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Be the Palace!

The Rivers of Living Water of the Incarnate One!

February 8, 2023 • Michael Brennan • Hebrews 4:15, 1 John 4:17

“Incarnation” is NOT God hiding Himself in someone who looks like a man. Incarnation is NOT God playing superman, with someone dressed like an ordinary man but secretly able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Incarnation is NOT God doing any pretending of any kind.


“Like us in all things except sin” (Heb 4:15) means He was as fully human as we are. And ‘as a man’ never let His humanness be the ‘director’ of His life. Yeshua NEVER pulled His “God card” out to save Himself or accomplish any of His many supernatural doings…NEVER. If He did, then “like us in all things” would be a lie.

Philippians says that He ’set aside’ His Godness. This means His God nature was never to be activated for a single second in His 33 1/2 years of earthly life. Imagine the Son of the King being given permission to leave the palace and becoming just an original citizen for 30 plus years on the sole condition that no matter what happens he can never pull out his “get out of jail free” card.


He could ’talk to his Father, the King’ any time he wanted but He could never have his Father come and pull him back into the palace. That’s why “As He is, so are we in this world” means exactly what it says.


Something a huge portion of Christianity still explains away this verse with dead theology. As always, Heaven's goal was never to use The Incarnate One to get everybody back into the palace, but, rather, to get the Palace into everybody. He succeeded “exceedingly, abundantly beyond all we could ask or think!”


AND our simple response to all this is to say, and never stop saying, to the Incarnate One now forever abiding in us, “Oh Rivers of Living Water, Incarnate One, flow from every cell in our bodies (our corporate body) through us (we) to every area of influence in our lives!” Because ‘being the Palace’ is for everyone!