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[Message #268 - Part 8,
Jesus In The Book Of John - Tape 1 ]

WOMAN AT THE WELL

The Lord Jesus Christ is going to relate to you as He chooses to relate to you. You will either respond or you will not respond because the Lord Jesus Christ is a controlling force. He is in charge of the relationship. You better believe it. You are going to do it His way. He can control you and He can force you because His motive is righteous. He can also abuse you and punish you if you are not responding to Him properly because His motive towards you is righteous; His motive for punishing you and abusing you is not to benefit Himself. It is not to gratify Himself. It is not to hurt you so that He could be satisfied. That is sin. His motive for hurting you, for abusing you, for hurting your feelings by exposing sin in you, for giving you painful trials; His motive is that you should be delivered out of this realm of death and hell. Therefore, He can do anything He wants to you and He is in right standing with the Father. If you can hear it, hear it.

The pharisees had a big communication problem with Jesus. At one point He even said to them, what's your problem? Don't you understand my speech? Aren't we speaking the same human language? The answer is that Jesus was speaking their human language, but He had spiritual truths that He was expressing with that language and therefore He made no sense to the pharisees at all. There was a severe communication block.

Jesus said, if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me as the scripture has said; out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters. Well, the carnal man will say, I'm not thirsty, I have plenty of water in my home. But Jesus was saying, if you are thirsting for spiritual things come unto me. Don't go unto Satan, don't go into witchcraft, don't go into tarot card readings, don't go to your astrologer. If you have a desire for spiritual things that can be likened to a natural thirst, come unto me. The promise is that if you desire spiritual things and you come unto Jesus, He is going to give you drink; He is going to satisfy your spiritual desires.

He that believeth into me as the scripture has said; out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters. The Greek word translated belly signifies the spiritual reproductive part. What is our spiritual reproductive part? The mind!!! Out of your mind shall flow rivers of the waters of life or rivers of the spiritual mind which is in Christ. People who are carnal are going to read this and say, out of my belly? Even Paul talks about your belly being your god and they think it means that Paul is saying that you are worshipping what you eat. Paul is saying way beyond that. He is saying that your spiritual reproductive part is your god. He is saying your carnal mind is your god. That's what he is saying.Jesus and Paul were misunderstood continually. People get upset with me when my answer to their question makes no sense, whatsoever, because I'm coming out of a place in the spirit that they can't relate to. You should always come up to the highest realm of understanding and let the person that's looking at it with a greater depth help you to ascend into that depth. Brethren, the answer to the problems of humanity is to ascend out of hell. Hell is in the mind. It's the way we think. It's the way we look at things. The answer is not to solve the problem down here, but to ascend above it. That's the answer. There's victory in ascending above the problem. I'm talking from personal experience. The victory is in ascending above the problem. Tremendous victory is to see everybody raging around you and you are calm and cool and collected and in control. The only way that you will ascend to that place is to deal with the spiritual root of the problem in you. You have to shoot up. All of us are living on the circle of the earth and we just keep going round and round like mice on a treadmill. We have the same fights with different people, the same problems from the day we are born until the day we die. The answer is to go up. We have to break that circle; it's a curse. Break that curse in your life. Ascend up above the fights. Glory to God.

Going on to chapter 8:7 in John; he that is without sin among you, let him cast a stone at her. Well we are speaking about the adulteress woman here. Some of you may have heard my teaching on what really happened when Jesus stooped down and wrote in the earth with His finger. His humanity stooped down very low and the Christ came up in Him very high and He had the authority to change that woman's heart. That's how He could say to her go and sin no more. He altered the spiritual problem in her heart that was making her an adulteress woman. Jesus didn't actually write upon the ground according to the original Greek text. He engraved upon the adulteress woman's heart (carnal mind) the law of God that caused a change in her spirit, giving her the ability and power to overcome her lifestyle. I'm reminded of the finger of God that wrote on the tablets (our stony hearts) that were given to Moses. In Daniel Chapter 5:24 it speaks of (that part of the hand sent from Him). It makes me think of lightning bolts coming from the mind of God directed at us to change, correct or empower us.

I find these scriptures fascinating. In verse 5 the pharisees say that Moses and the law commands them to stone the woman caught in adultery, but what do you say, Jesus? This they said tempting Him that they might have something to accuse Him with. They must have had a revelation that Jesus would not condemn this woman, so they wanted to accuse Him of breaking the law of Moses. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground as though He heard them not. When they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself and said to them; he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. When I looked up every word in the Greek in that account, I found out that what it is saying is that Jesus, who was the God-man, caused His humanity to stoop down, to go down very low and the Christ in Him came up very high. In that position of spiritual authority, He wrote on the ground of that woman's heart and changed something in her heart, which delivered her from adultery and enabled her to stop doing it. Therefore, when Jesus told her further down in verse 11, neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more, Jesus was not telling an habitual adulteress to go and sin no more. That's ridiculous to tell somebody who's caught in the grips of a sin that was serious enough to get her killed. This woman was committing adultery, knowing that the law of Israel, if she were caught would stone her to death. Now no one in their right mind goes out and commits a crime that has a death penalty on it if they have the ability to not commit that crime. They must be caught in the grips of a criminal spirit that's trying to destroy them. To say no man condemns thee is like telling a serial murderer to go out and sin no more. It makes no sense at all. Jesus had to do something to her to enable her to obey Him. So He changed her heart.

What really excites me in this scripture and I don't completely understand it, is that the scripture is saying that Jesus was not at the same height of His authority continuously. Now we know that He was God continuously. The height of His authority or the spiritual strength that He was moving in rose and fell. At its lowest point, the point where He was the most man and the least God that He would be, He was still God. Can you hear me? He never descended to the point where He wasn't God anymore. But apparently the Christ in Him rose and fell. Now what does that mean? Brethren, when He was speaking to natural men, He was coming out of His manhood. When He was ministering Christ to men, He was coming out of His priesthood. It's exactly what I talked about earlier, the Zadok priesthood, Jacob's ladder, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon that ladder between heaven and earth. When He was dealing with carnal men, He was to a large measure in His manhood. All you pharisees out there, Jesus never stopped being God, but He did ascend and descend back and forth between His Godhood and His manhood, depending on who He was relating to. Can you hear it? We see Jesus teaching the pharisees on the level that they could bear, which apparently was not His greatest height of spirituality. He was teaching out of Christ, but on a level that these people could understand. When He wanted to do a miracle, He had to ascend into Christ to do that miracle. Brethren, I've experienced this except that I have no power to do it myself. Apparently Jesus had the power to do it at His own will. We also know that He didn't do anything of His own will. So the Father must have instructed Him to ascend up to a place where He had the authority to change this woman's heart. It's the same thing that happened with the Gadarene demoniac. By His spiritual authority, one sentence rewrote this man's heart. He was a suicidal maniac that couldn't survive in society running around naked in the grave yards trying to kill himself. Jesus rebuked the legion and his heart was so converted that he became a solid acceptable citizen. I'm going to live to see that. I've ascended; Christ has caught me up and I've prayed healing and I've prayed deliverance, but I have never experienced changing a man's heart. But I am going to experience it. It is a righteous prayer and He is going to give it to me. I know it. I know I don't have the authority or power to change your heart. I believe the day is coming that there will be people in this earth that are going to have the power, with one rebuke to your carnal mind, to have Christ arise in you and give you life. That's what Jesus did for this woman. Most of what Jesus did was for examples that these great feats should be written down in a book that the sons of God should have an example as to what our job is going to be. We are not going to do it for one here and one there; we are going to do it for the masses. All of humanity is getting a new heart. That's an exciting story for me.

Jesus said to the woman, where are your accusers? Has no man condemned thee? Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more. You see, Jesus doesn't condemn you because He has the power to fix you. Jesus will never tolerate sin. If you have been taught that Jesus has forgiven you and therefore He accepts you as you are, you have received a lie. Jesus hates your sin. He hates my sin. Jesus hates sin. He is a Holy God. The reason He doesn't condemn you is that He has the power to fix you. So there is now no more condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. When Christ Jesus is growing in your heart and the white throne judgment is operating in you; and you are in the midst of this change, there is now no more condemnation unto you. But every sin in your life that is not being judged by Christ Jesus at this moment is sin unto you. You need to repent.

In verse 12 Jesus says, I Am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Jesus is saying that you can't understand these things because I am the light in your mind; I'm the understanding which is in your mind. If you follow after Christ you shall not walk in the darkness of the carnal mind. What is He saying? And why is He saying it here at this point? He is saying, I have been trying to communicate with you, but you are carnal and I am spiritual and you don't understand a word that I'm saying. I can't reach you and there is no way that I'm getting carnal. I'll come down to a certain point and you will have to come up out of your carnality; come up out of your darkness; make some effort to become spiritual because I'm not going down any lower than this. "I'm not coming down there. You have to come up here".