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The High Calling of God

I have called you, my people, to be one in the bond of love. How good and how pleasant it is for me to behold my flock as one. I sent my Son as an expression of what it means to be one.

I loved my Son beyond what human words are able to express. My Son loved me because of the continuous unbroken fellowship of his entire life without the hindrance of sin. With this barrier removed, his only purpose and goal was to please me and do my will. My will and ultimate purpose was to provide you, my people, with a way out of your sins and the devistating results it brings. This is your calling. In order to be one, as my Son prayed in your behalf, you must have the same bond of love for one another and for the people of the worlds as we shared while he was upon the earth. This is the only thing that kept his focus on his life's purpose. His purpose was the cross. Yours is the same.

So many things have crept into the lives of my people that they hardly recognize their calling. Paul pressed on toward this high calling, forgetting those things which were behind. He pressed on through beatings, through stonings, through shipwrecks, through physical infirmities, through imprisonments, having never lost sight of the high calling of the cross. He finally, after many years of labor, came to that final day of his life with great expectancy.

You can measure the degree of your love by looking at the things you want most. So, also, you can be assured that you are abiding in the vine. For the sap which flows through the vine of my Son Jesus will bring about the same fruit in your life which was demonstrated in his and in the life of my apostles after they had come to view my sufferings on the cross.

There is nothing you can do in order to establish this unity, nor the bond of love, which will demonstrate my love to the people of the world.This was accomplished by my Son when he gave his life for you. You wonder then,"What must I do?" There is nothing. The thing that must take place is for you to fully submit to me so that I can do that work in your heart that only I can do.

The price I paid in sending my Son to take away and pay for your sins was not so you could be my slave. It was so you could be my bride. I never came to establish slavery, but rather to bring you freedom. The bond of love in Christ Jesus sets you free from the slavery of sin.

The wisest king ever to rule my people Israel understood the strength of this bond of love. When they brought to him a dispute over a certain babe, love quickly gave him the answer. When he ordered the babe to be cut into two pieces and divided between them, the true mother cried out in desperation and said, "No! Give the child to her, but don't kill him." By this, Solomon knew that she was the real mother and he gave the child to her.

So also I ask, who is the true shepherd of my sheep? Who is willing to lay down his life? Many have claimed rightful ownership even at the expense of dividing my body, my precious little one, my church, rather than forfeit their selfish interests in my behalf. I gave birth to this infant at the cross. She had only begun to mature and become my beautiful young bride when the sword of envy and strife brought about divisions. The world could not prevent her from taking her rightful position with me on my throne, but those from within, wolves in sheep clothing, built walls of separation and disunity. And now, many believe this deformation to be normal. If the only humans you ever saw were skeletons, you might think it to be normal. But no, the beautiful bride for which I died has been raped, beaten, stripped, pulled apart and left for dead. Now, as in Ezekiel's time, she lies in the valley of dry bones waiting for the word of the Lord and the mighty wind of the Spirit to blow once again.

As did the wise king,I also give my daughter to the rightful mother. Those who have seen the abuse and misuse and have cried out in my hearing to spare the child and not let it die. These whose voices the illegitimate mother has tried to smother. First, she smothered and killed her own by neglect and now she wants mine. Smothered under a heavy blanket. A heavy winter comfort blanket of tradition and man-made walls. Walls which have kept my lambs from going in and out and finding pasture.

Do these words from the lips of my Son pierce your heart? "I am not come to send peace, but a sword." Those who wish to be Holy must separate themselves unto Me. Did not Moses call those who were on my side to himself and the plague devoured those in rebellion as the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and his followers? Was not he a part of the congregation who came out of Egypt and crossed over the Red Sea on dry land? Judgement must begin at the house of God. Again, the sword of the Lord is separating my sheep from the goats.

Judgements must come, for a house divided cannot stand. Dividing walls have separated my people. These structures that man has built in my name are not truly in my name at all but rather in their own. The floods, winds, and rain will soon fall to test these sand castles, but I will build my church, and it shall stand upon the one and only foundation, the Apostle and High Priest of your eternal salvation, Jesus Christ the Lord.

Now, I call out to my Shepherds. Hear the Word of the Lord. Arise and stand before the judge as your sentence is being read, just as it has been spoken out of your own heart and mouth. For with the same judgement that you have judged, will you be judged.

Examine your hearts while there is still time. Have you used your tongue as a sharp sword to cut up and beat your fellow servants and maidens or have you been fully occupied preparing the fatted calf who has been killed so that the hungry could be fed? That servant of whom I spoke about in Luke 12 was intoxicated with pride and with his desire to control and have authority over my people. Therefore, his actions were fueled by his heart's desire, not mine. Notice his destiny. I commanded him to be cut asunder and appointed his portion with the unbelievers.

Are you willing to break down the dividing walls or will the dividing walls which I break down be your own destruction? Are you willing to allow my Holy Spirit to bond you to my entire body with bonds of love or will you cling to the bonds of tradition?

Will you fortify the crumbling walls and be buried beneath the twin towers of pride and tradition or will you remove the stones of stumbling as I removed the walls of Jericho which fell down flat so that they were no longer a hindrance to my marching army?

Have you not read that which is written "all souls are mine, saith the Lord?" Who are those putting their own brands on my sheep? Have I given my sheep away? As I told Peter, Feed my sheep. Never have I told any of my Shepherds to feed their sheep. This belongs only to the Chief Shepherd. Those who set themselves as owners and claim that someone has stolen their sheep only testify against themselves that they stole my sheep and shall be judged by the words of their own mouth. Take heed for your loss will be much greater than sheep. He that hath an ear let him hear.