THE LIBERATING SECRET OF CHRIST

We are looking again at The Liberating Secret of Christ. We have been looking at this in four parts. First, The Liberating Secret of The Cross. Secondly, The Liberating Secret of His Appearing. Now, we will look at The Liberating Secret of His Name, and then we will look at The Liberating Secret of His Glory. So turn now to Colossians 3, verse 17. We will deal with THE LIBERATING SECRET OF HIS NAME. " And whatsoever you do…" Now, that’s a big statement, isn’t it?

Word By Word

You know, in reading The Word, you need to learn to read it as it was written: word by word. Sometimes it is amazing to us that the Scriptures weren’t written by books, not by chapters, nor by verses; but word by word. You should sit down and do a thorough search of the Scriptures. When you read The Word, you need to read it word by word; not just rush through it to see how fast you can finish, or how many chapters that you can read in a sitting. But when you read The Word, learn to go word by word; because that is exactly the way it was anointed of The Holy Spirit. That’s exactly the way it was written, and that’s exactly the way you should meditate. That is what David meant when he said, ‘I will meditate. My heart will meditate. I will hide Thy Word in my heart. I will meditate upon it. I will take it word by word.’ So you need to let the Spirit of The Lord captivate your mind. You don’t have to know Greek; you just have to let the Spirit of The Lord captivate your mind, and begin to speak to you what it says.

Psalm 119:11,15,48 – Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee… I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways…My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Psalm 1:2 – But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 143:5 – I remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

Whatsoever You Do

"And whatsoever you do…" Now, if I just stepped up here without reading the Bible and said, "Whatsoever you do… whatsoever you do today…", you would understand that from the next breath you draw, I have included everything that you will do in that statement. Pick up a song book, sing a song, go out the door. I mean, I have included… whatever you do. From that point on, I have included everything that you may do. But look at how inclusive this verse is: "And whatsoever you do in word or deed…" Whatever you say… and to say a thing, you have to think it. "It is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaketh." (Matthew 12:34) Words are nothing more than verbalization of our thought patterns. If you can’t think, you can’t speak. You don’t speak because you have a tongue necessarily. Oh, I know that our tongue and vocal chords have a part to play; but the word process is centered in the brain. If you can’t think, you can’t speak. Whatever you do, whatever you say, whatever you think, the intents of the heart… it’s all wrapped up here. "Whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all… A-L-L; ALL… do all in the Name of The Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by Him."

1 Corinthians 10:31 – Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

The Name of Jesus

Now we make a big deal out of this "Name of Jesus". I want to help us understand this, and ask The Spirit then to go beyond that and give us His understanding that ‘The Name of Jesus’ is not J-E-S-U-S. There is more to it than that! To do all ‘in the Name of Jesus’ does not mean to just say ‘In Jesus’ Name I do this; in Jesus’ Name I do that.’ Look at this: " … do all…" Think all; say all. "Whatsoever ye do…" No folks, you don’t run around saying ‘Jesus, Jesus, Jesus’ before every word or action; you don’t do that. That is not what Paul is talking about; but you see, because of our lack of understanding, we have reduced it down to that. We have reduced this glorious Truth down to a formula. But it is a God-given, Spirit revealed understanding of a New identity. It is not a formula that every and anybody could just come along and use like they would wave a magic wand over something. But we make it something like an incantation; or we make it like some kind of a magic phrase: ‘In The Name of Jesus’. We think that makes everything we do all right just because we say ‘In The Name of Jesus.’ ‘Well, I did it in The Name of Jesus. I mean, I said Jesus. I prayed over it in Jesus’ Name.’ Then we go out and do what we want to do anyway! And we do it in The Name of Jesus, and we think that makes it all right. No, it doesn’t make it all right, because "in The Name of Jesus" is not a phrase. "In The Name of Jesus" is not a formula. Doing ALL things… We should see it from this verse. "In The Name of Jesus" means that in everything we do, and in every thought we think, our mind and heart are captivated by the presence of His Name. Our actions are captivated by the reality of His Name. Our words are captivated, our deeds are captivated by an understanding. It is a God-given understanding; a God-given reality in which and through which, and out from which, we do, and say, and think EVERYTHING!

James 5:10 – Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

Galatians 3:27,28 – For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Identity With Christ

It is exactly what we have been talking about, "Ye shall know the truth…"(John 8:32) Jesus said, "I am THE truth…" (John 14:6) Ye shall KNOW The Truth… It is doing all things in the light of, in the power of, in the understanding of, and by the discernment of The Truth. Now, that is doing all things in The Name of Jesus. It is to be totally, and continually, and forever more, in your actions, in your thoughts, in your words – dominated and motivated by The Truth, by The Name of Jesus: by The Truth, by the understanding of your identity with Him. It is doing all in the understanding that you have NO LIFE BUT HIM; through the understanding that you are not your own; you are HIS BODY. I am going to tell you again; it doesn’t mean going out and doing what YOU want to do, living your own life, and just saying "Jesus" over it. That isn’t what it means. But it means that your actions proceed out from an identity with Christ. Your words proceed out from an understanding that He, and He alone is your Life; that you in fact, have no Life BUT The Indwelling Christ! Your words and your deeds proceed out from TRUTH! You don’t do something and then plead Truth over it. You don’t do something and then plead God’s blessing on it. What you say and do proceeds out from THE TRUTH.

Philippians 1:21 – For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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 the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 5:15 – And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

1 Corinthians 6:19,20 – What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Do All In The Name

Then let’s look at this. "… do all in the name of the Lord Jesus…" I want you to see this in a diagram. (See Diagram #2) We should understand that the center of our being is SPIRIT. We have stated before that The Living Spirit in you is CHRIST. We dealt with that in our last lesson: that New Birth, that New Man, that New Creature, that New Creation, the New identity, that New Person is CHRIST HIMSELF! Do you know that you have in you, as the Scriptures have said, a New Name? That where your name (identity) once was Adam, now your name (identity) is The Name of Jesus. Now it is obvious that I don’t mean that your name is Jesus individually – as a name like Tom, Bill, etc. That should be obvious, because I am not Jesus Christ, and neither are you. We are The Body of The Lord Jesus Christ, but also, we have no Life but Him. Where we were called Adam… that was your name. I don’t care if it was Tom, Dick, Harry. Your name outside of Christ, is Adam. Your name is ‘fallen creature’. That is what your name is. That is your identity. That’s how God sees you; your name is Adam. But, IN CHRIST hallelujah, you have a New Name, a Name which no man can know and no tongue can say! So you understand that the Name of Jesus is more than just a verbalization of J-e-s-u-s. but that the name of Jesus is a God-given understanding. The Name of Jesus is an identity by which God knows you. In fact, man cannot truly say the Name of Jesus; but it is an understanding that is REVEALED IN YOU.

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 8:9-11 – But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his, And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 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.

Colossians 3:10,11 – And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

1 Corinthians 15:22 – For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Revelation 2:17 – He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches: To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Revelation 3:12 – Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Revelation 22:4 – And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

Living Out of The Reality of The Name

Now I hope it will become clear as we just look at the Scripture; because I am not going to lead you anywhere except in a Scripture search, that you and I might come to a glorious thing: that the reality of The Name of Jesus will become more than just a slogan; but that it will become revelation of Truth with the Believer, by which he is known of God. JESUS – that Name out from which his motivation comes, out from which he lives every day; and that he will do nothing, or say nothing that will violate that understanding; that will violate that Truth, that will violate the fact that, ‘I have no life of my own. I am not my own body, I am His Body. To that Name, I must bring every thought into captivity.’ You see, he does ALL in The Name of Jesus! He says ALL in The Name of Jesus; out from an understanding of a New Creature, a New Creation. He speaks out from there, he lives out from there, he walks out from there; and whatever he does, whatever he says, he is found always standing in the understanding that I am in Christ, and Christ is in me. I have NO Life but CHRIST! "He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit." (1 Corinthians 6:17) He that is born of God is One New Birth. And as we saw, that birth is The Birth of The Seed, the Incorruptible Seed, and that Seed is Christ. Here is our Name. It is not just some letters: it is a God-given reality, an identity out from which we live, and do all things that we do. We do all things by the anointing, by the understanding, by the Truth: JESUS IS MY LIFE!

1Corinthians 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.

2 Corinthians 10:5 – Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

John 14:20 – At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

1 Peter 1:23 – Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Galatians 3:16 – Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

1 John 2:27 – But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

1 John 5:20 – And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Claiming The Name of Jesus

What right do we have to lay hands on each other? We lay hands on each other in the Name of Jesus, but that doesn’t mean just walking up and saying "in the name of Jesus"; though we do that. We do verbalize "in the name of Jesus", but that should be more for outward identity than it is for inward identity. My authority to lay hands on you, dear brother, is not just SAYING "in the name of Jesus", but me KNOWING that I have no life but Jesus. It is an understanding that I have, not from me – but from Him; me understanding that the Spirit that is released is not mine, but His. That is The Name of Jesus! Now in an outward identification, say what you want to say, but my word, we have two major Pentecostal denominations split as far as the east is from the west arguing over formulas for baptism! Both baptize, both believe: they say that it is the same God. Both believe, they say, it is the same Jesus. Both believe you have to be baptized, both speak in tongues; and yet each calls the other everything just short of the devil; and some even say that they are the devil, one to the other! And it is all over a FORMULA of Baptism. And I am telling you that the Name of Jesus has nothing to do with a formula, one way or the other. It is a God-given understanding out from which we do all things: not only baptize, but ALL things that we do, we do in The Name of Jesus. All things we say, we say by the authority, out from the understanding that ‘I have no life but Christ.’ If my Life is not Christ, I have no business saying these things. If I am living my own life, I have no business claiming to myself the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. If I am not living in His Body, in submission to His Body, and the Gifts of the Spirit in the offices; I have no right claiming The Name of Jesus!

Acts 3:6 – Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

Mark 16:18 – They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

1 Timothy 4:14 – Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Hebrews 6:1,2 – Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Matthew 28:19 – Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

We Have No Other Name

You see, if I am not living under the authority of His Name, what right do I have to USE His Name? None whatsoever! If I think I have a Life aside from Him, I have no business using His Name. The use of His Name proceeds out from Him! We think that He has given His Name to a lot of people; but that’s NOT true. He has brought us INTO His Name, as we will see in the scriptures. He has not taken His Name and given it to you like some people preach. They say it is like this: it would be as if I would tell this brother, ‘Well brother, you go down to the bank and I will give you Power of Attorney, so you go use my name.’ I have heard that taught, and I used to believe that, but that isn’t what happened at all. No, that is just the USE of someone’s name. But Jesus gave us MORE than that! Oh my word, yes! He brought us into a Living relationship with Himself, not where we just have a name to use. I am telling you – we have NO other name – period! He didn’t just give you something and leave you the way you were. He brought you into a Living relationship with Himself! Thank God He lives in you, and you in Him. It is not just Him giving you some authority, or Him giving you a formula, or Him even just giving you a Scripture. Why, The Living Word Himself lives in you! And the fact of the matter is, we found in our first two studies on The Liberating Secret, we have no Life but Him! We have no Life but Him! Thank God. We see that in His Appearing.

John 14;13,14,20 – And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it…At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

John 16:24-26 – Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you.

Adam is Incomplete

Now, we are spirit. Also we have found that we are soul; for the first Adam was made a living soul. It is the Second Adam that is made unto us a Life-giving Spirit. We found that in 1 Corinthians 15:45, " And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." And that is all you can make out of the first Adam, if you want to stay within the bounds of the Scriptures. That’s it. But the Second Man, the Last Adam, the Lord from Heaven is made a Life-giving Spirit, a quickening Spirit. So that, you and I, outside of Jesus Christ, are NOT complete. We are not complete outside of Him. A man that is not born again is not complete in the sight of God. He is an incomplete individual.

A Picture of a Believer

Let’s keep searching this. You will see that God never did intend for us to be earth-bound, or earth-minded, or earth-serving individuals. When He created man He has Spiritual Life in view; and He never intended that we be a manifestation of anything but Spiritual Life. That’s why God created us. Well now, so then we live in a body. Each of us has a body. This is a picture of a Believer: spirit, soul, and body (diagram #1). In our little diagram we have divided the circles up in that we are dealing individually. Here is where Christ dwells. (diagram #2) This is where He abides; He dwells in this temple. It is Christ’s dwelling. Now here in our soul, here it is Christ also. Here it is Christ reigning; Christ reigning in power; Christ reigning in the body. This is a picture of a person who does all things in The Name of Jesus. It is the rule of Christ, or Christ ruling, Christ dwelling, Christ reigning, Christ ruling.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 – And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 4:12 – For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

John 14:23 – Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Romans 8:11 – 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.

HE IS LORD

How many of you have ever said: "He is Lord"? Well, He is Lord all right! You are saying that He is Lord. But do you know WHERE He has to be Lord? If He is truly LORD, that means that you do nothing, say nothing, but in the Name of Jesus. It means that in your heart, in your soul that is true. Now what is the soul? The soul is the mind, the emotions and the will. This is an established fact. In the Scriptures the term ‘soul’ and ‘heart’ are synonymous with one another. The heart is not this organ that pumps blood: it is the very center of yourself, the very center of man. It is the seat of the mind, the emotions, the will. Not the brain, but the mind. Where is it that Christ must reign? He must reign in the heart, the mind, the soul. How does He reign? He reigns in the power of His Name! Where is it that His Name is written? His Name is written in the SOUL. This is where God said, ‘I am going to give you a new heart. I am going to write My Law, I am going to establish My Name in your heart. I am going to give you a new heart. I am going to literally renew your mind.’ So Paul talks about your mind being renewed, ‘being renewed in the spirit of your mind’; where you put off the identity of the old man, and you put on the identity of the New Man. Who is The New Man? Here it is: it is CHRIST. But you see, the soul must take on His identity; or the soul must be filled, as the Bible says, with the knowledge of Him.

Matthew 7:21-23 – Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Colossians 3:15,16- And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Hebrews 8:10 – For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. (This is quoted from Jeremiah 31:33)

Colossians 3:9,10 – Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.

Ephesians 3:16-19 – That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man: That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ , which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Growth In The Soul

Where do we grow, friends? We don’t grow in Spirit, for the Spirit is in us. Growth is in the soul. Here is where we walk in the light, and He is in the light. Here is where we grow up in the knowledge of Him Who is the Head in all things. Growing up in Him is not in the body: this is where we serve Him. This body will be changed, but there isn’t any growth to it. If anything, it’s dying every day; getting older every day, going back to the dust every day! It is not getting more righteous. YOU may be presenting it more perfectly as a sacrifice; you may be more perfectly serving God through it, understand. But here is where growth is taking place: in the heart, in the soul. Here is where captivity is taking place. Here is where you are becoming a prisoner of The Lord. Here is where He is beginning to reign in you. The reign of His Lordship is being established in your heart; because His Name is being written in your heart; not just said by your tongue: ‘Lord, Lord, Lord’. For there is a day, the Master says, that many will come and with their tongue say, "Lord, Lord, Lord". And He says, "I never knew you! You had no living relationship with Me. I was never your Lord.’ He didn’t deny that these works were done. He didn’t deny that He had honored His Word, and honored this person’s need. He didn’t deny that. He said, ‘I never knew YOU, I never ruled IN YOU. You ran around saying, ‘Jesus, Jesus, Jesus’, but I never ruled in you. YOU did not do ALL, and say ALL, and think ALL In My Name!’ (Matthew 7:21-22 quoted above)

1 John 1:7 – But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Ephesians 4:15 – But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:16 – For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Romans 12:1,2 – I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Philemon 1 – Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother…

Our Soul Filled

Now folks, you can look at that, and you can twist that Scripture around any way you want to, but that is just the way it is written here. There are those who run around saying ‘Lord, Lord’; in whom The Lord is NOT ruling and reigning in their hearts. There are those running around saying ‘Jesus, Jesus’, who are not doing all in The Name of The Lord Jesus Christ. We see then, that doing all in His Name has to do with our HEART, our SOUL being filled with the identity, the knowledge of Him. We talked about that. It has to do with the "soul gaze": the eyes of our understanding being enlightened, that we may see Him. Look, the Scriptures use these terms. Here it is HE; here it is HIM, here it is HIS; here He Lives; here it is the knowledge, the Truth, the Light of HIM; here it is HIS ruling, HIS Body; here HE lives in you, and you are to be filled with the mind of HIM, and you are HIS Body. "What? Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ, and you are not your own, you are bought with a price? Therefore, glorify God in your body." (1 Corinthians 6:15-20) I know your King James version says, " … and in your spirit, which are God’s." But in the original manuscript, the period is right there, because it is speaking of the body. It has already said that "He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit." (1 Corinthians 6:17). What, know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ… therefore you are not your own? You have nothing of your own! CHRIST LIVES IN YOU! You are to be filled, you are to have His Name written across your soul, indelibly written in your heart. You are to have The Name of The WORD engraved in you! You are to have a New heart. Even Paul says, "…but we have the mind of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2:16) He says, " With an open face (when the vail is taken away, when the vail is done away) and you are looking to Him, you are changed, the soul is changed into His same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:18) The soul sees, He is my Life, He is my Name, He is my Righteousness, He is my Holiness, He is my EVERYTHING! And no longer is that just flesh knowledge. It is the heart saying that. That is coming out of an inward understanding: that is coming out of an inward reality. The veil has been taken away, thank God! The veil is done away, and CHRIST fills up the soul!

Ephesians 1:18 – The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

1 Corinthians 1:30 – But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

The Veil Taken Away

One day folks, one day, by a supernatural act of God, this veil is going to be taken away (#1) and the whole Body is going to be changed into His glorious image! But there is a Liberating Secret taking place NOW! The soul has been changed into His same image, the veil being taken away. He is filling up the soul with the knowledge of Himself; so much so that you and I begin to live as His Own Body. Oh – full of the Scripture: full of He, Him, His!

2 Corinthians 3:16 – Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

He, Him, His

You go through some of the epistles of Paul – just start searching and underlining "He, Him, His". It will thrill you, and the Spirit of God will begin to make contact with you, and begin to say ‘this is the He that He is talking about. This is the Him, the knowledge of Whom with which you and I must be filled. This is the His. It is you; you are His.’ You are His because He dwells in you. And when you are filled with the knowledge of Him; when His Name is written in you; when He is reigning as Lord in His Own House, in His Own Temple, in His Own Kingdom… "Know ye not that the kingdom is in you?" (Luke 17:20) When He is reigning there, when there is no other Life recognized, no other Lord recognized, no other purpose recognized, THEN you will begin to live in the earth not unto yourself, but as His Body, His House, His Church. It is not a thing of going TO church; it is a thing of saying ‘Thank God, we are The Church!’ We are The Church, and there are a hundred thousand functions of the Church. If you think the Church is only functioning in this little room, you are wrong. Let’s let The Spirit tear down these walls, flatten them out as flat as a pancake, so that The Body of Christ can truly express itself, so that The Church can function. It will go right into your home; it will go right into your job; it will go right into your vacation; it will go right into where you live. Why? Because you are The Church. Where you go – The Church goes. Where you go – The Body of Christ goes. You can’t contain it in this building. This is the meeting place; this is where The Body gathers together, but this is not The Body. This is where The House of God assembles; but is NOT The House of God. YOU ARE THE HOUSE OF GOD! You are The Body of Christ! Oh, then live unto each other as His Body. Relate to each other as His Body. Whatever you do, wherever you go, whatever you say, do ALL in The Name of Jesus. Don’t just get religious when you come into this building, and say, ‘Well, this is my church, and that is my family, and over there is my house or my job.’ No, it is not that way because you are HIS. You are His, thank God. And before you have anything, He has you. You are His. And everything you have is for an expression of HIM.

2 Corinthians 5:15 – And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

Ephesians 3:21 – Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Ephesians 1:22,23 – And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Philippians 3:12 – Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 2:14 –Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

Liberating Secret to His Name

Well you see, there is a Liberating Secret to His Name. It is not just coming into the church and saying, ‘Oh, how I love Jesus’, and going out the back door and throwing rocks at each other. It is not coming into the church and taking communion; breaking the same loaf, breaking the same bread, drinking from the same cup, then going home and saying, ‘Bless God, this is mine.’ What do you mean, this is mine? That is not the way you were acting there in church. You said that my bread is your bread; my wine is your wine; His Body is our Body. What happened to you when you walked out the back door? You say, well, that was just a ceremony. That, dear friend is an expression of Divine Truth. That’s what that is! But that Truth you see cannot be written here like a ceremony. That’s the problem with all of us now. We have it written up like a ceremony. We know it in our brain, but it is far from our heart. We say it with our tongue, but it is far from our understanding. " For we being many are one bread." (1 Corinthians 10:17) You say, Brother, that’s one body. Well, the scripture says "one bread". Yes, one body – one bread. To be broken one to another. "Know ye not that ye are not your own. Ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body…" (1 Corinthians 6:20) Why? Because your bodies are members of Christ. And when His Name is written in us, you will do all that you do in His Name. I don’t care where you are found; whether you are found in Mountain City, Tennessee; or whether you are found in Istanbul, Turkey! It doesn’t make any difference. You are there IN THE NAME OF JESUS because you understand I have no Life but Him. Thank God the curtain has been taken away. The veil has been done away, and He has filled us up with the knowledge of Himself. There is a Oneness that has taken place between the soul and the spirit. (#4) The Spirit of His Son has come forth in our hearts crying, ‘God, you are my Father.’ And the Father has said, ‘Yes, and you are My Son.’ Glory to God! You see, He has identified Himself right inside of us, and we have seen that we are not separate from Him; but rather, we are ONE with Him; that we have no Life but Him. So when The Father has identified and recognized Him, He has recognized us as being in Him, and He as being in us, and we as being One with Him. THE FATHER HAS RECOGNIZED THE NAME.

Isaiah 29:13 – Wherefore the Lord said, forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men.

Matthew 15:8 – This people draw nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

1 Corinthians 12:12,14,27 – For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ…for the body is not one member, but many… Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Galatians 4:6 – And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

John 17:21 – That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

A Child/A Servant

That’s what Galatians 4 is all about. Verses 1-6, " Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." The heir, as long as he is a child; as long as there is the veil there, differeth nothing from a servant. Why? Because he has a veil shutting him off from the Lord that is in him. Oh, he knows he is saved, he knows his sins are gone; but he doesn’t understand this union with Christ that the Scripture speaks of. He doesn’t understand this fellowship. To him fellowship is just making a big racket in the body, with his tongue. It is all in the body. To him the move of God is just something that he feels. It’s all in the body. Now certainly your tongue should be the servant of God; but it is not the means nor the method by which you KNOW God. It is the means and the method by which you SERVE God. Oh yes, he knows things, but he knows only as a child; and so, he differs nothing from a servant. What do I mean by that? I mean that instead of Christ ruling in the soul, the believer is serving in the body. He goes TO church, because that is what he does. He doesn’t understand he IS The Church; he understands that he has to go TO church. And he just goes when he feels like it. He serves time elements that are controlling his body. He serves his body. Everything he does is not through presenting his body as a sacrifice, but through serving his body. He brings Christ into servitude to his body, to his feelings, to the environment that is around him, to the conditions that are around him. If the condition is good, God is a good God; if the condition is bad… well, I don’t know whether there is even a God or not. "…differs nothing from a servant."

1 Corinthians 13:11 – When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Galatians 4:8-10 – Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Romans 12:1 –I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Christ Ruling Over My Body

It is a shame to see Christian people, Holy Ghost filled people ruled over by their bodies, and by the environment with which their body is in contact. Because you see, it is to be the other way around. It is to know that He is dwelling, He is reigning, and therefore He is ruling. It is not my body ruling Him; it is He ruling over my body. It is even bringing every thought of my brain under subjection, presenting my members as instruments of righteousness, not servants of the flesh. It is altogether different, folks, when it comes from the inside – out, than it is when you try to bring it from the outside – in. It is altogether different! We like to sing and shout, but we don’t care too much about presenting our bodies as living sacrifices. We like to do what they say: ‘Get under the spout where the glory comes out’. They like to do that. That is an old Pentecostal cliché, but you see, here is the Glory of God right there IN US, waiting to be revealed by The Spirit, that our soul may be filled with the knowledge of Him. So an heir differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. But there comes a time that this veil is taken away, in the fulness of time; after the Father has had this believer under tutors and governors; after he has waited in the Word, waited under the schoolmaster of the Law, which brings him unto the knowledge of Christ; after he has been under tutors and governors; after he comes to a certain age, The Father is able to recognize him – not as a child, but AS A SON. And how does He do that? By taking away the veil, revealing the Name: revealing The Son that is in him!

2 Corinthians 10:5 – Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Romans 6:19 – I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh; for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

God, You Are My Father!

The Bible says in Galatians 4:6, " And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." Do you understand that? This soul comes into the understanding: ‘God, you are my Father.’ The Father says, ‘ You are my son.’ And the Spirit of The Son enters into our heart, filling our heart up with the glorious understanding of Christ: ‘God, You are my Father’. And the Father says, ‘Yes, and you are My Son.’ And you say, ‘Yes, and you are my Father’. And The Father says, ‘Yes, and you are My Son.’ And what is He doing? He is revealing THE SON IN YOU! The Spirit of The Son is coming into your heart. The veil is being taken away. The Name is being written in the soul (see diagram #6). THE NAME. We are being filled with the knowledge of Him. We are growing up in Him in all things, filled with the knowledge of Him. No wonder Paul prays in Ephesians 1:17, " That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory…" For you see, Paul knows that God is more than just God. He knows that He is The Father of this whole thing. He knows that He is The Father of this glory. (#5) He knows that God actually conceived this glory in you. Sure. Know we not that Christ is The Seed of God, The Son of God? And know we not that it is Christ in you, the hope, the reality, the existence, the assurance of glory? It is God by His Spirit Who has conceived this glory in you. So Paul, in this particular truth says, "…the Father of glory…" Why does he say that? Well, this is why he says it: "…may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is…" What do you mean "what is"? "…what is the hope of His calling, what is the riches of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power, which operates in you." (Ephesians 1: 18,19) Who is that? Well, Who is The Hope? CHRIST IS THE HOPE! Who is the inheritance of God in you? CHRIST IS THE TREASURE IN AN EARTHEN VESSEL! Who is the power: Who says, "I am the resurrection…"? (John 11:25) CHRIST!

Colossians 1:27 – To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

2 Corinthians 4:7 – But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

No Longer I, But Christ

Oh, do you see what Paul is saying? "… that God may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ, that the eyes of your understanding, of your soul may be enlightened, that you may know…" That the knowledge of Him Who is the hope, Who is the treasure; the knowledge of Him Who is the power of God may fill you up! Oh glorious Truth! That His Name, and His identity: that The Truth as it is in Christ may be written in you! So that, "out from the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh." (Matthew 12:34) Out of the abundance of the heart, the members are offered as instruments of righteousness. That all things you see, now proceed out from Him, and that your bodies operate as His Body, not yours. So you see, it is not just somebody giving you a formula so you can, in your body and by your five senses say, ‘Jesus, Jesus, Jesus’; still with an understanding that He is outside of you somewhere, and has loaned unto you the use of His Name. That is not it. He must be revealed in you so that you understand "it is not I, but Christ who liveth in me." (Galatians 2:20) I am not my own: I am His, His Body, thank God! Now, what you do – you do in that understanding, in that Name.

Revelation 22:4 – And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.  

A Servant Unto The Gospel

Now your tongue can say ‘He is Lord’, because indeed He IS Lord! He is reigning in you, and your body is serving Him. So, He is not only abiding and reigning; He is ruling also. And what is The King to do in His Kingdom? He is to be established in His Throne. "I will make my sanctuary in the midst of you." (Ezekiel 37:26) It is a glorious Truth! Ephesians 1:17, "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge OF HIM." His Name means that we are filled with the knowledge of Him. Galatians 1:6-16, " I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel; which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it; and profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." This means that we are separated unto the Gospel.

In Romans 1:1, Paul says this: "Paul, a servant, called to be an apostle, separated unto the Gospel of Christ…" (or of God.) Three things he says about himself: Paul, a servant. Right here he understands that Christ is his Life. If you want to know what I am – I am a servant. Someone asked me one time, ‘Brother Luman, what are you? Are you an apostle? Are you a prophet? Are you a pastor, a teacher, an evangelist…what are you? And I am not trying to be facetious, or super spiritual or even humble, but I know what I am. I am a SERVANT of the Body of Jesus Christ. For in serving the least, I serve Him. I am a servant of His Body. I am not a servant of the heathen: I am a servant of His Body. That is what I am. Now, I am called, I have a ministry; but the ministry is not me or mine; it is Christ’s. I have a ministry. Paul recognized his ministry, but he said, that is my calling. He didn’t step out and say, ‘Paul, an apostle’. That has an identity, but ‘Paul, a servant.’ That is my identity. As a calling, I am an apostle. He says, ‘I am a prophet, I am a pastor, a teacher, an evangelist.’ So secondly, we see his calling in ministry. Thirdly he says, " I am separated." Paul, a servant, called to be an apostle, separated in the heart, separated unto the Gospel. My heart is separated unto the Gospel.

Exodus 15:17,18 – Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.

Matthew 25:40,45 – And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Ephesians 3:8 – Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.

Colossians 1:26 – Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints.

2 Peter 1:10 – Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

The Gospel is A Person

Now we can go to Galatians 1:6 which says, " I marvel that you are so soon removed from him, unto another gospel, which is not another…" Paul here very clearly says the gospel unto which he is separated is a PERSON, not a theology, not a tradition, not even a doctrine. It is a PERSON. In verses 9-11 he says I was not taught this Gospel. I was taught many things; I was schooled at the foot of the very greatest. I was taught by them: Pharisee of the Pharisees, touching the law, blameless, but I was not taught this Gospel. Neither did I receive this Gospel but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. "When it pleased the Father TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME…"(Verse 15) Now what is he saying? Paul, separated unto The Name of Christ; Paul, separated unto the knowledge of Christ; Paul, my heart, my soul, separated unto The Gospel Who is a Person, not just a thought of theology in my brain; not just a condition in my brain, not something that my brain has been taught. No, I am separated unto a Gospel that has been revealed IN ME. HE revealed in me! Me, separated unto The Gospel of Him: HE revealed in me. My heart is separated unto a Person – not a thing, not a thought – A PERSON! So, Paul says, when I preach, I preach not a thing, I preach not a thought, I preach a HIM. " God revealed his Son in me that I might preach HIM." This is the word of a servant of the Lord who bears one Name in his heart: The Name of The Lord Jesus Christ. Christ reigns! We are talking about Christ reigning. Ephesians 1:21 says, "…far above all principalities and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come." There is a Name here that is given to Him that is above all names. It was given to Him at His Resurrection, or at least recognized at His Resurrection, when God raised Him from the dead and set Him at His Own Right Hand in Heavenly places!

Acts 22:3 – I (Paul) am verily a man which am a Jew, born of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

Philippians 3:4-6 – Though I might also have confidence in the flesh, If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

The Name Above All Names

And by the way, that is where YOU sit also, Ephesians 2 says, so that you sit there in HIS NAME. No wonder we sing, ‘There’s a New Name Written Down in Glory." Certainly there is! You are raised up in THAT NAME! You are seated in THAT NAME! You are made to be seated in Christ in Heavenly Places. He is raised up of God, set at His Own right hand, given a Name above every name, and then Ephesians 2:5-7 says, " Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." You sit there in HIS NAME; not in your name, but in His Name. For, His is a ruling Name. His is a reigning Name. His is a Name that is above every name, every name that is given. Look at it, "… a name that is above every name that is named." Now this is important. A name that is above every name that is named. JW is a name that is named. His Name must rule ABOVE the name of JW. Tom, Joe, Mary are names that are named. His Name must replace all that. He is given a Name ABOVE that name. He rules, He reigns by His Name. It is NOT me reigning – HE REIGNS! He is given a Name. It is by that Name we are known of God. It is by that Name we are recognized of God, because it is a Name that is above (higher in place and authority) every name that is given. All other names are given by Moms and Dads, but this Name is given of God!

Ephesians 1:4,6- According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love…To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

His Body

Now while that is on our minds, let us then discover what is this Name of Jesus, because it says in Ephesians 1:22, " And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church…" Which is what? What is The Church? My word, it is HIS BODY! …which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." This is what The Church, this is what His Body is. "And He has given Him a name that is above every name that is named." Now please see what I am telling you. In the Church there are all kinds of names that are named. Go around a fellowship and name your name: these are names that are named. These are names that we, in many cases, know the Church by. We know the Church by the flesh. We know the Church by these names that are named. But listen – not only has God raised Him up, but God has given Him to the Church as a Name that is above every name that is named. Where? In the earth, yes. In the Heavens, yes. But in the Church. So that we don’t gather together in my name; we don’t gather together in your name. It is not my name or your name: IT IS HIS NAME BY WHICH WE GATHER TOGETHER. Now look at this. "He hath put all things under his feet." Jesus says, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool…" (Isaiah 66:1) Do you know Who the Head of The Body is? Why it is CHRIST! "Heaven is my throne…" Then He says in recognizing us, in recognizing you and I, " and the earth is my footstool." Who are His feet? Oh beloved, we are His feet! " How beautiful are the feet of them that carry the good news of the Gospel of Christ." (Romans 10:15) Now that is not just talking about preachers. That is talking about The Body of Christ. We are given hind’s feel to go up on high mountains, and how beautiful are the feet of the saints. WE are the feet! Look at this. " He hath put all things under his feet, and hath given Him to be Head over all things to the saints." Notice something here: here is a Liberating Secret of His Name for you. He has, by His death and resurrection, He has placed everything on the earth… every power, every principality, everything on earth UNDER HIS FEET. Are YOU His feet? He hath placed it under His feet. That is a Work that is done; it is finished. Now look at the word here. " He gave Him TO BE Head over the church…" Oh, this must BE a recognized authority in you, Church. And until this authority is recognized in the Church, the Church will not take its position of having all things under its feet.

Matthew 18:20 – For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Psalm 18:33 – He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

John 19:30 – When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Hebrews 4:3 – For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Church Rules By His Name

Until He reigns in you, Church, you are not going to rule in the earth! And yet, the Work is already done! But then, why is the Church ruled BY the earth, rather than ruling IN the earth? Because Christ is not Head over ALL THINGS to His Church. When HIS Name is the Name in which we gather, the Name in which we speak, the Name in which we do; when HIS NAME is over all names that are given, then when He is The Head, you and I as the feet will rule. When He reigns, His Body will rule. But as long as His Body is trying to operate in some other name, or in a whole bunch of names, there is no ruling there. There are just servants of the flesh. His is the Reigning Name, and by His Name and His alone, The Church is able to rule. Folks, as long as you are gathered together in some other name, as long as you are just a congregation and not ONE FUNCTIONING BODY, as long as you are just a bunch of people going to Church, and not The Church which is the fulness of Him, His Body, which has One Name – HIS NAME indelibly written in it, you are NOT going to rule because He is not reigning. He has, by His Finished Work, placed it all under his feet. He has put it all subject to you: but ONLY when you are subject to Him will it work that way. "…given Him to BE Head over all things to the Church, which is His Body, the fulness of Him." It is His Name that releases it all. He is not going to release His Power to some other name. He is not going to do that. It is HIS Name that releases His Power. It is His Name that releases His Righteousness. It is His Name that releases His Liberty.

John 4:34 – Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

John 17:4 – I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Colossians 2:18,19 – Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

John 5:43 – I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

John 14:13,14 – And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

1 Corinthians 3:3,4 – For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and division, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Thou Art My Son

Oh, there is a Liberating Secret in knowing that we have no name but The Name of The Lord Jesus; that we march forth in no name but The Name of The Lord Jesus; that we meet together in no name but The Name of The Lord; that we speak in no name but The Name of The Lord. There is a Liberating Secret here when you do that all day long. " Put under your feet"- let us look at this. What is His Name? You say, His Name is Jesus. But, what is the God-given recognition to Jesus? What is HIS Name? What is the Name given to Jesus? What is the recognition God has given unto Jesus. What must be revealed to you and I? Is it just five letters? No. Then what is it. Look at Hebrews 1:4, " Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they," What does this mean? That the Name of Jesus is greater than that of Gabriel? No, "… that he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?" Look at Hebrews 2:12, "Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee." Here is Jesus saying, ‘I will in the midst of My Brethren declare your Name, My Father. I will come forth saying, Father, Father.’ And The Father says, ‘I will declare Your Name.’ Oh, unto which of the angels has He said, THOU ART MY SON, THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE? Here is the Name of Jesus – Thou art MY SON, MY ONLY BEGOTTEN SON! Oh, He declared that Name to John the Baptist. When Jesus was baptized, The Spirit of God came and said, " This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."(Matthew 3:17) He declared that Name to Peter up in the Mount of Transfiguration. The cloud lifted, Peter wanted to build three houses for Moses, Elijah and Jesus. Oh, but God said, ‘Look here, the Law and the Prophets are all summed up IN MY SON.’ When the cloud lifted, there was only THE SON, and what did the Father say? "THIS IS MY SON, MY ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, HEAR YE HIM." (Matthew 17:4,5) He declared the Name to Peter. Do you understand what I am saying? He revealed THE SON OF GOD! He revealed The PERSON of The Name, and The NAME of The Person. They are the same. The Name of Jesus is the God-given, Father-revealed understanding which He has concerning the Son; His union with The Son, and The Son’s union with Him. It is not a Name that can be spoken, but an understanding given of God concerning His Son IN YOU.

God Reveals This Son In Us

Now, to Paul God declared the Name also. " When it pleased God… to reveal His Son in me…" (Galatians 1:16) Paul said, " Therefore it is no longer I, but Christ who lives in me." (Galatians 2:20) Here is The Name that is not given to an angel, it is not given to you, it is not given to me. It is not given to any but HIM! And that is, THOU ART MY SON, THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE! And this is exactly The Name God wants to reveal in you and in me. He wants to reveal that This Son is our very Life, that This Son is our very Name, that This Son is our very Righteousness. He wants to reveal The Son in you. He wants to say, " THIS IS MY SON. THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN HIM. THIS IS MY SON. THIS DAY I HAVE DECLARED HIM. HEAR YE HIM." This is The Name, dear friends. It is in This Name that you and I rule and reign with Him.