Clothed with a Garment Down to His Feet

Clothed with a Garment down to His Feet IV

“I turned to see the voice and I saw.”  In the Book of Revelation John turned to see the voice and he saw ONE in the seven golden candlesticks.  Our hearts must come to turn and to see One.  

We have been looking at the Son of Man that is in the seven golden candlesticks in relationship to the Priest and priesthood.  In the Apostle Peter’s epistles, he declares we are a holy priesthood.  This is all predicated on the High Priest and His work.  Our holiness is subject to Christ and not ourselves.  The Ministry we have is through His Ministry.  We do not have anything without Him.

In II Corinthians 3 the Apostle Paul contrasts two Ministry’s, the ministry of death, and the ministry of the Spirit.  The ministry of death has a glory that fades.  God showed this through the face of Moses.  The children of Israel could not look upon the brightness of Moses’ face.  It had to be veiled, but even while it was veiled it was fading away.  This was speaking of the Covenant they were under.  It was temporary, and was put in place until the one that excels came into place.

The ministry of the Spirit EXCEEDS that glory.  The glory here does not fade away and is not veiled from our hearts.  When our hearts turn to the Lord the veil is removed and we behold the Glory of the Lord and are changed.  How we are changed is through BEHOLDING HIM!  We are not changed through self-effort or even self-help programs.  Through the Spirit we come to the SEEING of Christ Jesus our Lord.  Here we come to be made righteous.  He is righteous and is made our righteousness.

He then becomes the ministry we are of.  We minister Him to His body.  We do not declare ourselves, but we declare Jesus Christ and Him crucified.  Here we are crucified to the world and the world is crucified to us.  We do not find our life in the world or even in the Old Covenant.  We come out to Jesus who is outside the gate of that Covenant. 

I love the scripture in Hebrews 13 that speaks of Jesus being outside of the gate.  Jesus is sacrificed outside the gate signifying that we must leave the Old Covenant of the law, its sacrifice and priesthood, and all that it was within it, and come out to Jesus.  When we come to Him we come to a far greater Priesthood, a far greater offering.  This one can make the comers perfect!  Perfection came through Jesus Christ!  This is what we minister.  Glory to God!