Ascension Glory

The following is an excerpt from a writing by Bro. Bill Britton called the Seed Line of Deity:

"Jesus appeared on the scene and overcame all bearing the image of His Father. He was a new creation man. There was not another like him on the earth. He was the first born of the creation of God.

At this point, God could have said: “This is what I have been looking for, this is the Son in whom I am well pleased. So now I will find another virgin to be his bride, and let him populate the earth with His own likeness”. In the first place, this would have left us out. And God loved us too much for that. In the second place, every seed brings forth after its own kind, and Jesus could only have produced earthly children with the same limitations that He had while He was here in the likeness of men. For being glorified and exalted at the right hand of the Father in heavenly places did not come until after His resurrection.

(Eph. 1:20)
"And so that you can know and understand what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,
Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the the heavenly [places].
Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named - above every title that can be conferred - not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come.
And He put all thing under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church."


The Spirit Poured Out

The sons that Christ is bringing forth will not be reproduced in the image of that man in human form, walking the shores of Galilee. As wonderful as that might be walking in his authority and power, and healing the sick and raising the dead, he has something far more glorious than that in mind for us.

We read in John 7:37 –39
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as, the scripture hath said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.”

Did you get what it said in verse 39? “The Holy Ghost was not yet given.” Doesn’t it say that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb? And even his mother and father were also filled with the Holy Ghost. (Luke 1:15, 4l, 67). And didn’t the Holy Ghost come upon the Old Testament prophets? Then what does it mean that “the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified”?

The answer is that John 7:39 is speaking of the Holy Ghost coming into a people for the purpose of producing a many-membered son in the likeness of the ascended glorified Christ.

In John 16: 7 Jesus tells us that it was necessary for Him to die, and be resurrected and glorified, in order for the Spirit of the glorified Christ to come to us. For this is the likeness He is producing in us. Glory to God! The likeness of the Son who has been resurrected and exalted to the throne is what we are to bear!
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I find it very significant that Jesus made a distinction in the way the Holy Spirit is experienced before his ascension and glorification and how it is experienced after his elevation into Fatherhood making him a Life-giving spirit.

There had never been a "man" that had attained to perfection prior to Jesus. He is the firstborn from among the dead that put on glorification reality not just resurrection...for many were resurrected prior to Jesus, but Jesus is He:
"Who alone has immortality [in the sense of exemption from every kind of death] and lives in unapproachable light, Whom no man has ever seen or can see. Unto Him be honor and everlasting power." 1 Tim. 6:16

There is no man (no carnal man) that has ever seen this place for it is the place that the "vultures eye has not seen, nor the proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it." Job 28:7

This to me is the difference in a knowledge about a cosmic Christ principle and actually being baptized into Him experientially beyond mere knowledge.

Many people of the more new age persuasion will readily speak of Christ, but almost universally draw back from any association with Christ Jesus....and of course, the reason for that is usually the same reason that many of us have had trouble with the systems of Christianity. They have seen the hypocrisy and mistreatment of humanity in the name of Jesus so have deemed the gospel of Jesus Christ as less than truth.

So they have pursued other roads and I will agree that many times there is truths to be learned in some of these other things, but it is also true that if you just exchange one set of ideas for another set, you are not really going anywhere....its still just another horizontal slide and not the vertical. It can prove to be just more knowlede without the anointing and quickening of the Holy Spirit.