THE MEASURING REED – PART 3 MEASURED BY THE DIVINE STANDARD Revelation 21:15: ‘And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.’ EVERY MAN WHO lives out of his natural birth and carnal life from his natural parents, and in this, attempts to worship, circumvents both the altar and the man sent of God with the measuring reed. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and has no place here. And that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, and here is its place. Worship after the flesh is false worship, no matter what it professes about either the altar or the temple: the life is wrong. It is really death. And this God will never suffer to abide in his presence. Fleshly worship is false worship, which is a stink in Gods nostrils. It is to be put outside, and must stay on the other side. Such carnal professors in reality cannot pass the altar and must not enter the shrine. The blood, the cross, the altar are nothing to do with man after the flesh. The altar is the place where the flesh was condemned, past which nothing of man can proceed. Beyond the altar is the place of separation to the Holy Ghost. The altar is the place—spiritually—where the condemnation fell on Another, even on the Lamb of God. It is the place where God judges that what happened to the Substitute happened on behalf of his people. That people is separated to the Spirit. They judge themselves. They are in the realm of the Spirits operations, where the flesh has no say. It is the place where the Holy Ghost initiates everything, and performs it, where self-condemned lost sinners, now justified, called saints, look with weeping eyes at the Lamb, and at his pierced but risen body, in which their sins were judged, and their sin put away. This people fall upon their faces in constant attitude within themselves-self abhorrence, yet ABIDING-REVERENCE in the fear of God in the presence of his holiness. They are in the shrine, in the holy of holies, in the temple. They are measured, and to the measure they are found to conform. This is the separated place where there is no room for the flesh. This is the place of sanctification. And these are called worshippers, as it is written of all that the prophet is to measure by the divine standard of the heavenly man, and them that worship, Rev. 11:1.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:33:30 +0000