From last week…

“I say unto you that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration…”—this is what He says right after He says: Verily I say unto you that a rich man can hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven—after saying this, He continues to say, “Those of you who have followed Me, in the regeneration not only shall enter into the kingdom, but you shall sit on thrones.” Let’s put it together: The Holy Spirit is trying to help us understand something here; He’s trying to help the Church understand something


What is we’re after in this life? The word regeneration means to take back to the original condition. It might be used to describe a lizard which loses its tail and a new one grows in its place so the lizard is brought back to its original condition. The word regeneration, when speaking of you and me, means to take back to the condition of Adam and Eve before the fall. This one word in the Bible embodies the whole doctrine of Jesus Christ.

When you ask “Is this all there is?” His response is: “There is a regeneration!” You have been called to regeneration. Have you experienced it? No. If you had, you wouldn’t be asking: is this all there is? The doctrine of Jesus Christ says: I give you new life, abundant life, divine life. I give you divine life to overcome the darkness that you may walk in the light of God. That’s what regeneration is. What did Adam and Eve have that you don’t have? Their souls were filled with light; their souls were filled with God, not just their spirits, but their souls. They did not have a sinful nature.

As a Christian, have you sinned even one time since you’ve been saved? If you did, you have a sinful nature. That’s why you sin. Are you born again? I hope so. But you still have a sinful nature and that nature provokes you to sin and because your soul still loves sin you agree with it and you do it. Adam and Eve were without a sinful nature. That’s why when the Bible says that the serpent beguiled Eve, it wasn’t just a simple temptation—like when you promise yourself that you will never eat something again, but then you think: oh, remember how it tastes? It tastes so good, are you sure you don’t want to have just a little bite? —That’s temptation. You say, “Will you please remove that chocolate cake from before me, with its luscious chocolate frosting; take it out of my sight so that I’m not tempted.” That’s a temptation. Eve was beguiled in a way much greater than a temptation. The serpent not only spoke to her, but exercised a force over her will and over her eyes until she saw everything differently for a moment. When you study the Scriptures, beguiled is a much stronger word than tempted. He had to send a beguiling influence over her because she had never sinned before. She didn’t have a sinful nature. She didn’t understand what it meant to sin. She walked in utter purity and utter innocence, as did Adam.

The life of God filled their souls; not just their spirits, but their souls, and as in God’s life there is light, so their souls were filled with life and light, divine life. They didn’t see things the way you see them; they weren’t just ‘Christians’; they didn’t see things the way you see them; they saw things the way Jesus sees them. Regeneration – you who have followed Me, in the regeneration will reign on thrones. What was he saying to them? You’re headed back to the days of Adam and Eve before the fall and from there you will grow. That is truth. What the Church is being taught, which is far from what I’ve told you, is not truth. It is idealism. The Church is being taught how to practice an idealistic Christianity. You have the Spirit of the Lord in your heart you have the Spirit of the Lord in your spirit and you’re trying to win this war between soul and spirit. Most Christians don’t even know what that war is about, but the truth is that you’re called to far more then what you’ve ever been told before. You’re called to make a backwards journey and it is meant to be the journey of your life. You’re called to go all the way back to before the curse. That curse has great power, great force—it has a life of its own.

I not only have seen it, but I’ve been taken up into the heavenlies and I’ve been carried by Jesus Christ himself through the curse that is over the whole earth. I know what it’s like up there. Some people call it the second heaven, but it is the realm of the curse. It is where the curse exists and it’s where Satan’s kingdom draws its force and its power. It functions from out of the curse. What some call the second heaven is really the curse. The day you got saved you were called to go up through that curse and live and rule and reign above it. That’s where Adam and Eve ruled and reigned. There was no curse over the earth before the fall, so that area of heaven was completely clear. Intimacy and communion with the Father was clear, nothing hindering, no clogged valves, no broken communication lines. Adam didn’t have to walk in the garden for days and weeks and months and years on end, saying, Lord, I’ve asked you this question over and over and over again! Why is there no answer? Why do the heavens feel like brass?

Adam never had that experience. He would walk in the garden and before he knew it, the Lord was standing right next to him, ready to answer every question he had. The same with Eve; their life was a life lived consistently in communion with God – on earth and in heaven simultaneously. They didn’t know what it was like to experience fear, doubt, unbelief, bitterness, resentment or pride. You know, we talk about fear, doubt, unbelief, bitterness, jealousy, backbiting – stuff like that – in the church, but can I tell you, one of the most horrible sins of all is the sin of pride. You don’t know how debilitating that sin is until God takes it out of your soul. If you can stand five minutes in a position before God where pride is no more, where it has been aborted from your soul by the spirit of God, then you will realize how debilitating that one sin is in your life. The other equally debilitating sin is lust. These two sins steal you from the glory; they steal you from the knowledge of God.

In His Amazing Love,
Nita Johnson