Hidden Elijah's And Melchizedek's Of The Kingdom (Part 5) - Rod Mills

God is calling us to be hidden Elijahs, a part of the remnant set apart for God, whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. The Melchizedek priesthood is characterized by both priestly and kingly functions, with believers called to live in this priesthood as intercessors.

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​We are picking up on our study on the hidden Elijah's and Melchizedek of the kingdom. And so what I'll do this morning, for just a moment, I'll spend a couple of minutes here, just giving you kind of the main idea that we covered last week for reference, and then we'll press in and if you want to dive deeper into that, and you weren't here, feel free to we'll have it published probably in the next week or two, before the end of the month on the teaching library. But last week, we as we were talking about the what is the Melchizedek priesthood? And what we really touched on is how it's characterized. Well, how is the Melchizedek priesthood characterized because the Hebrews writers tells us as believers that we are called to live in this priesthood. So we looked at the fact that unlike the Levitical priesthood, it has both a priestly function and a kingly function. So whereas the Levitical priesthood was characterized largely by a priestly function, and then in that priestly function, this might be a little bit different than the Levitical, I'm not sure, maybe you could give us some insights on this. But in the priestly function, we are intercessors. So a priest, typically the definition is, we go to God on behalf of people. And that's what we do many times in all kinds of different kinds of prayer. Many times if we're interceding, we're literally appealing to heaven, we're appealing to God, we're appealing to the government of God in heaven in the heavens, for certain people and things. And normally, when we say things, it's still involves people going to God on behalf of people in the heavens. But one of the priestly functions we often forget about is that we also go to the people on behalf of God, intercession or to intercede is not just to intercede in one direction. Intercession involves interceding in both directions. So when we go to people, on behalf of God, some people say, Well, that's a prophet, isn't it? Well, it is. There is a prophetic role in that. But even those who are not, quote, prophets, still are prophets of righteousness, in that we go to people on behalf of God. Now, I'm not saying we just go, Hey, God tells you to do this, that and the other. And you guys know, we don't really give directional prophecies, generally speaking in our own spiritual community, but we do go to people on behalf of God to encourage them, and to bless them. And then also in acts of obedience. So I said, I like to say we both pray and we obey, will the obedience piece is the aspect of going to people on behalf of God, not just to tell them things. So right now, what am I doing, I'm going to people on behalf of God, when Tom stood up a moment ago and shared, he was going to people on behalf of God to share something that is truth from the heart of God, to share with people. And sometimes we go to people on behalf of God. And we don't say anything, we take them a meal, or we bless them, or we do something for them. So there are many priestly functions that we we need to get outside of just this, this mentality that being a priest is like a Levite. It's far more than that, in the priestly function. So we looked at that. And then we looked at also the, the, the priest the function of a of a Melchizedek, priesthood, kind of a way or is characterized by kingly function, and that is that we rule and reign with Christ even now. So we rule and reign first over our own hearts, in that we make Jesus in charge of our hearts. Part of our responsibility in the delegated authority of God to us is to establish the authority and the power of Jesus in our own lives and our own hearts. And we talked about how I cannot be a good steward of my own family, or a good shepherd of my own spiritual family and family, unless I learned to be a good steward and shepherd of my own heart. So the first realm of kingly function that is to take Spiritual dominion, that is to take authority over is my own heart to, to say heart, you will obey God heart, you will do what God says heart, you will align yourself and surrender. And that's what we've been talking about even in surrender earlier today in the sharing time is that we are bringing our hearts into alignment with the kingship of Jesus Christ of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Now, when we do this, then we can also the spheres of responsibility we have, we can say, Okay, in this sphere, I'm going to steward this fear, as Jesus wants me to. I am, I am under Jesus authority. I am literally under the authority of Jesus so that what He tells us to do, as a family, that's what we will do, or whatever areas of responsibility, I steward that area of my life, according to the commands of Jesus and the way he has taught me to live. And so that is another aspect of this. So we looked at the passage in First Peter, where Peter said, He has called us to be a royal priesthood. Now the Levitical priesthood was not a royal priesthood, because it didn't have the kingly function in it like, like the, the Melchizedek in priesthood has. So when Peter is verifying that what the Hebrews writer says, When he calls us, a royal priesthood, so those were the main ideas of last week. So here's the main ideas of this week, this week. Generally, this main idea we introduced last week, but we didn't talk a lot about it is that we must enter this calling in this life. This is very important. We looked at the present tense, where the Scripture says, We are seated with Christ in heavenly places. And we looked at the tense the Eros tense in the Greek literally means this was a simple action that God did in the past. Let that sink in. Do you believe that? That he has seeded us with Christ, even before we have died and passed on into eternity? Now, time is a strange thing we don't understand time. Nobody really understands time, even the greatest astrophysicist are are mesmerized by time as they study it, because it's so mysterious. And there's a lot of things they're telling us that's really hard for regular people to believe that they're discovering about time. We won't go into that right now. But can we accept at face value what God says to us in the scriptures, you have been seated with Christ in heavenly places. And it's a past tense and airiest, what's called a simple past event. That's been accomplished. And then the second thing we're going to look at today is that this priesthood is characterized by intimacy and closeness with God, and the obscurity that goes with that. Now, this is something we don't hear a lot of teachings on obscurity. So we'll go deeper into this last week, we talked about Revelation one, Revelation five, where John says, We are kings and priests unto our God. And I use this example, in my illustration last week.


There are many people who that when we sit, we confess the promises of God and will say, Oh, I'm seated with Christ in heavenly places. And the question I posed at the end last week was, but what are we doing with that, and I use this example, many of the people in our community have served in the military. So we understand some of these military metaphors. But some were commissioned as an officer. And when they were commissioned, most of us were commissioned at a pretty Junior rank. Now, there's a few guys out there that got promoted, got commissioned as senior rank because of their experience and doctors and that kind of thing. But we're not going to use those in our example. Most of us were commissioned at a junior rank to average rank is usually second lieutenant. That's where they start. And so what would you think? If someone says, Well, I was commissioned a second lieutenant, you go, Well, congratulations. When did that happen? And they say 20 years ago. Okay. What's your rank? Now? I'm still Second Lieutenant, but I'm a commissioned officer. And I'm trying to use this example to say there are many people who will say, Oh, I'm seated with Christ in heavenly places. I have a commission from the Lord. Well, Amen, brother. But what are you doing with that commission? Are you growing in your calling in the Melchizedek priesthood? Or are you just quoting the promises of God? There's a difference between what I love quoting the promises of God, I, I'll tell you what if we get together and all the sharing every time is just people speaking the promises of God, it's powerful. Because those promises go past your brain into your heart and they start sinking in. And, and something, I'll say it this way, don't misread what I'm saying, but something magical starts to happen. It's the God kind of the spiritual power of God sinks in and you're like, oh, man, and you, you start to believe it and to live in it. So do you want to share some you got to get into microphone now, though? So? Yes, right. That's right. You can't just it's up or out. That's a good point. That's a great point. So in the military, it's up or out. Now, I want to thank God because I think I haven't had time to think about this. But I think just off the top of my head, that in the kingdom of God, there are a lot of baby Christians that have been in the Lord for years. And unfortunately, they're not going to hell now. Because they just didn't grow in the Lord, right. So maybe God is more merciful than then humans are, you know, with the upper out thing. But at the same time, there is this element we introduced at the end of the last session, that God is calling us into this priesthood. Now, that guys, I'll tell you today for a few minutes, we're going to talk about I believe what we're about to talk about, is way more important than any of us understand. And I'm including myself in there, I don't think I understand how important this is. And it's just, it's a feeling from reading these passages, and just a little bit of comprehension of the magnitude of what's been said. So that's kind of where we're picking up today is the importance of entering this calling, which we did introduce last week, but we didn't talk a lot about other than me using that metaphor. And so I don't want to just quote the promises of God, and then be stunted where I am, I really want to be entering in, I believe there are many people in the kingdom, who are living as it please pardon the the there every metaphor is inadequate. Okay, we understand that. So there's probably a better metaphor, but because of my military background, I tend to use military metaphors more often. But I think to use a faulty metaphor, or less than perfect metaphor, there are still many people who are living as first or second lieutenants. And they should be four star generals, by now in the kingdom, they should be very mature, they should be walking in extraordinary amount of victory and authority and priestly function. Now if that's you don't be condemned, because that's the enemy's method to just get you to stay where you are. And that's not what we want. We I think there's going to be a lot of people I said this last week, I think there's going to be a lot of people amazed at how simple it really was to be faithful to us to walk into grow into blossom into that full call of God in eternity, I think there's gonna be people that are going to be shaken, I use this word shaken by the level of, of growth they could have had when they get there. Now, I don't know that for sure. But it's just a sense I get as I read many of these passages about Jesus teaching on eternal rewards and John and the apostles as well, based on the teachings of Jesus, I believe the degree of the of reward and calling will be based on the degree of our obedience in this life. And although God makes all of his elect, kings and priests, back to my illustration, they're all they all might be commissioned, right? The teachings of Jesus relate that some will be rewarded differently than others, according to their works. Man, this is all over the Bible, according to their works is all over the Bible. It's not about works, saving us. It's about works and rewards, works and eternal destiny being uniquely connected. They are uniquely connected in hundreds, if not 1000s, of scriptures, many, many scriptures. When you look at the parable of the talents, the parable of the mean is the the rulership responsibilities. Even Jesus at one point, he says, You have been he says, You have been faithful here and you've made 10 talents or 10 maintenance. I can't remember which it is because I'll make you ruler over 10 cities. Does that literally mean that Jesus is going to make you ruler over to and cities, maybe, maybe not. But one thing we do know is that you're going to be ruler over something, you're going to have a kingly function over something and the 10 and the 10, by using the word 10. In this life and 10 in the next life is to tell us, there's a strategic continuity between our obedience and entering into this calling in this life, and eternal destiny in the next life. He's connecting the two. Now do I don't know what that looks like? I don't know if it equals literally 10 cities. Many times when Jesus talks about things, he'll use metaphors, because the hereafter is so much greater. We don't if you use the terms, nobody would even understand it, it wouldn't have meaning because those are nouns and frameworks that we still don't have any eternity. We don't know what it looks like. In Jesus rebukes to the seven churches in Revelation of John, overcoming in each situation has different rewards. And I would encourage you, maybe some time we'll do a study on this. But each situation has different rewards, and he calls for overcoming different things to each church. If you notice, every single church, Jesus had some rebukes. Now there were some times some things he said, You do this? Well, you do that well, but he had many rebukes. And why is that because Jesus was in a bad mood that day, when John ran into him, know, Jesus is concerned that we rise to be overcomers in this life as the church. And so he identifies he goes, Hey, it's kind of like a coach going, hey, you need to shore this up, you need to get this right here. This is very important. And then he connects overcoming in different areas to specific rewards in the age to come. And I'm like, Lord, please, I want to help me, I want to be overcomer in every single one of these areas of my life, because if this obviously was very important to Jesus, and I believe it was important to Jesus, because it should be important to us, because this was on his heart for us intended the church. Now, I was reading this week, or actually, last week in Revelation 14, and I thought this was interesting. John says in verse 13, he says, Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, right, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Now, here's what part got my attention.


Yes, says the Spirit. Now, here, there's a voice from heaven. We don't know if this voice was an angel. We don't know if this voice was a brother or sister in Christ in the heavens, we know that there were times when remember I told you about the time when John in Revelation of John, the guy has so much glory on him, he John thought he was Jesus, and He bows down starts to worship Him. And the guy goes, Hey, wait a minute, don't do that. I'm one of your brethren who has the testimony of Jesus. In other words, I'm a Christian who has died gone to heaven, and the Lord's given me a lot of glory here, but don't worship me. So John's interacting with angels, he hears a voice, he's interacting with saints in the in the heavens in the Revelation of John on the Isle of Patmos. And so while he's hearing this voice, the Spirit of God injects himself in a moment, the voice says, the sins in the Spirit of God goes, Yes. And then he goes on the Spirit says that they may rest from their labors, labors, and their works, follow them. In other words, the Holy Spirit, this is how I imagined it. I'm not sure but this is what it feels like when I read it. This voice is speaking to John and the Holy Spirit gets so excited. He jumps in and says this statement right in the midst of the conversation and says yes, that they may rest from their labors and their works are going to follow them, their works are going to follow them, their works are going to follow them let that sink in. And I go God, what does that mean? What does it mean? Now I believe every act of obedience and faithfulness to God, even like Jesus said, even a cup of cold water in my name. I believe every act of obedience and faithfulness to God in this life opens up I believe they're big, I believe it opens around a region of divine destiny in eternity. Let's let that sink in for a minute. We often think in physical terms, we go okay Jesus, you said a cup of cold water be rewarded in my name. And so many times our minds go to oh, what's the reward here? Oh, you get this or you get this little thing or that little thing or currency or we think in money or we think of talent or we think and meanness and yeah, I think Jesus is thinking bigger. I believe that there are regions of divine destiny in eternity, entire realms of divine destiny, that are tied to faithfulness, and who God forms us to be in this life through obedience and consistent faithfulness to the Lord. Faithfulness in obedience, even in the church today is severely underrated. I believe that there is extraordinary destiny in God to come for those who will walk in simple obedience and faithfulness to the Lord in the Melchizedek call as being priests praying and obeying as being kings taking dominion over our own souls and submitting to the authority of Jesus. Because it's the demonstration in the it is the perfecting of the saints, that is the the working of God in our hearts to form and transform us to be prepared for the next calling. Some people assume that when I get to heaven, I'm all of a sudden, I'll be perfected in such a way that I'm prepared for everything. Hmm, that's hard to teach for me, I can't I Because Jesus says if you're faithful in the little things, you'll be faithful in the big things. Hmm, Jesus says Your works are the Holy Spirit says your works will follow you. In other words, the inheritance of God is transferred into the heavens from what is happening now upon the earth. Because what is happening now is the revelation of our calling, even in small ways. Now, this is critical for us, we are so focused on becoming all that God's called us to be in this life. And yet God has focused on all that God has called us to be in the next life. And I do believe if we will focus on the next life. And, and you guys have heard me say this, but the Scripture says, Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth. Not he didn't just say Set your mind on things above. He said, Set your mind on things above and not on things of the earth. And we used to say this, you know that I don't want to be thinking on so many heavenly things that I'm no earthly good. And the older I get, the more I realized that was just a bad teaching right there. We, you know, I've never met anybody whose hearts were so set on heaven, that they weren't faithful where they are. It's actually the other way around, the more our minds and hearts look to God's eternal plans, in the glimpses he provides about eternity, because everything happening right now is about eternity. None of this fallen world was an accident, none of it. Now God didn't want man to fall. God didn't want Satan to tempt humans. He didn't want all of this. But God says, You know what, I have a greater plan. And it's bigger than what anybody understands. It's a great plan of God, that not even angels understand. And the Scripture even talks about that there are things that angels long to look into. And the Lord is working these things in us, we're part of his plan. We are part of this grand plan of God, every movement of faith, every movement of love, every movement of obedience to God in this life, is like a seed planted in the next life. In each of the seeds will have a great harvest in eternity. See, again, we often think about the seeds that we're planting like the word of God, we plant seeds today, and we get harvest today, maybe that harvest doesn't even come until after we leave the Earth. But there is a spiritual harvest on the earth. But not many are teaching about the seeds that are planted here that bring the harvest in the age to come. Every seed, I don't want to get to heaven, and have this happen to me get ready. I don't want to get to heaven. And go get up to heaven. I'm gonna use the agricultural example. And the Lord starts walking through the regions of the new creation. And he any any looks over this huge region is huge swath of the new creation. It says, I had a great destiny for you here. But you planted no seeds there. I know it's inadequate metaphor, but hopefully help us get our mindset, right. I don't want to have huge swaths of void destiny. Now, let me go back to a dream I had many, many years ago. I'd have to look in my journal. It's been decades. But I had it I had a dream. And I went to heaven. And I went when I went to heaven, I I began to walk through these places. They were like dwellings they were beautiful, beautiful dwellings. And there was no one there. And I thought, Why are these people just not in heaven yet? And the Holy Spirit immediately revealed to me and says, no, these places are places people were meant to inherit, but they never did. And man, I'll tell you a great fear. The Lord came upon me in those moments. And there's a lot more to it, I won't go into that, that dream and all the different things the Lord showed me through it. But it brought a great somberness to me. And I said, Lord, help me, help me not to miss the eternal destiny that you call me to help me not to be derailed. From this eternal destiny. Paul talks about the high calling of Christ Jesus, he's talking about the, the full destiny in the heavens, and he talks about working to that destiny. And some people read it, and they think he's talking about working for salvation, and he's not, he's talking about faithfulness, so that his works would be part of that initiation of the inheritance in the age to come. And I don't have those scriptures in front of me. That's not what I'm planning on teaching today. But all of this is about walking in the call of the Melchizedek priesthood now, and not just when we get to heaven, and the fact that this priesthood is an eternal priesthood, what does eternal mean? Eternal doesn't mean it starts in Eternity, Eternal means that it lasts forever, it doesn't mean where it started, or where it didn't start. So if you go read in, let me see if I can pull it up here. I have it in my notes in Hebrews seven.


And Hebrews seven, it says, it's talking about the obscurity of Melchizedek. Now, some people think Melchizedek was Jesus. I don't believe that because of the way the writer describes him in verse three, but this is what he says concerning Melchizedek. He says, without father without mother without genealogy, having neither beginning or Day of Days, nor end of life, and people say, well, that's Jesus. What the Hebrews writers trying to show us is that we don't know his mom, we don't know his dad, we don't know his genealogy. We don't know his beginning. We don't know what year he was born. We don't know when he died, or any of these things. It says in the next phrase, but made like, the Son of God does not say made the son of God doesn't say he was the son of God. It says that Melchizedek was made like the Son of God. In other words, they're trying to say, hey, the Hebrews writers saying, people don't know Jesus eternal past. If we think about it, we know his past 33 years on the earth, we know a little bit about that. But how many of you know what Jesus was doing 2 billion years ago, or 10 trillion years ago, and we don't know it's hidden from us, right? Just like we don't know. Melchizedek upbringing or any of those things. He says that he Melchizedek was held literally he sang in obscurity, so that he would be a likeness of Jesus, he says, made like the Son of God, here's the last phrase in verse three, remains a priest, continually. He was a priest, then he's a priest now. Not like the Levitical priesthood. He was a priest in his day before the Lord and a king. And he still is today, this calling he entered into in the earthly. He says he's still walking in it today he still living as a king and a priest before the Lord that is he still living in the Melchizedek priesthood. I know when I start talking about Melchizedek priesthood, there's probably people listening who thought we were going to teach some kind of Mormon theology because the Mormons have this. That's not what we're doing. We have to remember though, that the Hebrews teaches a tremendous amount, about Melchizedek. In this priesthood, there are probably and I said this earlier, probably too many people who quote the kings and priests promises from Revelation, the seated in Christ promises in the heavenly places in Ephesians. And assume that these things equal maturity of rewards in the age to come track with me here. Just because it's a promise doesn't mean it has been set into action. One of my spiritual teachers and passive mentors in my life, I say passive because I didn't have a close relationship with Him. But He did pray for me, and I did learn a lot from him. But he said this, every promise of God has a condition. And I said, Well, I don't know if that's true. But so far, every promise of God I've looked at has some condition on it in the Scripture. So I'm leaning toward believing that because I've not found a promise that did not have some kind of condition. Even salvation requires repentance. And I know there are people I have dear brothers who say no, that's a work and, and all of that I won't go into all of that right now. But, you know, if someone came in today, and they said, Hey, you just one half a million dollar Bentley car, and we're going to just give it to you, free of charge. All you have to do is drive down here to this dealership and sign some paperwork. You would never in your right mind, say you earned it by the works of driving down there to the Bentley dealership or whatever dealership to get the half a million dollar car, right? You would never say I earned it. And so some people say, Well, if you repent, that's your works. And you didn't really know that's that don't get mixed up in that because there is those who are not earning it to do what God says. But I believe every promise has a condition. And so to go along with this, to look along with what we're talking about here, the rewards of authority in Heaven will not be an egalitarian system that rewards everybody. Equally. Heaven is not like a communist system where everybody gets the same pay. Everybody has the same thing that is not taught in the scriptures, there are many things that teach just the opposite. So I want to say this, with the fear of the Lord, I want to say this with fear and trembling. I want to say this with humility, and a personal awareness, that that this is a warning to all of us, myself included. Some will arrive into heaven unprepared for their next assignment. And the rewards that God wanted to give them, some will arrive unprepared. Because they did not live as overcomers in this life, as Jesus commanded the seven churches in Revelation. Now many people go Well, thank God, they're there. Yes, I agree. Praise God. They're there. I think God they're there. Yes, amen. Hallelujah, and every other praise we can give him, thank God. I mean, that's huge. But God has seen something more to us and that is he speaking to us about our eternal destiny. He is speaking to us to take this Melchizedek priesthood seriously, because it is not just entered into there, it's entered into here. And think about the swaths of inheritance, God desires to give someone said, Oh, I don't want to be greedy in the age to come. I just want this little bit, you're not being humbled by saying that you're countering the teachings of Jesus, who tells us to be faithful, who tells us to be very concerned about the age to come very concerned about the inheritance, very concerned about the rewards so much that he taught a great deal on that. And so this, this calling as kings and priests, is what we enter now that actually prepares us for that which is coming. Some people are forfeiting large swaths of their eternal destiny in the ancient ages future through disobedience and a lack of serious pursuit of the overcomers lifestyle in this age. And the promises of Jesus to the seven churches are specifically as we said, to those who overcome in this life now, many people have said to me, Well, Ron, I'm already an overcomer. Amen, brother, legal position in heaven. Absolutely. You're an overcomer. Absolutely, I was seated in Christ and heavenly places, actually, even before I was qualified or before he qualified me, because God saw in His foreknowledge, and that's a mystery in and of itself. But don't confuse the legal position with living condition. There is if you, you and I, Jesus says, You will know them by their fruits. In other words, you will know their justification by their sanctification. In other words, you will know their legal position by their living condition. So that if my living condition indicates that I am living like a senator living like people who don't know God, I need to be concerned like I need to have the fear of the Lord. Whoa. And listen, I'll tell you I have people I've loved very dearly out there in the world out there in this world that are Christians or say they're Christians, and man, I'll tell you guys, this is not condemning but if I live like that, it'd be scared to death I was going to hell. And someone say, well, Rod, you know, we don't have the spirit of fear. But listen, listen. Have, you shall know them by their fruits. And so I want my fruits, I don't want to just make up false fruit. Jesus says, make the tree good, the fruit will be good. But I want to live in this heavenly inheritance of Jesus. Now, we're not going to get deep into this today. But so much of this is tied directly to our relationship and the joy of our relationship with Him. You can't just do this because you're motivated to have big rewards. It won't work. I mean, you're it'll falter, it'll fail. This has to come from a deep love relationship with Jesus, this passionate, consuming love that overtakes us. Because as we see his heart and we feel his heart, and we see who he is, we're like, oh, I can't do anything else. There's nothing else I could, oh, Lord, I can never, I can't leave you. I can't live without you, Lord, and that this passionate love in our hearts, that's where it comes from. The Melchizedek priesthood, led by Jesus is fueled by the power of an endless life. That's what the Hebrews writer tells us. And we see that that power is not just raw power, but it is the power of love. It's the power of a deep love relationship with God.


We could spend an entire session just on that alone, right there. You have the power to live it and to overcome, and to enter eternal destiny even now. And we're not talking please, we're not talking about mental judo, or the power of positive thinking, this is more than just, oh, I've got these thoughts in my head so I can do it. It's way more than that. There is a tangible power of God, something more tangible than the things you can reach out and touch and the eternal life that he has already planted inside of us. So God, plants, Destiny, eternal life, he plants it inside of us, in this eternal power. But when he plants it, did you notice that God when he plants, he doesn't plant the whole plant and the fruit and everything he plant seeds, and then that must be cultivated and grown? Because God wants us to want it. He won't force us to grow, he won't force us to enter anything, any destiny. So guys, we are people of another world. We are people from another age. Let that sink in. We are people from another age. And you say, Rod, how can that be? You know, I was just born in the 19th. You fill in the blank. Some of you were probably born in the 2000s. I don't know. But you know, wherever you say I was I was only born here. But you know what we've been in the mind of God for eons, how real it is to be in the mind of God. Because if you are in the mind of God, it's only a matter of time before resurrection life will come to you. Oh, think about this, even before we were created. We were in God's mind. We he says those whom I've predestined, I four knew. In other words, I didn't just know about you back then I knew you. The relationship that is developing in eternal ages, like think about this, who you become 5 trillion years from now, in all the glory of God that He sets upon you. He knows that person right now, who you are there, and he sees you through those lens of who you will be because he knows you beyond time. And so even though we have not manifested in that in the future, and even though we were not here yet, in the past, to be in the mind of God is the fullness of reality, even though it hasn't manifested yet. To be in the mind of God, to be in the heart of God. Now you're talking about foreknowledge relational, for knowledge, to be in the heart of God. So to say we are people of another age, is completely accurate. We are people of an eternal age, who are here in this short temporal bubble that we live in now. We're people of another world. We're citizens of a city that shall be manifested across spiritual and physical dimensions that have not yet come together. We're citizens of heaven. We're ambassadors of this highest government. This Melchizedek Dickey and priesthood this priesthood of Melchizedek is literally one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon the saints of God. And I think there's far more to it that we You will not be told until the appropriate time just because it is so great. It is it lasts forever. Guys, this is not imaginary stuff. This is not fairy tale we are society deals in fiction so much now fiction, movies, fiction, books, fiction, video games, that to a lot of people, there's nothing real anymore. They're just daily. They're just living in fiction all the time. This is not fiction, this is real stuff. This is tangible realities that will manifest both in this life and in the age to come, but mostly in the age to come. And one of the key points here is that God calls us into the obedience and the functions of Melchizedek order. Now, in order that we may enter its fullness in the coming age, please, please, I beg you with all my heart, don't say oh, just enter it then. Because there are many things you may not be able to enter, then if you do not enter. Now, there are many crops and inheritances that may not grow, like they would have there. If you don't plant them, now your works will follow you. And Jesus tells us even the smallest things of obedience, and God have a reward. And when Jesus uses the word reward, It's way bigger than our mentality of reward. Way bigger. He's not talking about giving you some bars of gold and heaven. I mean, he may give you some bars of gold. But you know, like they said to the guy in the joke, you know, who wanted to take his gold to heaven. And he asked God if he could take his gold. And the Lord said, Yeah, I'll let you take all your gold, he shows up. And they said, he brought pavement with him, because it's plentiful and have the streets are paved with gold. So the things we think are valuable here, are not anything compared to what's valuable there. And most of that we only know by revelation and glimpses that the Holy Spirit shows us. But this was so important to the Holy Spirit. And Revelation 14, he interrupts John in says, Yes, you know, I love that. It's like, it's like, if I'm up here speaking, and one of you guys, you get so excited, you just can't stop yourself, and you go, Yes, and your works are gonna follow you. And that's the Holy Spirit and His excitement about us entering into this and knowing this, and not just knowing it in our heads, but living it in our hearts. And here's what I love, we can enter it. In the humility of obscurity, we're going to talk about this. Not next week, but probably the following week. Next week, Doug and Jennifer are going to be teaching on something different, very powerful. But what I want you to know this week, is that we can enter it into it in humility of obscurity, you don't have to be known by people on the earth, you don't have to have a big ministry, you don't need a 501 C three, I'm not saying don't do it, if a God doesn't call you, but the cool thing about it is, we don't even need any special gifts or talents.


We only need the talents and gifts God has given us and just cultivate them and be faithful. It was not necessary for us to be born into a certain kind of family, or a certain kinds of inheritance. It's going to shock people I believe, with all my heart, it's going to shock people when they get to heaven and realize how easily this how easy this would have been. I don't mean it's not difficult. I don't mean we don't have tribulation. But I mean, people get to thinking, like if God if I came in and said, Okay, guys, in order to get this inheritance, you're going to have to become the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or else start a ministry that's going to be in every country of the world. If I gave you some kind of requirements like that, and I was teaching that kind of false teaching today. You would think, Man, that's a wait, that's huge. That's, that's big. I don't know if I can do that. All right, I'm not teaching that I'm teaching this and yet, here's what people will hear. They will hear oh, man, that's heavy. I gotta, there's gonna be like, all this stuff. And I gotta be Billy Graham. And I got to do this. And I got to do that, and I gotta win. Yeah, and they start adding in all these things. And before you know it, what they think it takes to be great in the kingdom is so huge that it's far and reachable to them. That's a ploy of the enemy, to get people not to walk in their own gifting, because they're busy looking at a famous person and their gifting. Right? So we're going to talk later in a difference, the next installment that I teach on this, about this obscurity now we introduced this in the hidden Elijah's of Romans 11. And in First Kings, I think it was first Kings 19. But what we see is, we've talked about it briefly, is that this was also a quality and Melchizedek life. And that's what we just read when I referred over to Hebrews. I think it was Hebrews seven. Yeah, Hebrews seven is he's talking about the UPS Security. Listen, most of these people who obey God and simplicity, they did not have fame or fortune. They just were obedient to God. Many of them Hebrews tells us, we don't even know who they are, is that they were there. It just says there were people who were faithful here and faithful here, this the faith chapter I'm talking about. And it gives names of some of the famous people. But then it starts given all the other people that nobody knows their names, all of Heaven knows them. They're very famous in the heavens, they're very known in the heavens. And so this calling to walk in the priesthood of Melchizedek, is for us today. And I have not visited this very much yet. But so much of it is wrapped up in how we draw nearer to Jesus to know God is so important to know Him. And I don't just mean like, he's my buddy, I know, I'm talking about being deep in friendship with God, where our hearts are yearning to be faithful. We're obedience. I like to use this example. It's like a water balloon that has a bunch of holes in it. And there's so much water in the balloon, that whatever's in it's just coming out and it's obedience and faithfulness and forgiveness. In all of these things. There's so much water pressure from the love relationship with Jesus like man, Lord, I love you so much. God just is or somebody I can forgive, Lord, is there somebody I can give to Lord is there something more is there you know, kind of like David, I just read that passage of David where he goes, Lord, You've blessed man. And you've given me all this and I want to build for you a house. And I think Nathan you know, remember Nathan just says, Yeah, do it you know, because I think Nathan saw ben David was just yearning to to give more to the Lord. And of course, later date Nathan came back and says, No, I'm gonna build for you house. But I love David's heart in this because literally, it's like the water balloon with the hose is like, the water's just coming out. He's going God, where can I give to you? Where can I bless your heart work? Oh, Lord, I want to build you a house. He's thinking like a man right? He's like, Lord, I want to build you a house. And David's thinking like a like God. He goes, I'm gonna build for you, a house. Lord, give us hearts. They're full like this. And this kind of fullness that pulls us deep into the Melchizedek, calling deep into this calling of priests and kings. It comes from the deep relationship with Jesus that just yearns to surrender, yearns for repentance, learn, yearns, to be grateful, yearns to forgive, literally, it's harder to disobey than to obey, because the spirit is so willing. The spirit is so desiring to be a blessing to God and to his people. And Lord, give us eyes to see this give us, give us ears to hear it give us hearts, to feel it, we must be inundated in our spirits, our souls, our bodies, our five senses, and all the other senses in our spirit we don't even know about so that our whole being is saturated with the love of God in the passion of heaven. Let's pray, Lord, oh, God, how good it is to know you to know us life, Lord, the deep fullness that comes to our hearts when we are in your presence, the things you say to us, God, all the things that you speak and just the Your embrace the way you hug us. Sometimes the way you come close, and speak your faithfulness to us in actions. Lord, we're overwhelmed with your love. We're overwhelmed with your faithfulness, that you never let up. You never let go. You never get tired. You're always pursuing us with the love of heaven. And Lord, we pray inundate us with this fountain Jesus, so that you flow out of us like rivers of living water that just won't quit because the passion of God is overwhelmingly Great. Teach us to walk as Melchizedek walked in close friendship with you what I believe is even closer than Abraham and you. You literally speak through his life, this eternal priesthood and these eternal callings that have incredible ramifications in the ages. And right now is the time to enter into them through obedience. And so Lord we pray, carry us in fill our hearts grace of God flow through His Holy Spirit come like the the level six level 10 Right weapons of heaven through our hearts in Jesus name. Teach us, oh Lord, that we may give all the glory and all the honor to you and to live as people who are totally surrendered to the King of heaven. Jesus Christ, we pray in Jesus name, Amen and Amen.


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