Don't Touch Me

These were the words that Mary heard from the risen Christ. What was their significance do you think?

Mary was looking for Jesus the man she had known and loved prior to his resurrection. But Jesus could no longer be held in his earthly manifestation now because he knew that his mission was not complete. If he remained with them as the singular man Jesus, his ability to share this spirit that he had been anointed with -the anointing of the spirit without measure (John 3) would only be limited to wherever he bodily or physically could be. That's why he said "I am with you, but I shall be in you."

Jesus did not walk in glorified flesh when he walked here. He had emptied himself and stripped himself of his equality with God and was born a human being and after he appeared in human form he humbled himself even further and carried his obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross! He was powerless to do anything without the anointing. "God anointed Jesus who went about doing good." "I can of mine ownself do nothing."

He knew that he had to make his full change, in body as well as being anointed in spirit.

We know that Jesus asked to be restored to the glory that he had with the Father before the world was, so this also reveals that he was not walking in that full glory while in his human flesh.

Why did Jesus say in John 17?..."He lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come. Glorify and exalt and honor and magnify YOUR SON, so that YOUR SON may glorify and extol and magnify You."

Because THE SON now becomes a Father in his glorification! It is Jesus who fathers us. Remember Paul saying we have not many fathers?

"I have given to them the glory and honor which you have given Me, that they may be one even as we are one...and that You have loved them even as You have loved Me." He was sharing with us the same glory bestowed upon him by his father to show us how we are are equally loved by God as his One Son.

When Peter stood on the Day of Pentecost and told the crowd gathered in Jerusalem for that Jewish feast day, just exactly what was going on in this great outpouring that they were witnessing, he told them that this was the fulfillment of what Joel the prophet had been told. That God was going to pour out his spirit on all mankind. By what means did he tell them that this was going to happen??

He told them Jesus of Nazareth a Man who had been witnessed to as from God by the mighty works that he had performed, and it was this very Jesus they had crucified, but God had raised up out of death not permiting his soul to remain in Hades (which was the realm of departed spirits) NOR would he let this Holy One's flesh body see corruption or decay.

AND IT WAS THIS JESUS that God raised up and lifted high by his right hand and that HE HAD RECEIVED FROM THE FATHER THE PROMISED BLESSING WHICH IS THE HOLY SPIRIT,

AND.....HE HAS MADE THIS OUTPOURING WHICH YOU SEE AND HEAR!!!

IT WAS JESUS THAT BAPTIZED THEM THEN AND IT IS STILL JESUS THAT BAPTIZES US NOW. It is the Jesus that has been made Christ and Lord that has this ability. That is why Jesus would not let Mary touch or hold him in this realm. He had a greater work to perform for us and in us....becoming not only the Author or initiator of our faith, but from this expanded and exalted place would now be able to actually live in us as the resurrected Christ spirit, finishing or bringing to maturity or perfection our faith.

And let the whole house of Israel know - isn't that who we are, the spiritual house of Israel?

Well, let them all know and recognize beyond ALL DOUBT and know assuredly that

GOD HAS MADE HIM BOTH LORD AND CHRIST (this is the King/Priest ministry or the Melchizedek Prieshood order for it is the power of an endless life that qualifies this priesthood)

THIS JESUS WHOM YOU HAVE CRUCIFIED.

You don't have Christ apart from Jesus. And you don't have the completed Christ Body without each of us as members of that Body. For Christ is many yet ONE!

Grace and Glory to all,
Karen