisions in Christ are, "much more" than man can ask or think, because of His love for all. Rom. 5. Father's love for mankind is the strongest power on earth. It is stronger than death, or mans will or desires. it is the power of Father's love that will bring all mankind's destiny to pass! And the destiny of mankind is the Father and Son's "Magnificent Obsession." Therefore we are also locked into their consuming "Magnificent Obsession." to see"The creation itself...delivered from the bondage of corruption (decay in death) into the glorious liberty of the children of God." Rom. 8:21. In this fixed preoccupation "We are laborers together with God." 2 Cor. 3:39.

 The revelation of Jesus Christ is not history, or reading about Him in a book,or listening to men talk bout Him. It is the Father unfolding Him in you. It is said to be a prophecy Rev. 1:30, but it is being fulfilled in you and I. Father's new breed of InChristed ones, who are "Given a name greater than of sons and daughters" (Isaiah 56: 5), are arising to the King's dimension of Zion, having the "Tree of life" withinfor the "healing of the nations." Rev. 22. What the Father is speaking to us today contradicts today's worldly minded clergy and Bible teachers.

 All that today's organized clergy teach people is about Jesus in His physical incarnate form, for that is all they know, only what they have read about, or taught of by man.

Yet after Jesus resurrection, "He appeared in another form unto two of them...Mark 16:20.    "And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened...while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

"They drew near the village...He made as though he would go further. But they constrained him, saying, abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

 "And it came to pass, as they sat at the meal with them, he took the bread, and blessed it, and broke, and gave to them. and their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight." Luke24: 13, 16, 28, 31.

 Beloved, the risen Lord is appearing today in ANOTHER FORM...You and I. and as then, as He "breaks the Bread," and gives to them, their eyes are opened, and they know Him." Until He breaks the Bread of Life to them, their eyes are "holden that they should not know him." Luke 24:16.

 We see the Lord in prisons of religious confusion and visit Him. We see Him trapped there in destitution, hungry and thirsty, and give Him spiritual and natural meat and drink from Father's table. We see Him naked and clothe Him in the Father's brightness. Matt. 25: 35-40. Now the question is, where do we see the Lord in a waste howling wilderness of religious confusion imprisoned?

And hungry, thirsty, naked and spiritual bankruptcy? He says, "In as much as you have done it to the least of these my brethren, you have done it to me." Matt. 25:40.

Inasmuch as you have seen one of the least of these my brethren, you have seen me, for where they are there I Am.

 Beloved, the "sea" is still "giving up the dead which are in it, and "death and hell" are still "delivering up the dead which are in them." Rev. 20:13. The "sea", mankind, Hades and death cannot hold their prisoners, for the mighty Christ is walking the earth today in His multiple membered body. I began to become conscious of this when the Lord said to me, "I am in the earth today walking in shoe leather, for I have caught you up into myself, and made you one with myself."

 The Old Testament never mentions everlasting punishment when men die. But just the opposite. In Gen. 12:3, Isa. 2:2-4, 11:9, 19:23-25, 25:7, 8, 49:6. Plus others. These texts are just not compatible with some traditional teachings. Our Father knew the end from the beginning, and how could He before the world decide to send billions of His creation to an everlasting hell of torment, and then tell us that He is "Love?" 1 John 4:8, 1 Cor. 13:8. "Love never fails."

There is just one line in the oldest scriptural writings, God's declared intent, and purpose in Jesus Christ to save all mankind, and it is His Magnificent Obsession, and unwavering plan to do so. Father is sovereign, and nothing can override His will, neither men nor devils. I see the doctrines of John Wesley, John Calvin, and St. Augustine's seriously flawed, and paganistic.

The hope that is built on Father's love has never been extinguished through church history. Though that hope was contradicted by the church as a whole. Our conscience when illuminated by the Holy Spirit will bear witness to that which is of the Spirit! Can your conscience actually concede to you that eternal torment is what unbelievers deserve?

 We must see that aionial judgment is judgment that is unique in this series of ages when the Father is working out His Magnificent Obsession in our redemption in Christ. While aionial fire (pur) is symbolic of aionial punishment dealt to the wicked. Fire destroys all wicked works, wicked purposes and intents of wicked hearts. The same fire that destroys the wicked is the same fire that purifies the saints.

 Every day is judgment day in the kingdom of God. Peter wrote: "The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God." 1 Pet. 4:17. Father's judgments are corrective. They have a pruning effect, cutting, or burning away all that is not pleasing to Him in ones life. All of His correctional judgments are designed to teach us righteousness. His judgments are within, not the thunder clapping kind visioned by many. Most folks look upon the Old Testament mode of judgment as the same method God uses today, but such thinking is folly.

 All those apprehended today by the Father for demonstration of His truth and its triumph once and for all over evil are undergoing His correctional judgment daily. Paul writes of this judgment this way: "If we would judge our selves, we should not be judged.  But when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned (judged - chastened) with the world." 1 Cor. 11:31, 32.

 Father's chastening is for our maturing. The laws of Father's correctional judgments are the dependable laws of His kingdom. They work no matter who uses them, or breaks them. And we can be grateful that this is so. Father's kingdom is a moral kingdom, and always has the last word. This moral kingdom is built in to the nature of everything. No one can get past it. This moral kingdom is omniscient, and omnipresent. You cannot run away from it, for it is within you. Anyone thinking they can cheat Father's moral kingdom is deceived. It doesn't have a pay day every Friday night, or at the end of the month, but everyone pays and is paid in exact coin.

 Father's moral kingdom is not subject to mans votes, or vetoes. It stands. One does not break the kingdom laws, he breaks himself upon the laws. They are built in us. Kingdom laws are color-blind, class blind, religion-blind, and race-blind.

 The laws of your being are part of this moral kingdom. And those laws are self executing. WHAT ONE SOWS, HE ALSO REAPS. Father's moral kingdom is His preventive grace, preventing us from getting morally hurt. It guarantees the stability of living and the instability of wrong living. "There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed: or hid, that shall not be known."

 Our confidence is greatly enhanced when we see Father in His magnificence and grandeur, the Author and perfector of our faith, who Himself has faith for the whole world. Jesus acquired it all, has been purchased. "He gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." The salvation of all humanity continues throughout the expanse of Father's ages.

Continued.


Love and hugs,

Scott.

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Scott Paris
2037 Del Rio Dr
Stockton CA 95204

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