THE LIBERATING SECRET OF CHRIST PART 3 - HIS NAME by J W LUMAN 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, Lord willing, we will look at the Liberating Secret of His Glory. So, if you will then, in Colossians chapter 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? How many of you have ever read this verse? Surely, everybody has read this verse before! Colossians 3:17, " And whatsoever you do..." 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, nor 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. " 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. " Whatsoever you do in word or deed..." Whatever you say... and to say a thing, you have to think it. You have to think it. "It is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaketh." 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, know that our tongue and vocal chords have a part to play, but the word process is centered here in the brain. If you can't think, you can't speak. Whatever you do, whatever you say, whatever you think, the intents of your 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." 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 you 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. 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 alright, 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 wanted to do anyway. And do it in the Name of Jesus! That makes it alright. No! It doesn't make it alright, 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. It is exactly what we have been talking about. "Ye shall know the truth..." Jesus said, "I am the truth." "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 forevermore, 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. 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 folks, 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 by 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 or do proceeds out from the Truth. Then let's look at this. "...do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus..." I want to draw a little diagram here that will help us, perhaps to illustrate this truth. Now, we have been using a different diagram, but I want to use this one to help us illustrate this truth. We should understand, in our little studies together, that the center of our being is spirit. The very center of our being is spirit. We have stated before that the Living Spirit in you is Christ. I am not going to go back into all those verses, because this is what we dealt with in our last lesson - that new birth, that New Man, that New Creature, that New Creation, that new identity, that New Person is CHRIST HIMSELF! Do you know then dear heart, 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! 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. 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 this Christ in him, 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! Actually, I have no living spirit in me but that Living Spirit of Christ! " He that is joined to the Lord..." saith the Scripture, " He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit." 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 which 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 that "JESUS IS MY LIFE". 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 say 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. Any 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. Amen! 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 of 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 of the devil, one to the other. And it is all argument over 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. 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. Oh, 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 very shortly now. He has not taken His Name and given it to you like I would say... (and I have heard this illustrated before, and it is a bad illustration), that to do things in the Name of Jesus 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! I've heard that preached! I used to believe that! 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. Then 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. You read that in the Bible. It is not my quotation. It is in the Word of God and is followed out through every other Scripture. "The first man Adam was made a living soul." 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, folks, 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 not complete. He is an incomplete individual. Let's keep searching it. 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. We have a body. Each of us has a body. This is the picture of a Believer: spirit, soul and body (#1). In our little diagram we have divided the circles up in that we were dealing individually, but I want us to look at this. (#2) Here is where Christ dwells. I am going to just go by this, with the understanding that you can search these things out. But, this is Christ's dwelling. This is where He abides. This is where He dwells. 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, here in the Body. This is a picture of a person who does all things in the name of Jesus, by the way. It is the rule of Christ, or Christ ruling, Christ dwelling, Christ reigning, Christ ruling. How many of you have ever said, "He is Lord"? Well, He is Lord, alright. You are saying that He is Lord. 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... What is the soul? The soul is the mind, the emotions and the will. (This is nothing new to you, I'm sure). This is just an established fact. In the Scriptures, the term 'soul' and 'heart' are synonymous with one another. 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 here, 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 here, 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 an old man, and you put on the identity of a new man. Who is the New Man? Here it is. He is Christ. But you see, the soul must take on His identity; or the soul must be filled the Bible says, with the knowledge of Him! Where do we grow, dear friend? 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, as 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, you 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, I was never your Lord. Your earthly tongue employed my Name, but 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 run 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.' 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 things in His Name has to do with our heart, our soul being filled with the identity, the knowledge of Him. We talked about it. 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, 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." (I Corinthians 6:15-20). I know your King James 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. "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 W-O-R-D engraved in you. You are to have a new heart. Even, Paul says, "the Mind of Christ". He says, "With an open face, when the veil is taken away, when the veil 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 by the Spirit of the Lord." (II 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 a 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. One day folks, one day, by a supernatural act of God, this veil is going to be taken away (#3) and the whole body is going to be changed into His glorious image. But there is a liberating secret taking place NOW! The soul's been changed into His same image, the veil being taken away. He, 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. 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're 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?" 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 have another thought coming. 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; this 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! Oh, before you have anything, He has you. You are His. And everything you have is for an expression of Him! 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 here 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, 'Oh well, that's 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." You say, 'Brother, that's one body.' Well, the Scripture says "one bread". Have you ever read that? "For we being many are one bread." I Corinthians 10:17. Yes, one body, one bread. To be broken one to another. To be eaten one of another. To be strengthened one of another. " Know ye not, ye are not your own. Ye are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body." 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! Read Galatians 4. That's what Galatians 4 is all about. Galatians 4:1-6, " Now I say that the heir as long as he is a child..." (as long as there is this veil here) " 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 here (in the body) with his tongue. It is all here in the body. To him, the move of God is just something that he feels. It's all here in the body. That's all it is. 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 you mean by that, brother? I mean that instead of ruling here... Christ ruling ... instead of Christ ruling here (in the soul), he (the believer) is serving here (in the body). He goes to church, because that is what he does. He doesn't understand he is the Church; he understands 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..." 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 dwelling, He is reigning, and therefore, He is ruling. It is not my body ruling Him; it is He ruling over my body. 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, you see. That is an old Pentecostal cliche. 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, on down (verse 1-6) 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 this Son that is in him! The Bible says in Galatians 4:5-6 that, "Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, 'God, you are my 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 this whole area here (#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." 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"? 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, in the knowledge of Him, 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. Out from 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, 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. This is not it. He must be revealed in you so that you understand it is no longer I but it is Christ Who lives in me. I am not my own, I am His, His Body, thank God! Now, what you do, you do in that understanding, you do in that Name. 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", He says. It is a glorious truth. Take these Scriptures: Galatians 1:17 means, "in the knowledge of Him". His Name means that we are filled with the knowledge of Him. Galatians 1:6-16, which means that we are separated unto that 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? Are you a teacher, an evangelist...what are you?' (And I am not trying to be facetious, or super spiritual, or even humble; because it isn't in me to be any of those things. I will just tell you frankly.) 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 the 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", you see, has an identity, but "Paul, a servant." That is my identity. As a calling, I am an apostle. He says, "I am a prophet", he says, "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. 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 (removed from him). In verse 9,10,11, 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. 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." 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 separated unto a Person not a thing, not a thought - A PERSON!" "So", he 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 may 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 it was recognized at His Resurrection) when He raised Him from the dead, set Him at His Own right hand in Heavenly Places. And by the way, that is where you sit also, Ephesians 2 says, so that you sit there in His Name. You don't sit there in your name; you sit there in Him, so you sit there in His Name! Even in Heaven, you are 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! Just read the next chapter. He is raised up of God, set at His Own right hand, given a Name above every name; and the second chapter, verses 5, 6 and 7 says that you are raised up with Him, quickened together with Him, made to sit with Him in Heavenly Places. 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! That is what it says, "...every name that is named...A name that is above every name that is named." Now hear me, this is important. "A name that is above every name that is named." J W is a name that is named. His Name must rule above the name of J W. 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! Now, while that is on our minds, let us then discover what is this Name of Jesus? Because it says here in verse 22, "...and hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church..." Which is what? What is the Church? Why, my word, look! It is HIS BODY! It is 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 is all kind of names that are named. Go around this building 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 to me. Not only has God raised Him up, He 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? Yes, 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. The earth is My Footstool." 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, He says, "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." That is not talking about just preachers. That is talking about the Body of Christ. We are given hind's feet 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 the 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 in here. Look at this. " 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. 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 you and I, when He is the Head, 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 is 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 your 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 His Church, His Body the fulness of Him". It is His Name that releases it all, folks. 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. 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, 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 with me very quickly. Hebrews chapter 1 verse 4. "Being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." Now, what does this means? That the Name of Jesus is greater than that of Gabriel? No, "... that He, by inheritance, received a greater 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 unto Him a Father, 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 praises 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 SON." 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" 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. Now, to Paul God declared the Name also. " When it pleased God to reveal His Son in me..." "Therefore," said Paul, "it is no longer I, but Christ who lives in me." 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 hearts. It is in this Name that you and I rule and reign with Him. DIAGRAM #1 SOUL BODY SPIRIT DIAGRAM #2 BODY SOUL Christ dwells here - this is the very SPIRIT Spirit of Christ CHRIST CHRIST Mind of Christ CHRIST The Body of Christ 1 Cor. 6:15 DIAGRAM #3 BODY This veil shall be SOUL taken away! CHRIST Veil taken away DIAGRAM #4 SOUL Spirit of Christ fills our souls. CHRIST Renewing the THE mind SON DIAGRAM #5 BODY SOUL The Glory waiting to be revealed in us. CHRIST Romans 8:18 THE GLORY DIAGRAM #6 HIS NAME THE SON SOUL WRITTEN