3. HOW TO BE PERFECT

THE KING'S GREATEST SECRET or HOW TO BE PERFECT

God has a Secret!!! He would like to tell it to You! The angels and men of God wanted to know this Secret, but God wouldn't tell them for thousands of years. Then God told The Secret to the Church through the Apostle Paul and the other apostles and prophets. That Secret was lost and forgotten again during the dark ages, but now is being told again in this special time to the Church. It's the King's Greatest Secret! It needs to be told so very much. Almost no one in the Church today knows The Secret. We have ministered in many churches across the country and in most of them we ask a certain question to find out if they know The Secret. And in none of the places where we have ministered had they known. The question we asked them was, "What did Jesus take of ours with Him to the cross?" Will you take a minute to answer this before you continue?

We get answers, all of them correct but not complete, like "He took our sins, our sicknesses, our worries, burdens, fears etc." We say, "That's true that He took these so we can be forgiven, healthy, and without worry (some folks cast their burdens upon Yahweh, the Mighty Right NOW God, but as a fisherman casts, they sit and reel these burdens back to themselves.) But the people still have not told the main thing Christ took with Him to the cross! I suppose the reason they do not know, is that it requires a revelation of God, or one who has a revelation from God, to share The Secret, before they can know. What a Wonderful Mystery!

MOUNT PO-PO-KA T -A-MA- TEL or "THE LONG DISTANCE GOD"

We believe that more than 9,999 Christians out of 10,000 relate to God in one of the following incorrect ways:

They relate to God "long distance". That is, they visualize God as living way out beyond Mount Popokatapetel somewhere, and that if they pray real long and loud and hard, that maybe God will hear them, and that maybe, but less likely, the answer will get back. The song says that Jesus leans out over the battlements of heaven, and yells down the distance, " 'Hold the fort; for I am coming', Jesus signals still. Wave the answer back to heaven, 'By Thy grace we will.'"

 The other incorrect (We shall see in a moment why these are incorrect), concept of God is that of" A little bitty God inside of a BIG person with still BIGGER problems". We invite Jesus to come into our hearts, and so He does, not as our very LIFE, in most cases, but as a sometimes-thought-of "Guest". (I don't like, nor will I say that prayer, "Come, Lord Jesus be our guessed...") I don't want Him to be a guest, I want Him to come in as the Master, my very LIFE!!! But some of us, when we pray to Jesus hiding way down deep in our hearts somewhere, we get our own echoes back as if we were talking into a well. But God wants to be very Very VERY much more real to us than this.

THE SECRET!!!

The Secret is found in plain sight in a multitude of places in the Bible, especially in places like John 17, Ephesians, Romans, Galatians, Colossians, etc. BEWARE that when you hear this Secret, that you not think too lightly or casually. The proof that you got the Secret will be that you will be able to consistently keep your heart and attitude and spirit right. In fact, if you REALLY get the Secret, as the following Scriptures indicate, there will be no difference between who Christ is at the Father's right hand, and who He is - - - in you! .

The Secret Mystery is this: When Christ went to the cross, He took US with Him there! When He died, WE died! When He was buried, WE were buried with ALL of our insufficiencies, inadequacies, inferiorities, insecurities, inabilities, and instabilities!!!! Everything negative, nasty, weak, or sinful about us, He took to the cross because He took US to the cross. Oh, dear one, if you grasp hold of this Secret it will make all the difference in the world for you! It will mean the difference between Christ living your life, and you living your life; between you trying to speak good things, and Christ speaking His words through you!

Lord Jesus, please make this plain and understandable. We believe together that You will make the Mystery clear. "I praise Thee, 0 Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou didst hide these things from the wise and intelligent, and didst reveal them to babes. Yes, Father for thus it was well pleasing in Thy sight" Matt. 11 :25 and Luke 10:21.

Please let me tell you more about The Secret. When The Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross, He took you with Him there! YOU WERE THERE when they crucified my Lord! Christ looked ahead in time and saw you and decided that He could not help you any other way, that He could not beat or bless you into being what He wants you to be, could not educate or "religious" you adequately, but that the only hope for you was to take you with Him to the Cross and kill you dead, along with all of your negative nature and qualities, and bury you. Unlike many self-help books, Christ does not try to get you to "hype" or hypnotize, "con" or convince yourself into thinking that you are really good or nice, adequate or o.k., but that you are horribly hopeless and hideously helpless, apart from Christ taking you to the cross with Him and putting all of your self to death and burying it in the tomb with Him. So you do not need to kill yourself or commit suicide, nor do your friends, because Jesus Christ lovingly killed us softly already. But that is not the end of the story!

WOW! YOU REALLY ARE SOMETHING AFTER ALL!!!

When Christ rose from the tomb HE RAISED US UP as a whole, new, beautiful, wonderful, adequate, sufficient, glorious, superior, perfect, able, stable, secure creation in His image in newness of Life so He could come into us and BE our Life, Live our Life, BE our perfection, BE our righteousness!!!

Perhaps you would like to see this Secret in the Scriptures. The following Verses can become attainable in the practical realm of the nitty gritty now:

Galatians 2:20 says, "I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME!!!" In Colossians, God says that CHRIST IS OUR LIFE! The Bible says, "For me to live IS Christ" (Phil. 1 :21), and "We HAVE the mind of Christ" (I Cor. 2:16), and "As He [Christ] is SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD" I John 4:17. Oh, dear heart, I pray for you with deep, unutterable longing and faith "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him! I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may KNOW..." (Eph. 1:17,18.)

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD EXCUSES

Do you realize that if God Himself stepped down from a fluffy white cloud and offered an easy way for us to be perfect, that many Christians would simply

not be interested?! The "Good News" message, (that we can walk before the Lord pleasing in motive, thought, word and deed), would be, to many "Christians", very "bad news". A major reason is that they want an excuse for their sinning! Another reason is that they would have to change their "doctrine" and when it comes to doctrine, some folks would rather go to hell than switch!

I have gone from door to door trying to persuade people to invite Jesus Christ into their hearts as their Lord, as a necessary FIRST step in escaping the eternal flames of hell, but instead they most OFTEN answer, "Look, I've got my own --. I was born a ---, I was raised a ---, and I'm going to die a ---!" Most of them might as well have added, "And I'm going to go to hell a --!" Church membership does NOT give a person entrance into the Kingdom of God but only by being born again, as Jesus declares in John 3:3-5, and Revelation 3:20, where He tells us how. "I'm standing at the door of your life and I'm knocking. If you will invite Me to come in to your life and heart as Saviour King of everything, then I will come in." That's how to be born again!

But after we're born again it's VERY important that we don't begin making excuses for not measuring up to God's will for us, because contrary to what we may have been taught, there is no excuse for not doing the will of God! I've often wondered what would have happened in the Garden of Eden if Adam would not have tried to make excuses, when God came and asked him why he "messed up". Instead, Adam said, "The woman!" (Then he added), "Whom YOU GAVE to me..." I wonder what would have happened if Adam would have said, "Lord, please don't blame Eve. Let all the blame be upon me. She's the weaker vessel, and I should have been looking out for her." Or what if Eve would have said the same.

Instead she blamed the serpent. The only good thing I can think of to say about the devil is that when God came to him, he didn't pass the buck, or or try to place blame. (Never mind the fact that he didn't have any place to pass it!)

But it is impossible for us to be both EXCUSING and REPENTING at the same time. Besides, God will NOT forgive what we are excusing. Most Christians have been brainwashed, hypnotized or otherwise programmed into thinking that "nobody's perfect". They even use this kind of reasoning as an excuse for sinning in the first place and for not repenting in the second place. The excuse, "I'm only human after all,..." is typical, but definitely counterproductive. Remember, the Lord gives, in His Word, many victory promises: I Corinthians 10: 13 says that, "There has NO temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but GOD IS FAITHFUL, Who will NOT let you be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it" And in II Corinthians 2:14, "Now thanks be unto God, who ALWAYS causes us to TRIUMPH IN CHRIST, and makes manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place”. (Victory-Always-everywhere!!!) And Romans 8:37 “…In ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM that loved (s)us!" And, Philippians.4:13, "I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me!!!

" But, so many of us, if we were honest and consistent with our own system of unbelief and wrong doctrine, have CHANGED these very victory Scriptures to read OTHER THAN what God has actually said!!!! We have tended to say "NO! God has NOT given me a way to escape!" or "NO! God does NOT cause me to triumph in every place and circumstance!" or "NO! I am NOT more than a conqueror in all or even very many of these things!" "I am not even a conqueror, much less, more than a conqueror."

A QUICK BUT PERHAPS NECESSARY LOOK AT A WRONG DOCTRINE

Intricately interwoven into the fabric of our thinking is some wrong doctrine that has been "beeing" spuriously spread throughout nearly all of Christendom. Protestants and Catholics, EVERY denomination - it seems that hardly anyone has been spared. This doctrine of the dualism of nature, concerns our attitude toward our bodies, toward pleasure, our flesh, perfection, victory, - towards Life itself! A fresh revelation realization of The King's Greatest Secret changes all this.

MONSTROUS MANICHEAN MADNESS

The Church was fully free of faulty thinking in this area until about the fourth and fifth century after Christ, when a funny but phoney philosophy of "dualism" infiltrated the Church from a man called the father of Christian philosophy and theology". Here is the man, the doctrine and the correction to his approach.57

St. Augustine, 354-430 A. D. was a Greek Mancheist philosopher prior to his coming into the church. Here, we quote from the World Book Dictionary, “Manichean (man’ e ke” en) a member of a Gnostic sect, arising in Persia in the 200's AD., compounded of Christian, Buddhistic, Zoroastrian, and other beliefs, and maintaining a theological dualism in which the body and matter were identified with darkness and evil, and the soul, striving to liberate itself, was-identified with light and goodness." In other words, while the Hebrews.

believed matter and the body to be bad or good, depending upon the use to which it was put, - the Manichiests believed, and taught that the body was evil, and that every thing that the body did, or was, or said, was only always exceedingly sinful. Sound familiar? Nearly every church and catechism and liturgy we know of has something of this within it. Some have even given the illustration that inside every person there is a white dog nature and a black dog nature and that the one that wins is the one you say "sic 'em" to (or feed) the most. That's what we mean by "dualism".

The Hebrews said that matter, a pen, a human body was not bad in itself, but that its goodness or badness was determined by what one did with that matter or pen or human body. This IS why, in Romans, Paul says that "the instruments of our body are slaves of righteousness if we yield them to do righteous things, and that they are instruments of unrighteousness if we yield them to do unrighteous things.

" But the manicheans said that our body members are bad, because they were made of substance, of material, of matter. So in Augustine's writings, he says that it is a sin to watch a dog chase a rabbit. Why? Because the body gets excited and involved, and says, "Let's see now, is the dog gonnacatch the rabbit, or is the rabbit gonna catch the dog!" Augustine said, "I have learned to take my food as medicine." In other words, he disciplined himself to the place where a big juicy piece of beefsteak tasted like cod liver oil, just so his body would not get all involved, excited, and sinful. My well rounded mother told me one time that every act of sex was sinful. (She had four grown children!) She quoted David's verse, "I was born and conceived in sin." She didn't know the Jewish tradition about David's personal family situation. I said, "Mother, what a terrible thing to say about us kids." (We discuss this more fully in our book, THE SEXUAL MINISTRY, available at Great Commission Ministries, P.O. 7123, Mpls., MN., 55407. Love Offerings, to help provide for this and other books and Bibles for others, are tax deductible.)

 The real question is NOT "Can I keep from sinning?" but "Is God great enough to keep me from sinning?!." Is He? If someone asks me, "Do you ever get a wrong spirit or attitude toward your wife or children or anyone?" or if they say, "Don't you ever sin?" I respond, "I don't recommend it!" or "We're not in favor of it." If they argue, "Do you actually think a person can get through the day without sinning!?

" I respond, "We'd advise it" Mark Twain allegedly wrote in his memoirs, "Went to church today. Preacher preached on sin. Only problem was, I couldn't rahtly tell whether he was for it, 'r again' it!" You know? Sometimes a body cain't tell by looking at some Christians' lives and doctrines whether or not they're in favor of sin or against it either!!!

HOW LONG CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT SINNING?

1 JOhn 1:9 says that "If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just, ...and will cleanse us from - (not much, or most, but) - ALL unrighteousness!!!" Let's say you just "I John 1:9'ed" it. How much unrighteousness do you got left in yuh? Doesn't it say cleansed from ALL?!. How long can you stay cleansed from all unrighteousness through the power of God, and by the Strength, and through the Life of God lived through you??? 5 seconds? 5 minutes, by God your Strength? 5 hours, through Christ your Power? 5 days, with Christ as your Life? 5 decades, with Jesus Christ AS YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!!!?!. (Please refer to the above list of Scriptures here. Or would you rather continue on in your excuse making and cannibalizing?)

IF GOD DIDN'T MAKE LITTLE GREEN APPLES IN MINNEAPOLIS

Paul, in Philippians 3, uses the word 'perfect' in two different ways. In verse 12 he says he's not perfect and in verse 15 he says that he IS!!! (I wonder why we only always hear that he's not?) Imagine, if you will, a little green apple, just barely past the blossom stage, a little bitty nubbin of a thing. But it's perfect! No worms, germs, dust, crust, must or rust It's not dashed, bashed, crashed, slashed, hashed or gnashed. And now, can you picture a perfectly perfect apple that's ruby, rudy, rosy, red, ripe and juicy? If it were any more ripe, it would be rotten; and if it were any less ripe it would be sour and woody. Please ask yourself this question: What particular things are necessary for a smaller apple's growth and development into this mature apple? Are bruises, or worms or rot necessary? Is "hanging in there" necessary? - To endure the long cold nights? the hot summer days, the wind, and rain?

Some folks seem to think that rebellion, backslidings, detours, lapses, wrong attitudes and spastic silliness are all necessary to our growth and development in God.

There IS a discipline, but it is a discipline that pertains to the new person or new man in Christ Jesus, and not the old man or old self or nature. The old life HAS BEEN crucified with Christ - not "is being". We don't believe in beating the dead carcass. That would be wasted effort, and futile. (Ro.6)

So, we see that the flesh is NEITHER good nor bad in or of itself, BUT depending upon the use to which it is put Adam, before he fell, had flesh, and our redeemed bodies will be flesh. Even Jesus had flesh! Hebrews 5 speaks of Jesus, "Who in the days of His flesh...offered up prayers with strong crying and, tears...and...though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience through the things which He suffered. And BEING MADE PERFECT, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him." Wasn't Jesus already perfect? Of course! But here we see that He also needed to "become perfect"! Can we be perfect in the I John 1:9 "cleansed from ALL unrighteousness" sense? Of course, but we also need to become perfect in the "ripe apple" sense of "growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Son of God" and in the sense of Paul's pressing "toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" - the fulfillment of our adventures and destinies and callings of God!!!

CRISIS AND PROCESS

So, there is both a crisis and a process to every experience that we are to have in God: the new birth, the Lordship of Christ, Sanctification, (dedicated and made holy), the Holy Spirit, etc.

Ask some "Christians" if they are saved, and they'll say, "I dunno, I'm workin' on it." (The Bible says we can KNOW! I Jn.5). But because they are always "working on" the process of salvation, without the CRISIS of having been born again, they won't be...., because they are always GOING THROUGH the door, but never quite get IN. But then you ask others if they're saved, and they say, "Ya sure, I got saved 90 years ago!" But too many of them got saved and stuck! They got through the door and then went to sleep for 89 years. The same thing is true of the Holy Spirit. Some believe only in the process of being filled while others got "it", and got stuck, (or sprung leaks!). And the same thing is true with The King's Greatest Secret - BOTH the crisis of appropriation AND the process of abiding in Him – moment by moment, both are necessary.

ARE YOU NOW READY TO DIE THEN LIVE!!!

You simply: # 1. Know and “RECKON YOURSELF TO HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST” (Rom.6:6 –this is the crisis), and # 2. THEN "CONSIDER AND RECKON YOURSELF (here is the process) AS DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, SELF AND satan, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord!!! (Rom.6:11) ALLELUJAHWEH!!!

Thank you, Dear Lord Jesus, for taking us to the cross with You and for raising us up with You in newness of Life in You. Lord God, we receive You to BE all that You are, in us, now and forever more. We receive You AS OUR VERY LIFE to BE OUR VERY LIFE!!! Please now, LIVE YOUR VERY LIFE THROUGH ME!!! In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Jesus said, "BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT." Matt. 5:48. Jesus, as always, meant just what He said! He meant "BE as perfect as God!" Or would you prostitute and change and twist and warp and non-effectualize the Word of God here or any other place?

It does NOT mean: "try to be perfect", nor "be perfect sometime after your body has rotted", nor "give up on being perfect", nor "it's impossible to be perfect", nor "wish that you were perfect", nor "God isn't great enough to make or keep me perfect", nor "be theoretically (or "pretend") perfect", nor any of that kind of silliness. "Would be" disciples of the Kingdom, WON'T BE disciples of the Kingdom of God as long as they are messing with the commands of the King of God's Kingdom in this way! One who changes the commands of the King is a Kingdom anarchist and traitor. When someone asks, "What does this Verse mean?" the best answer always is, "The Bible-this Verse-means just what it says!" because the King means what He says. I believe that whenever there is a disagreement about a Scripture, it is because one or more of them is not willing to accept what the Scripture and King says.

THE GREATEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE

One day Patty Troug at Bethel College told me, "John, as long as you are calling 'idealistic', 'unattainable', or 'theoretical" what God calls 'necessary', 'practical', 'available', and 'attainable', YOU are calling God a LIAR!!!" I had thrown a book away from me in disgust, FOREVER TRIUMPHANT, by Huegel, in which he quoted II Corinthians 2:14, "Thanks be unto God who in Christ ALWAYS causes us to triumph and manifests Christ through us in EVERY place!" (JB) "Victory, at ALL times and in every place!" I had said "that's too idealistic", but then I realized, as a result of Patricia's gentle rebuke, that I had been calling God a liar in that He had said, "Victory always and everywhere." And I had said, "Impossible". I did not want to call God a liar anymore, so I went to my room, got out my Bibles, KJV, AMP, Gdspd, Greek N.T., etc., and laid them out on Bruce Leatblad's vacant bunk, and got down on my knees in order to see just what God DID say. Sure enough, God said, "Perfect victory always" AND "More than conquerors" AND "Abundant Life" AND "Joy unspeakable" AND "Full of Glory" AND "WE have the Mind of Christ" AND "Christ our Life" AND "whatever we ask" AND "Greater works than these shall ye do" AND "I can do all things through Christ" AND "With God all things are possible" etc., etc., etc., etc. All these Bibles said the same thing!! So, I decided to do three things:

1. Confess every known sin, including having called God a liar;

2. Yield COMPLETELY to the Lord Jesus Christ. I told the Lord Jesus that I would be willing to be sick, maimed, killed, single, celibate, persecuted, misunderstood,

Now, these first two steps I had taken many times before, but I took them again. In fact, we should always keep up to date with the Lord, staying free from sin and staying in a totally yielded state.

3. Appropriate by faith the highest level walk in God's Spirit, with Christ AS our Life! Invite Jesus Christ to come in to our life, and actually BE our life

and to LIVE HIS LIFE through us, and take over completely as Saviour, Lord and Life!!!

Charles Trumble, in The Life That Wins, says that on this third step of faith, everything now depends. He suggested that we take a step of faith with total disregard for the presence (or lack of), accompanying signs or proofs, because the transaction must be based on faith rather than some feeling or tingle, etc. So, I remember reaching out my hand to the Lord God and saying, "Lord Jesus, I believe You have a walk for me that I haven't been experiencing; a relationship and an experience with You that I haven't had before. Lord Jesus, I don't know what to call it, and I don't know how to get it, but whatever You call it and however one gets it, I receive it from You now in cold, blind faith, not depending on outward feelings or 'signs' as the proof of the transaction. Thank You very much. In Jesus' Name, Amen."

 Can you guess what happened? You guessed it. Nothing. Outwardly, or on a feeling level, that is. I felt really dead. Oh, I had accepted the Lord Jesus as my personal Saviour many years before, and I had yielded my Life to Him many times before. But the same thing had happened to me as would have happened in the Old Testament if one would have taken a clean lamb of the flock without blemish and then sacrificed the lamb under the hot Israel sun...and that's all. Can you imagine the mess? The sacrifice NEEDED the fire of God to come from heaven to light upon and consume the sacrifice as a sign of acceptance and anointing. But I rose from my knees there at Gerald Healy's house where Bruce Leatblad and I were roommates while attending Bethel College, November 1960, my senior year. I put away all my Bibles and climbed wearily into my top bunk.

After I was settled down, I thought, "If anybody asked me to praise the Lord right now, it would be like someone asking me to praise a haystack." I suppose I was remembering a time when I had gone to visit a church and had tried to get "ba'tahzd wi' d' HoliGoz'" and the pastor was on one side telling me to say "Pah-rayz Gawd" just as loud as I could, whilst the preacher's wife was on the other side, encouraging me to say, "How'lay-Iew'yuh" just as fast as I could. I recall how terribly difficult it had been to say either one either way. Folks who know me now are surprised that I didn't bound out of my mother's womb shouting "How'lay-Iew'ya". One time, at Bible School, a staff member said the reason John Bohlen praised the Lord was because he had a 'sanguine' personality. I told her, "Yes, Joyce, the 47th Psalm says, '0 clap your hands, [all ye SANGUlNES], shout unto God with the voice of triumph'!!!" By the way, that's not quite how it reads-it reads 'ALL YE PEOPLE'. So it's not just those with an enthusiastic personality that are to beautifully and enthusiastically and constantly worship the Lord: ALL of us are.

CATACLYSMIC REVOLUTION

Anyway, no sooner had that thought crossed my mind about praising a haystack, (indicating the lacking emotional level of positive feeling) when Christ BECAME my Life!, and I have never been the same since! It seemed like a great dam broke on the inside and there came explosively gushing over me, and through me, and to me, and from me, and upon me, and around me, from deep within and from high above came the Glory of God, and the Joy of God, and the Love of God, and the Spirit of God, and the LIFE of God, and the Peace of God, and the Presence of God, and the Strength of God, and the Anointing of God, and the Effervescent Flooding Overflowing Fullness of the Living God!!! I have never been the same! Fabulous! Incredible! Joyful! Invigorating! Beautiful! Astounding! Healing! Wonderful! Marvelous! Lasting! Satisfying! Miraculous! Lifechanging! Christ BECAME my Life! I saw myself as having been crucified with Christ, dead and buried with Christ, RISEN AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST JESUS in newness of Life, and seated IN Christ AT the Father's right hand, far over and above EVERYTHING that is named in heaven and on earth, and GLORIFIED IN HIM -Jesus Christ! This is described in Eph. 2, and Col. 3, Rom. 6, and Rom. 8, Eph. 3, n Cor. 3, etc., etc., etc. (Time out - for a Glory Spell and a happy dance! Would you like to dance with me?!)

 Note: From the Amplified Bible, Eph. 3: 19b -"That you may be filled (through all your being) unto all the fullness of God - [that is], may have the RICHEST measure of the Divine Presence, and become a body WHOLLY filled and flooded with God Himself." Peter says, "Having become PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE" and Colossians says, "When CHRIST Who IS OUR LIFE - - -" and "For in Him

the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead), continues to dwell in bodily form - giving complete expression of the Divine Nature. And you are IN HIM, made FULL, and have come to fullness of life - in Christ YOU TOO are FILLED with the GODHEAD: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, and reach full spiritual stature - - -!!!" (Amp)

The question for all of us, no matter what our theological back-ground is: Are you FILLED WITH GOD RIGHT NOW? Jesus said, "He that believes in Me, out of his innermost being shall gush forth flooding torrents of Living Water continuously." Talkin' 'bout you?

Question- Are you full of God and His Holy Spirit right this moment? Are you up to date with Him and on excellent terms with Him right now? Do you minister and share from the overflow, or are you like a "small handful of water in a big empty barrel." Pray with me?...

Dear Father God, thank You for providing unlimited anointing and every blessing, and having "given us all things that pertain to life and godliness': I ask You to BE my life; be ALL that You ARE, in me from now on. I reckon and consider my old life to be dead. I receive You AS my "Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption ". BE my Perfection, Love through me, speak Your Words Through me, pray through me. Thank You, Mighty-Right-Now God I believe from now on that I can do AIL things through Christ my Life, and that nothing shall be impossible IN You. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

There is a true story of a little boy who was looking intently into the baptistry after the baptism service, when his mother came up and asked him what he was doing. He said, "I'm looking for that 'old man' the pastor said we left in the water!" You see, this is the true meaning of baptism by immersion - our total identification with Christ in His crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension and glorification.

THE THIRD COMING OF CHRIST?!?!!.

Assume with me for a moment that God wants to return to the earth in a THIRD way. He came as a Babe, and He's coming in the clouds. But pretend with me, that between His 1st and 2nd Coming, He wants to come in a 3rd way. Imagine that this time, He wants to come disguised as a regular person, and that He wants to do it like this. Suppose someone is sitting in church, and has a cardiac attack, and dies, God forbid. Instead of rushing to give the person artificial recuperation, the rest of the people, if they notice at all, think that that person just fell asleep for a minute. Suppose that before anyone else knows of this, Christ comes in to this person, blinks open his eyes, and starts walking around in his shoes in disguise, incognito, speaking, talking, loving, LIVING, His LIFE, - - - the very LIFE of Christ Himself.

He wants to be glorified and magnified now IN all who believe!! Notice this Scripture! "When He shall come to be glorified IN His saints and to be admired IN all them that believe, (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day" II Th. 1:10.

"Christ IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY!!!" I Colossians 1 :28. The KJV calls it "the MYSTERY which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but NOW is made manifest to His saints! To whom God would make known THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF THIS MYSTERY AMONG THE GENTILES, WHICH IS - - - CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY!!!"

The Williams translation calls this God's Glorious "OPEN SECRET - CHRIST IN YOU!!!" and Beck's Translation calls it "THE GLORY OF THIS HIDDEN TRUTH - CHRIST IN YOU!!!" I have called this, THE KING'S GREATEST SECRET!!!!!!!!!!

Please dear Dear One,.please do NOT let this truth pass you by... Please stay with this until this truth becomes nitty gritty gut-level REALITY IN YOUR HEART! IN JESUS' Name. Amen.

So, back to the illustration - Say that Christ came into your available dead body and BECAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME it's Life, that is, started living His Glorious Life THROUGH you, loving THROUGH you, loving, talking, loving, walking, loving, living, loving, blessing, loving, healing, loving, BEING ALL THAT HE IS - IN YOU, - BEING your Salvation, NOT giving you Salvation as an experience APART from Him, but living it, BE-ing, it DO-ing it through you!!

I Corinthians 1:30 says that Christ, "IS MADE unto us Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption". These things: Resurrection, Salvation, etc., are not a "thing", or an "experience" apart from Him, but are a PERSON. That Person's Name is YAHWEH YAHSHUA, The Mighty Right Now God, The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!!! Even in the Old Testament, please notice all of the times it refers to Yahweh as BEING our Sword, our Shield, our Fortress, our Buckler, our Exceeding Great Reward, our High Tower "I will run into Him and be safe"!!! Not "gives us a sword" but "IS MY SWORD"!!! Dear Heart, please - can you see the difference???

Some people come staggering into church on Sunday morning to get their weakly injection fix of righteousness to last them barely till next Sunday, but Jesus wants to BE our Righteousness!!! BE our LIFE, our Salvation and Protection. Salvation is not a "thing". Salvation is a Person! And His Name is Jesus Christ! As I John says, "He that hath the Son hath LIFE and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."

INFERIORITY COMPLEX

They tell about a man who was down at the altar praying, "Lord, show me I'm nothing, show me I'm nothing." Then the preacher came along and said, "Take it by faith, brother." I used to have a terrible bad inferiority complex. Then somebody came along and told me I didn't have a 'feriority complex – I was just PLAIN INFERIOR!!! I used to do things constantly to "compensate" for my deep seated feelings of inadequacy. The ol’ one room country school we went to was cal1ed "Wild Cat School". Then we went into town to the citified junior high school, and, truth to tell, I didn't rightly know how to act around all those city-wise kids. So, to try to do something about my 9th grade inferiority complex, I thought maybe I could get a book from the school lie-berry. The first book I got said,... "Act natural!" But that didn't help much, you see, 'cause the thing that I "naturally" was, I knew I couldn't afford to publicly be!

So, I got another book,.... an' it said,.... "Be yourself." But that didn't help either, because MY old self definitely WAS inferior! Later on, my friend, Lee Eliason, told me to "be sincere", and that helped some, but here, as a senior at Bethel College, my discovery of this Greatest Secret fully met the needs of my life along this line because Christ BECAME my sufficiency and my adequacy!!!!!!!! This really Really REALLY solved the problem!!!

So you, don't need to die or commit suicide because Christ wants to become your LIFE by your 'acceptance. Accept what He did when He took NOT ONLY our sins and sicknesses, so we can be forgiven and healed completely, but He took our SELVES. (Rom. 6, Col, Eph., etc.) He put US to death with ALL of our insufficiencies, inadequacies, inferiorities, inabilities, instabilities, everything negative, nasty, weak and sinful, and took us to the cross, put us to death, buried us and raised us up in newness of life, a whole new, beautiful, glorious, adequate, sufficient, wonderful, able, stable creation fashioned in His image, that He wants to actually BEEEEEEEEEE the Life of!!!!!!!!

THE ELEPHANT AND THE FLEA

The story is told of an elephant that had a friend who was a flea that rode around behind his ear. They used to have lots of happy times together. One day they crossed a jungle bridge that shook, and swung and swayed. After crossing the bridge, the flea whispered into his friend's, (the elephant's) ear. Said the tiny little flea, "We sure shook that bridge didn't we!!" And at the end of each of your days, you can whisper into the Ear of your Friend, Yahweh, your Creator King, "We sure shook our world today, didn't we?" Jesus wants to beeeeeeeee your LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A BEE IN YOUR BONNET

Did you know that Christ is NOT interested in HELPING you to be righteous, or wise, or strong, or alive, apart or distant from Himse1f?? He wants to BEEEEEEE your Righteousness, BEEEE your wisdom, BEEEEEEE your Strength, BEEEEEEEE our Life, BEEEEE your Everything. He doesn't want to HELP you say good words, or pray, or be disciplined, or heal, or bless, or love, as something

distinct, distant, or apart from. He wants to pray His prayers through you by the Holy Spirit, to say His words through you, to bless with His blessing through you, to Heal with His Healing through you, to ove with His love through you. Christ wants to BEEEEEEEEEEEE all that He is, on location, through you!!! Do you see the difference? Do you?

THE GLORY SPELL

I was counselling with a 70 year old woman who had problems. She had a "glory spell" when I told her about the King's Greatest Secret! She said, "I was born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit when I was 10 years old and have been walking close to God ever since. But in all the 60 years I've walked with God, I've never once heard these truths, that Christ can actuallv BEEEEE my LIFE!!" When a person truly comes to know this wonderful Secret, then the transformation in a person's life should be just as great as if Christ Himself actually BECAAAME that person's very LIFE!!! Interested?! Interested in sharing this Secret? Interested in helping us share this Secret?!

It has been tremendously exciting to share the King's Greatest Secret with so many dear ones. As of today, over 24,000 copies of this chapter have been distributed around the world, by means of our 1st book, How To Rule The World or Seek 1st The Kingdom Of God! As of this printing, another 35,000 copies of the chapter will be available through, not only Rule The World, but also through our book on marriage called, The Sexual Ministry, our book on the family called, How To Raise "Purfect" Kids, and also this book!!! We also want to make available a booklet called "The King's Greatest Secret", and we already have a 90 minute cassette tape available by the same title. If you would like these materials, or want to help us "get the word out" with your tax deductible contributions, please write: The Great Commission Ministries, Box 7123, Mpls., MN 55407.

A FOUNDATION STONE!

This Secret is so very very foundational to virtually every other truth in Scripture. For example, with regard to prayer, we must believe for Christ Himself to be on location, praying His prayers through us, according to the will of the Heavenly Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit. With regard to miracles or a ministry, we are to believe that Christ is on location, ministering and BEING that ministry through us.

So, we can have an experience GREATER THAN if we had a heart attack and Jesus Christ came into our newly dead body and started living in the earth disguised AS US, because better than this CAN BE OURS by accepting that we were crucified with Christ already on the cross in order for Him to LIVE HIS LIFE IN AND THROUGH US!!! Now He wants to BE all that He is in us, BE our life, etc. If Jesus IS our righteousness, we'll be as righteous as the Father, because Jesus is as righteous as the Father!!! Remember Jesus said in Matthew 5:48 - "BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT." That's how we do it. Simply reckon the old life to be dead (Rom.6), and receive Christ, not only inside to BE your Saviour and Master and total Lord, but also BEING all that He is, in you, as your Life!!! Are you ready?!!!!!!

HE wants to walk around in YOUR shoes, wearing YOUR clothes, speaking HIS words, praying HIS prayers, thinking HIS thoughts, blessing HIS people, loving, healing through you. He wants to BE the Parent of your children, the Spouse of your mate, the Worker on your job, the Child of your parents, the Friend of your friends, the Leader in your church, the Leader in your community, the Changer of your world, the Establisher of His Kingdom, the Binder and Looser of situations, the Fulfiller of the Great Commission and ALL His commandments, IN YOU and THROUGH YOU!!! (Matt 28:18-20,1 John 2). ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS FROM NOW ON as CHRIST IS YOUR LIFE!! I John 4:17). AMEN!!!

Christ wants there to NO DIFFERENCE between who He is at the right hand of the Father and who He is - IN US!!!!! Amen!!!

If you have any question about this, leave no stone unturned until you know deeeeeeeeeeep within your heart - - - this Greatest Secret of the King, if you can't get the Secret any other way please get in touch with us - because this MUST become absolutely clear to you, absolutely workable! It's the Key literally to EVERYTHING you are in God.

Instead of a crucifix, I've often thought of having a cross with nothing on it except a mirror, as a reminder that you were "there when they crucified my Lord"! And when He rose up from the grave!!!

Here it is then - God's Greatest Secret!!! Christ living His Glorified Life in you AS your Life!!! CHRIST LIVING HIS GLORIFIED LIFE IN YOU -IN ME - AS OUR GLORIFIED LIFE!!! This chapter - this concept - these truths - are the most important thing in this book! If I only have one chance to tell people one thing, I tell them this. The vast majority of Christians, I would say more than 99%), do not have a working knowledge of this Greatest Secret of God. I believe that the need is so great for people to know this truth, that if you and I dedicated the rest of our entire lives to sharing this one truth, it would be worth while! What is your life being dedicated to at the present time anyway? If you are interested, let us know, or if you want a tape or the book, How To Rule The World or Seek 1st The Kingdom Of God, that amplifies this truth, on "The King's Greatest Secret", or if you want to contribute to the cause, write Great Commmission Ministries, 9473 County Road D, Webster, WI 54893-7510. Or if you want to help get this message to others, make a tax deductible check out to "the Kingdom of God" or Great Commission Ministries and send it to us. Let's make sure that this Secret, remains a "secret" no longer!

What would happen if Christ came to the earth to live in disguise in someone before His coming in the clouds? What if He came to live His glorified Life in Your town? Your family? Your church? Your factory? Your marriage? Your shoes? Well, that's exactly what Christ wants to happen!!! Exactly! NO DIFFERENCE.

Please now let us make a prayer by amplifying of II Thessalonians 1: 10,

"Lord God of the impossible, now and forever, please now come and be made all glorious in me and be marvelled at in me. I believe Lord God, I believe, for You to live Your life - IN ME. Yea, BE my Life! I reckon my old life to be crucified! dead! and buried! I consider my New Life to be risen! Ascended! Seated! Glorified! and Reigning! In You, and You in me Right Now! In THIS world! In MY life! As My Life! FROM NOW ON! And to tell this Secret to as many as possible! As quickly as possible! By whatever means possible! In as many places as possible! In Jesus Name, Amen!! "AS CHRIST IS - SO ARE WE - IN THIS WORLD!!"

Who would dare to put an upper limit on the marvelous possibilities of this spectacular truth!, this "Mystery of the Gospel of the Ages!, this King's Greatest Secret!? , In the Mighty Name of Yahweh Yahshua, Jesus Christ the Righteous, we insist that this Truth not be limited! Look at the above list of Scriptures again. Here are only a few in closing: 1. "I can do ALL things through Christ Who strengthens me!" (Ph.4: 13) 2. "We...are transformed into God's very same image!!!" (II Co.3:18) 3. "The works that I do shall you do, and greater works than these shall ye do!!" (John 14)4. "Even as He walks!!" (I John 2:6) 5. "AS HE IS - SO ARE WE - IN THIS WORLD!!!!!" (I John 4: 17) Now, let's look at one of the things that might happen if your friend learns this Secret.

CHAPTER THREE - REVIEW

1. Is it possible to live without sinning? (Explain).

2. What of ours did Christ take with Him to the cross?

3. What is God's greatest secret?

4. What is the difference between Christ helping you do or speak good things & Him speaking or doing good things through you?

5. Why was it necessary for Christ to take you with Him to the cross?

6. Without a practical revelation understanding of the King's Greatest Secret, has positive thinking got much power?

7. Why is suicide not necessary?

8. The following phrases go with what Scripture verses (you may look them up from the list of Scriptures provided below):

     Victory ________, Victory always everywhere ________, Free from sin _________, Risen with Christ our life _________ , Seated in Christ _________, Fullness of joy ________, joy unspeakable __________, Every blessing _________,Joy of the Lord - strength _________, Mind of Christ _________, Can do all things through Christ __________ , Walk blamelessly ________, All power and authority ________, We are the light of the World _________, To live is Christ ________, All power and authority _________, What ever we ask _______, Abundant Life ________ , We have all things for life ________, More than conquerors _______, We can be as He is all things are possible ________, We can walk as He walked ________ , Greater works ________, We can know the mysteries of the Gospel of the ages, Christ is made unto us, Wisdom.

    Jude 24; Ph. 1:21; Eph. 1:3,4; Rom. 8:37; Co!. I 3:1-3; II Cor.2:14-16; Matt. 5:14; II Pet. 1:1-4;I John 14:13; Ps. 16:11; Rom. 6:7,18,22; Ph. 4:13; I Ne. 8:10; Eph. 2:6; I Cor. 15:57; Cor. 2:16; Matt. I 28: 18; II Cor. 9:8; I Cor. 1 :30; Luke 8: 1 0; I John 4:17; John 10:10; John 14:12; Mat. 19:26; Col.1:25-29; I John 2:6.

9. Gal.2:20 - Are you living?

10: Can we be perfect?

11. What did Jesus mean when He said, "Be perfect !"? (Matt.5:48).

12. How can we be perfect?

13. What is the main solution for most arguments about the Bible?

14. How is "calling 'idealistic' what God calls necessary and practical" - calling God a liar?

15. What 3 steps are necessary for Christ to be your Life?

16. Do you have the mind of Christ?

17. In the Word, what's the main evidence, sign, fruit, or proof that you are full of God?

18. Not "have" you been filled with, but are you full of God right now? (Give yourself a percentage)

19. What would happen to a clean and freshly sacrificed (killed) lamb under the hot Israel sun if nothing more happened after it was killed?

20. What else is necessary?

21. What is this symbolic of!

22. Who should praise the Lord with shouting & clapping? (ps.4 7).

23. Why can we have an experience MORE REAL than if we fell dead and Christ was looking around for a fresh warm dead body He could move into and raise up and become the Life of, living on the earth again - disguised as you?

24. Who is the flea - the elephant in the illustration?

25. What is the main difference between Christ helping us do or be something, and Him being or doing it in and through us?

26. Are we supposed to discipline the old nature or the old self!

27. Does Christ want there to be any difference between who He is at the Father's right hand & who He is - in us?

28. If you devoted the rest of your live to sharing this Secret - would your life be well spent?

29. Will you?