Sermon Notes

(Independence Day, International Convention) The Philadelphia Church, mentioned in the third chapter of Revelation, is the Spouse Church. This is the Church that kept His Word, did not deny His Name, and kept the Word of His  patience. To the overcomers in this Church, Jesus said, “[I] will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name” (Revelation 3:12). So if we are overcomers, our new Name in Glory will be the New Name of Jesus.

Matthew 11:28-30 mentions two kinds of rest. There is rest that we receive by gift, and there is rest that we find by growth or work. To find rest means that we are looking for something. To find something means that we have to work for it. The rest that Jesus gives is the rest of a worm. It is the crawling rest of an infant, a baby. An infant is a child that cannot walk. If we think we can walk up and down the Cross, we are wrong. The only ones who get on the Cross are the crawlers. The Psalmist said, “[I] am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people” (Psalm 22:6). He was speaking prophetically of how the Son of God felt when he was hanging on the Cross. Jesus Christ crawled with all Humility up to the Cross.

(International Convention) Four miraculous crossings of Jordan are recorded in God’s Word. The first two crossings were made by Jacob, who went across with his staff or rod that had the LORD’s Name on it. It was God’s Purposive Will for Jacob to be the firstborn and to have the blessing of the birthright. The blessing in the Old Testament consisted of the firstborn being the king, the priest, and the prophet of the family. That was their inherited right. But when they were in the womb, Esau struggled with Jacob and pushed him out of the way, thus being born first.

(Mexico Retreat ). Roman 8:26 says: “[T]he Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” The Unbegotten Spirit of God groans and repents for all our offenses against the depth, the height, the length, and the breadth of His Infinite Name. When we get through the whole matter of Time, Eternity, Creation, we are back to the LORD’s Name. The LORD God started with Himself, His Name. He owed a debt to make His Name known. Consequently, He begot His Purposive Will and His Master Plan.

The Hebrew word for groan, aw-nakh, means to be filled with anguish. Groaning is a depth of prayer that has to do with the depths and the heights of the LORD’s tetragrammaton, His Holy Name. There are vessels of mercy and vessels of wrath (Romans 8:22,23). The cup of Mercy is almost full, and the cup of wrath is almost full. When these two cups fill up, the cup of Mercy is going up, and the cup of wrath is going down. So the vessels of wrath’s full cup will demonstrate itself in their allegiance and service and idolatrous worship of the Antichrist.

Ephesians 2:8-10 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them,”  The Hebrew word for work-manship, mah-as-eh, means actions. It means work, good deeds, labor, skill. It means cunning, wise, a work. The word mah-as-eh comes from the root word aw-saw, which means to do, to finish, to complete, to dress.

Isaiah 55:1-3 tells us to buy the Truth and sell it not. We buy the Truth with our poverty. We begin our spiritual journey with theoretical Knowledge; then, we go on to the experiential Knowledge. But in the Father’s realm, we receive experiential Knowledge first; then we move to the theory side of the scales. Experience comes by the Spirit of God, and God’s Word is Spirit and Truth; it is also theory, so there are two sides.

The message begins with a review of the Scriptures that we are to memorize in each corner of the LORD’s tetragrammaton, His Holy Name. In the Wisdom Corner, we need to memorize and quote Philippians 4:13. That is the beginning Scripture. Then, in the Understanding Corner, we quote Galatians 2:20. In the Knowledge Corner, we need to quote I Corinthians 2:2. Philippians 2:13 is the Scripture we quote in the Prudence Corner.  Wisdom is knowing how to begin right. Knowledge is knowing by experience. The Hebrew word for worketh in Philippians 2:13 is paw-al, which means to split or to separate. He splits our mouth and our heart so that He can clean them up, fix them up, and put them together so that they can function as one.

Psalm 58:8 says: “Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?” Tears are the liquid life of our soul. There are two sides to tears. First of all, they are written in a book. Precious are the tears that are written in God’s Book. Malachi 3:16 tells us that they are written in the Book of Remembrance. “Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. ”It is not the physical water that comes out of our eyes that gets written in His Book.

God’s Word reveals some examples of a lifted-up heart, a heart that is lifted up in pride. Forgetfulness is what produces the pride, arrogance, and haughtiness that results in a lifted-up heart. Forgetfulness of  Who God is, forgetfulness of who we are, forgetfulness of what God has done for us, forgetfulness of where we were when God found is forgetfulness of all His wonderful Mercy and Grace. The following people used their worker heart to lift themselves up: Amaziah, Uzziah, Hezekiah, and Lucifer. In so doing, they sinned against the Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, and Prudence of the LORD’s Name.

Proverbs 10:12 says, “Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. ” We are saved by the Blood, Fire, and Water of the Crucified Christ, which was pictured in type and shadow by God’s deliverance of Israel out of Egypt by the lamb’s blood, by the Cloud and Fire, and by opening the waters of the Red Sea. After our salvation, we grow and minister in the Son’s Spiritual Stature by following the order that was established in the Mosaic Tabernacle in the wilderness. Before the Priests could minister in the Old Testament Tabernacle, they had to wash their hands and feet in the Waters at the Brazen Laver in the Courtyard. Then, they could go to the Brazen Altar and offer the blood sacrifice.

In the Son’s realm, we go on for God by crucifying our flesh. In the Father’s realm, everything must be covered through Love. The Principle of dwelling and abiding in the secret place is mentioned in the first verse of Psalm 91. This Psalm has twelve pairs of scales that fit with the twelve Governmental Names. If we dwell (yaw-shab, which means to sit and judge) in the secret place of the Most High, then our reward will be to abide under the shadow or vail, the vail-shadow. Then, there is the shadow that goes with the Hebrew word maw-veth, which is the Shadow of Death that is mentioned in Psalm 23:1-4. The Shadow of Death is the Shadow of God’s Hands. His Hands are personified by wings, which has to do with His Feather Government.

Everything must be covered. After everything has been covered by God’s Love, we cover His Name with thanksgiving and praise and blessing. Then, the LORD’s Name covers it all. When we are in the Son’s realm, we learn from the Crucified Christ how to grow spiritually by crucifixion of our flesh. In the Father’s realm, we learn from the Resurrected Christ how to cover.

After we have grown in the Spiritual Stature of Jesus Christ, then the Purpose of Jesus’ Stature within our hearts is to lead us to the Father. This message shows how the Father’s tetragrammaton, His Holy foursquare Name fits with God’s Feather Government. In the Wisdom Corner of His Name, there are the Dove Feathers, which is what the Father gave to Jesus when Jesus was baptized. When Jesus arose from the dead, He put on the Eagle Feathers and flew, as it were, to the highest mountain, Mount Zion, up in the regions beyond. There are the Cherubim in the Knowledge Corner. The Seraphim are in the Prudence Corner. The Seraphim are above the Cherubim and the Ark, and they watch an Altar.