Living Hope Fellowship Church...Sermons From the Pastor

DISSOLVED TABERNACLE
by Pastor Kevin Badgley

I felt like the Lord gave me liberty to preach this. You need to hear the two previous messages. Without them, this one may seem a little far fetched, as the world would call it. By God's Spirit and the Word as the final authority, I believe the Lord will show to us that it is what God has ordained for his body, the bride of Christ. I want to show you further what God has prepared for them that love him.

In John 3:5, Jesus told Nicodemus, ". . . Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." We realize we must be born of the Spirit of the Father that draws, convicts, and brings the blood of the Lamb that empowers us to walk in the way of the Lord. We will try to take it into a deeper facet.

John 3:8, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." "Where it listeth" means wherever it wants to, where it chooses. Think about this for just a minute.

Everybody that is born of the Spirit of God, ideally, is supposed to be like the wind. The Bible says, "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." If there is anything on this planet that has liberty and freedom, it is the wind. It can be a time of refreshing, or of great power, destructive, judgmental. It can be a touch, it can take leaves off of trees, or it can take whole buildings down. The wind is an awesome thing.

Jesus said, ". . . so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Now, we see a failure in the church, obviously, to live up to this. We are going to try, by the grace of God, to press into the deeper things and see what God has for us. Please use your Bibles to avoid confusion with this message. Look in 2 Corinthians 5:1. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." This tabernacle is where you are living right now-in your vessel. Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ."

2 Corinthians 5:2-8, "For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."

Look at 2 Corinthians 5:1 again. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." A lot of people think that is your glorified body when you get to heaven. That is acceptable but lets go on to a deeper layer.

Look at verse 8. "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." Is he using poetic sounding words to talk about dying and going to heaven, and getting your glorified body, and so forth? I don't believe God wastes words. Many people claim that Job is a poetic book. It is not; it is an awesome book. The Bible is not meant to be poetic. It is not poetic; it is factual; it is spiritual. They were ". . . willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." What is Paul talking about?

I looked up absent. Absent means "missing." Paul would rather be missing than found. He would rather be absent and missing than found. Well, then, what about verse 1? If our earthy tabernacle were dissolved . . . did he mean die? I looked up dissolved. It means to "fade out, superimpose, pass into or pass away."

2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." To dissolve means to fade out or to superimpose in a picture. You can see one picture and another one will go right on top of it. It is like one picture, yet two are there. It is a merging. There was another interesting facet. Absent means "missing" or "not found."

In Hebrews 11:5 it said this about "not found." "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God." Genesis 5:24, "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." We are talking about going out in the Spirit. Are you with me? This is not milk.

Paul said to be absent (missing) is to be present with the Lord. People were angry with Jesus and brought him out of the synagogue. When they came against Jesus and were going to throw him over the hill, he passed through the midst of them. I believe he dissolved at will, because the wind bloweth where it listeth. Paul said, "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)" What does that mean? Look at this next verse.

2 Corinthians 4:18 says, "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." Paul walked by things he could not see. He was walking with something that was eternal and could not be seen. We can feel the anointing and if God manifests it, we could see it in the natural. Generally speaking, it is not a commonly seen thing, but by faith we can receive it.

2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ. . . ." Doesn't this sound like superimposed? Dissolved? I'm just getting it technical. I'm not talking about an automatic move. I haven't got to the "how" yet. I'm just trying to get you to believe. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Absent from the body is present with the Lord. Glory to God! This the "fellowship" we have in Christ Jesus the Bible talks about. It's not just talking about the meeting here where you are rubbing elbows with some who love the Lord. He's talking about a day to day self-crucifying walk for the express purpose that you can come into the presence of God. You can make your petitions known and your confidence will arise in Christ greater. Your faith will have no bounds. Revival will come for the last move of God on this planet. We look at the things which are seen with our eyes, but the things which are not seen, we walk in by faith.

1 Corinthians 13:10-12. (10) "But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." Now, the peon church world says when revival comes, then the tongues, and the signs and the miracles can go away because it won't be necessary. That is a lie straight out of hell. (12)"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." Then is when that which is perfect is come. Did you know, according to these scriptures, you can pray into a place in the Lord Jesus and behold his face? Matthew 5:8, "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

When? When the earthly tabernacle dissolves. It didn't say die and be buried. ". . . then shall I know even as also I am known. I will know Jesus as well as I know myself. Are you convinced? You are convinced of your own existence. You will know Christ's existence in that day just as well as you know your own. There will be zero doubt. None. There will be 100 percent faith. In the presence of the Lord it will be 100 percent anointed faith, the kind that brings arms and legs where there were none. Why? Because you just talked to the one that made them, face to face. That is why it is so necessary.

In Romans 7 is something we commonly cry out. We want to be of the Spirit. The Bible tells us we should be like the Spirit of the Lord - moving where it listeth. We won't move it; he will move us. I have screamed this one. Romans 7:24, "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Isn't that the cry for the church today? Isn't that the cry for the Christian trying to walk a closer walk with God? Most don't have this cry! They just say, "I'll make it." Those who are pressing on to a deeper place in God want the assurance that they are gonna make heaven their home, and the antichrist is not their God, and that Jesus Christ is their Lord. You must get in a deeper place and this crying out is common, Who shall deliver me? How can I know with all these pulls?

I can't just tell you these things, I must use scriptures. It is so awesome, you wouldn't receive it without scripture. "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little."

John 8:51, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." Jesus was talking. Wait a minute? Are you telling me people ain't supposed to be dying or something? No, that's not what he said. He said he wouldn't see dying. The deacon, Stephen, was the first martyr. He was stoned to death for his testimony in the Lord. It was so awesome they couldn't begin to stand it. They put their hands over their ears and ran at him. They killed him. The Bible says as they were stoning him, he looked at Jesus sitting at the right hand of the Father, and prayed, and then he fell asleep. I think it would be kind of hard to sleep through a stoning, especially if it's yours.

What did the man do? Yes, he died. What happens to somebody when they are burned at the stake? Have you ever read Fox's Book of Martyrs? If you ever think that the world church isn't going full force, you are blind as a bat. Anything that will take on the Catholic church is a part of the world church. Fox's Book of Martyrs is thick, in fine print, and tells how the Catholic church butchered Protestants for centuries, and how they did it. I have no time for that whore of Babylon.

You can find many testimonies of people who have died for Christ by burning at the stake that never uttered a sound. What happened to them? Did they suffer? Did they die? I believe they did, but there is something there that we ain't walking in. Many people, if just taken to the stake, would pass out and say, Forget this Jesus stuff, just get me away from the stake. Many are doing it now and the stake is not anywhere close. You don't know what tribulation is. You are fixing to know.

Can you imagine the trauma? Have you seen the movie where a guy (who really wasn't a prisoner) took his recorder into the prison? He was on death row. He didn't let the warden tell about him so he could write an accurate report of how it went in the prison with all the feelings of the inmates. They twisted it on him and didn't tell him they knew about it. When it was time, they said they didn't know what he was talking about. They put him in the electric chair, put the hood on, and the whole bit before they finally said, OK, you've gone the whole gambit. Now you can write your report. The man became insane. He couldn't take the thought of dying.

Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." What did he mean? Is this poetry? Is it just a nice way of saying it? You know, Old English is so lovely. I don't think so. I think they made revised versions of the Bible to take these sayings out so you couldn't find the deep things of God.

What did he mean when he said we would never taste death? Look in Luke 9:28-30. This is the Mount of Transfiguration. Peter, James, and John were with Jesus. He took them up there for a reason. Then he told them not to tell a soul about it until after he was raised from the dead. Why did he do it before he was in his glorified body? Why did he do it still walking around like you and me? He was filled with the Holy Ghost. We are to have that same Spirit. "And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias." Boom-just like that-he just started praying, went out in the Spirit, and he brought the Spirit to them. Look at verse 31-32, "Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him." Jesus prayed into glory as a Holy Ghost filled man. You say, Well, he was Jesus.

In John 14:12 Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." If he alone had the ability to do that, why did he even bother? Or . . . is there instruction in the Mount of Transfiguration? I believe there is not only instruction, but also demonstration: this is how you do it. We're not talking about dancing around in a tutu, or putting out the latest book, or getting on television. Money is no problem, distance is no problem. Elijah was a fairly old fellow and he outran Ahab's chariot. He didn't even have the blood of Jesus or the Holy Ghost. You say, Oh, he was a prophet.

Revelation 19:10, ". . . for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." If you hold the testimony of Jesus, which is the only way you can be saved, then you have the spirit of prophecy working in you. A young man came to Moses and reported that two were prophesying in the camp. In Numbers 11:29 Moses said, ". . . would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!"

Again, Luke 9:29, "And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered. . . ." Mark 9:2, ". . . and he was transfigured before them."

Philip was caught away from the eunuch and went his way rejoicing. He was found in Azotus. The Spirit spoke to him. Is it the same Spirit that we have as Christians? Was it just for the first church? These are decisions we've got to make. John said in Revelation 4:1-2, (1) "After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. (2) And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne." In Revelation 1:10 John said, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet."

The wind blows were it wants to. What does the wind do? It gathers a lot of seeds. Have you ever sowed clover seeds in a wheat field? My Dad and I have used the old bag sower. Later we had crank feeders. If the wind was blowing, you could really scatter it out. Fertilizer was the same way. When the wind came in there, it just kind of seemed to make it right. When the wind blows across a pool, it stirs it. If no wind blows across a pond, it grows a scum on it, making it stagnant. It is not even fit to get in. If the wind troubles it, or moves it, it is a moving body of water.

Romans 8:11-13. (11) "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." (Why did he say quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit? He is going to quicken us now by his Spirit.) A(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. (13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live."

How can you mortify the deeds of the body? By the Spirit. How? By prayer, fasting, going beyond when the flesh screams, I'm booorrrred! When you go into prayer, fasting, and seeking the Lord, the body is shut down. It is being mortified. The hands want to go out and pick tomatoes, but they're folded in prayer. It is mortified, crucified. It wants to do something else, but it wants to do something in this realm to satisfy the clamoring and cravings of the natural man, of the flesh, of the carnal thinking. By the Spirit of the Lord and faith, God begins to move in you as you obey him. Seek God's face in prayer, fasting, and reading the Word. In doing this, God says you are mortifying the body.

Have you ever prayed till you were almost nervous? I gotta get out of here. I gotta get some air. That is not the Spirit of the Lord talking. That is your flesh and bone. That is not God saying, WELL, YOU'RE DONE, although the flesh or the devil will tell you that. You are in the death throes and you are beginning to die and you don't like it. If you would push a little bit past that, and the next time a little past that, you will be able to go longer, further, and deeper in the things of God. I'm telling you a priceless secret. Some will let it roll off; some may take heed.

Let me show you something in Colossians 3:1-5. Colossians 3:1, "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." How in the world are you gonna be able to get a hold of something up there? Jesus said if you would seek, you would find. We are given a command to seek things in heaven. Some of you have sought and it is being given to you. How do you obtain?

Colossians 3:2-3, "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." First it is by faith and inheritance. If you pray into it, this is the classification: you are dissolved; you are superimposed; you are passed away. We already have a promise of translation. Colossians 1:13, "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son." Is it any marvel then, that we might be able to operate in it?

Colossians 3:4, "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." Christ appearing, goes with 1 Corinthians 13:10-12. (10) "But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away."

Colossians 3:4, "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." That sounds like the Mount of Transfiguration to me. If you pray into the place where you can see the face of the Master, the next step is where you go to him! Hallelujah. You could have a potential audience with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Then ye shall appear with him "in glory." In Luke the description was that they saw him in glory. How did they know he was "in glory?" They knew the anointing was there but they saw a couple of people there who were not earthbound people. The Bible says they can't come back to the earth, so, evidently, Jesus must have went up to heaven. He opened the window and they looked right in.

Colossians 3:5, "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry." Upon the earth . . . That kind of sounds like when he said in glory it really did mean off of the earth, didn't it? If you mortify, by the Spirit, your members which are stuck on this earth, Christ will appear and you can appear with him in glory. There is a place in God you can get. He tells us to mortify these things that beset us: "fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry." There are more people falling away with covetousness than most anything. Jesus said, "And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful." They can't go on in the Spirit.

Colossians 3:10, "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him." 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Romans 8:19, "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God."

Why was the Mount of Transfiguration recorded three times? John testified of it in the first chapter of his gospel. In John 1:14 he said, ". . . and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father. . . ." That is all he mentioned, not giving details. He mentioned it again in his letter. Why? to keep us interested? I don't think so. Why would God dangle something in front of you if you could not attain to it? Don't trap me in my words and then not want to listen to it. I'm talking about by God's Spirit. We are the seed and He is the wind. We don't control the wind. He moves us by the same Spirit that moves us to mortify ourselves. We can see the one who moves, even the Spirit.

Jude 1:20-21, "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." As we pray in the Holy Ghost, we get in the Spirit and are mortifying the flesh. 1 John 4:8 says, ". . . God is love." If you are full of the Holy Ghost, you are looking for the mercy. "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."

1 Corinthians 13:12, "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." We are looking for the mercy. How can these eyes see in the Spirit unless they go in the Spirit? Verse 9-10 says, "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." When you are praying in the Holy Ghost, many things will come against you: I'm bored! I'm tired! It sounds like I'm repeating myself. If you listened to a foreign TV station, you'd say the same thing. If you don't understand it, don't try to figure it out. Just go on and obey God. Seek the Lord.

Many people want what God can provide, but they don't want God. The only way you are going to get in this place is if you want God. Whatever he wants to provide is his business. Many of us have tried to get to Jesus by petitioning for the things that he does. That makes as much sense as me trying to visit with Sam Walton by going to Wal-Mart in Marion and buying all the stuff I can find. I would be bankrupt, discouraged, and wouldn't know him any better than when I went. By the time I'd be done, I'd hate him and wouldn't want to know him.

This is where people have messed up big time with Jesus. No wonder you are down in the mouth. Jesus said to, "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." A lot of people are praying to Jesus that God will bring somebody, then, to help them along. Yes, there is a reason for leaders. Our job is to jump-start you, but you have a battery, so learn how to run on the thing. A lot of people run around with jumper cables. Have you seen trucks going down the road with leads hanging out of the grill? They have jumper cables already stuck on them, waiting for anybody to come around. Will you jump me? I'm low. Why don't you pray?

If you were having an audience with Jesus, you wouldn't worry about it. The devil himself could stand beside you. He could stand right in your face, tell you anything, or do anything, and you could laugh at him. He could have your kid on the chopping block and cut their head off and you could still laugh at him. Do you know why? Because you just had an audience with Jesus. He can put the head back on, throw the devil back in the pit, and everything would be fine because you have confidence toward God; because you just had a meeting with God.

Have you ever had somebody try to tell you something and you just talked to the source yourself? You can tell them I don't care what you say, because I just talked to the horse's mouth. I just talked to the main one in the situation and he told me such and such. You can blow all you want to but I done talked to the man. There ain't nothing you can do about it. You don't begin to believe what they say. You don't listen to them because you have personally talked to the one. This is where we have got to get.

I believe with all my heart, that as the remnant church of God, the bride, adorns herself with his glory that is talked about, and the anointing comes, there will come a day that such as shall be saved shall be pulled out. That is the way they will rapture. He'll say, COME UP HITHER. They will translate and be gone! That will be it. Amen. It will not be an unusual event for some and maybe even most of them that are going. It ain't gonna be crowded. I pray it gets crowded on the next load. Unfortunately, they will have to die in order to make it.

Isaiah 33:14, "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" Hebrews 12:29 says, "For our God is a consuming fire." The 'everlasting burnings' is the altar in heaven.

Who will dwell there? Isaiah 33:15-16, "He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." Who shall dwell on high? "He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly. . . ." Does that look to you like it could only be Jesus or just a select few? I believe it is for anybody. Revelation 22:17 says ". . . And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."

Psalm 91:1-4, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler."

Isaiah 40:31, "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." You can't do these things in the natural. Zechariah 4:6, ". . . This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." There is no other way. This Word is so. It is not poetic; it is factual. It is spiritual. It means what it says, and it says what it means. Just because we don't understand it, we give it a paint job. Well, that's flowery words; it's a framework around a main center. It is not! The details and the framework have more going for it than the church world even knows about the center of it.

Psalm 91:9-11, "Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;" (Habitation . . . he's talking about living there.) "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all they ways." Hebrews 1:14 says, "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" He gives his angels charge over us.

You walk up there, praying in the Spirit (I'm not talking about cocky or in the flesh; I'm just shortening it so we can get on with the point.) and you are talking to Jesus, things are moving. He says, YOU HAVE GOT A JOB TO DO. I WANT YOU TO GO THUS AND SO. I'M GOING TO SEND YOU OUT BY MY SPIRIT. MICHAEL AND GABRIEL, YOU GO WITH HIM. They get right up off of that mercy seat, walk over there, and say We're with you. Let's go. Side by side, there you go . . . right down to Ethiopia. There is an old black man there. He's been praying, begging God for a miracle for his little old church. He just can't find the victory. You are standing there and you say, Thus saith the Lord, Hallelujah, I just got you a message from the Boss. When you're done . . . boom, you're gone, just like Philip.

There was the former rain for seed time. We've got the latter rain for the harvest. If we are not doing at least as much as they were doing, then we are backslid! The devil has done his work well to cover these things, but the end time is now. God is revealing these deep secrets to God's church that they might have something to go for, that you might see the reason to pray and fast. Wouldn't you like to see Jesus? Some are content to wait. Waiting in that fashion will not renew your strength and you may never see him, except as a judge. James 4:17, "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin"

You are in trouble. You have heard this message. Oh, No! You sin if you don't obey the gospel. This isn't a burden. The commandments of the Lord are not grievous. I get lifted up when I see this. A lot of people say, Oh, it's something else I gotta do. That is ridiculous. You should be saying, Look where I could be! Whosoever will may come. I believe all these things are for now. I believe they are for today. I have gone lightly over the areas God has shown me.

2 Corinthians 5:8, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." Am I telling you that when you start praying and you start seeing things, it is God? I'm not telling you that at all. Neither am I telling you that when you begin to see the things of the Lord, that he will automatically send you to India, Ethiopia, or any other place. The Bible says, "The wind bloweth where it listeth. . . ." If you are caught up in the wind, then he will take you where he wants to. You will take him nowhere. You have to totally sell out to God. Why wouldn't we want to?

Some may say, It's no fun. Personally, I think it's fun in comparison to jumping on a motorcycle, popping a wheelie, and riding down the road doing a 140 miles an hour. I'd rather walk into the Spirit and be in India (clap of hands) just like that! I could preach to somebody, walk right back, and be in Grand Chain. There is not a bike on the road that can touch it, and it's not sin. There are no traffic cops. They couldn't catch you if there were!!!

I'm talking about a place in God where it is more fun to be there than it is to be here. The Lord dealt with me and others about that. When you get into that place, Jesus may have to push you out with a crowbar. If you walk in the Spirit you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. It will keep you out of sin. You can walk a perfect life with no sin.

In John 10:9 Jesus said he is the door and by him we shall be saved and go in and out. Solomon told the Lord when he was praying that he was a child, and didn't know how to go in and out. He prayed for wisdom and he learned how to go in and out. You can read about that in 1 Kings 3:7-13. If you want more of God, and you want him to reveal himself to you, pray. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says, "Pray without ceasing."

References: John 3:5-8, John 6:44, 2 Corinthians 3:17, 2 Corinthians 5:1-8, John 14:2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Hebrews 11:5, Luke 4:29-30, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Ephesians 3:9-10, 1 Corinthians 1:9, 1 Corinthians 13:10-12, Romans 7:24, Isaiah 28:10, John 8:51, Luke 9:19, Luke 9:28-30, John 14:12, Revelation 19:10, Numbers 11:29, Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2, Acts 8, Revelation 4:1-2, Revelation 1:10, Romans 8:11-13, Luke 11:8, Colossians 3:1-5 and 13, 1 Corinthians 13:10-12, Colossians 3:10, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 8:19, John 1:14, Jude 1:20-21, 1 John 4:8 , 1 Corinthians 13:9-12, Colossians 3:2, Isaiah 33:14-16, Hebrews 12:29, Luke 9:23, Revelation 22:17, Psalm 91:1-11, Isaiah 40:31, Zechariah 4:6, Hebrews 1:14, James 4:17, 1 John 5:3, Galatians 5:16, Romans 13:14, Galatians 5:24, Ephesians 2:3-7, 1 Peter 4:1-3, John 10:9, 1 Kings 3:7-13.

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