SON OF MAN - BY J W LUMAN - 
LESSON  1


We are looking for the view of Christ that is coming forth in the 
heavens. And I want to give a little overview of that. We will be dealing 
with the title, "SON OF MAN". It is the SON OF MAN, that title that 
is used when we speak of what traditionalist would call the Second 
Coming of the Lord or the coming of the Lord. My God, it's been 
divided up into so many areas now. A Coming - The coming - The 
Lord is Coming - Judgment Day - Kingdom Come. Maybe I can direct 
your attention to Matthew 24 - the coming that is spoken of here which 
is the coming of the SON OF MAN. In order for that to make a lot of 
sense to us, we should come first to some understanding of who this 
SON OF MAN is. The ultimate view is this SON OF MAN.

I think we should focus our attention on this SON OF MAN and how 
he comes to be - how he came to be. He doesn't just happen. How he 
came to be - folks, this is so extremely important because there is a way, 
a singular way in which the SON OF MAN came to be. Now the SON 
OF GOD is out from the beginning. "In the beginning was the Word, 
the Word was with God, the Word was God." SON OF GOD is for all 
practical purposes, as far as my finite mind can go back without 
beginning in that He is from the beginning and comes out from the 
beginning and it is He that is spoken of as that Living, Eternal Word 
who is in the beginning with God, the same with God, made flesh and 
all of that. And there is that view of Christ, there is that understanding 
of Christ as the SON OF GOD that we must have. 

But there is a view of Him as the SON OF MAN that is now beginning 
to break forth in the heavens, and it is that view that will have its 
manifestation in the earth - the view of Him as the SON OF MAN. And 
it is in this view that you and I have our relationship with Him and with 
the Father. It is only with Him as SON OF MAN that we have any 
relationship at all. Outside of that we have no relationship with Him, 
and I want you to see that. My thought now with regard to the SON OF 
MAN  is where does He come from? The SON OF MAN, where does 
He begin? Where is His beginning? How does He come forth? And the 
scripture has a great deal to say about that. 

Now perhaps it will help us to just turn our attention to Philippians the 
second chapter. I will say this, our relationship to Christ is much more 
intimate and personal than most believers dare to consider. And what 
we have been dealing with recently in the Lord's Body, is this ultimate 
view of our salvation, coming to God's ultimate intention with regard to 
you and I in His Son - coming to that. Now, if you come to that, then 
you will manifest it. That's like turning the light on, and nothing 
happening in the room. Well, the light is on, how come it's dark? Well, I 
don't know. Well honey, if the light's on, it's not dark. And to the degree 
that He is revealed in you, to that degree you are not dark. To that 
degree you are a light wherever you are. And you are a manifestation of 
Him in that measure, wherever you are. And if we are not a 
manifestation of Him in a particular way, it is because then we are not 
knowing Him in that way. 

There is a view coming into the heavens, and to just say that doesn't 
count for much, but maybe the Lord will enable us to gather some 
things up in that, and it will be more than me just saying it. There is a 
view, and the view that is coming forth is of Him, but it is of Him in an 
ultimate way - in a way that gathers up everything of salvation, 
everything of redemption. Within that is held forgiveness, restoration, 
reconciliation - all of these terms that relate - they are all gathered up in 
that. And the MAN that represents all of that is coming into view. The 
MAN I said that represents God's ultimate intention - the MAN - MAN 
- God has always looked to a MAN, and I'm not talking about an Adam 
man. Unto this man will I look. And God's whole ultimate intention has 
been to have for himself a dwelling place in such a man because only a 
MAN, in the true fashion of a MAN, can give God the true expression 
that He must have. Nothing else can do that. No other form can do that. 

So the ultimate view of everything that relates to salvation is to be seen 
IN AND AS A MAN. And it is there that we must find ourselves - not 
in the old way by any means, but in a new way, and a living way, where 
it is indeed to the furtherance, to the extreme, it is NOT I, BUT 
CHRIST! And such a view of Him is by the Spirit of God, and 
according to the pattern of God and the timing of God, beginning to 
make its appearance in the heavens. And He shall appear in the heavens 
before He ever has His appearing in the earth. And that appearing is all 
wrapped up in this term, SON OF MAN. 

Well, then it is this view of Christ that we are interested in because it is 
with Him in this view, that we are associated and related, and it is in this 
view of Him that we come to know salvation in its ultimate form and its 
ultimate intention. The firstborn of the new creation, the firstborn, the 
pattern of it, the fulness of it, the exactness of it is SON OF MAN. So 
now, let's approach it from this way - Philippians the second chapter, 
let's read verse 5. "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ 
Jesus." Now it is speaking here, in relating this mind. "Let this mind be 
in you..." It's all coming to the mind of Christ, being formed in the 
creation of Christ by the Holy Spirit. Paul deals with this as the 
renewing of the mind. He deals with this as Christ being formed in you. 
He deals with this as knowing as we are known - it is all the same thing. 
It is the coming to the fulness of the mind of Christ, or the fulness of 
the mind of the Spirit, or the fulness of Truth as the Truth is 
represented and personified in Him. 

The thing that caught my eye just now was the word "also" because the 
word "also" gathers it all up and says that it not only must be the same 
mind but it must be that mind in the same measure. We must 
understand this is what we're talking about here. Not just some view, 
but an ultimate view; not just His mind, but the fulness of it. 

Now folks, I'm telling you, we are being pressed by the Spirit - now I'm 
talking about in the heavens - those who are living there and dwelling 
there, and I have no comment on those who aren't, those who have 
passed over from death into life, those in whom the veil is done away. 
You see the Lord has corrected me on a lot of stuff. I started to say 
'Those who have passed through the veil.' Well now, that sounds good 
and preaches good and creates super saints. But the fact of the matter is 
you don't pass through the veil, for God's sake, the VEIL IS DONE 
AWAY!. He didn't pass through the veil - He rent the veil, and the veil 
is done away. We have all this stuff - "living beyond the veil." Well I 
would say, "living without the veil" - the veil is done away. It either is 
done away or it isn't. Now I know the veil remains upon many hearts, 
but I'm not dealing with that. I'm dealing with you in the reality of the 
Truth as it is in Christ. This is what I want us to hear - The Truth as it is 
in Christ because this is where the Holy Spirit is ministering, this is 
where He's bringing us folks. This is the whole intent, the whole thrust 
of the Spirit of God just now. So it is the view of Him that is coming to 
those who are passed from death unto life - to those in whom the veil is 
done away. And if you're still having trouble with the veil, then I am 
telling you, this is not the view for you, nor will you see Him in this 
way, because the veil will block it. But in reality, the veil is done away. 
What I mean by that is the veil is not found in Christ - it is done away in 
Him.

But for the veil to have been done away in you takes a little more than 
you just saying it was. There is the actuality of the veil being done away 
- because the veil is YOU and it is ME. The veil is the collective 
humanity. The veil in the tabernacle represented collective humanity - 
that's the thing that was rent. That's the thing that was done away. If it is 
still upon your heart it is because you are still seeing yourself in 
collective humanity - that veil that divides from what is actually the 
Glory of God! Well, that veil is not found in Christ. It is done away and 
those who have come in the development of the mind of Christ (in you, 
the renewing of the mind), those who have come from death unto life - 
that's what we're going to deal with - those who have come to an 
acknowledgment of the Truth (Paul uses these terms), because the 
Truth is the Truth whether I ever acknowledge it or not.

Israel couldn't cross over into Canaan not because Canaan wasn't there, 
but they would not acknowledge the Truth. And the biblical term for 
that is 'unbelief' - they wouldn't acknowledge the Truth. YOU PASS 
OVER IN THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE TRUTH. My Lord, 
surely we know that - what was standing out in the middle of the river? 
The Priesthood bearing what on their shoulders? Certainly not the 
brazen altar, but the Ark of the Covenant, which had summed up in it 
everything with regard to God's ultimate intention with regard to man. 
And they passed over in acknowledgment of the Truth, making the river 
Jordan certainly not the river of death at all, but the river of divine 
revelation or realization - everything that's ever come up out of it has 
come up in significance of divine revelation including the Lord Jesus! 
When He was baptized, came up out of it and the heavens were opened 
and He as the SON OF MAN, not as the SON OF GOD, but as the 
SON OF MAN was recognized by His Father.

Now, He was recognized by the Father as the SON OF GOD when He 
was born of a virgin. But He was recognized as the SON OF MAN at 
the river Jordan. Furthermore, it was as the SON OF MAN that He was 
tested. He was recognized as the SON OF MAN on the Mount of 
Transfiguration because there is the ultimate view of this man. That was 
demonstrated before the Church and shall be demonstrated in the midst 
of the Church in all that the term 'demonstration' could possibly sum up 
and mean. Divine, heavenly demonstration - that the church may be 
clothed upon with him! The ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

So there is a view for those who have by the acknowledgment of the 
Truth passed from life unto death. Now this has been an unusual several 
months in our travelling within the Lord's Body. Because I've had to 
stand in places that I've stood in for years, look at people that I've know 
for years, and realize that while I was there maybe for the week, that a 
good percentage of those people understood nothing of what I was 
saying. Because I've been forbidden of the Lord to go back to the first 
view I dealt with for thirty years - that view of Him that actually brings 
you from death unto life - that view of Him that actually does away with 
the veil. I've watched people for thirty years fight that view and throw 
tantrums about it because it is the bloody view of the cross. Now we 
never get away from the view of the cross, but it changes from death to 
life. But I have dealt for thirty years with people who have just wanted 
to get on by the death and get in to the life, and in theology that got by 
the death and got into the life, but they never passed over. They've 
jumped over into the terminologies,  and I've seen the perversions of it 
until it has made me sick. And I have seen also those who have come to 
that view of the cross and have camped on it there and have just made 
that their gospel - THE OLD MAN IS DEAD! Yes, indeed he is. 
Whether or not any of us have ever embraced that or not, he is. Now, 
you have to come to the acknowledgment. That whole thing has to take 
place in the center of your heart and it is just as real in you at that time 
as it was on Golgotha - just as real, just as dynamic, just as sure, just as 
painful, just as absolute. 

Now I'm not talking about a theology. I'm talking about an experiencing 
of Him. Because whatever view you have of Christ, you will experience 
Him in that view. Now, I know we all want to experience His Glory, but 
you will experience none of it until you have experienced Him in His 
Death. So let's just hang on to that because if we're going to have an 
experiential salvation, then we're going to experience the whole thing. 
You are going to experience HIS DEATH, you're going to experience 
HIS BURIAL, you're going to experience HIS RESURRECTION, and 
His Resurrection is NOT you and me coming forth in any way at all. 
You're going to experience the realization of knowing that there isn't 
anybody who lives here, but HIM! And that's a whole lot different than 
experiencing JW coming forth in the Resurrection because he's tired of 
the death message.

Well, you can do that but you haven't really passed over. You've, like 
Israel, you've tried to do it in your own way, and it won't work. You've 
looked over - you know, all these types are there. But there was finally a 
passing. And it was in the acknowledgment of everything the Ark of the 
Covenant symbolizes, and the Ark of the Covenant symbolizes it all - it 
symbolizes the death, the burial, the resurrection; it symbolizes the 
judgment, it symbolizes the glory, it symbolizes it all. You don't skip any 
of it. All of this has had to be an acknowledgment - AN 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRUTH. And I'm simply saying that, and 
I'm not counting heads, I just have come to realize in the Spirit from 
place to place there are folks who are not getting this, and I realize that 
in many cases they are folks who have sought to short-cut the cross in 
some way or another. Or they have come to just believe that the whole 
of the Gospel is just getting Adam dead. Well, God is interested in a 
little more than just getting Adam dead - there's a little more to it than 
that. 

Now until you and I come to really realize that, I suppose there isn't any 
more to it. But having acknowledged that, there's a whole lot more. And 
that is THE LIVING CHRIST! My point is that before you can view 
Him in this view and really associate with Him as SON OF MAN, you 
have to come in acknowledgment of the Truth. You have to come the 
same way He came. There's no shortcut. So - Philippians 2:5 - "Who, 
being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God, 
but made Himself of no reputation, took upon Him the form of a 
servant, (this word 'form of a servant' and 'form of God' - the word 
'form' is exactly the same. But there was an absolute change of form 
here.) was made in the likeness of man, (that means mankind, Adam is 
the correct translation), and being formed as a man (again Adam), he 
humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the 
cross."

Now, that's where I want to pick up because it is here that we are really 
first brought to grips with the SON OF MAN. If we had a diagram of 
the "Old Man" we'd put him on one side. I would just like to sum up all 
of humanity, with our names there. I found out years ago "the old man" 
wasn't an affliction I had, it was me! Humanity - Adam. "Obedient unto 
death.." How many of you know that the old man is dead and has 
always been dead - dead in sin. Yes, dead. I mean absolutely dead, 
having no life - dead. I mean absolutely dead, having no life - dead. 
And he has been under that promise of God that thou, "In the day that 
you eat...thou shalt surely die." The writer of Hebrews says it is a time 
appointed unto man. "It is appointed unto man once to die..." Once - 
once and for all - to die. Now. "He (Christ) became obedient unto 
death, even the death of the cross." - the ultimate death. What a 
glorious death. There was a time that I looked at the cross and the only 
thing I saw was the old man dead. But you see, the old man is dead, 
whether there ever was a cross or not. Death reigned from Adam unto 
Moses and the administration of Moses simply highlighted it. Then what 
in the world took place at the cross? Well, it's an altogether different 
death. Yes sir, it is called HIS DEATH. Paul specifically calls it HIS 
DEATH. There has never been one like it - HIS DEATH, HIS 
BURIAL, HIS RESURRECTION. There isn't any other resurrection, 
there isn't any other death either like that. 

Well, what of Adam? Well, he's dealt with there in judgment. Let's turn 
to John 3. When we get through we'll have one man left, and that's the 
SON OF MAN. John 3 verse 13, "No man (no man) hath ascended up 
to heaven but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man 
which is in heaven, and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the 
wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up." Now the 
interesting thing about this whole story here is this term "lifted up". The 
term "lifted up" as we'll find out in the 12th chapter means "exalted up 
out of the earth." My attention was just drawn to that by the Spirit of 
God sometime back and so I spent some time with that. And the 
conclusion of my time with that was that this is not signifying what I had 
previously associated with the cross as death. It's not signifying what I 
had previously associated with the cross, period. The cross had never 
been to me, a place of exaltation. Now I have used a circle in 
diagramming to show the risen Christ and just exalted that to pieces - 
that's the exaltation. And the cross had always seem to me a very 
despicable thing. And in the mind of most believers today it still is. 
That's why we have so many trying to dodge it, and preach sermons 
about it who have never experienced it, saying we've got to get beyond 
it. 

There is a MAN exalted.  Now I know Jesus speaks of this, and I know 
all of His words, and I've gone back and looked them all up and I've 
searched them out, and I'm sure you will do the same thing. I'm telling 
you, here - at the cross is where the SON OF MAN is finally seen. Now 
I know that the Lord refers to the SON OF MAN in several places, but 
if you look carefully at what He's saying, you'll always be able to draw a 
direct arrow from it to the CROSS. You just go back and see if I'm not 
telling you the truth. I don't care where it is. Here is where the whole 
thing, even this one who came up out of Jordan, symbolically there, of 
one who is crossing from death unto life - in the acknowledgment of the 
Spirit, the heavens are opened, and God is saying, "THIS IS MY 
ULTIMATE SON, THIS IS THE ULTIMATE." The Lord Jesus was 
there prefiguring, prefiguring, forerunning the very ultimate work of 
salvation - which is the SON OF MAN - One who comes forth by 
death, by burial, by resurrection - THAT ONE IS THE SON OF 
MAN. No other can qualify as being the SON OF MAN. Jordan 
represented the realization  of death, burial, resurrection. Jordan for 
Israel represented not death, but the realization of death, burial, 
resurrection. All of that had already been represented by the house with 
the blood, by the burial in the Red Sea, by all of that and in the 
tabernacle. But the realization, the acknowledgment of it is seen at 
Jordan. 

So it was with Naaman in his dipping seven times. It's always the place 
of the acknowledgment of the Truth, and when that happens, A NEW 
MAN ALWAYS APPEARS! Always! And He appears in TRUTH! 
And at the Jordan a New Man appears, the forerunner, the person of 
the SON OF MAN but one who would bring forth many of his own 
kind. "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth 
alone, but if it does, bringeth forth much of itself." Now, that's why I 
say 'forerunner' - because He doesn't live alone here - He lives, but He 
doesn't live alone. He only lives, but He doesn't live alone. HE LIVES 
IN INCREASE. This Man (SON OF MAN) is the full work of what 
the forerunner was a foretaste of. Because this man, the SON OF MAN 
is the fulness of the forerunner. Jesus kept saying that all the time. He 
could only do so much, only say so much, only go so much, but not the 
one that is to come - NO - He'll not be so limited. Hallelujah to God! It's 
the same one, the same one - just multiplied - just in absolute increase. 
Now that has a note of Glory about it, but it also has a note of 
solemnity. Because honey, He's the One. HE'S THE ONLY ONE! And 
this One is not like Adam. This One experienced the cross - for the 
purposes of death that He may bring forth a body that would never die. 
HALLELUJAH!

See, what I'm trying to tell you is He bore the judgment of it all - He 
was obedient. He didn't go there disobedient. He was obedient and He 
bore the judgment of that, and He bore the shame of that, but He did it 
for the joy that was set before Him. And the joy was there as well, 
because what I'm trying to tell you is that there is a death that is DEAD 
IN SIN, DEAD BY SIN, and nothing good ever comes out of that. And 
at the cross that death was sealed and pronounced and judgment came 
upon mankind - judgment came them. That's why when you and I come 
in Christ to the acknowledgment of that - that's why, My God, see, the 
judgment that He took, you bear in your heart, against the man you 
were by your first birth. Do you understand? You come to an 
acknowledgment  of everything that the Son of God acknowledged, and 
bore on the cross, and all of that acknowledgment is with regard to the 
old man being no more. The veil - MAN - Man, the veil that blocks out, 
hides, shades, shields the Glory of God, which is what this Man - THE 
SON OF MAN, the New Creation, is. I will tell you that this is God in 
His Glory! This is not God having made a masterpiece and standing 
over there looking at it - this is God in the midst of His masterpiece. 
This is God in His Glory! This is John 17. This is God appearing in His 
Glory - that's what this Man is (the New Creation). And, oh, the 
solemnity of that, that means you and I can't be found there as we are in 
the old creation. 

We're not dealing with matters of theology here - we're dealing with the 
reality of Christ. We're dealing with the experiencing, we're dealing with 
the renewing of the mind - a genuine, absolute God-ordained, Holy 
Ghost stamped renewing. I don't mean a changing of attitudes - I mean 
a renewing of the mind. I mean an acknowledging of the Truth whereby 
we pass from death unto life. We who? We who are in Christ! There 
are many who are in Christ who in their hearts, and because of lack of 
acknowledgment of Truth, they have not yet passed from death unto life 
- they still see themselves in and as the old man, trying to live like Jesus. 
They have not passed from death unto life - not in their hearts. They 
have not done so according to the teaching here of John 5 verse 24, 
"Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth my words and believeth 
on him that sent me, hath everlasting life and shall not come to 
condemnation but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily I say 
unto you the hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the 
voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live." HALLELUJAH! 
And the only voice that the SON OF MAN hears is the voice of the 
Son of God.

All right, "obedient unto death..." Let's go to John 12 verse 23 and 24. 
"The hour is come that the Son of Man should be glorified." What is 
this business - that He should be glorified? Here the SON OF MAN is 
glorified. Both of these types are shown in the Lord Jesus - one at the 
Jordan, one at the Mt. Transfiguration. But that He should be glorified - 
He is glorified (in the New Creation) in that there are many, all who are 
One. Now is the time that the SON OF MAN be glorified, but He says 
except it be done this way, it can not be done - except through death, 
burial and resurrection. "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground 
and die, it abideth alone..." And in this is all His Death, His Burial, His 
Resurrection. Now I want to emphasize to you - Adam has nothing to 
do with this! That's the judgment you and I have got to come to, and 
too many of us in Christ, have not yet come to that judgment. Now see, 
the SON OF MAN, coming forth in His Glory, shall bring that 
judgment right into the earth. Why? Well, because He is by that 
judgment, He is of that judgment, He has been judged by that 
judgment. He bears that judgment. But the judgment is against this man 
(Adam) and it is that this man Adam does not exist. And if he does in 
our hearts, I'm telling you if he still does, we're not seeing the Glory of 
God, because the veil has been done away in Christ. We're not seeing 
our union with Christ as this Son. It is impossible for Adam to have an 
inheritance with the SON OF MAN - there is no kinship for Adam in 
Christ. And I can't make that judgment concerning me until He appears 
in me, and that which is not Him is blatantly revealed. Thank God it's 
also done away with in the light of His appearing.

But what I'm telling you if there is that veil still in you, then we are not 
in line for the view of this SON OF MAN. And it is this Son who is 
being revealed in the midst of the Church. But notice the Church there 
is referred to as seven and as gold. My point is there is this One - the 
SON OF MAN - to be revealed in the midst of the Church - that the 
Church might fully identify with and assume the identify of this One - 
Bear The Name. "He that loveth his life shall lose it..." I'm telling you, 
that's about as simple as it can be said. "He that hateth his life in this 
world..." See, I could never really say that. Every time I would say that 
word 'hate' it would be kind of tongue-in-cheek. Well, God didn't really 
mean that. And of course, we hear most of our ministry today, and 
particularly in what we would call the "mainstream", have that love-
consciousness about them, that we can't hate anybody. But God hates 
the old man, and hates the flesh, and when we come to view our life 
here (in Christ), we will come to hate it too. You will hate anything that 
is cursed of God and hung on the cross - you will come to hate it. 

You see our carnal idea of this is, "put second" - no - that means hate. It 
doesn't mean "put second", it means "reckoned non-existent". It means 
that we must understand it is an enemy of God, at enmity with God, 
hung on the cross in the body of His Son, the entire wrath and 
judgment of God comes upon it and it is to be hated and despised. And 
until we come to that, we will never come to the fulness of love, nor will 
we ever be able to manifest true love to anybody. Now darling, what I'm 
telling you is changing from one creation to another one; acknowledging 
- we have presented this in light of the Word as Regeneration . Here is 
one generation - here is another one - regeneration. They haven't got 
anything to do with one another. And we follow Jesus in the 
regeneration. In the Bible "regeneration" in Matthew 19 simply means 
"the restoration of all things, reconciliation of all things, restitution of all 
things". And Jesus is saying, if you follow me, in the regeneration when 
the SON OF MAN is seated in His throne - lots to be said there. We 
won't wade off there, but the point that I'm making is it is absolutely, 
totally different one from the other. And more so, my little statement 
that I read to you in the beginning- most of us have not even dared to 
consider our relationship with Him. See, we're always wanting to get 
Adam linked up to Him and then it becomes a perverted, perverse, ugly, 
sorry thing. Because then it's man, trying to be God, man playing God, 
and it gets spooky. That's not what we are talking about. We are talking 
about the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRUTH that will strip you 
down to the bone and leave nothing standing there to be clothed upon - 
but CHRIST! Now we are talking about that - THE 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

So here, judgment comes. John 12 verse 30. "Jesus answered and said, 
This voice is not because of me but for your sakes. Now is the 
judgment of this world..." and the term 'world' there means mankind, 
the inhabited world. It's not talking about an age - that which pertains to 
space, not time; order - the order of mankind. "Now is the judgment of 
this order. Now is the judgment of this world". Thank God there's a 
world to come - this world (New Creation). The writer of the Hebrews 
says "the world to come of which we speak". Wouldn't it be wonderful 
if that was the only world of which we spoke? "The world to come of 
which we speak..." isn't given to angels but to MAN, but we know it's a 
different kind of MAN, don't we? It's the MAN that we're brought 
forth. But where is the beginning of that Man?

Hebrews 2, "But we see Jesus..." How do we see Him? We see Him 
"made a little lower..." Why? For Death! Why? Well, that He might 
bring many sons unto glory, and then relate to them as his brethren, not 
being ashamed. He's ashamed here (with the old man, at the cross). He 
was ashamed of his relationship there - He bore the shame, He bore the 
humility of it and He bore the shame of it. The Bible says He was 
ashamed of it, but there was a joy set before him. "Father, the Obedient 
Son will bear the judgment of the disobedient - in ME - in the body that 
you gave me I will bear the judgment of the death of mankind. In ME, 
mankind will be summed up and reckoned dead. According to your 
promise it will go no further than ME, I will obey." And He did. And 
honey, that's quite a judgment! I keep harping on it, but I know there 
are so few saints that have really ever faced that judgment - IN HIM! 
And until you do, you are not ready for what we are calling "the 
ultimate view of Him". Because that view is to those who look for Him, 
He shall appear. But there it is without sin, and there it is unto full 
salvation. And there it is unto full Glory. But honey, I must tell you, I 
AM NOT FOUND THERE. He is found there. It is this whole thing - 
HE, yes, revealed in you and I, but it is not you and I being revealed in 
Him. It is an acknowledgment of judgment and then it is a turning of the 
heart in a heavenly anticipation; knowing that until He who is our life 
appears, we will not, because we can not appear. 

Once you pass in your understanding, in your inner man, once your 
soul in that inner man, birthed of God for this self same purpose that we 
are called; once there you pass over the judgment in the view of 
salvation, once there is a crossing in the soul from death unto life, then 
there is only that glorious anticipation of His ultimate appearing; 
knowing that when " He who is our life shall appear, then shall we 
also appear with him in glory." Now that word doesn't say YOU shall 
appear also, it says you shall also appear - and there is a tremendous 
difference between 'you appear also' and 'you also appear'. Because the 
term "also" there simply or profoundly describes His appearing in you. 
The word "also" means "to the same degree, to the same measure, as 
one appearing, interchangeable with another." It does not mean that He 
appears, and then you appear too. No - He appears and YOU becoming 
the appearing of Him - IN GLORY!

My whole question now is, how many of us are ready to see Him in this 
appearing? Now, I know that we have dealt with Him in that appearing 
in that He appeared once in the end of the world (Hebrews 9) - 
appeared once in the end of the world to put away, to take away. "And 
as it was appointed unto man once to die, so Christ once died." And 
that's the view that we've had. And in preaching the cross, that's the 
view that we've preached, but there's a greater view of the cross than 
Adam being pronounced dead. There is HIS DEATH which is the true 
death of the SON OF MAN and it is not dead IN sin, under judgment. 
His death is a death TO sin. Hallelujah to God, and is without 
judgment. DEAD TO SIN. Do you understand what He did there? He 
died TO sin. Whatever your concept of the enemy, the devil, Satan, He 
(the SON OF MAN) died to him. He died to creation. See in the old 
creation, here is the whole handiwork of  Satan - as a man, as a 
creation, as an order, as a time - Satan is the god of this world, of the 
whole thing. Here in the SON OF MAN, here is a MAN who in his 
body, this whole thing had judgment passed upon it. But the SON OF 
MAN was exalted as if God said, "Look, the cross only leaves ONE. 
The cross only lifts up ONE."

It was like Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness - they didn't 
look at the snake and die, my God, they were dying already. They 
looked at the serpent and they lived! And whosoever will look will live. 
But it was a brass snake - see, JUDGMENT. And what is judgment? 
Well it is the dividing asunder of the living from the dead. And if you 
look you will live, and if you don't look you will reside among the dead. 
Why did Jesus reach over (John 3) and get that little obscure thing? You 
read back in your Bible, it doesn't take but a verse or two, almost 
insignificant, and yet, tremendously significant when the Lord brings it 
right over into His death. He says, "just like Moses exalted that 
serpent..." You see it came to me one time that Moses didn't grab a 
dead snake and hang him on the cross. The Lord spoke to me and said, 
"Who is it you see when you look at the cross?" I said "Adam, Adam is 
dead, Lord." I declared that forever. Yes, that's true, but who is it you 
see when you look at the cross? And I have been going through this - 
God has erased my blackboard. If you only see Adam dead you haven't 
seen the cross yet! I realized that Moses did not take a dead snake and 
put it on that pole - it was an altogether different snake. God didn't take 
a dead snake either. Why did he pull that little illustration out? Because 
most of us do not understand the true death of the cross. Most of the 
Church doesn't even understand the judgment of it - against Adam. 
Most believers have not come to that yet. How many have come to the 
realization of HIS DEATH, because Paul only unites you with HIS 
DEATH - if you're baptized into Him - "As many of us as were 
baptized into Christ were baptized into HIS DEATH?" That's got to be 
a different death. "Buried with Him, that like as Christ was raised up, 
we should walk in newness of life." That's got to be something different. 
"Knowing this, that the old man is dead..." Then it goes on, bearing this 
judgment - yes.

And then who are these "dead" that hear the voice of the Son of God 
and come forth in the last day? Certainly not the old man. Who was 
Lazarus a type of, when Jesus said, "This sickness is not unto death, 
but for the glory of God that the Son of God be glorified?" He hears a 
voice and he was dead. And yet Jesus said, "He's just asleep" and Jesus 
said the thing is not unto death - but Lazarus died! What is He talking 
about? All of a sudden I saw the end of the cross is not death and 
destruction, the end of the cross is ONE MAN REMAINING, HIGH 
AND LIFTED UP! My God, you talk about judgment coming into your 
heart - And if you look at Him - You will live. And we're going to look 
at Him! Ezekiel saw Him, Isaiah saw Him - it's this ONE that the 
forerunner, our forerunner, which is Christ, brought this one forth, and 
He brought him forth in His Death,  and in His Burial and in His 
Resurrection.  This ONE is here - John saw Him - standing in the midst 
of the Church. When John wanted to know who He was, who did He 
say He was? THE FIRST AND THE LAST - THE FIRST AND THE 
LAST OF THIS NEW CREATION - it's an order of time being spoken 
of, dealing with a new age. "I'M THE FIRST AND THE LAST!" Who 
are you? "I AM HE THAT LIVETH, WAS DEAD, BUT I'M ALIVE 
FOREVERMORE." This MAN is the ONE who comes through His 
Death, His Burial, His Resurrection. That is the only way this Man can 
get there. This New Creation Man wasn't translated off the earth, this 
Man got off the earth through death, burial and resurrection - that's the 
way he got off the earth, that's the way he got out of the world, and 
that's the only way you can get out of the world. And that's the 
acknowledgment of Truth that must come into our hearts before we're 
ready for the ultimate view of Him. The view of Him - not the view of 
Adam - I'm not talking about him at all. I'm talking about you and I 
coming to view ourselves in His Death, His Burial, His Resurrection. 

For thirty years I preached that view - of His Death, His Burial, His 
Resurrection - it has nothing to do with Adam. I realize many times we 
got it confused with Adam, at least I did, but it has nothing to do with 
Adam. It had to do with a people coming to realize themselves - DEAD 
TO SIN - it doesn't mean "sin dead", it means I AM DEAD TO SIN. 
Paul says, "I glory in the cross whereby I am crucified to the world and 
the world is crucified to me." See that hasn't got anything to do with 
Adam. That has to do with you who have been baptized into Christ - 
when you were baptized into Him you were baptized into His Death. 
His is a death UNTO  - Read Romans 6. "In that He died unto sin, He 
died once. In that He liveth unto God... Likewise reckon ye yourselves 
to be dead indeed unto sin and alive to God through Jesus Christ." It's 
a totally different understanding. See, you are either DEAD IN SIN - 
dead, part of a creation that is dead and gone and not even recognized 
of God, or you're DEAD IN CHRIST TO SIN. Whether you've come 
to recognize it or not is the issue we're dealing with because Paul's 
question here is don't you know? "Know ye not, that as many of us ... 
dead to..." So here is a Man who is alive and dead - dead and alive! 
Here is a Man that the Lamb of God as though He were slain can raise 
right up in the middle of and give full testimony. Hallelujah - because 
He is dead to  one world and alive only to the other! 

Sweetheart, if you're dead to a thing it has no place in you, it can find 
no place in you. If you are just disgusted with it or tired of it - well... 
want to do better than it - well ... But if you're dead to it, I mean if in 
your heart of hearts you are dead to it, it has no place in you. This is a 
hard view, but most of the Church has not yet come to that view. And 
heaven is bringing in a greater view. Oh, DEAD to the thing, buried, 
and come forth where only ONE lives and He says, "I am the 
Resurrection. I am the Life." See the SON OF MAN comes forth by 
the Resurrection and in the Resurrection and understands who He is 
and where He came from. I AM HE THAT LIVETH - Oh, He bears 
that Name. I WAS DEAD. I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE.

My God, what a glorious view of Christ. What a glorious view of Him. 
So judgment passed upon man, and yet the SON OF MAN was exalted 
up out of the earth. He says it again here in John 12, "Now is the 
judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world is cast out." Well, 
yes, because there's no ground there, no ground left for him here - in 
the New Creation. It only has to be that I gave him ground in my heart 
through stupidity, but he has no rightful ground there. The knowing of 
Truth shall - it is as simple as "Resist... and he shall flee..." for the truth 
is the enemy has no rightful ground there. Because this Man - the SON 
OF MAN - the New Creation in Christ did not come forth out of 
disobedience as the old creation did and give him ground. This One is 
only here because of obedience. Not only obedience unto death bearing 
that whole thing unto the final judgment of God but even the death of 
the cross whereby He died TO it all. And was able to say, "Father, into 
thy hands I commend my spirit." For you will not suffer your Holy One 
to see corruption. This sickness is not unto death, it's unto the Glory of 
God that the SON OF GOD may be glorified. 

I mean He went in there saying give me three days and I'll build it again. 
Glory to God! No ifs, ands, buts, maybes about it - bringing forth a 
New Creation in absolute obedience. ONE that is totally alien from the 
first. What I'm saying is there are these two views of Him. One view 
associating us with the true death of the cross - which is me dying to sin 
- TO, TO, TO - but being alive to God through HIM, by HIM, in HIM, 
of HIM. And then there is that view of Him in Glory - that actually 
transforms into His same image - this view is the coming of the SON 
OF MAN. His coming is as light, lightning. Now that coming is going to 
be manifested but His coming is as light. He comes and His coming is in 
His own and it is as light. We want to look at the SON OF MAN - here 
is our relationship with Him. This is where we relate, because though it 
is He only, it is not He alone - it is HE GLORIFIED! And the only thing 
that keeps you from seeing that Glory is if the veil of flesh is still on 
your heart - if you're still looking at the wrong man. 

Now you don't just call one the other and make it so - no - that veil that 
is done away, has to be in your heart truly taken away. And it is taken 
away with all the violence of the cross, and in all the judgment that the 
SON OF MAN himself brought upon it. But after that, you are at a 
glorious liberty and that liberty is to see Him in His Glory! That you 
may behold the Glory of the Lord and be changed into that same image. 
See for so often we have reckoned the death of Adam with that 
scripture, but it has nothing to do with that. If you are still wrestling with 
that, there isn't any transformation taking place. There is still the 
working of a judgment that we are resisting - and most are. But when 
we quit resisting the judgment and allow the judgment to take place and 
find ourselves dead TO, then we can hear His voice and we can live. "I 
will raise them up the last day." - COME FORTH.

What a glorious view awaits those who will turn their hearts to see Him. 
Never a view like this has presented itself on so grand a scale. While I'll 
have to admit there are pioneers in every age who pressed through and 
got glimpses, we're talking about a revealing that shakes heaven and 
earth and brings HIM forth in glorious manifestation. And that view is 
coming forth in the heavens to those who have passed from death unto 
life! 





                                    SON OF MAN by J W LUMAN - LESSON 
2


Let's turn to Matthew 19. We mentioned in our last lesson this term 
"regeneration" as dividing the old generation from the new generation. 
There is actually only two places in the New Testament where the 
Greek word used is translated "regeneration". That is in Matthew 19 
and Titus 3:5. The Greek word is 'paliggenesia' and it means "recovery, 
renovation, it involves the idea of not only new birth stressing spiritual 
life, but it involves the thought of the inception of a new state of things 
in contrast to the old state of things. It refers to recovery in the sense of 
an absolute renovation". And that's where we come up with the term 
"new heaven and new earth" - qualitatively new, renewed. It also has to 
do with the term "restoration" of all things. 

Matthew 19:28 - "Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you that you 
which have followed me (and in the original it has "all who do follow 
me") in the regeneration, (that is in the restoration of all things) when 
the SON OF MAN shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also shall sit 
upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." What we are 
interested in now is this term "regeneration" - or the restoration of all 
things when the SON OF MAN shall sit in the throne of his glory. And 
I want to make the statement that regeneration, a new generation, is 
summed up in this ONE MAN. There is a whole generation summed up 
in Him. And in Him all things are recovered - everything that is lost is 
found, not only recovered, but recovered in the fullest sense of that 
term which means "renewed". An absolute renewal takes place so that 
while the old heaven and the old earth are lost to us, a new heaven and 
a new earth - a new concept, a new understanding of heaven and earth 
are found in Him. And it's that understanding that we are going to deal 
with now - this concept of what regeneration is all about and who is the 
center and summation of it - who is the definition of it - in whom is it all 
accomplished. 

In looking at this let's turn to Acts 3:19 - "Repent ye therefore and be 
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of 
refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord." Now Peter is 
just bringing an Old Testament passage into view here. "And he shall 
send Jesus Christ which was before preached unto you, whom the 
heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things..." The 
term "restitution of all things" relates to the recovery, the renovation, the 
restoration and relates to the term "regeneration". "And he shall send 
Jesus Christ which was before preached unto you, whom the heaven 
must receive until the times of restitution of all things which God has 
spoken by the mouth of all of his holy prophets since the world began." 
And what that is referring to is the restitution of all things which 
restitution has been spoken of by all of the prophets. It simply means 
that throughout Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel there is a tremendous 
restoration that is spoken of - the restoration of Israel, the recovery of 
Israel, of all that the canker worm has eaten - it's one continual 
restoration throughout the Bible, one total recovery program that has 
been spoken of. And Peter is simply bringing this into view and he is 
saying here is the ONE in whom all of this is to be recovered and that in 
the recovery of all  things, in the restitution of all things, He shall sit, He 
shall place His throne. His throne shall be the center of such a creation, 
of such a generation. And Jesus in Matthew 19 is simply saying that you 
who follow me, when all things are recovered, and I am in the center of 
all things, when you see the SON OF MAN, when you shall come to 
see Him sitting in His throne of glory, you come to realize that all things 
are recovered in Him. Then you will become administrators of that 
government, and you will exercise His authority. Now that's basically 
what this verse is saying. 

So what we are seeing now unfolded in the heavens in this view that we 
are talking about is just that. We are seeing, coming to see, coming to 
realize all things recovered in Him. In other words we are finding 
everything in Him and this is the truth of regeneration - finding all 
things recovered - coming to that understanding; coming to view the 
restoration in Him; coming to view the regeneration in Him; coming to 
find all things recovered but recovered in the full sense that means 
renovated, or all things made NEW. Hallelujah! ALL THINGS MADE 
NEW IN HIM!

Let's turn to Romans 8, verse 18 - "For I reckon that the sufferings of 
this present time are not worthy to be compared with the GLORY..." 
Now we're speaking of the SON OF MAN coming to be seated in the 
throne of his glory. "...not worthy to be compared with the GLORY 
which shall be revealed in us..." Now we're not going to deal with the 
rest of this. It deals with the earnest expectation of the creature that 
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. "But the glory which 
shall be revealed in us" is what we're looking at. Verse 25 - "But if we 
hope for that which we see not, then we do with patience wait for it." 
Now the word "hope" here is properly translated "expectation". If that 
glory is our expectation - if that's the thing we are expecting, then we do 
with patience wait for it. Now "patience" is a big term but simply means 
"the ability to in all things wait on the coming of the Lord." The perfect 
work of patience is the coming of the Lord - until the Lord comes. If 
you have exercised patience in prayer, then you have prayed until the 
Lord has come, or appeared in a matter. 

Most of us just pray until 'we get through'. Or we set us a little program 
of praying for 15 minutes every morning, or an hour a day or 5 hours a 
day or 5 times a week - No - in all things, if our expectation is this glory 
which shall be revealed in us, and the glory which shall be revealed in us 
is very simply seeing all things fully recovered in Him, in the 
regeneration; in the recovery of all things, you and I coming to see all 
things fully restored in Him; that glory which shall be revealed in us - 
the restoration of all things - then we do with patience wait for it. The 
Holy Spirit, verse 26, enters into this and begins to direct our whole 
mind and prayer life and spirit toward this. And in verse 28, there 
comes a great assurance into the hearts of those who have their mind set 
for such a glory. They come to understand that all things are working 
together toward that end. To them who are called according to his 
purpose and his purpose is realized in His Son! And what is his 
purpose? HIS PURPOSE IS THE BRINGING BACK IN CHRIST AS 
THE SON OF MAN EVERYTHING THAT WAS LOST. Jesus says 
it is the ministry of the SON OF MAN; it is the ministry of the SON 
OF MAN to save that which was lost. I come for the full recovery of 
what was lost. 

Well, what was lost? A Man was lost! A Man representing the creation 
of  God was lost. What is found? A MAN is found! A Man - SON OF 
MAN - see, it's a New Man. Here's where you and I relate. It's very 
difficult for me or you to relate to the SON OF GOD as the SON OF 
GOD - the I AM THAT I AM - the One who is the SON OF GOD 
whether I even exist or not, the One who was the SON OF GOD before 
I existed - the Eternal Word in the beginning. It's hard for us to relate to 
Him. So what did He do? Well, He took on Himself the form of a Man 
and He related to us! That by His Death, His Burial, His Resurrection 
WE may be able to relate to Him. Now in the midst of all that, God's 
promise for the Adamic creation was justified and executed. But the 
death of the SON OF MAN had far more to do than just seal the 
judgment of one creation - the old creation. The death of the SON OF 
MAN was purposed exclusively to bring forth a New Creation! Those 
who would come out from the old and into the new through His Death, 
His Burial and His Resurrection. Finding themselves to be in Christ 
dead to sin, buried to creation, raised up in One and raised up where 
only One lives - in His Resurrection. And it's God's full intention that in 
this Man - the New Man - the SON OF MAN - this Man that is not 
created of dirt, this Man that cometh by death, burial and resurrection, 
that the full expectation of God is set - upon this Man. The full purpose 
- those that are called according to his purpose - his purpose is a full 
recovery program in this Man - that this Man stand for everything that 
pleases God. 

And you have to understand that no man other than this Man can 
possibly please God. What I'm telling you is that only that Creation, 
only that Man who comes by death, burial and resurrection can possibly 
please God; can possibly be brought unto glory. Nothing that is not 
resurrected can be brought to glory! What is glory? Glory is ONENESS 
WITH God. Glory is UNITY WITH GOD. John 17 - Jesus says what 
glory is. He left glory so He knows what it is. But He left glory that He 
might bring many sons unto glory. He died, yes on the one hand to seal 
Adam's doom, but on the other hand to bring many sons unto glory - as 
the SON OF MAN. As the SON OF MAN He brings forth the SON 
OF MAN. As the SON OF MAN He brings forth a new mankind. My 
literal translation called Him the "SON OF MANKIND." But it's a new 
kind of Man. It's a fully recovered Man. At one Bible conference I dealt 
with that New Creation Man fully forgiven, fully restored and fully 
reconciled unto God through death, through burial, through resurrection 
- that's the only way that it can be done. 

What I want you to get a hold of - there is only one thought in all of my 
words - you must understand that this is the ONLY MAN that pleases 
God. I mentioned that as Jesus, the forerunner, comes up out of Jordan, 
it is there that He is first recognized as SON OF MAN. God says, "This 
is the Son that pleases Me." He is not declaring Him there as SON OF 
GOD as such, but as the SON OF MAN - as that One that heaven is 
opened to reveal; the One that comes up out of the Jordan; the One 
with whom we are associated through His Death, Burial , Resurrection; 
and the One who must be revealed of the Father. And then again on the 
Mount of Transfiguration representing the time of His Glory, of the 
restoration of all things, everything of His Glory - there He is. And once 
again in that setting - in the first setting all righteousness is fulfilled and 
summed up in Him. But in the second setting, everything that Elijah and 
Moses stand for is summed up in Him and everything that Peter, James 
and John stand for are summed up in Him. He is seen in GLORY and 
again the heavens are opened and the Father declares, "This is my Son." 
But the words then are "Hear ye Him - Hear Him." This is the only 
Man that pleases God, so what I'm trying to tell you is there is no way, 
as Adam; there is no way as to this first generation that you and I can 
possibly please God. It doesn't make any difference what I do or what I 
don't do - it really doesn't - except we come by His Death, Burial and 
Resurrection. The good news is that YOU HAVE COME by such a 
work.

You have come by His Death. "Know ye not..." That's the whole 
message of Paul - do you not understand? That as many as are baptized 
... see, you have come by that. Well, we who have come forth in Him, 
then must come to the acknowledgment, we must come to the 
regeneration. Let's bring Titus the third chapter in, verse 5. "Not by 
works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his 
mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the 
Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our 
Savior, that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs, 
according to the expectation (the hope) of eternal life." Well the 
expectation of eternal life is the same thing that we're talking about in 
Romans - it is just this - we are saved, we are brought forth in Him for a 
glorious purpose and in a glorious expectation. And that expectation is 
just this - that we would come in seeing Him and knowing Him - that 
we would come to realize the recovery of all things in Christ. That we 
would come to find IN HIM all things lost. That we would grow up into 
Him who is the Head.

We've said that many times, but the thing that we're saying about this is 
that regeneration, New Creation, the recovery - all of this back to 
Romans 8 - is to be FOUND and is to be REALIZED by you and I 
who are in Him, in the fulness of  HIM. Look at verse 29, "For whom 
He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the 
image of His Son, that He (that Son) might be the firstborn among 
many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate..." (those who He 
did foreknow. Who did He foreknow? Those who are in Christ!) What 
is His predestinated purpose with regard to those that are in Christ? His 
predestinated purpose for those that are in Christ is that they should be 
conformed to the image of His Son! Now that's part of the regeneration; 
that's part of the washing of regeneration. There's two powers at work 
here - one is the Word of Truth, one is the Spirit of Truth. We are 
washed by the Word of Truth through the exercise of the Spirit of 
Truth. And the washing is of the very Spirit of our mind. So the whole 
work of regeneration is you and I coming to see all things recovered in 
Christ. The whole work of regeneration is God bringing us into the view 
of His Son that He has. 

God seeing all things recovered in the Son, even you and I recovered, 
then through the washing of regeneration, through the Word of Truth 
and the Spirit of Truth combining, renewing our mind, opening the eyes 
of our understanding, the whole purpose is then God bringing us to see 
THIS MAN the way he sees Him. The first thing we come to see is our 
union with This Man. And that it is only in, of, through and as This 
Man that we are accepted of God. "Those that he did predestinate he 
called, he justified and he glorified." He's not going to call - he's called. 
Paul says "ye see your calling brethren." He justified, by the working of 
the cross. He glorified. Now this expectation that Paul says is that our 
whole expectation is set on this glory being revealed in us, when most of 
the Church's expectation is flying off somewhere - going to a better 
land. Paul says our expectation is set for this glory to be revealed - our 
whole expectation is here - IN HIM!

"We reckon the sufferings of this present time not worthy to be 
compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us". Well, what is 
that GLORY? In John 17 - now we just read here that He might be the 
firstborn so let's see who is this SON OF MAN. He is the firstborn. He 
is the firstborn of many. He is the firstborn of many not other than 
Himself, but of Himself. Colossians tells us the same thing. Colossians 
1:18 - "He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, 
the firstborn from among the dead, that in all things He might have the 
preeminence." The firstborn. Where did This Man come from? Now 
when I say "This Man" I'm not talking about someone other than you, 
but I'm talking about YOU in another way. I'm talking about YOU as 
you are in HIM. I'm talking about YOU. The ultimate view, the second 
view that we must come to - we who have come to a view of His 
involvement with us, must now come to a view of our involvement with 
Him. 

We who have come to a view of death, must now come to a view of 
life. And yet, the view of life is where only ONE lives, so there is still 
there the marks of His dying. We always will bear the mark of His 
dying, but it's time we come to the view of His living! - of His life. We 
must find our association not only in His Death, but in His Life! This is 
the greater view. This is the ultimate view. This is the view of glory. 
And it is a view only open to those who have found themselves 
associated with Him in His Death, His Burial and His Resurrection. But 
if you have suffered with Him - with death, burial and resurrection - 
those three days are all involved in the cross, then you shall be glorified. 
The Bible says if you suffer with Him, you'll be glorified with Him. This 
means follow Him in His sufferings; then you'll be found in His glory. 
Jesus says, "They that follow me, in the regeneration, in the restoration 
of all things, when the SON OF MAN is seated in His throne (is in full 
authority), then you will become administrators of that authority."

So again, this whole business of you and I in Christ, the whole working 
of the regeneration is actually one of the renewing of the mind. It is a 
work of the Word of Truth, the washing of the water of the Word, the 
washing of the water of regeneration; it is a working of the Word of 
Truth and the Spirit of Truth - the Holy Spirit. It is a renewing of the 
mind bringing us to see as God sees - bringing us to identify with Christ 
here in the heavens - to identify with Him in His glory. Now what is that 
glory? Again, John 17 - He says, "Father, glorify thou me with the 
glory that I had with you before the world was." What glory? Well He 
says "glorify me with Thyself - with thine own self" He goes on - the 
reason for this being that "I may be glorified in those thou hast given 
me." Then He goes on and says, verse 21, "That they may all be one, 
even as thou, Father art in me, and I in thee. That they also may be in 
us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." 

SUCH A GLORY! How significant it is of the ways of the enemy, the 
religious ways of the enemy to where it has almost totally been wiped 
out of the doctrine of Christianity, such a glory. And has been 
substituted for something like Disneyland off behind some planet and 
our whole of Christianity is that one day we're going to get to go there 
and set down and talk with Grandma forever, and fulfill all of my 
earthly lusts because though I'm poor and penniless here, man, there I 
will have streets made of pure gold. And we fail to understand that it 
speaks of the purifying of our faith and the walk thereby. But our whole 
attention has been diverted from a present reality to a future fantasy. 
But when He, THE SON OF MAN appears, it all changes, and I'm 
telling you we have come to the hour, to the day, to the time, to the 
moment of HIS APPEARING! Hallelujah! Heaven is ready for it. Earth 
is ready for it. Everything is ready for it. I'm not saying expecting it - I'm 
saying ready for it. It's come to that. The Scriptures have all been 
fulfilled up to that. It's coming. 

That coming is not as most expect. Matthew and  Luke tell us that that 
coming - the coming of the SON OF MAN is as lightning, it is as light - 
it shineth. His coming is first, although I have no doubt His coming will 
have its manifestation in the earth, His coming is in heaven. His coming 
is as lightning that shineth and it doesn't say it's as lightning that strikes 
the earth. I was watching the news the other night, the weather and this 
weather man asked what is the most frequent kind of lightning? Is it 
cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-earth or earth-to-cloud? Well, it's cloud-to-
cloud - it's that lightning that never touches the earth. This is what the 
Bible refers to as "the coming" and I'm telling you that the word 
"coming" there as in Matthew is translated as "the presencing" - so shall 
be the presence of the SON OF MAN. It is in heaven - and it is as light. 
And the whole heaven lights up - it's tremendous - as lightning that 
shineth from one part of heaven to the other part of heaven is what the 
Bible says. 

And then the "sign" of His coming shall appear - in Heaven. And then 
He shall come in clouds of heaven. The coming of the SON OF MAN 
that we read about is in Heaven. He is coming to be seen by those who 
look for Him. "LIFT UP YOUR EYES, YOUR REDEMPTION 
DRAWETH NIGH." It's already complete, but draweth nigh. Lift up 
your eyes, your regeneration is upon you. Lift up your eyes, you're 
about to see the SON OF MAN setting in His Glory and you're about to 
become administrators of that glory. Hallelujah!

Everything. He's the firstborn of this thing. He's the first of it and the 
last of it, He is the only begotten of it. Yes, He is the only begotten of 
the Father. He is the Father's Own Son! Think about that folks. Because 
you're coming to see your union with Him, but in doing that, you're 
going to see everything that here (in the old creation, in Adam) is lost, 
you're going to see it all here (in Christ, in the New Creation) - found. 
But before you can ever see it found, it must eternally be lost to you. 
For you're not going to find "your" life here in Christ, but HIS LIFE IN 
YOU, here. You're not going to find anything here in Christ, but a new 
earth, a new heaven, a New Creation. Everything that was lost is fully 
restored. 

This business of "all things". That's what we want to look at. Now there 
have been those that have looked into this matter and have come away 
seeing themselves. They have never seen this most excellent Man there. 
They've simply taken His Name, and applied it to themselves. And they 
have simply taken all that He stands for and applied it to themselves. 
And it's because they have not come by His Death, His Burial, His 
Resurrection - they've preached it, but they haven't come by it. They 
have never in their inner man truly experienced themselves DEAD - 
absolutely dead. So they have never really known the joy of  "NOT I, 
BUT CHRIST!" they've never really known the joy of Resurrection. 
They've never really known the joy that it's not me, it's HIM! They've 
never really known that joy - and they're preaching and they're teaching, 
and their testimonies will betray that fact. Because they've always got 
themselves in the picture. I don't care how beautiful the picture is, 
sooner or later it has the ugly stink of flesh about it - sooner or later it 
will have the mark of the beast appear on it. I know what I'm talking 
about. Matthew 23 is full of this - warning, warning, warning and 
Matthew 24 - of 'abomination of desolation' which simply means right 
before the SON OF MAN appears in heaven, appears in His own Holy 
Sanctuary, right before that the abomination of desolation is going to 
appear and try to take His place. Just before the great and glorious 
unveiling of the ultimate view of Christ as SON OF MAN, the 
abomination of desolation, the ugliness of man trying to be God. And 
it's got to be a religious thing because he's appearing in the house of 
God - the temple of God. And he appears with a voice and with power 
and authority so much so that if this time were not shortened by the 
Lord Himself, if this time were not shortened, that even the very elect, 
the Bible says, would be deceived. 

Now that shows you the power of the perversion of Truth. There is no 
power in something that is just utterly not true, but to take a truth and 
pervert it, there's much power in that. And great tribulation of those 
days speak of a time that we are coming into, where it is said "Here is 
Christ" or There is Christ" or "Over there is Christ" and that's when it 
says, "But be not deceived, because His coming is as lightning in the 
heavens..." His coming is in the heavens, and to those that have their 
heart turned to see Him. What I'm saying is that everything, all things 
are recovered, and the whole work of regeneration is you and I coming 
to find all things recovered IN HIM. There are those who would take 
this term "all things" and apply them to this old creation over here. And 
they say "all", the Bible says "all things". Yes - the Bible says "all 
things" with reference to all things IN CHRIST, because that's where 
God recognizes "all things". So we take the term 'forgiveness', 
'restoration', 'reconciliation' and bring it outside of Christ and you get in 
trouble with it. Because you have them saying God is going to reconcile 
all things - NO - he already has. You get off on dangerous doctrines 
there, doctrines of hell, I call them.

I want to tell you something. Anything that is not already reconciled by 
the blood of Christ is never going to be. What I'm telling you is there 
isn't any other way. There isn't any other way to come except the way 
you and I have come because that is the only way He's provided - there 
isn't any other way. Everything He's already reconciled - He's already 
reconciled all mankind - and it's right here - IN HIS SON. This is the 
only Man - His Man - This is His Man, fully reconciled, fully 
recovered, fully forgiven. You are either part of That Man, or you don't 
exist. God is fully satisfied with that - it's done! You and I, when we 
come to the view of it - when will we become ministers of 
reconciliation? When we come to understand that every man who is in 
Christ is a NEW CREATION, old things are done away, behold all 
things are made NEW. Where? IN CHRIST JESUS! Who has given to 
us this word of reconciliation. There isn't any other word of 
reconciliation except declaring all things recovered in Christ. All things 
recovered, you see all things that were lost in a man are all recovered in 
a Man. But it's not recovered as it was lost, it's much more. The one fell 
short of glory, the other is in GLORY - the other IS GLORY! The one 
fell in disobedience, this whole creation was brought forth by the 
obedience of One. "Obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." 
Whereby we have become part by His Death, His Burial, His 
Resurrection - that we may come to know Him in His Glory. That the 
glory may be revealed. We are here for a purpose of glory! We are here 
to behold Him in His Glory! That the whole earth may be filled with the 
knowledge of that glory, by the administration of that glory. 

ALL THINGS ARE FULLY RECOVERED IN THIS MAN. Until you 
and I come to see that, until there is a renewing of our minds through 
the washing of regeneration, the renewing of the Holy Spirit; when we 
come to see Him seated in His throne, in His Authority in glory; until 
we come to the acknowledgment of the Truth as it is in Christ. And 
that's what the present move of the Holy Spirit is all about saints, it's all 
about the coming of the SON OF MAN	. It's all about His 
appearing. It's about us coming to find all things fully restored and 
recovered in Him. 

"Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we shall be changed 
from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord." See, here is one 
mirror, glass, and over here is another. You and I are continually 
beholding ourselves in the wrong mirror. We are looking at each other 
and we are comparing ourselves among ourselves. I look at humanity 
and I call myself a human. And I say I'm doing just as well as so-and-so. 
There's my mirror (in the flesh, of the old creation), but there is a 
greater mirror. Ezekiel calls it the 'marah' of God - the VISION OF 
GOD. In the book of Ezekiel the first chapter describes that marah as a 
Man - a Man most glorious, a Man who is the summation of a New 
Creation, a Man who is seated upon and in the throne - a throne 
dweller, and he describes that Man as the APPEARANCE OF THE 
GLORY OF GOD. And we know that the word 'marah' means not only 
the act of seeing, but the appearing of the thing seen - the appearing of 
the one seen. Where does He appear? HE APPEARS IN YOU! When? 
WHEN YOU SEE HIM! It's all the same - the opening of the eyes of 
our understanding; the glory of God being revealed in us; when He who 
is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. We 
look into this mirror - we see HIM - but not only the act of seeing, but 
there is the appearing of the One that we see. We look into this mirror 
and we become what we see. We look into this mirror and we become 
the appearing of the One we see. Beholding as in the mirror, as in the 
glass. But who is it that we are seeing here?

It's the whole thing. Who is it? In Whom? Who are we seeing? We are 
seeing HIM. Who is He? He is the SON OF MAN in this coming. HE 
IS THE SON OF MAN. And in Him all things are fully recovered. And 
they are only fully recovered in Him. You can't try to take forgiveness, 
reconciliation, restoration outside of Him - it won't work. It's got to be 
embraced IN HIM. Let our hearts turn to see that all things ARE 
recovered in Him and look for His appearing - THE SON OF MAN.




                                      SON OF MAN - BY J W LUMAN - 
LESSON 3


The only man God indwells is that Man that is brought forth in the 
death, burial and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, making Him 
the Cornerstone - the thing, the one, the person upon which and up in 
which everything else is building. Paul just referring to that in Ephesians 
2 says "Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, 
Jesus Christ himself, being the chief cornerstone, IN WHOM, all the 
building fitly framed together groweth into a holy temple in the Lord. 
IN WHOM ye are also builded for a habitation of God through the 
Spirit." Not only upon whom, but in whom. Hallelujah! The 
cornerstone therefore becoming the stone of the building. I mean not 
only built upon Him, but built up in Him - in whom ye are builded for a 
habitation of God. 

We have been dealing with a most glorious view of Him and it is 
actually the view to which all the Church, all that is in Him, must come. 
It is the coming view of Him. And in dealing with that view, we've been 
dealing with the view of Him in GLORY. You who follow me, He says, 
in the regeneration, in the recovery of all things, when the SON OF 
MAN is set down in His throne of glory - well, that's the view we've 
been looking at. The view of Him in His glory. It is the view of the Ark 
of the Covenant. The view of the SON OF MAN set down in His glory 
- in His throne, in His glory - a complete enthronement, all things being 
subject to Him. And then we have the term "in His glory", and it is this 
term "in His glory" that enables us to understand who this SON OF 
MAN is. HE IS THE ONE GATHERED UP IN GLORY.

As we come to view such a one, we have to understand that though 
such a one is not us, we are swallowed up, summed up and only find 
our being in such a one - becoming the very Body of such a one, 
becoming the very being of such a one. Yes, all of those things are true 
- and yet it is HE. It is forever He revealed in me. Never is it me 
revealed in Him. That's always the way it has to be. Folks, it can never 
come to the fact that you and I are Christ. It can never come to the fact 
that this place where we meet  - this is Christ - it can never come to that. 
A manifestation of Christ - yes - all of that, a place where He is made 
manifest, a place where He is sought after, a place where we have 
gathered to see none but Him - all of that is true. And that will really 
determine who gathers with you. I see these gatherings established - you 
are part of gatherings established throughout this country and around 
the world are being established and are being joined together in the 
gloriousness of His appearing. But to call any one such gathering 
"HIM" is not ... it must never come to that. Or for you and I to 
substitute ourselves for Him. But here's the point, if you walk in the 
knowledge of Him, you can't do that anyway. Because you're always 
realizing that the one we are seeing, though we are absolutely gathered 
up in that one, that one is not ever gathered up in me. I AM 
GATHERED UP IN HIM. I am gathered up in Him and there's always 
more of Him to see. 

But there does come and is coming a time in the heavens where this 
glorious person in whom we have our being, Christ Himself, must come 
into full focus so that you and I come to find our whole being in Him - 
come to find our whole identity in Him - come to find the fulness of 
redemption in Him. There must come in our hearts that you can call 
nothing on this earth Christ, and yet He must be made manifest in this 
earth. But you will never be able to point to anything on the earth and 
say, "That's Christ." And yet He must have manifestation in the earth. 
And there's a fine line, see, a fine line, between calling something on 
earth Christ and recognizing a manifestation of Christ in the earth 
because there must be a manifestation of Him in the earth. But it will be 
IN A PEOPLE who realize that they are not Him, but a manifestation of 
Him. And that's about as good as I can explain it to you. Because there 
is a line there that defies natural understanding - a line, a veil, through 
which only the Holy Spirit can take you - and establish you in an 
understanding that it is not I, but Christ. And that I am never calling that 
which is me, Him. But yet I have no purpose except the manifesting of 
Him. 

So there must at some time come into the earth, a very visible 
manifestation of Him in those who are seeing, knowing, only Him. That 
must be so. But it will always be with them, "NOT I, BUT CHRIST." 
But I'll tell you this too, folks, and I must confess to you that it's 
becoming more and more this way with me, it can't be with those folks, 
anything BUT CHRIST. There's no way I can emphasize that without 
sounding harsh and hard, and I'm not going to do that. I have some of 
the most profound and precious fellowship with believers that there is to 
be found in the universe of God, and yet there are others with whom I 
have no fellowship at all though I know that they are born again. I know 
that they are Spirit-filled. I know that they are residents of heaven. I 
know that, but I have no fellowship with them because with them it is 
something other than Christ with which they are occupied. And I have 
wrestled with this. I have agonized with this because the thing in me 
saying "It is not I, but Christ." is not allowing that I say, "Well I'm 
Christ and you're not." See that is not the attitude at all. That's not 
allowed by Him. But I do know that with me it is nothing BUT 
CHRIST. And I am not in the least bit interested exploring religious 
matters. I'm just not. I am finding everything that my heart is desiring - I 
am finding it identified in this New Man - this SON OF MAN - the 
allness of whom is Christ. Do you know what His name is? His name is 
CHRIST - ALL AND IN ALL. 

I don't want to explore anything else of a religious nature. I just don't, 
and do you know what, my fondest wish is that nobody else would 
either. My fondest wish is that every eye IN CHRIST, because we're 
not dealing with a dead generation, darling, we're dealing with a living 
generation and the coming of the SON OF MAN is too. I mean He 
shall come suddenly into His own temple for the purifying of the Sons 
of Levi. I sincerely wish that every born again believer had their eyes 
focused on the heavens refusing to bat an eyelash until He in His glory 
appears. Honey, when He appears in His glory He's going to appear IN 
YOU. And His appearing in glory means that He appears in you in a 
way that you become aware, divinely aware of your union with HIM, 
and it becomes an impossibility for you to live as any other but Him! 
Now that's an appearing! That's an appearing!

That won't produce a lot of little Jesuses. No, no, no, but it will produce 
a manifestation of Him, in His Body, in a number, in a people, who will 
understand it is nothing but Him. IT IS NOT I, IT IS CHRIST! 
Hallelujah to God! Now see, I have no heart for anything less than that. 
I certainly am not in the fulness of that view, but I have no heart for any 
view less than that. I don't want to see anything less than that. I don't 
want to talk about anything less. Here I'm sitting in Him at the right 
hand of God - why do I want to talk about anything else? That is Paul's 
question to the Colossians. He says, "If ye then be risen with Christ, 
seek those things which are above..." But he identifies those things as 
the things which are in Christ. and he says, "...set your affections not on 
things on the earth, for you are dead..." And then he summed it all up 
and he said, "When He who is our life shall appear..." Oh, My Lord, 
why should I want to be sitting here (in Christ, in the heavens) and 
discussing anything less? Rather, I want to spend my time declaring the 
reality of this union - of this glory. And do you know what? It would 
thrill my heart if everybody that claims the name of Jesus would turn to 
hear nothing but that, nothing but that declaration. 

I personally don't care if anybody listens to me or not; if they'll turn their 
eyes and see Him, I am perfectly happy. But I have no other view to 
declare. I have no other salvation. If I did, so help me God I'd be 
declaring it to you, but I don't have any other salvation to declare. And 
so oft times, and I've come through those things, and I don't come 
through them mad at them, that is not in my heart, but I've come 
through the times of declaring things - I mean good things. You know 
there's nothing wrong with operating ministries, but you don't make 
ministries your gospel, and there's nothing wrong with operating gifts, 
but those are not the things that we press toward to know Him. NO, not 
at all. And yet, there should be, and we should be at liberty to allow 
those things to operate, but honey, we don't gather here in this room to 
operate gifts on each other. Go out there - where they are needed, and 
operate your gifts. Go out there where it's needed and do some 
delivering - your next door neighbor, your own household, your 
children, the people on your job - Jesus did that. But when He collected 
his disciples together He didn't operate gifts on them,  He taught them 
words of Life. And then He sent them out into the highways . I have no 
problem with those things, except we make things that shouldn't be 
obvious ministries the focal point of our gospel and when we do it folks, 
we quit growing in Him. Now I won't argue with anybody about that, 
but I've come through that. I have no intention of going back to it. 

And yet, to be able to minister Christ into the life of a person out here, 
and to do that - but we are of the mentality that you go to church and 
do that. And then, when we get out here, you just act like the rest of 
them. But we are holy in the church - Bless God! We had fifteen 
messages in tongues. Now you are talking to one who has spoken in 
tongues since he was five years old, so don't frown at me. And who 
speaks in tongues every day of the year still, and enjoys it. But I've 
come to find, and I have in God's dealing with Israel, found all of those 
elements, but none of them constituted the END. I found those 
mountains. I found those administrations - none of them constituted the 
end. The end was found only in the glory of God filling His house, and 
no man could minister. And this was the result of that ministry of the 
SON OF MAN. Solomon himself, who brought that house together in 
all of its glory, and I'm telling you honey, My God, for you who want to 
see Him, and I know I'm not talking to anybody who doesn't want to see 
Him - I know that so I've already given up on it - I really have. I know 
that there is no reason for anybody to listen to me at all except they 
want to see the view that I am declaring. But I tell you I WANT TO 
SEE HIM IN HIS GLORY. And to me that means something, and I'm 
trying to stress to you what that means to me. To me that means seeing 
everything that I am, it means seeing all things gathered up in Him. It 
means seeing myself gathered up in Him. It means John 17 to me. It 
means you and I coming into the realization of full salvation, and my 
God, if we ever do that, and to the degree that we do that, we will be a 
light unto the nations. We will be a light unto the world. 

We won't try to get them all in the church. The Church will be amongst 
them and a light amongst them, and a city amongst them. See, I'm 
talking about Christ operating in our daily life - our manner of life 
becoming Him. Come on, the Lord Jesus, he didn't get up and go to 
church, but he did pull his disciples together from time to time and oft 
times and daily even, and minister to them. There's nothing wrong with 
our gathering, but this idea of 'Let's all go to church', come on now, I 
don't find that in Him. I find that He is becoming a daily manner of life, 
and I'm telling you again, I don't have anything wrong with the 
administration of any gift, but it's got to be in your daily life. Don't 
blame it on somebody else because it's not happening, go demonstrate 
Him. Well, I don't see any gifts of the Spirit. Well, why aren't you 
manifesting them? What did you do yesterday? This thing has got to get 
out of four walls and quit becoming a doctrine and become a manner of 
life - administered through a people who have seen their union with 
Him. 

I'm going to tell you right now that by the time the year 2000 gets here, 
and don't start engraving this in concrete on me, but I mean in the next 
few years, I sense it in my spirit, you're not going to recognize the real 
Church by any form or any structure that we now honor and obey. God 
help us, you're not. I talk to ministers about this all the time. I'm in 
continual conversation with the ministry and the Lord's Body - all of 
whom are walking in this view. And my greatest concern is for the 
Church. There is nothing on the face of God's earth that I love more 
than the Church - nothing. The Church is on earth. Why do I love it? 
Because it is that visible expression, it is bone of His bone. And yet I 
look at most that are in the Church and I grieve, because they are still 
operating in a structure - the structure is everything to them. And I don't 
mean just a building - the structure is everything to them. Just like our 
traditional idea of Jesus in his robe, with his blonde hair, etc. - we can't 
turn that form loose. And yet, when Mary tried to hold him, his whole 
speech to her was really, you know, "Touch me not. I haven't gone to 
my Father." He is saying, ' Do not seek to retain me in this present 
form." Oh, the Church is never going to pass away. Don't you worry 
about that. The Church is His Body. But the structure of it, the form of 
it that we now know, is not going to serve the revelation of Him that is 
coming forth in the heavens. It's not going to serve it any  more than the 
Holy Place could serve the glory of God. The Holy Place could not 
retain Him.

Sometime back - you know it takes the Lord three or four years to tell 
me something, I'm not lying to you. Sometime back three or four years 
ago, the Lord began to deal with me in a definition of the Church. You 
remember we defined the Church in the heaven - the Body - and that 
the Church is just not where people get in a building but it is a true 
manifestation of a reality. But in the midst of the Lord dealing with me - 
because I was crying out one day - "God, why are they not hearing this? 
Why will they not hear? Lord, why don't most of your own want to hear 
- they don't even want to hear." And I realized because they were so 
deluded, so put to sleep, so deluded by the poison of carnality - we've 
got heaven in a fixed place at a fixed time looking in a certain way. And 
we're not even worried about it. 'When I die, I'll go there. Until then I'll 
just ask Jesus to forgive me, and maybe I can get in a good prayer just 
before my last breath, then I'll go to heaven.'

My God, no wonder no one is pressing in toward the vision of the Lord. 
And then the concept, 'we're okay. I go to church every Sunday'. See - 
go to church - that whole concept is totally wrong in heaven. There isn't 
any place to go every Sunday. There's a gathering. Do you understand 
what I'm saying here? Yes, the gathering must be because the gathering 
is for the manifestation of Him. But the modern concept of 'going to 
church' - no wonder nobody's hungry - we're lulled. I tell you what, 
when old Karl Marx said that religion was the opiate of the masses, 
well, the old boy had it right - put everybody to sleep. He came up with 
an anti-religion and for a long period of time mobilized a great part of 
the face of the earth, it's his politics just didn't work. 

"Oh, Lord, I was crying out, Why don't they hear?" And so the Lord 
dealt with me as he always does. And he said, "You are trying to get me 
to appear in the Holy Place, and I won't appear there. I will only appear 
in the Most Holy Place." And that confused me, but the Lord continued 
to speak to me. And he said, "Son, you're going right into the structure." 
And that time I was. I was going to a lot of places, friends. "You're 
going right into the structure and you're declaring ME in that structure, 
and you're expecting ME to appear there, and I'm not going to do it." I 
can't really verbalize this, but he said, "I'm not going to be put on 
exhibition in the midst of carnality. I'm not going to be a visitor to their 
Sunday morning service. Son, the whole mentality is going to have to 
change for me to appear." He said, "You're treating my people as a 
candelabra and I never appeared in the candelabra, I appeared in the 
Ark of the Covenant, and when you begin to declare to my people who 
they are, and that means you'll have to stand against, not in a bad way 
or anything, but you'll find yourself at odds with, standing against the 
candelabra structure. Because I'm not going to appear there. You want 
to go in and you don't want to disturb their little structure. And you 
want to be received, and you want to be able to preach your little gospel 
of the Revelation of Christ and you want me to appear there, and I'm 
not going to do it, because I'm not going to be put on exhibition like 
some clown." All this was coming to me - the Lord took hours and 
days. 

"Lord", I finally had to say, "God you're right." "You are going into a 
structure and you're calling that my Church and you're telling those 
people, and you're expecting them to hear me and see me." No, see. 
And the Lord said, "When you quit treating my people like a candelabra 
and begin to treat them like the Ark of the Covenant, I'll appear in the 
midst of the Ark of the Covenant." I knew immediately what I had to 
do. I knew that God was giving me a whole new definition for the 
Church. And I knew that you can't put new wine in old wineflasks. I 
knew He was not going to appear in His glory in a place that could not 
contain His glory - in a mentality, in a structure that could not contain it. 
I knew that I was going to have to begin to declare to people, to the 
saints of God, to the Church, " show the house to the house." I was 
going to have to start declaring you are not a candelabra, you're the Ark 
of the Covenant! Hallelujah!

I knew that most wanted to maintain their church structure and have 
Jesus come and visit - and He won't do that, and I had come right into 
it, and I had left their little church structure alone, because they'd let me 
come into it two or three times a year and tolerate me for a few days. 
And I'd go away wondering, God, why can't they see? And the Lord 
was answering me. "They can't see because I can't appear in that. And 
as long as that's their mentality, I can't appear in them. You see, they 
actually see themselves as that structure - that is how they are seeing the 
Church. That's the mirror they are looking in. That's their concept of 
who they are. I can't appear in that - because that's not who they are. 
They are not a candelabra - they are the Ark of the Covenant. You are 
going to have to declare that." This started years ago but it took some 
time for it to dawn on me that there was a whole new view of Him 
coming into the heavens. Well, don't we understand that a new view of 
Him means a new view of us? My Lord God - WE'RE  IN HIM! And a 
new view of Him means a new view of the Church! Not only is the 
believer defined there (in Him), but the Church is redefined here. Not 
only is the Church redefined here (In Him), earth is redefined here. Not 
only is the earth redefined in Him, heaven is redefined in Him.

We have not studied these all out as lessons, but I'm just sharing my 
heart with you - about what is happening in the heavens so that we don't 
get confused and start looking for Him in this thing or in that thing, 
even though it may be lovely and all of that, but it's something less than 
Him. God in heaven, you can't tell me anything about how it hurts to 
have to turn away from that. When you in your own heart know I'm not 
trying to be alienated from anybody, I'm not trying to be the odd duck 
in this pond, My God, I just want to see YOU! I just want to see you, 
Lord. And I'll tell you what helped me. God kept me for weeks and 
months in the book of Ezekiel. Try reading the first three chapters 
tonight. As a result of that view, look at the next two chapters of him 
telling Ezekiel, 'You're going to be the odd man out, fella.' You read it. 
That's why I'm so careful. I do not believe I am the only one who has 
the gospel, but I do believe that I have the only gospel. But you will 
never hear me say I'm the only one who has ever seen Christ - no - you 
can't do that. 

See, what the Lord is doing throughout the earth - it's not crawling off 
in a corner and becoming - that's not what it is at all. But the Lord Jesus 
himself said, "Where there are two or three gathered together in my 
name..." Honey, that's a heavenly gathering and it's going to be 
manifested in the earth, because you see I'm not looking for the 
structure any more, I am looking for a grass roots movement coming up 
that will MANIFEST HIM! We don't want to crawl off in a corner and 
be the only ones. That's not what I'm talking about either. But I cannot 
become part of that which is not looking at Him just so I can become 
part of something that looks good. Because the point is, here's what I'm 
a part of - Christ - the Body - the Church- and to me, this looks good. It 
may look a little ragged in the earth right now. The Lord Jesus looked a 
little ragged with His ragged twelve, he looked a little ragged. 
Particularly when he looked around and said, "Everybody else is gone, 
are you going to go too?" I'm not glorying in number, big or little. I'm 
just telling you here (in the heavens, in Christ) is where the proof of the 
pudding is. It's not in the earth. It's not in small or in big. It's in you and 
I coming to see HIM and the anointing of God that is in you will testify 
to you whether it's Christ or not. Nobody else will have to tell you that - 
the anointing that's in you will tell you that!

The anointing that's in me tells me that - so much so that I stand for it 
and I rejoice if somebody else will just stand with me, because I love 
fellowship. But I will stand - if nobody else does stand with me. Why? 
Because I'm not standing alone - I'M STANDING IN HIM! Hallelujah 
to God! And the thrill of it is, you see, He's not alone either. He has 
many who are standing in Him! and it is through His appearing that He 
is knitting them together and bringing them together. 

You look there in Matthew 24 and he's going to release his messengers 
to gather from the four winds. But again, see, this has nothing to do 
with gathering up over the earth. Oh, my God, every kind of a substitute 
you can imagine is going to come, and I've already been in most of 
them. I'm telling you, so help me God, I've already been in most of 
them. I've already been in the line of thought of trying to pull it together 
in the earth. When I was pastoring in Denton, Texas, I saw a great truth 
in Christ and a great truth in the Body. I called a gathering of all the 
ministers, and a great number of them came. I made a big declaration, ' 
I think we all ought to put all of our churches together and we'll have 
the biggest church here.' So help me God, now, I did it - in Denton, 
Texas, ' And we'll all be Elders.' I scared all of them and that's the last 
time they ever wanted to talk to me. They thought I was a raving nut. 
Well, I wasn't - I saw a good thing, but YOU can't do it. That's the 
reason why with Covenant Ministries I go out of my way not to try to 
solicit to put it or pull it together. I discourage ministry that wants to 
identify in a committed way because I know that if they are being drawn 
here in the heavens, there is no way you can keep them from 
committing to some manifestation of HIM in the earth. And if they're 
not, and you solicit them, it's going to be heartache down the line, 
because I've already tried that. 

It would be the easiest thing in the world for me to do, and I have 
proved this in past activities when I was part of a temporary vehicle, to 
increase numbers, because there are so many who want to be part of 
something. And it's so easy to get them to be. And the Lord really dealt 
with me about that. And the Lord brought me to say almost as what 
Paul said to Peter, "If you know, you being a Jew, you do not find your 
answer in the law, why in the world are you trying to get these Gentiles 
to?" And it was like the Lord saying, "If you know that this is a 
temporary vehicle, why in the world are you trying to get everybody 
else to be part of it?" And yet, when Covenant Ministries came about, it 
came about with no solicitation at all. It came about through requests of 
brethren from all over the country wanting to meet and get the mind of 
God with regard to how we could more effectively declare this Word. 
Well, it continues to this day, and that's wonderful and I praise God for 
it. It's a tangible vehicle through which I serve the Lord Jesus. But we 
don't start calling something Christ that in fact is a ministry and a 
manifestation of Christ. And only that as long as we keep our eyes here 
- IN HIM!

Here then, in Him, is where I'm finding my fellowship with those who 
are wanting to be caught up in the same glorious view of Him. And it is 
a concern of ministry in which they'll say, 'I want to have fellowship. 
My heart is to have fellowship, but I'm finding myself unable to have 
fellowship in these matters'. And I know what they're saying. I feel for 
them and I just try to reach out and embrace them more and more. And 
I keep telling them just take heart, because the Lord in His appearing is 
raising up a glorious appearing of Himself and He will soon release His 
messengers, Thank God. But here's my  point, you'll notice that those 
messengers are gathering the elect from the four winds of the heavens. 
Notice it's a heavenly gathering. Now it will be manifested in the earth, 
but notice it is a heavenly gathering. In other words, it's being done in 
this unseen realm - it's not me going out here seeing how many things I 
can tie together. But it is in His appearing, He will release His 
messengers - the messengers of His appearing and the result will be the 
gathering up of saints from all over heaven. 

This will not be done as such of the earth. At one time I had been part 
of a gathering - I'm one of those Bereans who tried to gather saints from 
all over this country and all the world and our goal was to bring them all 
into the same place. And we gathered a bunch of them up out of 28 
states and 13 or 14 countries. We had a tremendous thing there, and 
then it all fell apart - it all turned to serving itself. And yet it was there 
that the message of Christ was birthed in my heart. From the standpoint 
of "the gathering" it doesn't make any difference whether it is 5 or 500. 
For that doesn't increase the gathering one way or another - THE 
MEASURE OF THE GATHERING IS CHRIST! But since that day, 
I've never been interested in any gathering, except this gathering that is 
taking place as a result of the coming of the SON OF MAN. I do want 
to be part of the administration of that gathering. But honey, that 
gathering is gathering up saints from all over heaven. It is not trying to 
tie old things together and make it look like new. It is gathering up saints 
from all over heaven and it's just too easy to substitute an earthly 
gathering for that and glory in it. But darling, it's been done, it's been 
done so many times that it's old and tired, a worn out effort. It started 
out with the city wide revivals of the flaming evangelists getting all the 
churches in town to come together for three nights. I mean that's already 
been done and it can be done. It is in the ability of man to manipulate it 
and do it and even do it for God - it can be done. I have done it and it 
seems noble, and there's nothing wrong with it unless you substitute it 
for the true gathering which is what we do most of the time. We call 
that the gathering - and it isn't. It's more like a cattle herd than it is a 
gathering - herding it all up and trying to keep it in the same pen. 
Whether it's on a local scale or a national scale, whether it's a local 
church or organization it doesn't make any difference - it all comes out 
to the same thing. 

But my word, there is a GATHERING - UNTO HIM SHALL THE 
GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE BE! and that's the view that I am 
declaring to you. Such a one - we must find our lives in Him, our 
fellowship in Him, our identity in Him, everything in Him. And as you 
begin to allow the Holy Spirit to bring Him - I'm telling you this thing 
will just start bursting to you in the scriptures - He'll start coming right 
out of the scriptures to you. And when it does, you will begin to be part 
of the greatest gathering that heaven has ever brought together or that 
earth shall ever see. But it will NOT be numbered as David tried to 
number Israel - no - it will be measured in the FULNESS OF THE 
LORD JESUS CHRIST!

Now you see I haven't got anything against any of the other - I don't, 
but I just don't have any effort in me left to give it. I don't have any time 
in me left to give it. I don't have any desire in me left to give it. That's all 
I can say. My whole effort and desire must be spent on doing what I'm 
doing. It is a thrill for me to come and talk to you. I don't want to go to 
a big arena and talk to a whole city, because at this time they can not 
hear what I have to say. My joy is speaking to those who are hearing. I 
know the great gathering - I know the great witness that is coming into 
the earth as a result of all of this. There's no point in me trying to run 
out and rush it. I understand that. But right now, my joy is speaking 
here to those who are gathered up in the heavens, not to those who are 
gathered in an office building with a blue carpet. No - my joy is in those 
who are being gathered in the heavens. If I find them in an office 
building with a blue carpet, fine. If I find them in a living room, fine. 
But my point is, they are gathered in the heavens. Why? Because there 
is a spirit that witnesses that gathering and that witnesses that view and 
that voice. Is that the only gathering? God, no, but it is part of a 
tremendous gathering and I refuse to substitute anything for that 
tremendous gathering. I can not do it.

I hope that I can stay sweet and not do it, but I just can not do it. 
There's no point in not being sweet, but you must understand that my 
joy is fulfilled in coming and declaring HIM. Sure, I'd love to have a big 
building full if it was representative of a gathering that were hearing. 
Yes, but otherwise - no. Because there's certain things the Lord can do 
in the multitude, but there's certain things He can not do, and He 
withdraws Himself to do those things with His own that He can not do 
in a multitude. And the fact that the Lord in this last year has absolutely 
curtailed our ministry to those that are hearing and has just forbid me to 
go anywhere else is not something I'm whining and crying about. I'm 
finding my full joy in that. But there's a reason for our being told to 
admonish one another, there's a reason. 

I'm not teaching and preaching to you during these days. I'm declaring a 
time to you. I'm declaring a time of HIS APPEARING and I want you 
to set your hearts to see that. The Lord will show it to you - I couldn't 
show it to you anyway. I can declare it out to you from the scriptures, 
and yes, I can do it in a systematic way through a bunch of lessons, but 
what I'm urged by the Spirit to do during these days is to DECLARE 
TO YOU A TIME. I believe that it is God's sovereign time to open the 
heavens here. I believe that. I believe there has been a severe trial, a 
severe testing, (may not have been as severe as it's going to be) but I 
believe there has. I believe there's a tried and a tested people. I'm not 
talking about a perfect humanity. I'm talking about a tried and tested 
people who have in spite, set their heart to know ONLY HIM, and I'm 
telling you that I believe the heaven is about to open here, in this 
segment of the Lord's Body. I believe that it's about to open - A TIME 
OF HIS APPEARING!

The urgency is upon me to declare - tell them to look to heaven - tell 
them to look for this One Man - tell them not to compare themselves 
among others or among themselves, but only find their comparison IN 
HIM - tell them to lift up their eyes - MY APPEARING DRAWS 
NIGH! That's the only thing I can hear. I believe that God is dealing 
with hearts in regard to seeing Him, and that can't be put in a lesson - 
into ten steps. If God is dealing with your heart then tell Him, "Oh God, 
then turn my heart that I may behold. I'm blind as a bird bat and I want 
to see Him. Lord, I want to see this SON OF MAN and find my full 
identity in Him; find the full identity of the Church in Him; I want to 
find the full identity of creation in Him. Oh, God, reveal your Son in 
me in this way." And the Lord is only waiting for that kind of cry and 
that kind of a heart if it is truly coming from the soul. There isn't any ten 
steps to it - there's just an honesty before the Lord that is required. 

And as He begins to streak across your heavens, and His light begins to 
shine - Oh, Hallelujah! then - the INCREASE. Then you just get caught 
up in it. You get caught up right off of the earth right into the heavens 
and you begin to find your identity in Him. And of such, the Lord is 
after nowadays. I'm telling you that's all I'm hearing - LIFT UP YOUR 
EYES - LOOK TO THIS ONE. HE IS APPEARING! His coming is 
imminent. His coming is as light. His coming is in the heavens and He is 
going to fill your heavens with the light of His coming and in that light 
you will come to look into the marah of God - and there you will not 
see yourself. You will see Him, but you will identify with what you see 
and become the appearing of Him. Looking into a new mirror, you will 
see a NEW MAN!  And you will do that in the light - in the light of His 
appearing. And see, what we're talking about now is the book of Ezekiel 
- it is the first chapter. It is Ezekiel setting on the river Chebar among 
the captives  (and Isaiah describes the term 'captive' as the people 
without a vision, people with no knowledge) but what vision is it we're 
talking about? Honey, most of the Church is setting (that was Israel 
setting on that river, captive), most of the Church is captive to the 
carnality of Babylon today. They are setting on the river Chebar, their 
priests are setting among them, blind as bird bats. Ezekiel confessed it - 
"I was setting among the captives." And when we will come to confess, 
"Lord, I'm blind." This is what we have to see. You see, after thirty 
years of walking in this message, I had to confess, "God, I don't know 
this thing. I am blind, Lord" You will say, brother you're not blind - 
you've seen for thirty years. Not this! and if you haven't seen this - 
you're blind! It doesn't matter what you've seen, if you don't see His 
very present appearing, you're blind. Because you see, if you are not 
walking in the light - light is not some subject, light is a PERSON - 
CHRIST- if you're not walking in Him presently, then you are in 
darkness. 

Yesterday's light is gone. Because He is today. He who was your light 
yesterday is your light today, but HE IS TODAY! And I had to confess, 
I don't know Him this way. I am blind. And then that term of 
"MARAH" - the glass of God, the vision of God. Its first meaning is the 
act of seeing. And all of a sudden it struck me. 'Son, if you haven't seen 
this mirror, you are blind.' And I began to realize what God considers 
sight. God considers the PRESENT VIEW OF CHRIST AS BEING 
SIGHT. He is not only the object which we see, He is the light by 
which we see. He is both the light, the object of light and the end 
product of it! And it came to me in my heart, 'My God, I am blind, 
except I see Him in this way.' And then the Lord brought me back and 
said "You see it's a good blind. Because it's not the blindness of 
carnality which is natural light. What you're experiencing is the 
blindness of the absence of natural light. You are experiencing a 
blindness that is going to exist until I appear." See that's the reason it 
says in the Bible this New Creation has no night or day - it's just light. 
It's trying to describe something to us. Because the first creation has 
night and day, it's divided so there's light and there's dark. But here, in 
the New Creation there is just light. But the light is the appearing of the 
Lord Himself in this day. And there is no other light, so there is no 
natural light in here. In other words, you can not comprehend this thing 
in the natural, and if you do walk in natural light, then you are blind and 
will never come to know Him, and that's what Jesus told the Pharisees. 
But He said, "You are in the darkness of the Holy Place, the Holy of 
Holies, the most Holy Place." And it came to me, yes, that Most Holy 
Place is absolutely dark - but what dark? It is the darkness that results 
when there is no natural light present. 

Look, before this great and glorious coming, look what's going to 
happen - the sun, the moon, the stars, they all fail - NATURAL LIGHT 
FAILS. Until natural light fails you, there will be no coming of the Lord 
in your heavens! "Immediately after the tribulation in those days, the 
sun shall be darkened, the moon shall not give her light, the stars shall 
fall from heaven, the powers from heaven shall be shaken, then shall 
appear the sign of the SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN - then shall He 
appear in clouds of glory. Hallelujah! But only when you find yourself 
sitting in a place where the sun don't shine, the moon don't shine, there's 
no star light, which is just other suns. And He said, "you're in the 
darkness of the Holy of Holies, son, but when you see, you will see by 
the light of the glory of God, because here, in this place where you now 
realize you are, there is no light but the glory of God. You will be blind 
in this place until the glory of God appears. But in this place, you will 
see nothing but the glory of God."

Do you realize how protected you are by that blindness, because 
nothing can get to you there. No natural light can come in there. When 
we finally come to a place of realizing that - then you say, then I'll sit 
here until HE APPEARS! Not sit here in this old place - NO - but I'll 
abide here. I won't try to conjure up a form. I'll sit here until He 
appears. And I told you I'm going through a reevaluation of everything. 
Why? Because the Lord won't permit that I conjure anything up. But 
I'm catching a few glimpses, and I'm coming to realize some things - I'm 
realizing that the Church is going to take on a form that if you would 
see it right now, you wouldn't even recognize it as being the Church. 
And to a degree that strikes horror in my heart because I know so many 
are so involved with its present form and desiring to be part of it, and 
I'm thinking, Oh God, don't let that happen. And then you see that here 
with the one taken, the other left, the one taken, the other left, and I'm 
saying ' God, I don't want to be left. I don't want to be left in the old 
form. I don't want to be left.' Why? Because there's a tremendous 
tribulation and that old form is not going to stand. We used to say in our 
traditional preaching, you'll miss the rapture, tribulation is going to get 
you, the devil, you know, you're going to go through the great 
tribulation. But I'm telling you now here's the truth of that - you miss 
this coming - you're going through a tribulation that is unbelievably 
awesome because it is a tribulation. Oh, my. 

You look at Revelation concerning the mark of the beast, and that's a 
very real thing. It's not what traditionalists imagined it to be, but Oh 
God, and who is reserved from that? Those who stand with HIM in 
Mount Zion bearing His name. You can not bear His name and the 
name of the beast. There is a place in Revelation that says they are free, 
that they have overcome the name of the beast, the image of the beast, 
the mark of the beast and the person of the beast. Hallelujah to God! 
That beast that devours - literally devours all flesh - lives on and 
devours all flesh - leaves nothing but ruin. Well, you miss this coming - 
you face the beast. See it's just as real. But it's not Russia you're going 
to be facing - the BEAST. Oh God, let's look up. Let's look up. I tell 
you His coming is even nigh at hand. In the heavens now, lightning is 
ready to strike. Let's look up and be caught up in the light of His 
appearing. It's not going to produce a race of snobs and know it alls. It's 
going to bring forth a people who walk in the humility of the Lamb, and 
the understanding that it is NOT I, BUT CHRIST. But I tell you, 
sweetheart, those who see Him are those who have a heart to see 
nothing but Him! And that's all I'm telling you. And if that to any small 
degree alienates you from someone else, well, then I guess you'll just 
have to suffer alienation while you still try to reach out in all the Spirit 
of Christ you can to all that you can reach out to. Because we are not 
going around trying to be alienated or super-saints. 

But I must set my whole heart upon this appearing. I don't want to miss 
this appearing. I feel like it's why I was born. I feel like it's why I'm in 
Him. I don't want to miss Him. And I would very much like to be part 
of that creation that become the radiant manifestation of that. So, we 
find ourselves here blind, until the marah of God appears in the heavens 
and the act of  seeing, and then the appearing of the very thing seen - 
not a figment of imagination - but the appearing of the person IN US.  
My Lord God - this thing is not just a thought. It's a PERSON who is 
the very divine thought of God. But the thought of God has great 
substance to it. Hallelujah - great substance to it. 

I have now delivered the burden of my heart with regard to what we're 
all about. With regard to what this time is all about and with regard to 
what you are part of as a gathering here. I trust that we have at least. 
That we may all the more join our hearts together for His coming, 
knowing that His coming shall itself bring about the manifestation. We 
can't go out and manufacture a false manifestation. If we do, we'll be 
disappointed, but we can set our hearts to see nothing but this coming. 
And I tell you, honey, this coming is imminent and when He says 
"quickly", He means quickly. He doesn't drag on for nine centuries. "I 
come quickly. I come swiftly. I come with great suddenness."




Father we thank you for the grace of God that is ours in Christ, to 
somehow just come to realize why we're in Him, what being in Him is 
about to us - what it means, what it requires, some of the small costs of 
it. But Oh, my Lord, let all of this be lost in the glory which shall be 
revealed in those who look to behold Him. Oh - Hallelujah to God. 
While we ourselves, never Lord, proclaim ourselves to be you or the 
only thing that is you. We do, Oh God, declare that we have a heart to 
see nothing but you. Let our fellowship one with another be in that - 
that we have a heart to see nothing but you. And I'm asking you to 
enlarge that fellowship to the heavens for in that fellowship YOU are 
glorified. And let us be part of such a fellowship of believers coming 
forth in the heavens - not alone, part of that number whose hearts are 
turned to see Him. Let a rejoicing come into our hearts and Lord, let 
us minister to one another and strengthen one another in this hope, in 
this assurance - yes, let's be a strength to one another. We need to 
strengthen one another from time to time. Let us encourage one 
another in this view - not comparing ourselves among ourselves or 
among others - No - our only comparison is in you - the SON OF 
MAN. But let us strengthen one another and encourage one another in 
this view and in this vision, and share this view with one another in all 
our gatherings. And be quick, and open and forward to share with all 
who desire to see the view of the Lord that is very present in us at this 
time. So Lord, you just lead us and guide us all for the purpose of 
revealing your Son. We just thank you for it in Jesus' blessed name. 
Amen.




                                    SON OF MAN  BY J W LUMAN - 
LESSON 4

"I say nothing but what I hear my Father say." But He was always 
hearing the voice of God. Now you have to understand something about 
the life of Jesus. You have to understand this, and it's only come to me 
in a very forceful way in the past few months. Here we see SON OF 
GOD  and SON OF MAN. In one being - we see the SON OF GOD - 
in man. But it's more than that. We see the SON OF GOD as the SON 
OF MAN. AND THE SON OF MAN IS GOD'S IDEAL MAN - the 
man that God determined. Only the Son could fulfil that kind of a man. 
And the purpose you see, was not to have ... - now I know that we are 
sons of God by birth, but hear me - the purpose was not to have more 
sons of God, the purpose was to have the increase of the SON OF 
MAN - a new kind of man - a man whose life is only Christ. This is 
what Jesus portrayed. He portrayed a man who had no life but Christ - 
but the anointed of God, the one who was in union with His Father. He 
displayed that kind of a man. And then every time that He spoke of the 
SON OF MAN, and I think I've searched out all of them in some way 
or another, it relates to the CROSS. And it let's you know that it is by 
the CROSS that the increase of Him shall come forth - it is by the cross 
- His Death, His Burial, His Resurrection. 

Well then who is the SON OF MAN? He is a Man who is dead to sin, 
buried to sin, raised  up only by the Spirit of God. The Lord Jesus 
submitted Himself to all of that. That He may bring forth by His 
quickening Spirit, multitudes of those just like Himself - one with Him - 
not a bunch of little Jesuses - ONE NEW MAN. But you see, you and I 
individually represent that one New Man, though I individually am not 
the sum total, but wherever I go individually I represent the SON OF 
MAN - One New Man. One new kind of man. It's not something that a 
carnal mind can just run out here and do. You know for years we've run 
around here, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus" - you know. We've run around here - 
"I command you..." - and nothing happens. Well really, you know, you 
know how many things have been contrived like a magician to make 
people think that something's happened. That isn't to say that God by 
His grace hasn't performed, but what I'm telling you is, I've always 
looked at the life of the Lord Jesus and I've said, "Lord, why can't it be 
like that. When will it be like that?"

I'm going to tell you - it will be like that when the SON OF MAN is 
come - not when a bunch of Christians are running around playing 
Jesus. Not even in their best intentions - not when just one man, or one 
ministry, or one everything is trying to perfect some gift. No, no, see 
that's not what it is. But when the SON OF MAN is come - yes - come 
in the heavens first, but I told you, this is a coming in the heavens, the 
heavens above and in the earth. When the SON OF MAN is come - 
when there is a corporate people who understand "It is not I, but 
Christ." And who understand the relationship with Him as He did with 
His Father. He wasn't running around trying to kick the Father off the 
throne all the time. And yet He declared openly His union with the 
Father. But He was able to walk into a place, and see, all He did was 
speak the Truth. He realized that wherever He moved, the Kingdom of 
Heaven was there. And all He did was say that - "THE KINGDOM OF 
HEAVEN IS AT HAND."

See, I don't make that happen. To say that I have to be in a God-given 
realization that it is so, and you just say what you are aware of. Just like 
you'd walk in here today in the natural and you'd say, " Well, we're all in 
this room." You haven't made it so. You have acknowledged a truth and 
you have stated it. And it is so. Oh, to be able to walk in this room in 
the awareness of Him, to the point that it doesn't make any difference 
whether it's a Federal Courthouse, or an east side slum - it doesn't make 
any difference - and be able to be there and know, in assurance, and be 
able to say to the troubled hearts that are there - "THE KINGDOM OF 
HEAVEN IS AT HAND. WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE, WHAT 
WOULD YOU THAT BE DONE?" See, you're not trying to build up a 
ministry. You're just manifesting a reality. There's a difference here, 
folks. You know the Lord Jesus wasn't trying to build up a ministry - He 
hid most of the time. We publish it in Time Magazine. He said, "Shush, 
don't tell anybody about this." And you know why He said don't tell 
anybody about this, don't mention this until after the resurrection? He 
told some. But what an influence He had everywhere He went. That's 
the Kingdom of Heaven coming into the earth. The government stood 
against Him, but they could only prevail when it served the purpose of 
the Father that they did prevail - such as His crucifixion. But you see, 
that was a sorry victory for the governments of the world. Because all it 
did was bring to a final judgment God's verdict on the world and bring 
forth a New Creation in Christ Jesus that would rule in the world. So it 
really wasn't very much of a victory, was it?

They hung Him on the cross and brought the greatest condemnation 
upon themselves, mankind, that could ever come. And He came forth in 
newness of life to increase Himself, multiplied beyond measure. Glory 
to God! And this is the view and this is the realization. You see, when 
you start talking about the Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of God, then 
you of necessity have to start talking about SON OF MAN, because 
SON OF MAN sits in His throne. Well what that means is when the 
SON OF MAN comes into His authority. Honey, I have to understand 
that  anything He speaks of Himself beyond that 3 1/2 years, He is 
speaking not of Himself alone - He's speaking of Himself only, but not 
of Himself  alone. He is speaking of Himself in a multiplied fashion. He 
is speaking of that SON OF MAN  that is to come - that is no different 
from Him, but is the increase of Him. and you have to understand that. 

When He says, "When the Son of Man is come to be seated in His 
throne of glory..." we have to understand that involves a corporate 
being coming into the realization of the authority of the SON OF MAN 
- sitting with me in my Father's throne, He says with regard to the 
overcomer. Not kicking somebody off the throne, in fact what it is, is 
having the throne of God established in you - it's having the authority of 
God established in you. I dealt with one time, as the Lord was dealing 
with me, "The Man Under Authority". You have no greater authority 
than you are under. That's it. A man who is not under authority has no 
authority. The Captain realized that about the Lord Jesus. He said, 
"You don't have to come to my house, just say the word." The Lord 
looked at him. He said, " Well, yes, you're a man under authority like as 
I am. And I can say to this one - Go, and he goes. And to this one, 
Come, and he comes." What he had realized that this man was under 
the authority of Caesar, and he had realized that when I speak, Caesar 
has spoken because I am under the authority of Caesar. I have no 
authority of my own, but I have the authority of Caesar, because I am 
under that authority. I serve him and therefore when I speak, he has 
spoken - under authority. I speak for a greater person than myself. And 
he recognized you (Christ) do too. But the authority you speak for is 
God!

And that's the reason the Lord said, "In all of Israel I haven't found this 
kind of understanding - faith." He said that - and this man was a 
Centurion. "In all of Israel I haven't found this kind of faith. Go - it is 
done." So we're not talking about a bunch of people kicking God off the 
throne. We're talking about the very throne of God, the very authority 
of God being established. See, God wants a Man in whom he can 
establish his authority - and I'm talking about a corporate mankind. He 
wants a creation, a temple - all of the types of it are given to you in the 
Bible, wherein he can establish his authority, wherein he can be made 
gloriously manifest. The SON OF MAN is such a Man. He was, our 
forerunner was, and so is that which He will bring forth in the 
knowledge of Himself. This is the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit 
today - to bring forth such a One.

Now just turn with me to Ephesians 1. I became interested a while back 
as the Spirit of the Lord began to deal with me about the New Name. 
Oh, there's some weird things going on out there, folks, with regard to 
"the New Name." Some believers are getting into a spooky area here - 
they are giving each other new names. Like - I would be Brother Daniel 
- they trace their lineage back and come up with it somehow through a 
natural lineage, and then you have to receive me as that. Let me read 
you something here, "Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him 
from the dead (Ephesians 1:20),  set him at his own right hand in 
heavenly places, far above all principality, power, might, dominion 
and every name that is named, not only in this world but also in that 
which is to come." Above every name that is named. A lot of folks 
wanting the name of Angel Gabriel - oh, it's really something, taking all 
those names - it's like being at a masquerade party. These are precious 
people who are being so deceived, and wasting their time on lineages 
and genealogies. Their first question is - What tribe are you? The roots 
and tentacles of this are here - anything to substitute for Him, anything 
to substitute for bearing His name. Having no name of our own - 
bearing HIS NAME - BEARING HIS NEW NAME. 

We seem to all want a name of our own. "...every name that is named, 
not only in this world but also in that which is to come." Another 
thought has come to my mind along this same line. I want to read you 
something that the Lord Jesus said in regard to this. In John 5, verse 46 
He says, "I come in my Father's name and you receive me not. If 
another come in his own name, him you will receive. How can you 
believe which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor 
that cometh from God only?" I've never really understood all of what 
He was saying there, but He was saying - if I came in my own name, 
you'd receive me, but I come in the name of another and you won't. 
Now honey, we need to hear that. Paul said to the Corinthians, "If I'd 
come making myself something you'd just give me everything you had. 
But because I abased myself among you, you've received others, but 
you've even begun to doubt my apostleship." He said that in the second 
letter to the Corinthians. And why? Because Paul came not in his own 
name. He came saying, "Not I, but Christ." Honey, people receive you 
when you come in your own name, because they can identify with that. 
But you come in the name of another... Jesus said, "How can you ever 
believe while you're comparing amongst yourselves." And I thought 
about that when I ran into these folks. Daniel comparing himself to 
David. Ezekiel comparing himself to Jeremiah. 

Paul must have run into the same thing because he said, you're 
comparing yourselves among yourselves. "Who is Paul, Who is Cephas, 
Who is Apollos?" We come not in those names. But if you come in 
those names you receive the honor of that name, and you will receive, 
but you'll receive it right now. You'd better get all you can get out of it 
because that's all you're going to get. That name may be confessed 
among men, but it won't be confessed in front of the Father, because in 
front of the Father that name doesn't exist. You only come in front of 
the Father with this name (Christ - the New Name) - the name that is 
above every name! And that's the name you and I are going to bear. It 
brings no glory to the flesh, it brings all glory to God. That name is not 
just a spelling. It is a declaration. It is a recognition. It is an 
acknowledgment, but it is a nature. It bears with it a nature. You can not 
bear His Name and not bear His Nature because they are the same. You 
can not bear His Name and nor bear His Character because they are the 
same. And yet I'm not saying that it's just nature and just character - it is 
recognition, it is acknowledgment. But His Name is not just a word. His 
Name has substance to it. It is a recognition. It is an acknowledgment 
but it is a nature. It is something you bear - you come to bear His 
Name!

You come to bear it. Now we've talked about bearing things before. 
Jesus says you can not bear it now. But when the Holy Spirit is come - 
this term "bear" - it is not just like having a brand burned on you. It's 
not even like that, and that's pretty awesome. You know - somebody 
took a hot iron and stamped something on you. You would think that 
you would bear that, and to some degree you would, but this goes 
beyond that. The best definition you can find in the Greek will bring 
you to a coin and you start out with a particular kind of metal. You can't 
just use any old kind of metal. It's got to be a particular kind of metal, 
having gone through all the refining necessary, and all of that. But even 
a particular type of metal not bearing the image is still no good. Now 
honey, I don't mean to say we're no good here in Christ, but what I am 
telling you is as far as God's purpose is concerned - we're no good until 
we bear an image. 

Now, what I want to tell you is this business of name and image is one 
and the same thing - it means the same thing. "Beholding as in a glass 
the glory of the Lord, we are changed..." we come to bear. The book 
of Revelation brings it into bearing - that we bear, have that name. We 
come to bear - changed into that same image from glory to glory even 
as by the Spirit of the Lord. In other words, there is an image duplicated 
in our inner man. Our inner man has a form, an image stamped upon 
him, and it's stamped throughout him. You take the coin and you take it 
to the press, and the dye, and once the press comes upon it, once it 
bears the image, it is not a "make believe" quarter, nor is it a piece of 
metal having the image of a quarter. It is a quarter. It becomes the 
image it bears. With all of the validity, with all of the authority, 
everything, it becomes the image that it bears. And until it bears that 
image, it really has no authority of the image at all - it is a slug. If you 
try to engrave something else then it's a counterfeit. It may fool some, 
but the final authority is not fooled. But once the image comes upon it, 
it is forever that - it will never be anything other than that. I mean even 
in the natural, it may be a bent quarter, but it's a quarter. It may be a 
flattened out quarter, but it's a quarter - forever. You take so much as a 
part of a dollar bill to the Treasury and they'll reimburse you  the whole 
dollar bill, if you can get enough to identify it, because it's forever that - 
the worth of it. Because it bears the image. If it's just paper, you can 
have a big time with it. But once it bears the image, or if you take that 
paper and put it in your printer and counterfeit it - you're in big trouble 
immediately. 

I'm relating all that to this here, in Christ. God is bringing us to a point 
in time to when He's not winking at things. Oh, he winks at a lot of 
stuff, but not counterfeits here. Look at Matthew 24 - the warning 
against the counterfeits. Look at the outer darkness - weeping, gnashing 
of teeth. Look at these statements that are made. Oh, we come to bear 
the image and to bear His nature - and that's the reason, see, you can't 
just run around and say 'Jesus, Jesus'. No honey, it's bearing the nature. 
The nature is unmistakable. The character is unmistakable. The spirit of 
the matter is unmistakable. Well, "that's a quarter." Well, yeah, we'll see. 
If it's got the right image it is. If it doesn't, you know. The whole thing 
has got to be that way. And that has to do with that Name. 

What I'm telling you is - and it's hard for me to talk about this - 
BEARING THIS NAME - because of the awesomeness of 
counterfeiting. You see you don't take this Name, you come to BEAR 
IT. It's going to be indelibly emblazoned in you - in His coming, and in 
the Knowing of Him. But to bear His Name means we have no name of 
our own. All of that is relinquished, given up, and seen to be part of the 
old. In fact, we come to a realization at one time or another in this 
growth, that except it be His Name, I'm nameless. You think about it. 
You come through all of the process of making a U.S. coin, and you 
got that metal and you get it even cut out in the proper image and all of 
that is there. Now tell me, unless it really bears the image, it has come to 
all of that and now, what good is it? It can't be used for anything! Now 
it's come to the point that if it doesn't bear the image it's worthless. Jesus 
says, " this salt without savour isn't fit for a pile of dung - salt without 
savour." Honey - coin without image. New Man without Name, without 
nature, without character is fit for nothing.

I've come to think of this myself, "Boy, you're as worthless as a 
toadstool except it be for Him. You've come too far. You're not fit for 
the world, it's either going to be Jesus for you or you're the most 
worthless thing in existence." I've come to realize this. I either find my 
place in Him or I don't have one, because I'm worthless to the world. 
And except I come unto His image, I'm worthless to God. See, except 
Israel came into Canaan, came into the good of it, what good is it to 
God? Delivered? Well yes, but so - what good are they to God? And 
you and I have to come to this realization. This is why Paul says in 
Hebrews 6 - you can't stop, we can't stop, there's no way we can stop 
here, we can't afford to stop here, we've got to go on. And at the end of 
that chapter, says "follow our forerunner, wherein our forerunner has 
entered..." This is our forerunner - the SON OF MAN and the SON 
OF MAN our forerunner has ascended into the heavens and is seated at 
the right hand of the Father. And so He speaks of Himself in the 
regeneration and says, "When the SON OF MAN is come to be set down 
in the throne of his glory ..." well honey, that's including you and I. 

COME TO BEAR HIS NAME. So, I'm just beginning to realize 
something. And the awesomeness of some things are becoming real - it's 
not enough just to roll around here and be a slug. There is a certain 
working of the Spirit of God up unto that point in time and maybe, yes, 
I could have done something else. But not now. Now it is absolutely 
ready to bear an image and if it doesn't bear that image, then throw it 
away - there's no purpose for it. Now here we are - IN HIM - come 
through death, through burial, by resurrection - all of that - to think 
we're something? NO - worthless except we bear an image - worthless 
except we be stamped in the forehead - with HIS NAME. In fact, you 
are either going to bear His Name or the other name. See, that is the 
whole curse of the thing. Those who don't bear His Name will come to 
bear the other name - identify with that. You see the overcomer bears 
His Name. Well how do you overcome? Well, you overcome by the 
blood of the Lamb and the Word of their Testimony - that has to do 
with what we're talking about here - the CROSS. The cross and the 
word of their Testimony is " Not I, but Christ." He lives! Hallelujah to 
God! Therefore the beast has no place in me, he has no mark upon me, 
he has no name upon me, he has no image upon me. I'll show you these 
people - Revelation 15.

"And I saw another sign in heaven great and marvelous, seven angels 
having the seven last plagues for in this is filled up the wrath of God. 
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire." Now we're not 
going to deal with this, but I'll tell you now that sea of glass mingled 
with fire is a direct reference to the laver that Solomon built in the 
temple. And that laver is a direct reference to a looking glass, or the 
'marah' of God. And here are all these standing upon that glass mingled 
with fire, them that had looked into Him - you understand. They had 
gotten the victory over the beast, over his image, over his mark and over 
the number of his name and they stand on the sea of glass having harps 
of God. They stand on the sea of glass and whose image do you think 
they are seeking? They are looking into this sea - Solomon called it the 
molten sea that he built. Here it is again - the sea of glass and fire mixed 
with it - and it is this laver of the WORD OF GOD. But it is the 
LIVING WORD HIMSELF wherein we look - and behold Him - 
bearing His image, His Name. They have gotten the victory over the 
beast, over the mark of the beast, over the number of his name and over 
his image. Hallelujah to God. And they cease not to give praise. See, it's 
a tremendous thing but here they sing the Song of Moses. A servant of 
the Lord, and they sing the song of the Lamb saying, "Great and 
marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are thy 
ways, thou King of Saints." Blessed be the Lamb of God. Right on 
down the chapter, the fifth verse, "After that I looked and behold, the 
temple of the tabernacle of the testimony of heaven was opened." Glory 
to God! Well, all right - HIS NEW NAME.

Turn with me to Philippians then - HIS NAME. I do want to give some 
indication of what that name is. Philippians 2:5, "Let this mind be in 
you which was also in Christ Jesus. Who being in the form of God, 
thought it not robbery to be equal with God, made of himself no 
reputation and took upon him the form of a servant, made in the 
likeness of men. (This is all coming in the first view of Christ that we 
are familiar with.) And being found in the fashion as a man he humbled 
himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 
Wherefore God hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is 
above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of 
things in heaven, things in earth and things under the earth. And every 
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the 
Father." The Father hath given him a name that is above every name - 
this is the same thing that is mentioned in Ephesians, "... above all 
principality, power, might and dominion and every name that is 
named, not only in this world but also in that which is to come." A 
name that is above every name. 

Understanding now folks, this name is a relationship. Psalm 2, verse 6: 
"I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. 
The Lord has said unto me - THOU ART MY SON THIS DAY HAVE 
I BEGOTTEN THEE." Now hear me. "Why do the heathen rage? The 
kings of the earth set themselves to take counsel against the Lord and 
his anointed." A condition is described here. And God's answer to that 
condition is - TO RECOGNIZE HIS SON UPON THE THRONE! "I 
have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." God's answer to this is to 
exalt the Son in Zion - to bring Him to the throne and declare a decree 
concerning this Son. And the decree he declares to this Son is a decree 
that is not declared to any other living organism that has been or ever 
will be. He looks at him and he says, "THOU ART MY SON". Folks, 
there is no name, there is no recognition above that. If you ever get a 
hold of this, you'll see what I'm saying. There is no recognition above 
that. 

Look at Jesus. Look at him coming up out of the river Jordan, 
symbolizing the reality of the death, the burial, the resurrection. And 
symbolizing a Man coming up out of all of that in the absolute 
understanding of all of it, because Jordan symbolizes the revelation - the 
river of revelation. What does Jesus symbolize coming up out of that 
river? He symbolizes  a MAN - A WHOLE GOD-CREATED MAN. 
He is a forerunner for us, folks. He came to bring forth the increase of 
Himself. That's what all of this is about, that's what his whole first 
coming was all about - to bring forth an increase of Himself. Well, all of 
that is symbolized there. And when He came up out of that Jordan, He 
came up symbolizing a Man in full understanding of death, burial, 
resurrection. He is the Man that heaven opens to reveal, the heavens 
opened to Him - not to John. Who is He? He is the SON OF MAN. 
Who is He symbolizing? The SON OF MAN. HE IS THE SON OF 
MAN - the forerunner. Who is He symbolizing? What He's going to 
bring forth! He is symbolizing there from the very beginning - God 
always does that, God always sets the end here at the beginning, and 
then works back to it. He always does that. And at the very beginning of 
His ministry, He symbolizes the end of His ministry - a Man for whom 
heaven opens, upon whom the Spirit of God descends without measure 
and remains. Look at Him over here in the book of Revelation - the 
SON OF MAN revealed in the midst of the Church, the One that the 
Church must identify to. He has the Spirit without measure; the seven 
Spirits of God are His. And what is the declaration of heaven? THIS IS 
MY SON! Nobody's ever been called that you see - that's a Name! 
That's an exaltation - above every name that is named. 

It is expressing of a relationship. Even look into the natural. In the 
absolute natural, as far as my blood, natural blood is concerned, I've 
only got one living son. I'm talking about blood son. Now I can call him 
Jack, Bill, Tom, Harry - it doesn't make any difference because that's 
not his name. There's a lot of other names like that. But when I look at 
him, my God, and I say "Son, son", oh folks! Now that's just in the 
natural realm and there isn't a name like it. There is an identification, a 
confession - takes it right into the heavens. Because everything else 
pales anyway. Here it is in the heavens (the New Creation - in Christ). 
He looks at this one, that His only begotten has brought forth and the 
thing of it is folks, he looks at this one no differently than His only 
begotten, because to him this one IS His only begotten, because this one 
is not there but by His only begotten! Yes, we're there stupid as 
doornails, but God knows something about us. And we're there most of 
the time an embarrassment to Him, but He knows something about us. 
And He has sent forth His Spirit to bring us into that understanding, and 
it's getting serious nowadays. Because He wants to name this Son. He 
wants to name Him "SON". He wants to call Him "SON". He wants to 
recognize Him as His SON.

All right, let's look at this recognition that only the Father can give the 
Son. I want you to turn to Matthew's gospel the third chapter verse 13 
through 17. "And then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto 
John to be baptized of him. But John forbade him saying, 'I have need 
to be baptized of thee and commandest thou me?' And Jesus answering 
said unto him, 'Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfil 
all righteousness.' Then he suffered him. And Jesus when he was 
baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo, the heavens were 
opened unto Him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove 
lighting upon him and a voice from heaven saying, THIS IS MY 
BELOVED SON, in whom I am well pleased." Here dear friends, is 
the Name that is above every name. Now do try to get a hold of what is 
being said here. THE NAME AND THE PERSON ARE THE SAME. 
The Name is the Person, the Person is the Name. Here is a person being 
recognized. This is the finished work coming up out of the Jordan. Do 
you understand what I say when I say the finished work? This is the 
END projected from the beginning. God always does that. He always in 
the beginning, projects this end, and then he works that end, as it were, 
back to the beginning, because the beginning and the end are the 
SAME.

Do you understand that here the Lord Jesus is the forerunner? He is the 
personification of that which He shall bring forth through His Death, 
His Burial and His Resurrection. He shall bring forth an increase of 
Himself in Glory - John 17. He shall bring many sons unto glory. But it 
is not many sons that is seen, it is the increase of THIS ONE SON. 
When God looks upon this scene, he is seeing a New Creation Man, he 
is seeing the finished work of His Son which is not different from His 
Son, but rather an increase of His Son. God is seeing his handiwork 
come up and here at the river it is revealed because Jordan typifies the 
river of revelation. Jordan is a place of divine revelation. When Israel 
crossed over into Canaan, Canaan representing everything that CHRIST 
IS, because it is in Canaan that we see the development, the 
development, the development, right until there is a house of God's 
glory. Everything develops. In crossing over into Canaan, they crossed 
over the Jordan, the Priesthood holding the Ark of the Covenant 
standing in the midst - identifying that Ark of the Covenant with Jordan 
itself, and the priesthood with Jordan itself. And the people crossing 
over Jordan, therefore identifying themselves with the priesthood and 
with the Ark of the Covenant - a people crossing over in the full view of 
God's full salvation and the Ark of the Covenant of course, represents 
the FINISHED WORK OF GOD. It represents God in union with His 
Man, God in union with His Creation. It represents the SON OF MAN 
in the full view of the SON OF MAN; the SON OF MAN wherein is 
established the throne of God wherein is established and manifested the 
glory of God. The Ark of the Covenant represents this because at the 
end of the journey, at the end is the temple that Solomon built, and the 
name of that temple is the House of the Ark of the Covenant of the God 
of all the Earth. Hallelujah!

Well, here comes Jesus up out of the river. He comes up out of the 
river. Notice how it is put here, "He went straightway out of the water." 
He went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were 
opened unto Him. There's only One Son to whom God opens the 
heavens and that's the Son who is in the heavens. Oh, look at it beloved, 
for YOU are quickened with Him, YOU are raised up together with 
Him, YOU are made to be seated together with him in the heavens - in 
heaven itself. And it is God opening the heaven that you and I may 
behold the SON that He is, yes, and in union with Him, the SON that 
we have by Him become. That we may behold God's true salvation - 
not just bringing a people out of Egypt, but establishing a people as One 
Son, One House, One Dwelling Place - A PEOPLE ESTABLISHED 
IN HIMSELF, ESTABLISHING HIMSELF IN A PEOPLE. And 
calling that finished work - HIS OWN SON! Oh, Hallelujah to God!

You see it is the Lord Jesus that came out as the Son, and performed all 
of this, and now brings it all back and delivers it all up unto God the 
Father, that God may be all and in all. Here is the Picture. Here is the 
Man. Here is the Son with whom God identifies himself - in whom God 
is greatly glorified and manifested. What a name! What a name! Only 
the Father can give this name. Only God can reveal this Son in you and 
open your heavens allowing you to come to see, to know, to understand 
your union, your identity, with and as This Son. Blessed be the Lamb of 
the Living God. 

What a SON! What a SON! Look, do you remember in I Chronicles the 
28 Chapter, verse 5, "And of all my sons, for the Lord has given me 
many sons he hath chosen Solomon, my son, to set upon the throne of 
the Kingdom of the Lord over Israel. And he has said unto me, 
Solomon, thy son, he shall build my house and my courts, for I have 
chosen him to be my son and I will be his father. Moreover, I will 
establish his kingdom forever, if he be constant to do my 
commandments and my judgments as at this day."

Then verse 9 through 12, "And thou, Solomon, my son, know thou the 
God of thy father and serve him with a perfect heart, with a willing 
mind. For the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the 
imaginations of the thought. If thou seek him, he'll be found of thee, 
but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever. Take heed now, 
for the Lord hath chosen thee to build a house for the sanctuary. Be 
strong and do it. Then David gave to Solomon his son, the pattern of 
the porch and of the house thereof, and of the treasures thereof, and 
the upper chambers thereof, and the inner parlors thereof, and of 
every place of the mercy seat. And the pattern of all that he had by the 
Spirit, the courts of the house of the Lord, and all the chambers round 
about, and the treasure of the House of God, and of the treasures of 
the dedicated things."

I Chronicles 29 - we're going towards something. What we have seen 
here so far is David delivering the pattern to Solomon whom God has 
said is "MY SON". I have chosen Him. What is it that David is saying 
to Solomon? What is the admonition ? - FINISH THE WORK that is 
given you to do. Bring forth a finished work. Do not come short of 
finishing the work. God has chosen him to finish the work. He will build 
my house. I will establish his kingdom forever. Now, " Furthermore 
David the King said to all the congregation, Solomon my son whom 
ALONE God hath chosen..." Honey, I'm telling you, this one who 
comes up out of the Jordan is the ONLY ONE CHOSEN OF GOD. 
He is the Only Man, the only kind of Man, the Only Son, the Only 
Creation God will name and identify Himself to. Hallelujah! Do try to 
get a hold of this.

The One that comes up out of the Jordan - the One that comes by 
death, burial, resurrection and divine revelation - the One to whom the 
heavens open, the One who indeed is in the heavens, seated in the 
heavens. He is the only mankind, the only kind of Man, He is the only 
creation, He is the only Son God identifies to Himself - that God 
recognizes and names as being MY SON. "Whom alone God has 
chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great, for the palace 
is not for man, but for the Lord God." There's nothing of this creation, 
of this house, or of this Son that is for man, but for the Lord God and 
that the Lord God would be greatly glorified therein. So, Solomon 
builds this house.

II Chronicles Chapter 7 - " Now when Solomon had made an end of 
praying, the fire came down from heaven, consumed the burnt 
offering, the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house. The 
Priests could not enter into the house of the Lord because the glory of 
the Lord had filled the Lord's house." Now, we're not going to get to it 
now, but not only is this one named Son, this one is appointed as Priest 
forever. There is a house where only one Priest can minister. It is the 
house of God's glory. Hallelujah!

Now look at Chapter 8, verse 16, " Now all of the work of Solomon was 
prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord until 
it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected." What do we 
see here? We see that the house, we see that the finished work of  
Solomon, was the house of God's glory. We see the finished work of 
the Son. Jesus himself says, "A greater than Solomon is here. A greater 
than Solomon has come." Therefore we can know that his finished 
work is greater than the finished work of Solomon. Where Solomon's 
was a type, a shadow, this one is the real thing and the house that this 
Son builds - the Son is a NEW MAN - who is one with Himself, who is 
bearing His very own Name. Glory to God!

John's gospel the 4th chapter - the very meat of Him,... look at verse 34, 
" My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work." 
The finished work of Solomon was a temple. The finished work of the 
Son is a SON. Hallelujah! The finished work of the Son is the SON OF 
MAN - the house, the temple, the dwelling place of the Most High God 
- the One who bears His very own Name. Oh Lord - the One who bears 
His very own Name. UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN. What did David 
say when he first introduced him? " He is young and tender and the 
work is great. For the palace is not for man but for the Lord God." 
UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN. UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN. AND 
HIS NAME SHALL BE... Oh honey, I'm telling you God is bringing 
forth one through the Lord Jesus, one with the Lord, the increase of the 
Lord Jesus, one bearing the name of the Lord Jesus, who shall bear His 
Name before all the nations of the world. One with whom, in whom, 
God has full identity. One in whom God established his full authority, 
and one in whom only God is glorified for this one is not of flesh nor of 
the will of man. This one is brought forth through death, burial and 
resurrection. This one is the increase of the One who is the Firstborn 
from among the dead, Firstborn among many brethren, that in all things 
He may have the preeminence. This one is the increase of Him, and 
bears His Name. 

Honey, the first realization that comes to you and I that bear His Name 
is just this - "Not I, but Christ." Not I, but Christ. What a glorious 
name. The house the Son builds is a Man. One with Himself, bearing 
His Name. Now look with me in Matthew 17 verse 1 through 9 is the 
setting. I'll just go right down to the end of it, verse 5, "While he yet 
spoke, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold a voice 
out of the cloud which said, "This is my beloved son, in whom I am 
well pleased. Hear ye him." In this view of Him there's always a voice 
connected, but we won't deal with that voice just now. " And when the 
disciples heard it, they fell on their face." Honey, this is the same one 
Isaiah saw, the same one that Ezekiel saw and called it the "marah" of 
God - the mirror of God, the mirror that God looks into when he wants 
to see the exact appearing of himself. That mirror is a MAN, but it's not 
just any man. It's a Man brought forth through Christ - a MAN brought 
forth through death, burial and resurrection - a MAN having no name 
of his own so he bears the name of the Firstborn. Hallelujah!

It's not me acting like Jesus - it's me understanding I have no name but 
His Name. It's not me trying to act like Him, it's you and I coming to 
understand we have no life but Him! Finding our full identity in Him, 
with Him, by Him, bearing His Name. Only the Father can reveal the 
Son in you in this way. Here we have Him in His glory. Here it is that 
he touched them and said, "Arise and be not afraid." Do you remember 
Him touching John in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ the 
same way? Do you understand that it's the SON OF MAN that touched 
John there? And that it's the SON OF MAN that touches the Church, 
that touches the representative Church here and says, be not afraid? 
"And when they had lifted up their eyes they saw no man save Jesus 
only." Honey, this is the only Man the Church is going to see and come 
to identify herself with in absolute fulness and bear His Name. "Tell the 
vision to no man until the son of Man be risen from the dead." Why do 
you think that?

Because everything that is being done here is a projection of the 
REALITY of that One who comes forth by, and in, and through the 
resurrection. Glory to God! Tell the vision, tell the revelation to no man 
until the SON OF MAN be risen again from the dead. But honey, now 
this is the vision we are to declare. This is the revelation we are to 
declare. This is the revelation Paul declared - the revelation of the New 
Testament - a people in union with Him - One New Man bearing His 
own Name, being One with Him in His very own being and in His very 
own person. 

A greater than Solomon. Now look back at this business with Solomon. 
I Chronicles 29 verse 22, "And he did eat and drink before the Lord on 
that day with great gladness and they made Solomon the son of David 
King the second time." What were we seeing over here in Matthew? - 
the second time. " And anointed him unto the Lord to be chief governor 
and Zadok to be Priest." But in this one that we see over here in 
Matthew, he is both Son and Priest - Glory to God! Solomon built a 
temple and had a Priest. The Son brings forth One who IS the temple 
and IS the Priest! He is both Son and Priest. He is both Only Son, only 
well pleased Son and He is Priest. "Then Solomon set on the throne of 
the Lord as King instead of David his father and prospered, and all of 
Israel obeyed him, all the princes and the mighty men, and all the sons 
likewise of King David submitted themselves unto Solomon the King, 
and the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel 
and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any 
king before in Israel."

Beholding - oh, to see Him in His glory. Paul got a hold of this and 
said, "Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, changed into that 
image." Bearing that same image - bearing that same name. God 
brought back Moses and Elijah that they may see this finished work. 
They had desired to know Him in His glory, and He brings them back 
here, on this mount, and they are able to see His glory. And they talked 
with Him about His death and then they beheld Him in His glory. 
Honey, they understand that these three there represent the Church. 
They behold Him manifested in His own mountain. They see the 
Church as one with Him. Jesus says in John 8 verse 56, " Your father 
Abraham rejoiced to see my day. And he saw it and was glad. Verily, 
verily I say unto you, before Abraham was, I AM."  And who is  He 
here in this chapter 8? He is projecting Himself once again as the SON 
OF MAN. And he says Abraham saw my day. Where did Abraham see 
His day?

Look at Genesis 22 verse 4. Abraham has taken Isaac to offer him upon 
what turns out to be Mount Zion. " Then on the third day, Abraham 
lifted up his eyes and he saw the place afar off." When? It's a three day 
journey there - it's death, burial and resurrection. But then you're going 
to come forth in the vision of something greater than a dead Adam. 
You're going to come forth in the view of the One who lives only by the 
resurrection and bears the Name of the Firstborn Himself - the One 
with whom God identifies, the One that God has highly exalted, lifted 
up, caused Him to be seated, and given to Him a Name above every 
name. He hath declared this One who has come forth in Jesus to be HIS 
ONLY SON! My Lord, My God! Well, it was a three day journey, but 
what did he see? Verse 13 - " Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, 
and he saw a ram." Then verse 15, "He called to Abraham out of 
heaven the second time and said, by myself have I sworn saith the 
Lord. For because thou hast done this thing and thou has not withheld 
thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in 
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, as the 
sand which is upon the seashore and thy seed shall possess the gate of 
his enemies. And in thy seed all the nations of the earth be blessed 
because thou hast obeyed my voice." Abraham saw the greater than 
Isaac. He saw the One who comes forth in death, in burial, in 
resurrection. He saw the One who is the SON OF MAN and whose 
name is the SON OF GOD. Hallelujah! AND IN THE MOUNT OF 
THE LORD, ABRAHAM SAID, IT SHALL BE SEEN. 

Psalm 2, verse 6 - " I have set one in my holy mountain, upon his 
throne and I have said unto him - He is my Son." And this One who is 
set upon the throne in the holy mountain acknowledges the Lord has 
said unto me, Thou Art My Son! and of this One he also says, " Thou 
art a Priest forever after the order of Melchisedek." Blessed be the 
Lamb of the Living God!

We are going to close, but I'm sure we'll be looking more into this 
glorious name that is above every name, this identity, this relationship, 
this recognition given by the Father to the Son. And the only way he 
can do that is to reveal the SON - the Lord Jesus Christ - the SON, in 
whom you live and move and have your being; the One in whom you 
must find identity, the One through whom you have access to the 
Father. He reveals that Son in you, opening the eyes of our 
understanding, that we beholding in His very face, behold in Him - who 
is the marah of God - beholding our union with Him, beholding the 
glory of the Lord and we are transformed - we begin to bear the image, 
the nature, the identity, the reality of such a union. 

WELL HALLELUJAH! BLESSED BE HIS HOLY, HOLY NAME! 































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