Blog In Audio:
Greetings,
Today I am on my journey to home. I have spent the past week in Portugal recording two more video courses for further training with my Portuguese speaking family. I was also in the Netherlands this past weekend with my good friend Pastor Niels and the church in Utrecht. We were blessed with God’s presence, wisdom, and direction as we set our hearts to follow His will and kingdom plan for His glory as the family of God. God is surely good!
God is granting us His grace to be His people in the earth. The mountain of God’s love is greater than any other mountain among men. God’s mountain is seen in the increase of His unshakeable love working in our midst.
Isaiah 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Why do the waters cover the sea? The decision of first Adam resulted in the consequence of a flood and the earth was changed. God removed wicked flesh from the earth, but He promised that He would never again remove all flesh by a flood. His promise was that a work of the Spirit would come that would transform flesh to become a testimony of His covenant love.
God promises that the evidence of Last Adam, eternal Adam, will fill the whole earth. In your life, the evidence of first Adam is going to be overtaken by the evidence of eternal Adam. The old man is being overpowered by the new man. He who began a good work in you is faithful to complete it. There is no end to the increase. It is like leaven in three measures of meal. It fills the whole loaf. It is like a little mustard seed that is very small, but it grows to become like a tree. For each of us, Christ in me is the hope of glory! Grace is the ability to subdue, and the result is truth. Truth is dominion. Truth crumbles every lie. Instead of pretending I love my neighbor, grace empowers me to be loving towards my neighbor until I become real. I love you! That crumbles the lie! It is a work of the Spirit. It is also a work in me. The result is my life casts a shadow that looks like law. If my life doesn’t cast a shadow that looks like law, I haven’t discovered grace. I am only living in mercy, and I am pretending this that I know God’s grace. I am not subduing. I am not reigning. I am merely waiting to go to heaven. I am not partaking in the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven. I am simply waiting to die so I can go to heaven. I am not living. I am not loving. I am not changing the world that I live in.
The mandate given to man by God is still good. He has made a provision for us to fulfill the commission of being fruitful, multiplying, filling, subduing, and having dominion. That provision is Christ in us, and He is the hope of glory. Christ in us is the empowerment of grace that transforms our lives in every way. We can subdue, we can experience God’s life, we can become carriers of God’s life, and givers of God’s life to the world. We can become real. We can become truth in Christ. By this we will exercise the dominion of Christ in our world.
Jesus came as a man full of grace and truth to give us back a life of being sons and daughters of God for the glory of our Father in heaven. What we lost in first Adam, we regain in last Adam. Jesus became a man of flesh so that we could receive Him as a life-giving Spirit in our hearts and we could become new creations in Christ. Jesus took our cross to reconcile us to God and give us life to reign in life.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
It was the death of Jesus as a man that justified us to find the life of God as men and women in our world. Jesus rose from the dead as a man so that we could be given the authority of men and women who bring God’s life to our world. That ability to bring life to our world is made possible by the life of God within each of us.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:
Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:
House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225
To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.
Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728
