Restoring The Connection In A Season Of Wisdom!!!!!

John chapter 14

We are walking in today:  Restoring The Connection In A Season Of Wisdom!!!!!

Witness restore throughout the Bible:  H7725 shuwb--to return, turn back, come or go back

Isaiah 1:26 And I will restore H7725 thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

The Torah testifies...............
 Genesis 42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore H7725 every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.

The prophets proclaim..................
 Nehemiah 5:11 Restore, H7725 I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

The writings bear witness..........................
 2 Kings 8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore H7725 all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

Ezekiel 33:15 If the wicked restore H7725 the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

John 14:13-15
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

The King-Son had promised his disciples concerning the Governor, “He lives with you and will be in you.” He would connect them to the Father through the Spirit. After his resurrection, the work of preparing humanity to receive the Governor was complete. The spirit of rebellion and independence from the kingdom was broken. Any human being who personally received the sacrifice of Yeshua, applying it to his own life, was now cleansed and qualified to be a residence for the Governor.

The Breath of Yeshua

Yeshua’s life, ministry, death, and resurrection therefore led up to his most important act on earth: the giving of the Governor. Shortly after his resurrection, Yeshua came to the room where his disciples had gathered, and said, “‘As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.’ And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’”Note that Yeshua breathed on them. Does that act seem familiar? It was very similar to what the Creator did when he first made Adam a living being: “The LORD The Most High formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” But in this life-giving act, the King-Son specifically explained what this meant.

He didn’t just say, “Receive the breath of life.” He said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” The breath of life is the Holy Spirit; the Governor is the life of humanity. Without Him, even though our bodies may be physically alive for a limited length of time, we are dead to the kingdom, to the heavenly influence we were created to live in, and to the Creator-King himself. In other words, when the Creator first breathed into Adam, he was essentially saying, “Ceive the Holy Spirit.” Now, Yeshua was saying to his disciples, as the first human beings (besides himself) to be filled with the Spirit, “Ceive the Holy Spirit.” In the English language, we don’t use the word ceive as a verb, but the English word receive comes from the Latin re- (again) and capere (to take). When Adam rebelled, he lost the Spirit he had been given. So when Yeshua brought the disciples together after the resurrection, he was saying, in effect, “Humanity, take the Spirit again, as Adam did.” He was giving human beings back what they had lost. In breathing on his disciples, Yeshua reconnected humanity to the kingdom of heaven.

He was literally bringing his disciples into identity with heaven’s government. He was renewing human beings’ standing and authority in the kingdom. They were restored to their original assignment as vice governors of earth. So the disciples of Yeshua were the first human beings after Yeshua to receive the Governor resident within them again. The return of the Holy Spirit is the most important act of redemption in The Most High’s program for humanity. At that moment, the kingdom of The Most High returned to earth because the Spirit lived within humanity once more! Note that, after his resurrection, Yeshua’s message continued to be the kingdom. Luke the physician wrote, In my former book…I wrote about all that Yeshua began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of The Most High. Some people question whether the kingdom of heaven is on earth right now. The answer is absolutely yes. In order to understand why, we have to remember the nature of kingdoms. Wherever the Governor is, the kingdom is present.

Wherever the Spirit of the King is, the kingdom is. The Governor is the presence of the absent King. Luke recorded Yeshua’s response when he was asked about this very question: Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of The Most High would come, Yeshua replied, “The kingdom of The Most High does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘there it is,’ because the kingdom of The Most High is within you.”The kingdom of The Most High is within you when the Governor is resident within you. And when the Governor is resident within you, the kingdom of heaven is present on earth. Yeshua told his followers, “I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of The Most High come with power.” According to Luke’s account in his second book, Acts, about one hundred twenty disciples were present when the Governor was poured out and fully reinstated on earth.

Waiting for the Fire

Yeshua’s purpose was to reintroduce the government that had been recalled from earth by humanity’s rebellion. After he had completed his mission of providing a way for the inhabitants to be holy again, he returned to the heavenly kingdom. The ascension of Yeshua was evidence of his finished work on earth, indicating that all was in readiness for the Governor’s full return. The gospel of Mark records, “After the Lord Yeshua had spoken to [his disciples], he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of The Most High.” I believe he reported to the Father at this time that everything was in place for the Governor to be poured out on the inhabitants of earth. Yeshua had instructed his disciples about how they would receive this power from the Governor. On various occasions, he made these statements to his disciples: And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.

They had received the Governor into their lives and were connected to the kingdom. But they still needed to be connected to the kingdom’s power, which the King would soon send them. This is what John meant when he said Yeshua would baptize them with the Holy Spirit and with fire. After Yeshua returned to the heavenly kingdom, the “fire” would come, and his mission of both reconnection and restored power would be fully realized. In other words, Yeshua was saying, “For the last three-and a-half years, I have been telling you that the influence of the heavenly government is coming. Every time I talked about the kingdom, I was referring to the Governor’s influence in your lives and on the world. Now, stay here in Jerusalem because you’re about to receive the fullness of the promise my Father made to you.” Yeshua told them they would be clothed with power from “on high.” This point is vital: we are to receive our power from the heavenly country, from a place outside this world, because this world is controlled by the kingdom of darkness. Again, the King-Son sent the Governor to earth from the throne of the Father, just as a royal governor was sent to a colony from the throne of the king to carry on the work of the sovereign there.

The Power of Absence

As we saw in the previous chapter, while the Holy Spirit once dwelled only in Yeshua, now He is able to dwell in millions of people throughout the world. He’s back home in the colony so that the whole planet can be filled with the glory of the King. Now that he has been poured out, he can be all over the world at the same time. He lives in people of all races and skin colors. He lives in both men and women. The physical Yeshua had only two hands with which to bless children and break bread for the hungry and relieve the sick. Now, through the Spirit dwelling in the lives of his followers, there are millions of hands doing the work of the kingdom. While Yeshua’s ministry was once limited to the area of Palestine, it can now be in Australia, China, the United States, the Bahamas, and all over the world at the same time. His purpose is to spread the kingdom of The Most High on earth through a multitude of people, in a multitude of ways, in all spheres of life. For example, if the Spirit lives within you, then, when you are at your job, the heavenly government is also present there. He wants you to bring about his influence in your workplace by your kingdom value system, attitude, forgiveness, love, and patience. If anyone asks you, “Why are you so different?” your answer can be the same as Yeshua’s: “My kingdom is not of this world.” The King wants you to represent his kingdom in the midst of the kingdom of darkness, so others can be reconciled to the heavenly government, also.

Greater Works on Earth

John recorded this statement by Yeshua, which he made shortly before his death and resurrection: “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” How could we do greater works than Yeshua did on earth? The word greater here has to do with magnitude, not quality. We could never improve on the quality of the works of Yeshua. But when we are aligned with the mind and the will of the Father, and his purposes are foremost in our lives, Yeshua promised, “And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.” The nature of the heavenly government will be spread throughout the colony, and this will bring due honor to the King of both heaven and earth. All who have received his Spirit will collectively multiply his works in the world. The power of the Governor is that he makes the reality of heaven on earth possible. This is why everybody needs the Holy Spirit. He is the only one who can connect us to the King and, through us, dispel the kingdom of darkness with his kingdom of light. He is the most important person on earth.

Shema Selah this is our return to the King of kings original plan, His Spirit within us as it was in the garden of Eden!!