Ascension Life — David Wilkerson

Christ in Us: The Hope of Glory

John 14 1 to 7. I'm going to read it and just leave your Bible down there. Take my word. It's all as I'm reading it. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God believe also in me in my father's house or many mansions.

If it were not so I would have told you by the way in my father's house so many mansions. That means you and me we are a temple the Holy Ghost. Would you get your eyes off of some material thing? That's not God my father's house of many mansions many temples.

That's you and me my father's house of many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself.

That where I am there you may be also and I'm going to see this in a whole different light tonight. I don't want to blow your theology, and I'm not trying to take anyone. It's blessed hope away from them.

By the way, my blessed. Hope is not the rapture. My blessed. Hope is Christ in me now. The hope of glory Christ in me the hope of glory Christ in me now the hope of glory and whether and where I'm going now listen this where I am going.

You know and the way, you know Thomas saith unto him Lord. We don't know where you're going and we don't know the way Jesus said unto him. I am the way the truth in the life. No man cometh unto the father, but by me if you had known me.

You should have known my father also and from henceforth, you know him and have seen him. Now here it is the most profound revelation. The Holy Spirit has ever given to the church. We've missed it. We have missed it and the Holy Spirit's opening it these last days not just to me.

But too many people are seeing it right now this was Christ trying to introduce his disciples into a new dimension a new way of thinking a New kind of life in a new realm. Ascension life he was trying to say I'm going to leave you now and prepare a place for you in another realm in the spirit.

And I'm going to bring you into that new realm to a glorified resurrected realm. You're going to be united with me in the power of an ascended life. I'm going to put you above the world. I'm going to put you above the circumstances of this life.

You think it registered with these disciples what he said not any more than it's registered with you and me as we look at that Christ was going into a supernatural realm and he was going to prepare a place with them there and come immediately in the spirit.

Sending the spirit to bring them into the new world. Into this new realm. He said I am going to seat you in a heavenly place with me. I'm going to bring into the full riches of my glory. Look at the incredible blindness of these disciples.

They spent three years listening to Jesus talk about an abundant life that he was preparing for them about his ascending to the father and to bring them to himself and They they were told that even when he left there was to be no breach no break in their relationship to him.

It was just going to go into a greater realm. He said if any man served me, this is what he had told if any man served let him follow me. That where I am there also my servant shall be. Give you so well brother Dave.

He was going to heaven. He was going to the father to be seated at the right hand of the father. Yes, and he said follow me there where I am there you shall also be where I am there. My servant shall be.

Where did he go? He went to the father to the right hand of the father. Where's the servant supposed to be with him at the right hand of the father that where I am there you may be also God help us to see what these disciples did not see that Christ ascended into heaven to the right hand to repair a place There with him.

Seated With Christ in the Heavenly Places

In Christ, he said I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. That didn't mean he's just going to come down. But he's going to bring us to himself. He's not going to forsake us because the Spirit is going to bring us into heavenly places to be seated with him at the right hand of the father.

When he said take up your cross daily and follow me, where do you think he intended us to follow? Where you going to follow him you follow him where he is. He is not here. That's what they said it to him.

He's not here. He's gone. Oh you say well two or three gathered my name. Didn't he say he's going to be in the midst? Yes. But where are two or three people that gathered his name there at the right hand of the father there in his presence?

That's where I am. You'd understand that when he ascended he was a flesh and bone man. Just like I am though he had no blood he was a flesh and bone man, and he ascended physically bodily into the father's presence.

And he said that where I am you're going to follow me that where I am there you may be also. He's ascended at the right hand of the father. Where are we off? We are with him. We are ascended at the right hand of the father.

Hallelujah. I've been raptured already. I Have been raptured if you don't like that term call it in rapture. I've been evacuated. The Lord's intention all along was to go up as the firstfruits and prepare a Great in gathering of his children into his kingdom life, and we've missed it.

He said I will come again. When did he come again when he poured out his spirit to bring us to himself? I will come again and receive you unto myself. That where I am there ye may be also and we've made the mistake the disciples.

Didn't we put it off in some far-off rapture in the meantime? We just try to get by. We tried to pray for me. We say that I'll hold out to the end. God never intended that his people go through this life living misery and lonely divorcing in sin and degradation.

God's intention was never to be that he sent the Holy Ghost to link us to himself in a heavenly place. Seated the right hand of the father we were to live in ascended overcoming life. This was never his plan and we've missed it.

You know, I'm Tell you right now. Said it this morning gonna repeat it. He said he's not coming until until what until his enemies are made his footstool. And do you see all of his enemies made his footstool yet?

And It will not happen until God raises up a new people by a new name an overcoming race of people. Who take dominion in the name of Jesus over all power and authority on in heaven and earth in the name of the Lord Jesus?

Christ. He's coming back for an overcoming people. He's coming back in glory for a glorified people. Hallelujah. My Bible tells me that right now I'm seated in the heavenlies. You don't believe that will Believe this but God.

But God hath raised us up together and made us to sit together. In what heavenly places in Christ Jesus? What did Jesus say he would do as soon as he went to the father? Prepare us a place that where he was we would be with him.

He said follow me that where I am there you may be also. God raised him from the dead. Speaking of Christ and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places. By faith, that is where you and I belong.

That's where you by faith should know and understand and the Holy Spirit wants you to understand tonight that that is where you and I Are we are in Christ? At the right hand of the Father seated in heavenly places.

Hallelujah, we are not to be in an earthly realm conformed to this world a victim of lust and evil. Christ intended our life to be lived in the full presence of his glory. We were to lose our earthly life and find it in him.

The Bible said we were to go out meet him as a bride adorned for the bridegroom. We were to go out of the world out of our things set our affection on things above. We were never intended to be tied down.

God intended if you have a car that transportation was all you needed. You didn't need the bigger better. He he didn't mean for you to have just a palace. It was to be. Sufficiency was to be just enough.

God's not trying to condemn anybody in their lifestyle. But if you're never satisfied you're reaching more and more. If you can't just say Lord, I have enough and I'm satisfied. I glorify you in it. But now Lord, I want to go beyond all of this and I want to see this new life in a new realm.

I want to get away from the earthly. I want to become detached here and attached to the throne. I want to understand my position in Christ Jesus and go on. Now listen to this incredibly the disciples.

Jesus was saying you need me now. Not after some evacuation. You need my supernatural power and strength to live a full abundant life now and by my spirit. You'll be linked to me. I'm gonna put you in the vine linked by the Holy Spirit.

I was with you on this earth, but I'm coming to you immediately in a new realm. You were attached to me on earth by my teaching and by my presence. But I'm going to give you even a more vivid expression of my presence.

You're going to be closer to me in the new realm than you were when I walked this earth and Incredibly the disciples didn't know what where Christ was going. Jesus Suggested or he said where I'm going, you know where I'm going and you know the way and listen to to Thomas he said.

Jesus said whether I go, you know, and the way, you know, it was if Jesus was saying to his disciples. Don't you know I've made it simple to you. I've made it clear I'm going back to my father and while I'm there I'm going to prepare a place for you so that where I am you'll be also I'm going to ascension life.

I'm going to bring you into ascension life. You see I don't you don't you see how simple it is and listen to Thomas Lord. We don't know where you're going now, we don't know how to get there and you know where the church is right now.

Oh Our Lord is out there somewhere in the universe. Every once in a while we get a spurt of overcoming victorious life and it feels good but we go right back down to our despair and our loneliness and our emptiness and like Solomon he walks the streets saying withers my beloved God.

Where is he? Where is he? It's not where he is. It's where are you? You're supposed to be with him. He knows where he's at. I get tired of his people. So I found Jesus. Well, he was never lost. We keep living our lives like spiritual beggars and paupers.

We're swallowed up with fear and loneliness and worry were victims of lust and sin and the principles and powers of this world. Oh. Occasionally, there'll be some Christians that feel a pull to a greater thing.

They'll start fasting and praying and they'll start out but something happens and they stop and they don't press in. Something drags them back down. They never do press into this glorious ascended life that Christ has opened.

The Supremacy of Christ and the Open Heaven

Now that the Holy Spirit believe me. And I'm prophesying and I know it his spirits on me now the Holy Spirit's trying to bring back the truth to the church of the supremacy of Christ a Truth that he's provided in the last days when the devil is going to come down to us angry having great wrath.

And all the dregs of hell are going to be vomited out onto this earth. The very atmosphere is going to be polluted. But God is going to raise up a new name people who live in ascended life above it all.

They're going to have an open heaven. They're going to be a testimony to the whole world of righteousness and holiness and purity. The more wicked the world becomes the more holy and righteous they become.

They're going to take their place at the right hand of the Father above this world. And I see that hunger and thirst everywhere I go. But you see. Most of the hunger and thirst is just kind of dreamy right now.

I found a scripture in Isaiah 29 8 said it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eats. But he wakens and his soul is still empty. Or as a man. The thirsty man dreameth and behold he awakened behold.

He's still faint and his soul hath appetite. The spiritual famine that we've had in America the past 10 -15 years the spiritual famine has exposed the emptiness. The soul hunger and I want to tell you something if you've been seeking God at all.

Now you look me right in the eye and if you can't tell me yes to this then you don't even know him. You're not even a Christian. You're not even a follower. You're not even in the outer court. You're out in the desert.

But if you're even in the outer court. You've got to know that your soul has been empty and hungry and there's more hunger in you than you've ever known in your whole spiritual life right or wrong. There's a hunger why.

Because there's been a famine and You you go to church all over America now this church. I'm sure it's an exception. I hope it is but everywhere I go people say I hate to get up Sunday morning. I Hate to go to my church anymore.

There's no life. The preacher is dead. There's no life in him. My sir, the services are dead and I get mail from all the United States. They say I'm so hungry and people go anywhere, you know, when people get hungry, they'll eat dung according to the Bible.

That's why they're going out and getting all this false junk because they're hungry and they should be getting it in our pulpits. But there's a hunger to sign and people are waking up and they're dreaming about being satisfied they wake up and they're hungry.

They come to church dreaming they're gonna have the thirst satisfied and they go out of the churches this thirst in hungry or more so and the Bible said Their soul is hungry. There's been a spiritual famine but gentlemen pastors evangelists first years I'm telling you something right now.

God is doing a new work in the land. And if we don't go out after him and prepare our heart and spend time with him alone. Get away with a beloved and that's what happened to Solomon. The man who missed Christ was Solomon his beloved said come Solomon away with me.

Come my beloved into the lily of the valleys. I want to show you the rose of Sharon come to the mountain and pan after me like the deer pant on Mount Bethel. Come my beloved away and the Bible said and he went not.

And the man who doesn't go after the high calling of God in Christ Jesus soon loses the presence of his beloved and you could see Solomon leaving his brothel. Spending the night drunk on the wine of lust with those Prostitutes and all those concubines of his and then when he'd filled his heart with lust He'd wander the streets saying whether is he gone.

He saw him through a lattice. He saw him through a dark window, but the beloved was gone. And so he winds up with nothing but a dream. He's empty inside and I see that emptiness in pulpits everywhere.

I go. Thank God, there's a stirring now. Thank God. There's a stirring and if you look at Solomon He tried to recreate with his hands everything he lost in his soul. He missed the brook the still waters of Psalm 23.

So he built himself pools. He missed the heavenly mansions. So he built himself for 13 years a palace. He missed the heavenly throne. So he built an earthly throne and I can show you some of the men of God that are building great buildings today.

And they're trying to recreate with their hands what they've lost in their spirits. That's why we have such a building boom in America today. When a man turns away from his beloved he turns to his architect and I've been down that road.

God told me to give it all up and out. I'm not even gonna build a chicken coop again. I don't want to build anything. I want to go to. I want to build a heavenly kingdom. Hallelujah. I'm not against it.

God has his builders, but those who really build only do it out of necessity. Not out of an ego trip. How do you get to him? If he is in the heavenlies, how do I get to him. You get there by dying? Peter said Jesus said to Peter.

Peter where I'm going you can't follow me now. Peter wasn't ready. But you're gonna follow me afterwards. Not something. Well, that means when he died. Oh, no, no, no. Peter said Master, why can't I go with you right now?

I'm ready to die for your sake. He wasn't ready to die. You remember when Peter denied him said I don't know the man. He wasn't lying. He didn't know him. He'd been with him three years, but he didn't know him.

There was no intimacy. I know people been to church for years don't know Jesus. They really don't know they sing about it. They don't have that intimacy. They're not walking close to him. They really don't know him.

Peter wasn't ready to die. He was ready to deny but not die. And as soon as Peter went up the mountain and died to himself He entered right into ascended life on the day of Pentecost. Hallelujah. He never came down.

Clean Hands, a Pure Heart, and Dying to Sin

Jesus made his point. He said you're not ready for a sense in life until you died everything that's in the world. You can't ascend my holy hill till you have clean hands and a pure heart. You're going to forsake your evil.

You're gonna lay down your idol. You're going to get rid of your lust. Hallelujah. It really dying is quite easy. You just get sick enough of sin you get sick enough and you die. And and when you die you get an open heaven according to Scripture and once you see the door heaven open and that you're accepted.

You have access. All you have to do is go in by faith and take your place. Stephen Entered into ascension life while he is still here on earth. Listen to it, but he they were they taking him out of the city were stoning him to death.

But he being full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly where into heaven and he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God and Behold I see the heavens open and at that very moment he entered heaven.

He was still on earth, but he entered into ascension life. The rocks didn't hurt him. He felt no pain. He was above the whole world because he saw Christ seated to the right hand of the Father. He ascended immediately.

He was above the world couldn't touch him. No man could hurt him now. He was ascended with Christ the right hand of the Father. Stephen went out singing blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy It's begotten me to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to my inheritance incorruptible undefiled reserve for me in heaven.

Heaven is not streets of gold heaven is not Manson's heaven is simply in the presence of Jesus. Well, he is that's paradise. That's heaven. That's here right now. I've got heaven in my soul. There are any streets of gold.

I'm walking on them right now. Hallelujah. I'm walking on streets of gold in his glorious presence glory to Jesus a few months ago, I buried my 33 year old assistant Ron Porsche. He was like a son to me died of cancer the liver In the last few weeks of his life.

I was with him for hours every day. And this is when God began to speak to me about ascending ascension life about a new name people and Through this revelation. The Lord has given me Ron immediately three weeks before he died entered into ascension life.

And even though his body was swollen with cancer. I Remember the first Sunday this broke through to him. He said brother David. I'm already there. I'm in the glory if the Lord heals me. I'll be terribly disappointed Because I have that magnetic pull.

I'm already seated. I'm with him. I've taken my place by faith hidden in Christ at the right hand of the father. He said it's so glorious. It was Sunday and he'd been an avid Dallas Cowboy football fan, but he did he the television was on.

He said turn it off. He said what does the game mean now? What's the Cowboys mean? I'm in heaven. His little blue sports car lost its value. He said brother David just a piece of junk. I'm going home on a chariot of fire.

He said, you know those clothes my closet. They're just a pile of rags. He said I'm getting a new robe. He said, you know, this house is comfortable. It's just a pile of bricks has no meaning now. He said brother, if you know, I've enjoyed working with you, but he said that means absolutely nothing now.

He said I see my beloved he looked at his wife and two little girls and They were just leaving the room and he said, you know something brother Dave, you know how much all of my family. But the Lord has weaned me away from them to himself.

I've been totally weaned. He's become my whole life. He's become my love and everything. He said I've been a weaned away from every earthly thing. Christ has become everything and when the Bible said he's to fill all Things he means just that not in eternity.

But right now Christ is to be the whole focus of our life to feel everything in us to give us total satisfaction. Not truth historically about how he came and died not future about how he's going to come again but right now how he gives us power and our eyes focused on him for overcoming life and the day before he died Ron said and I wrote it down brother Dave if I had to do it all over again I'd live every day all my life just as I've lived at the last three weeks on the brink of death.

I would live my whole life focused only on Jesus my work my home my family. Everything would be secondary. Christ would be my whole life. I would never live in fear or worry or be earthly minded. I would enjoy the fullness of Christ just like I've enjoyed him the last few weeks.

He said both Dave I've missed it. My life should have been lived like this all along and he said, please brother Dave don't Miss it press in and live like a man in heaven. Live dead to this world and alive to him and really enjoy him and the life that he's given.

He just Nisha called and said brother Dave. He's calling for a bit before I could get there. He had gone into a coma rushed him the hospital before I got there. He was in glory. He had no pain a smile on his face.

He just slipped off to be with the Lord. 33 years old I made up my mind. I made up my mind that very day. That I would not miss this heavenly place in Christ Jesus. I would not miss the fullness that Christ has offered.

I want to see him who's invisible. I want to move into that good large land a land that's flowing with milk and honey a spiritual Canaan. I want to be where I want to be near him. I want to be blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus.

I'm going to be raised by faith to take my place seated in the heavenlies in Christ at the right hand of the Father God helping me. I will not live my life in fear and defeat. If I'm a heavenly man seated in Christ Jesus and have any places I should be above the beggarly elements of this world.

I'm to believe that Christ what he tells me that I'm to enjoy abundant. Victorious like came that you might have life and that more abundant. What is abundant life. A sense in life in his presence. Lived every hour every waking hour in his presence aware of his presence.

Would Jesus go here would Jesus do this? It's 20. It's every waking hour discerning the body. Discerning the body. Do you know what it means to discern the body? Oh how many times we've come to commute into the Holy Spirit saying I want you to discern the body.

He wants to see Christ in you and me. I'm to look at my wife and not see her just as a wife. But I'm to see her as Christ in her and if I hurt her I hurt Christ. And that's when the Holy Spirit King Jesus came to Saul he said Saul Saul, why do you persecute me?

He was persecuting the church and that's Christ. That's his body. He was persecuting Christ very body. It's as though Paul was. Paul was actually sending Christ to jail. Trying to crucify him afresh and put him to open shame because he was doing it to his body.

And how many times I prayed Oh Lord, I want to see you better. I want a glimpse of you and the loyal say well I was there yesterday in your office. You might remember that 25 year old man. So full of Jesus that was my body and you missed me and when I started discerning the body God began to send people to me that are feeling like I do and I could discern that they're.

They're hungry for God and they're reaching out. They're sick and tired of the things of this world. They're sick and tired of material things and they want to reach out and satisfy their soul and suddenly you're discerning the body.

I discern it. There's some here tonight that are reaching out like that. There's a hunger in you and you you you become a part your joint that's supplying the need that's in the body. Hallelujah, I Believe the Lord when he tells me that I've got a high priest at the right hand of the father and that I should draw near to him.

I Believe him when he said I'm accepted in the beloved. I Believe him when he said he's made me free by faith. I Believe when he said I have a building of God a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens that I can be closed Upon with my house, which is from heaven.

I can be clothed upon right now with this house from heaven his presence. Think of it a life Abiding in his presence where he is. What about this world? He said here we have no continuing city, but I seek one to come.

I Desire a better country that is heavenly for you prepared for me a city. What is a city? That's a place. He's prepared for me a place in his own heart. You realize that God only sees one man. It's a many-membered man.

His body is still here on earth and the head is in heaven and you are and I are the actual body of the Lord Jesus Christ with the head in heaven. That's why I said you to behold the head. But we are his actual body.

Hallelujah. John the Revelator said I looked and behold the door was opened in heaven and a voice like a trumpet said to me come Here there I'm going to show you things that must be here after and immediately I was in the spirit.

Not marvelous. John said I see it open heavens open and the spirits come to me and said come on up. Come on here there. Come on. Oh. That's the call the Holy Spirit. You've got an open heaven. Come on up.

Come on. That's why the spirits been given to link us to Christ to bring us out this world into heavenly places in him. It's really not mystical. This is strictly a detachment from the earth and an attachment to him where he is in his actual presence.

Remember what Jesus said to disciples? He said in a little while the world is not going to see me anymore but you're going to see me because I live you also shall live and Then he went on to say you love me.

And if you love me, you'll obey me and I'm going to reveal myself to you when not on some far-off day. But as he ascends to heaven It's a little while I'm. I'm not going to be physically here. But you're going to see me.

You're gonna be with me in the heavenlies. You're still going to be with me in this new realm. Hallelujah. The Bible say he led captivity captive. He came down and captured us and kept Took us in captivity to his own heart and planted us in his place beside himself.

Now see we're not taken out of this physical world because Jesus said now I am no more in the world. But these are in the world now listen to what Jesus is saying. I am now no longer in the world. Where did he say that in the garden still in his physical human form?

He said I'm not here anymore. They're still here, but they're not going to be here long. Because listen to what Jesus said. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world. That means the physical world, but in the spirit, but thou should keep them from the evil.

But then he went on to say father. They are not of this world. Even as I am not of this world now. Do you believe that or don't you I? Learned all my children. They are not of this world.

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The Heavenly Calling and Evangelistic Ministry

Let me let me type down stronger than you're not going to get out of this one father I Will that they all sue whom thou has given to me? Be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou has given to me.

Listen to this they're not of this world. Just as I am NOT of this world. I'm going to my father father. I want them to be with me where I am so that they can see my glory. Paul saw that ascended life.

He said I was in the third heaven. Paul never came down. Oh He came down physically to minister, but he lived in his spirit man. He lived in the heavenlies with Christ. He was constantly walking in the presence of the Lord.

He said that's why I said I've determined no nothing among you at Christ and crucified him crucified. He said my conversations in heaven. He said I'm sitting there talking to him all the time Jesus said and you shall be witnesses unto me beginning at Jerusalem.

The new Jerusalem at the right hand of the father the city of God a new race of people beginning at his own heart beginning at new Jerusalem you go to the heavenlies by the Holy Spirit and you come out of his presence to minister.

And if you don't come out of his presence, you're going to be speaking in the flesh and God won't support anything. He doesn't originate. Now listen to it, I'm going to give it to tie it down thus saith the Lord of host I am returned unto Zion and I'm going to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth.

The seed shall go forth from there prosperous Divine from there shall give forth her fruit and the ground shall give her it forth her increase. I will call forth the remnant to possess all these things.

Where does the truth go out from new Jerusalem. Zion this holy city of God made up of this new name people. Isaiah 2 3 says and many people shall go and say come ye. Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord.

Let's go into ascension life. Let's get above this world once and for all. Come ye. Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and There he will teach us of his ways and we will begin to walk in his paths.

For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord shall go forth from Jerusalem. What's the scripture say Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all that's the womb from which we come the New holy Jerusalem from get back to Jerusalem begin there and then come down and minister.

Don't talk to anybody until you know, you're in heaven lease. Don't do anything until you're in his presence and you know, you're in his presence. Begin at Jerusalem. Moses saw This promise of ascension life and he sang this song.

Thou shall bring them in and plant them in thine inheritance in thy place. O Lord Which thou has prepared for thee to dwell in in thy sanctuary. O Lord Which thy hands have established. In other words, you have established a place you prepared a place in the whole sanctuary.

The whole inheritance comes to that place. Physical Canaan is not the rest of God's people. Hallelujah, it's a spiritual Zion. Come unto me. Are you wearing heavy laden? I'll give you a rest. Well, where do you go?

Where is the rest? In him in Zion in a heavenly place in Christ Jesus. Now Jesus gave us a secret a one verse secret to overcome the world. When I began to see this I've never been the same. I'll never be the same.

I'm going to give you a secret. Overcoming the world. Listen to it. This is John 3 31 and I've seen that many times. I'd never never knew what it meant until the Spirit opened it. Here it is. He that cometh from above is above all.

Hmm. He that comes out of the New Jerusalem. He that by faith takes his place in the heavenlies is above all. Nothing can hurt him here on earth. Everybody can gossip about him. Hydrogen war that doesn't mean anything to this man.

Because he's he that cometh from above is what he that cometh from above is what? Is he above hydrogen war. Is he above depression? Is he above all the bigger elements of this world? Is he above it? Yes, it doesn't mean anything.

I don't care what happens this whole world that's in his hand because I'm with him. I Can't get any higher than I am right now in him. We have ascended. He that cometh from above is above all. He that is of the earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth.