The Ancient Path Jason Henderson

One could ask, “How do I recognize the voice of the King? With so many people saying ‘Lo here is the kingdom, and Lo there is the kingdom’; with so many doctrines and teachers and YouTube preachers, so many divided churches, divided leaders, contradicting theologies… how do I know His voice?” Let me offer you this answer: He is the one (like David 3000 years ago) saying in your heart “What is this uncircumcised giant doing in the land that God has purchased for His glory?” The King is the one testifying against the Philistine nature within you.

The salvation of man IS the kingdom of God. It is an inward land that has been subdued, conquered, changed, cleansed, and filled with the reign of the King. It is an environment that has nothing contrary, no enmity, hostility, or enemies. It’s a soul totally subdued, totally inhabited, and totally alive with the will, nature, and glory of the King.

The time was fulfilled, and the kingdom of God drew near. It came as the fulfillment of every promise, the substance of every shadow. It came in the Person of a great king who would set up his throne in the heart of man and put every enemy under his feet. And yet, despite all of the signs and miracles that proved that it had come, and despite all of the prophecies that had been fulfilled, the majority of the Jews missed the kingdom because their hearts wanted something else. Are we doing the same thing?

The reason why so few of us actually experience the benefits of the new covenant, is because we are not walking in the way that God has provided. We break the covenant of light and life. We go outside of the boundaries of this covenant with our minds, our hearts, our desires, plans, and deeds. We transgress the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the law of living faith, and so experience little of the blessings and benefits that are only found in the covenant.

On the one hand, walking in Christ (the Way) involves a continual detecting and denying the motions, movements, desires, stirrings, lusts, passions, of one nature, so that it is given no place to live and grow and reign in us; and on the other hand, it involves a continual detecting, following, submitting, obeying, loving, and embracing the appearing of the Seed or grace of Christ in us, so that it finds good soil and produces its own increase, 30, 60, or 100 fold.

There is a Seed of new life given to man, but there is also a new living WAY, created by God, opened by Jesus Christ, taught by the Spirit, whereby man can be changed by the life of that Seed, and so become something other than what he is. Christianity is a new life that is experienced by walking in a new and living way.