WHO IS THE SON OF MAN?
                               by J W Luman

We are going to deal with the reality of the Son of Man. My heart's 
desire is that the Church, the Lord's Body, the fulness of Him who 
filleth all and all, come to see that. The Church which is His 
Body, not the Church which is connected to His Body. No - the 
Church which is His Body - that's the definition of the Church. And 
you realize that any definition of the Church has to start with the 
HEAD. So the scripture says in Ephesians 1, "Hath given him to be 
head over all things to the church, (which is defined as) his body, 
(which is defined as) the fulness of him, (who is defined as) he 
that filleth all and all." There is no definition of the Church 
other than IN RELATIONSHIP TO CHRIST. If you separate the Church 
from the person of Christ, the Church loses Biblical definition. 
That is in your heart, in your mind, in your comprehension, you can 
not separate the Church from the person of Christ - a Head from His 
Body and have any kind of expression of either one of them. He is 
either figuratively our Head or He's the Head. Which is it? He's 
either ceremonially the Head - that is His name is written on the 
door somewhere, or He's the Head - period! That is what the 
scriptures say, this is not the traditions of men. And we need to 
say, 'Lord, open the eyes of my understanding.' How can you 
separate the Head from His Body, which is the Church, and either 
one of them have any kind of definition or expression? The Church 
is to give visible expression in the earth of the union of Christ 
and His Body - of that eternal, ongoing, union of Christ and His 
Body. I don't believe that the Lord is a disembodied spirit, 
seeking around whom He may devour. 

I believe the Lord dwells in His own Body by His own Spirit. I 
truly believe that he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit and 
I believe there is but ONE BODY! He is the Head of that Body, and 
consequentially Paul says that Body is to "grow up into him who is 
the head in all things" in Ephesians 4. This is because you are 
quickened as one with Him, raised as one with Him, seated as one 
with Him in the heavenlies. Seeing this is so, then that you may 
grow up into Him who is the Head in all things. He is given to be 
Head over all things to the Church. I have a great abiding love for 
the Church. I detest ignorance in any form. Because of ignorance 
humanity fights wars and children starve. And because of ignorance 
in the Church, saints of God are dying everyday spiritually, living 
in 'la-la' land and playing games with God. 

By ignorance we are separated from the reality of the Lord Jesus 
Christ and we just follow figments of imaginations, fortify them 
with tradition, and keep God's people so far from the reality of 
Christ. The Church - the true Church - is the visible expression of 
that One Body and its union with that One Head. The Church is made 
up of churches, but not many bodies - ONLY THAT ONE BODY. 
Therefore the Church is a living organism, not separate from Christ. By 
definition it is impossible for the Church to be separate from 
Christ since the Church is His Body, the fulness of Him. Shouldn't 
then the Church know Christ? Shouldn't then the Church grow up into 
Him in all things? This is what we're going to be talking about. 
SON OF MAN - glorious title, but more than that - glorious 
realization pertaining to the believer's union with the eternal Son 
of God, with the eternal Christ of God. We will begin with the Son 
of Man - the person of the Son of Man, the order of That Son, then 
the ministry of the Son of Man. 

When I go amongst the Lord's Body, I do not come with doctrinal 
arguments in view - I go declaring the reality of Him!  And all I 
ask you to do is go to the scripture and search. The scripture 
declares the reality of Christ - NOW! For those who seek Him! I 
suppose you can go to the scripture and find some idea about most 
anything. But Jesus said, " Search the scriptures. They are they 
which testify of me." My desire for the Church is that we come to 
know Him. So much so that it give Him His full expression in the 
earth. That's what it is for. Now Matthew 16:13, "And when Jesus 
came to the coast of Caeserea Philippi, he asked his disciples 
saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?" Now the question 
here is asked by the Son of God. We understand Jesus is the Son of 
God - was, is and shall be. But why wasn't it asked who do men say 
that I the Son of God am? No - the question is the SON OF MAN, and 
it's never translated any differently in any of the other gospels. 
And notice how He comes at this, because He doesn't really care 
what men say. He already knows what men say! Interesting to me what 
they were saying - John the Baptist - he's come back. Elijah, one 
of the prophets. Some were probably saying Isaiah. There's a great 
significance there. But the Lord pressed farther."Jesus answered, 
But whom say ye that I am?" And that's the whole question. WHO IS 
THE SON OF MAN?

Do you remember one time Saul was going along the road on his trip 
to kill Christians? And he was encountered - smitten by the Lord, 
blinded by the Lord, encompassed round about by the light of the 
Lord. He heard this voice, " Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" 
Well, who was it Saul was killing? He was killing Christians. He 
was killing the Lord's Body. He was killing born-again, Spirit-
filled believers. Why didn't the Lord say, "Saul, Saul, why are you 
persecuting my people?" Because that's Old Testament theology! They 
are HIS PEOPLE in the Old Testament, they are HIS BODY in the New. 
We haven't learned that yet. We are still the people of God instead 
of the Body of Christ. I'm talking about a comprehension - not 
terminology. It's the difference between being the Church and going 
to the Church. To me that's not different terminology, that's 
different comprehension. And it's not just terminology. Ignorance 
goes deep and we've built a whole gospel around it. The Church 
gathers, but it's that difference. 

There are two covenants. Both of those covenants are given of God. 
Not one of them is from the devil. Both are of God - but one is 
complete, the other is incomplete. One is letter, the other is 
Spirit. One can make perfect, the other cannot. One relates to 
Sinai, and that's the one that says you're the people of God. The 
other relates to Mt. Zion and that's the one that says you're a 
habitation of God! There's a difference in comprehending that 
you're a people of God and the very habitation of God. There's a 
difference in understanding God owns you, and God lives in you, in 
the person of His Son, by His Spirit. There's a difference in 
comprehension, and it should make a difference in your life. And if 
that comprehension is there, then everything you see, say and do is 
out from that comprehension. Everything you do is either under a 
first covenant, a first comprehension with God ... and the Bible 
says the first is not spiritual, but rather the second. And 
everything you and I do in relationship to God, therefore in 
relationship to one another, to spiritual life - everything we do 
is either under a first comprehending or a second, a first covenant 
or a second. Both given of God, yet one is mediated by man and the 
other is mediated by the Lord Jesus Himself, and that's the 
difference.

And this is why the Lord did not tell Saul, "Why are you 
persecuting my people? Why are you killing Christians?" In fact he 
was doing just that. But the comprehension of the Lord came forth - 
not the comprehension of Moses, not the comprehension of man - the 
comprehension of the Spirit, the comprehension of the Lord came 
forth - not speaking metaphorically, but speaking in REALITY. 
THAT'S MY BODY! " Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME.?" So 
much so that it startles Saul to the point that he said, " WHO ARE YOU 
LORD?" Now we're right back to the question asked here. And it's 
the question among Christians today - 'WHO ARE YOU LORD? Where
are you Lord? What are you Lord? I wish you'd do something!' Why do
 we do that? Because we love the Lord. We believe in the Lord or we 
wouldn't have the problems we have in wondering who, what, when and 
where. We're faced with these questions because we're faced with 
the love of God. We're faced with the reality of God - so we're 
faced with the questions. And in the New Covenant, that answer will 
always come in relation to His people, because HE ONLY SEES 
HIMSELF IN RELATION TO HIS PEOPLE.

It's a shame God's people don't see Him that way. To most of us 
He's far off somewhere. We try to pray Him down into the building, 
down into the situation, instead of manifesting Him in the building 
and expressing Him in the situation - we've got to talk Him into 
coming. I'm not saying don't pray. But our comprehension of prayer. 
It's a matter of comprehension, not academics. Paul cries out, "Oh, 
that ye would with all saints come to comprehend what is the 
length, the height, the depth, the breadth - the fulness of God in 
Christ." When? NOW - now with all saints. " Oh, that I may know him 
in the power of his resurrection." My prayer, Paul says, is that I 
may comprehend Him as He has comprehended me. That's the original 
translation. That I may know as I am known. He has received me in a 
comprehending. What is the comprehending of the Lord about you? 
It's that YOU ARE HIS BODY, AND THAT HE IS IN YOU, AND 
THAT THERE'S NO DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO. That's His 
comprehension. That's the way He deals. That's the reason very few of 
us understand the dealing of the Lord. We can't figure out what in the 
world He's done and why He's doing it! He deals with us in HIS 
comprehension. He met Saul on that road in His comprehension. Jesus 
could have said 'my people', but His comprehension demanded that He said,
 "Why are you persecuting me?" There's a comprehension you and I need 
to come to with regard to our relationship with Him. The Lord Jesus 
says in the day of comprehension, which is the day of the Spirit of 
Truth, you'll understand, you'll comprehend that I'm in my Father, 
and you're in me, and I'm in you. What a comprehending!

And I'm telling you, He deals with you and I on the basis of that 
comprehension. And if we're not on that level of comprehension with 
Him, we're not going to understand His dealings. We're going to 
misinterpret His dealings, misascribe His dealings - we're not 
going to comprehend His dealings with us. This was Saul. Saul knew 
who Christians were. And if the Lord had come on Saul's 
comprehension - "Why are you killing Christians?" Saul would have 
just stood there and argued with Him. " They're a sorry bunch and 
need to die. They are blaspheming." But no, the Lord comes on HIS 
COMPREHENSION. I'm going to tell you, when the Lord deals with you 
in His comprehension, there's no argument about it. Some of us 
would stand and argue with a sign post, but when it's the Lord's 
dealings, there's no argument about it. 

This is the comprehending I'm talking about. It all has to do with 
this - WHO DO MEN SAY - BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? 
"WHO ARE YOU LORD?"  Why did Saul say that? Because the Lord 
said, 'Why are you persecuting me?' Immediately the thing became a 
personal issue between Saul and the Lord. When will it be a personal 
issue with us? We can backbite each other, blaspheme each other, go 
behind our backs - and it never seems to be a personal issue between 
me and the Lord. It's just an 'I don't like you' - but I love Jesus! And 
we know that's the way it is in our hearts. We're quick to take 
each other to issue because it's never personal with the Lord. We 
can serve the Lord and hate each other. We can sing, "Oh, how I 
love Jesus" with hate and spite and evil, jealousy in our hearts, 
but I love Jesus. We don't even know who He is! We have a figment 
of imagination about the Lord Jesus. Most of us think He looks like 
some 18th century painting. There's no comprehension. See this 
question is really to His disciples. He could care less about men - 
it's His disciples. And He's coming to bring this same issue to a 
personal issue with Saul. Friends, you and I need a personal issue 
with the Lord other than something concerning our sin. About the 
closest personal encounter most of us have had in a comprehension 
with the Lord is some filthiness He took from us. But as far as 
relating to Him in His holiness, relating to Him in His 
righteousness - that's something else again. Because that's not 
something we experienced in sin. 

As we travel around the world in the Lord's Body, it kills my heart 
that the utmost testimony in the hearts of most of God's people 
relates to what He took them out of, rather than the fulness of 
what He brought them into. They're thankful they don't do this, 
that, the other any more. But having no comprehension of what 
they're into - any relationship with Him at all that is eternal and 
ongoing. And that hurts me because I don't think Great Salvation 
has anything to do with great sin! Great Salvation has to do with 
the GREATNESS OF THE LORD! Salvation isn't measured by how 
much sinning you did. Salvation is measured by HIM WHO FILLETH 
ALL THINGS! Because all have sinned and come short of the glory 
of God. And sin there is coming short of the glory of the Lord. All have 
come short of the glory of the Lord. That puts everybody in the 
same category as far as sin is concerned. So, Great Salvation is 
not measured by that, but rather by the greatness of the Lord!

What I'm telling you is you and I need to have a personal encounter 
with Jesus over something beside sin. We need to have a personal 
comprehension of Him IN HIS PERSON, in His life, in His 
righteousness, in His holiness. We are His Body. That Body is not 
for sin but for righteousness. That Body is not for death - it's 
for Life! And you can understand why Paul writes the way he does - 
look at how he got into the thing. He got into the thing in a face-
to-face encounter with the personality and person of the Lord! He 
didn't come by religion. No - he came by a personal encounter with 
the Lord. And upon what a tremendous basis he came. It's ME you are 
persecuting. It's ME you are coming against. "Why persecutest thou 
me?" " Who are thou Lord?" " I AM JESUS OF NAZARETH WHOM 
THOU PERSECUTEST." Look at this. He didn't say, "I'm the Lord God 
Almighty." He is that. I'm this, I'm that. No - "I'm Jesus of 
Nazareth. I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest." What a 
comprehending the Lord has of His Body. What a comprehending the 
Lord has of you and I. If we could only come to that same 
comprehending of Him, we would never look at ourselves the same 
again. We would never look to find our identity in a race, in a 
creed, a kind, a color, a gender or a background. If we could only 
find our identity IN JESUS!

Some say that is fanaticism, but should we say that Jesus lied to 
Saul and that Paul's concept of the gospel is a lie? Should we say 
that the revelation of Jesus Christ is something other than God 
revealing His Son in and to be in a people? Causing that people to 
come to comprehend their union with Him and walk in the divine 
realization that His Body is something more than an organization? 
That it is truly a Body made alive by Him! And though it 
tabernacles in flesh, it itself is not flesh, nor race, nor gender, 
nor creed, nor kind, but has one purpose, and that is to give Him 
full expression in the earth. And the vehicle of that Body in the 
earth is called the Church. That the Lord has personal identity 
with the Church. HE COMPREHENDS THE CHURCH IN ONENESS 
WITH HIMSELF. That's His comprehension. Oh, that the Church could 
comprehend that - indeed, that we might know as we are known. That 
ministry is given to the Spirit of Truth by Him. Well now, by the Spirit we've 
clapped our hands, sang better and preached longer and run faster. 
But His ministry goes beyond that. "In that day you will know..." 
There's a divine comprehending. I don't mind how fast you run as 
long as you run in knowledge. I'd hate to see you run ignorantly. I 
think we ought to sing with the same knowledge we preach, and 
preach with the same knowledge we sing in. By Him you shall know. 
Not just know something. You'll know that I AM IN MY FATHER. You'll 
know that YOU ARE IN ME. Think about that divine relationship. This 
is the comprehending of the Lord. No man can know these things - 
except God, except the Spirit show them. This is the Lord's 
thought. 

The first covenant is comprehended of man. It's written down in a 
law; it's comprehended of man. It can't bring you into 
completeness. The second covenant is written in blood, it is 
administered by the Spirit, and it's comprehended by no man. But it 
can bring you into the realization of the completeness of your 
Salvation. Where you don't continue to live like a people separated 
from Him. Where I don't continue to live white and you continue to 
live black, or male or female; where you don't continue to live as 
a people separated from God. But have a comprehending that goes 
beyond all understanding. And this comprehension comes through the 
revelation of Jesus Christ. Paul brought that whole Damascus 
experience down to this statement - 'IT PLEASED GOD TO REVEAL HIS 
SON IN ME'. Because you see that encounter started on the Damascus 
road and it didn't cease for 14 years and certainly for 3 years in 
the wilderness it was still an ongoing, personal encounter with the 
living Christ. God revealing His Son in Paul. A whole lot better 
than getting a basket full of sermons on love. The understanding 
how we've got to do that to each other; I've got to understand 
you're this and you've got to understand I'm this - and we just get 
together and lie to one another. We've got to understand that the 
Lord brought all of that to the cross and killed it! Understand 
that none of that comes forth in the Resurrection! Now just think 
with me - what if that comprehension filled the earth today? 
Instead of ignorance. But there is a creation that is brought to 
death by the cross ignorantly believing that it lives. What if all 
were really presented the gospel by the Church and turned to find 
themselves in Christ - not in religion - in Christ? Now you read 
about that in the Bible. Do you think it's going to come down by 
angels? It will either be administered by the people who are part 
of it or it won't be administered. It will either be manifested in 
the earth in the reality of Christ, or forget it!

We need to wake up and realize, 'My God, we're not just a bunch of 
people here, but THE LIVING BODY OF CHRIST! Comprehending that - 
how that will change individuals, corporate lives and expressions, 
homes and cities. If that true comprehension filled our souls. And 
I'm telling you that's the Gospel. This is the truth that we 
encounter when Christ is revealed in us. Not fables, and it's not 
just something to make you feel better. IT'S THE TRUTH. I don't 
think the Lord cared whether Saul felt better or not. He was 
confronted with the Truth. He confronted His disciples with the 
Truth. The answer came through Peter, who had received that answer 
through God.

"Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God." But the Lord 
immediately said, yes, and it is upon this realization, this divine 
realization concerning who the Son of Man is, that I will build up 
my Church. Build it up what? Build it up in the knowledge of me. 
Build it up in the Head. Build it up in the fulness of me, that the 
Church come to comprehend this understanding. He brought that right 
into the foundation of the Church. Who is the Son of Man? That is 
the question today, and that can only be revealed by the Spirit in 
a personal encounter with Christ! I can show you in the scripture - 
The Son of Man and all that term and title and realization implies 
can not be known except Christ be revealed in you. In every case 
the question is answered through the revealing of the Son. And in 
every case it is the Father who reveals the Son and in every case 
He reveals that Son in those whose hearts turned to truly see Him. 
It seems like we have to be brought to a crisis before that time. A 
lot of times a crisis demands honesty. If most of us would just get 
honest, we'd immediately be in a crisis. We'd immediately be faced 
with a realization, 'My God, I don't really comprehend all this. I 
know my sins are forgiven, but what I comprehend of you Lord is 
what I no longer am. I comprehend very little of who you are.'

I remember when I came to that crisis and it hit me like a bolt of 
lightning. I not only don't know and comprehend what the will of 
God is, I don't even comprehend that God has a will. That's a 
preacher for you. I thought I knew until God brought me face-to-
face with a man who said everything that I am... "Paul, servant of 
God, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God..." And then 
began to define that will in the next 14 verses. And I looked and 
said, My God, I don't understand that. And if I don't comprehend 
that, then what I'm doing is not by the will of God - it's by 
ignorance, it's by something else. But this man Paul, said my whole 
servitude, my whole apostleship, everything is by the will of God. 
We think the will of God is God's good intentions about something. 
That has nothing to do with it. It's defined in those verses. We 
come face-to-face with the will of God in the revelation of Jesus 
Christ - and Paul did too. We're laying a foundation for the Holy 
Spirit, because only He can reveal This Son. You and I can look at 
each other until we get tired, and we won't see This Son. You only 
see This Son when God reveals His Son. My Father hath revealed 
this. God revealed His Son in me. 

Let's lay a little pattern in the Old Testament. Isaiah 66. "Thus 
saith the Lord, the heaven is my throne. The earth is my footstool. 
Where is the house that ye build unto me? Where is the place of my 
rest?" Now folks, let me just speak personally. In my travels 
throughout the world, I've helped build buildings and built 
buildings - church buildings, Bible school buildings, but I've 
never built a church. I've just built buildings. HE BUILDS THE 
CHURCH! I was born again under the ministry of a missionary, and 
I've heard missionaries - built 30 churches, this one built 50 
churches. What they've built is buildings. There's nothing wrong 
with building buildings, but the building is not the Church! We've 
built a lot of buildings. I don't know that there's much of the 
Church. We've got a lot of Christians, but Christians are like 
bricks. Until they're placed upon a foundation, they don't 
constitute a Church - they just constitute Christians. That's the 
reason the Church has a foundation, something that brings it 
together. The Church implies something brought together for purpose 
of sight, for purpose of view, for purpose of witness. I didn't say 
you're not a believer or a son of God, but I'm not a Church and 
neither are you. The Church is constituted by a gathering in the 
knowledge of Jesus Christ. The Church is to be built up into the 
Head in all things. There's nobody doubting whether you're a brick, 
or a good brick, or the stuff you're made out of. But a good brick 
is a poor substitute for a building. A lot of us are good rolling 
stones, I don't mean we are not only grounded in a location, we're 
not even grounded in a true faith. But foundation implies something 
in which you are set - established.

That's what the Lord is saying here. "Heaven is my throne. The 
earth is my footstool. What are you going to build me?" Anything 
you're going to build, you're going to build it out of something 
that I made. What is it that you're going to build me? The 
disciples took the Lord out and said, 'Look at this temple. Look at 
all these buildings. Look at this, Jesus!' They thought He was 
going to get excited about that temple that was as empty as a tomb, 
because He had just departed from it. He had just went out and 
departed from it. Those are important Greek terms. He had went out 
and departed from it and they were still excited about it - most of 
us are too. It makes no difference whether the Lord's there or not 
- we're just excited about it. It looks like a church, it's got a 
steeple on it, Lord knows it cost enough - we just get excited. 
See, they teach you in seminary, that if your people kind of get 
slack, start a building program and get them involved. That is 
taught! Get them involved, keep them busy. I'm not against building 
anything, but to substitute that for KNOWING HIM - and to 
substitute administrating for feeding the sheep - and then you and 
I still have the gall to call that the Church? Shame on you!

So He's saying, what is it that you're going to build me? Now this 
is God saying this. " But unto THIS MAN will I look." God looks to 
A MAN. He always has. He always will. The end of God's view, the 
end of God's vision is A MAN. The question is who is The Man, what 
is The Man, where is The Man? But the point is - it is A MAN. Not a 
flesh man, but a Man. More appropriately, a Mankind. Biblically, 
scripturally, a Mankind. But what kind? UNTO THIS MAN. Something 
of the nature of This Man is given there because His nature is the 
nature of the Lamb. His birthplace is given there, because He's 
born in Zion. So, something of The Man is spoken of, but the point 
I'm making is, God says, what is it you're going to build me, where 
am I going to find my rest, my completion, my habitation? No - UNTO 
THIS MAN WILL I LOOK. And the word "look" there is tremendously 
important. It's brought right over into the New Testament. " And to 
you who look for him..." "Unto This Man will I look."

The word "look" is akin to the word "vision", to "sight". Look, 
see. Abraham was told of the Lord, 'Now I want you to get out of 
this place and I want you to go to a land that I will show you.' 
That term is 'ra-ah'. It means that which God reveals. It means if 
God doesn't show it to you, you can't see it. We think Abraham was 
just out there stumbling around in the dark somewhere. That's not 
it. He just walked until God showed him the land. How did the Lord 
do that? Genesis 12 verse 7, And when Abraham had journeyed and 
come to a certain place, the Lord didn't say, 'this is the place.' 
The scripture says, "The Lord appeared unto Abram." "I will show 
you a land - and the Lord showed Himself to Abram." You've got to 
understand. That's the habitation. That's the land he saw, because 
that's the land wherein the seed of God dwells. And that's the land 
that is not measured - it far excels the sand or the stars - the 
measure of that land is the measure of the fulness of the stature 
of Christ! No where in the Bible has God just showed somebody 
something - showed them a thing. I'm telling you, no where. He 
shows Himself! Because He's given us nothing less than that. He has 
brought us into union with nothing less than Himself.

"UNTO THIS MAN WILL I LOOK.' He is the end of my vision. Do you 
know I could say, behold the Salvation of the Lord - and I'm 
pointing to This Man! Here is His Salvation! His Salvation is not a 
thing that He does. It's A MAN! Yes, there's much to be said about 
it, but I'm just establishing now it's a Mankind. God is a living 
God. He's not after non-living things. So, it's a LIVING MAN. In 
fact it's the only Man who truly does live. WHO DO YOU SAY THIS 
SON OF MAN IS? That's the question. This is The Man. He is God's 
point of view. In other words, everything God sees or thinks of, He 
thinks of with This Man in view. So if God is speaking to you about 
righteousness, He has This Man in view. If God is speaking to you 
about holiness, He has This Man in view; fulness - He has This Man. 
God receives nothing other than This Man.

Now the first man - Adam - fell short of This Man. This Man 
represents the glory of God. So the first mankind, that which is 
born after the flesh, fell short of the glory of God. He is in sin. 
Why? Because he fell short of the glory of God. God can not look to 
that man (Adam) and see Himself. God can't look to that man and see 
holiness. He can't look to that man. That's why He put that whole 
thing under a law, and said, thou shalt surely die, and kept it 
under a law which could only condemn, not make perfect - until the 
perfect should come! The end of the journey of this first man, 
Adam, is the cross. One ends and the other begins. But God's view 
remains This Man. So everything of the cross has to be seen in this 
point of view. The cross is not just to kill the first man, the 
cross is not just where some sins were taken away. There's more to 
it than that. The cross in God's heart is measured by This Man. It 
is an instrument for the producing of This Man. God's view never 
varies. UNTO THIS MAN WILL I LOOK - and that means to no other. 
Unto This Man and no other. This Man is my view. Now all of the 
movement of God then is towards This Man. All of His activities in 
your life is toward This Man. It's not just for getting you 
somewhere - it's toward getting This Man - for His glory! We've 
stopped the journey too soon. All of the activity of the Holy 
Spirit in every book of the Bible is that way - toward That Man. 
Yes, in the one part in type and shadow, but in the New Testament 
in reality of Spirit and Truth. All of the activities of the Spirit 
are toward bringing forth THAT ONE MAN!

Here's where I come to a crossroads with Christians. Because if you 
don't want to be part of That Man, I don't know what to do with 
you. Because there's not another gospel, there's not a secondary 
salvation, there's not a second road. It's not that way. God had A 
Man in His mind, settled in His heart, and this is what He will 
have. I can say now, in the person of Christ, this is what He does 
have - in person. But we'll have to come to understand that This 
Man doesn't just represent a person, it represents manifestation of 
person. This is a tremendous Man - one seen of God, one created of 
God, one purposed of God to give Him expression. It's not me in the 
flesh, it's not you. No, No, No. This One is revealed of the 
Father. But I'll tell you, THIS ONE IS SALVATION! This One is the 
Redeemed of the Lord. This One is the end of God's view. UNTO THIS 
MAN.

This Man is the end. He is the view of God. Consequentially, This 
Man is the view and the end of all prophets and of all prophesy. 
This Man is the end of all scripture. I didn't say throw your Bible 
away. He is the end - the conclusion of all scripture. Scripture 
does not go beyond This Man. Prophesy does not go beyond This Man - 
He is the end. God has elevated from time to time, a ministry up to 
His point of view both in the Old and the New Testament. In the Old 
Testament it was largely figurative, but it was true. In the New 
Testament it was by divine revelation of the indwelling Christ. But 
God elevated ministry in order to keep the realization of This Man 
alive among His people - the gospel alive. The prophets spoke 
beyond their time, but they spoke of This Man. Now Paul did not 
speak beyond his time - this thing was revealed in him, and he 
declared the reality of it. But This Man is the end of all 
prophesy. Prophesy doesn't go beyond this conclusion, This Man. 

We could look at three prophets - Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, but 
all prophets speak of this Man. It has to be that way, because look 
at Acts 3 verse 19. What is my point? This Man is the end of the 
view of God, consequently He is the end of all prophesy and 
prophets. There are no prophets beyond Him either - why should 
there be? " Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that your sins 
may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the 
presence of the Lord. And he shall send Jesus Christ which before 
was 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." Since the world 
began by the mouth of all of his holy prophets, God has spoken of 
the times of the restitution of all things. All things where? All 
things in Christ - for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the 
deep things of God. The term 'restitution' here is akin to the term 
'apokalupsis' which means the uncovering or the revealing and it is 
used directly in connection with Paul saying God revealed His Son 
in me. It's also used in Peter with the revelation of Jesus Christ 
- the taking the lid off of something that is there. It means 
specifically in the Greek - uncovering what is there so that it may 
be seen perfectly - uncovering, unveiling. Everything is working 
toward such an unveiling, such a restoring, such a comprehending. 
This term also means "setting in divine order." The establishing of 
heavenly order. A Man coming into the full order of the Spirit! And 
all the prophets spoke of this. Then he gives an example. " For 
Moses truly said unto the fathers, a prophet, (not a mere one among 
prophets) shall the Lord your God raise unto you of your brethren 
like unto me. Him ye shall hear in all things..." Here is the 
restitution. " Him ye shall hear in all things, and it shall come 
to pass that every soul (mind, heart) that shall not hear that 
word, that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people." I'm 
telling you He's bringing forth ONE! His final Word, His final 
Prophet - the One of whom all scripture speaks - His voice you will 
hear!

The writer of the Hebrews says, " If they who heard him that spake 
in the earth did not escape, but received just recompense, how 
shall ye escape if you refuse him who speaketh from heaven?" Such a 
One! Such a comprehending to come to the people of God through the 
revelation of Jesus Christ, the ever living Word! The summation of 
everything God has ever said being said in A MAN, being revealed in 
a people, to be expressed in the earth. Not doctrines to be argued, 
dear friends, CHRIST TO BE EXPRESSED, CHRIST TO BE 
MANIFESTED, THE LIVING WORD OF GOD TO BE EXPRESSED!

But I want you to see the person of That Man - it is not me. Oh, no 
- WHO ARE YOU LORD? "I am Jesus Christ whom thou persecutest." 
Who are you Lord? " Thou art the Son of God, the ever living Christ." 
Yes - all that's true, but in what frame of reference? After what 
viewpoint? A MANKIND - revealed in a people, revealed in His Body, 
That Body which must grow up into Him who is the Head in all things 
that He might have fulness of expression and fulness of 
manifestation! Folks, this is a great Salvation! The deliverance 
part of it is great enough. " Who hath delivered you from the power 
of darkness..." But go on with that. " He hath translated you into 
the kingdom of his dear Son." That's a powerful word in the Bible. 
That's something that can only be effected by the Spirit of God. 
That's like taking you out from one creation and bringing you into 
a totally new creation. Hallelujah! " Translated you into the 
kingdom of his dear Son... who is the image of the invisible God, 
and the firstborn..." Hallelujah - GREAT SALVATION!

BEHOLD THE SALVATION OF THE LORD! Moses' word to Israel 
was " Stand still and behold the salvation of the Lord." They didn't do 
either, did they? They couldn't stand still and see salvation, and they 
died in the wilderness. They saw a lot of dead Egyptians, but 
there's more to the Salvation of the Lord than dead Egyptians. As 
great as that is, there's more to the Salvation of the Lord than 
that. Salvation of the Lord was finally seen on Mt. Zion in Canaan. 
BEHOLD THE SALVATION OF THE LORD! Why? Because you are 
come to Mt. Zion for the purpose of beholding the Salvation of the Lord! 
And that's The Man God hath made. He comes by death, and burial and 
resurrection! He is revealed in the person of Jesus Christ and 
manifested in a people. BEHOLD THE SALVATION OF THE LORD!  
Blessed be the Lamb of God! AMEN.

	PART TWO

Let's turn back to Matthew 16 and the foundation we have already 
laid regarding WHO IS THE SON OF MAN? About three years ago I was 
praying as I was being dealt with of the Lord. And I prayed, 'Lord, 
I want to know you in your coming.' And I just went on and talked 
to the Lord. I said, 'I'm not talking about some more doctrines 
about the coming of the Lord or a dispensational chart. Lord, what 
I'm asking is to know YOU in your coming. I'm not asking about an 
event or events. Lord, I want to know you in relation to your 
coming. I want to KNOW YOU IN YOUR COMING!' That's the way the 
Spirit of the Lord phrased it in my heart. I want to know you in 
your coming. A few days after that, we were in a meeting, and a 
good brother said to me, 'J W, something's been going over in my 
heart for several days and I don't have a hand on it. But the 
Spirit of the Lord just keeps dealing with me about the SON OF 
MAN.' And it was just like a shot, and I knew the Lord was speaking 
to me. And I said, that's interesting. And he said, 'I can't get it 
off my mind, and I'm just determined to really begin to search the 
scriptures in reference to that.' And so I didn't say anything 
more, but from that time on the Lord began to deal with my heart 
concerning the SON OF MAN. And as I began to look at the scripture 
concerning the coming of the Son of Man, the thing that the Lord 
began to deal with me about is - WHO IS THIS SON OF MAN?

And it was as that the Spirit of the Lord just kept telling me, how 
will you ever understand His coming until you understand His 
person? WHO IS THIS SON OF MAN? In what relationship is Christ 
seen, what frame of reference is this - It is Christ, but in what 
frame of reference? In reference to what? In what point of view, in 
what order is this Him? And it's taken a long time for the Lord to 
deal with me about this because I had so many built in barriers in 
my heart. Some of the things I began to see in the face of the Lord 
I just absolutely refused to even say, because I have in me a fear 
- an awe, a respect, a reverence for the Lord - a fear of the Lord 
of falseness and perversion. I'd rather just say nothing, than give 
vent to that. You see I didn't ask the Lord for sermons - no - I 
want to know the Lord in His coming, and how that relates to me, to 
the Church. I want to know Him in that realm of comprehension, and 
have that exercised in me and unto me. And it was in all of that 
the Lord began to deal with me about the Son of Man and is still 
doing so.

We have dealt before with "The Evercoming One" and that is very 
much in reference to the Son of Man. So this has come over three 
years full circle back into my heart with great force. The Lord has 
given me what it takes to share - the urgency of His Spirit to 
share with the Body of Christ concerning this glorious identity 
that Christ has with His people. And this glorious comprehension 
that Christ has with those that are His. We dealt with this - how 
He arrested Saul on the road to Damascus and the Lord dealt with 
him according to the Lord's comprehension, not Saul's. And in doing 
so, he was confronting Saul in a way that very few had ever been 
confronted of the Lord -if any. I wonder how many of us have been 
confronted of the Lord according to His comprehension? Think about 
that. Because I tell you there's a new comprehension coming - a 
broader, deeper, Spirit-given comprehension coming. To walk is to 
comprehend - those words are the same. To grow up into Him who is 
the Head means a comprehending of Him. Our walk is in knowledge - 
not academic knowledge - the knowledge of the Son of God. Our walk 
and our growth is in knowledge. Maturity is a thing of knowledge. 
Not brain knowledge, but that knowledge that conforms the soul into 
the image of the glory of God. That knowledge in fact, which Christ 
Himself is - for He is the wisdom and the knowledge and the 
understanding and the eternal Word of God! And it's God's desire to 
reveal Him in you. Paul prayed this for you and I 2,000 years ago 
when he said, "I would that ye would with all saints come to 
comprehend what is the length, and the breadth and the depth and 
the height, the fulness of God in Christ Jesus." And then he goes 
on to say He is able to do this very thing. He is able to do above 
and beyond what we're even able to think. And he prayed that right 
in the same line with comprehending. 

The scripture says concerning the people in whom He shall write His 
Word and goes on to say, "In that day ye shall know that..." That's 
a comprehending, you see. But you know most of us when we were 
born-again, were confronted by sin. I would to God we had been 
comprehended in the way that Saul was. Most of us weren't - we were 
comprehended on the basis of sin. Someone preached us "under 
conviction". I have no problem with that, but when we were 
confronted, we were confronted with our state of sin, really more 
than we were by the person of Christ. In fact, in many cases, 
Christ was reduced from who He really is - the Living Christ - to 
one who would just forgive our sins, wash our sins away. We 
received Him as Savior. Is He not? Yes He is, but I'm talking about 
a comprehension. He was preached to most of us on such a level that 
the thing we were confronted with was a salvation that would get us 
out of sin or forgive us for being a sinful person. But didn't 
really confront us with much of life in Christ - a new life! So 
that when we come to receive Him, most of us, in our comprehension, 
what we received was forgiveness of sins. And that's true, but 
that's what we really thought it was all about. 

You see the Lord's confrontation with Saul wasn't over just 
forgiving him for killing Christians - there was more to it than 
that. He was brought right up in a confrontation with the Lord and 
the Lord apprehended him in a comprehension and said "IT'S ME 
YOU'RE PERSECUTING. Not Christians - ME!" The Lord brought 
Himself right into the situation. Most of us, even in our comprehension 
of salvation, was not presented with a gospel in which the Lord was 
able to say 'it's ME against whom you're sinning.' We were brought 
to a salvation that just condemned us over certain things we were 
doing, that were wrong and we knew they were wrong - and we got 
forgiveness of sin. But most of us never really see ourselves as 
being transgressors against Him! Salvation is true, but it only 
affects you according to your comprehension of it. For instance, 
when you were born-again, you were also translated into the Kingdom 
of His dear Son, but if you don't comprehend that - you may go out 
the next day and not sin, but you won't go out the next day in the 
understanding - "I'M IN CHRIST JESUS!" You'll go out and know I've 
come to the Lord and something wonderful has happened to me, I feel 
different, I feel clean, my sins are forgiven - and they are! But 
what I'm telling you is there's a greater comprehension of 
salvation than getting out of Egypt!

That was Israel - they comprehended they were out of Egypt. But 
they could not comprehend Canaan. And Canaan was God's idea of 
salvation - not getting out of Egypt. And because they couldn't, or 
wouldn't comprehend - and the Bible says because of unbelief - they 
would not comprehend - they refused to comprehend. And they all 
died. They didn't die because they weren't delivered. They died 
because they wouldn't go into Canaan. They didn't die because they 
stayed in Egypt, they died because they wouldn't go into Canaan. 
They didn't die because God's promise failed, they died because 
they wouldn't comprehend the promise of God. There are Christians 
today dying spiritually, and probably physically as well, and in 
battles in their heart and soul simply because they do not 
comprehend Great Salvation! The Lord would have us to come to a 
comprehension of Himself! Not just what He's brought us from but 
what He's brought us to. So that salvation would not just be a 
continual ordeal of not sinning, but salvation would begin to be a 
growing up into Him in all things. So that salvation would not just 
be a people who don't do this or that, but salvation would be 
represented by a people manifesting Christ! But I'm just saying 
that most of us when we came to the Lord, came on that level of 
comprehension, and we were dealt with more on the comprehending of 
sins and sinning. I have been in Pentecost all of my life. I am one 
who could fill an altar preaching against short hair and lipstick. 
And people actually came and repented and said they got saved - and 
their comprehension of salvation was not having short hair and not 
wearing lipstick. 

I'm not telling you that through repentance and the mercy of God 
and the Spirit they weren't saved, I'm telling you when they got up 
from there they no more comprehended salvation than they did when 
they got down there. If something transpired in them, they had no 
comprehension of it. People are in bondage in the Church today - 
for many it's the greatest jailhouse upon the face of the earth. We 
can't declare the reality of Christ to them, so we just keep 
putting them into one bondage after another bondage. I'm not saying 
they're not saved, I'm saying most people that are saved have no 
Spirit comprehension of what it really means. Because it has been 
relegated to these other things by people who presented what was 
supposed to be the gospel to them. Now Paul said the Lord will use 
anything. He said I know there's some out there preaching Jesus 
just to contempt me - they're making fun of me. But he says, Jesus 
is being preached one way or the other! But if God can really bring 
a person to true salvation through that kind of foolishness - what 
can He do with the TRUTH? A greater comprehension. 

This is what the Lord confronts them with. He says, " Who do you 
say that I the Son of Man am?" That's what it finally comes down 
to. What is your comprehension of me as the Son of Man? And it is 
interesting that He does not ask the multitudes that. He doesn't 
ask the Pharisees that. He asks His disciples that, because the 
question is concerning them and their relationship with Christ. He 
asks the forerunners of the Church this question, and He brings it 
right into the foundation of the Church as we saw - THE SON OF MAN!

We looked then at Isaiah 66, "UNTO THIS MAN WILL I LOOK." And 
we made the point that the end of God's view - how far does God see? 
HE SEES TO THIS MAN! He looks to This Man. Does He look beyond 
This Man? He does not look beyond This Man. The end of God's intention 
is This Man. This is locked up in the word "look". It is God's line 
of view. It is the apple of God's eye. It is God's desire and 
divine intention. What? This Man! But the reference there is as my 
place of rest, as my dwelling place, as the finality of all that I 
have considered to do. Because the question was what is it that 
you're going to build me on this earth? What house will you build 
me? What work will you do for me? What can you do for me wherein I 
can find rest? My hands have provided all things. No - UNTO THIS 
MAN WILL I LOOK. 

This Man is the finished work of God! The work that the Lord Jesus 
said I come to finish the work my Father gave me to do. On the 
cross He said, "It is finished." UNTO THIS MAN WILL I LOOK. God 
does not look past This Man. We saw the nature of This Man and his 
birthplace. He's born in Zion - when Zion travails. This Man is 
God's view. There are three words I will use - God's view, God's 
vision, God's mirror. It has always been in God's heart to bring 
whoever He dealt with into the view of That Man, because it is a 
transforming view. It is a view of the Spirit. It is not something 
you see afar off. It's something that the Spirit shows you. Is 
salvation far off? Salvation is in you! And yet salvation is 
something that only the Spirit can show you. Now the law can 
convict you, but only the Spirit can show you salvation. The law 
can convict you of sin, and what I'm saying is most of our 
preaching is along that line. But the Spirit can show you 
salvation.

What is the single command that should have gotten Israel from 
Egypt into Canaan - without any other command, without Ten 
Commandments, without Mt. Sinai, without any other? "Stand still 
and see the salvation of the Lord." They saw a great deliverance 
but they never saw the salvation of the Lord. A few days after they 
saw a great deliverance they were all moaning, complaining, they 
wanted to go back. If they had seen the salvation of the Lord that 
wouldn't have happened. Salvation of the Lord was not visibly seen 
until David brought Israel to Mt. Zion and unveiled the glory of 
God in their midst. And was not for Israel that the end of the 
journey? Did not their journey continue until David brought them to 
Mt. Zion, named them the city of the King, brought them out of 
their divisions into one house, and unveiled in the midst of them 
the glory of God? That was the end of Israel's journey. And it 
speaks of a tremendous spiritual reality and the writer of the book 
of Hebrews saw that and he said, listen here, "YOU HAVE COME TO 
MT. ZION!" You and I have been brought to the end of the journey. I'm 
not journeying! I am not wandering! You are no longer pilgrims, you 
are not longer strangers, but citizens of the household of God. I'm 
not on a journey, Hallelujah! I've come home! Ye are in Mt. Zion. 
You are in Mt. Zion. That's the end of the journey. 

Now what happens there? God reveals His Man! God reveals His Son! 
And it is in the view of that Son that Solomon represents that the 
house of God comes together upon Mt. Zion and the glory of God 
fills that house, beyond which any man can stand and minister. And 
the nations come to the glory of it. Well you are come to Mt. Zion. 
Then what's the next thing in order? The revealing of the Son! The 
coming of the Evercoming One. The revealing of the Son of Man. 
Solomon represents all of this. David represents a view of Christ 
that brings you there. Solomon represents a view of Christ that 
comes up in the midst. Solomon was born in Zion. UNTO THIS MAN 
WILL I LOOK. Solomon was born in Zion. He is a type of That Man 
that comes forth in Zion - that is revealed of God. Solomon twice 
revealed of His father, David. Solomon came to sit upon the throne 
of His father, not take it away from him, but perpetuate that 
throne of His father. Solomon revealed in the midst of Zion and in 
the midst of a people. Solomon who by wisdom, understanding and 
knowledge brought the house, the temple of God together piece by 
piece. Not by effort, not by might, by my Spirit saith the Lord. 
Not a sound of a man's tool was upon the thing. I'm telling you 
there's only one thing that's going to bring the house of God 
together in Zion - and that's This Man being revealed.
It's you and I through God revealed in The Son come to see that we 
are all One Man! And come to see The Man that we are by Him, 
through Him, in Him, because of Him, in oneness with Him, for the 
purpose of manifesting Him. And then you will have seen the 
salvation of the Lord! Then you will have seen a greater than 
Solomon has come, Jesus said. Thus He said speaking of the coming 
of the Son of Man. Greater than Solomon. Greater glory because the 
glory of This Man is the glory of the Lord! The glory of This Man 
is Christ in you - the expectation of glory. This Man is not born 
of woman. This Man comes by death, burial and resurrection. I'm 
excited about the salvation of the Lord! I'm excited about the 
creation of God in Christ Jesus!

So, unto This Man. Then God's effort of the Spirit has been to 
bring every ministry and every prophet unto this view. Let's look 
at some of them. My point is - He is the end, the view of all 
prophets and all prophesy. We went to Acts 3:19-23 in our last 
lesson. He must be received of heaven, retained. And it's speaking 
there of the manifestation of Him being retained until order is 
established, until perfect order comes, until perfect view comes, 
until perfect comprehension comes. And the writer there says it's 
what all the prophets have talked about. And then he gives an 
example - Moses himself spoke of it when he said the Lord shall 
raise up unto you of your brethren a prophet. I'm telling you This 
Man is the final prophet of God. He's the final prophetic Word of 
God. HE IS THE WORD OF GOD MADE MANIFEST! We're not talking about 
two sons here - we're talking about One Son revealed in a people. 
To the point that those people are virtually, literally by the 
Spirit of God transformed into an expression of Him! Should not His 
Body give Him full expression? If not His Body, then whatever 
could, whatever will? THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN YOU CRIES OUT 
RIGHT NOW TO BE REVEALED - to transform our minds, transform 
our inner man, to work in you that very mind of Christ Himself. If the 
Spirit of Christ is in you, the Spirit of Christ in you now cries out for 
such a revealing! That's what makes His Body a living Body! Rather 
than just an empty temple, an empty tomb that He's departed out 
from. The very Spirit of Christ in you. Yes - because you are sons, 
God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your heart crying out, 
Abba, Father - God, my Father. He is in you - crying out to be 
revealed!

Why should He not? You're the place of His revealing. You are come 
to such a place. You are come to such a mountain - to be revealed. 
Even Moses, he said, spake of such a One. And those who did not 
hear such a One were defiled, they did not come to completion, they 
were brought to ruin. Who don't hear who? Who don't hear HIM! Him 
who speaks from heaven. We're so used to being spoken to in words, 
and God speaks in WORD! In sundry times and time past He spoke in 
words. He spoke in words to the prophets, but all the prophets 
spoke words concerning This One Man - This One Word - This One Son 
to be revealed. " But hath at the end of those times spoken unto us 
in Son". That tells me that if the Son has not been revealed in me, 
I have not heard the voice of God. If the Son has not been revealed 
in me, all I know is words about Him, maybe good words, hard words, 
strong words - but words nonetheless. Until the Word, The Son... 
God has spoken in Son. He has a better way of speaking than through 
preachers, than through prophets. He desires to reveal His Son. God 
has spoken in Son! Consequently then, the purpose of ministry has 
become not to speak about Him, but to declare Him. And bring a 
people to hear Him and to see Him! Not substitute ourselves for 
Him, but to bring a people unto Him.

My Lord - there's nothing like the living Word of the living God 
being revealed. There's nothing like personal confrontation with 
the Lord Jesus. Nothing like it! All the prophets have spoken of 
This Man. Sure, because God has brought them to view him. Look at 
Isaiah 6. We're looking at the Person of This Man. He is the end of 
the view of all the prophets. " In the year that King Uzziah 
died..." Uzziah represents everything that is not Christ. Uzziah 
represents the flesh. He represents one who seeks to do worship, 
one who seeks to make sacrifice, one who seeks to live in the 
temple of God, that is not Christ. Paul brings that right over into 
the New Testament and he says, " If any man defile the temple of 
God, him shall God defile." What that really means is the same 
thing he did to Uzziah. God will show him to be what he is, He will 
bring him to ruin. There's another reference where one seeks to 
stand where he should not. Uzziah represents that. So, how do you 
defile the temple of God? Not with make up. Not with a ring or some 
sort of a necktie. There are denominations that you can't preach in 
wearing a necktie! Look what the scriptures say - "If any man 
defile..." Do you know how you defile the temple of God? You defile 
the temple of God by living in it. It's God's temple. Man defiles 
it by living in it. Living my life. 

No wonder Paul said, " It's not I, it's Christ that liveth in me." 
That's a comprehension that doesn't fall off the roof and hit you 
on the head. That's a comprehension that comes when God reveals 
Christ in you, and brings you and I into that personal 
confrontation - It's not me, it's Him! He lives in me! All of a 
sudden divine order is established. He's the Son and I'm the 
temple. He's the Head and I'm the Body - divine order is 
established. Because He lives ye shall live also - divine order is 
established. It's always the Son first - and last - and always. "I 
AM CRUCIFIED." Paul came to that confrontation. It's the Lord who 
liveth in me - not I. But see, right now we hear that bouncing off 
of our eardrums, we hear it as a vibration of the words, not The 
Word being revealed in us. But that very Son right now is crying 
out to take His place in His temple. That very Son is crying out 
right now to purge His temple and wash it with the washing of the 
water of the Word, and bring it into a comprehending of Him. So 
that very temple would go out of this place shouting and leaping in 
a comprehension that it is not I that liveth - but Christ liveth in 
me! That a divine comprehension would take hold of our hearts.

Uzziah represents everything that stands against that. "I'm king, 
I'll go in here. I'll do this. I'll do that." The ministry of the 
Spirit comes in and says, 'You don't belong here, mister.' He just 
pushes that away. The Spirit of God deals with us every day about 
things and in things. So we try to get rid of things. No - He's 
dealing with you and I about you and I! We just substitute bad 
things for good things. It's still me. He's dealing with me about 
me. All Uzziah was trying to do was offer sacrifices and spiritual 
worship. I mean he wasn't in there committing adultery. The whole 
point was he wasn't supposed to be in there. He wasn't properly 
clothed. He did not, you see, even in type, represent the Lord or 
the Spirit of the Lord. He wasn't sanctified through death, through 
the blood, as were the priests. He didn't belong there. Christ and 
Christ alone lives in This Man! Christ and Christ alone lives in 
This Creation! He comes by His blood, by His death, by His burial, 
His resurrection. Nobody else lives here but Him! Everything here 
lives by Him and because He lives, I live! If any man defiles the 
temple of God, him will God defile. Him will God bring to ruin. God 
will uncover his leprous condition. Uzziah died as a leper as a 
result of that. Now see, all of that took place - now the Lord can 
be seen! In the year that King Uzziah died. Up until that time 
Uzziah was King, but in the year King Uzziah died - not old man 
Uzziah - King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord high and lifted up 
sitting upon HIS THRONE. The issue here is where? IN HIS TEMPLE! 
I didn't just see the Lord. I saw the Lord in His temple, whose 
temple ye are! See, that's the whole point, it's where do you see 
the Lord?

Not in a figment of my imagination - no - I saw Him in His temple, 
sitting on His throne, and His majesty, train, glory, His majesty 
filled that temple! Now that's the revelation with which the book 
and the prophesy of Isaiah begins. The thing it ends with is "Unto 
This Man will I look." When the Lord is revealed, His habitation is 
revealed. When He who is your life shall appear, then shall ye also 
appear, as one with Him in glory. What I'm telling you is This Man 
can't be seen until the Lord appears because all This Man is, is 
the appearing of the Lord! No wonder Paul says we don't look after 
the flesh. "If any man be in Christ he is a new creation." And I'm 
telling you, you can't see That Man. You can't see that creation 
until the creator of it appears in the midst of it and gives it 
visibility by His own appearing! There's no way you and I can 
comprehend our relationship with Him until He's revealed in us. We 
can comprehend our relationship with Him based upon sin - I don't 
do this. But you see that's a small comprehension, a lesser 
comprehension, that's comprehending me and what I don't do. That's 
still not a comprehending of Him. That's not a comprehending of the 
place wherein I now live. There's no comprehension of a new 
creation in that. 

And then what do we do without that comprehension? Well, we just 
struggle all our life to stay out of the old one that we're out of. 
So we fight the devil every day we live, we fight sin every day we 
live, and most of our prayers are 'God help me to hold out to the 
end before the devil catches me.' Paul was praying along these 
lines, in one of the last letters he wrote before they cut his head 
off - " Oh, that I may know Him and the power of His ..." Not that 
I may stay out of sin, and that I may hold out and serve God - NO - 
"That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection." Still 
being made conformable to His death - that Uzziah died. Still 
enjoying Him in the fellowship of His sufferings. "For I reckon 
that the sufferings of this present world are not worthy to be 
compared with the glory that shall be revealed in me - in us." 
Glory to God!

Isaiah saw The Man. He saw the Lord in His temple and the train 
filled the temple and as a result of that the glory of God was seen 
filling the earth. As a result of that, all ministry (Isaiah 
representing that present day ministry) fell on its face and said, 
'My God, I'm not even worthy to talk about this kind of salvation. 
There's none in Israel that understands this kind of salvation.' I 
find myself there continually. I look and say, 'My God, I can't 
even say this. There's not a language made for man to say this.' 
Because I'm not talking about me really, I'm talking about Him! And 
yet you sound like a silly person. Paul did - he sounded like an 
idiot. " I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not 
I..." Somebody said, make up your mind. Why doesn't he make up his 
mind - he either does or he doesn't, it's just that simple. Well, 
it isn't that simple, No sir, I live but not I. I LIVE BUT LIFE IS 
HIM! I LIVE BY LIFE BUT THE LIFE BY WHICH I LIVE IS HIM. 
HE HASN'T GIVEN ME LIFE MERELY - HE LIVES IN ME!  He 
that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

That comprehension comes. He comes out of the dark corners of the 
universe and comes to confront you right where He is - within! And 
we come to comprehend Him there. And I'm telling you there's not a 
language among man that can explain that or speak of that. Every 
tongue becomes dumb, every eye becomes blind, every heart and head 
has to bow and say, 'Oh God, I can't say this. I don't have the 
language to say this.' That's the truth. That's the reason there's 
so much misunderstanding out of the preaching of this. One will 
hear one thing, another will hear another. This is a Word that only 
the Spirit of God can say, but it's shut up in my bones and I can 
not be quiet, I must declare this Word. No - I can't reveal it, but 
I must declare Him that is revealed in me. I see the prophets and 
the scriptures speaking of Him and I must declare Him. If hearts 
might turn to see Him and behold Him and be caught up in the 
realization of Him - changed, transformed, and become an expression 
of Him. Why? Because the Holy Spirit won't rest until He makes 
Jerusalem a praise in the earth! If He won't accomplish that in you 
and I, He'll accomplish that in somebody else. But it's going to be 
accomplished because it's accomplished in Christ Jesus. And what is 
accomplished in Christ is going to be revealed in a people and 
manifested in the earth. Why? Because it's already done in Him! It 
has to be revealed and it shall be made manifest! I'd just love to 
be part of that. To me that's what salvation is. I know all the 
other is involved, but salvation goes beyond that. I don't mind you 
declaring some of that other to people that are still in it, but 
why just beat saints over the head with it time after time. Surely 
some time or the other a saint of God is ready to come to a 
comprehending of Christ. My heart cries for such a comprehending. 

Let's go to Ezekiel 1. This is so wonderful. "Now it came to pass 
in the thirtieth year in the fourth month and in the fifth day of 
the month as I was among the captives by the river Chebar..." 
There's a great confession here in the heart of Ezekiel that I wish 
would come into our hearts, and particularly the heart of ministry. 
We in ministry think we know so much, and in fact we know so 
little. Here is Ezekiel, a bonafide priest of God. He's not a 
prophet yet, but he's as blind as a bird bat. The word 'captive' 
according to Isaiah and other prophets means 'having no vision'. It 
is said they are in captivity because they have no knowledge - they 
have no vision. This verse does not say God gave me a vision. Many 
of us have had visions and dreams. Those are listed among signs and 
wonders and things like that. This verse is not talking about God 
giving you a vision. This verse is the vision of God. There's a 
difference between God giving you a vision and the vision of God. 
There's a difference between somebody giving you a word from God 
and The Word of God being revealed in you. And I have nothing wrong 
with someone giving you a word until they substitute that for The 
Word being revealed in you. Then I have a great deal against it. 

The Word of God is Christ, the living Word. I may come and knock on 
your door and say the Lord sent me to tell you, 'Thus saith the 
Lord.' That's a word from God. But that's not The Word OF God. That 
doesn't transform you, that doesn't change you. That doesn't bring 
forth an increase of Christ in you. There's the difference. One 
comes by a gift of prophesy. The other comes by the revelation of 
Jesus Christ. And the Bible tells me the revelation of Christ, the 
more perfect Word takes precedence over all that is in part. And 
must have precedence over all that is in part because that which is 
in part shall cease. When? When that which is perfect is come!

You see Ezekiel didn't get a vision from God, he saw the vision of 
God. His confession was I was blind, I was sitting among the rest 
of the captives. I was in captivity along with all the rest. I 
would to God that ministry would spend some time on their face and 
say to God - 'Your people are in captivity because I'm in 
captivity. I'm right here with them. I need to see you! I need to 
know you!' Rather than acting like everybody's dumb but me. A 
spirit of confession needs to come into our hearts. Jesus said to 
the Pharisees, 'If you'd just say you were blind I would give you 
light. But you just keep calling your blindness light, and how 
grossly dark it is. Because not only are you blind, you're also 
deceived.' It's one thing to be blind and another thing to be blind 
as a bat and think you can see - that's deception. The point is 
Ezekiel had an honest heart before God. He wasn't deceived. He knew 
he was a captive, and his heart cried out to God. And you can read 
in other places how their hearts cried out, and God's answer to 
them wasn't to take them off of the bank - they didn't move a foot. 
God's answer was He opened the heaven! And that's His answer to 
those who live in heavenly places. His answer is to open the heaven 
and let you manifest reality right where you are. Now - that will 
change things.

" The heavens were opened, and I saw..." The word is "ra-ah" #7200 
in the Greek-Hebrew Study Bible. It means a thing revealed of God. 
Ra-ah was also used in Genesis 12:7 - "And the Lord appeared unto 
Abram." The same thing is happening here. I saw. I was blind, now I 
see. Who is the sight? The Lord is the sight. "...I saw visions of 
God." The Hebrew term here is vision of God - the one vision of God 
- the "marah" of God. It means mirror, and in the New Testament 
it's that glass that Paul is talking about that you look into and 
behold the glory of God - and are  changed. I told you - this 
vision will transform you. "Marah" means the act of seeing. He saw 
the mirror, the vision of God. What is being said is, until you see 
this, you are blind. It's not seeing something, it's seeing Him who 
is accounted as sight. 'Lord give me sight so I can see something.' 
No - the Lord gives you sight in His appearing - and you see Him! 
He is the light and the object thereof. Seeing Him is counted for 
sight. Seeing everything but Him is counted as blindness. The 
Pharisees were scriptural geniuses. Jesus said, "You're blind. You 
won't receive me." God tells you and I, until you see This Man, 
until you come to this view, you're blind! Now that struck me real 
hard, but then I realized that everything I see I turn around and 
look back here, and I see I'm no longer here and I was looking 
backwards. But when I turned to see the voice that spake with me I 
had to confess - I'm blind. And until I see you I'll be blind. It's 
the act of seeing. God brought me to see. He brought me to sight. 
"I SAW." Immediately Ezekiel was no longer a captive. He was still 
over there on the river bank, but he was no longer a captive! The 
vision of God came to him and set him free. Paul was in prison, but 
he was no longer a captive.

The second thing "marah" means is the appearing of the one seen. 
Those two meanings make up the vision of God. Ezekiel saw the 
mirror God looks to when He wants to see the appearing of Himself. 
We go to a mirror and see a reflection. But God has no reflections. 
He is appearing in a people! He is being revealed in a people and 
it's real. One scholar said this appearing is not and can not be a 
figment of an imagination - but must have substance to it. It's not 
you and I coming to a different idea. I'm talking about the Son of 
God being revealed in you. God being revealed in you in the person 
of His Son. I'm talking about the Son appearing. I'm talking about 
you and I coming face-to-face with the vision of God. The act of 
seeing and the virtual appearing of the one seen. God revealed His 
Son in me! He didn't give me another idea about Him, didn't give me 
another concept about Him, not another teaching about Him. No - He 
appears. I saw the mirror God looks to when He wants to see the 
appearing of Himself. UNTO THIS MAN WILL I LOOK.

In Ezekiel Chapter 1, tell me what is being described there - the 
four living ones, the movement of the wheels, the throne - what 
does it all come to? " And their appearance was as the appearance 
of A MAN." Verse 5, " And out of the midst thereof came the 
likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; 
they had the likeness of A MAN." Verse 26, " Above the firmament 
that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the 
appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne 
was the likeness as the appearance of A MAN above upon it." Verse 
28, "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day 
of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This 
was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And 
when I saw it, I fell upon my face and I heard a voice of one that 
spake." Ezekiel saw THE MAN! He saw The Man that is designed, 
destined to give God His appearing, His visibility, His expression 
and His manifestation. He saw The Man!

He saw the creation of God. He saw what God has created in Christ 
Jesus. He saw the New Creation but he saw it in such a fashion as 
to be the expression of God. He saw the end of the matter! He saw 
The Man as He truly is! If you and I would come to see the 
salvation of the Lord, it would transform your understanding, 
transform your understanding concerning yourself, concerning 
salvation, concerning your relationship to Him. It would transform 
your inner man. He saw The Man! Here's the view of God and here's 
the mirror. God is not looking for a reflection in us. He is 
looking for His appearing in us! In a people - to reveal His Son in 
a people. He's not after a bunch of people running around trying to 
be like Jesus. No - He's after a people who manifest Jesus. There's 
a great deal of difference in those two things. 'Well, He's making 
me like Jesus.' No, He's not. He's bringing forth His Son, being 
revealed in you and I. He is not after a reflection. I know we say 
all these things with good intentions, but we're wrong. It has a 
wrong comprehension to it. No, no, it's His Son being revealed. 
It's His Son having an appearing. It's His Son being unveiled, 
uncovered!

He brought His prophets to see that and everyone of them spoke of 
it. Peter over here in Acts 3 says this is the salvation they were 
talking about. This is it! Daniel sees such a One. He just calls 
Him the Son of Man. And immediately he's seen an association with 
the saints and the saints an association of the manifestation of 
the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is not something you run 
out and set up, it's a divine authority you manifest. It's a dominion 
that is established in you. If dominion is not established in you, 
you have no dominion. If you're not under authority, you don't have 
authority! This Man is seen in association with the throne. The 
throne is established. See, we're like the Jew, we're running 
around looking for a Kingdom. When are you going to set it up? The 
Lord said, wait, " THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS IN YOU!" To be 
revealed in the person of the King. First taking dominion in you and 
over you, then expressing that dominion, that nature, that character in 
all the earth. The powers of hell can't stand against that expressed 
nature! Couldn't get Him off the cross, how do you think you're 
going to do anything else with it? No sir!

FATHER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR GRACE AND YOUR MERCY. 
THANK YOU FOR THE MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT WHO HAS COME 
TO REVEAL THE SON AND BRING HIM FORTH IN A PEOPLE. DEAL 
WITH US BY YOUR SPIRIT ACCORDING TO THE VISION OF GOD. 
DEAL WITH US BY YOUR SPIRIT ACCORDING TO THE VIEW OF 
GOD. DEAL WITH US BY YOUR SPIRIT IN THE TRUTH OF 
SALVATION I PRAY. THAT GOD MAY HAVE GLORY IN A PEOPLE. 
THAT THE GLORY OF THE LORD MAY FILL THE EARTH AS THE 
ATERS COVER THE SEA! AMEN.

	PART THREE

You know that the cornerstone as taught in the scriptures 
represents and in fact is the whole foundation. " Behold I lay in 
Zion for a foundation, a stone..." The cornerstone is the 
foundation. I had been thinking about this a while back when I was 
really disturbed in the Spirit about false foundation in the 
Church. You won't find false foundations in the world - there's no 
foundation there at all. It seems we try to build a Church upon 
everything except the foundation. Beloved, the foundation is 
CHRIST, but it isn't Christ after a natural point of view. It isn't 
Christ after a historical or even a theological view. It is Christ 
revealed in you by the Father. That's the only thing upon which God 
can build His habitation. Because the scriptures teach He builds it 
up in the foundation. It's the very statement and realization Paul 
says concerning the Body - "growing up in to Him who is the Head in 
all things." The foundation is not just Christ as a subject, a 
person, a theology - Christ revealed. Christ laid in Zion. Christ 
revealed in the mount of God that you are. For you are come into 
Mt. Zion, that is to be one with the city of God, the heavenly 
Jerusalem. It is in that very mount that God lays the foundation. 
It is in that very mount that God reveals His Son. It's in you that 
the Spirit of God desires to reveal the Son - lay in you the 
foundation, lay in you the realization of Him upon which and up in 
which the whole building is builded together as a habitation of God 
by His Spirit. Jesus is the cornerstone. He's the whole foundation! 
Now we know the scripture that talks about being built upon the 
foundation of the apostles and prophets, and people get off on 
that. The foundation of ministry is the same foundation of the 
Church. The foundation is Christ - the chief cornerstone. The 
cornerstone spoken of in the Old Testament, " Behold I lay in Zion 
for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a tested stone, a precious 
cornerstone." The foundation is Christ Himself. So Paul says no man 
can lay any foundation other than that which is laid, that 
foundation which is Christ. Ministry is not the foundation, 
ministry is to be involved in laying the foundation - not 
substituting themselves for the foundation. You're not built upon 
ministry. You're built in the Lord Jesus Christ. And the purpose of 
ministry is to bring about that building - not to substitute 
themselves for it. Let ONE be exalted in the Church and He is 
Jesus. He is the Head. Let ONE be exalted in the temple and He is 
the foundation thereof. Let all ministry serve that foundation. 

Turn with me to John's gospel the twelfth chapter. You'll find this 
same entry in Matthew 21:1-11 and Mark 11:1-11 and Luke 19:28-40. I 
just want to bring this to light with what we're talking about - 
WHO IS THE SON OF MAN? The reality, the understanding which only 
comes by the revelation of Jesus. You can not separate the Lord 
Jesus Christ from that in which He is revealed. You can't separate 
the Lord Jesus Christ from the thing, the vehicle, the reality that 
He's revealed in. If He's revealed in His people then you can't 
separate the Lord from His people. You can't separate the Head from 
His body. You can't separate Christ from those in whom He dwells. 
Because He gives it all substance! If you separate the Head from 
the Body then the Body ceases as a living thing to exist. Isn't it 
interesting that you can cut off almost every member except the 
head and still get along  somehow or another. You may be maimed and 
mauled and kind of stumble along, but you cut the head off and 
you've pretty well done the deal. We have created all kinds of 
protheses except a head. Even those things that are in the head are 
most vital to the functioning of the whole body. You can't separate 
the Son of God from that creation in which He is revealed - His 
Body - or you destroy the whole. 

WHO IS THE SON OF MAN? - this is the line of our consideration. 
We've just dealt with the first part. He is the eternal view of 
God. Isaiah 66 - " UNTO THIS MAN WILL I LOOK." That is, set my 
whole sight, set my whole heart, my whole purpose, my whole desire 
- UNTO THIS MAN WILL I LOOK. For what? For my rest. For that 
wherein I am complete! We brought This Man into a clearer focus in 
the prophets - Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel. We found This Man, created 
of God is the end of all prophets, the end of all prophesy and the 
end of all ministry. Now in Ephesians 4 it speaks of where He hath 
given ministry. For what purpose hath He given ministry? " For the 
building up of the saints, the body of Jesus Christ..." Unto what 
end? Til we all get to heaven? No, that's not the end of the 
scripture. Getting you out of one place and getting you someplace 
else is not the end of God's program. God's program is to have a 
full revealing and manifesting of Himself in a people! The end is 
unto the glory of God. God having glory in a people! God having 
expression in a people. 

The word "glory" in you Bible, both in the Hebrew and the Greek is 
translated 'the self revelation of God in divine expression'. 
That's what glory is. When you are brought unto glory, you are 
brought unto that purpose, unto that fulfillment. You are brought 
in Christ Jesus that God may have His revealing and His expression 
in you. Mount Zion is unto the glory of God. You read it throughout 
the whole scripture. But we have this idea that glory is some kind 
of a feeling, or some kind of a halo. And while it may well in the 
scripture have been testified to by all of that, glory itself is 
God having expression. That's why Mt. Sinai was not full in glory. 
That's why Moses could not see fully the glory of God, or see the 
full glory of God, because Sinai represents the wrong mountain, 
Sinai represents a position where God is one place and His people 
are another place. But in Mt. Zion He has full glory, because Zion 
represents the reality of God dwelling in His people. Ye are come 
unto Mt. Zion. And that's not God's mount of visitation, that's 
God's mount of habitation. He inhabits a people. And there the 
glory of God is full. The purpose of that mount is that God has a 
full revealing and a full expression in a people. So the end is 
This Man who gives God glory! He's the end of all prophets, but 
He's also the end of all New Testament ministry. He is the end of 
all that.

Ephesians 4: " For the building up... til we all come in the unity 
of the faith (it doesn't say to) which is the knowledge of the Son 
of God, unto a perfect man (man full grown, completed) in the 
measure of the stature (which means age) of the fulness of Christ." 
A Man measured in the age... age implying maturity, the stature, 
the age of the Lord. Such A Man is the end of the operation and 
ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is come first to bring 
you into a relationship with such a Man, bring you into such a New 
Man, bring you into such a New Creation, and then by revealing That 
Man in you, bring you to be a full expression of Him! That God may 
have full expression in the earth. That in fact, the knowledge of 
the glory of God fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. I 
don't know how you and I have expected that to take place, except 
in and through a people chosen, called, placed for such a purpose. 
His Temple. 

So then the Son of Man is the issue. Since He is the end of all 
prophets, the view, the end of the operation of the Spirit, HE IS 
THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL SCRIPTURE. All scripture finds its 
fulfillment in Him. I want you to see your relationship, your 
identity, as the Church with That One. I'd like for us to come away 
from this having a different view of ourself, a different view of 
the Church, and that view, that knowledge, be as a result of God 
having revealed His Son in us; all things then are finding their 
end in This One. We traditionally and theologically celebrate Palm 
Sunday and even there this Son of Man is in view. He is the end of 
that. 

John's gospel the twelfth chapter, verse 12. " On the next day much 
people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was 
coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees, and went forth to 
meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that 
cometh in the name of the Lord. And Jesus, when he had found a 
young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of 
Zion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt. These 
things understood not the disciples at the first..." When did they 
remember these things? Well, when Jesus went down and explained it 
to them? No. When did they remember these things? " But when Jesus 
was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written 
of him, and that they had done these things unto Him."

"Jesus answered..." Verse 23. He has come now. He has come in this 
manner. " And Jesus answered them saying, The hour is come, that 
the SON OF MAN should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, 
except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth 
alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth 
his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world 
shall keep it unto life eternal." Verse 31, "Now is the judgment of 
this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, 
if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." Verse 
34, " And the people answered him, We have heard out of the law 
that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of Man 
must be lifted up. WHO IS THIS SON OF MAN?" Well, that's the 
question we started out with. Only Jesus was asking it to the 
disciples - "Who do you say that I the Son of Man am?" And now here 
the people are asking - Who is this Son of Man that you keep 
talking about, that you are bringing testimony of? It is not 
someone other than the Lord Jesus. But it is certainly the Lord 
Jesus in another comprehension. It's the Lord Jesus in a 
comprehension that the people around Him at that time certainly are 
not having. It's the Lord Jesus brought forth in a comprehension 
that the disciples did not at that time, looking at Him with their 
natural eyes, they did not have. When He questioned Peter about Him 
He said, 'flesh and blood - looking at me sitting here in my robe 
hasn't revealed that to you. Only my Father can reveal this 
relationship that I have with my Church. Only my Father can truly 
reveal the Son of Man.' And here, they are understanding the 
connection with Christ. They say, the scriptures say Christ abideth 
forever - how are you saying that This Son of Man should be lifted 
up?

I'VE COME TO DIE! But if you notice He is linking this being lifted 
up, the manner of His death - with the hour of His glorification.  
And you'll notice the apostles are saying we didn't understand it 
until after He was glorified. Then we understood what He meant when 
He said what He said. But the question still is, even of Him coming 
into Jerusalem and the pomp and all of that - look at what it ends 
with. THE END OF THAT IS THE SON OF MAN BEING GLORIFIED! 
And the people looking at the instrument of His glorification - which is 
the cross - and they could not receive it. They could not believe 
it. 'How say ye that the Son of Man could be glorified at the same 
time you're saying He must die, He must be lifted up. What kind of 
A Man is this that is glorified in death? What kind of A Man is 
this that abideth forever yet must be lifted up? WHO IS THIS SON OF 
MAN? What kind of A Man are you talking about?' 

And most believers don't know today what kind of A Man He was 
talking about. I noticed something here that relates to Psalm 24 
verse 7. " Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be lift up, ye 
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in." See this 
is speaking of a living city. A living city of Jerusalem. This 
whole thing is enacted over here in John 12, here in the literal 
city of Jerusalem. That's the reason they couldn't get a hold of 
this Son of Man. That's the reason they couldn't comprehend This 
One of whom Christ speaks, This One that Christ specifically came 
to bring forth through His own death, His own burial, and His own 
resurrection. This One that He brings forth in the Resurrection, in 
union with Himself. We're not talking about two Sons - we're 
talking about the One Son being revealed in a creation. The One Son 
being revealed in those that He brings forth in His Resurrection. 
We're talking about One New Man! Just like here we're talking about 
a living, everlasting doors. " and the King of glory shall come in. 
Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord 
mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them 
up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come it. Who 
is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory."

But the King of glory came in riding on an ass's colt - not carried 
on the shoulder of slaves, sitting in a high chair. You'll not see 
Him lifted up that way. The only way He's lifted up is on the 
cross! And everything the cross stands for, because the cross 
stands for death, and burial and resurrection. Where you're going 
to see Him lifted up is in a people who have come by His death, His 
burial, his resurrection and comprehend they have no life but Him! 
You'll not see Him lifted up in the arrogancy of the flesh, and in 
the carnality of the human nature. Whether it's found in sinners or 
believers, you'll not see Him lifted up there. It's not in the 
manner of the flesh that this King of glory comes. It's not after 
the manner of flesh that this King of glory rules. HIS KINGDOM IS 
IN YOU!  Causing us in the natural to say, Who is this Son of Man? 
Who is this King of glory? Who is such a One, who actually rules by 
the laying down of His life? 

I tell you, the Son of Man has to be revealed of the Father. What 
has that to do with you and I? We are found no where except in This 
Man! The very visible Body of This Man who is known only when the 
Father reveals Him. He is so contrary to the first man, so totally 
different in every way from the Adamic man. Notice something 
further about this in I Kings 1. Solomon in the Old Testament was 
the type of This Son of Man. Solomon, that son that is born in 
Zion, revealed of the Father. Solomon, in whom, by whom, through 
whom the whole temple of God is gathered together for the purpose 
of giving God full expression. Solomon is that son who finishes his 
work after the pattern given to him of his father, who finishes the 
work. Solomon is that son of whom it is said he finished the house 
unto the foundation thereof, unto the gathering together thereof, 
and unto the perfecting thereof. It is This Son. It is This Son 
unto whom the gathering of the people, the gathering up - gathering 
what? Gathering in the knowledge of the Lord; gathering that He 
might have expression. 

I Kings 1:32, " And King David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and 
Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came 
before the King. The King also said unto them, Take with you the 
servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon my own 
mule, and bring him down to Gihon. And let Zadok the priest and 
Nathan the prophet anoint him there King over Israel, and blow ye 
with the trumpet and say, God save King Solomon. Then ye shall come 
up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne for he shall 
be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be ruler over 
Israel and over Judah." Do you understand that it is in This One 
that the house of Israel and the house of Judah becomes one house 
again - One Body! We're speaking spiritually here, but we're 
speaking reality here. It is in This One that everything is brought 
together as ONE. And verse 39, " And Zadok the priest took an horn 
of oil out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. And they blew 
the trumpet; and all the people said, God save King Solomon." Now 
I'm only going to say one thing about this, the realization here. 
This son is the Son (back to our place in John 12) exalted only by 
the Father, not of Himself!

I don't know why the Lord has dealt with me in such a way but I'm 
compelled of the Lord in the setting of these scriptures - THERE IS 
NO SELF EXALTATION IN THIS SON. This is The Son that is glorified 
at the cross. "The hour is come the Son of Man should be glorified. 
Except a corn ..." What do you mean glorified? Brought forth in 
many, given expression in many. How do you do that? Except He falls 
into the ground and dies, He will have no fruit. You mean 
everything that He's done has brought forth no fruit? NO FRUIT! 
These that I have chosen, He would say, sit here and do not 
understand the word that I say. Nor can you with your natural minds 
comprehend who I am - Christ in the flesh. How will you ever come 
to comprehend me in you, which is the fulfillment of the Son of 
Man! THE SON OF MAN IS FULFILLED IN TWO BODIES - ONE TO 
DIE, WHICH CONNECTS WITH ADAM; AND ONE TO LIVE, 
WHICH YOU ARE! 
Do you understand that it's Christ, the Son of the living God, 
that's who it is, but in connection with the body to die, it's the 
Son of Man in His death. And in connection with His Body to live, 
it is the Son of Man in glory; glorified! How comes This One to be 
glorified? Through death, burial, through resurrection. He dwells 
in His Body. Now just as real - more real - than He dwelled in His 
body then. The body He had then was to die - it was made a little 
lower than the angels for the purpose of suffering death. But the 
Body He has now, is a Body of Glory. It's not the thing you see, 
it's the thing you can't see! It's not black or white, male or 
female, Jew or Greek - it's what you can't see. But it's real. It's 
not off somewhere. It's right here represented, housed in 
tabernacles of flesh. 

So that these instruments be surrendered to it as servants of 
righteousness. I've got a body and I am a Body. And the body that I 
have must serve the Body that I am! Here's the Body that I now am. 
Here's the Body that you are. And the only way you'll ever 
understand That Man, That Body, is that the Son of God be revealed 
in you! Not something aside from Him; not something other than Him. 
It's His Body that can not be known, be recognized, except He be 
revealed in it. You can teach it theology, you can give it 
experiences, you can heal it - He did all of those things. And in 
none of them was He glorified. In none of them did He bring forth 
fruit. No sir. This is a glorious kind of Man - made glorious by 
the Lord of glory! Who is this? HE IS THE KING OF GLORY! Open the 
gates and let the King of glory come in! O ye heavenly city, O ye 
heavenly Jerusalem. And the King of glory shall come in. At the end 
is the Son of Man being glorified!

He came into that city that the Son of Man be glorified. That This 
Man - Christ be revealed in Him. I say again - He is one exalted of 
the Father, not of self. So He says - go, get me a little colt and 
I'll ride him that it may be fulfilled that which is said. Can you 
see that King Solomon was the most glorious King ever to come on 
the face of the earth? The splendor of Egypt came to him, the 
splendor of the nations came to him. Have we ever wondered why? 
Because of the One of whom he speaks! He was glorified in the 
temple that he built. Solomon was unusual because of the temple 
that he built. It was the temple that was filled with the glory of 
God. It was the temple wherein God found glory. And in reality the 
temple and Solomon were one, and that's brought in the scripture 
time and time again. Solomon was not separated from his temple. He 
entered into it. It was speaking of One yet to come. So the Lord 
Jesus when He speaks of the Son of Man says, " I tell you a greater 
than Solomon is come." Why? Because He's going to bring forth a 
greater temple. It's going to house a greater glory. It isn't going 
to house smoke. It's going to house the very expression of the most 
High God. He said a greater than Solomon is come, and He's speaking 
of This One. But how does This One come? 

I've heard of all of these ways He's going to come, but I'll tell 
you - He comes by death, burial and resurrection. His name is I AM 
THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE! This Man cometh by death, 
burial and resurrection. There is no self exaltation in Him. He is raised 
up of the Father and He is revealed of the Father. Don't you see your 
connection with Him? For ye are quickened together as one with Him, 
raised up together as one with Him, seated together in heavenly 
places in Christ Jesus, that you may be gathered together in the 
knowledge, or the revelation of Him. That you as One New Man may 
give God expression in the earth. God can not find His expression 
in natural man. That's why This One is so good. There's no need to 
exalt ourselves here - HE IS EXALTED! If this ever becomes more 
than a teaching to us, as God reveals that eternal Son in you and 
we find our relationship to Him as Son of Man - my God, what a life 
changing, life altering realization that is. 

One exalted of the Father, not of self, and One who comes by the 
cross. Let's turn to the Revelation of Jesus Christ. How wonderful 
that's the name of this book because the book concerns the coming 
of the One in whom the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed, and by whom 
the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed. Chapter 1 verse 8 deals with 
"the one that is, and was, and is the evercoming one." And that is 
not describing ages or days or dispensations, but the reality of 
Him. It is describing Him. I am, saith He who is, who was... We're 
not looking at a chronological timing here otherwise it would be 
who was, who is, and is to come. No - who is - who is ever - who 
ever is, ever was, and ever is to come - the evercoming one. And 
then he turns to see who that voice is relating to. Where is the 
Body of this voice, Lord? To whom is this voice related? 

"I turned to see the voice." There's got to be a seeing. There's 
got to be a revealing. There's got to be a manifesting. Glory 
demands that. The very definition of glory demands that. God having 
His self revelation - God having His expression. Not in a natural 
thing, but in a supernatural thing, in a spiritual thing, a new 
creation, a new mankind. " I turned to see the voice that spake 
with me. Being turned I saw seven golden candlesticks, and in the 
midst of the seven golden candlesticks, one like unto the Son of 
Man." And he sees Him in perfection, he sees Him in completion. He 
sees Him, as Paul says He must be - fully clothed, fully measured, 
unto full stature - a perfect man. He sees the glorified Son. He 
sees Christ glorified in His Church - in His Own Body! He sees the 
resurrected, glorified One. That's who he sees. He is seeing This 
Man that every prophet prophesied of. The prophets not only 
prophesied of Him identified with Adam, the prophets lastly 
prophesied of Him identified and living in a people as One New Man. 
The end of all prophesy is This Man - CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE 
OF GLORY!

My God, yes, He took one body and put that on to die, and brought 
to death everything that falls short of the glory of God. But in 
This Body that comes by His death, burial and resurrection, that's 
quickened by His very Spirit - it is in This Body that He achieves 
that glory! It is in This Body that He is glorified. And here we 
see This Man standing in union with the Church - not other than the 
Church - having His perfect expression in the Church and through 
the Church. And we see the Church as an instrument, as a thing 
grown up and full in Him. Seven golden candlesticks. And in the 
midst of the golden candlesticks is the message to the Church - The 
Word of God to the Church. I want you to know that HE is the Word 
of God to you. He is the end of all prophesy to you. It is in Him 
that the Father doth speak. Oh, the Father would bring you and I to 
His own vision, just like He did to the prophets. And they saw it 
in types and symbols; that He would bring you and I in Christ to 
see Him face-to-face. Not in a type, not in a symbol, but coming to 
know God has revealed His Son in me. Consequently knowing by 
divine comprehension that it is Not I, it is Christ who liveth in me, not 
as a verse of scripture, but as a divine comprehension. 


" I turned to see the voice that spake with me." Now right there is 
the end of that sentence. Now just come from verse 12 right over to 
verse 17. I'm doing no harm here, but I'm just skipping the 
description. " I turned to see the voice that spake with me ... And 
when I saw him..." This is tremendously important. "WHEN I SAW 
HIM." It wasn't seven golden candlesticks. That wasn't the end of 
this view. The Church is not the end of the view, Christ revealed 
in the Church is the end of the view. Someone came up to me after a 
meeting and said, 'I've just come to see we're the Holy of Holies.' 
I said, okay, but you know the Holy of Holies is as dark as a 
dungeon until the glory of God was revealed. We're always trying to 
make ourselves the end of the view. We're the heavenly city - yes - 
but He's the light! We're the Body of Christ, but He's the Head! My 
point is until He's been revealed in you, the rest of it is just 
peachy, and you'll be the end of it. I've seen scores of people 
teaching Kingdom messages and Sonship messages, but some how 
we're always the end of it. Us being - us becoming - us, us. And then 
you go off on that and you find that it just comes back a big piece of 
ruined trash. It's so sad to see so many works that end in ruin. 
There are so many buildings we build and works that we do that just 
end in ruin - and it's sad. 

It's a little like when Jesus departed from the temple and the 
disciples were still all excited about it. And that temple that 
Christ departed from became sad. It was sad to His heart. He said 
there's not going to be one stone left. Why? BECAUSE I'M OUT OF IT! 
 Because I can't be revealed in it. Because I came to my own and my 
own received me not. All I'm saying is - if He's out of something, 
IT IS OVER! And all the good intentions don't help. If He's out of 
it, it's over and done with. And all I'm saying is get your heart 
out of it and get it in Him! And go on to know the Lord in the 
fulness of Himself! And understand that a building is just a 
building, but here (in This Man) is a building, here is A Man that 
is eternal in the heavens, and He finds His expression not in 
boards and bricks, He finds His expression in a people - a living 
people who live by Him. 

" When I turned I saw Him." I didn't see where He was. I saw Him, 
who was there. The message is not the Church - it's Him. The 
message is to the Church. Again, the foundation is not the 
ministry, the ministry is supposed to participate in laying the 
foundation. He's the foundation. The end of this thing is not me 
and you, the end of this thing is Him - HE BEING REVEALED IN 
YOU! " When I saw Him I fell on my face. When I saw Him I fell as a 
dead man." You all know how to win the battle, and have the enemy fall 
at your feet? EXPRESS TO HIM THE ONE THAT COMES BY 
DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION! Not by self exaltation, 
fighting, fussing and overpowering self egotism. No sir - but He who 
comes by death, burial and resurrection. And your enemies will fall 
at your feet. Glory to God!


Who are you? " Verse 18, " I am he that liveth, I was dead, but now 
I'm alive forever more and I've got the keys to death and hell." 
Why? Because I've already overcome it. I'm dead, buried and now 
raised again! The Spirit of God was showing such a One to John to 
show to the Church and the Spirit of God is still dealing with the 
Church today to see such a One, that they may come forth in the 
comprehending of Him. Having in our hand the keys through death, 
burial and resurrection - What can touch me now?

So, even our Palm Sundays are for Him. He's the end of it. This One 
comes to be glorified - death, burial and resurrection. This One to 
be revealed in His Body, the Body that comes by death, burial, 
resurrection. WHAT A SON! WHAT A MAN! It's there that you and I 
have our whole entire being. May Christ be revealed in you, folks. 
May the eyes of our understanding be enlightened, that we may know. 
May, as Paul desired, may we desire, " That I may know Him in the 
power of his resurrection. If that I might myself be found among 
the resurrection." He's not talking about an opening of graves 
there, he's talking about union with a person! Because he brings it 
into an apprehending of This One as he has been apprehended of This 
One. This One has apprehended Him a Body. Oh, that That Body 
would come to apprehend Him in that same way!

WHO IS THIS ONE? In corporate fashion - BLESSED IS HE THAT
 COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. This One cometh in the 
name of the Lord. It's not in my name, it's not in your name. No - This 
One cometh in the name of the Lord. Upon This One the nations wait. 
AMEN.