Gospel of Wealth – Chapter Eight

Life More Abundantly

Jesus obtained incredible wealth through his defeat of the devil. The exalted Christ is seated in the heavens, far over and above all things. There is nothing to compare heaven’s wealth with, it is the standard by which all else must be rated.

The second Adam – Jesus – belonged nowhere but in the highest holiest heaven. Heaven retains the supereminence of prosperity that the Divine nature demands – the purity and wealth of holiness. Coming to earth was a massive sacrifice. Going to hell for our sins was even a greater insult. Hell is the sewer where all things ignoble are flushed.

Jesus rose from that dreadful pit. Death rejected Him – the Author of Life – like the sea coughing up cork. His holiness didn’t belong in the pits of hell and once the price for our sin had been fully paid it couldn’t be kept. The repulsion propelled Christ far above all the heavens and he came to rest on the upper edge of divinity. He obtained a name that was above every name in the three worlds – heaven, earth, and hell. He sat atop all principalities, powers and rulers of the universe; his enemies became his footstools. His dominion filled everything with Himself – Jesus Lord of lords. The glory of His wealth outshines everything earth could offer.

What’s more incredible is that we were raised up with him and seated in the same heavenly place of authority. This place is far over and above all other things. Evidently we have more power available to us than we know.

The Fullness
Out of His fullness we have all received.

This fullness of all things is what He is. This fullness is what he has. It’s out of this fullness we have all received. The gifts we obtain from Him are the standard of Christ’s own perfection. Eph. 4:10-13

It is from His high and holy position that He gives gifts unto men. His gifts come from that far over and above heavenly place, not from a lower place. This insures that the quality of the fruit must be greater and higher. Everything comes from that far over and above heavenly place.

The same spirit makes us alive with Him. He raised us up together and made us sit together in that same heavenly seat in order to clearly demonstrate through the ages to come – that age even now – the immeasurable riches of His grace. Eph. 2:7 The Holy Ghost takes every possession of Jesus and reveals and transmits it unto us. John 16:14-15

Most people don’t understand this and waste time asking God for things Jesus doesn’t have. "Oh God, just get me by. All I need is a little. I’m not asking for much." If this is what you’ve been asking for you’re not asking for anything, at least not anything God has to give.
The Most High has no half blessings. He has no little loans for losers. He has no mediocre miracles to move you out of a mess. Most people attribute ordinary circumstances to God when in reality they are everyday coincidences. Onlookers can rightly doubt the veracity of your claims of half miracles and your faith looks even more like a waste of time to them, because your religious thinking has made something out of nothing.

God has no impotent flickerings of light. Every good and perfect gift is from above and comes down from the father of light with whom there is no variation. If there is some weakness to the work or some empty space in need of improvement don’t blame God.
If it’s not the best, God didn’t have anything to do with it. If it’s not the greatest, you’re looking at the wrong Author. Your destiny in Christ is to be strengthened with mighty power by the Holy Ghost so He may live in you and have power and be filled with all the fullness of God.

The fullness of God leaves no room for inferiority. The best, the most, the greatest, and perfection mark the blessings of the Most High. There is no turning from this definition of holy completeness. There is no variation to perfection. If your "blessing" didn’t come with a "HOLY" label attached to it, it didn’t come from God and it wasn’t manufactured in heaven. Heaven’s manufacturing has divine quality control. Don’t conjure up mystical meanings for everyday manifestations. The works of the Spirit need no explanation. They come complete. They are obvious and holy.

Everyone knows the blessing of God when they see it. His works are obvious. It is a rare opportunity for most. How often do people see a deformed leg straighten out? How often do people see angels? How often do they get supernatural knowledge about tomorrow’s events and the wisdom to act profitably from it? I can guess the answer, not often enough.

Are you one of those people? Are you living in the power of God?
A person living in the power of God will experience the supernatural every day. You can and should expect the supernatural every day. Today, if you will hear his voice and harden not your heart. If you can hear from God nothing will be impossible to you.

Paul warns against being carnal and walking as mere men. We are not to live as mere mortal men. We are supernatural! We must learn to walk in the powers of the world to come. This is your new home and your new way. The Gifts of the Holy Spirit are the foretastes of this coming heavenly kingdom. Get used to it.

We are to live not by our strength, our might or our wealth but only through His. AS HE IS so are we in this world. We’ve had it backwards. It is not, as we are so is He.

Right here and now, we are God’s temple. We are Christ’s body. None of this is put off until heaven. Religious people put off everything until we get to heaven. No wonder they have no power. There’s no power in tomorrow – today is the day to hear His voice and harden not your heart.

What type of life should you be living with this kind of knowledge? If you ever become conscious of the presence of the Most High living in you, your life will change forever.
God wants to move in and bring all his goods with him. All God’s blessings will come on you and overtake you. God’s riches are an extension of himself. They come with him. When He comes, they come.

You cannot obtain the riches that God wants you to have apart from God. They are not independent from him. They are His. When God comes he brings His blessings.

QUALITY AND QUANTITY
A careful examination of the blessings and promises that come with God will reveal and common thread woven through out. This is that the quality is always the best and the quantity is always the most. Quality invariably refers to holiness because it stresses perfection and or the best of something. Quantity refers to divinity because it stresses completeness and or the most of something.

BE HOLY – A COMMAND FOR QUALITY
Be holy! That’s a command, one of responsibility and perplexing possibilities. Think about it? How could mere men manifest that same great holiness that God does – the pure wealth of the Most High? Keep in mind that holiness is God’s wealth in you in it’s pure state: the best, the most, the greatest, and without variation.

God is holy – pure and undefiled in every way. His wealth is holy – pure and undefiled in every way. Here it is written for us to be holy in the same exact way. If God commands us to be something we cannot possibly be then He would be unjust. His promises provide for us a wealth of holiness that is not some far off fantasy but an ever-present reality for us to enjoy. The wealth of His holiness our measuring stick.

You are holy in as much as He is allowed to live His life through you. This holiness of life, pure and undefiled, will carry over into every area: spiritually, mentally, physically and financially. I will make you high above all nations in praise, fame and honor for you shall be a holy people. Deut. 26:19

THE BEST OF ALL IS YOURS
Do not look with regret upon your goods for the best of all is yours. Gen. 45:20
Don’t be sad about giving up those things that you have put great effort into, through the works of your hands. Those things will prove to be insignificant. He brings the best with Him and puts it on you as He comes into your life. He does it.

God has nothing but wealth to offer to you. It’s the job of the God of Heaven to prosper us. Riches and honor are with Him, enduring wealth and righteousness. He causes those who love Him to inherit true riches and fills their treasuries completely. Delighting in the Lord will make you ride upon the high places of the earth: only, always, and in all things. Many lower options will be offered to you, don’t take them. Wait on the Lord.

SERVE GOD FOR THE ABUNDANCE OF ALL
Serve the Lord thy God for the abundance of all that He has blessed you with.
This text is in the curse of the law and its purpose is to tell the people of Israel that if they don’t serve God for the best then they will ultimately receive something less – the curse.

Know what the best is and know what to ask for. Most people don’t. Imperfect knowledge keeps them apart from the Divine in their lives. True prosperity is spiritually discerned, spiritually estimated, and spiritually appreciated. God prospered King Solomon because he knew what to ask for.

Once you know what the best is, it comes. God foreordains things and they present themselves saying, "here I am." The secret things belong to the Lord but the things that are revealed belong to us.

Without the spiritual revelation of the Holy Ghost you may never know what the best is and therefore can’t receive it. It’s the spiritual revelation that declares what’s perfect. These same revelations will exalt you above measure – propel beyond. They throw your life beyond what you can ask or think.

COVET THE BEST GIFTS
Have you ever wondered why God tells you to covet the best gifts? Only the best is pure and holy. He only has the best to give. It’s only the best He can pay for. Only the best will do. The best always leads to God. If you have the best you certainly wouldn’t desire something someone else has, would you? If it’s not God there’s always something better.

Coveting the best is good for you. It refines your tastes. It brings you close to the heart of God. It ignites the Divine drive within your spirit and helps you let go of all that old haggardly mentality you’ve been hanging on to.

Don’t covet your neighbor’s wife or any of his stuff. They aren’t the best. Pine after, yearn for, and desire with all your spirit, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and these gifts will produce the holy results you are looking for. Oh, Lord yours is the greatness (the standard, the measure, the excellence) both riches and honor belong to you.

It’s God’s standard by which all else must be measured. We become the standard. The world must follow and we must lead. Operate in the greatest, possess the most, portray the excellence, and use only the best in everything. You are the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. It is through these exceedingly great and precious promises that you partake of the Divine nature.

DIVINITY – A COMMAND FOR QUANTITY
Eternal life is a possession belonging only to the truly rich. It is an ennobling substance placed upon the chosen for the sole sake of glorifying the Most High. He delights in the prosperity of His people and the way He prospers them is to make them like himself: alive to wealth. They are to be gods among men. How?

It’s the quantity of the life force that makes someone truly alive – a richness that surpasses ordinary accumulation. They have powers beyond the scope of normal human living and wealth that can’t be effected by ordinary interaction or dissected by common intellectual reasoning. Through contact with the Living God, this life and its effects on wealth can be increased – precipitously.

LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY
The direction from which things originate is of great importance. True greatness comes from above. He that comes from above is above all. Those things that are of the earth are earthly and speak of the earth.

Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. If you can have life more abundantly it follows reasonably that you must be able to have it less abundantly. Most people if they have any life at all have it less than in abundance.

Jesus didn’t come that you might have a barely get by and die life. You would not be prepared for heaven with that substance. The Holy Ghost enters your life in an attempt to ready you for the world to come so that after you have exhausted the resources of the earth there is only one small step to take.

We shall be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations. Revelations carry the life of God into your spirit where they do their work. They are containers of life power. When the revelation comes, the life follows and the manifestation of wealth is right around the corner. This life produces in you freedom from fear and worry. Great ideas about how to handle difficult situations, and power to perform what formerly was impossible, all come from Life more abundantly.

Why all the emphasis on life? Because the supernatural life of God, the life that lives itself – called Zoë in the Greek – is the source of all prosperity. Life is a commodity – the currency of Heaven. Enough life in any situation quickens prosperity and drives out poverty. Enough life in your mind will give you mental health. Enough life in your body will give you physical health. Enough life in your finances will give you wealth. An abundance of the supernatural life that God gives will lift you far over and above all that you could ask or think. This force of life establishes greatness. It is the standard and the measure by which all else is judged. In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of men.

The question therefore is. How much life do you have? How much life do you want? How much of this supernatural commodity do you think you can handle? The choice is up to you.

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