THE PREDESTINED PATH
FOR THE ADOPTION OF
THE CHILDREN OF GOD
Rev. William Soto Santiago, Ph.D.
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Very good morning, kind friends and brethren present and those in different nations. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and me too. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
It is a great blessing and privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program for this end time. To which we read in Romans, chapter 8, verses 14 and onwards, where he says:
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“THE PREDESTINED PATH FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD.”
Here are four important things: the path, a predestined path, something that is already chosen by God before the foundation of the world, and the adoption of whom? Of the children of God. The adoption will be when the believers in Christ are transformed and thus to return to physical eternal Life; and the children of God, they are the descendants of God who were eternally in the mind of God and their names are written in Heaven in the Book of Life of the Lamb.
These are the sons and daughters of God who Adam and Eve had to bring; the first Adam and the first Eve were to bring these children, but because of their sin, then we have come at this time we who are alive, and those who lived in times past also came to live on Earth so to obtain redemption.
These children of God have a path laid out by God before the foundation of the world, and are predestined to enter and walk in that way, in that path. So, notice, the goal is to be adopted, which is the glorification in which every believer in Christ will have an eternal, immortal, incorruptible and glorified body, as the glorified body of Jesus Christ our Savior, there is a way through which they will walk. The Scripture speaks to us of the way of life, Matthew, chapter 7, verse 13 to 14 says:
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
There is a door to enter in, there is a way to walk in, and narrow is the way as well as the gate is strait. You have to enter in through that door in order to walk, go, in that way which is narrow, but it leads to eternal Life. It’s not like some people think that all roads lead to God, there is a way that leads to God, and the way is narrow, the gate is narrow too, and through that narrow gate and narrow path these people that will be adopted and are called sons and daughters of God will be walking.
Let’s first see which that way is. The Scripture tells us in the Old Testament and through the prophets, there will be a way by which they that will serve God will walk, and then John, chapter 14, Christ makes known which that way is. Chapter 14, verse 6 onwards Christ says in John:
“Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.”
Here Christ identifies Himself as the way leading to the Father, and shows that there is no other truth, He is the way, the truth, and life; and no one comes to the Father, to God, if it is not through Christ.
We have also identified the way, we read in Matthew, chapter 7, verse 13 to 14 says, there is a narrow way and narrow gate. Let us see which is the door, in John, chapter 10, verse 9, where Christ says:
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
We have identified which is the way and which is the door; both, the way and the door are narrow.
And now, the adoption: in Romans, chapter 8 we read about the adoption, but let’s see here something in John, chapter 5, verse 17 onwards, says:
“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
And how did the Father work and how did Jesus Christ work? Now, it continues:
“Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.”
And now, we can then see that all the things Jesus spoke, preached, and the miracles and wonders He carried out, He carried them out according to how the Father showed Him to do. That is, first He had visions of all that the Father showed Him for Him to do; and in plainer words, it was God the Father at work, performing those miracles through Jesus Christ.
The body of flesh called Jesus Christ performed no miracles, it was God through Jesus Christ manifested in human flesh, speaking through human lips and performing those miracles; which is why He said that He did nothing of Himself, even more, He says … He says us in John, chapter 14, verse 7 onwards, says:
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
It was God the Father, who dwelt in Jesus Christ, who did the works, spoke through Jesus and also performed miracles:
“Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.”
And now, we can see that it was God in human flesh at work through Jesus, who always said that He did nothing of Himself, it was God through Jesus; for example, if Jesus saw the Father to heal the sick, when Jesus saw that sick man then on Earth, the same way God did ??and showed Him in a vision, then Jesus did, and in the same way God spoke, then Jesus spoke, that is, He repeated the same what He had seen in a vision and then the miracle He had seen in vision became a reality.
Visions of God become a reality through Jesus Christ, whom they were shown, and the visions and prophecies that were spoken by the prophets concerning the first Coming of the Messiah and the things that the Messiah would do, then they were materialized in Jesus’ ministry. That’s the way of God fulfilling His promises for each time; and the ones concerning to the first Coming of Christ, the Messiah, have already been fulfilled, and those corresponding to the Last Day regarding the Second Coming of Christ to His Church will also be fulfilled.
Dreams, visions and prophecies relating to the Second Coming of Christ for Him to come for His Church in the Last Day are already there. therefore, that which will be happening in this end time is the realization of what God revealed in visions, dreams, what He spoke regarding the coming of the Lord for the Last Day, which He spoke to the prophets and they made it known; and the types and figures where, as it was reflected in different people: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, also the sons of Jacob.
In Joseph were reflected the first Coming of Christ and the Second Coming of Christ, in Benjamin was also reflected the first Coming of Christ and His suffering as the Lamb, in Manasseh the Hebrew people was reflected, and the Church of Lord Jesus Christ was reflected in Ephraim who received the blessing of the birthright.
Therefore, the group of one hundred forty four thousand Jews or Hebrews, twelve thousand from each tribe, was also reflected in Benjamin, who will meet with Joseph, his older brother, it will be the Coming of the Messiah in the Last Day, and they will recognize Him at some point, as he revealed himself to his brothers when he saw Benjamin, there his emotion reached a maximum, and said: “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold,” that took place when he met Benjamin, brother of father and mother, the only brother of his father and mother, both were sons of Jacob and Rachel, both were sons of Rachel.
At birth or during the birth of Benjamin on the road to Bethlehem, Rachel died there giving birth to Benjamin, and that child represents the one hundred forty-four thousand Jews in the Last Day that will receive the Messiah, they will recognize Him, and that will be when the Messiah will be revealed to Israel. It was among the Gentiles there in Egypt that Joseph was ranked second on the throne, as the prime minister or viceroy there in the kingdom of Pharaoh.
So for the Last Day the Joseph is to come, and He is the Messiah the Prince, and one hundred forty-four thousand Jews will recognize Him, they will receive Him. The first Coming of Christ and the Second Coming of Christ were reflected in Joseph. It is very important to understand that for the end time these things are to be fulfilled.
And now, believers in Christ will be on the predestined path for the adoption to be carried out in the Last Day, they will form or will be as part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and when up to the last of the elect written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from before the foundation of the world has entered into the Mystical Body of Christ, then shall the adoption which will be the redemption of our body, or more clear: the resurrection of the dead believers in Christ in glorified bodies and the transformation of believers in Christ who are alive on the Last Day, which form part of the born again sons and daughters of God.
The goal is glorious, the Bride Church of the Lord Jesus Christ who was born on Pentecost has been passing from Age to Age, but has kept Herself in the way predestined by God, which is Christ, serving Christ, following Christ and being Christ’s instrument and being the wheat plant that from Christ the corn of wheat emerged, where all the sons and daughters of God in this end time will be as they have been at each stage or age past.
In other words, the ones that will be adopted will be in the Mystical Body of Christ, for they are the ones with the promise of adoption, the redemption of the body, which is, the transformation if they remain alive until the Last Day, until the time when this prophecy is fulfilled, or if they have physically died, they will be raised in glorified bodies.
Therefore, it is important to be on the way predestined by God, serving God through Christ our Savior. These are the people who also have the promise of reigning with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity; to them is that the Kingdom of God has been given, and that is why in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 5 to 6 , says:
“And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
It says that He has washed us with His Blood from our sins and has made us unto our God kings and priest; He has made us unto our God kings and priests, in other words, we belong to the priesthood power or divine priesthood Order, which is the Order of Melchizedek, High Priest of the Temple of Heaven, which is Jesus Christ our Savior, High Priest in the heavenly Temple, who makes intercession with His own Blood for everyone who receives Him as only and sufficient Savior, and they walk in that new way which was predestined by God, and keep themselves clean, or Christ keeps them clean through His precious Blood, for when they make a mistake, commit a fault or sin, they confess it to Christ, and Christ cleanses them with His precious Blood and thus He keeps them in the presence of God.
Remember that forgiveness is granted by God through Christ, when the person receives Him, when he confesses Christ as Savior, and also when he fails before God and confesses it to Christ, that confession makes Christ to cleanse the person with His Blood from all sin, and since there was a pardon, there is no case in which the person can be charged before God of having committed an error, fault or sin, because there was already a pardon and the Blood of Christ has cleansed the person.
There can be no claim because there was already a pardon, there’s the power of forgiveness, and forgiveness becomes effective when the person receives it; we were forgiven on the Cross of Calvary with the Sacrifice of Christ, but not until the person confesses his sins to Christ, to God, and receives Him as Savior, then also if he fails at some point, that forgiveness does not become effective.
But believers in Christ when they believe, and confess to Christ their faults, mistakes and sins after having received Him as Savior, then in their trajectory in the way of God if they have failed on some occasion, and confess it to Christ, do you see? he is accepting the forgiveness that Christ offers, and there the Blood of Christ cleanses him from all sin, keeps him always cleansed from all sin, which is typified in the lavatory or washing of feet when the Holy Supper takes place.
And in the Holy Supper one commemorates, one remembers, that Christ died for us to cleanse us from all sin through His precious Blood which was shed for that purpose, “this is my Blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins,” said Christ at the Last Supper with His disciples in Matthew, chapter 26, verses 26 to 29, and Luke, chapter 22. This becomes a reality for all who are on the way predestined by God for the adoption of the sons and daughters of God. In other words, that’s a reality for me, and for who else? For each of you also.
We are in a very important stage, already the adoption in the spiritual realm has been performed in each believer in Christ at the time in which he has been granted to live, because he had a spiritual adoption, has been born again, and therefore the name of the person is no longer in the section that is called: The Book of Life, in that section where a name can be blotted out, but is in the section of the Lamb’s Book of Life, which was written before the foundation the world; God already sees the believer with the name that is written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and all the work he does in God’s Work is credited to that name written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
In the section of the Book of Life, the other section, it is the same Book but has different sections; you already passed over from that section to the section… you were activated to the section of the Lamb’s Book of Life which is eternal.
People that are written there cannot be blotted out from that section, from the other section: from the section of the Book of Life, of which the Scripture says that people can be blotted out, your name is not there, it is in the other section.
In other words, that which is there, your life is operating according to the section of the Lamb’s Book of Life. You may wonder: “And what is my name there? What is my name in the Lamb’s Book of Life? If God inspired your parents to call you by the name which is written there, well, then it is the one you have, do not worry about that, and if not, then you will know it when we are with the new body; so there is no problem with that, do no worry, the important thing is knowing that all the sons and daughters of God, the elect, that would be part of the Church of Jesus Christ, are written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and can never perish.
But sometimes they have problems that emerge in their lives or are entangled, and then, well: problems like all other human beings, whether be health problems or problems of other kinds as the rest of the human beings have, but they will continue in the way predestined by God for the adoption, to reach the divine goal which is the adoption of all His children that He thought of since before the foundation of the world.
We were in the divine mind, as also Christ being crucified on the Cross of Calvary, and all that was in the mind of God, that’s why the Scripture says that our names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life that was sacrificed … let’s see … let’s see in which part, Revelation chapter 13, verse 8 says, speaking of the beast and the image of the beast, says:
“And they worshiped all the inhabitants of the earth whose names are not written in the book of life the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
In other words, that those who worship the beast and the image of the beast are those… the beast, those who worship the beast are those… those that worship the dragon, are those whose names are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, slain from the foundation of the world, from the beginning of the world, you mean to say that Christ, the Lamb was slain from the beginning or foundation of the world? There the Bible says it.
How to understand it? In the mind of God already all the program of Redemption, of Christ dying for those people who are in the mind of God and would become part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and would be sons and daughters of God, the offspring of God, notice, when God thought of Christ, also thought of all believers in Christ, because Christ is the second Adam, and all believers in Christ are children of the second Adam and second Eve, the second Eve is His Church.
Therefore, they have been born through the manifestation of Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church, millions of sons and daughters of God in the Kingdom of God.
Christ said to Nicodemus in chapter 3 of John: “Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of Water and the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God,” just as to enter into this earthly realm, we had to be born on this Earth, and to enter the Kingdom of God we must obtain the new birth which is spiritual, then the physical part will come later on, which will be the physical adoption of every born again believer in Christ; and consequently also the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Mystical Body shall be adopted, because the same thing applies for the Church and for every believer in Christ as an individual.
And now, we ask ourselves: when will the physical adoption take place? Because the spiritual adoption began when the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost and produced the new birth in one hundred and twenty believers in Christ, there were the first ones born, and then it thus continued in the Kingdom of Christ; the new birth being produced of sons and daughters God that would hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, receiving Him as Savior, and Christ would baptize them with the Holy Spirit and Fire and would produce in them the new birth, therefore they would be born of Water (the Gospel of Christ) and of the Holy Spirit, and so the House of God would be filled with sons and daughters of God.
The House of God is the Family of God, of which Paul tells us in his letter to the Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 5 to 6:
“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we
(which is the House of Christ and therefore the House of God? The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ composed of all believers in Christ), if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
And the house of God as an individual is every believer in Christ. So both the believer in Christ as well as the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, Paul says we are House of God; the Spirit of God dwells in us, in us as individuals as well as in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ composed of all believers in Christ. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” That is true for the believer in Christ as well as for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the offspring of God, God’s family, sons and daughters of God. Look also in Ephesians, chapter 2, Paul says, beginning in verse 11, says:
“Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God
(members of the Family of God, sons and daughters of God, the House of God, of which Jesus Christ is the head, Jesus Christ is the firstborn, Jesus Christ is the elder, which is why when He speaks of believers in Him, says: ‘These my younger brothers,’ because He is the elder. It continues saying);
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
And now the House of God, the Family of God, the Temple of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that from stage to stage, and from Age to Age, is being built with sons and daughters of God who are living stones that make up the House God, the Family of God, the spiritual Temple of God where God dwells in the Holy Spirit, and God in Holy Spirit also dwells in each of those believers, because as individuals they are also God’s temple.
Now, these are the persons who have the great promises of great blessings to be adopted as sons and daughters of God; the first part of that adoption takes place in the spiritual realm when a person receives Christ as Savior and is baptized in water in the Name of the Lord, having confessed his sins to Christ, and Christ baptizes him with the Holy Spirit and produces the new birth in the person, spiritually he has already received eternal Life, is already spiritually adopted, and now lacks the physical adoption which will be the entrance unto eternal Life in the physical realm; it will come with the resurrection of the dead believers of Christ of past ages, and some of our time who have gone already, and we who will be alive at that time, will be changed, and then we will be completely in the image and likeness of God, because we will be like Christ with physical, glorified, young, eternal, immortal, incorruptible bodies, as Jesus Christ our Savior.
That is the goal of the Program of Redemption of God through Christ, which is to adopt all the sons and daughters of God. Who will be adopted? Those who will be in the way of God walking in that and with that divine goal, believing the prophetic Word that was spoken from Adam to the present.
The predestined way of God under the Dispensation of Grace is Christ, and therefore all believers in Christ are Christians, they believe in Christ and form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, that in the midst of Christianity it is that the children of God would be under the New Covenant covered with the Blood of Christ our Savior.
Knowing these things we are strengthened and take more courage to continue until receiving the adoption, the transformation of our bodies.
Paul in Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 30 says:
“And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
For the day of redemption of the body which will be our transformation, for that purpose we have received from Christ the Holy Spirit, and therefore the new birth. These people, says in the book of Revelation, chapter 1, verses 5 to 6, which we had a few minutes ago, that these people have been made unto God, kings and priests.
In chapter 5 of Revelation, verses 9 and above, says:
“And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
These sons and daughters of God have been made kings and priests and shall reign on Earth in the Kingdom of the Messiah, they belong to the divine Royalty, to the heavenly Royalty, and therefore, when the Kingdom of God is established on Earth by the Messiah, all these believers will be on Earth as kings and priests and judges, and will therefore be the Cabinet of the Kingdom of Christ. See, chapter 20, verses 4 to 6 of Revelation, says:
“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”
This is what God has for His children who believe in Christ, who are walking in the divine path, that path of God, which God opened for the Family of God, the offspring of God, the sons and daughters of God, which would be born through Christ in the Kingdom of God.
Look at what it says of these people here in chapter 21, verse 5 to 7:
“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son”
Here we see the sons and daughters of God in the Kingdom of God who will live eternally in the Kingdom of God. Thereafter, already in the new Jerusalem when it is established on Earth, it says:
“And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
That city, the new Jerusalem, which is the city of Christ and all believers in Christ, who will inhabit it, and therefore that will be the Capital for all eternity in the Kingdom which after the millennium and final judgment will be ruling over the planet Earth and the universe, therefore, there are good news for planet Earth and all its inhabitants and for Israel, because the planet Earth is the center of the universe in the political, commercial, in every sense, because the New Jerusalem will be on planet Earth, from where the entire universe will be ruled, because there will be… we will read it, there in Jerusalem will be the Throne of the Messiah, of Christ, and the Throne of the Father also, in other words, the Throne of the Father will no longer be in Heaven but on Earth. Revelation 21, verse 22 onwards, says:
“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof
(no need to pay electricity bills, because that city will have daylight twenty-four hours a day, there will be no night there).
And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.”
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.”
That’s what it says about that city. And then chapter 22, verse 1 onwards, says:
“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.”
See? The Throne of God and the Lamb will be on this planet Earth in that city, in the new Jerusalem, in the territory now known as Israel, but it will cover more territory because the city is wide, it’s width of about … about fifteen hundred miles wide by fifteen hundred miles long and fifteen hundred miles high, about fifteen hundred miles.
In other words, It is a huge City; and we don’t know the number of the redeemed ones who have formed the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ from age to age, and therefore in It will be Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the patriarchs and the prophets also will be there somewhere.
So, there is something great, that’s the city that Abraham was searching for, so there is something big prepared for all the sons and daughters of God who will be, in the time in which they live, walking, on the way predestined by God, in other words, they will be as believers in Christ in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the time allotted to them to live.
Thus it was for the believers of past ages, and so it is for us in this end time, and the goal is the same: the glorification, the adoption, the redemption of the body, which is the physical goal, and when we reach that goal, then we will be immortal and young for eternity representing from 18 to 21 years of age, equal to Jesus Christ our Savior, and then we shall physically enter the Kingdom of God and therefore we will be physically as priests and kings, although we are already all that, but in the spiritual realm, but then it will be also in the physical realm. And also as judges “because the saints shall judge the world and even the angels,” says the apostle Paul in First Corinthians, chapter 6, he says, verse 2:
“Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Know ye not that we shall judge angels?”
And now, as Paul says,” We shall judge, “See? The ones that will judge are the believers in Christ who will judge not only the world but also angels, namely, the judiciary belongs to Christ and the believers in Him that form His Church from Age to Age, from stage to stage, for Scripture tells us in Acts that it is Jesus Christ whom God has appointed as judge of the living and the dead, and those who believe in Him have been placed as what? Judges also.
In other words, Christ is the supreme Judge, and the believers in Him belong to the Court of the Messiah, they are the Cabinet of the judiciary power of the Messiah, and are the Cabinet of the Royalty where Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords, and believers in him are kings with Him to reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity, and also priests of the heavenly Order, and Christ is the High Priest of the Order in Heaven, He is Melchizedek, Christ is the heavenly High Priest of the Temple according to the Order of Melchizedek, and believers in Christ belong to that divine Order. Peter also speaks in First Peter, chapter 2, verses 4 to 10. Verse 9 says, First Peter, chapter 2:
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood
(in other words, of the Order of Melchizedek), an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.”
The believers in Christ, being the sons and daughters of God, the offspring of God, for that reason they can call God Father, for the children call father him that begat them, it is the reason why Christ came to Earth, those are the sheep that the Father gave Him to seek and to give them eternal Life.
Christ will rule over the planet Earth, and that’s why He ascended to Heaven and received power in Heaven and on Earth, why was all power given to Him? Because He sat on the heavenly Throne of God, for He is King of kings and Lord of lords, King in the seventh dimension, King in the sixth dimension, and King here on Earth where He will establish His Kingdom, and then He will be as King on Earth as well, and believers in Him as kings and priests as well. There will be plenty over which to reign, not only the planet earth, but the entire universe.
In Luke, chapter 19, verse 12, says:
“He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.”
A noble man, that is, Christ, a descendant of King David, and therefore a Prince, who will take the Throne and sit upon the Throne of David and reign over Israel. In Romans, chapter 4, Paul says in verse 13:
“For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”
Heir of what ? Of the world, and Christ is the heir of the world and all believers in Christ are joint-heirs with Christ, we are heirs of God in all that God has, and joint heirs with Christ of all that Christ will receive, and of everything the Father has, Christ says that is His. Therefore, believers in Christ are joint-heirs with Christ because they are the sons and daughters of God to be adopted, in other words, they will be transformed in the Last Day, those who are dead will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and then we will all be immortal as Jesus Christ our Savior.
With such great promises, and being aware that it is the promised Word of God which will become a reality in the physical too, we cling more and more each day to Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, to receive the blessing of our transformation, and if one departs earlier or before, he will receive the resurrection in an eternal, immortal, glorified body, and young for eternity.
The predestined path is for the adoption of a child of God, a son or daughter of God, or of all the sons and daughters of God who form the Church of Jesus Christ.
Always remain on the path predestined by God waiting for your adoption, the redemption of the body appointed for the Last Day by Christ Himself, when He said, speaking of believers in Him: “And I will raise him up on the Last Day,” and the resurrection will be in glorified bodies for them which are asleep or died, and the transformation will be a change of body, a transformation from a mortal to an immortal body. Therefore, knowing the divine goal, it is also our goal: the adoption, redemption or transformation of our bodies, so then to go with Christ in the rapture or catching away to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
If there is someone who has not yet taken the path predestined by God for the adoption of the sons and daughters of God, the way of God which is Christ, by receiving Him as Savior, you can do it right now and we will be praying for you for Christ to receive you in His Kingdom and thus to be sealed in the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
To which you may come forward and we will pray for you, and those in other nations may also come forward which have not yet received Christ, to receive Him as Savior and children ten and older may also come to the front to receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior.
We will wait a few minutes while coming forward to receive Christ as Savior those who still have not done it and are present, or at other countries.
God has much people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and is calling them in this end time, also has people in North America, Canada, Alaska, Japan, China, Africa, India, and in all nations, and is calling them in this end time to place them in His way, in the divine way, the way predestined by God, which is Christ our Savior.
There is no other path leading human beings unto eternal Life. There is no other path that leads us to God, the Father. There is no other way by which to walk in the will of God, it is the path that God would open for God’s redeemed to walk in It.
We will stand up for prayer for all people who are coming to the feet of Christ our Savior. And now, with our hands raised up to Christ, to Heaven, and our eyes closed:
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom Come, and Thy will be done as in heaven also on earth, and give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and
ever. Amen.
I present to You, heavenly Father, all these people who have come to the Feet of Christ to receive Him as only and sufficient Savior. Welcome them into Your Kingdom Oh God, Oh heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray.
Now, repeat after me this prayer those who have come to the Feet of Christ at this time:
Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You recognizing that I am a sinner and I need a Savior. Your faith was born in my heart by hearing the preaching of Your Gospel, the preaching the of the Gospel of our salvation.
Lord, I acknowledge that there is no other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. I give public testimony of my faith in You and receive You as my only and sufficient Savior. I beg you to forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin and baptize me with the Holy Ghost and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name and may the new birth be produced in me. I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live forever with You in Your Kingdom, save me Lord, let Your salvation become a reality in my life. I pray in Your
eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
And with our hands raised up to Christ, to Heaven, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! Amen.
Christ has received you into His Kingdom, has forgiven your sins, for you have received Him as your only and sufficient Savior. You will say: “I want to be baptized in water as soon as possible in the Name of the Lord, for He said: ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned.’ When can I be baptized?” Is the question from the depths of your heart. Because you have believed in Christ as your Savior, you can be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth.
Water baptism does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that takes away the sins, which cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Even Christ Himself went where John the Baptist was preaching and baptizing, He entered the waters of the Jordan to be baptized by John, and when John sees Him, at Jesus’ turn to be baptized, John said to Jesus: “I have need to be baptized by You, and You come to me so that I baptize you? “Jesus says to him: “We should fulfill all righteousness,” and then he baptized Him, and when He came out from the baptismal waters, the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus like a dove, and said: “This is my beloved Son in whom I have contentment.”
So it is also with every believer in Christ since the Day of Pentecost and on have been baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Christ has been baptizing them with the Holy Spirit and Fire, and has been producing in all those people the new birth. Therefore, water baptism and in water baptism a person is identified with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
When a person receives Christ as Savior, he dies to the world. And when the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters, typologically is being buried. And when he is raised from the waters of baptism, he is being resurrected to a new Life: unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. As simple as that is the type, the symbolism of water baptism; for water baptism is typological and is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, as it is the Lord’s Supper and Feet Washing.
Therefore, you may be baptized, you who are here present and those in other nations, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each other in the Kingdom of Christ throughout eternity, that is, forever, and we will be as kings, and priests and judges, members of cabinet of Christ in the glorious Kingdom of Christ, the Messiah.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, continue upon you and may God help you always to keep each of you in God’s predestined path for the adoption of the children of God. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
And until next Sunday, God willing. And as I always say: either live or via satellite screen. I always tell you so, and it has always been so. So may God bless you and keep you, and continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior. I leave with you in each country to the minister concerned, and in Puerto Rico to the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez. He will let you know how to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord. God bless you and keep you all.
“THE PREDESTINED PATH FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE CHILDREIN OF GOD.”