Topic: Understanding Incarnation
Greetings Sons of God:
Now you may wonder where this is coming from and trust me we
are not talking about someone dying and then coming back as some animal. That is re-incarnation and that is not what
we believe in anyway. But let’s first
define incarnation and then move forward from there.
Incarnation – A person who embodies in the flesh a deity,
spirit or abstract quality.
So just based on the definition of incarnation we can began
to see how this is important to understand to us as sons of God. So many people seem to separate the two
meaning human and God when God made the human to be a son but carry His
presence in the Earth. Let’s start with
this Scripture:
Galatians 2:20: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I
live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for
me.
Now look at this because our definition of incarnation is
summed up in the Scripture. When we
repent and accept Jesus as our Savior we were crucified and died to the sinful
man. It then states even though I live
it is Christ who lives in me and my life is in Him. Christ abiding within mankind is the very
definition of incarnation. But do not
lose fact that we died and even though we maybe physically alive in the ability
to walk and interact with the physical realm, but our life and existence is in
Christ who lives in us.
Colossians 3:3: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with
Christ in God.
It is important to understand that maturing in Christ is the
process by which you understand how you are the host of the presence of God and
how He uses you as a portal to act through in our time. See many people are looking here there and
every where for God and it has been His plan all the time to dwell within
you. Now this is the current reality
that many are walking in and many are still blinded to . As we know if this is the reality then God
has used a type and shadow before that our soul may pick up a little of what
God eventually brought to reality and that type and shadow is the Ark of the
Covenant.
If you go back and look up how the Ark of the Covenant is
made up or built you will see that it is made of wood overlaid with gold. This is a picture of humanity covered in
divinity. The wood represents the
humanity and the gold, divinity. Of
course there were the two angels bowed toward the mercy seat which sat between
the two angels. The purpose is to show a characteristic and nature of God being
merciful toward men. The way that the
ark was transported was by four priests and it was carried by four golden rods
that extended from four corners of the box.
This is strategic because the
number four is symbolic of universality and corporeity. Meaning the fact that ark of the covenant was
carried by four priests denote that the ark of the covenant is meant to be
carried by the corporate man. Meaning that carrying the ark is not about
individuality, it is about corporeity.
The importance of the carrying of the ark and it being portable is to
show the presence of God in the earth and the presence of God introduces the
divine into the human. The introduction
of the presence of God to the human is so critical because it is this
incarnation that manifests the sons of God.
Let me show you this critical concept:
Joshua 4:15-17: And as they bare the ark were come unto
Jordan, and the feet of the priest that bare the that ark were dipped in the
brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of the
harvest,) That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an
heap very far from the city Adam, that is eside Zaretan: and those that came
down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off:
and the people passed over right against Jericho. And the priests that bare the
ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of
Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people
were passed clean over the Jordan.
When God is incarnate in man, the dynamics of the earth
change. When the ark when before the
people in the Scripture the waters of the Jordan which were overflowing
separated and they passed over the Jordan on dry ground. Now in the carnal we would think that is
impossible and we would look for some scientific reasoning of how this could
be. Think about it from this angle. Who created the water? God!
So He knows how His creation works and operates right because He
designed it. Now as the Creator can He
not also change how the creation functions?
Of course! Understand that the
eternal is a higher order than the temporal or the physical. Everything that is physical came from the
eternal. So as God is incarnate in man,
the creation sees the Creator within the man and responds accordingly as need
be. The problem many have is the belief
in this being a reality. We ask for God
to come into our hearts that we may be saved but for many it stops there. What about being a son! That is who you are and as His son carrying
the image of the Father, the creation is meant to serve us as we serve the
Father. This is what Genesis 1:26 is all
about, sons having dominion in the earth ruling over creation. Not just any rule but a righteous rule! Jesus our eldest brother walked the earth and
showed us how this works. He was showing
us how the sons of God are to be in image and likeness of their Heavenly Father
sent to administrate His Kingdom and bring the rule of kingdoms under the enemy
under the rule of the Kingdom of God.
We must wake from our slumber and really examine our relationship with
the Father and get on board with His program to mature us and bring us into our
inheritance as His sons.
Let close this portion of the less on out with this concept
of carrying the ark of His Presence.
When we fail to carry the ark as a corporate body then we will carry His
presence in ways he did not design. Let
me show you:
2 Samuel 6 is the story of David and how he believed it
would be more convenient to carry the ark of the Covenant in a cark carried by
an ox. As David did this, one day as he
was moving the ark, the ark began to tilt and Uzzah reached to grab the ark
from falling and the Lord killed him. David
was upset with the Lord initially but then began to understand that the ark was
designed and meant for the Levites to carry the ark, not to be carried by a
single man or device or beast. In
today’s time when we fail to carry the ark of the Covenant corporately we
devise institutions and systems by which to carry it and the end is death for
disobedience. We must do it the way God
has designed us to do it. The ark of the
Covenant was meant to be carried by a corporate man, the priesthood. Any other way would lead to the judgment of
the Lord being rendered.
In the next message we will examine how incarnation impacts
our viewpoints and ability to ascertain knowledge.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
