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Testimony of Righteousness

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,

through which he obtained witness that he was righteous,
God testifying of his gifts; through it he being dead still speaks
(Hebrews 11:4, emphasis added).

The purpose for which God created all things was that it
would bring Him joy and fulfillment. God also intended
for creation to find joy and fulfillment in Him. God
delights in His creation and testifies of the joy and
fulfillment that it brings to His heart. The Holy Spirit
witnesses with the spirits of faith heroes that they are
pleasing to God. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit’s life is a
joyous fulfilling fellowship with one another and with
creation. In loving and serving one another and caring for
creation the Holy Trinity finds joy and fulfillment in their
oneness as God as they flow in the absolute harmony, joy
and peace of their perfect relationship. It is only an
oneness-relationship with God that can minister
fulfillment. Independence from God cannot please Him
and it can never minister true joy and fulfillment to
creation. All things hold together in Christ because He
upholds all things by the word of His power. Only in an
oneness-relationship with God, both God and creation find
joy and fulfillment. It is only in being one with Christ that
creation can relate in holiness to one another.

God overflows with goodness, is awesome in holiness and

exceedingly righteous in His glory and for His enjoyment
made all creation a copy of His own glory that it may
declare His wondrous works in all the earth. When the
heavens saw His marvelous works the morning stars sang
together and the sons of God shouted for joy. Day unto day
the heavens declare the glory of God and the earth sings
His praise as God brings them joy and fulfillment.

It was the Father’s good pleasure that the Root and the
Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star occupies
the throne as Creator and God also appointed Him Head
over all the things that He has created. He that created all
things is also He who upholds all things by the word of
His power, which is His reasonable service to His Father.
Who is He? He as eternal High Priest is clothed with a
garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with
a golden band that went into God’s presence to obtain
forgiveness of sin for those who have believed in Him. The
Creator redeemed His own creation that Adam ruined
through sin. His head and hair is white like wool, as white
as snow radiating His wisdom and divine righteousness.
His throne is a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire for the
foundation of His throne is established on righteousness
and is maintained by His mercy. His body is like beryl
radiating the richness and wealth of His glory. The face of
the Omniscient One is like the appearance of lightning
reflecting His infinite awareness, understanding and
insight. The eyes of the Righteous Judge are flames of
burning fire and His feet are like refined fine brass in a fire
ready to kindle a fire against all ungodly men and those
who turned the grace of our God into lewdness and deny
the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. His voice the
sound of many waters and His word is the two-edged
sword that fashioned all things beautifully according to the
wisdom of His own creative council. His countenance is
like the sun shining in its strength. The First and the Last is
glorious in appearance, almighty in His strength and
fearfully awesome to behold. It is He who is alive, was
dead and lives forevermore. It is He who has the keys of
Hades and of Death (Revelation 1:12-18). It is this awesome
God who created all things for His delight, according to
the pleasure of His will.
In the beginning, Jesus, the Word of God, made all things
and without Him nothing was made that was made (John
1:3). He created all visible and invisible things both in
heaven and on earth. Through faith the Word of God
framed the worlds so that visible things were made of
invisible substance (Hebrews 11:3). His word is always
creating and is moving, living and powerful, like the Spirit
of God.

All things were created through Him and for Him and for
His pleasure they were created. He is before all things, and
in Him all things consist. It pleased the Father that in Him
all the fullness should dwell and by Him all things live and
move and have their being in Him.

All things were created very good, radiantly overflowing

with His marvelous glory, created holy unto the Lord. The
Son who is the brightness of the Father’s glory and the
express image of His person created all things a mirror
image of Himself that all His invisible attributes are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made. Virtue
went out of Him into creation so that it becomes a copy of
His radiance, shining forth in a kaleidoscope of countless
virtues His perfect goodness and awesome holiness.
Everything was filled with the joyful light of His presence
bearing the seal of his glory, manifesting His goodness and
holiness in and through all things. He created and upholds
all things by the word of His power that all things may
find joy and fulfillment in Him and He in them.

The Lord who is compassionate, just and the Righteous

Judge delights in His own character and power made
manifested in man. God created Adam for His own delight
that His glory may be made known in man. He beautifully
fashioned Adam and Eve as creatures of light. He made
them a copy of Himself that they may manifest His virtues
of lovingkindness, righteousness and justice in the earth.
In them were life and their life was the light of the earth. A
city set on a hill cannot be hidden. They were created very
good, holy unto the Lord shining forth His glory. Man is
created as a creature of God’s delight.

Adam did not have to do anything to please God; he was

created perfectly into the delightful and pleasing image of
the living God. The Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
and man became a living soul. Adam’s spirit, soul and
body were created alive unto God. Because Adam was
created a living soul he was created with the ability to
spontaneously and effortlessly love the only true God with
all his heart, with all his soul and with all his strength. He
was created to love God perfectly in his soul. His mere
existence pleased God and God’s perfect person pleased
Adam. Adam was filled with love in an environment
absent from knowledge and faith. Everything Adam
experienced was perfection and fulfillment. Everything he
touched was joy and fulfillment. So faith and hope was
unknown in Eden. Faith reaches into the future for
fulfillment but Adam’s experiences of fulfillment were for
the moment. He only knew the love of God in an
atmosphere filled with His absolute holiness and the
beauty of His glory. Ever since God breathed the breath of
life in Adam, Adam and God shared one life, the life of
God. Because God and His son were one, Adam did not
know or could not understand or could not relate to the
concept of independence from his God and Father.
Whatever Adam did, he manifested God’s nature because
he was one with God. He was fashioned to be fully
involved in his Father’s business, to do His will and to
accomplish His work. When God walked with Adam, He
taught him about creation and the purpose for cultivating
and maintaining it. He also taught him about naming the
animals and his relationship with them. God gave Adam
freedom to be creative as he was tending the garden
because he was made in the image of his Creator. In this
they found great joy and fulfillment as they flow in
absolute divine fellowship. As Adam abided in Christ His
creator and do His will, he flowed with the life force of
God; he was totally alive to God always moving, vibrant
and an overflowing fountain of the Spirit of God that was
all the time working in his whole being. When Adam
walked with God he was in harmony with creation and
filled with energy and strength of the Spirit of God. He
was so full of life that he lived 930 years after sin entered
him and the discord of sin entered his soul. All life loses its
power when it does not abide in Jesus Christ. Adam
pleased God and brought fulfillment to His heart with the
life of the Spirit of Christ that was in him.

Hope and faith are foreign substances in an atmosphere of

absolute fulfillment (1 Corinthians 13:8-10). There is
nothing to hope or believe for if the substance of all things
is total fulfillment. Adam needed not to look for or obtain a
witness that he was pleasing to God. Created perfectly in
the image and likeness of God he spontaneously and
effortlessly pleased God just by being Adam. The purpose
of life was that God created His son Adam for His own
pleasure and fulfillment; that Adam through fellowship as
a son and service to God may please Him and find
fulfillment in Him and that God being Father to Adam find
joy and fulfillment in him.

When the Lord planted a garden eastward in Eden, he put

man in the garden to tend and keep it. Out of the ground
the Lord made every tree that was pleasant to the eye and
good for food. Every tree yields fruit whose seed is in itself
according to its kind. The seed of every tree brings forth
offspring after its own kind.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was also in the
garden. God commanded man that of every tree of the
garden he may freely eat but of the tree of knowledge he
shall not eat. God warned man that in the day he will eat
of it he would surely die. God never told Adam that He
would kill him if he disobeyed but told him that he would
die because the tree was poisonous. The seed of the tree of
knowledge of good (law) and evil (lawlessness) changed
man’s nature to seek wisdom and knowledge in isolation
from God, which is death. Its poisonous seed is from the
heart of the evil one and it brings forth fruit that is pleasant
to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise but its end is
destruction. Although God created Adam perfectly into
His image and likeness He never intended for him to be a
robot but created him to have freedom of choice. Adam
was created without sin yet with a free will. Through
disobedience Adam partook of the tree of knowledge and
his heart of flesh was instantly transformed into an evil
unbelieving heart of stone. Adam and Eve fell from the
grace and glory of God. They have dishonored the law of
Christ’s consuming love that ruled their members. Their
transgression meant separation from the light of His
presence and a plunging in to death, darkness and the lie.
They have gathered for themselves treasures of sin and
death and were separated from the love of God because
they were found outside of Christ their Creator.

The effects of the fall resulted in Adam rejected God as

Father by partaking of the tree of knowledge. He lost the
ability to be a son to God and to relate to Him as Father.
Thus they became incapable to please Him. They ceased to
be God’s people. He ceased to be one Spirit with God
because he was a branch cut of from the Vine. The
transgression closed the road for man to grow up from a
living soul into a Life Giving Spirit, which was Christ His
creator. Adam lost the ability to please God on his own
merits. Man has become an abomination to God because of
his fallen state. It was impossible for the first Adam and his
offspring in their blemished condition to please God. The
most beautiful and holy relationship in oneness of Spirit
was ruined. It was wrecked and all of creation lamented
the fall of the morning star. Because of one man’s
disobedience access to God who dwells in the Spirit was
closed down to all.

Because Adam sinned all of creation sinned and fall short

of the glory of God and was taken captive as a fallen
creation into a broken universe that lacks eternal life.
Eternal life is to know God and Jesus whom He sent. Sin is
missing the mark, failing being an anointed substance to
fulfill the will of God that you may bring Him joy and
fulfillment. To do the will of the Father is to know Him. All
of creation is still lamenting their inadequacy to please
God by groans to deep to utter in hope for their
redemption so that they may be set free from futility and
be clothed with the glory they had before the
transgression. To please God is both the cry of the Spirit
and of creation.

So God sent His Son, creator of heaven and earth, to

redeem His own creation, which Adam ruined. God gave
all of creation hope that in His Son, they will please Him
once again as it was in the beginning and find their joy and
fulfillment in Him.

Since the fall, it is impossible to please God without faith

and to find fulfillment in Him. Faith is the substance of
your hopes, the evidence of unseen realities. The
converting of hope into substance is faith. The righteous
walks by faith and not by sight. Faith is the substance that
takes you back into the garden where Adam once lived in
the light of God’s presence and lived to please Him by
being an anointed substance of joy and fulfillment to his
God and Father. Because you cannot see the substance of
your hope, which is faith, with the naked eye does not
mean it is not there. Hope that is seen is not hope. We have
access to God through faith into His grace and rejoice in
hope of the glory of God because we know that hope does
not disappoint. Faith brings fulfillment that grow so big
that it disappear, not in the disobedience of fear and
unbelief but in the obedience of love. When you trust God
without the mind warring in doubt, only love remains.
When you doing the will of the Father it is the
manifestation of Christ in you.

The seed of the word of God in us cannot sin, which is

Christ in us, the hope of glory. Now if anyone does not have
the Spirit of Christ, he is not His (Romans 8:9b). Christ’s word
in us is our food for faith; it is the vision of our hope. If that
seed germinates in you and you carefully nurture it into
maturity, you will grow up to be an overcomer. What do
you overcome through faith in God? Adam’s fall from
divine glory as a result of the transgression. When you
overcome the Holy Spirit witnesses with your spirit that
you are pleasing to God because of your constant faith in
Him. God will then give you to eat from the tree of life
(Revelation 2:7) and you will live forever (Genesis 3:22).
You will be restored in your spirit, soul and body. But if the
Spirit of Him [Father] who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in
you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to
your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you
(Romans 8:11). The life of God, which is in the tree of life,
will restore you to perfection as it was before the fall.
Enoch taught us that you obtain first the witness that you
have overcome then you will be translated into glory
(Hebrews 11:5). The witness comes through the Spirit of
Christ (Christ in you) and the translation through the Spirit
of the Father that raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 8:9-
11). So the seed, which is in the fruit of the tree of life, is
eternal life, which works in your mortal body.

You overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word

of your testimony, and you do not love you life to death
(Revelation 12:11). Firstly, you need to be in Christ, washed
in His blood, to overcome because without Him you can
do nothing. Secondly, you need to overcome by the word
of your testimony. Your witness in pleasing God by
abiding in the anointing in you is the testimony of your
life. The inner witness of the Holy Spirit in how you
pleasing God, which is also the testimony of your life, is a
mighty weapon. Paul testified to King Agrippa concerning
his witness of pleasing God, saying, “I was not disobedient
to the heavenly vision” (Acts 26:19). God testified about
His Son on the mount of transfiguration, saying, “This is
My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!”
(Matthew 17:5). When the evil one finds nothing in you,
you also overcome through the word of your testimony.
Hypocrisy is when you testify one thing with your mouth
and you live a different life.

Lastly, you also overcome by not loving your soul life to

death. If you lay down you life for Christ sake you will
overcome the fall from His glory and receive the witness
from the Holy Spirit that you have persevere in
overcoming the transgression, which is the witness of all
the faith heroes through all ages (Hebrews 11).

When Adam transgressed against God his spirit, soul and

body died to God. He fell from the glory that God gave
him, which was God’s character and power. He fell from
His oneness with God, which was his sonship. God
mourned the death of His son because Adam could no
longer hear or sense the Almighty God walking in the cool
of the day. He deprived God of his fellowship, service and
fulfillment. Adam could no longer spontaneously find
fulfillment in God because his whole being was translated
into a chunk of sinful flesh. Adam’s whole existence and
natural course of life had changed into an abominable
sinful substance toward God that provokes his
righteousness to judgment. Because of sin, man fell from
the glory and favor of God. Since the transgression, Adam
needed to do nothing to be abominable to God; he
spontaneously and effortlessly displeased God just by
living through his sinful nature that was separated from
God and His grace. It is impossible for sinful flesh on its
own imperfect merits to be pleasing to the all-perfect God.

In what manner should man walk before God? God is

looking for His character in man, which is grace,
righteousness and mercy, and holiness. Pursue grace
because God is filled with compassion. Through
righteousness the thrones of kings are established and
maintained in mercy. Man shall walk in holiness because
the holy oil of the anointing that consecrates him holy unto
the Lord that was upon the Old Testament kings, prophets
and priests is now in every one that is washed in the blood
of the Lamb.

When Christ is in you, your spirit is alive because of

righteousness. When you are joined to Christ you become
one spirit with Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). It does not say
His Spirit becomes a mixture of your spirit with His but it
says you become one spirit with Him, which is the Spirit of
Christ. You become one spirit with Him for your Maker is
your husband, the Lord of hosts is His name (Isaiah 54:5);
indicating a wedded relationship. Because your spirit is
alive to God you receive revelation through the faculties of
your spirit so that through faith you can change into the
glory that you behold, even the glory of Christ. However,
your body is dead to God because of sin. You cannot see
God with your natural eyes, hear Him with your natural
ears or touch Him with your hands of flesh because your
body is dead to God because of sin (Romans 8:10). Your
soul is enmity against God for it is impossible to subject it
to the law of God. So it is impossible to please God in this
body of flesh (Romans 8:7-8). But the life that you live in
the flesh now, you live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved you and gave Himself for you (Galatians 2:20). What
does that mean?

Through faith by the Eternal Spirit of God you present

your body of death and your soul, which is an enemy of
God, alive to God. Through faith you present that which is
dead to God because of sin, which is the enemy of God, as
if it is alive to God and pleasing to Him. Therefore you
take every thought in captivity to the obedience of Christ
and you present the members of your body a slave unto
righteousness (Romans 12:1-2). Your faith brings to life
your entire being spirit (which is already alive to God),
soul and body as if you have attained to the resurrection
from the dead and as if you have been made perfect.
Though, you do not see your perfection yet or you do not
see all things being subjected to Christ your faith is an
expression of your hope to attain to the resurrection from
the dead and be made perfect in His sight. You cannot
serve God in a Biblical manner without involving your
entire being, spirit, soul and body. Unceasingly your heart
cries out, saying, “To please You is the cry of my spirit; to
please You is what I am living for.”