THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION
                                by J W LUMAN

	PART ONE

Turn with me to Hebrews the tenth chapter, verse 7. This is in 
our study of Mt. Zion. YE ARE COME TO MT. ZION. Our theme is 
found in Hebrews the twelfth chapter and we are centering our 
search there in regard to "YE ARE COME". What we have as 
believers come to in Christ Jesus. The thing the Lord is dealing 
with us about is that there's a whole lot more to Salvation than 
just coming out from something. Thank God we have come into 
something. YE ARE COME. So, Hebrews 12 from verse 18 down to 
about verse 20-22 declares that which we are not come to, but 
there is that which we have come to. 

Ye are not come to this and that, but ye are come to Mt. Zion. 
And so we are dealing with the truth of being brought in Christ 
... and how many of you know that we are in Christ? Over and 
over the New Testament testifies to the truth that ye are IN 
CHRIST - either in Whom, in Him, in the Beloved, in Christ. 
Amen. But that position, that reality is testified to - that you 
are in Christ. Well, thank God. In Christ you have come to 
something. And in the Bible, ZION, the term Zion is used 
throughout the Old Testament, and in the New Testament also, 
that term Zion is used to describe what we have come to in 
Christ Jesus. Now I've made mention before, we know what we've 
come out of. We understand that, at least we think we do, but 
very few of us beloved, have a comprehension. I'm not talking 
about a mental thing, but a spiritual apprehension. Very few of 
us have laid hold upon by faith, in the Spirit, and made it a 
reality in our lives. Very few of us have apprehended the thing 
for which we have been apprehended of God. Very few of us have 
come to the understanding of all that Zion signifies in Christ. 

And it is this that the Holy Spirit would bring us to. Not only 
having brought us to Zion, but as the emphasis is, that we would 
begin to ascend into the very top of the mount of God. This 
mount that is the dwelling place of God; this mount that is the 
place of the very voice of God; this mount that is where God 
reveals Himself to those that seek Him! YOU ARE COME TO SUCH A 
PLACE! You are come to such a spiritual place, to such a 
spiritual condition. You are come to such a relationship in 
Christ Jesus, and Zion is the significance of all that you have 
come to. The scriptures say "For in Him dwelleth all the fulness 
of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in Him". YE HAVE COME 
TO THE COMPLETE WORK OF GOD IN CHRIST! But very few
 of us have apprehended that.

Many of us have apprehended much of the total work of Satan; we 
gave ourself to it, we served it, we apprehended it. We plumbed 
it - not to the height, but to the depth of it, we walked it 
out. But the only thing we've apprehended about our Salvation is 
that we just don't do those things any more; we're just out from 
something. But oh Beloved, there is a greater Salvation than 
there ever was sin. The greatness of Salvation is not measured 
by sin. The greatness of Salvation is measured by the fulness of 
Jesus Christ! Hallelujah! The New Creation far outshines the 
old. Full Salvation goes far beyond the work of sin. It's not 
that we're just brought out - no sir, we're brought in, and now 
we are to ascend to the top of the mount! Hallelujah!

Paul says it this way, I pray that you might comprehend what is 
the length and the depth and the height and the width, the full 
measure of God IN Christ Jesus; that you may apprehend all of 
this glorious fulness for which you have been apprehended of 
God. In other words it is God's absolute purpose in saving you 
to bring you into the fulness of Jesus Christ, or else there's 
no real purpose in Salvation at all. Because the real purpose of 
Salvation was never to get you out of hell, never to get you out 
of sin - not the purpose. That was the means and the method. The 
purpose was to get you in Christ. The purpose was to bring you 
to Mt. Zion, and the purpose of coming to Mt. Zion is not to 
camp around the foot of it. Israel camped around the foot of 
Zion, but Paul says in Hebrews 12 - not as that - no - the 
purpose is not to camp around the foot of it. The purpose is to 
ascend to the very top of the mount - to the very top and live 
in the very presence of the Voice of the Almighty God!

Well, we are come to that. And I so want the Church of the Lord 
Jesus Christ to be awakened to all that we've come to in Christ 
Jesus. Not just awakened to the fact that we're no longer 
sinners, but awakened to the reality of being IN CHRIST, and all 
that this involves. Awakened to the reality that God is now our 
Father and all that that involves. Ascend to the very top of the 
mountain. Well, in our study together - verse 7 of Hebrews 
Chapter 10. "Then said I, Lo I come, in the volume of the book 
it is written of me, to do thy will, O God." Look at verse 9, 
"Then he said, Lo I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away 
the first that he may establish the second. By which will we are 
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once 
for all." What a tremendous thing this is.

I hope we have come to see this, because this is the work of God 
in Zion - TO TAKE AWAY THE FIRST AND ESTABLISH THE
SECOND. All right, let's look at it. I Corinthians the fifteenth chapter. 
Now I hope that you are progressing further in the Spirit than I 
am in words, because I'm not covering a lot of territory. But 
the Spirit of God - Oh, my! He desires to do an unlimited work 
in us. I'm so glad that the work of the Spirit is not governed 
by the volume of words, aren't you? I'm glad that the work of 
the Spirit doesn't stop when I quit talking. Amen! And if my 
words are not lining up with what He is already doing, then they 
are not worth saying anyway. If my words are not just confirming 
His Word, then my words don't mean anything. God grant that we 
see a work of the Spirit in us. 

Verse 45, "And so it is written, the first man, Adam was made a 
living soul. The last Adam was made a quickening (a life giving) 
spirit." The first man, Adam. Lord help me to say this right. 
The first man was a they. Look at it in Genesis. He called their 
name Adam. "He made them male and female, created he them, and 
he called their name Adam." Do you understand that? I'm not 
telling you there wasn't an Adam and an Eve. Don't misunderstand 
me. But God gathered the whole creation up into one mankind, one 
name, and he called them, both male and female - he called them, 
Adam. What does that mean? It means that the whole human race is 
gathered up in one man - Adam - whether you're male or female, 
whether you're bond or free, whether you're Jew or Gentile - 
whatever - because Adam has always been a "they". Adam has never 
been singular. Adam has always been a male and a female. Now 
that ought to tell us something, and if you're running ahead of 
me in the scriptures you'll see where I'm going. Because the New 
Creature is NOT so. Adam has always been divided. Yes, there's 
always been a distinction in Adam, and there always will be. 

You're never going to bring unity dealing with the first 
creation. The first. Have you forgotten our point already - TO 
TAKE AWAY THE FIRST - not to retain it, not to teach it how to 
get along, not to make good citizens out of it - but to take it 
away - to do away with it! And in its place, ESTABLISH THE 
SECOND! An altogether other than Adam. Ye are come to that 
place! Ye are come to Mt. Zion! But we still act like we're part 
of the first. We think God redeemed the first. No he didn't - HE 
CRUCIFIED THE FIRST! The work of the cross. The cross is not 
just a stick of wood that is 2000 years old. The cross is in the 
beginning with God. The cross is in the heart of God from the 
beginning. Jesus is a lamb slain before the foundation of the 
world. The cross is the power of God. The cross is the wisdom of 
God. The cross is the center of the theology of God. You take 
away the cross and you have no gospel left. You take away the 
cross and you have no truth left. You take away the cross and 
you have completely left the eternal plan of God. THE CROSS.

"I come to do thy will O God." That's Jesus speaking. That's the 
Son speaking. I come to do thy will, O God. The volume of the 
book speaks of me. Not just one or two verses, and I come to do 
thy will. TO TAKE AWAY THE FIRST AND ESTABLISH THE SECOND.
 Where did He take away the first? At the CROSS! Where did He establish 
the second? IN MT. ZION! We're going to see that. But who is 
this first? The first man, Adam, see it - all of the J W Lumans 
of the world, they are included in Adam. All of the divisions of 
mankind, they are included in Adam. Everything that makes you 
and I different is included in Adam. Every wall of division is 
all included in Adam. And I'm telling you, we're wasting all our 
time trying to reform Adam. Now folks, we're never going to 
teach Adam how to love each other. Never - just give up on it. 
Forget it, because you're never going to teach Adam how to be 
righteous, how to be holy, how to do anything. And there's no 
love in Adam except self love - that's all there is there. And 
all the rest of it is just a lie. 

But you see, here we fail to understand that the first principle 
of Zion - we're talking about this crisis of Zion - what happens 
when you begin to ascend to the top of Zion? You face a crisis! 
You begin to understand that the old is no more and the NEW IS 
NOW COME! To take away the first and to establish the second - 
that's the purpose of Zion. Zion is to be the manifestation of 
the second in the earth. And the first is not something that is 
strange to us. The first is everything that you and I are in the 
flesh. Now do you want me to get graphic with that? In the flesh 
I'm male. In the flesh I'm a U.S. citizen. In the flesh I'm born 
in Texas. In the flesh I'm white. You see that. Now immediately 
those things that I've just mentioned has put me at distinct 
odds with most everybody in this building. How many of you were 
born in Texas? How many of you have the name LUMAN? How 
many of you have an ancestor called Dutch Luman?

See what I'm talking about? These things that I am in the flesh 
have immediately set up a barrier. And you and I can say that 
it's not there if we want to, but it's there, and in the midst 
of a great crisis, you and I will both know it's there. About 
the best we can do in our wall is make a door in it. And Jesus 
said, "I'm not come to make doors, I AM THE DOOR. I'm come to 
tear down the walls. I'm come to do away with the walls." I'm 
come to do away with the first - good of it, bad of it, big of 
it, little of it, male of it, female of it, bond of it, free of 
it, Jew of it, Gentile of it - all of it I am come to do away 
with it. And where He did that is at the cross. THE LAST ADAM. 
That means there isn't any more Adam, there isn't any more. He 
ended the thing at the cross. And if you have come by way of the 
cross, you have come by way of the death of Adam. 

And now you are come to a new and a living way. You are now come 
to a New Creature, to a New Creation, you are come to Mt. Zion! 
Glory to God! You know what the problem is in the Church today? 
The problem is YOU AND ME. If you and I are removed, the problem 
disappears. But we can spend a lifetime trying to learn to get 
along. We can spend a lifetime at the peace table, the 
conference table - me making a confession, you making a 
confession, me making a compromise, you making a compromise. And 
pretty soon we come away wringing our hands, and about all we've 
agreed to do is disagree. And God help, in some of the 
ecclesiastical circles of the Church, that's what unity is 
called - an agreement to disagree, and still love each other. 
Isn't that pitiful?

You have not come to that, beloved. It's not that that God has 
brought you to. You could have had that under the Old Testament 
regime and religion. He hasn't brought you to a conference 
table. He hasn't brought you to an agreement to disagree. No, 
not at all. He has brought you to an altogether NEW, but He has 
brought you there through the cross. He can NOT establish the 
second until He takes away the first. It can not be me and Jesus 
- it has to be just Jesus! Hallelujah! I am crucified, see that. 
I AM CRUCIFIED, nevertheless I live, yet, not I, CHRIST LIVETH 
IN ME. Not me and Christ - JUST CHRIST! And He is neither Jew 
nor Greek. He is neither male nor female. He is neither bond nor 
free. Oh, Thank God, He is a New Man, a New Creature. 

As long as we are identified with a creation that started out 
plural, we're never going to understand what it means to be one. 
And I'm just trying to tell you that Adam started out as two 
people. Adam started out plural. Adam started out as a "they". 
Adam started out as a distinction. But, thank God, the New Man 
in Christ Jesus is just one - CHRIST ALL AND IN ALL. So we have 
come to a great divide. This is what I want you to see.

The book of Hebrews has brought us to a divide. The whole book 
of Hebrews, it starts out that way. We have come to a divide, a 
division. What did I read here a while ago concerning being 
sanctified? But let's continue now in I Corinthians 15 verse 45 
and go on down. "However, that was not first which is 
spiritual." The spiritual is not the first and the first is not 
spiritual. If your first birth had been spiritual, you wouldn't 
need to be "born again". Well, what happened? Did we just get 
cleaned up or did we get born again? Did we just get forgiven or 
did we get born again? You see forgiveness is all wrapped up in 
the fact that God, by His Son, enabled a new birth to come upon 
the scene. We are not just a bunch of forgiven sinners. We're 
not just a bunch of forgiven Adamites. "If any man be in Christ, 
he is a new creation." He is a New Creature. Old things are not 
only forgiven, God love you, they are passed away! And all 
things are become NEW. Oh, see the mount that God has brought 
you to - not Sinai, not the old system, not the old sacrifices, 
not the old priesthood, not the old way of talking to you, not 
the old - no - none of that, but a new nation, a new Israel, a 
new people, a new priesthood, a new creation. YE ARE COME TO MT. 
ZION!

And in bringing you there, He has divided you, separated you, 
sanctified you unto Himself - from all that is old. But you see, 
because we will not ascend the mount... we want to think of 
ourself on one hand being saved, but on the other hand, we want 
to visualize ourselves as still very much the old creation. See 
there is a certain way I want to be treated. Most of the time 
based upon my identity in the old creation. There are certain 
"rights" that I have, but most of the time I'm basing them upon 
the old creation. Yet I want to claim Salvation, but I want my 
identity here in Adam. No wonder Paul said, 'For ye see your 
calling, brethren, how that none of you were called based upon 
your Adamic identification. None of you are called because of 
your greatness. None of you are called because of your riches. 
None of you are called because of your nationality. None of 
this. None of this is found in Christ! That no flesh shall glory 
in His presence! 
We're not dealing with a saved Adam here. We're dealing with a 
crucified Adam and a resurrected Christ! A resurrected Christ in 
whom NONE of the old is found - not the sin of it and not the 
person of it either. He brought everything of the old together 
in Himself and then He put it to death upon the cross and He 
came forth victorious in resurrection. And we have been brought 
forth in Him! A New Creation!

Well here it is right here, verse 47, "The first man is of the 
earth, earthy." Please understand believer friend, that's all 
he's ever going to be. Now I mean this - I don't care how many 
churches he belongs to, I don't care how many services he goes 
to, I don't care how educated he is and how many degrees he has 
at the end of his name, I don't care how many pairs of hands 
have been laid upon him, I don't care how many people have 
prophesied over him - the first man is earthy, he's after the 
earth, and that's all he's ever going to be. And ye are not come 
to that which is earthy. Ye are not come to that mount which is 
made out of dirt. Ye are not come to that administration that is 
of men. Ye are not come to Sinai. Ye are not come to that. Ye 
are come to a place where the first is done away and the second 
is brought into view and established. Who is the second? Read it 
here. The first is after the earth, earthy, THE SECOND MAN IS 
THE LORD FROM HEAVEN! Hallelujah to God! And you are in Him.
 It is His Body that you are. Let this begin to sink into you. You 
are not a saved old man. You are a crucified old man. The old 
man is crucified and the New Man is Christ Himself!

You are the Body of the Resurrected Christ! You are not a bunch 
of resurrected bodies, but you are the dwelling place of the 
Risen Christ. You are His Body, you are His flesh. Read it in 
Ephesians 5 - "bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh." He that is 
joint unto the Lord is one spirit. Ye are His Body. Know ye not 
that you are His Body? You are the Body of the Resurrection! 
Jesus never said I am resurrected. He said I AM THE 
RESURRECTION. And He is not some disembodied spirit. He lives in 
His Body through His Eternal Spirit. He lives in you. You are 
that Body of Christ. But you can't be the Body of Christ and the 
body of Adam at the same time. I can't claim to be the Body of 
Christ and then bring in some segment of Adam and say but I'm 
also this. NO, no, not in reality, not in truth. I don't care 
what your eyes see, not in truth. 

"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." 
Oh, no wonder Paul says we no longer know any man after the 
flesh - that means their name, their education, their 
background, whether they are male or female, what color they 
are. We know no man after the flesh. We know not Christ any more 
after the flesh. Oh beloved, the first is done away at Mt. Zion 
and the second is established, and the second is the Lord from 
heaven. We don't need more board meetings, WE NEED A REVELATION 
OF JESUS CHRIST. We need a revelation of Jesus Christ. I need to 
go to the top of the mountain and see the New Creature that I'm 
part of. I need to, in my heart, have the old man - all of him, 
every part of him, reckoned as a dead thing, a buried thing, a 
done away thing. I need to know Christ in the power of His 
resurrection. And I need to know you in that same power. 

So we're come to a great divide here in this book - the division 
of the old from the new, the division of two realms - the realm 
of Adam from the realm of Christ; the economy of the Old 
Testament written in stone to the economy of the New Testament 
written in your heart. Let me just tell you something that might 
help. The Old Covenant is not Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 
Numbers, Deuteronomy, Judges and Joshua - that's not the Old 
Covenant. And the New Covenant is not Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 
Acts and Corinthians - that's not the New Covenant. Those things 
are all the Word of God. Those things are scripture, those are 
all part of the living Word of God. The Old Covenant has to do 
with knowing God after the flesh - knowing God in an outward 
way. You can study Matthew and still be into the Old Covenant. 
You can read the book of the Revelation and still abide under 
the Old Covenant. If it's just words on a page to you, you're 
still under the Old Covenant. If you're still knowing God after 
the experience of Mt. Sinai, you're under an Old Covenant. The 
Old Covenant is not the difference between Malachi and Matthew - 
the Old Covenant is the difference between knowing God after an 
outward way, and having the very Word of God revealed in you by 
the Holy Ghost. That's the difference in the two covenants. 

And when Christ begins to be revealed in you, He is just as real 
in Genesis as He is in Acts. The Old Covenant and the New 
Covenant are two extreme ways of knowing God. In one He speaks 
to you and in the other He is revealed in you. Hallelujah! In 
one His Word in written on a page, but in the other that same 
Word is written in your heart by the Holy Spirit. Ye are not 
come to the Old Covenant, you are come to the New Covenant. You 
are come to a new way of knowing God! But who shall ascend to 
the top of the mount? Or shall we just continue our scripture 
memorization programs? I don't mean you ought not to memorize 
scripture. But folks, you can memorize all the scripture that 
there is, unless the Holy Spirit reveals the Word IN YOU, you're 
under an Old Covenant. God isn't interested in writing on stone 
any more. He's not interested in writing on paper any more. I 
understand the Holy Scripture, I understand the Holy Word - yes. 
But it's not supposed to be left on the page called "Matthew"; 
it's not supposed to be left on that page called "Luke"; it's 
not supposed to be left on that page called "Ephesians" - it's 
supposed to be written in your heart, called the LIVING WORD OF 
GOD! Ye are come to that folks, ye are come to a living 
mountain, ye are come to the Living Word of God! Shall we ascend 
to the top or shall we continue under the old economy? That's 
the question.

So we're brought to a division. On the one side - picture with 
me - on the one side there's a huge mountain, tremendous 
mountain. It's called Sinai. It represents everything that God 
is under the old economy. It represents all of the old. It 
represents the time past. Did God speak there? Yes, in time past 
He spoke there. Did God reveal Himself there? Yes, after a 
measure He revealed Himself there. But did God fully reveal 
Himself there? No, He did not, no, He could not. Instead He 
built a tabernacle, and He had to put gold upon wood, and cover 
the whole thing with a badger skin to make a resemblance of Him 
in the wilderness. Is that the tabernacle we've come to? Is that 
the tabernacle that you are? No, it is not. He administrated the 
Word by angels. Is that the administration you've come to, the 
administration of angels? No, it is not. You have come to the 
administration of the Divine Person of the Holy Ghost! No angel 
can get inside of you - but the Holy Ghost - the Holy Ghost 
indwells Mt. Zion!

I'm just trying to tell you that there's a greater 
administration than what the Old Testament, the Old Covenant 
offers. So on one side there is this mountain called Sinai, that 
God one time visited; one time showed Himself; wrote on stone 
tablets. On the other side of the spectrum there is another 
mount. It's not made out of dirt and rocks, it's made out of 
living stones! Hallelujah! It's not designed for the Mosaic 
priesthood, it is designed for a new priesthood, Mt. Zion. There 
God does not write in stones, there He writes in a people HIS 
WORD. There He does not meet with Moses, backside to backside. 
There He meets with those that are in Christ, who will dare to 
ascend to the top of mountain; there He meets with them as FACE 
TO FACE.

So you have these two mountains. And in between those two 
mountains you have a hill - and that hill is called "THE SKULL" 
- the very meaning of Golgotha suggests death. It is not a place 
of glory, it's a place of death. And it sets between - THE 
CROSS. Just like the cross in the tabernacle - the furniture 
arranged as a cross in the tabernacle. Just like that tabernacle 
was between Egypt and Canaan, so Golgotha, the hill of Golgotha, 
the place of the Skull sets between Sinai and Zion. THE CROSS - 
the cross divides them one from another. And you can not bring 
off of Sinai material into Zion. You can not bring over the 
priesthood. You can not bring over God's way of dealing. You can 
not bring over God's way of talking. You can not bring the old 
over into the new. Because the cross is set there between the 
two and it will not allow any cross overs whatsoever. Everything 
that the old pointed to Jesus fulfilled it. Every sacrifice, 
every blood offering, every commandment, every demand - all of 
it, gather it all up - He fulfilled it in His own Person! And He 
did that at the cross. 

So the cross is this dividing place. The cross is absolute. You 
and I - we do not understand the absoluteness of the cross. Now 
please do not misunderstand me. I'm on this one point. HE TAKES 
AWAY THE FIRST, AND HE ESTABLISHES THE SECOND. The 
first is fully represented in Sinai; there is the first. The law was 
given in Sinai. Folks, tell me, you who know the scriptures. Why 
was the law given? The law was given because of sin. The Bible 
says that. Sinai represents God's dealing with sin. The law was 
given because of sin. The law was given as a schoolmaster to 
keep us unto the coming of faith, unto the coming of Christ, 
unto the coming of something better. The law could never make 
man righteous. The law could never make man holy. The law could 
never bring forth the Son of God. The law could not do that. And 
all that surrounded Sinai - God's method of having to deal with 
them. He could not speak in a people because He could not dwell 
in a people. He could not dwell in them because of sin. Not just 
the sins of Israel - the sin of Adam. He could only in types and 
shadows deal with them. He could only set up a type, set up a 
pattern, set up a way that had to come to a fulfillment. That's 
all He could do there. 

Most of us do not understand the completeness of the cross. We 
think that at the cross just some of our sins were dealt with - 
the things that we've done that have been ugly. Much more than 
that was dealt with. A whole regime was deal with. A whole 
economy was dealt with. A whole way of God dealing with man was 
dealt with. A whole creation was dealt with. A whole priesthood 
was dealt with. A whole nation was dealt with. Oh yes, all of 
that was dealt with at the cross. The cross is absolute in its 
work. God help us to see the absoluteness of it because we want 
to claim that we have come to Mt. Zion but somehow we seem to 
think we bypass the cross to get there. But we didn't. Ye are 
come to Mt. Zion by a new and living way - that is through THE 
BLOOD - the blood of the Lord Jesus. The Cross. And nothing 
carries over. Sin doesn't carry over. The old creation doesn't 
carry over, but neither does the old economy, the old 
priesthood, the old tabernacle - none of that carries over. 
Don't you and I understand that when Christ died on the cross, 
one of the most significant things to take place visibly was 
that the veil in the temple was rent from top to bottom, and 
from the back sides, the inside out - signifying the absolute 
end of the old economy, signifying the end of the three 
compartments that separated us from the very presence of the 
living God. 

The cross did that! How did it do it? Because at the cross the 
first man, who was at enmity with God, who at best could be 
dressed up in a uniform, who at best could be garbed with robes 
and decked out with material things - that's his best shot. And 
even then he had to carry a bowl of blood with him. Do you see 
that? Even man at his best could not of himself enter into the 
presence of God! Even man in the robes of the High Priest could 
not of himself do that. Not only was he dressed up, he had to 
carry the blood with him. See, what I'm trying to tell you 
beloved, this is a monumental thing that we have come to. You 
haven't come to an old mountain with a new thing. You have come 
to a new mountain, a new economy, a new way of knowing God. 
You've come by a new and a living way which is paid for and 
signified by the cross. But you can not bring any of the old 
over with you - none of it. And we are continually trying to do 
this. We're continually still trying to know God as from the 
outside. We're continually trying to know God with the eye and 
with the ear, by the senses, trying to know God. And while it is 
true that God still manifests Himself in ways that the eye can 
see and the ear can hear, that is not the knowing of God that 
Mt. Zion represents. 

There is a new way. There is a better way. There is a deeper 
way. And so the cross is absolute. It will allow nothing of the 
old economy across - nothing can come across. It all ends there. 
And the only thing that comes forth out of that death is the 
RISEN CHRIST. Like as Christ was raised up by the glory of the 
Father, even so we should walk in newness of life. What I'm 
telling you is when you come and embrace the cross, you're 
laying down more than some sins - you're laying down your very 
life. You are laying down your very identity. You are laying 
down everything you ever were - good, bad, big or little. You're 
laying it down as a crucified thing - a thing that cannot be 
brought over into the new. We are come to a great divide here. 
The cross is not historic. The cross is not some doctrinal 
thing. The cross is the truth of God, the wisdom of God and the 
power of God. That's the cross. And the cross divides all that 
is old from all that is new. 

We will not, we can not ascend to the top of Mt. Zion until we 
see that we are come to Mt. Zion. As long as we still have in 
our mind Old Covenant mentality, we'll not ascend to anything. 
You can't begin to climb the mountain until the realization 
strikes in your heart that we are brought to another mountain, 
this is another mountain here. This is not the old way of 
knowing God. This is a new way of knowing God. We are come to 
Mt. Zion. And in coming to Mt. Zion we came by way of the cross. 
Until our hearts come to Mt. Zion, until we are separated in 
Christ, from all that is not Zion, unto all that is Zion - until 
there is that definite separation in my heart. Not only from sin 
but from the old economy. Not only from sin but from the old way 
of knowing God. And it is a shame that many of us are still 
trying to know God by the same way we knew Him when we were born 
again. We're still trying to know God in the same measure, after 
the same manner we knew Him when we first came to Him. And 
there's got to be an ascending to the top of the mount - to 
knowing Him in a way that has no resemblance with Sinai. That 
does not depend upon the eyes and the ears and the nose and any 
of those things.

And so it is, a crucifixion must take place in our hearts. A 
separation unto Zion. We must understand that when I came by way 
of the cross from Sinai to Mt. Zion, everything of the old is 
ended. And there everything in Christ is new. A New Creation, a 
New Man, a new way of knowing God - everything is new. I can not 
carry over any of the old with me. I must say right now - it is 
dead. It is crucified. It is done away. Yes, even the way that 
God used to speak to me, He can no longer speak to me that way. 
There's a better way. There's a more complete way for those who 
ascend to the top of Mt. Zion. 

So we're brought to a division. Hebrews is a dividing of the old 
from the new. I want you to look at that for just a moment. The 
dividing from all that is old - time past - unto all that is new 
- Ye are come to Mt. Zion. Ye are come into a living 
relationship with a living God. And now God wants to speak to 
you by living Word. In the first chapter of Hebrews the division 
begins. "God who at sundry times and in diverse manners spoke in 
time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last 
days ..." It means this - hath at the end of those times. You 
see these Hebrews said, now look, back there under Moses at Mt. 
Sinai God spoke this way. He did it this way, He did it that 
way. Fire came down on top of the mountain and the cloud came, 
angels administrated, God wrote in stone. Diverse ways. This is 
the way - let's go back to that. Paul is saying No - that is in 
time past. That is under an old economy. That's in an old 
mountain. That's not where you are now. "...hath at the end of 
those times spoken unto us IN THE SON." Your translation here in 
the Kings James says "spoken unto us by his Son". In the Greek 
it says "hath spoken unto us IN SON." What does that mean?

Well, I'm speaking to you in English. But when God speaks, he 
doesn't speak in English, and he doesn't speak in Spanish, and 
he doesn't speak in German because all of those are the language 
of the old man. In Christ there is no English, there is no 
Spanish, there are no Germans, there are no Jews, there are no 
Greeks - they are not there. What happened to them? They only 
made it as far as the cross. Under the old economy God dealt 
with that mess but under the new economy he isn't dealing with 
it. He has already dealt with it. He dealt with it at the cross. 
And when you and I come to the Truth of the Cross, it will be 
dealt with in our heart. I'll be glad when I deal with J W Luman 
as certainly as I have dealt with some of the sins that he 
committed. I'll be glad when I take J W Luman to the cross and 
nail him there - not just some of the sins he did. Yes sir, 
because he is not found after the flesh, after the old economy 
in Christ. He is not found there that way. It's only in my 
unbelieving heart that this identify still remains. And that 
gives me problems with me and with you and with God. 

Do you see what I'm trying to get down to here? We're come to a 
great divide here. We're come to a tremendous division here. It 
is not after the old. God does not speak in English, Spanish or 
German. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking about gifts 
of the Spirit, but that's God speaking to you. How does God 
speak in you? He speaks IN SON. His language is not English - it 
is Son. His language is not Spanish - it is Son. His language is 
not German - it is Son. So when God reveals His Son in you, when 
God speaks in you, when God reveals His Word in you, when God 
reveals His Word in the top of Mt. Zion, when He brings the Son 
 into view...(In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with 
God, the Word was God, the same was in the beginning with God.) 
When He brings His Eternal Word, when you really hear the Word 
of God - not just prophesy concerning the Word, not just tongues 
and interpretation concerning the Word; when the Word of God, 
the Living, Eternal Word, Everlasting Word of God is revealed in 
you - it's not going to be revealed there as a Spaniard, or as 
an Englishman or as a German, or a Jew. No Sir, none of that. 
He'll be revealed then as the Eternal, Everlasting SON OF GOD 
who is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, neither 
male nor female, but a NEW MAN, a NEW CREATURE, a NEW
CREATION.

Under the old way of knowing God he had to deal with me as J W 
Luman - that's the only way I'll let him do it. But he deals 
with me under the old economy under the law. He keeps me there 
simply to bring me to the faith of the new economy, where he can 
deal with me not as a J W Luman, not as a white man, but where 
he can deal with me as HIS SON - Hallelujah! And as long as he 
has to deal with me as an Englishman, as long as he has to deal 
with me as a white man, as long as he has to deal with me as J W 
Luman, I'm still under the old economy with God. I'm still at 
Sinai. Because none of that is found at Zion. IN ZION HE REVEALS 
HIS SON. He reveals His Son in Mt. Zion. Ye are come to Mt. Zion 
and God wants to speak a truth in you!

It's not his desire to speak to us as from the outside. I'm not 
telling you there's no need for gifts, but what is the need for 
gifts? They are needful until the perfect Word is come. When 
shall prophecies cease? When that which is perfect is come. When 
shall tongues cease? When that which is perfect is come. When 
will the gift of healing cease to operate? When nobody else 
needs to be healed. I'm just trying to show you that these 
things are not eternal - they are temporal, meant to minister to 
temporal needs. But right now you can begin to walk in the 
Living Word of God. I didn't say we're going to do away with 
gifts. I said you can begin to walk in the LIVING WORD OF GOD - 
God not just speaking to you after a manner that one day sooner 
or later even in its perfect form is going to fail and pass away 
because it will be completed. But right not - Mt. Zion. See 
where you've been brought, folks. You've been brought to a place 
where God desires to reveal His Eternal Word in you. Yes. we'll 
operate gifts of the Spirit because of the need for them in the 
Church. Yes, we'll continue because the Church has not come to 
maturity. Yes, there's the need for the offices of Apostle, 
Prophet, Evangelist, Teacher, Pastor - all of this - yes. But 
why? Because we haven't come in the unity of the faith. But I'm 
telling you - ye are brought to Mt. Zion that you might begin to 
ascend to the top of the mountain and at Mt. Zion it is not 
God's purpose to continue to talk to you; it is his purpose to 
reveal His Word in you.

So in the very first chapter of Hebrews we're told the division 
begins. God who spoke in time past after this manner, now in 
these last days, now at the end of those times hath spoken in 
another manner altogether. But how many of us have heard him? 
How many of us have allowed him to reveal that Word in us - the 
truth of which will declare that I am not after the old, but 
after the new? The truth of which will cause me to declare that 
I am not Jew, I am not Greek, I am not this ... I AM CRUCIFIED 
AND CHRIST IS MY LIFE! How many of us have heard that Word? 
Neighbor, that's the reason you are brought to Mt. Zion. God has 
one Word to reveal in the mount. And he has said everything that 
he has to say in that one Word. In that one Word he has gathered 
up all wisdom, all knowledge, all the treasures of 
understanding. In that one Word he has gathered up all the 
fulness of God. In that one Word he has gathered up all the 
light of all the knowledge of all the glory of God. And Mt. 
Zion, hear me tonight, HE DESIRES TO REVEAL THAT WORD IN 
YOU! He desires to reveal that Son in you! That you may be known by
him, and that you and I may live according to that Word.

Although Sinai was just a type, because it was the irrefutable 
type, the Word that was revealed at Sinai had to be obeyed at 
the cost of death. My question to you and the question that you 
will find in reading the book of Hebrews is just this - that if 
they could not deny the Word that came in stone, if they could 
not reject the administration of angels, how shall we escape if 
we neglect so great Salvation? Not God writing in stone, but God 
revealing His Son in you. Not something about Him written on a 
page, but the very Person of the Living God, the very Person of 
the Word, the very Person of the Son revealed in you, and we 
neglect it or refuse to hear it. What say I'm just going to live 
my life any way. I don't care what the Bible says. Bless God, 
I'm male. I don't care what the Bible says, I'm this 
nationality, I'm that, I don't care. And God is revealing His 
Word in us that is saying, No, you're not, no, you're not. 
You're not come to that. I have brought you to Mt. Zion that I 
may reveal my Truth in you, that I may reveal my Son in you, 
that I may write my Living Word in you so that you may live and 
abide in that Word, in that knowledge, in that reality, so that 
you may live according to my Eternal Word. 

And if they who refused to obey that written in stone died in 
the wilderness, died by stoning, died by the death, how shall we 
escape if we neglect the One Living Word of God that the Spirit 
desires to reveal in Mt. Zion? I'm just trying to tell you in as 
plain a language as I can put it - the days are over when you 
and I can claim to be Christians ... the days are over. We've 
been brought to Mt. Zion, we've been brought to a place of the 
Living God, the mount of the Most High, the Holy mountain of 
God. We've been brought there by death and resurrection, we've 
been brought there by way of the cross. The old has not come 
over. Not even the good part of the old, not even the priesthood 
of the old, not even the things of God of the old - they didn't 
even come over. It's a new priesthood, a new way, a new 
administration, a new word, a new sacrifice, a new and living 
way. We've been brought there. And therefore the day is over 
that I can say I am a Christian and I am a white man. The two 
are mutually incompatible one with the other. I am a Christian 
and I am a Jew. I am a Christian and I am a Gentile. You are 
either one or the other, but you're not both. In HIM there is 
neither nor. What, know ye not that as many of you as have been 
baptized into Christ have put on Christ, where there is neither 
Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, neither male nor female - 
but ye are all ONE IN CHRIST JESUS!

And then Colossians 3, "Lie not one to another seeing that ye 
have put off the old man and his deeds and have put on the new 
man which is created in righteousness and renewed after the 
knowledge of God where there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor 
free, Scynthian, Barbarian, circumcised, uncircumcised, but 
Christ is all and in all." GOD ONLY HAS ONE SON TO REVEAL IN 
ZION. He only has One Word to reveal in Zion. And when he 
reveals that Word, he will with that Word take away the first, 
and he will establish in the top of Mt. Zion, he will establish 
the second! When God reveals His Word in you, he will take away 
your old identity and he will establish the identity of the Son. 
Hallelujah!

YE ARE COME TO MT. ZION! It's a pitiful place to be if you want 
to live your own life. But if you want to know Him in His 
fulness, it's the only place to be. None of me there, none of 
you, none of that, none of the old, none of that. God is going 
to take us to the top of the mountain just like he took Moses, 
but instead of hinder part, the hidden part, it is FACE-TO-FACE. 
We behold Him! "for we all with an open face beholding as in a 
glass the glory of the Lord are changed into that same image 
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." That's 
the work in the top of Mt. Zion. He is bringing forth His Son in 
a people. He is bringing forth His Son in a mountain. He is 
revealing His Son in a mountain, in a people. He is uttering 
forth his great voice that will shake the first, that which can 
be removed and it shall be removed, that what remains shall 
testify of itself that it can not be removed; that it is the 
Lord Jesus Christ Himself!

Thanks be unto the glory of God. It's an exciting thing in my 
soul to know that God has brought us to Mt. Zion, the place we 
can hear His voice and live in it, the place of the revelation 
of His Son, and by God's grace and the direction of His Spirit 
we'll deal with that later. But now, just this - the irrefutable 
and the irresistible revelation of Jesus Christ in the top of 
Mt. Zion - YOU CAN NOT SEE HIM AND BE THE SAME EVER
AGAIN. When God reveals His Son in Zion, when His voice begins to 
roar and fill up Zion, Zion - you'll never be the same. That we be filled 
with the knowledge of Christ; that we be filled with the 
revelation of Jesus; that we be filled with the revealed Word of 
God that the voice of God fill up Zion. The irrefutable, the 
irresistible revelation of Jesus Christ! May God bring us to 
this place by His Spirit. 

Folks, ye are come to Mt. Zion. You are in Christ. You are come 
to this place. How shall we escape if we neglect it? You are 
come to this place. Now the Spirit says, 'come up here. I would 
speak with you. Come up here, I would reveal My Word in you. 
Come up here, I would commune with you face-to-face.' You are 
come to that, you know. Great Salvation, the Hebrew writer calls 
it. How shall we escape if we neglect so Great Salvation? Not 
just getting out, but the coming in to the very presence of the 
Most High God!

All the way through this book of Hebrews the division is there. 
In Chapter two it is not Moses the servant, it is the Son 
reigning over His own house. In Chapter seven it is not the 
priest after the order of the law, but it is the priest after 
the order of Melchizedek, the priest after the order of the 
endless life. In Chapter twelve it is not Moses and Mt. Sinai 
with the backside of God, but it is Christ revealed in Mt. Zion 
face-to-face. There's a division here. 

Let us pray. God in heaven, by your Spirit begin to make that 
division in my heart. Begin to make that division in my heart, 
that my heart begin to be divided unto Zion. Dividing me from 
all that is of the old, from all that is of the old man, the old 
creature, the old economy, the old way of knowing God - divide 
my heart to ascend to the top of Mt. Zion. My Father, bring thy 
people to the top of the mount and there reveal thy Son in us. 
FATHER, REVEAL THY SON IN US. Speak to us in Son! Speak to us
by Thy Living Word that we may know the Truth that makes us free - 
free from all that the old represents, that we may stand fast in 
the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. That we be not 
entangled again in the yoke of bondage. Oh, Spirit of God, 
divide, separate our hearts unto Thyself. REVEAL THY SON IN 
ZION. REVEAL THY SON IN ZION. Glory to God!

                            PART TWO

Now YE ARE COME TO MT. ZION. We progressed to the stage that 
we have found that Mt. Zion is a dividing point of all that is of 
the old from all that is of the new. And we've come to the stage 
in our study that in coming to Mt. Zion it means firstly - He 
taketh away the first and He establishes the second. And that's 
exactly what happens when we begin to realize the significance 
that not only have we come to Zion, but in coming to Mt. Zion, 
and all that Mt. Zion is - because Mt. Zion is a spiritual 
reality. Do you understand that Mt. Zion is not a historical 
thing, it's not a traditional thing. Mt. Zion is a spiritual 
reality, a spiritual relationship, a spiritual reality that we 
are brought to in Christ Jesus. But because we are there, we've 
got to deal with that mountain. We've got to deal with the 
reality of being in Christ.

If you weren't in this building tonight, then you wouldn't have 
to deal with the realities of being here. We took up an offering 
a while ago. If you weren't sitting in this building, you 
wouldn't have to deal with the reality of an offering. But 
because you were in this building, and more than that, because 
you are part of the fellowship and of the church that meets in 
this building - because you're here you had to deal with the 
need of the Gospel. Well ye are come to Mt. Zion! Now - there 
are many of those that are in Christ who remain ignorant of what 
it means to be in Christ. And so many believers who are come to 
Mt. Zion, who are in Christ Jesus, have not yet dealt in their 
hearts, in a inward way, with the reality of what it means to be 
in Christ; with the reality of what it means to come to Mt. 
Zion; they kind of live in a figment of their own imagination as 
though they are still camped around a Mt. Sinai. As though God 
is still kind of on the outside looking in rather than on the 
inside working. Amen. For it is God who worketh in you, the 
scripture says. "It is God who worketh in you both to will and 
to do of his good pleasure."

So, we have come to Mt. Zion and one of the first realities that 
we began to find, that the Holy Ghost begins to awaken us to is 
that He has taken away the first, that He may establish the 
second. In Mt. Zion He is bringing us to all things that are 
new. A new realm. We have to begin to consider a new realm. We 
have been considering a new economy. Coming to Mt. Zion we have 
to consider a new time - a time when all things are NOW. Glory 
to God! A new time. To you that are in Christ Jesus, if you can 
hear this - time is no more. If nothing else happens, I want to 
shake you out of Sinai - the Sinai mentality - the seeing, 
hearing, touching, tasting, feeling mentality - into the reality 
of the Spirit. Where we walk not by sight, where we look not at 
the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen. 
Realizing that the things that are seen are temporal, are 
passing, they are part of that economy which is no longer 
pertinent. But the things that are unseen are ETERNAL! And yet 
these things are not seen except the Spirit of God reveals them 
- not only TO YOU, but IN YOU! That we get shaken out of this 
realm that Salvation is just getting out of sin, just not 
sinning anymore; and that we begin to be awakened to the reality 
that Mt. Zion is the fulness of all that Salvation is, and that 
Salvation is not just coming out from sin, but literally walking 
into the fulness of Jesus Christ! And then as a corporate 
people, manifesting that reality in the earth, because Mt. Zion 
sets on the earth. It is not earthly, it sets on the earth. It 
is not of the earth, it sets on the earth. It is not worldly, it 
sets on the earth.

Ye are come to such a realm. You are come in Christ to such a 
reality. And yet we continue to insist that we are earthly. We 
continue to identify ourselves as earthly in realms of living, 
in realms of knowing God, in realms of time, in realms of 
ministry. But ye are not come there. And Paul is trying to 
uproot these believers from an old mentality and bring them over 
by the Spirit of God into a new mentality that they begin to 
look around with the enlightened eye. "The eyes of your 
understanding being enlightened, that God would give unto you 
the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ." 
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that the light 
would come on. And that you and I would begin to see the length 
and the breadth and the depth of all that is in Christ, and 
begin to ascend to the top of Mt. Zion, the holy mount of the 
Most High God. Ye are brought there. You didn't come there by 
some effort of your own, neither did I. You are brought there IN 
CHRIST JESUS. You are brought there through the death and 
resurrection of the Lord. But beloved, that's where ye are come. 
And because ye are come to Mt. Zion you're going to have to 
begin to face the reality of it.

" How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?" 
There's no going back, there's no looking back, there's no 
turning back. There's just an ascension into the top of the 
mount. Folks, you've been brought to a wonderful thing. You've 
been brought to a glorious thing. You've been brought into the 
fulness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and now WALK YE THEREIN! So 
there is this passing away of the first and the establishing. 
Jesus says upon this rock I will build my church. There is an 
establishing of the second. From glory to glory to glory to 
glory. There is a building up of the Body of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. There is a coming forth in the earth of all that Christ 
is. And where do you think that's going to come forth? In you - 
IN YOU! It's coming forth in Mt. Zion! So a crucifixion must 
take place. A crucifixion must take place in our hearts. A 
separation must occur in our heart from all that is before, from 
all that is old - a separation unto all that is new. All that is 
old unto all that is new. Let the Spirit of the Lord begin to 
speak to you about that. 

I'm going to give you a little formula. NOT - N-O-T - BUT -B-U-
T. It's in Hebrews 12 verse 18, for ye are not come unto this 
that can be touched, this that can be seen, this that passes 
away, but ye are come. NOT - BUT. The whole of the New 
Testament, in fact the whole of the Bible is divided by those 
two words. The dividing of all that is NOT, from all that is - 
NOT - BUT. "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet 
Not I, But Christ." They who are born not after the flesh but 
after the Spirit. Right on down the line you'll find this 
division, dividing from that which is no longer valid; that 
which God has written a big N-O-T over. Even many ways that He 
used to work, but they are now called "time past". And he says 
that is not valid any more, that is not where I'm moving any 
more, that is part of the system, the realm, the regime, the 
time, the economy, the priesthood that is NOT. 

BUT CHRIST - Oh, Hallelujah! Just look at that. Write that down, 
and you'll have a good time searching the scriptures and just 
dividing - you'll just see it in the scriptures and God will 
lead you. There's not just a few, it's all the way through the 
book. NOT - BUT, NOT - BUT. It will begin to thrill your heart, 
and you'll begin to realize there are many believers who are 
still living under the NOT. Mentality wise - I mean their 
understanding of the Lord is still in that realm that is NOT. 
And they are trying to find the fulness of God in that realm 
that is NOT - that is no longer. And you can't find it there, 
because He has moved us on unto that realm of the Spirit where 
His fulness is freely revealed to whosoever will. Thank God!

So there must be this crucifixion take place in our heart of the 
first. All that is first must be seen as ended at the cross. All 
that is first. And then we can enter into the second, to the 
last. And then comes the statement in its fulfillment, "The 
first shall be last and the last shall be first." Christ comes 
forth in the place of everything else. And that's what it means 
to come to Mt. Zion. So now, let's start up into the mount. 

I want you to turn to Exodus 33 with me. The question now is 
What or who do we find in the top of Mt. Zion? Now you remember 
that the top of Mt. Zion is just signifying a full spiritual 
relationship. The top - as different from just camping around 
the bottom. Pressing on in, pressing on, ascending on - into 
that which we have been brought to. We've been brought to the 
mount for one reason - THAT'S TO GO TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNT.
Now - who is it that we meet? Who is it that we see? Who is it that 
we find in the top of the mount? That's the question. In Exodus 
33 beginning with verse 12, and I'll not read all of this to 
you, through verse 23, but you'll find a conversation that Moses 
is having with God. Part of verse 13 says, "..show me now thy 
way that I may know thee." Now in the first place, nobody is 
going to climb Mt. Zion except they want to know God. So we're 
coming down now to where we're really only speaking to those who 
say 'I want to know God'. And if you're satisfied with anything 
else you're not going to bother about climbing Mt. Zion. But 
dear heart, and here comes the statement, "How shall we escape 
if we neglect climbing Mt. Zion?" How shall we escape if we 
neglect all that God has placed in Christ? All that He died for. 
All that He came forth in resurrection power for. How shall we 
escape?

There are two companies of people that are mentioned in the 
Bible. Galatians 5:24 and Hebrews 6:6 - there's two companies of 
people found in the Bible. One of those companies of people are 
accused of crucifying Christ afresh and putting the cross to an 
open shame, because they refuse to enter in. The other company 
is said that they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh. It 
comes down to it, folks. That you either crucify Him or you 
crucify the flesh. You either put Him back to an open shame or 
you follow through unto the crucifixion of the flesh. There's 
only two kind of companies found here. Now which will we be? I 
want to bring this to our attention. That it's not just that, 
well, we've come to Mt. Zion, now we'll just camp around the 
bottom. No, no, we either ascend to the top, or we put to an 
open shame all that God has done to bring us here.

So the type here is in Moses, the type here is in Israel again. 
And he brought Moses and he brought Israel to Sinai, and you 
have to understand a whole lot of background. You've got to 
understand that God is now seeing all of Israel in the person of 
Moses. You've got to understand that God is dealing with all of 
Israel in Moses. He hasn't just got Moses out there, folks, he's 
got the whole nation of Israel out there and he's chosen Moses 
to lead them and he is speaking to Israel through Moses. In the 
Exodus God never speaks to Israel outside of Moses, never, 
never, never under any circumstances. In fact, God speaks to 
Moses, Moses speaks to Aaron, Aaron speaks to Israel and Israel 
hears. So God is seeing all of Israel with Moses. You've got to 
understand that, because when God called Moses to the top, he is 
calling Israel forth in Moses. HE IS CALLING ISRAEL TO THE TOP, 
but he 's doing it in his servant Moses, because everything he 
tells Moses - he says, "tell my people Israel". Everything he 
shows Moses - "show it to my people Israel" - go back to my 
people. So what I'm saying is this - God never brought Israel to 
the foot of Sinai to camp around the base. 

Tell me this, you who know Old Testament history, what happened 
during the time when Israel camped around the base? That's when 
the golden calf was built. That's when they sinned against God. 
The idleness of neglecting. Moses said, "stand still, be still. 
I'm going up yonder. I will come again." But they were totally 
separated from the ascent in their heart. They finally said, 
"Moses is gone off somewhere. He's never even going to come 
back." See they were totally separated. How many of us in our 
hearts are totally separated from the ascension of the Lord? We 
say in our hearts, He's gone off somewhere, been gone for 2000 
years. I don't think He ever is gonna come back. I'll just live 
my life the way I want to live it. I'm not talking about 
sinners. I'm talking about religiously carrying on in what we 
call 'the absence of the Lord'. But, oh, Beloved, that is not 
it. Now I'm not touching the end-time doctrines. I'm not talking 
about rapture. Put that aside. I'm talking about a REALITY here.

In REALITY we are not separated. In reality He's not gone off. 
The type was in Israel. Look at it if you will. God desired the 
heart of Israel to ascend the mount with Moses. Read it. Israel 
was to be waiting in an expectancy! Waiting, in an expectancy. 
But their heart was separated from the top of the mountain. 
Their heart was not with Moses. Their attention was not with 
Moses. They in fact were not with Moses. But you say, He's gone 
off and He hasn't come back yet. But I choose to differ with you 
on a purely spiritual plain now. I'm not talking end-time events 
- a spiritual reality. YE ARE COME TO MT. ZION, ISRAEL. Does not 
the scriptures say... that you are quickened together with 
Christ, are also raised up together with Christ, and made to sit 
together in Christ in heavenly places? Does not the scripture 
say that? Then the scripture is not lying! But we can't see it 
with our eyes and we can't hear it with our ears and we can't 
understand it with our natural heart, so we live as though He 
has gone off and left us and is going to come back sometime and 
has left us to live our own lives. No sir! He has taken you in 
His very being to the top of the mountain. Ye are seated in 
heavenly places!

If you can't see that then you need to never get up from praying 
until you do. Because that's the distinction between coming to 
Zion and not coming to Zion. That's the reason we still sing the 
songs "We're marching to Zion." NO - we're not marching to Zion. 
WE ARE COME TO ZION. We are come, we're not marching anywhere - 
we are come to Zion. We are ascending in the Spirit of Truth to 
the top of Zion, but ye are now come to Zion. I can tell you're 
having a hard time separating. You see we get so doctrinally 
minded that if we make Salvation real here and now, we all get 
upset doctrinally about that. I don't know why. I'm not touching 
doctrine. I'm not touching your doctrine on heaven, your 
doctrine of rapture - I'm not touching that. I'm talking about 
NOW. If you can see it, folks, the greatest thing God wants is 
to open your eyes. He wants you to ascend to the top of the 
mountain. He wants Zion to be a mountain of praise in the earth. 
Hallelujah!

If you can see this. Jesus says in John 14 verse 20, "In that 
day ..." What day? THE DAY WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH IS 
COME! Is the Spirit of Truth come? He came 2000 years ago! Is he 
here now? Yes he's here now! "In that day ye shall know that I am in 
my Father..." Well, where are you? "Ye are in me and I am in 
you". Now that's the place the eye can't see. It's a place the 
ear can't hear, but the Spirit of God will open the eyes of your 
understanding and you will begin to live on this earth seated in 
heavenly places.

God saw all of Israel in Moses when he called Moses up to the 
top of the mount. And sees every truly born again believer in 
Christ Jesus right now, tonight. If we could only see as God 
sees. Is we only knew where we are, as He knows where we are. 
The Apostle Paul spent a great deal of his time in 
penitentiaries, did he not? You know he did. In none of his 
epistles do you find the description of the penitentiary. He 
doesn't tell you what it looks like, he doesn't describe it. If 
you and I get thrown in a penitentiary, we'd write two or three 
best selling books. Sure we would. Everybody would know every 
flea bite we got. Everytime we had to kill a cockroach or a rat. 
We would be all conscious to our surroundings and to our 
environment. But Paul had ascended to the top of Mt. Zion. He 
had ascended to another consciousness, to another realm. And 
while sitting in custody, what did he say? "If ye then be risen 
with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ 
sets upon the right hand of God." What did he say? "We are 
seated with him in heavenly places." What did he say? "YE ARE IN 
CHRIST."

Paul understood where he was. He wasn't blind, deaf and dumb, 
but he understood that before I'm in a prison, I AM IN CHRIST 
JESUS! Tell me the time he said I'm a prisoner of Rome? Tell me 
the time he said I'm a prisoner of the Jews? NO, sir. "Paul, a 
prisoner of Jesus Christ!" That's not the statement of an 
optimistic person. That's the statement of a saint of God who is 
standing in the top of Mt. Zion and knows where he is! And I'm 
going to tell you, I may look like I'm in Baltimore, Maryland, I 
may look to you like I'm standing here, but dearly beloved, 
before I'm in Baltimore, before I'm standing on a red carpet, I 
am seated in heavenly places and it's from there that I'm 
speaking to you! And I'll tell you something else, if I'm not 
speaking to you from there, then we need to close down and  go 
home. Because you don't need to hear anything that doesn't come 
from there. For ye are not come to all of that business. Ye are 
come to Mt. Zion. And if you're not going to hear the Word of 
God from the top of Mt. Zion, what are you doing at Mt. Zion? 
It's not to keep saying, "Yes sir, we are come to Mt. Zion" and 
live like we're still at Sinai.

So God said "Moses, come up here." But why did God say, Moses 
come up here? Because Moses said, "I WANT TO KNOW YOU!" 
Look at his dialogue here. I'll not read it all. "I want to know you. 
I'm not going to move from this spot. Your people are not going 
to move from this spot. We're not moving an inch unless your 
presence goes with us. Show me thy ways." The Bible says in 
another place that God showed his ways to Moses in his acts to 
Israel. Moses desired to know the ways of God. Israel sinned 
against God in the wilderness. Israel never did in the 
wilderness learn the ways of God. They never did - they saw his 
acts, but they never learned his ways. Moses said, "I WANT TO 
KNOW YOU. I WANT TO KNOW YOU!"

Now look at verse 18. "And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy 
glory." Hallelujah! Show me thy glory. Verse 20, "And God said, 
Thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me and 
live." For there shall no man see me and live. And you know what 
he did? He put him in a cleft and he passed by with his hinder 
parts. But Moses had said I want to see your glory. God 
interpreted that as saying I want to see your face and God said 
you can't see my face. NO MAN can see me and live. Hear what I'm 
saying because this is the crux of what I want to tell you. NO 
MAN  - here's our problem. God help us to say it and the Lord 
help us to hear it, because I'm deadly serious with you. We're 
down to the issue of Zion, folks. NO MAN can see my glory - my 
face, as you have asked to do Moses. NO MAN. If man could do it, 
I'd do it. Because out of all of Israel, you're the only one who 
wants to know me. And I'm having to look at Israel in you, or I 
couldn't stand them. I'd destroy every one of them. Are you 
hearing what I'm saying? The only way God can look at you and I 
is in Christ Jesus! That's the only way he can stand the sight 
of us - is in Christ Jesus. And when any of us says, Lord, I'd 
like to know you, he says "come up here, come up here. I've got 
something to show you. Come up here."

NO MAN. No man can see me and live. That's why we talked about 
the cross. That's why Paul says what he says in Colossians the 
third chapter. "If ye be risen with Christ seek those things 
that are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 
Set your affections on things above, not on the things on the 
earth. (not just what we call earthly, on the things on the 
earth. Why?) For you are dead." Why? Because no man who is yet 
living can see my face! And through death of the cross and 
resurrection in My Son, I have brought you to Mt. Zion where you 
can look at me face-to-face. But you'll never do it while you're 
still living in your heart with the mentality that you've got a 
life, that YOU are living. This is why we took so much time 
looking at that I am no more, you are no more, no more in any 
sense at all. Done away. The first is done away. The first. 
Moses was part of that first - can not see God. So he taketh 
away the first and he establishes the second. 

The first man is after the earth, earthy. The second man is the 
Lord from heaven. We, the first man have died with Him, and we 
have come forth in Him, yet Not I, but Christ. For I have no 
life of my own! But only when I reckon with that truth, only 
when that is truly worked in my heart - IN TRUTH - am I able to 
know God. NO man. No man. Folks, you're not just gonna come 
tramping in there. You're not going to live your life in the top 
of the mountain. I told you before, we want to put robes of 
righteousness on the old man and drag him up to the top of the 
mount and offer him as a substitute for Christ. And God says, 'I 
only know ONE SON in the top of my mountain, and that's not Him. 
This thing you've robed up and dragged up here - I only know 
that thing on the cross. I know you at the cross where you died 
in the body of My Son; where you are crucified; where you are no 
more. Now I only recognize ONE SON. And you come in His life. 
You come in His name. You come in His faith or you don't come 
here!"

NO MAN CAN SEE MY FACE AND LIVE. So we had to come by 
way of the cross. And now the Holy Spirit is awakening us to the reality 
that it is not I, it is Christ. So we are come now to Mt. Zion. 
Hebrews 12 says, but we are not come, not as Moses, Moses part 
of the first. We are come to Mt. Zion but not as Moses. Moses 
saw the hinder parts. Folks, look what happened when he saw the 
hinder parts. Israel couldn't even stand to look at him when he 
saw the hinder parts. What in the world do you think is going to 
happen when we look face-to-face?

2 Corinthians 3:18 is what's going to happen. "For we all 
beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into 
his same image, from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the 
Lord." 
2 Corinthians 4:6, " For God who commanded the light to shine 
out of darkness hath shined IN our hearts to give the light of 
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 
Hear me, Mt. Zion, the only thing God wants to do in you and to 
you and through you - He desires to reveal His Son in you. He 
desires to lift you up into the heavenlies and reveal in you 
your very life, reveal in you your very new identity - your new 
holiness, your new righteousness, your new right standing with 
God. And who is that? ONE SON! He wants to reveal His Son in 
you! Paul says in Galatians the first chapter verse 6, "I marvel 
that you are so soon removed from H-I-M unto another gospel." 
Paul says there is a gospel that is not HIM. There's a gospel 
that includes Him; there's a gospel that is about Him, but I'm 
telling you the true gospel is HE, HIMSELF!

Folks, the gospel is not something about Christ. The gospel is 
not doctrines built around Christ. The gospel is the very PERSON 
OF CHRIST. Paul says, "I certify you brethren that the gospel I 
preach to you was not taught me of man, neither did I learn it 
of man." Before that he said if we come back to you, or if any 
angel from heaven comes and he preaches any other than this 
gospel, let him be accursed. " I certify you brethren, that the 
gospel that I preach to you was not after man, neither did I 
learn it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." What happened 
to you Paul? God took me to the top of the mount - and he 
revealed HIS SON IN ME! Verse 15 and 16, "For God who separated 
me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace..." Why did 
he do that, Paul? Why did he separate you from your mother's 
womb? Why did he call you unto Mt. Zion by his grace? He had one 
reason for doing it. TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME!! Oh, Church of the 
Living God, you are on this earth for a reason, and that is that 
God may reveal His Son in you! And bring you into His fulness. 
Why? That you may be the manifestation of Him in the earth.

TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME. All right. Look at Psalms 2. We're 
getting down to the meat of this little portion now. We all like 
to go to our mirrors and look at ourselves, don't we? That's the 
reason they're called "vanities". And then Paul picks up on this 
because they were called vanities in his day too. Paul says, " 
Do not walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of your mind." 
What does that mean? Do not walk as other Gentiles walk looking 
at themselves, supposing they have a life of their own, a 
righteousness of their own, a holiness of their own - that's how 
the other Gentiles walk. But we are they who look with an open 
heart, an unveiled heart into a mirror, and we see not our 
reflection, because I AM CRUCIFIED. BUT WE SEE HIM! We see the 
glory of God. It's not my face but His face. It is not me, but 
Christ living in me! Do you see that? That's what God wants to 
do, beloved. Most of us have accepted every work of God that it 
took to make us the Body of Christ - redemption, salvation - you 
name it. But very few of us have accepted the purpose for which 
we are the Body of Christ. And that is that God may reveal His 
Son in me. He didn't bring you to the mountain so you could camp 
out like Boy Scouts. He brought you to the mountain that you may 
ascend it in its height, because at the very peak, at the very 
top of the mountain, he wants to reveal HIS SON IN YOU!

And every other work of the Holy Ghost is for that purpose - to 
bring you to a place where God can reveal His Son in you. I 
don't care - you name the ministries - I don't care what gift. I 
don't care what move. I'm telling you every work of the Holy 
Ghost ends in the revelation of Jesus Christ. Search the Word of 
God. Every move of the Holy Spirit is to bring you to the place 
where Christ can be revealed in you. Because that's the only 
thing that will change you into His image - God revealing His 
Son, not to me, IN ME, causing me to understand with the 
understanding that is from above - I no longer live. I am no 
longer this, I am no longer that, I AM NO LONGER, period. It is 
Not I, IT IS CHRIST WHO LIVETH IN ME. And I along with you, I am 
His Body! I'm not my body, I'm not your body - WE ARE HIS BODY. 
Folks, that's all we are, because anything else would be less. 
There is nothing greater - to be the habitation of the Living 
God, to be the very own Body of the Christ of God - what else is 
there to be? There is just to LEARN HIM! KNOW HIM! BE 
CONFORMED INTO HIS IMAGE AND MANIFEST HIM!

All of this is wrapped up in the revelation of Jesus Christ. The 
revelation of Jesus Christ is not somebody's idea on how to 
baptize. The revelation of Jesus Christ is not some strange 
doctrine. The revelation of Jesus Christ is God revealing His 
Son in you by His Spirit. That's what it is. He revealed a Him 
in me! And now that One that He revealed in me is all I've got 
to talk about. He is my gospel! And my life. He is the Word of 
God and in His face, as I allow the Spirit to continue to reveal 
Him in me, in His face, looking at Him face-to-face, God reveals 
His fulness! Because in Him dwelleth all that fulness. In Him 
dwelleth all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. It pleased 
the Father that in Him dwelleth all things. And the Father 
reveals the Son in me and the Son brings me into a relationship 
with the Father. And where is it found? IN THE TOP OF MT. ZION!

Psalms 2, verse 6, "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of 
Zion." Who sits in the top of Zion? " I will declare the decree. 
The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art My Son, this day have I 
begotten Thee." The word "begotten" here and in other places is 
properly translated 'declared or revealed'. That is not saying 
that Jesus the eternal Son of God was brought into being - no, 
no, that's not what it's saying. Where is it that the Father 
declares the Son, reveals Him, exalts Him, puts down everything 
but Him - just Him? It's in the top of Mt. Zion. It's in a 
people. I don't care how many times somebody may have declared 
to your ear drums, to you - "He's the Son of God" - if God has 
not revealed Him in you, you do not know Him as the Father knows 
Him. And He may be Savior to you from some sins, Healer from 
some sickness - all of this, but He is not yet the all-abiding, 
ever-existing Son, High Potentate of the Living God. Until the 
Father by His Spirit reveals Him in you, who constitute Mt. 
Zion. 

That's why Paul said, 'GOD REVEALED HIS SON IN ME'. That's why 
it is Paul a few verses later, writing the same letter, who 
said, I AM CRUCIFIED, because it is the revealing of the Son 
that brings to an end everything else. Paul is saying that 
because of that I have come to this awesome realization that I 
am no longer. It is not I standing in the top of the mount. NO, 
it is Christ who liveth in me. And the life I now live in the 
flesh I do not live by some faith I have in God - no, no, no 
more. I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD. I am knowing 
the Father as the Son knows Him. Oh, believer friend, this is the 
whole purpose for bringing you to Zion - that He may reveal His 
Son in you. That His Son may establish His Kingdom in you, 
establish His throne in you. And there as the only Potentate, 
the only life, the only Son, rule and reign in His house, whose 
house you are!

We are come to that, beloved. We are come to Mt. Zion so that 
the Father may reveal the Son. It is in the business of the 
revelation of the Son that we begin to realize the words that 
God spoke to Moses. "There's no room for man here - it's just my 
Son." This is one thing I want to leave with you - NO MAN CAN 
SEE HIM. Your natural mind can not see Him. " Eye hath not seen, 
ear hath not heard, neither entered into the heart of man the 
things that God had prepared for him... You say, oh well, those 
are over somewhere yonder. No, no, no - THOSE ARE IN CHRIST! 
Look at the next verse. " But God hath revealed them unto us by 
his Spirit ". What are these? The deep things of God. Look at 
it. And it ends with this, " But we have the mind of Christ." No 
man can see. Moses you can not see my face. Man can not see. But 
when we have passed through the cross, and the veil is taken off 
of our hearts. What is the veil? 2 Corinthians the third chapter 
- what is the veil? It is the veil of flesh. What flesh? My 
flesh. What is that? It's ME! It's going to the Bible and seeing 
me - J W Luman. It's going to the Bible and seeing that I'm a 
prophet, I'm an apostle, I'm a teacher, I'm this. I'm that. 
That's the veil. 

But when that veil is rent by the cross, then I see that I am 
absolutely nothing. What I am is - I am crucified. And if 
there's anything left of God, it has to be Christ - not me. 
That's what I mean. NO man can see. But when we come by way of 
the cross, God reveals what can not be seen. He reveals His Son 
in us. NO man can see. No man can come here. There is so much to 
be said here. Jesus says, "NO MAN CAN COME TO THE FATHER
- NO MAN COMETH - BUT BY ME." That doesn't mean me and Him. 
That's not what He's saying. That means me IN HIM - having no life of 
my own. Because when I come by way of Him, I come by way of the 
cross. Before you're involved with Him in resurrection, you're 
involved with Him in crucifixion. No man comes. No man can come. 
So the scriptures say that in Christ Jesus there is no man, in 
Christ Jesus there is neither, nor - neither male nor female, 
neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free - it lists MAN. 
There is no such thing in Christ - there is just a New Creation, 
where Christ is All and in All. This is what Paul got a hold of 
when God revealed His Son. And when God begins to reveal His Son 
in the top of Mt. Zion, you and I will begin to realize, thank 
God, it's not me, It is Christ. I have no life. My life is 
Christ. It is not my body, it is His Body. 

" No man can see me and live." So we're brought by the way of 
the cross, where we are dead and then raised up, but not I, 
Christ liveth in me. No man cometh to the top of Mt. Zion but a 
New Man. A Man who is not male nor female - BUT CHRIST. A Man 
who is not bond nor free - BUT CHRIST. A Man who is not Jew or 
Greek - BUT CHRIST. All of the other has been left at the cross 
and we have been brought forth in the newness of His life. And 
we ascend to Mt. Zion and God reveals Him in us, that we may 
stand and manifest Him, not ourselves. Manifest His life, 
manifest His name, manifest His Spirit, manifest His identity, 
understanding that there is no man here but the NEW MAN. And the 
New Man is not me, and it's not you, THE NEW MAN IS CHRIST IN 
YOU, the hope of glory! Hallelujah!

Blessed be the Lamb of the Living God! We want to look next at 
true worship. True worship takes place in the top of Mt. Zion. 
God is Spirit. We're coming to a spiritual position. " They that 
worship him must worship him in spirit and truth ." True worship 
takes place in the top of Mt. Zion. I've got to tell you this. 
What happened in the tabernacle - Solomon built the tabernacle. 
What happened? The glory of God filled it. What happened? The 
priesthood had to get out of it - MAN COULD NOT WORSHIP THERE 
BECAUSE IT WAS FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF GOD. " Christ 
in you, the hope of glory." " Beholding the glory of God, changed into 
his image." It's not the old man worshipping in Mt. Zion, after 
the old way. It's a new way. It's a New Man who IS a praise to 
God - who IS a worship to God. Oh, Mt. Zion, folks, is 
altogether new. We're coming to that - TRUE WORSHIP IN THE TOP 
OF MT. ZION.

Father, I ask in the name of Jesus that right now the shackles 
fall off of our hearts, that right now the scales fall off of 
our eyes, that right now the wax is melted in our ears. I ask 
right now that the spirit of wisdom and knowledge in the 
revelation of Him be given unto this people that Thy Son now 
begin to be revealed in this people. That this people come into 
a realm of understanding by the Spirit that we are come to Mt. 
Zion and that here there is no man but the New Man, the 
corporate man, where CHRIST IS ALL AND IN ALL. Break the 
bondage, break the fetter, take away the veil and reveal your 
Son now. Glory to God! Worship Him! Praise Him! AMEN!

	PART THREE

Psalm 2, and then we'll go to Psalm 102. I want to deal with the 
PURPOSE of coming to Zion. The purpose of the whole thing is 
that we as a people... because Zion is a people, Zion is a 
corporate people brought forth in Christ Jesus. Zion is not some 
ancient piece of architecture somewhere. ZION IS A PEOPLE WHO 
HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BY THE SPIRIT IN CHRIST JESUS. Zion 
is a people who are dwelling in Christ Jesus. Zion is a people who 
are raised up together and made to sit together in heavenly 
places in Christ Jesus - that's who Zion is. And there is a 
tremendous PURPOSE in being brought to Zion. You know that our 
text has been Hebrews 12 - " YE ARE COME TO MT. ZION". Not ye 
are marching to Zion - ye are COME to Zion. Now beloved, let me 
tell you something, you may be growing up in Christ, hear me now 
- but you're not still trying to get in Christ. You're either in 
Christ or you're not in Christ. You're either born again or 
you're not born again. You're either seated with Him in heavenly 
places or you're having nothing to do with Him at all. AMEN!

I'm not trying to get in Christ. I am in Christ! The process 
that's taking place is that we should be NOW growing up in 
Christ. And that's the Controversy of Zion - that's God's issue 
with Zion - is that we are sitting in Christ, but not too many 
of us are growing up in Christ. We're still relating our 
religion to whatever it was that got us out of Egypt. We're 
still relating the power of God to an act of deliverance, 
instead of an act of translation. Amen. We are come to Zion - 
we're not on our way. WE ARE COME. We have arrived. The work of 
God in Christ is finished. The work of God in Christ is 
complete. I may not have grown up into that. I may not have 
apprehended all of it. I may still be apprehending that for 
which I am apprehended of God. But the work of God is complete, 
it is finished, it is done. In Christ dwelleth the fulness of 
the Godhead bodily. Ye are complete in HIM! We are to grow up in 
that completeness.

So, ye are come to Mt. Zion. You are in Christ. You are seated 
with Him in heavenly places, but this is a truth the natural 
mind cannot understand. This is a truth the natural eyes cannot 
see. This is a truth the natural ear cannot hear. This is a 
truth the natural mind cannot comprehend. So, in Mt. Zion, the 
Holy Spirit must enlighten the eyes of understanding. In Mt. 
Zion the Holy Spirit must lead you. In Mt. Zion you must live in 
the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and be taught in the Spirit. 
And there is a place where the Spirit is taking you, and that's 
to the top, that's to the fulness - the top of Mt. Zion. Now, 
what's he doing there? What's he doing in a people? What is 
God's purpose for the Church upon the earth? You say, world 
evangelization. No, it isn't. World missions - no, it isn't. 
I've been connected in world missions since back in the 60's. 
That's what I am, a missionary. But mission is not the purpose. 
Evangelization isn't. Those things would be the outworking of 
the purpose. Those things would be a tremendous result. We 
haven't seen any results yet. The PURPOSE of the Church, the 
purpose of Mt. Zion is that GOD MAY REVEAL HIS SON THERE. 
And that Church, that Body, that mount, may manifest that Son in the 
midst of the earth, and do it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Well, that's the purpose, and that's saying an awful lot. 
There's so many parts to it, but that's the ultimate. Let's look 
at in the scripture. The revelation of Jesus Christ - the 
irrefutable, the irresistible...The work of the Holy Ghost in 
the top of Mt. Zion is undeniable. It is irrefutable. The work 
of the Holy Ghost in the top of Mt. Zion is irresistible. You 
may resist the call of God to come to salvation, but we that are 
come to Zion are set there for a purpose. It is an irresistible 
purpose - thank God. You're never going to be the same once 
Christ is revealed in you. You may harden your heart and resist 
the grace of God and refuse to come to salvation, but once you 
come, your life is not your own! Hallelujah! Once you come you 
set into a preprogrammed plan of God, and he is going to bring 
forth a Church in the image of His Son and the work of the Holy 
Spirit in the top of Mt. Zion is irrefutable. You don't have to 
try to figure out who you saw when you see Jesus! You don't have 
to try to figure out what happened to you when God reveals His 
Son in you. 

Psalm 2 verse 6, "Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of 
Zion." I can not say it enough. I can not place too great an 
emphasis upon this. The purpose of Mt. Zion is for the 
exaltation - the rulership of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the 
place of His throne. It is to be the place of His absolute 
victory over death; absolute victory over hell; absolute victory 
over Satan; absolute victory over the world; absolute victory 
over carnality; absolute victory over self; ABSOLUTE VICTORY. 
Mt. Zion is meant to be such a place. A place where God has said 
in the divine Word and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, 
it is written - IN MT. ZION I HAVE SET MY KING UPON MY HOLY 
HILL, MT. ZION. We are in the midst of a controversy here. We're 
in the midst of an issue here. God has one issue here. God has 
one issue in his heart - I am going to establish the absolute 
rule and reign of my Son in Mt. Zion. In Mt. Zion, my Son and no 
one else, nothing else, nothing, nothing, no one else, no man, 
nothing. Nothing shall be exalted or served but MY SON. Folks, 
ye are come to Mt. Zion. 

You are not come there to live your own life religiously. You're 
not come there to take a blessing from God every now and then. 
Ye are come. You are brought together. You are raised up 
together. You are joined together. You are not so many stones - 
ye are the melting place of ONE STONE. You have come together. 
You have been fitly joined together. You have been brought 
together as one mountain. One Body - for what purpose? FOR THE 
EXALTATION OF JESUS CHRIST! For the manifestation in the earth 
of His victory - of His complete victory over sin. Are you that? 
When anybody, any where, under any circumstance, at any time, 
any given place - in the car at rush hour? Behind the kitchen 
sink? In front of the kids? Are you the manifestation of the 
complete victory of Jesus Christ over sin? All times, all ways, 
all places? You say, brother, that's not even possible. 

Well, you just hold here and I'll read in II Corinthians 2 verse 
14, "Now thanks be unto God, who always causeth us to triumph in 
Christ." But most of us don't know what that means. We think 
that means never have problems. You never have problems then 
you've never triumphed. Did you hear me? What do you think you 
triumph over? Amen. We never have a test - we never score a high 
grade. WHO CAUSETH US TO TRIUMPH IN CHRIST. But what is 
this triumph? Look at this. "And maketh manifest..." What did I tell 
you the purpose of Zion is? What is the purpose of the Church, 
the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ? What is the purpose of His 
flesh, of His blood, of His bones? The purpose of that people 
that are raised up together and made one with Him? What is the 
purpose? It is the manifestation of Him! Not just around the 
world but in Baltimore, Maryland. " Who always... and maketh 
manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place." I was 
talking to you about that altar of incense. That's where the 
savor was. But do you know that incense wasn't just mixed up? 
That incense was broken, it was mashed, it was pounded. And 
that's how the savor came out. What kind of savor would it have 
been if it had smelled good while it was in the shell, but when 
you cracked the shell it just stunk the place up? No, no. It was 
a special herb, a special incense that the priest took. But they 
had to pound it and beat it and grind it. And the more they 
pounded it, the sweeter it smelled. Hallelujah! The savor came 
out only through the pounding, only through the breaking, only 
through that. That's how the savor came out.

I'll tell you something. You wait until somebody pounds on you a 
little and you'll know what's in you, because it will sure come 
out. You may have a smiley face painted on the shell, but when 
the shell is broken - what's underneath? You see, that's what 
God is interested in. Not what the shell is, because I'm going 
to guarantee you that he's going to break the shell. Thank God 
he's going to break the shell, but what's inside, what's 
underneath? Paul says, "...who maketh us always to triumph in 
Christ, and maketh us the savor of his knowledge..." Always - in 
every place we are the savor of his knowledge - of HIS LIFE! 
Look at this. " For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ in 
them that are saved and in them that are perished. To one the 
savor of death unto death, to the other the savor of life unto 
life." But unto God we are a sweet smelling savor of Christ. Now 
what is he saying? He is saying that here is a people who in 
every situation, every place, every circumstance, always and in 
every place - THEY ARE THE SAVOR OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF 
CHRIST! That's the purpose of Zion. Zion is to be the place of the 
manifestation of His absolute victory over sin, so that whatever 
happens to Zion, the only manifestation that comes out is 
victory over sin. The only manifestation that comes out is the 
savor of His knowledge, not the stink of  mine, not the stink of 
yours, but the savor of His life!

It's easy to manifest that savor in an environment like we're 
sitting in tonight. But then that never has been our problem. 
Our problem has always been that when we load up on the bus and 
get half way home and we have three flat tires and we run out of 
gas, our problem has always been to manifest the savor then. 
Always and in every place. Glory to God! YE ARE COME TO MT. 
ZION! Ye are come to the place where God intends fully to reveal 
His Son, fully to manifest His Son, and let me tell you 
something, folks. There is a dark side, there is the down side 
to this. It is an issue with God that HE WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY 
OTHER MANIFESTATION IN ZION! Hebrews 12 says the voice of 
God is going to be uttered and it will shake not only the earth but the 
heavens and REMOVE that which is not stayed. 

Hebrews not only tells from crossing over from one 
administration to another, from one place to another, from one 
life to another, but continually, you'll never find warnings any 
more than there are in the book of Hebrews. All the way through 
the book you are warned time and time and time again. Else we 
neglect it, else we let it slip, looking unto Him, diligently 
looking unto Him else the root of bitterness come up in our 
heart. Time and time and time again you are warned. Why? Because 
God has said, 'Zion, I have one purpose for you and that is the 
exaltation of My Son. I have one purpose for you Zion, you are 
going to set in the midst of the earth, Zion, and you are going 
to be a sign unto the world of the complete victory of My Son 
over sin, over death, over hell, over all the powers of the 
enemy, over flesh, over the world. In you Zion, I will reveal My 
Son. I will set my king on the head of Mt. Zion. I will exalt my 
King in my holy mountain. 

Now look then at Psalms 102 verse 13. I hope you have your Bible 
with you. You know in Acts 17, Paul and his party went to a 
place called Berea. And it is said of those folks at Berea that 
they were more noble than the people at Thessalonica. Why? 
Because they worked signs and wonders? No - because THEY 
SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES TO SEE IF THE THINGS THEY 
TAUGHT WERE OF GOD. That's the sign of nobility. Psalms 102:13 
" Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Zion." Oh, sometimes Zion 
gets in a pitiful state of affairs. 'Lord, you know I'd like to serve you, 
but you know, it's so hard.' I used to listen to that all the 
time. I thought, my word, what are these people getting into? 
'Lord, you know I'd like to be faithful to you...' You know, all 
the things. I just can't do it. Let's just be honest. With most 
of us it is a supreme task of our spirituality to pray as much 
as 15 minutes a day. A supreme task of our spirituality to even 
open the Bible - period - once a day. That's true. And we say, 
'Oh Lord, I'm going to pray an hour a day.' That sounds like a 
monumental task to most of us. Jesus asked his disciples, "could 
you not tarry with me an hour?" They all went to sleep. 

Zion comes to this point where within itself that it seems that 
it just can't do it. God, we've tried to be spiritual. We can't 
be spiritual. We tried to be faithful, we can't be faithful. We 
get under a good strong sermon, we get challenged, we make all 
these decrees, all these dedications and they're gone before we 
get out the door. And so, instead of Zion being the ensign of 
the Lord, the pole, the sign of the Lord, in the earth for 
righteousness, Zion ends up most of the time being a shambles 
and a shame and a reproach in the earth. That's another whole 
series - the reproach of Zion. Oh, Lord!

You see Zion just can't be passive, folks. Join the Rotary Club 
- nobody cares. You can be passive. But if you've come to Mt. 
Zion, there is an EXPECTANCY. God expects something. There is an 
expectancy even from the world, even though they hate the church 
and hate God, there is still an expectancy. Because Mt. Zion is 
the hope of the earth. It is the hope of the world. The whole 
creation is groaning together for the manifestation of Christ in 
Mt. Zion. So there's an expectancy, but most of the time Zion, 
instead of fulfilling that expectancy, is kind of like a water 
well out in the desert that has a cracked bottom. And somebody 
sees it and they go to it, and everything in them is just 
getting to that water well. And their last hope is there. And 
they get to that well and they look down in it and there's 
nothing but sand and lizards and snakes. And it would have been 
a whole lot better if the well hadn't even had been there. 

See, there's an expectancy concerning Zion. And so we all get 
under this and we declare 'We're gonna be saints of God, we're 
gonna be sons of God, we're gonna do this ...' And we get all 
built up. And then we find nothing in us that is capable of 
doing it over the long haul. And God understands that. 'THOU 
SHALT ARISE AND HAVE MERCY UPON ZION FOR THE TIME 
TO FAVOR HER, YEA THE SET TIME IS COME." God's covenant 
is with Zion! God shall not forsake Zion. The problem is that during 
this crisis time of Zion, during this time of shame for Zion, many of us 
forsake her. Many of us go back, many of us face problems. And 
instead of staying, we turn around and go back. I'm telling you 
GOD LOVES ZION! He loves Zion! Ye are come to Zion. And the 
worse thing you can do is leave Zion because you've made a 
mistake. The worse thing you can do is quit making commitments 
to God because you didn't keep your last one. The worse thing 
you can do is quit praying 'God give me grace' because you fell 
on your face yesterday. You don't do that. GOD LOVES ZION!

And God has an answer for Zion. He has an answer for you. If you 
knew how long I preached without the answer. If you knew how 
many people I prayed for and had no idea why I was praying for 
them. We've seen them slain like cord wood. We've had to use 4 
or 5 microphones because the cords got all tangled up. And 
that's wonderful. But I want to tell you something now folks, 
I've been in Pentecost before I was able to walk so I can say 
it. I saw too many of those people get up and walk out just like 
they were when they went down. Their problems weren't answered; 
their prayer wasn't answered. Yes - a demonstration of God's 
power, but their life wasn't changed. They were back the next 
night in the same prayer line wanting the same thing. But it 
wasn't just that - it was in my heart. I knew I didn't have the 
answer. I knew I didn't have the answer for this brother who 
wept and prayed every revival. I knew I didn't have the answer 
for the husband and wife who loved God but just couldn't be 
faithful. I knew I didn't have the answer for the saints of God 
who had to get another blessing, another filling, another 
filling - but could never walk consistently, manifesting in all 
ways, in all places, in everything, the savor of His knowledge. 
I knew they didn't and I knew I didn't. 

I got to where I laid it off on the anointing. I said, 'Well, I 
just do that because the anointing is gone.' That gave me an 
excuse to my wife why I was one way in church and another way at 
home. 'Well, I'm not anointed here.' She got to where she wished 
to God I'd just stay in the church house. Amen. That's where I 
was anointed - so get there and stay there and we'll all move in 
with you. You don't know the years I preached not having the 
answer. I preached the Word of God. I prayed for everybody I 
could get my hands on. My first son who is 27 years old now, the 
first toy he got a hold of was a little old microphone, started 
lining these dolls up, laying hands on them, knocking them down. 
There's nothing wrong with that. We see that now, Praise God! 
But I'm telling you the answer is not in it. There's a work of 
the Spirit that's got to take place in Mt. Zion! It is a 
bringing forth of the Son of the Living God! It is bringing Him 
in His nature, in His character, in His fulness, in the very 
essence of all that He is. Until Mt. Zion literally stands and 
quakes with His presence - literally stands and shakes in His 
character. Until Mt. Zion is a manifestation in the earth of 
Jesus Christ - in His walk, in His relationship, in His 
fellowship with God the Father.

Well, God loves Zion. And he understands the inabilities of that 
which he has brought together in Zion. But there's an answer. 
And I thank God, one time in a prayer room in 1963 - November 8 
in a prayer room in Dallas, Texas, I found the answer! I found 
the answer. Thank God. I went in there determined that I'm not 
coming out until I find the answer. I found the answer - GOD 
REVEALED HIS SON IN ME! And that revelation has not stopped 
until this very night! He is still revealing His Son in me! 
That's God's answer to Zion. "I will establish my king in the 
top of my mountain." What does that means? I'm going to reveal 
my Son in you so that you will live in an understanding that you 
never had before - that it is no longer I, but Christ! Now if 
that's just a scripture you're quoting, then you need to get 
into the Word of God until it is the reality of a person in you, 
not just a scripture written somewhere in the Bible.

I'm telling you the purpose of Pentecost is the revelation of 
Jesus Christ - with all of the magnificent works of Pentecost, 
with all of the gifts, with all of the outflowing, with all of 
that. Because all of those things are methods by which the Holy 
Spirit prepares Mt. Zion for its ultimate experience. And I say 
experience because of lack of a better term. Because it is an 
ongoing awakening, an ongoing realization - it is one that shall 
never end. It is one that shall culminate in His absolute 
fulness - when He stands in the top of Mt. Zion. And the purpose 
of the Holy Spirit is just this - TO REVEAL CHRIST IN YOU! Yes, 
that is so.

Verse 14, "For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and 
favor even the dust thereof." Even the dust - the inequities of 
Zion is even favored of God. Because Mt. Zion is the place where 
God has chosen to reveal His Son. And it is by and through the 
revelation of His Son that he shall conform Mt. Zion to the very 
image of that Son. "So the nations shall fear the name of the 
Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory." Look at verse 
16, "When the Lord shall build up Zion..."Build up Zion, edify 
Zion, build her up in faith, fill her up with his knowledge. You 
find this in Ephesians 4 - the building up of Zion " til we all 
come in the unity of the faith..." What is that? The knowledge 
of the Son of God. Unto a perfect man. What is that? The fulness 
of the stature of Jesus Christ. Then no more babes, then no more 
children, then no more blown about. But then speaking the truth 
- AS IT IS IN CHRIST  - ministering one to another, edifying the 
body in love, building up Mt. Zion for the habitation of God. 
"When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his 
glory."

Look at verse 21 now. " To declare the name of the Lord in Zion 
and his praise in Jerusalem when the people are gathered 
together and the kingdoms to serve the Lord." When the people 
are what? When the people are gathered together! Do you not 
understand you are raised up together, you are made to sit 
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, his purpose in 
gathering a people together in Christ is that he may declare the 
name of the Lord in the midst of that people. So that people may 
declare the name of the Lord, the identity, the manifestation of 
His Person in the earth. When the Lord shall build up Zion, he 
shall appear in his glory!

There's the text. Now we'll deal with the lesson. The purpose of 
Zion - THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST! So we come to Hebrews. 
Remember our not? NOT - BUT. Not as Moses, who was a servant, 
who was of the law, who came to Mt. Sinai which was the place of 
sight and sound and hearing and touching and tasting, knowing 
God in an outward way, a natural way. Knowing God, yes, knowing 
God but in an outward way, a natural way. Knowing God, yes, but 
by sense knowledge. Yes, knowing God. Moses was not a devil, he 
was a servant of the Lord. Mt. Sinai was not a place of demons, 
it was a type of Zion, it was a holy mount unto God, but that's 
not what we've come to. Not Moses, the servant unto the law at 
Sinai, but we have come to Christ, the Son, by the Spirit, in 
Mt. Zion! There's no comparison between Moses and his 
administration, and Christ and His administration. There's no 
comparison between Sinai, though it was a type; there's no real 
comparison between knowing God after a Sinai experience and in 
knowing God in the top of Mt. Zion by the Spirit of God. This is 
where we've come. 

We are come, the scriptures say to the PLACE OF GOD'S SPEAKING. 
Turn with me now to Hebrews the first chapter. What's the first 
word? GOD! What was the first word in the Bible? "In the 
beginning, GOD..." That's very significant, because the writer 
of the Hebrews is bringing forth a revelation of God that the 
Old Covenant did not contain. GOD. Who is speaking here? GOD! 
Notice it doesn't say the devil." God who at sundry times and in 
diverse manners spoke..." Who spoke? God. Not Satan, not man - 
God spoke. I don't want you to misunderstand. The old economy 
was God's economy. It was God's tool. It was set up of God. It 
was God who spoke to Moses, nobody less than God. It was God who 
spoke to Abraham, nobody less than God. God spoke to Isaac and 
Jacob, nobody less than God. God spoke to Ezekiel, Jeremiah, 
Isaiah, no one less than God spoke. But he spoke from an outside 
position. He spake from without. That is the earmark of the old 
administration. The thing that tears my heart out to the roots 
is to come to Mt. Zion, anywhere on the face of the earth, and 
find Mt. Zion under the same administration of its predecessor, 
Mt. Sinai - still knowing God, but from the outside. There is a 
better way. There is a more perfect way. 

You are not a people that are brought forth in Christ so that 
God can write another letter to you. You are not a people 
brought forth in Christ so that God can holler down out of 
heaven to you. You are not a people brought forth in Christ so 
that God can write on another stone and give it to you. No sir! 
You are a people brought forth in Christ so that God can write 
his Word INSIDE OF YOU! Hallelujah! He desires to reveal His 
Word in you! His Word is a person. His Word is a Living Word. 
His Word is His Son and he desires to reveal that Son in you. My 
word folks, if you think the old administration is glorious, 
wait until you by the Spirit of God step over into the new 
administration. If you think the words upon the page are 
glorious, wait until the One of whom all of those testifies is 
revealed in you - that's much more glorious! The one may 
instruct you. The other will CHANGE YOUR LIFE! The one may 
challenge you, the other will become your ability to perform. 
That's the difference in knowing God from the outside, and 
having God to reveal His Living Word, His Son in you. A life 
changing, heart rending realization - in the top of Mt. Zion - 
God revealing His Son. God establishing His Word - not as law, 
but as a living reality, a living faith, a living person 
revealed in you.

The revelation of Jesus Christ has to be my reason for searching 
the scriptures. I mean that with all my heart. I used to search 
the scriptures to prove all of my view points. I used to search 
the scriptures so I could get another sermon, another thought. 
And I suppose that's all there, but now I search the scriptures 
just to see Him! I just want to see Him. Because the seeing of 
Him is the only thing that's going to change me into His image. 
The other may make me theologically correct, but I've seen too 
many preachers theologically correct, manifesting the spirit of 
Adam. I've seen too many people who have gotten their doctrine 
right, but their attitude is sorry, it stinks, it's all wrong. 
I've seen too many people that can give you sixteen fundamentals 
of faith but they couldn't live for Jesus victoriously one day. 
I've seen too many preachers that can preach from Genesis to 
Revelation, but their life in their home is an abomination to 
God. In fact, their life in their home would be an abomination 
to Satan. Is that clear enough and plain enough, or shall I go 
on?

I'm telling you Mt. Zion, God is not interested in writing his 
Word on you any more. He's not interested in writing it on your 
gown or on your dress or on your hair or on your face or on your 
doctrinal book or on your sixteen fundamentals or anywhere else. 
He wants to reveal HIS LIVING WORD INSIDE OF YOU brother, so 
that it will change your very heart, change your very soul, and 
bring you forth in a face-to-face encounter with Him that will 
literally conform you inwardly to His very image. And if you are 
conformed inwardly, you will become an outward manifestation of 
Him - whatever the circumstance, whatever the situation, 
whatever the trial, whatever the time of day - you will be a 
savor of His knowledge. And that's what Mt. Zion is set in the 
earth to do. It is to be the very savor of His knowledge. The 
very manifestation of His victory! Hallelujah!

Now God spoke like that. But over all of that, write 'TIME 
PAST'. Time past. Time that is no more. Time that is done away. 
Time that has served its purpose. "...Hath in these last days, 
hath at the end of those days spoken unto us by HIS SON." The 
correct rendition reads, "SPOKEN IN SON". That doesn't mean 
telling us things about His Son. That means revealing the very 
nature and character of His Son - the very nature and character 
of the Living Word in you and I. God only has one Word and he's 
wrapped up all of his thought concerning you and I in that one 
Word. And when we look Him in the face we see the total thought 
of God. His total thought concerning righteousness - it's all 
there. His total thought concerning holiness - it's all there. 
His total thought concerning Sonship, heaven, faith - it's all 
there in the One Word. And when he reveals that Word in you and 
I from glory to glory, spirit unto spirit, line upon line, we 
begin to see the whole light of the whole knowledge of the whole 
glory of God in the FACE OF JESUS CHRIST. God hath said nothing 
but what he hath said it in his one Word - and that Word is the 
Living Word, the Living Son, the Living Christ, the Word that 
Peter says ye are born again by that Word. Not of corruptible 
but of incorruptible seed, by the Word of God which liveth and 
abideth forever. In another verse it says, "Which word is 
preached unto you by the gospel." The gospel is the preaching of 
the One Living Word of God! 

Mt. Zion, it's not like Moses on top of Sinai writing on a 
tablet. No sir, here it is God writing in your heart the very 
revelation of His Eternal Word, of His Living Word. God desires 
to reveal His Son in Mt. Zion. That's the purpose of Zion. Zion 
has many functions, many ministries, but only one purpose, only 
one eternal purpose - THE REVELATION OF CHRIST AND THE 
MANIFESTATION OF HIS FULNESS. Aren't you glad we're come to Mt. 
Zion? Aren't you glad we're not brought to Mt. Sinai so we can 
learn some more letter. Not brought to Mt. Sinai so we can learn 
some more do's and don'ts, which we couldn't do or don't anyhow. 
Amen. The doing of it and not doing of it was all right, but it 
never made anyone righteous, it never made anyone holy. It never 
brought forth the Son of God - didn't do that. It kept the 
people unto the coming of the Son of God. And that's what I'm 
telling you. Sinai has its purpose. God spoke. The Law has its 
purpose, the old administration has its purpose. But, if you are 
in Christ, you are come to Mt. Zion, and now God desires to 
raise His purpose another level higher. He desires to now bring 
you into the Holiest of Holies. He desires now to write his own 
Word. God set about writing his own Word in you - God revealing 
His Son in you. 

Paul testifies that 'God revealed His Son in me', and every 
letter that he gives comes out from that revelation of Christ - 
you read it. It comes out from that revelation of Christ - God 
revealing His Son in Paul. So what is Mt. Zion? IT IS THE PLACE 
OF GOD SPEAKING. But how does he speak? Thundering as out of 
heaven? No sir. HE SPEAKS HIS PERFECT WORD, BY REVEALING
HIS PERFECT WORD, HIS LIVING WORD IN YOU. Folks, God can 
never bring you into a relationship with a doctrine. How are you going to 
relate to a doctrine? He wants to bring you into a relationship 
with His Son. He wants to bring you into a relationship with His 
Living Word, in whom all true doctrine is fulfilled anyway. But 
he wants to bring you into a relationship with His Living Word - 
that your heart fall in love with the Person of the Word. That 
you don't have to be put on a bible program for Bible reading to 
get you into the scripture, but you go to the scripture every 
day and every night, and all through the day. Why? Because you 
want to look face-to-face with Jesus!

Your heart is in love with the Living Word of God and you know 
He has said "Search the scriptures, for they are they that 
testify of me." And the midnight hour will find you waiting in 
the scripture, not looking for another special promise. No sir, 
looking for the Living Word of God in whom all the promises of 
God are yea and Amen. It will find you in the midnight hour in 
the Word of God searching the scripture - not looking for 
another sermon, minister; not looking for another lesson, 
teacher. No sir, but looking into the very depth of the Son of 
God. Desiring to know Him, desiring to see Him because your 
heart is having a love affair with JESUS. And God is speaking to 
you. God is speaking to you and showing you his glory. God is 
speaking to you in the top of his mountain. God is revealing His 
Son in you - something that only the Father can do and he's 
doing it. And that's your motivation for living in the 
scripture, and nobody will have to tell you to do it fifteen 
minutes a day. When you see Jesus then they'll be trying to pry 
you out of it! I mean it - they'll take your drivers license 
away from you because you've got your Bible propped up on the 
steering wheel in rush hour traffic. I know what I'm talking 
about. You're having a love affair!

You finally found the purpose of Mt. Zion - God revealing His 
Son in you, until you be filled with the light of the knowledge 
of the glory of God. Yes sir, I'm telling you Zion is the place 
of God's speaking. It's where God speaks in you HIS ONLY 
BEGOTTEN WORD and in Him you begin to know the fulness of God. 
I couldn't describe it to you even if I went two more hours. But 
I'm telling you, Mt. Zion, it is there for you. It is there. It 
is God's destiny for you. It's God's plan for you. It's God's 
purpose for you - not that you know him after a Sinai mentality, 
but that you allow him to reveal His Son in you. Now folks, you 
can sing, 'Oh, how I love Jesus' all you want to, but I'm asking 
you, has God revealed HIM IN YOU? You can tell me all about your 
salvation all you want to, but I'm asking you has God revealed 
the PERSON OF IT IN YOU? Are you in a love affair with HIM - 
now? Is every waking moment filled with the Eternal Thought of 
God, the Word of God, the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST?

Is He the reason you get up every morning? Is He the reason you 
go to bed every night? I'm asking you folks, we're all claiming 
to be saved, now. You're claiming to have come to Mt. Zion. Now 
I'm telling you Mt. Zion is the place where God is speaking 
through the revelation of His Son. Now I'm asking you, has God 
revealed His Son in you? You say you don't know. If you don't 
know, he hasn't. Because that's where we get into the 
irrefutable part and then on into the irresistible part. When 
God reveals His Son in you, you know it, because there is no 
other like HIM! There's only one True Word of God and every 
scripture testifies of Him. I'm not telling you that your Bible 
is not the Word of God. I'm telling you that your Bible is the 
Word of God and it's given to you that you may search the 
scriptures so that God may reveal His One Word in you. And 
you're not going to see Christ listening to one of my tapes or 
reading one of my books or anything else. The best they can do 
is get you to search the scriptures, the Holy Spirit desiring to 
reveal the very Word in you. And I'm asking you, Mt. Zion, as 
lovingly as I can, with a burden that I can't explain to you - 
has God revealed His Son in you? If not, you may have come to 
Mt. Zion, but you haven't found the purpose for being there yet. 
And beloved, without finding the purpose, I'm telling you by 
experience, you won't stay there long. You won't stay there, and 
if you do you will become a reproach in the earth and God will 
remove you. 

Now folks, we're coming down to that. You're brought to Mt. Zion 
that God may commune with you face-to-face. That God may reveal 
His Holy Word in you. And that you may be changed into His 
image. Zion is the place of God's speaking. May He speak to our 
hearts now. I'm talking to Zion. I'm not talking to sinners. I'm 
talking to you from my heart. God has a controversy with Zion, 
an issue with Zion. I'm not doubting your salvation. I'm not 
doubting whether you've come to Zion or not; if you've come to 
Christ you have come to Mt. Zion. But I'm going to ask you this 
question again. Paul was able to say, "It pleased God who 
separated me from my mother's womb and called my by his 
grace..." You see he had no doubts about his salvation. He had 
no doubts about the purpose of his natural birth even. He said, 
here's the reason, "...TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME."

I'm asking you, you who have come to Zion, you who have come to 
the place of God's speaking, have you heard his voice? Has he 
revealed His Son in you - to the taking away of the first and 
establishing the second? Has he revealed His Son in you to bring 
about the always, and in all places, being a savor of the 
knowledge of His life? Has God revealed His Son in you, Mt. 
Zion? This is not just an issue with you. It's an issue with all 
the creation. Mt. Zion, the whole world waits for you to see 
Jesus. The whole world waits for you to grow up into His image. 
Mt. Zion, the whole world is waiting for you to manifest Christ. 
The whole world is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of 
God - not the bickering babes. And I'm asking you Mt. Zion - you 
say you've been saved twenty years - I don't care if you've been 
saved fifty years - I'm asking you, Mt. Zion, has God revealed 
His Son in you? You say, I speak in tongues - I speak in tongues 
too. I'm not asking you that. I'm asking you, has God revealed 
His Son in you in this way? That only the Spirit of God can do? 
In this way, that eye can not see and ear cannot hear, I'm 
asking you, has God revealed His Living Word in you? That's the 
question. That's as far as the Lord will allow this lesson to go 
until someone begins to answer in their hearts - has God 
revealed His Son in you? ZION, THIS IS YOUR PURPOSE. AND HAS 
THAT TAKEN PLACE IN YOU?

I want you to consider this. If you're honest enough to say I 
need Christ to be revealed in me. I have come to Mt. Zion, and 
so much more the pressure because here I must hear the voice of 
God. Here I must, I must - if I neglect so great salvation. I am 
come to Mt. Zion that God may enthrone His Son as King; that God 
may reveal His Living Word in me; that God may bring me to the 
irrefutable, irresistible revelation of Jesus Christ by the 
which I understand that IT IS NO LONGER I, BUT CHRIST! Not just 
saying it, but understanding it in a life changing way. I want 
to have Christ revealed in me. I want to have the Son revealed 
in me. I want to know Him in a way that I've never known Him 
before. Oh, that I may know Him! I want the Holy Ghost - he's 
done so much for me - he's saved me, he's baptized me, he's 
delivered me, he's brought me to the mount, now I want him to 
reveal the Eternal Son in me. And I want that revelation to 
never cease. I want it to begin and I want it to fill up my 
heart until I stand in the top of Mt. Zion filled with the 
knowledge of the glory of God - filled with the knowledge of the 
Lord. Until I stand in Mt. Zion, a manifestation of nothing less 
and nothing other than the very person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

LET US PRAY, and will you make it more than a prayer. Let us 
make it a determining factor. I am going to search the Word. I 
am going to stay there until Zion is a reality. I am going to 
stay there until God reveals His Son in Me. Father, in the name 
of Jesus, will you move upon the mount like you moved upon the 
Mount of Transfiguration. Will you cover us with the mantle of 
the Holy Ghost that when that mantle lifts, there is nothing 
left standing but Jesus. Will you overshadow our hearts that in 
our hearts there is nothing left but the knowledge of Christ. My 
Father, reveal Thy Son in me. Open the eyes of my understanding 
- reveal your Son in me. I WANT TO KNOW CHRIST! Fill me with the 
knowledge of Thy Son! Write Him in my heart. Open my eyes. 
Enthrone Him in my heart. Let Thy Word be quickened. Let Thy 
Living Word be revealed, Father - REVEAL THY SON IN ME! Thank 
you for it. Amen.