THE HOUSE THAT GOD BUILT
The Cell
Volume 2,
Chapter 10
In The
Image And Likeness Of God
By Bob Torango
Gen 1:26-27
26 And
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So
God created man in his own image, in the image
of God created he him; male and female created he them. KJV
Rom 8:29
29 For
whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren. KJV
2 Cor 3:18
18 But
we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. KJV
Col 3:9-10
9 Lie
not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his
deeds;
10 And
have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the
image of him that created him: KJV
From the moment that fertilization takes place between
the sperm of the man and the egg of the woman, there is created a
“new thing”, which is formed in the image and the likeness of the
father and mother. Two separate books of life are now joined into a
single book, containing unique qualities and characteristics that
have been forged by the union of two genetic lineages into one sum
total. This concept of fertilization and conception is the
foundational doctrine of human life itself. Our Heavenly Father is
the architect of such a design and is the One that set this grand
process into motion. In this writing, we are discussing natural
processes and designs, which are but shadows and types of spiritual
processes and designs. The natural order is a temporary order,
destined to have a limited existence, which moves closer to
extinction with each passing second. Without a change taking place,
our bodies, our planet, our solar system, everything that is of the
natural realm will eventually come to an end and will cease to be.
The spiritual order is an eternal order, never to pass away, never
to grow old and corrupt, being eternal in its makeup and design. To
understand this is to understand that God’s purpose and plan is to
bring the spiritual into a state of dominion and power over the
natural world that will swallow up all corruption and assimilate the
natural types and shadows into the eternal substance that the spirit
embodies.
Our physical bodies are natural and temporary. This
reality is embedded within the GENETIC BOOK by which this human body
has been formed. Within the DNA of our cells, there is a designed
sentence of death to our natural existence which is the IMAGE of the
earthy. Our human, physical, natural body will not live forever, no
matter how many vitamins, nutrients, herbs, etc., we ingest. We may
be healthier for the duration of our limited, natural life but we
will not be able to live in our natural body eternally. No amount of
exercise, programs, psycho-therapies of positive reinforcement,
channeling, projecting, paradigm-shifting, group chanting, universal
harmonizing, conscious awareness training that we partake of will
stop our natural body from dying. Our choices as to what we do or
don’t do for our body may cause us to live for a period of time that
is longer or shorter in duration, but nothing that we do in the
natural can change the ultimate sentence of death written on the
genetic tables of our physical DNA.
But, all is not lost! Although we have borne the image
of the earthy lineage of limited life in our physical body, the
scriptures declare that there is more than one body! Glory to God!
We are told that there is a natural body and there IS a spiritual
body. (I Cor. 15:44) However, we have begun our earthly life in the
limited design and functionality of the natural, having lived most
of our life subject to the degenerative qualities of the natural
existence, bringing to this world the image and likeness of our
earthly father, Adam. We bear in our natural body the genetic
lineage of the original, limited, earthly man, Adam. We are his
offspring, regardless of how many disillusioned people try to deny
their relationship to this original fallen creature. If you are
living in a physical, human body, you are the physical offspring of
the first Adam. But, all is not lost! The scriptures have some more
Good News for us! There is not just one ADAM! There is another Adam
(Original) that supersedes the first Adam. As the first Adam was
made a living soul, the last Adam is a QUICKENING SPIRIT! Aren’t you
glad? So, although we have borne the evidence of our genetic
affiliation with the first Adam by reason of our corruptible and
mortal self, we have also borne the evidence of another genetic
affiliation with the Firstborn Son of God and our spiritual man is
eternally living in the substance and power of the Christ of God.
Our entire purpose in eternity is hinged upon our relationship with
these two genetic lineages, one of which has been in authority in
our being for most of our earthly existence with the other lineage
being brought to light day by day as we press into the Presence of
Jesus, who is the Express Image of His Father, which we now know is
our Father also! As the spiritual lineage takes the dominant
position in our being, the natural lineage is being swallowed up
into the image and likeness of our Heavenly Father.
Heb
1:1-3
1 IN
MANY separate revelations
[aeach
of which set forth a portion of the Truth]
and in different ways God
spoke of old to
[our]
forefathers in
and
by the prophets,
2 [But]
in
bthe
last of these days He has spoken to us in
[the person of a]
Son, Whom He
appointed Heir
and
lawful Owner of all things, also by
and
through Whom He created
the worlds
and
the reaches of space
and
the ages of time
[He made,
produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order].
3 He
is the sole expression of the glory of God
[the Light-being, the
cout-raying
or radiance of the divine],
and He is the perfect imprint
and
very image
of [God's]
nature,
upholding
and
maintaining
and
guiding
and
propelling the universe by His mighty word of
power… AMP
There is no reason for us to be ashamed of our genetic
link to Adam. Indeed, unless you have first been born of Adam, you
can have no part in the inheritance of Christ. This glorious
inheritance is not given to spirits, or to angels, or to cherubims,
but it is reserved for those that have FIRST borne the image of the
earthy, natural humanity. Without that distinction, you would have
no part in the redemptive plan of God. There are some today that are
teaching there is no need for a cleansing from Adamic sin. They
believe that sin is a man made concept that was used by religious
people to keep other people in bondage to their religious idea of
original sin. Of course, in order to believe this, one would have to
throw out almost all of the holy scriptures and lower Jesus to the
status of just another man, who was perhaps a great teacher, but
nothing else. If Adam did not sin and if that original sin did not
pass on to all of Adam’s seed after him, then there was never a
reason for Jesus to be born and to die on a cross and be resurrected
on the third day. Then, if we are not sinners saved by grace, then
we become our own God, leading to the concept that declares, “I AM
GOD”. All of this, for no other reason except to find a way out of
being a child of Adam! These poor folks are so deceived by their own
megalomaniacal ego that they have gone to these lengths to
theologically distance themselves from a corruptible image that is
embedded in their own genetic makeup, which stands as an undeniable
truth in their very own being and bears such a steadfast witness to
them being the offspring of Adam that their pitiful declarations of
sinless existence turns their teachings into rants of madness.
1 Cor 15:44-49
44 It
is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a
natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And
so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the
last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit
that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural;
and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The
first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from
heaven.
48 As
is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And
as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall
also bear the image of the heavenly. KJV
Because we have borne the image and likeness of corruptible man, we
are now able to experience the New Birth, of which we have been
predestinated to be partakers of. Because we have no honor in our
natural self, we are now made honorable by reason of Jesus, who is
our High Potentate and has become the propitiation (the
conciliation, the atonement) of our sins. We die, He lives. Because
He lives, we live in Him, because we have been born of Him. If we
continue to live by reason of our own life, we will only live the
prescribed time that is written in our genetic book, so for us to
continue to live is tantamount to us living to die. All natural
organisms will die, without fail. Our only hope to live eternally is
to be born of God, not just in doctrinal statement, but truly BORN,
experientially and spiritually of that Quickening Spirit.
We are being fertilized by that Quickening Spirit, just
as our natural beginnings took place in the fertilization process in
our mother’s womb. If we do not experience UNION with the Quickening
Spirit of God, then we will remain in a state of limited life. The
whole design that Creator God instituted in the reproductive process
of the human race speaks of His plan of redemption for mankind
through the integration of man with his God. In this reproductive
process, two separate entities are mutually joined together, in a
wondrous tapestry of life, combining their genetic codes into one,
unique image and likeness of a new creature. Even so, when the Word
(Sperm) of God fertilizes the Soul (Egg) of man, a new creature is
formed, with all of the attributes of both God and man present in
its makeup. That is what separates a MAN from an ANGEL! It is not
the divinity of God that defines this New Creature in Christ, it is
the lower, common elements of earthly mankind that makes this
creature stand out from all other creations of God! God clearly
glories in taking something that He has lowered out from Himself and
redeeming it with His grace and love! The imagery of fallen man
being redeemed by God through the giving of the life of His own,
dear Son, is enacted over and over again in the natural processes of
human conception, development and birth. If we study this phenomenal
miracle of life that is human birth, we will see how the Father
created man in His image and likeness, and then hid this image and
likeness in the gross anatomy of the human body. Now, there are two
bodies dwelling together, one that is made up of eternal stuff and
the other made up of temporal stuff. Please understand the immensity
of such a moment! God joined Himself to a creature of the earth in a
union of spirit and flesh that set all heaven to buzzing! An
Almighty God took up residence in a natural creature, infusing MAN
with the substance of Himself, announcing to all things everywhere
that this was His offspring, not just His created thing, but
something that was OF God! Before God made Adam, He had already set
in motion the process of conception and birth, having brought forth
animal life and then each species of animal started to produce, kind
after kind. But these creatures were brought forth by the spoken
Word of God, speaking them into existence. With man, God lowered
Himself and got dusty in the process, putting His own hand to the
creative process and FORMED man out of the dust of the ground,
breathing into him His own spirit of life. What a wonder man is!
What a contrast of elements, a contradiction of energies, with the
makeup of both human and divine struggling to rule over his house.
Man is the epitome of a divided house in his present state, but be
of good cheer, God has a plan! Out of the vanity of divided man
there is coming forth a conciliation that is bringing unity to the
duality of this battled creature. Again, it is a pattern of God that
one can find throughout the scriptures and the concepts laid out by
the scriptures concerning God’s redemptive work. It is the grandest
of drama, a cliff-hanger of a story, a plot that leaves us sitting
on the edge of our seats. When all looks lost, the enemy has us
surrounded, we are down to our last breath, no hope in sight,
certain destruction is imminent, like a classic Western story, we
hear a bugle sound out and we know the Cavalry has arrived! In God,
everything gets the darkest before the dawn arrives, the flesh has
to use up all of its resources, our natural man has to utterly spend
himself in the struggle of self-survival, our own faith and hope has
to come to an end, but then, at the last possible second, the Master
appears in the midst of our demise and snatches Victory out of the
jaws of defeat! Isn’t it glorious?
So it is, this drama of life and death is played out
throughout the entire biological processes of human life. Every day,
at the cellular level of our bodies, there are a multitude of dramas
being played out in this thing called life. Human cells play their
role to the death for the sake of the body through acts of
sacrifice, obedience, commitment, all without personal reward or
fame. It is written upon the tables of their cellular hearts, “all
for one, one for all”, which is more than a gung ho phrase for them,
but it is the defining principal of their own genetic nature. So it
is, that the Pattern Son had given Himself for a Living Sacrifice to
redeem this woe begotten creature called, MAN, leaving His former
estate in the Godhead, He became ONE OF US, LIKE US, in order to
redeem us. It is a pattern of sacrifice and union that would repeat
itself throughout the existence of mankind. For example, that God
was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. (2 Cor. 5:19) What a
mystery! Yet, the more we study the scriptures with the revelation
of the spirit, we see patterns develop before our eyes that
enlighten us as to the ways of the Father. For one thing, God seems
to like to hide things inside of other things. Boxes, within boxes,
within boxes. Look at the pattern of the Tabernacle, three boxes
dwelling inside of one another. The Outer Court, the Holy Place, the
Holiest of All. Now, look at the human cell, three boxes dwelling
inside of one another. The cytoplasm, the nucleus, the nucleolus.
Look at mankind, three partitions within one another. Body, soul,
spirit. Now, look at our natural world, the heavens, the earth,
under the earth. Now, look at the atomic makeup of our world.
Elements, made up of Atoms, made up of sub-atomic particles. Boxes,
within boxes, within boxes. Christ in us, us in Christ, Christ and
us in the Father. Oneness, through the union of many. These are
eternal keys to understanding the world and dimension that spiritual
things exist in. That unseen and unperceived world of spirit is
brought to light through the manifold expressions of our physical
world. As we conceive through the fertilization of our soul with the
Word of God, we will become more and more aware of these patterns,
or images, of God’s very own substance that He has hidden in the
temporary shadow of the earthly existence.
Let us consider how the natural process of fertilization
takes place and the different elements that are involved. Where do
the male sperm come from and where does the female egg come from? We
know that DNA of the human cell has 2 sets of chromosomes, with 23
chromosomes to a set. That means that each human cell has a total of
46 chromosomes. Our body was built by the constant dividing of our
original cell to form all of the various types of cells that come
together to form tissues, organs, bones, blood, fluids and all other
elements of the human body. This process of cellular division is
called “mitosis.” Each time the cell divides, it creates an exact
copy of itself, with each copied cell containing the original 46
chromosomes. If you recall our former discussion on the DNA
molecule, you will remember that the DNA molecule is like a ladder,
having two “sides” with rungs that join the sides together. The ribs
of the ladder are mirror images of one another, meaning that each
rung of the ladder is made up of opposite elements, called
nucleotides. There are only 4 nucleotides that make up the rungs of
the genetic ladder. If Cytosine is on the left of one rung, the
right side of the rung would have to be Guanine, as Cytosine and
Guanine always match up with one another. The same is true with
Thymine and Adenine, if one is on the rung, then the other has to
accompany it. As the cell divides, the double strand of DNA is
“unzipped”, just like a zipper on a garment which can either be
zipped or unzipped by sliding the handle of the zipper along the
length of the zipper. Once unzipped, there are two strands of zipper
remaining, which can then be re-zipped by joining the zipper strands
at one end and then zipping them together. In the cell, one strand
of DNA goes with the new cell and one strand remains in the parent
cell. Then, each cell builds the opposite side of the single strand
of the ladder plugging in the appropriate nucleotide to complete the
rungs of the ladder. Now you have two exact cellular copies. That is
how we came from a single cell in our mother’s womb to a mature
adult organism with over 100 trillion cells.
The single strand of DNA acts as a template, from which
copies can be made. When someone orders a dress pattern from a
catalog, they will receive a “template” of the dress, which they
will use to make an exact copy of the original dress design.
Patterns, or templates, are used in a multitude of industries to
promote mass replication of a design that they want repeated in an
exact copy. The designer can send out thousands of these templates
and there will be a thousand copies of that original design made
from that single pattern. Likewise, Christ is THE PATTERN SON! From
that original, divine Pattern there is coming forth many sons, or
offspring of that single Son, each one having the exact pattern of
character and nature that is found in the original Son of God. The
very fact that we are called “sons” in the scriptures testifies to
this grand and awesome process of continuity that involves many sons
coming to glory through the transforming power of The Christ. As you
can see, if we do away with the original Son, then there are no more
sons in existence, since all sons came from an original Son, just as
all cells come from original cells and all things come from the One
True Creator. We are “OF” God and we are “joint heirs” with Christ.
We are being changed into the exact pattern of the King, who is now
become the King of kings and the Lord of lords, having entered into
a place in His Father where He may bring us to sit down with Him and
reign with Him for the ages to come. Thank God for the Pattern Son,
Jesus who is the Christ of God and who has InChristed us with
Himself!
Now, this is how our cells reproduce themselves and
how the body is built from the forming of new cells. Out of One
comes Many and each new cell has the exact same Book of Life that
the original cell had. All of the thousands of different types of
cells in the body comes from the same Book of genetic instructions
and each cell contains the same Book of Life. Within this Book,
there is found the entire blueprint instructions to bring forth all
of the manifold kinds of cells that are found throughout the human
body. As the new entity starts to grow and divide in the mother’s
womb, there begins to develop a process called “differentiation”
that designates the structure and function of the new cell. Although
the genetic blueprints of all cells of the body is found in the Book
of Life, the new cell is only given access to the blueprint that
corresponds to the type of cell it has been designated to become.
The heart cell is designated as a heart cell by the genetic
blueprint of the heart cell found on the DNA molecule. The liver
cell, the brain cell, the skin cell, etc., all are given access to
their particular cell type found on the pages of the DNA code and
once they are initiated into that cellular identity, they are
forever “locked” into that differentiation of structure and function
that each type dictates. There is no jealousy, competition, or envy
involved in this ordained and chosen specialization, only a unified
willingness to be that part of the body that they have been
designated to fulfill. How I wish we could be like those tiny,
microscopic cells in our calling and function in the Body of Christ!
How pleasant it would be, how glorifying to the Father it would be,
how life-giving it would be to see each member of the Body of Christ
become aware of their true calling and purpose to the spiritual Body
and then to determine themselves to be the best at that calling. In
such a case, there would be no need throughout the Body of Christ.
Unity and harmony would be on open display, the Word would minister
out of willing vessels to every area of need, we would be a people
that are willing in the Day of His Power to stand in our lot, an
army of Joel, 144,000 strong, a company of designated sons of God,
each in their right place and doing what the spirit has anointed
them to do. Heaven on earth! Instead, we have seen an ugly
competition and cutthroat mentality amongst God’s people that gives
rise to spiritual warfare amongst those that are all vying to be
God’s man/woman of the hour with the power. How my heart aches to
see the Body flow together with the same mind and a single heart
concerning the advancement of the Kingdom of God in the hearts of
His people. When we do find our place in Him and stand in that place
with peace and joy, there will be an astounding abundance of healing
and restoration that will begin to put on open display the appearing
of the Christ in the sons of God. We all have the same God in our
hearts, none having more or less of Him. We are all called and
ordained by the same spirit, we all have received the same Lord and
the same anointing which is working in us all. Out of the diversity
of His own Lordship, there is being formed a corporate expression of
His very own Self, a symphony of Word and expression that will fill
the earth with the knowledge of the Lord. We represent the full
counsel of His will in the earth, a spiritual Sanhedrin of
governmental power and unity. Without this oneness of spirit and
function, His full counsel is kept hidden from His people, being
shut up behind the veil of carnal understanding, found both in the
unregenerated minds of the unbeliever and also within the ranks of
the religious, carnal believer. The Good News is that He is forming
a specialized company of sons that are being given an appointment
with an intense encounter with their Master, being put through a
boot camp of God that will purge them of all pride and selfishness,
removing from them any personal motive and ego-driven desires,
renewing them and re-minding them with the knowledge of their true
origins and nature. This is the reconstitution of sons, the
re-identifying of their true identity in Christ, which will make
them into martyrs of the faith, dying to self and rising to God!
Every son of God must die to their earthy image and be raised to
their heavenly image. In order to live, we must die in Christ,
freeing us from all other dominions and thrones and powers that have
attached themselves to us throughout our earthly existence. The fire
of God’s judgments in our lives will bring about this release.
Without the Righteous Judgment of God we will remain in a divided,
corruptible state and condition. Once judgment is allowed to run its
course in us, we will begin to return to the original image and
likeness of our Father. Most believers today want to find a safe
place in Christ, a haven of child-like innocence where they know
nothing and thus are not responsible for anything. But, for those
sons that are designated to bring to this world the perfect image of
their Father there is no escaping this fearful encounter with a Holy
God.
We must bring to this realm that original code of
life that was found in Jesus the Christ of God. It must be wrought
in a people that will produce that same nature and character as
found in the Elder Son. Jesus is the original genetic code of
Sonship and we are His genetic kinsmen. We bear His name, which
means we bear His nature, His calling, His priesthood, His purpose,
His kingship and His lordship. He is the King and we are His kings,
He is the Lord and we are His lords. We are His continuing sonship
and lordship in the earth, having committed to us His inheritance of
all things, making us heirs of His Lordship. Can you see why there
cannot remain in us the faintest whisper of carnal man? Can you not
see why He has dealt with us in such steadfast judgment and
cleansings? If we are to be the “EXPRESS IMAGE” of Him then we must
not have any wild weeds in us that would bring death instead of
life. Don’t worry. He won’t let that happen, even if it means
turning the heat of His fire up a hundredfold, He will forge a
people in His furnace until we reflect a flawless image of God’s
divine Self. It is our destiny to be the progeny of His wondrous
Self, the offspring of His glorious substance. In bringing us to the
realization of this holy destiny, the Father is unfolding the Plan
that He finished in Himself before the foundation of the ages. The
Plan is right on time and everything is in its right place.
Conception is realized and now the formation of a New Man is being
curiously wrought in the womb of our soul. As each individual cell
starts to become that chosen expression in the Body of Christ there
is a corporate expression that is synchronizing with this individual
change. As hearts are interconnected with each other across the
spectrum of the visible and invisible, there comes into view a
Corporate Man expression that will begin the trumpets blasting a new
sound in the earth and in the heavens. Out of this transfiguring
event there will come a sound that every person will instantly know
and be familiar with, for it is the sound that they heard once
before, a long, long time ago. As each successive trumpet sounds
throughout the Plan of God, there is found in that generation a
people that have the ear to hear the trumpet. God has never blown a
trumpet without having brought forth a people that are able to hear
the blast. As a new trumpet begins to sound today, we can rest
assured that there is a people, formed out of the furnace of
afflictions, tried in the rigors of faith, challenged by
unbelievable tragedies, a people stands in the presence of their God
and they are hearing what the spirit is saying to us today. Glory!
However, in order to reproduce, kind after kind, the
human organism performs another kind of cell division, called
meiosis. This specialized cellular division creates “gametes”, which
are sex cells that contain only ONE set of chromosomes, numbering
23. This means that instead of forming the entire ladder, the
gametes are single strands, just one side of the zipper, with half
of the entire number of chromosomes as regular cells. The female
forms an ovum, or an egg, which houses one set of the chromosomes of
her DNA, numbering 23. The egg is immobile, as it is passive in its
design, having to be VISITED by the male sperm. We will write more
about this wonderful likeness of the relationship between man and
The God, which will bring to light the APPEARING of the Lord through
His saints. The male forms a structure called the sperm, that is
mobile, containing the one set of chromosomes in a spherical head
made up of protein, of which is attached a flagellum, or a long
strand of material that acts as a tail by which the sperm whips back
and forth to move toward the egg. The sperm and the ovum (egg)
contain a sex chromosome that is used to determine the sexual gender
of the potential embryo. There are two types of sexual chromosomes
which determine the sexual make up of the offspring, which are
designated as X and Y. The male can produce both types of sexual
chromosomes, X &Y. The female is only able to produce one type of
sex chromosome, the X chromosome. Depending on which sexual
chromosome is present in the sperm when it fertilizes the egg, the
offspring’s gender will be determined by the sperm being either an X
or a Y chromosome. If an X chromosome is present, the offspring will
be female, which is always, X, X. If the Y chromosome is present,
the offspring will be male, which is always X,Y. In this regard, the
male determines the gender of the offspring, since the female egg is
always X, or female.
Now, let us delve into this, considering what we know
to be true concerning Christ and mankind. First, we need God as much
as the egg needs the sperm. No man can approach God, he must be
approached by God. We don’t seek Him out, He seeks us out. We did
not choose Him, He chose us. We could not save ourselves, He had to
offer Himself to be our Savior. We are only half fulfilled by
ourselves. Our destiny can only be fulfilled by our union with our
Better Half, which is Christ. Christ needs us also. We fulfill Him,
as He has been elevated to His position as Lord and King by reason
of our humble subjection to His Lordship. Every Lord needs subjects!
Otherwise, just call Him brother, or buddy, or some other title. If
He truly is King of kings and Lord of lords, He is fulfilled by our
servitude. The sperm is the smallest cell in the human body. Mature
sperm cells are about 0.05 millimeters long, and swim at a rate of
about 3 millimeters per minute. They have to wave their tails over
200 times a minute to cover those 3 millimeters. The sperm cells are
produced in the male testes, taking about 72 days to produce. The
male will produce over 12 trillion sperm cells over the course of
his life. The Greek words that make up the word, “spermatozoa” come
from “sperma” and “zoon” which means, “living seed.” Considering
this information, we can only imagine how much determinative love
has been involved in the seeking out of the lost by Christ Jesus,
our Lord. He is the sperm to our egg and He has overcome all
opposition to be our Champion of Love! He has overcome the dark
waters of death, the darkness of the grave, the fires of hell, the
power of sin, the wiles of the devil, the blindness of the Law, the
hopelessness of man’s heart, the fear of religion, the unbelief of
His own house, the loneliness of being The One, the sins of the
world, all because He loved us from the beginning, before the age of
sin. Before we ever were formed and fashioned as “human”, He loved
us with an everlasting Love and He will hold the ages of time at bay
until every single man, woman and child has come into union with
Him. I want you to know something today, my friend. No matter how
far you think you have strayed from His path, no matter how lost you
think your life has become in the darkness of your mind, His eye has
never strayed from you and He will visit you with His Love that will
set you free. Never, ever think otherwise. Your destiny is to show
forth the other side of your genetic ladder and Jesus is able to do
that for you. The only thing you need in order to make a new life
for yourself is Him. Where is He? Stop looking outside of you, for
the church buildings to show Him to you, for your Christian friends
to show Him to you, for the TV Ministries to show Him to you,
because that is not the answer you are seeking. Close your eyes, get
in a quiet place, be still in your heart and see Him in the House
that He built for Himself. YOU! He is coming to you and He is going
to break through all of the things that would oppose Him from
revealing Himself to you and He will take you into Himself and give
you LIFE. Wait on it. You have waited for other things in your life,
so believe me when I say that of all the things you have waited for
in your life, this is the most worthy thing to wait upon you have
ever experienced. Present yourself to Him as many times as it takes
for the conception to take place. Day by day, night by night, come
before the Lord and offer yourself to Him and LIFE will break out
inside of you!
As the sperm and the egg are made for each other, we
were made for God. Sperm meets egg, union takes place, THEN WHAT? I
am glad you asked! Once the single strand of DNA in the sperm fuses
itself to the single strand of DNA in the woman, something wonderful
takes place. It is a NOVA of NEW LIFE!
2 Cor
5:16-17
16 Consequently,
from now on we estimate
and
regard no one from a
[purely]
human point of view
[in terms of
natural standards of value].
[No]
even though
we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint
and
as a man, yet now
[we have such
knowledge of Him that]
we know Him no longer
[in terms of the flesh].
17 Therefore
if any person is
[ingrafted]
in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new
creature altogether); the old
[previous moral and
spiritual condition]
has passed away. Behold, the fresh
and
new has come! AMP
Ah
yes! The Fresh and New has come! A Fresh You, a New You, a new
perspective about Christ is coming forth, we can no longer see Him
through the old bi-focals of religion, which see Him as limited,
vengeful, mad, grudging, thinking that God is powerless to save His
creation, so He is trying to save only a portion of the entire human
population before helplessly seeing them sent off to eternal
separation from Him. Oh Yes! The Fresh and the New has come and with
it we see Jesus, high and lifted up, His train filling the temple of
God, laying low all the enemies of His plan and purpose. We see
Jesus, the Undefeated Champion of Love, cancelling out the covenant
of death and the agreement of hell. We see Jesus, transforming us,
changing us, saving us, filling us, until every man sees His glory
and is found in His presence. Let the old, pathetic doomsday
prophets bray on, but we will believe the Lord and be filled with
great expectations until we see His enemies made His footstool.
Death will not have you, hell will not contain you, misery will not
imprison you, for you are born of God, offspring of His loins! His
blood flows through you, His image and likeness is in you. His
substance is taking you over, His glory is rising up in you and
spilling over, He is making your path straight and is speaking
tender mercies into your being. You ARE His Image and His Likeness
in the earth!
That is why I am so happy to write this to you. Have you
ever heard someone say this about a child? “He is the spitting image
of his father” or “she is the spitting image of her mother.” That
happens all the time and it is a common occurrence because it is a
physical reality. The offspring of a union of a man and a woman have
taken on the genetic substance of their parents. We, as the
offspring of our Father, are taking on the genetic substance of His
glory and character. Surely you know that He is changing you from
the earthly to the heavenly? We have borne that earthly image, not
TRYING to bear it, but it just came real natural to bear it, didn’t
it? It won’t be any different with the image and likeness of our
Spiritual Father. Genetics win out every time! I don’t have to TRY
to be a son of God, I AM A SON OF GOD! Our relationship to God is
not an intellectual constitution of doctrinal purity, we have an
intimate, Living Seed, relationship with Him. He is come! He has
made us His abode and He is living in us, right now, right here, in
you, in me! I pray that the people of God will wake up from their
doctrines of striving and justifying themselves to be the children
of God. You do not need the approval of your pastor, or bishop, or
prophet, or priest, or church, or in-laws, or husband, or wife in
order to live the life of an heir of Jesus Christ. NO ONE can take
your inheritance from you, it is written on the tables of your
heart, not in some church roster. Thank God! Don’t let anyone keep
you from enjoying your place in the Kingdom of God. Don’t let anyone
keep you in prisons of jealousy, envy, anger, greed, lust,
immorality, selfishness or any other man made device. Free yourself!
As our good friend, Stacy Wood, used to say, who is now amongst the
heavenly host, urging us onward and upward, “The Throttle of your
life is in your hands!” Oh God! Can you hear it? Don’t let others
weigh you down or keep you down. Get up and lay hold on eternal
life! It is our time to shine, to illuminate the night with the
light of Christ. We will not be held down any longer by those
weights that have so easily beset us in times past. I declare a New
Day for you, clean the slate, turn the page, turn around and start
to walk the other way, forget the past, change your name, renew your
mind, BE BORN ANEW! It is your destiny, your right in Christ, your
appointed designation, to be amongst those that participate in the
inheritance of the Pattern Son. From this day onward you will walk a
new walk, strong and bold, into the Light and Glory of the Father.
Those past lords that have had dominion over you are dead and they
will not rise again. A new door is opened for you and you will walk
through it. Have no fear! You have been here before.
By Robert D Torango
(To be continued)
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