Child Of God, You Came Out Of God From Heaven

The Table With Brother Joshua

Our first course of the day is the words of our Lord Jesus served from John 18:36:
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight so that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.
Twice, He states that His Kingdom does not originate in this world. And our second course is also His words taken from John 8:23:
And He said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. Our Lord Jesus knew where He was not from because He knew where He was from.
He declared that He was from Above.
And He also knew His Root was not in this world.
He, therefore, stated unequivocally that He was not of this world.
In John 3:13, our Lord gave the specific location of where He came from, saying:
And no one has ascended up to Heaven except He who came down from Heaven, the Son of Man who is in Heaven. He knew and declared that He came down from Heaven.

And in John 17:8, He would reveal His consciousness of His Root amongst these words:
For I have given to them the Words which You gave Me, and they have received them and have known surely that I came out from You. And they have believed that You sent Me.
Our Lord Jesus knew not only that He was from Heaven, but He also knew that He came out of God. He had this consciousness in Himself that He came out of God from Heaven.No doubt, He walked in the light of this awareness.
And if you and I would not be defined, and consequently, be characterized by the values and pursuits of where we do not originate from, we, also, must know without any shadow of a doubt The Spring of our being, and know where we are from. Therefore the question is where are we, His disciples, from?
Our Lord Jesus spoke these words concerning His disciples in John chapter 15:19:
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. He said His disciples do not originate from the world. And in John 17:14, He said these words to His Father about us:
I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. He repeated His words in verse 16 of the seventeenth chapter of John:
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
He not only stated that believers do not have their origin in this world, but He put us at equality with Himself when He said, “even as I am not of the world”.
This parity with He, Who came out of God from Heaven, is the answer to the question of where you and I originate from.

In other words, we also came out of God from Heaven, for we were in Christ, even as the woman was in the first man prior to God creating her out of Him.

Regardless of the sufficiency of the testimony of our Lord Jesus, we will look to His supplementary witnesses to testify to our origin.
We pray that the Spirit of Truth will enlighten your heart and mind as you continue to listen, Amen.
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