So I was spending some time in worship yesterday, singing this song I heard this week that I just enjoy-Skeleton Bones by John Mark McMillan. It is an unusual song with unusual lyrics. But this is the same brother in the Lord who gave us Oh How He Loves Us...so we all know how many worshippers have enjoyed that song. Song seems like the wrong word maybe psalm is more appropriate. Anyway. This song is about the resurrection power of God in Christ Jesus. I was probably listening to it the last time I posted. LOL. I want to post a link to the lyrics because without it what I have to say won't really make sense. (I thought about putting all the lyrics myself, but then the post would be too long. I am wordy enough already!)
And here is the video with the lyrics if that is your preference.
So here is a song talking about bones that have to stand and recognize the glory of the risen Christ. The resurrection power of God that raised up Christ and opened up tombs in Jerusalem still affects everything in creation. Why am I saying this? This is what came to me as I was worshipping the Lord. Remember...I am still processing...
The Lord told Mary and Martha at Lazarus' tomb...I AM the Resurrection and the Life. (John 11). This was a difficult time for his friends and if you remember the biblical account, Jesus purposely delayed his arrival once he heard the news that Lazarus was sick. I looked at the verse in several translations...the Aramaic Bible in Plain English reads:
Yeshua, said to her, "I AM THE LIVING GOD, The Resurrection and The Life, whoever trusts in me even if he dies, he shall live." WOW...
Then I was thinking Lord, this is really deep. Then I had the thought wait a minute this is before Jesus even dies. He declares that He is the Resurrection long before He paid the price for our salvation. He declares His deity and identity as the Son of God...the God-man with resurrection power before He is resurrected by God after his crucifixion. Is there anyone besides me who had never thought about this?
Is this why the Apostle Paul says in Philippians 3:10 , "that I might know Him and the power of His resurrection?"
I have been listening to a minister, Katie Souza of Expected End Ministries, and she has a revelation about the resurrection power of Christ that I have not really heard preached before. Generally speaking, she teaches about the healing of the soul. Some believers don't acknowledge the need for healing in the soul and I am not going to debate it here. I encourage you to read Isaiah 53 and look into some of her teachings. They are powerful and controversial! Needless to say, her teachings have impacted me and piqued something in me about the resurrection power of Christ. If the Apostle Paul, who wrote most of the New Testament by revelation of the Spirit since He didn't actually walk with Jesus, says He prays that HE MIGHT KNOW HIM and the POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION - what does that say about the revelation that has yet to be understood? I am not here to teach her revelation about the resurrection...look into it...please! I just want to share what I was pondering while listening to this powerful song.
Jesus said He is the Resurrection and the Life long before He was raised from the dead. So when we read in Scripture that he descended, held captivity captive, made a open show of principalities and powers, disarming them and then was raised up by the power of God with ALL POWER and seated at the right hand of the majesty on HIGH....what actually happened in the spirit realm and in the natural if tombs were opened in Jerusalem? Selah.
I wish I could say that this is the first time I heard this question but it isn't. I heard a deliverance teaching on iniquities by Anna Mendez and she posed the question. What do we as believers, BELIEVE, actually took place when Jesus Christ died, went to hell and then was resurrected with ALL POWER? Could all this have happened and nothing actually change the entire cosmos? If the entire sky blackened when Jesus gave up his spirit and the veil at the temple was torn...what happened in the cosmos? What is the revelation of the power of His resurrection that Paul is talking about?
Back to the song lyrics...peel back our ribs again and stand inside of our chest. Wow! This is the kind of stuff that made disciples walk away from Jesus. Remember when Jesus said if you don't "eat of my flesh" and "drink of my blood"..you have no life in you. In the scriptures it says this saying was too hard...Jesus had went too far...and folks walked away because it had gotten to deep...too mystical. What was Jesus talking about? He was talking of oneness. Jesus was speaking of what he would pray for us in John 17...that we would be one in Him. So the lyrics are about oneness in Him.
When He rose with ALL POWER he had actually redeemed everything to God. (Colossians 1:20 and 2 Cor. 5:18) He had reconciled what had to be reconciled and He reigns. He is KING. I hope this is making sense. He IS KING. He isn't waiting to be King. He is waiting for all things to come under subjection to His kingship. 1 Cor. 15:25 and Heb. 2:8. He must reign...then when all things are made subject...He turns it all back over to God our Father.
Back to the song...open up your gates before Him and crown him...stand him up... Yesterday TV was talking about Stand up to Cancer (which is a great cause) but I was singing Jesus Stand up in ME! I crown you Jesus. Stand inside my chest. Let your blood flow through my veins and put your wind in my lungs. I just want to love you! Again the lyrics are about the oneness that has been given to us because of Jesus Christ's obedience to God.
Ephesians 1:19-20
"and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which to come. He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church...
As I listened and pondered the song, as I worshipped the King, I simply said, "Lord I crown you. Please show me where I have not crowned you. In what areas of my life are you not reigning?" See He is King and if He is not reigning it's because the will of people has not been surrendered. God does not force us to serve Him and neither does His Son. We must surrender. We must give him the rightful seat in our hearts. We must crown him and stand HIM UP in us!!!
If the Kingdom is not manifesting in our lives, in our churches, in our communities it is because we have not taken our rightful places in Him in ONENESS to cause all things to come under His authority. We have a part to play in the manifestation of the Kingdom, as SONS, just like He did when he walked the earth...as He is so are we in this world...He reigns now. He is King and he has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. (Rev. 1:6)
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