THE CALL TO GLORY: I have, already attained, or am already perfected: but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. (13) Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things, which are behind and reaching forward to those things, which are ahead. (14) I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

There is a people advancing (raising up) to fill the place prepared for them from before the foundation of the earth world. A people apprehended.

John 20:17 , "Jesus said to her, Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God." Touch "Haptomai" To attach oneself, to fasten, to set on fire, kindle, and to light. He was yet to appear in heaven and Jesus said: Don't attach yourself to me. He did not want to be defiled in any way. Do not kindle in me any other emotion or light any strange fire. Until the time came when He said:

Luke 24:39 "Behold My hands, and My feet, that it is I, myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have ."

1 John 1:1, "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life " And when we are conformed to this, we will say; But until then we need also to say, "Touch me not," we are yet ascending.

Do not kindle in me any perverse desire. Do not entice me with any other spirit. Do not light any strange fires in me. We must maintain a single eye to the Lord and not deviate from the path. This is a Spiritual issue, not talking about touching flesh, shaking hands, etc. but you know - transfer of Spirits.

1Thessalonians 5:23, "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord. Jesus Christ.

Jude 24, "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,"

Malachi 2:16 (Amp.) "For the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I hate divorce and marital separation, and him who covers his garment (his wife) with violence. Therefore, keep a watch upon your spirit (that it may be controlled by My Spirit) that you deal not treacherously and faithlessly (with your marriage mate). Why this diligent watchfulness?

2 Corinthians 7:1, "Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." God is seeking a Godly seed brought forth in purity and with no mixture or confusion. If you join your spirit to the world, you will produce something mixed. God desires the new man, hidden man. Because we are in the process of ascending, we need to watch. (Bend every effort to present.)

2 Timothy 2:15 , "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." All eyes are upon us.

Hebrews 11:39-40 (Amp.) "And all of these, though they won divine approval by (means of) their faith, did not receive the fulfillment of what was promised. (4) Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, so that they (these heroes and heroines of faith) should not come to perfection apart from us, (that is, before we could join them.)"Seed shall serve Him - generation.

Psalm 22:30, "A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,"

Psalm 24:6, "This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face. Selah

Isaiah 53:10, "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, I and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand." He shall see the travail of His soul. But what about the travail: bruised, put to grief (Note: transition.)

Genesis 49:11, "Binding his donkey to the vine, and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.

Isaiah 63:2-3 "Why is your apparel red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? (3) I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, and trampled them in My fury; their blood is sprinkled upon My garments and I have stained all My robes

Isaiah 61:9, "Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the posterity, whom the Lord has blessed. Isaiah 41:8-9. "But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham My friend. (9) You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest regions, and said to you, you are My servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away:"

Luke 22:44 "And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. And His sweat became as drops of blood falling down to the ground."

Hebrews 12:2-4 "Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (3) For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. (4) You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.

Romans 8:19, " For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God." There is a real conspiracy against this group. Bruised the serpent's head. Head - where poison is carried.

Genesis 3:15, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed - He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Colossians 2:15 "Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it." Serpent was the symbol of Egypt. World - flesh, ambitions, place of constraint, house of bondage.

John 16:33, "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. "It seems the serpent has been able to bruise us until we no longer walk in righteousness.

Yet! Luke 10:18-19, "And He said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. (19) Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Serpent - Symbol of medical profession, but they have made a business out of sickness and pain.

Mark 16:18, " They will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." Serpent-Sexual, erotic, pornographic realm; All erotic, base passions that have been excited, seduced, exploited by lusts have broken lives, marriages and homes.

The Seed- Isaiah 58:12, "Those from among you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to dwell in."

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