The Mystery of the Indwelling Christ – Guarding the
Christ
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To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the
greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD,
and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not
heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of
the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his
understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no
might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the
young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:25-31
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. Matthew 5:3
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Matthew
5:8
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:20-21
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them
that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not,
but for them which believe. If therefore the whole church be come together into
one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are
unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? But if all
prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he
is convinced of all, he is judged of all: And thus are the secrets of his heart
made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and
report that God is in you of a truth. 1Corinthians 14:22-25
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in
deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall
assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than
our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then
have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his
sight. And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his
Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that
keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know
that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. 1John 3:18-24
But thanks be to Elohim who always leads us on, to overcome in Messiah,
and manifests through us the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. Because
we are to Elohim the fragrance of Messiah among those who are being saved and
among those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death to death,
and to the other the fragrance of life to life. And who is competent for these?
For we are not, as so many, adulterating the Word of Elohim for gain –
but as of sincerity, but as from Elohim, in the sight of Elohim, we speak in
Messiah. 2Corinthians 2:14-17)“The Scriptures” (ISR) 1998
God himself was pleased to live fully in his Son. And God was pleased
for him to make peace by sacrificing his blood on the cross, so that all beings
in heaven and on earth would be brought back to God. You used to be far from
God. Your thoughts made you his enemies, and you did evil things. But his Son
became a human and died. So God made peace with you, and now he lets you stand in
his presence as people who are holy and faultless and innocent. But you must
stay deeply rooted and firm in your faith. You must not give up the hope you
received when you heard the good news. It was preached to everyone on earth,
and I myself have become a servant of this message. I am glad that I can suffer
for you. I am pleased also that in my own body I can continue the suffering of
Christ for his body, the church. God's plan was to make me a servant of his
church and to send me to preach his complete message to you. For ages and ages
this message was kept secret from everyone, but now it has been explained to
God's people. God did this because he wanted you Gentiles to understand his
wonderful and glorious mystery. And the mystery is that Christ lives in you,
and he is your hope of sharing in God's glory. We announce the message about
Christ, and we use all our wisdom to warn and teach everyone, so that all of
Christ's followers will grow and become mature. That's why I work so hard and
use the mighty power he gives me. Colossians 1:19-29 Contemporary English
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And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied to these, saying,
Behold, the Lord came with myriads of His saints, to do judgment against all,
and to rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which
they ungodly did, and concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke
against Him. These are murmurers, complainers, leading lives according to their
lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of
gain. But you, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ, because they told you that at the last time there
will be mockers according to their lusts, leading ungodly lives. These are
those setting themselves apart, animal-like ones, not having the Spirit. But
you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the
Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, eagerly awaiting the mercy of
our Lord Jesus Christ to everlasting life. Jude 1:14-21 MKJV
Let not anyone deceive you by any means.
For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and
the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as
God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God. Do you not
remember that I told you these things when I was still with you? And now you
know what holds back, for him to be revealed in his own time. For the mystery
of lawlessness is already working, only he is now holding back until it
comes out of the midst. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom
the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the
brightness of His coming, whose coming is according to the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of
unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of
the truth, so that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, so that all those who do not
believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.
2Thessalonians 2:3-12MKJV
(3 Visions)
“Then from this higher place I could see
the earth and the nations of men in it and amongst the nation’s two great
beasts having many heads and horns and golden crowns. These beasts were
consuming men, devouring them, filling their jaws and their teeth with their
blood and feeding upon their flesh in such a way as to devour mankind relentlessly.
There were some men who did not have faith and some who did have faith. Some
who had faith that the Lord was God but they were no longer discerning that the
Lord was God. Some had faith in false gods and some did not believe in the
existence of God. These beasts fed freely amongst all of these, they were not
restrained at all in gorging themselves upon the bodies of mankind. The beasts
were held fast to the earth but above them was a great and a terrible red
dragon who gave his will and his power unto these two beasts who consumed men
off of the earth. The nations who were thus consumed followed hard after the
beasts and worshipped them, calling the beasts their gods and their lords and
they gave praise and honor and glory to them continually thinking that these
beasts were the Lord and His power, but they did not discern that these were
fearsome beasts who had come to destroy their lives and to consume their
bodies. Entire nations followed the perdition that these beasts gave them
thinking that the perdition they followed was the perfect will of the Lord,
their minds were totally blinded by this and by the delusion that they abode
in, no man could discern the truth of these beasts which ate their flesh and consumed
and destroyed them completely. I saw that this vision was not for a future
time, but it is indeed a present reality, even at this time in the world of
men.”
(End Vision)
“As soon as the beasts had finished
devouring the lives of men and nations I saw the nations assembled together as
though they had no hurt upon them. The time came where they were gathered, each
one to their own place and their own time and above them the dragon which had
given its power unto the beasts was not found, nor was his influence felt by
the nations gathered now together. This gathering was rather sudden in the
world of men, it was an unexpected event. A gathering of mankind for a single purpose, for they were gathered together to
have upon them the judgment of the Lord poured out upon their heads to now
consume them, but this time, not by the beasts of delusion, but by the Lord
Himself who did this judgment. As the Lord poured forth His judgment upon the
nations their faces did all look up together unto the Lord and the light of His
salvation lighted upon them all, each face was lightened with the salvation of
the Lord for the new age which was even at the same time dawning upon the
earth, the age of the Kingdom of God. Each nation and person who was once consumed
by these beasts was now consumed in the judgment of the Lord and each one who
was thus consumed entered with great joy into the Kingdom of God. This Kingdom
was brought unto the earth by the Lord Himself who did this great and mighty
work of judgment. As they were judged their faces were lighted up by the
brilliance of His glory and the sun shine of a new day rose upon them and they
were lighted. Great joy filled the nations as His dominion had come and their
release from bondage to the beasts had become a reality. Christ was seen and
all mankind entered into the new millennium which had come to the earth.”
(End Vision)
“Then the Overcomers, those who had been cast off by their brethren,
were seen as ones who had guarded the Christ in their hearts. As ones who
jealously protected Jesus in them, they stood and a transfiguration happened.
They took on the appearance suddenly of those who had become glorified. Their
bodies and their persons changed in like fashion as Jesus body when the Father
animated it from being dead to rise in eternal life. These came forward into
the nations of the earth, presenting the Christ unto all men who dwelt in the
world and who were now lighted upon with the light of His brilliant glory. For
the Lord purposed that Christ would be seen in this faithful remnant, and then
known as men would know the Lord. So Christ would be known and seen in
completion upon these faithful few who remained for this very time. This is
about to take place in the world of men, even to those who have been cast
aside.” Isaiah 66:5
(End Vision)
The Overcomers have arrived at a point preordained of the Father since
the foundation of the world. This point is that “faith alone keeps them,
nothing else.” They do not relate to the thoughts of their minds as it
beholds the world around them, nor do they relate do the uncertainty of emotion
during the shaking influences that are happening in every area of the earth. The
abundance of wars and the threat of economic collapse, the problems of
pollution and the many conspiracy theories associated with that all fail to
influence the Overcomer. In their lives they know that the crunch of food
shortages, rising fuel costs, protests and distress of nations won’t influence
or change their faith. They are living in the solitude of faith alone, nothing
else in them is as holy as the faith they carry and as Jesus whom they bear
about in their hearts and now guard as to His very person. The Overcomers at
this time will guard the Lord in them and they will not allow themselves to be
defiled by all the influences that are all around them in the world. They will
not allow themselves to be dissuaded from their appointed walk by the myriads
of false gospels, signs and wonders which take on the form of godliness but
deny the power thereof. They care not if the ministry they see in the world has
enough power to even raise the dead, it does not turn them nor does it
influence them, they are fixed on a simple faith, they know that they hold in
their hearts the risen Jesus whom they love and desire to manifest. It is that
faith that keeps them through all they are enduring at this time.
The true Overcomer does not claim that it is all “now” in their faith.
That “now” they have the full measure of the Kingdom of God, the full manifestation
of Christ in them. They know that
they are still in the daily trial of the separation of good from evil
in themselves. Their faith says to them that they have the earnest of this
which is promised to be manifested in them, and then they walk towards that
faith knowing that what the Lord has promised He will completely perform. Many
of the sonship company have fallen away into thinking that by simply believing
it, then it is. So many have fallen into the proclamation of that which they
claim is truth, when in fact we are still on a journey TOWARDS that truth, that
the full measure of the Lord would be found in us, IN COMPLETION, with no part
lacking or no duality or condition of flesh remaining upon us. The Overcomer
reckons their flesh life dead, but then walks that out, day by day, making it a
reality. They have come to a place where this is clearly defined. That they
know they are of the spirit, begotten of the life of Christ, not the flesh or
of their life in the world. They do not purposely abide in the deadened realms
of that which Christ put to death upon the cross, instead they walk in that
newness of life reckoning that they are dead, and their life is hid with Christ
in God. They see themselves as a new creation, and as a new creation which will
emerge without measure upon them at the Lord’s appointed time. At the same time
however they put to death daily all that would oppose the Lord in them. This is
not done consciously, but progressively as one learns to abide in the Lord and
in the fellowship that only He can give.
The purpose of this writing is to reveal that the person of the Lord,
in His full power and resurrection glory, IS IN YOU, and that we must of
necessity GUARD OUR HEARTS because He is there. We must not take unto ourselves
anything of the doctrines or spirits of man in religious effort to try to
persuade the Lord to be more than He already is in us. By that I mean that we
do not bring Him down to our earthly level and we do not bring ourselves up to
His spiritual level. We learn to discern the difference. We learn that we are
seated with Him in heavenly places but we also learn to die daily, both must
work in us at the very same time. And this as I have just said, is not a conscious
working we do, but simply a forward walk. A placing of our feet one in front of
the other, day by day, until the course of our faith stands completed. We bear
the armor of the spirit and having done all, stand. But at the same time we
bear the armor of the spirit and fight a good warfare. Both must work together.
Deception comes when one stops working with the other. When a sense of
completeness becomes our only doctrine, that nothing more need be added to our
faith, then we fall short and find ourselves lacking in delusion. Such is the
peril of this hour. There have been some who have been angry with me that I do
not proclaim that we are now already in that perfected state, and there have
been some angry with me that I say we must still daily bear our crosses. The
truth is that we are yet in the throes of laying down our own lives to exchange
them for His, this has not yet stopped in us. It is so vital to know these
things.
The Overcomer endures all the fire that the Lord has to give them, they
take all that fire, all that judgment and all that the Lord would scourge in
them and then they set themselves to the task at hand of rising above all that
is fleshly or ungodly in their lives to become HOLY and PERFECT. This is truth.
The fire of the Lord increases in you only to make you HOLY and to PERFECT YOUR
WALK. It is laid upon you from His fiery supply so that you can rise above the
beast in you, which is your carnal earthly nature, and stand complete in Him
upon the sea of glass mingled with fire singing the true proclamation of His
everlasting Kingdom, that no nation, far or near, will be outside of His
perfect love and salvation.
This rising, this overcoming, this endurance of the fire and the
testing daily is to MAKE YOU HOLY IN YOUR DAILY WALK. For the Lord is going to
appear IN A HOLY PEOPLE. A people who have laid down their will for His will and
His life in exchange entirely for their own. There are a people, a company, who
the Lord shall appear in, THESE SHALL BE COMPLETELY HOLY. Nothing outside the
nature of their Father will be in this people; they will look and be one with
the family of the Lord. The family of Overcomers. Holy? How can I be holy you
ask? IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES. Right now perhaps you disqualify
yourself because you see so many lacks, so many shortfalls, so many things that
are UNHOLY in you. Those things dear reader HAVE THE FIRE APPLIED TO THEM. They
are being JUDGED IN YOU RIGHT NOW. The areas of your shortfall however are not
causing your feet to be aligned outside of His will. Your steps are being
ordered of the Lord daily, and you are NOT being defiled with all these around
your life who have gone off into wild tangents and new age deceptions. No,
instead you are guarding that treasure you hold in your earthen vessel, the
Christ in you, even if you are not aware of it. You are not following hard
after cunningly devised fables and vain oppositions and quirky doctrines and
expressions. Instead you are keeping yourselves and setting yourselves daily in
the sight of the Lord as those who are waiting for His full process to be
completed in them. These ones are in this world, very much a part of it, but
the world disgusts them, they do not like their life in this world and they do
not see that anything outside of the Kingdom of God can have any value at all.
It is in these that the fire is finishing its deepest burn. They are being
torched to the core; nothing in their soul is escaping the raging flames which
are seeking out every bit of stubble to burn. And these who are enduring this
live in real hope. This keeping of the Christ in you, guarding Him there as He
who indwells your very life, IS A HOLY ACT.
This may be hard to believe, but believe it because the word of God is
true. The Lord is perfecting that which concerns you and your time of trial IS
NEAR COMPLETION. That would almost be unreal to have the Lord say that your
course is completed, wouldn’t it? HE IS ABOUT TO SPEAK FORTH THOSE VERY WORDS
TO YOU. Know this dear reader of these pages. The Lord is about to be seen in
you in an unbounded measure, so much so that you will need a glorified body to
contain this. The hope of many generations is abiding upon this generation.
That the Lord is about to come in the full majesty of His splendour and glory
and in absolute holiness, and He will be seen IN THE OVERCOMING COMPANY. And
you dear reader, in spite of perhaps only seeing your own flesh, ARE PART OF
THIS. He is rising dear ones, and every single nation on the earth now, and all
the nations that once lived but now are extinct, all of these WILL SEE THE
BRIGHTNESS OF HIS RISING. He is rising in you dear saint of the Lord, you whose
brow is covered in the heat of daily trial and long temptation, He is rising in
you and will be seen in you and upon you and through you and when all nations
past and present see this they will only see JESUS. He will be revealed IN YOU
and that revealing in you will destroy completely all of the antichrist spirit
that remains in this world. The entire world of men, all creation, will then
enter the bright new day of the Kingdom of God in the earth. What an honor we
have of being called the people of the Lord!
To be continued………….
Kenneth B Visscher
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