Do you not know that even when thick clouds are present, the sun is brightly shining, even though you can’t see it?
Do you not know that the Risen Son of Righteousness is greater than the physical sun, with far greater glory than the sun, moon, or stars, or any of God’s creation?
“But some one will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39 For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for men, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven” 1 Corinthians 15:35-49
“Look at the Words of Jesus…most revolutionary…’Seek FIRST the kingdom of God’…Jesus reverses the order: Get rightly related to God first, maintain that as the great care of your life…from His Standpoint…make Jesus’ relationship to God the dominating concentration of your life [born again son of the Father as Jesus was the Son of God of His Father; then mature into a pure betrothed bride to your One Husband, Risen Christ Jesus’ Spirit; the Spirit and the Bride say come take the Water of Life without price]…be concentrated absolutely on God…put your relationship to God first, and everything else second…allow the Holy Spirit to bring you into harmony with the teachings of Jesus” ~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Classic Edition, 5:21
Do you not know that the Risen Son of Righteousness is far above all you can see and hear, in this present dark world? so that when Holy Spirit forms Christ in you (Galatians 2:20, 4:19, 6:14) you can become a new creation after the image and likeness of Christ in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:3-24). Do you not know that Christ in you is GREATER than anything of this world and greater than he who is in this world (1 John 4:3-4), greater than the god of this world who blinds minds of unbelievers (2 Corinthians 4:4) so they can’t spiritually see, hear, and perceive the riches of glory of Risen Christ Jesus who supplies every need (Philippians 4:19) but the Holy Spirit dwells with you and is in you when you ask and receive Him (Luke 11:13) so He can dwell within you making you a new temple of God.
“The world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him or knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you” ~Jesus in John 14:16-17
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God?” 1 Corinthians 6:19
“In that day you will KNOW that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you” ~Jesus in John 14:20
God made Risen Christ the source of born again believer’s wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30) so we can boast in Christ (1:31); maturing in Christ and being imparted His Wisdom and Power; God revealing by the Holy Spirit what eye had not seen before, ear had not heard before, hearts could not perceive before the finished work of the Cross of the Son of God and our Abba Father sending His Spirit to dwell within you (1 Corinthians 2:6-16, 3:16-17, 6:19-20); giving all those who seek FIRST His Kingdom and His Righteousness (Matthew 6:33); born again of God, born anew of His Spirit, receiving His Living Water of Life, the Spirit of Truth to guide you into all the Truth (John 16:13); thirsting and taking the Water of Life without price Revelation 22:17), thirsting and given out of the Fountain of Water of Life (21:6) the Living Water of Life in Risen Christ on the Throne, without payment, for Jesus paid the full price and made the full payment, ransoming for God out of EVERY tribe, tongue, people, and nation and making you a kingdom and royal priesthood of believers (Revelation 5:9-10; 1 Peter 2:4-10), so you too can come and take all of Risen Christ Jesus given by the Father (Romans 8:32),
through the Father and Son’s Holy Spirit given to the humble, repentant, turned from dead idols to the Living God (1 Thessalonians 1:9); washed, regenerated, renewing in the Holy Spirit poured out richly through Jesus (Titus 3:5-6); receiving the abundance of grace and free gift of righteousness to reign in life through Jesus (Romans 5:17); surrendered and yielding to be led by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9,11,14); conformed to Christ, called, justified, sanctified, glorified (Romans 8:28-30); given all that the Father gave His Son, when His Son is risen in you (Romans 8:32; Malachi 4:1-3) going forward and upward in the call of God in Christ (Philippians 3:13-15) brought forth as a new kind of first fruit of the First Fruit, Risen Jesus, the First Born from the dead (Revelation 1:5; Colossians 1:18-23) in the New Covenant with much more excellent promises (Hebrews 8:6-7), all fulfilled in Risen Jesus Christ and Risen Christ Jesus in you.
Jesus told us, “Abide in Me, and I in you” through “My Words that make you clean” (John 15:3-4), “staying on My Vine, producing My new wine into your new wineskin” (Luke 5:37-39), “abiding in Me and My Words abiding in you” (John 15:7), asking and receiving all of Risen Christ” (Matthew 7:7; Luke 11:9-13) into all of surrendered you, so it is no longer the old “I” who lives, but Christ who lives in me, as the new “I” lives by faith in the Son of God who loves me and gave Himself for me (Galatians 2:20); a new creation in Christ and Christ in you (Galatians 6:15; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 1:27-28, 2:9-15; 1 John 2:27; 1 Corinthians 2:27) if and when you make Christ your Head, all the fullness of God dwelling bodily in Christ, bringing you to new fullness of life in Himself, the Head of all rule and authority (Colossians 2:9-11; Ephesians 1:17-23, 2:6-22, 3:16-21, 4:3-24, 5:23-32) as a new member of His one Body and one Spirit, joined to Himself (Ephesians 5:30-32).
If you only focus on the “clouds” instead of having faith in the Risen Son of Righteousness who is forever and always shining brightly no matter if you see Him or not, blinded or veiled by the deceiver, manipulator, destroyer, accuser, father of lies from beholding the Glory of God our Father manifested in Christ with unveiled faces and changing into His likeness from one degree of glory to another by the Holy Spirit, you will continue to be of the darkness, of the fallen first Adam, adding to the problems of this present dark world system instead of coming to the Light of Risen Jesus, seeing the Light, and becoming a light (Matthew 5:14).
“And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:9-13
“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel, but on a stand, that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness. 35 Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. 36 If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light” Luke 11:33-36
If you refuse Jesus’ Words, Sayings, Teachings, and works of God His Father through Him, denying His Name Above every name that can be named in heaven and on earth, and refusing to acknowledge, rejoice always, pray always, and give thanks always for the Victory, Triumph, Overcoming, Conquering of Risen Christ Jesus, you are refusing the True Light of the Glory of God that is GREATER than any glory of sun, moon, stars, human beings, terrestrial or celestial; the GREATER Glory of Risen Christ, the fire power and fire light of Risen Christ’s Presence, the riches of glory of Risen Christ given to those born anew from Above of God, in your earthen vessel (2 Corinthians 4:6-7); awakened, arising from the dead, crucified with Christ, made alive together with Christ, given of His abundance of glory Light (Ephesians 5:14); so as Christ is NOW so you are to be in this dark world (1 John 4:17; Colossians 2:11-15; Ephesians 1:13, 2:13);
your spirit and soul and body given to Risen Jesus Christ to have dominion, rule, reign, all authority and power over you, as Christ is able to subject ALL things to Himself (Philippians 3:21; John 17:2); able to keep your spirit and soul and body sound and blameless (1 Thessalonians 5:23); breathe new resurrection life and Spirit into you (John 20:22); His Words and Spirit in you, Holy Spirit forming Christ in you, making Risen Christ your King of kings and Lord of lords;
making Him your Head so He can grant to you out of His riches of glory, His Spirit in your innermost born again “spirit man”: Christ dwelling in your heart by faith, rooted and grounded in Jesus’ Holy Root (Ephesians 3:16-17), and your branches in His Tree of Life flowing with His Water of Life from the Throne, coming down without variation or shadow due to change bringing you forth as a new creature of the new creation in Christ under the new covenant given Jesus’ Blood, Water, and Spirit in you (James 1:17-18; 1 John 5:1-9); the Testimony of Jesus in you (1 John 5:10), the Spirit of Prophesy over you (Revelation 19:10); having the power to comprehend the length and breadth and height (Ephesians 3:18; Revelation 21:16) and the depth in you (Ephesians 3:18; Revelation 21:23); His light as your inner light; His lamp as your inner oil, fire, and eyes to see (Revelation 21:23); to KNOW the Love of Christ surpassing knowledge, and be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19-20) be filled with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18); God at work in you GREATER than you can ask or think (Ephesians 3:20) giving all glory to God (3:21)! Amen. So be it. Hallelujah!
New Heaven on Earth! 