Posted: 03/09/2016 at 11:31am
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Rediscovering
Lost Treasure
By
Ron McGatlin
Long lost buried treasure is being discovered in the
outback wilderness far from the culture of this world. Pure living gold and
precious jewels of peace and joy along with beautiful pearls of living wisdom
are being found outside the camps of religious and political correctness of
godless culture.
The corroded old treasure chests from thousands of years
ago filled with the most valuable treasure on earth have been buried under
layers of religious form and doctrines of men that were sometimes inspired by
doctrines of demons.(1 Timothy 4:1) (Mark 7:7).
Outside the religious camp God has prepared and is
preparing a holy people with pure hearts free from religion to partake of the
treasures of heaven’s ways on earth. The old chests can be discovered by anyone
but can only be opened by those with the keys to open them. No amount of money
can buy the keys to open the treasure chests. No amount of militant force or
cunning intrigue can take the keys.
All of the resources of heaven and earth are available to
anyone with the keys to unlock the treasures that God has prepared. Natural man
does not even perceive the existence of these great treasures. They are only
revealed by the Spirit of God. “But the natural
man does not receive the things
of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.”(1 Cor 2:9-10, 14)
The treasures of heaven are opened to anyone with the
keys. The keys can only be obtained as a gift from the one who holds the keys. Only
the Holy Spirit can reveal into the heart and mind of a man or woman the
treasure of the King who holds the keys.
The treasures of heaven await and are potentially open to
every person in this world that will come humbly with their whole heart to the King
who has the keys. “But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor
have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those WHO LOVE HIM. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the
Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.’”(1 Cor
2:9-10)
The Treasure is the Kingdom
The treasure is the kingdom of God / Kingdom of heaven on
earth. It is God within and among His people in manifested reality – Heaven’s
manifested spiritual reality abiding in and with us in this life now on earth,
in His manifested presence in which we are consumed by His LOVE and become one
in and with God. “But he who is joined to the Lord is one
spirit with Him.”(1 Cor 6:17)
The treasure will only be revealed by the Holy Spirit to
those who truly LOVE God. And the treasure can only be fully possessed by those
who have been given the keys.
Keys represent authority. Christ Jesus has the keys of
the kingdom. All authority is in Christ Jesus. “And Jesus came and
spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in
heaven and on earth.’”(Matthew 28:18)
We must come to
know Christ Jesus, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, to receive the keys of the
kingdom.
Holy Spirit REVELATION and LOVE are two major ingredients
of receiving the keys of the kingdom. Only by the Holy Spirit can we really come
to intimately know Christ Jesus and who He truly is. Only through Christ in us
by the Holy Spirit can we be filled and saturated (baptized) in pure holy LOVE that
fulfills all the law and the prophets.(Matthew 22:37-40)
It is not enough to know about Jesus or to know Him as a
good man or a great prophet sent from God.
Matthew
16:13-19: “When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His
disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
14 So
they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah
or one of the prophets.”
15 He
said to them, “BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?”
16 Simon
Peter answered and said, “YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.”
17 Jesus
answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for
flesh and blood has not REVEALED this to you, but My Father who is in
heaven. 18 And I also say to you
that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of
Hades shall not prevail against it.
19 AND I
WILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, and whatever you bind on earth
will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in
heaven.”
The keys
that Jesus gives represent the authority to rule from heaven on earth as kings
and priests binding that which is not of God and releasing that which is the
will and righteousness of God on earth.
Revelation
5:10: “And have made us kings
and priests to our God; And we
shall reign on the earth.”
The New Order
of King and Priest
The new
Spirit order of kingly, priestly sons of God is not really new at all but
actually precedes the Levitical priesthood. In Genesis 14, Melchizedek was the
first biblical mention of the king/priest order and is of the same order as the
king/priest order of Christ Jesus.
Christ
Jesus, our High Priest and King, was of the order of Melchizedek that was before
the order of Moses’ Levitical Priesthood. Christ Jesus came outside the camp
and outside the linage of the Levites, outside the priestly order that served
through sacrifices and offerings only looking forward in faith to the greater
kingdom and priesthood of Christ Jesus.
Hebrews
5:5-6: So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it
was He who said to Him:
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.”
6 As He also says
in another place:
“You are a
priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek”.
Christ Jesus did not come in the power of the law but IN
THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE. (Hebrews 7) The High Priesthood of
Christ after the order of Melchizedek was greater than the Levitical Priesthood
and involved a Sonship and kingship endowment as well as priestly.
The keys of the kingdom involve the authority of Christ
in us.
We are seated with Him at the right hand of the throne of
the Father, and at the same time He abides within us as One Spirit with us. Selah
(pause and think about that).
As priests of God we have authority to minister His
spiritual provisions to His people. Each of us as sons of God and joint heirs
with Christ who are consumed in the love of God are given the authority (keys)
to relate fully and intimately to God, to manifest His life and glory to His
people and to lead them to Him through Christ to become full sons, priests, and
kings of God.
As kings we have the heavenly authority (keys) to rule
and reign with His LOVE, power, and wisdom in all facets of life on earth. All
business, education, media, recreation, governments, and all matters of law and
order are to be ruled according to the will and righteousness of God in heaven.
The Melchizedek order of priest/king directly connects us
to God in Christ by the Holy Spirit and will be the order of the kingdom
reality of heaven on earth. We are all to be kings and priests some more king
than priest and some more priest than king but all fully connected directly to
God to function by the word of the Father in Christ by the Holy Spirit. There
is no longer any need for any other mediator or religious system.
Perfect love causes all things to work together in order
in the kingdom. Men do not seek to lord over others. There is no need for human
pyramid style structures. It is Christ Jesus in His Holy Spirit directly
leading the Body. The immature believers look to their more mature brothers and
sisters as leaders to help them grow up in hearing and following Spirit God.
Do you get it? We are Sons of God in Christ and Christ in
us. We are eternal beings of love given power and authority to recreate and
reform the world. We have open heaven privileges to relate intimately with the
Father of all creation and present His will and righteousness, His love and
power, His peace and joy to order this world.
The glorious and powerful all-consuming love and power of
the manifest presence of God compassing us about and filling us within is the
treasure of Christ in us being rediscovered outside the religious camps of the
recent past and in the glory of the reality of the kingdom of heaven on earth.
“Do not fear, little flock, for
it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12:32)
Ron McGatlin
archive.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
Edited by News Room on 03/13/2016 at 5:31am
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