CyberBlessed

Athletes of the Body

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 [What? (glory)] glory:
Christ where? (In you) In you! Christ in you! I thought of I Corinthians 13:12.
I Corinthians 13:12:
For now we see through a glass, [What? (darkly)] darkly; but then [What? (face to face)] face to face: [face to face!] now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Just what can happen in my body . . . what can happen in your body . . . what can happen in my body with the Christ in me, the hope of glory – with your body . . . that same living, resurrected, ascended Christ . . . I don’t know kids, but I wanna tell ya it’s far bigger than you and I have ever been taught. It’s far bigger than anybody has ever dared to take us . . . to show it to us in God’s Word. [Dr. Wierwille thumps podium.] It is bigger. When you are born again of God’s spirit you have Christ in you, the hope of glory. The same Christ, honey, who walked the road to Emmaus in that resurrected body appeared . . .they saw him . . . he broke bread with ‘em . . . he ate with ‘em . . . he appeared in the upper room. [Dr. Wierwille taps podium.]

As I was thinking today and yesterday about my sharing my heart and my life with the Corps on their return tonight and the rest of our people that are in here, I thought “How can I make this thing living and real to you so you can see it bigger?” Because we have never quite thought about the beauty of the body . . . the physical body that has the Christ in you . . . the living reality of God almighty in your physical body! And as I said as athletes of the spirit we are athletes of the Word – for the Word is our rulebook. That’s the text we play by.

Christ Formed in You

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. God so loved, according to John – remember? – 3:16? God so loved that He what? Gave. All love is giving. God, the Creator of all heaven and earth, so loved that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have what? Everlasting life.

We walk in love “as Christ also hath loved us.” He who knew no sin became sin, so that you and I might become what? The righteousness of God in him. Imagine that. God so loved that He gave. Jesus Christ so loved that he gave. And you and I must so love that we have to give. I have to love to the point where people learn to love because of the love that I share with them. That’s what I mean when I say in classes, you have to learn to let people walk on your feet until they learn to walk on their own. You have to be the hands of people until they learn to use their own hands. You have to be the heart of people until people learn to use their heart and extend it out to the lives of other people. We have to be broken bread for people until they learn to break their own Bread of Life.

The Hope of Christ's Return

This life changing teaching on “the Hope”, hope is clarified. What happens upon death, the 1st & 2nd coming of Christ and body-soul-spirit is rediscovered.

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“Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” These are words of comfort. You see, if some people were already up there and we were still slave-laboring down here, it wouldn’t be any fun. But the way God has worked this out is that everybody gets there at the same time with all the blessings that He has made available –and what a tremendous truth, people!
Now, that is the first phase of Christ’s second coming. Do you understand it? He comes for his people, the saints. Those who have died since the day of Pentecost as believers. Their bodies are corrupted. The dead in Christ are going to be what? Raised what? [First.] Then those which are alive and remain at that moment have to be what? Changed. And they’re mortal. That’s why those mortals have to put on immortality. And those who have been corrupted have to put on what: Incorruption. It’s so simple, yet it answers every question that the human could ask.

First phase is Christ's coming for his saints or for the Church of the Body, called the gathering together. The second phase of the return is Christ’s coming with his saints. Just a change of prepositions. First, his coming for his saints. Second phase is coming with them. In the first phase, he does not come upon the earth, right? Meet him in the air. Second phase, he comes upon the earth; but he comes with his saints. That coming with the lord of the second phase – the Greek word is apokalupsis; English word – they call it “apocalypse,” translated over in to the word “revelation.” It is called “the Day of the Lord” in the Book of Revelation, when he comes with his saints upon the earth.