Sermon 2657 -Travailing the Man Child to Birth - 5th Message.....(Sun am 12/23/2007)

TRAVAILING THE MAN CHILD TO BIRTH — 5TH MESSAGE.....(SUN AM 12/23/2007)
When the Angel appeared to the Virgin Mary in Luke 1:29,30, he said, “[F]ear not, Mary.” Corrupt fear is true fear or reverence of God flowing backward. When fear is flowing backward, it becomes scorn. It becomes irreverence. It becomes ingratitude. We have to stop scorning in order to have a spiritual conception. But the Bible says: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear…”(I John 4:18). God is love. Love is His Name. Love is His Nature. Love is His Word. Love is His Will. Love is His goal and objective. The love of God is perfected in us by the Word of God. “But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected…”(IJohn 2:5).

When the Angel told Mary  that she was to conceive a Son, she asked, “[H]ow shall this be,seeing I know not a man?” (Luke 1:34). This was her mortal mentality reasoning. In verse thirty-five, the Angel told Mary that the Power of the Highest would overshadow her.  The Hebrew word for overshadow can be traced to the Succoth booth. The Power of the Highest is a spiritual Succoth booth. This message explains how God personified this Succoth booth in the days of Israel. After Israel got the lamb’s blood in Egypt, God immediately gave her a pretaste of total dependence on Him, through a natural, flimsy booth of sticks and branches.

The lamb’s blood was a picture of the Blood of God’s Holy Lamb, Christ Jesus. The Father was there, overshadowing the lamb’s blood that was on the door, protecting those inside from death. They had not gone far until God let them taste the Cloud and Fire by picking them up and carrying them in this kaw-bode Glory.This is God’s divine, infinite kaw-bode-Glory Booth.

Here was the Cloud, and, then, the Fire was in the Cloud. They all got to see that Cloud and Fire in front of them. Here was the Almighty, Infinite, Divine God Who comes in small powdery substance, tiny, and it led them through the Red Sea. The Israelites leaped and shouted when they got to the wilderness side of the Red Sea.

In the New Testament, John the Baptist, by gift, had a taste of the Priesthood of praise and Glory. He leaped in his mother’swomb. Yet, later, he put himself in competition with the LORD’s ministry. The ministry of John the Baptist was to stop as soon as he had introduced the LORD, but he introduced the LORD twice; then, he kept right on working parallel across from Jesus. There was a Cloud of kaw-bode Glory on the Mercy Seat, and the Pillar of the Shekinah Glory went all the way down to the inside of the Ark and rested on the Written Law so that at all times the Oral Law and the Written Law could be made one.