113857201 new creation realities by ew kenyon

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from the dead. In those three days and three nights He settled the sin problem, conquered the adversary, made the New Birth a possibility, and made Righteousness available to every person who receives Eternal Life. His work at the right hand of the Father is what we might call a manifold work. We must learn to appreciate the value of His ministry now at the right hand of the Father on our behalf. He unveiled it to me very clearly, that had Jesus stopped His work after He had done this great Substitutionary Ministry from the cross to His Resurrection, had it ended there, no one could ever have been saved. The next step in the drama had to be the carrying of His blood into the Heavenly Holy of Holies and making the Eternal Redemption for us. You remember in John 20, when Mary saw Him, she fell down at His feet and tried to grasp them. Jesus said to her tenderly, "Touch me not for I am not yet ascended unto my Father." What did He mean? He arose as the Lord High Priest. You remember in Matt. 28:6, the angels said to the women who came to the sepulchre, "You seek Jesus who was crucified : he is not here for he is risen. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." He died a Lamb, but He arose as the Lord. Lordship means absolute mastery and dominion. Jesus died in weakness; He arose with all the authority and power


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