The Revelation of Christ in All - pt. 3

Before time had a name, there was a garden, a

place where heaven and earth walked as one. This

is the Echoes of Eden, where we rediscover ancient

roots and awaken to our eternal purpose. Hey

guys, we are back week three of the revelation

of Christ in all and I am excited to jump into

another week Listen this week. We're going to

talk about one man affected all How much more

did Christ? So by now you're starting to feel

I hope you're starting to feel the weight of

some of this Because I believe it's heavy in

glory glory just simply means it's Goodness if

you go back and read when I believe it's Abraham

who asked to see the glory of the Lord It says

that his goodness passed by him You see the truth

is Revelation has weight revelation carries weight

truth carries gravity and today we're going to

sit with one of I Believe could be one of the

most important questions to ask but it's a beautiful

question and it's the question is this who had

the greater reach it could be a very dangerous

question to ask especially dealing with the religious

mindset who had the greatest reach adam or christ

i probably talked about some of this last week

but this is what we're going to try to simply

focus on this week is who had the greatest reach

Adam or Christ because how you answer that question

will shape your entire theology. So this is kind

of the story that we were given if we go back

and think about most what we were taught. Most

Christian frameworks whether intentionally or

not tell a story like this that Adam's fall affected

everyone But yet Christ's work affected only

those who respond correctly It's funny People

that that do not believe in Universalism and

I don't know that I'm necessarily there As far

as that definition goes People that don't believe

in that though do believe that we were all included

in Adam But yet somehow we're not all included

in Christ that to be an Adam you don't have to

say a special prayer or do this that and the

other you're just already included in the fall

of Adam but to be included in the work of Christ

you have to believe right you have to pray right

you got to say the special prayer you got to

jump through all these different hoops to get

there and that my friend is where I have an issue

and I'm very jealous to help deconstruct that

Because the truth is you're already included

in the finished work of Christ you've already

been accepted into this and people like throw

throw around the word repent, but my concern

is We do not understand what the word repent

means And I'll give you my perfect example. This

is what I understood by growing up in the church

world what repent is and it's to be sorry for

what you've done to one of the definitions that

could be used is to turn and go in a different

direction and all that sounds good but what direction

are you going in first of all it's definitely

not to be sorry for what you did This is part

of another thing that I will go into later is

taking different words and helping to pull out

their actual meaning so I can It's just something

I feel jealous about it something I feel passionate

about helping teach the body of Christ What some

of these words meant in the original language

in the original? context Because when you start

going down that rabbit hole and playing with

that ball of yarn It's fun. Let me just say it's

really fun. Okay But I don't think we have a

correct understanding of what repentance actually

is for me repentance It's the word metanoia and

to me if I had to explain it means to come back

to your original design come back to your original

blueprint if you will and it's funny because

scripture tells us that it's the kindness or

the goodness of God that causes men to repent.

It's the goodness of God that causes men to come

back into their original design. Where did your

original design come from? It came from Christ.

Think about this let this thing let this stuff

start getting into your spirit and then just

begin to wrestle with it Get you a notebook have

conversations with the Holy Spirit about it and

allow Holy Spirit to reveal the truth to you

She's really good at revealing truth. That's

what part of her nature is Revealing truth to

us as sons and daughters So don't just take my

word for it. And listen, I may have said this

before I don't really remember my I am so past

the conversation of who's right and who's wrong.

I think the more important aspect is you showing

up for the walk and going on the journey with

Holy Spirit yourself. I'm to the point of being

tired of people trying to ask other believers,

is this wrong? Is this right? Listen, this is

where I'm at and this is how much trust I have

in the Holy Spirit. If it is wrong, the Holy

Spirit will reveal that to you and convince you

of who you actually are. If it is wrong, the

Holy Spirit, by you walking with the Trinity,

walking and yielding to the Lordship of the Holy

Spirit in your own life, if it's wrong, Holy

Spirit will do the transformative work in your

own life. It's that simple. I simply trust the

finished work of the cross and I trust the Holy

Spirit to do that, which only Holy Spirit can

do. And the only way the Holy Spirit can do the

things that needs to be done is by you and I

showing up for the walk and allowing the Trinity

to speak to our hearts, unveil who we are, only

revealed in the Christ. It's really this simple.

And the only way for us to begin to take hold

of this is to understand which atom were we affected

by? Which atom are we a part of? Let me see,

how can I say that? Which atom are we part of?

Are we a part of the first atom or the last atom?

Was the last atom successful enough to cancel

out everything the first atom messed up? And

I would conclude the answer to that question

is 100 % wholeheartedly yes. The last atom was

effective enough to disarm everything the first

atom messed up. This is why it's important to

understand that when Jesus was crucified So were

you that Adam nature was co -crucified with Christ

meaning what that Adam the effects of the first

Adam died on that cross You are no longer subject

to the fall mentality of the first Adam You have

been given a divine nature from your Father,

from the Trinity. Again, let's go back through

this. I mentioned this last week, but I think

it's important to go back and reiterate. You

were co -crucified, you were co -buried, you

were co -resurrected, you co -ascended, and now

you are co -glorified and co -seated with Christ

in heavenly places. Yes, your physical body may

be right here. But I am trying to tell you that

you're actually in two places at one time. Because

while you're sitting here listening to this video,

you are also seated in the heavenly realm at

the right hand of the Father in Christ. Again,

let me go back and say this too. Stop trying

to die daily. You were co -crucified with Christ.

As Paul says, it is no longer I who live, but

it is Christ who lives within me. what is my

goal now as a son but to walk with the trinity

enjoy this love dance with the trinity and release

the kingdom of heaven everywhere that i go why

because the kingdom of heaven is within me christ

is within me the hope of glory christ is within

you the hope of glory so what happens is when

you begin to encounter other human beings you

no longer know them after the flesh but after

the spirit meaning what that every individual

that I see, I no longer identify them based off

the issues that they're currently struggling

with. That is not who their identity is. Their

identity is son and daughter of Yahweh. And it

is my job as a son or daughter, as an ambassador

of the kingdom of heaven, to let his light shine

out of my life and do what? Light up their darkness

and unveil the truth of who they are, which is

Christ in them, the hope of glory. My God, let

me slow down and back up just a little bit before

I get way too excited here. But I hope you're

hearing the gospel. This is the gospel, it's

the good news. Listen, my friend, let me just

say it very plainly, and this is what I believe.

If I can take your gospel and make it better

than you, my friend, do not have the gospel.

Because here is the truth, the gospel, the good

news is offensive to the religious mindset. When

he's... better than what we actually believe

him to be and I'm telling you it's offensive

because I have been offended by the gospel when

he should not be this good to me when he should

not be this good to someone else it becomes offensive

do we not understand that when he was interacting

on earth that he was offending the Pharisees

with his goodness help me Holy Ghost Let me calm

down whoo, okay, so which which This this is

okay if we believe that Adams fall affected everyone

I'm trying to backtrack through my notes here

Just track with me if Adams fall affected everyone

yet Christ work affects only those who respond

correctly then what we are actually communicating

is that Adam was more effective than Jesus. Now

we would never say that out loud, but when we

believe that Adam's fall and Adam's decisions

had a far greater impact than the Christ did,

that we're all included in Adam but not all included

in Christ, now we've created this issue. But

many of our systems depend on this to work. So

today we're gonna let Paul speak for himself.

And I'm going to read out of Romans chapter 5,

Romans 5 · chapter mention

this is verse 18 and 19. Out of the passion translation,

it says this, in other words, just as condemnation

came upon all people through one transgression,

so through one righteous act of Jesus' sacrifice,

the perfect righteousness that makes us right

with God and leads us to victorious life is now

available to all. One man's disobedience opened

the door for all humanity to become sinners.

So also one man's obedience opened the door for

many to be made perfectly right with God and

acceptable to him. Now I want to read Romans

5 18 out of the King James Version. It says this

the original text says the offense of one judgment

came upon all men so by the righteousness of

one the free gift came upon all. So I want you

to catch how this reads I'm gonna break down

The I'm gonna break down of the Greek words.

So By the righteousness of one the free gift

came upon all men unto justification of life

Now I'm gonna break down the Greek word for each

of that's that statement. So we have by So dia

is the Greek word and I'm probably mispronouncing

these so you want to know how to pronounce them

you go Google it so dia meaning it's through

across or because of then we have by the righteousness

which means god's righteous decree or act by

the righteousness of one one meaning one the

free gift came there's no word for that upon

is the word is it's directional always now catch

this always pointing into Toward or unto it often

marks the decisive movement movement into a new

reality or a new identity by the righteousness

of one gift Of one the free gift came upon all

means all men. It means human being or mankind

Unto is the word is again justification It's

the act of God declaring a person free from guilt

and acceptable to him, making them righteous

in his eyes. Now catch this because this is who

we are. As the people of God, as humanity. This

is who humanity because Jesus Christ died as

humanity. He did not just die for you and I,

he died as you and I. And if Adam's this fall

affected all of humanity, then certainly what

Christ did affected all of humanity. Jesus was

big enough to be 100 % God and 100 % human, embracing

the entirety of humanity in this moment. So it's

the act of God declaring a person free from guilt

and acceptable to him making them righteous in

his eyes It's God's judicial act of declaring

sinners righteousness Excuse me declaring sinners

righteous on the basis catch this on the basis

of christ death and christ resurrection resulting

in life so my friend guess what your contribution

was it was absolutely nothing you contributed

nothing to this moment it was jesus who took

on everything now let that sit for just a moment

it's all because of Christ. You do not work your

way to get into Christ. You do not say a magic

prayer to get Christ into you. No, I am here

to declare that Christ is inside of every single

person you meet. How do I know this? Because

I know what it is to be the abuser and the abused.

I know what it is to be the victim and the one

who causes the pain. I know what it is to hurt

people and be hurt by people. What's fascinating

to me when I've had the Holy Spirit have conversations

with me is simply this, that Christ was in me

on both ends. Though the world may be blinded

by this revelation, it is up to you and I as

sons and daughters to let our light so shine.

If Jesus is the light of the world, then my friend,

guess what? As He is, so are you. So if He's

the light of the world, then so are you. And

the world around you is waiting for the light

within you. Let me move on. It's the vindication

of believers through Christ. His acquittal of

the guilty, the gift of life that flows from

God's righteous verdict is the act of process

of justifying and justification. And the last

part of this, so by the righteousness of one,

the free gift came upon all men unto justification.

The last part is of life and this word life is

the word zoe. What is zoe? It is the God kind

of life. It is eternal. It is abundant. It is

spirit empowered life revealed in Jesus. And

guess what? Shared with you and I. It is distinct

from bios which means mere earthly existence

this speaks of the quality of divine life that

begins now and continues forever So I could read

it as this so by because of and through the righteousnesses

of one Christ. He moved all mankind into a new

reality and a new identity, declaring us free

from guilt and acceptable to Him and giving us

the God kind of life that begins now and continues

forever, eternal, abundant, Spirit -empowered

life that Jesus revealed and He has shared with

us all. Why am I breaking this down? Because

it speaks to your identity right now. Now Romans

5 19 the King James is this way many be made

righteous The term be made is the Greek word

Cthistami it means to sit down to place to a

point and to establish It could be defined as

to set someone in a position or role to make

or render someone into a certain state It's about

placing something or someone into a fixed role

office or condition whether by appointment Establishment

or catch it transformation. So to be made righteous

means that he has set you and I in a position

He has rendered us into a certain state. He has

appointed us. He has established us He has transformed

us and is transforming us He has done. Catch

the language. He has done. This goes back to

this is where we must learn to live from instead

of trying to live towards. Listen, I read this

the other day. I want you to think about this.

If Adam's fall affected all, how much more does

Christ's resurrection embrace all? Now think

about that. I need to slow down. Let me find

where I'm at in my notes. This is man. I'm telling

you if you ever grab hold of this This is so

powerful when you begin to begin to understand

what Christ has already accomplished For you

as you in you I'm telling you Paul doesn't hedge

in this he does not qualify. He does not insert

conditions. He mirrors the scope intentionally

as so also one all. One all. If we narrow Christ's

reach then we also must narrow Adam's and no

one have I ever heard do that. But every time

that you try to explain to people that Christ

is in all they want to narrow down what Christ

did but yet somehow we believe that we're all

included in Adam and Adam screwed us all up.

know my friend if Adam screwed us all up then

Christ go back to what I said I believe last

week when I talked about he's the lamb slain

before the foundation of the universe if he's

the lamb slain before the foundations that mean

he was slain before Adam fell you and I were

found in Christ long before we were lost in Adam

God never lost his grip on humanity he came in

this moment to redeem and restore you for good

for permanent reasons to show you what it's like

to walk in the spirit to walk in union with the

Trinity as a man. He embraced all of humanity.

Every single person that you come in contact

with has Christ on the inside of them and they

need you to awaken that Christ. So let me slow

down just a minute. I want to go through some

more of this language just a little bit. So,

condemnation here. If you go back to verse 18,

it says, in other words, just as condemnation

came upon all people, it's the word catachryma.

This is not about essence and it's not about

identity. It's a verdict, not a nature. Adam

did not change humanity's being. He introduced

a verdict of accusation You think about what

the enemy is called. He's called the accuser

of the Brethren Listen my friend if someone comes

at you and accuses you of things that you did

that is the voice of the enemy Speaking to you

Think about it So Adam is not changing Humanity's

being he's introducing a verdict of accusation

But if you go to the word justification that

I mentioned a while ago, it's the word diciosis

This is not a legal fiction. It's not pretending

something isn't true. It means this a restoration

to right standing It's setting things back into

proper alignment. It's re -establishing what

was always intended. So Paul was not saying here

that God decided to see people differently. No,

he is saying that God restored humanity to its

original truth. And then he adds the end of that.

something very crucial justification of life

we've already talked about what that word means

zoe it's not justification for life it's justification

of life justification that produces life this

is ontological not merely judicial so all of

this is helping to pertain to identity language

and not courtroom language. We have got to get

the mindset of God in a Western courtroom. When

you hear things such as he's judge, he is not

Judge Judy sitting behind a bench. They didn't

have courtrooms like that. If you want to know

what a judge looks like, go get your Bible and

go read the book of, I don't know, judges. So

Paul was not arguing a legal case here. He's

unveiling an identity. If this were purely legal,

belief would activate it. Unbelief would deactivate

it. But Paul roots this in Christ's act and not

human response. Adam's action impacted humanity

without humanity's consent. Now think about this.

So why do we suddenly require consent for Christ's

act to be effective? You didn't get a vote on

whether or not you were included in Adam. Now

again, let me help someone understand this. Everybody

does not believe this shit yet. And I would argue,

I would argue that maybe the world does not believe

this yet because the church does not yet believe

this. We have sons and daughters who don't even

believe they're sons and daughters. We still

have a mindset I'm a sinner saved by grace and

that's so far from the truth that's not even

funny. But Adam's actions impacted humanity without

our consent. So why do we require our consent

for Christ's act to be effective in us? No? Or

is it simply the truth that it takes you and

I to help unveil that for others around us? Paul

repeatedly says things like much more. Grace

does not barely overcome sin. But I know we for

some reason we found the word grace to be offensive

it is offensive But we find it when you can't

have too much grace. We need to balance that

grace. No, we don't there isn't listen Christ

broke the scale. There is no balancing any longer

He destroyed the scale grace a hundred percent

overwhelms Sin, I believe it's John chapter 1

John 1 · chapter mention

Want to turn there because I think that speaks

to what I'm hearing right now as far as grace

goes Yeah, it's John chapter 1 verse Let's let's

John 1 · chapter mention

back up to verse 14 I'm gonna read this it says

and so the living expression became a man and

lived among us We gazed upon his glory, the glory

of the one and only who came from the Father

overflowing with tender mercy and truth. John

announced the truth about him when he taught

the people, he's the one, he's the one I've been

telling you would come after me even though he

ranks far above me because he existed before

I was even born. And from the overflow of his

fullness we received grace heaped upon more Grace.

Moses gave us the law, but Jesus the anointed

one unveils truth wrapped in tender mercy. Grace

heaped upon more grace. You cannot have, I think

there's somewhere in the scripture it talks about

super abundant. It's hyper grace. I don't know

how you can overemphasize grace. It's like overemphasizing

love. How do you do that? You cannot overemphasize

grace in love and mercy. So grace is not barely

overcoming sin. Grace overwhelms sin. If grace

only reaches as far as belief, then the grace

is smaller than the sin. But scripture presents

grace as stronger deeper and is more expansive

grace doesn't struggle uphill against sin no

grace swallows sin whole let that settle within

you grace swallowed sin whole he's the lamb John

says it this way behold the lamb that takes away

the sin of the world. It's in John chapter one,

verse 29. Look, there he is, God's lamb. He takes

away the sin of the entire world. Jesus removes,

he takes away, he lifts off the distorted identity,

which is sin of the entire cosmos. That's. That's

what Jesus does. That's what, excuse me, that's

what Jesus has done. He has removed the distorted

identity. And what is happening right now? We

still believe a lie that we're just a sinner

saved by grace and said no, there's Christ in

me, the hope of glory. As Jesus now is, so are

we. Romans 8, I believe it is. All of creation

groaning and trembling for the what? The manifestation

of the sons and daughters of Yahweh. Creation

is waiting and longing for you to understand

and come back to the realization of who you are

inside of Christ and that you have the voice

of the creator inside of you. That you do not

have a sin nature, but my friend, you do have

a divine nature. Salvation as awakening. If Adam's

fall was unconscious participation and Christ's

victory was conscience obedience, then salvation

is not about reattachment, it's about awakening.

You don't awaken to something that isn't already

true. Truth is truth regardless of your participation

or not. Truth is truth regardless of you choose

to believe it or not. If you want to continue

to believe and walk in a distorted identity,

my friend, go for it. But I'm here to tell you

the truth of who you are revealed in Christ because

Christ died not just for you but as you. He took

on all of humanity's death and you are now co

-glorified and co -seated with Christ in heavenly

places. You are holy. You are right. you are

whole, you are forgiven, you are loved, you are

perfect, you are everything the Father says about

you. You are loved in the same way that the Father

loves the Son. Right now, before you do anything

else, I don't care how screwed up your life is,

I don't care what you did before you started

watching this video, I don't give a flying hoot,

living holy whatever you want to call it, I don't

care what you've done in life, I'm here to tell

you the truth of who you are in Christ. You don't

awaken to something that isn't already true,

you awaken to reality. The gospel does not create

union the gospel does one thing and that's it

reveals a union It shows you and reveals to you

what has always been true And that is that you

are in Christ in Christ is in you it says in

that day in that day You should know that I am

in my father. My father is in me and I am in

you. I Probably meant I probably messed that

up in that day. You will know that I am in my

father You are in me and I am in you In that

day, that is not a future event, that is the

day that you begin to wake up and realize in

the spiritual realm that Jesus is in the Father,

you are in Jesus and the Holy Spirit, Jesus is

in you. In that day, my prayer for you is that

today would be that day. That you would begin

to understand that Jesus is in the Father, you

are in him, and he is in you. This is all big

just one big life party between you father son

and Holy Spirit you've been Invited and you can

participate in the dance of the Trinity My god

do we get this But this is where This is where

the pushback happens. This is where fear begins

to show up if Christ already embraced all Then

why should I live holy? What is holy? like no

other. Why do we repent? Why do we believe? Because

here's the truth, blindness still destroys lives.

Truth does not remove responsibility, truth redefines

it. You know as a son or daughter now you have

responsibility. We don't live wholly to become

sons, no we live wholly because we are sons.

Behavior does not create identity. Identity shapes

behavior. And behavior follows identity. When

you begin to realize who you are as a son or

daughter of God, When you begin to allow that

to become your identity, when you begin to realize

that you are forgiven, that you are loved, that

you are completely whole right now, not trying

to become whole, that you are whole right now,

that everything you need is already within you,

declares Ephesians chapter one. When you begin

to believe this, your behavior will follow that

identity. If we begin to preach a gospel where

Adam universally damaged and Christ partially

restored, then Adam is the dominant force of

human history. And that has been a truth long

enough. Let me rephrase that. That has been a

lie long enough masked as truth. Scripture calls

Jesus the last Adam, the greater Adam, and the

image humanity was always meant to bear. Christ

is the answer. I don't know why people can think

that I put little emphasis on Christ when Christ

is the only way all of this is possible. Adam

did one thing, he introduced death, but Christ

on the cross abolished it. Listen, even when

you die in this earth, I'm here to tell you that

you go from life to life, not life to death to

life. Death has no hold on you, my friend. You

go from life to life. You go from this life to

joining the cloud of witnesses just on the other

side. Christ abolished death. He didn't postpone

it. He didn't manage it. No, he completely abolished

it. And here's the tension that we must hold

is Christ's work is complete. I said it last

week, I believe. I'll say it again this week.

I simply wholeheartedly believe that when Jesus

stretched his hands on that cross and declared

it is finished, that he actually meant exactly

what he said, that he left nothing undone, no

stone unturned. He did not. leave anything untouched

and unfinished. No, He finished every single

thing that He came here to finish. Now we have

to awaken to the truth and the realization of

who we are as sons and daughters because of that

finished work, because of the cross of Christ.

We are now dead to sin. I'm not trying to die

to my sin, I am dead to my sin. Christ's work

is complete, but humanity's awareness is not.

It's not a failure of the cross. It's not a failure

of the Christ. No, that's the mission now of

sons and daughters to take this gospel and awaken

sons and daughters around the world, in the world

that you are living in. Let me close with this.

Adam does not get to define who you are any longer.

Christ is the only one who has the authority

to define you unless you give that authority

to another. Sin does not determine your future.

Why? Because sin has been effectively dealt with

by Jesus. So sin does not determine your future.

Grace does. You are not waiting here any longer

to be included in anything You are awakening

to what has always been true because of Christ

So we talked about this this week this sets us

up part Perfectly for next week when we begin

to address the question if Christ's victory is

this complete? What about darkness Satan and

evil? That's something we will look at next week

my friend. I hope this message is helping you.

I hope this is transforming your life Understand

who you are go spend some time with the Holy

Spirit allow Holy Spirit to unveil you Allow

Holy Spirit to unveil truth to you stare in the

face of Yeshua Stare into the eyes of Yeshua

until you begin to see who you actually are My

friends, be blessed until next week.