Advance or Lose Ground - UBM [David Eells]

We are being tested. These two dreams and scripture show that if we do not advance in our obedience to the Word, we are losing ground as unprofitable servants and time is running out. This principle was shown to me many years ago. God likened my walk with Him as being on a treadmill that was picking up speed going away from a door that was closing. I had to go faster and faster to make it through the door before it closed. There are many doors because there are many goals for our life. Some may not be achieved; the doors are closing. What has God called you to, the Man-child, the Bride, the witnesses, an office, position, gifts to the body, prayer, helps, etc. Redeem the time, the diligent shall bear rule.

I had a dream this morning between the hours of 3:00 and 4:00 am. I dreamed that I was an observer in God's Testing Room. The room was large and set up like a typical classroom and the room was filled with disciples. I saw no one I recognized.

Jesus was standing up at the front of the room and He was holding a stack of quiz tests in His hand. I watched as He went around to each disciple and laid a quiz test face down upon each of their desks. After Jesus had passed out all the quiz tests, He looked around at all the disciples and said, "Begin".

As each of the disciples were working on their individual quiz, Jesus began to walk up and down between the aisles, observing their work. As He looked down upon their work, I noticed that sometimes He would smile a faint smile and sometimes He would have no expression at all.

After Jesus had walked up and down amongst all the aisles of disciples, He went back and took His place at the head of the room. I watched as He took one last look around at the disciples and then He said, "Stop", and everyone put down their pencils. (It is a timed test. Time must be redeemed or we will run out and make a very poor score. We don't have time to waste on the world or our own will.)

Again, Jesus began to walk up and down the aisles of disciples. And, as He did so, He would tap some of them on their right shoulder and they would get up and go over to the right of the room where there was a door marked "Advancement Room". (This advancement could be to be chosen as the Bride.) I noticed that Jesus waited until the door closed behind each disciple before He proceeded on to the next disciple.

When Jesus had finished selecting His disciples for the Advancement Room, again, He took His place at the front of the classroom. Just then, I looked into His eyes and I saw much sadness and I also could feel the sadness of His heart. (It could be different if all would seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.)

I looked out across the large classroom and I was amazed at what I saw: the classroom was still over halfway full of disciples. It was obvious to me that this greatly grieved Jesus. With my head bowed, I asked of the Lord, "Why, Lord, why are most of the disciples still sitting here in this room?" Then I awoke from the dream.

I got up out of bed and went into the office to pray and, as I did, I asked the Lord for a verse for this dream, and He gave me {Joh.15:9} Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. {10} If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. (There are those who do not keep His commandments but lust to be advanced anyway by their own strength. I went to the throne room years ago after going down humbling mountain and then climbing Zion and entering by the door. I saw Jesus on the throne and talked with Him. I saw men trying to climb up into the throne room by a back window. When Jesus noticed that I saw them, He said to me, "Don't worry about them; they cannot come in here". Meaning, of course, that they cannot have His authority because they did not come through the door. I have seen many of these people since then and none of them have any power that does not come from man. Their fruit is artificial, tied on with string.)

As I was reading John 15:9, I quickly noticed that the word "love" is mentioned three times in that verse and two of them are past tense, "loved". Then, as I read verse 10, "love" is mentioned two more times for a total of five times or the number of grace. Also, I noticed that in verse 9 it says, "Father hath loved", and then, "I (meaning Jesus) have loved". However, in verse 10 it's reversed, "my love" (Jesus) "and abiding in His (Father's) love". (Abiding in the Father's love has a double meaning: it means we live in His love for others and He loves us, as seen below.)

I was led of the Spirit to look up the name "John" in the Greek: Strong's G2491 Ioannes - proper masculine noun. It means "The Lord is a gracious giver". John 15:9,10 = 15 means "rest", 9 means "first-fruits", and 10 means "Testimony; law and responsibility; complete righteousness".

Then in prayer I asked the Lord, "Lord, do we still need to do much fasting and prayer?" And the Lord replied, "Yes!" (We are all being tested and we need each other's help, for we are a body. The body members serve each other. We must "bear one another's burdens" in prayer and fasting, which is powerful. Look around you. You know their needs. "Pray without ceasing" because "ye have not, because ye ask not". After receiving this dream, we received this today to pray with perseverance always for all the saints: {Eph.6:18} with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. {Php.4:6} In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. The Greek word deesis translated "supplication" means "to seek, ask, entreat", which reminds us of the promise of Jesus: {Mat.7:7} Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: {8} for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. {9} Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; {10} or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? {11} If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?)

I believe that by Jesus saying we still need to do much fasting and prayer, He was telling me that we cannot pass onto others what we have yet to possess: "love" -- God's love for His people. I looked up "loved" from the text He gave (John 15:9) in the Greek: Strong's G25 - agapa? - verb - [love] of persons, to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly, of things, to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing. (If one does not like being around the disciples, there is not that quality of love that would advance them. This division is usually from judging others in our thoughts. This is denying Christ Who died for them and accepting the accuser of the brethren. {1Jn.3:10} In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. {11} For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

{12} not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. {13} Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you. {14} We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. {15} Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. {16} Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. {17} But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? {18} [My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth...

{4:6} We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. {7} Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. {8} He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. {9} Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. {10} Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. {11} Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. {12} No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us: {13} hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.

{15} Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. {16} And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. {17} Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world. {18} There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. {19} We love, because he first loved us. {20} If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. {21} And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. {5:1} Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. {2} Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. If we love someone, we pray for them and believe for them and are not always judging them in our thoughts. This is the accuser who wants to separate us from God's love and Kingdom.

{Joh.17:15} I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. {16} they are not of the world even as I am not of the world. {17} Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth. {18} As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world. {19} And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. (Notice that the condition to be able to sanctify others, like your family and friends, is to first be sanctified yourselves. We can't give what we don't have. If you love them, you will keep the Lord's commandments to be sanctified in truth. As a manifestation of God's truth, we can help them in prayer and word and works.) {20} Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; {21} that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

Are we truly seeing our brothers and sisters through spiritual eyes (eyes of faith), as we are commanded? (What we believe by faith for ourselves we must also believe for them: that their sins were nailed to the cross and now Christ lives in them. This is the reconciliation or exchange of their old life for Christ's new life.)

{2Co.5:14} For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died (we see them through eyes of faith); {15} and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again {16} Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. We see Him as resurrected through eyes of faith {17} Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature (eyes of faith): the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new (eyes of faith).

{18} But all things are of God, who reconciled us (exchanged us) to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; {19} to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {20} We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. {21} Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him (eyes of faith).

We are still "walking in the flesh" if we do not see our brothers and sisters with spiritual eyes (eyes of faith).

Sue Leveque - 11/29/2014
(David's notes in red)

In this dream, I was driving a golf cart. (A golf cart is what you drive over grass, if you don't want to walk on it. Peter said, "All flesh is as grass". Don't walk in the flesh or you must die, as Paul said.) David was sitting in the front seat and Belinda and Michael Hare were sitting behind us. We were on our way to visit one of the brethren because we had not seen him in a while and we were concerned. (One of the first signs that someone is falling away is they lose desire to be with the brethren. This person may represent many people, even in the larger corporate body of UBM.) As we were traveling on country roads, we rounded a big curve and started up a mountain. A short way up the mountain, we came to his house. It was a cement block house that was under construction.

The foundation was there and the walls and the roof, but there were no windows or doors and the inside was completely unfinished. There were construction materials laying on the ground around the house. (If we do not bear our cross of death to self and what we want, we will not finish the building. {Luk.14:27} Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. {28} For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have [wherewith] to complete it? The cost to finish the building is that we must lose our life. The rebuke in Haggai is very clear: we are either building our house or God's house with all its eternal promise. {29} Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him, {30} saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

{31} Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? We must count the cost or don't bother starting. {32} Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and asketh conditions of peace. Build the house or surrender and make peace with the devil; there is no other choice. {33} So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. {34} Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? {35} It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: [men] cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Those who are no longer salty will be cast out. Salty is living in obedience to the Word as an example of Christ to those around us. This, like salt, preserves them from the curse of this world.

As we pulled up to the house, the construction boss came toward us. He was the only one there. (The construction boss is likely the Holy Spirit. If we don't obey Him, we are not building our spiritual house.) He started complaining that the owner of the house (our brother) had not been showing up to work on his own house for many days. At that time, Belinda spoke up and said that she had received a dream about him. She said the dream was about our brother falling away from the Lord. Then Michael Hare spoke up and said "He that endured till the end shall be saved". That was the end of the dream. (How do you know if someone is working on their house? It may not be obvious or it may be obvious. We build our house by obedience to the Word of God. {Mat.7:20} Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them. {21} Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. {22} Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? Gifts don't get us into the Kingdom; fruit does.)

{23} And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. {24} Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: {25} and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock (of obedience to the Word). {26} And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: {27} and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof. As in Haggai, when they built their house, they were cursed; when they built God's house, which we are, they were blessed.)

We either bear fruit of what God has given us or we lose it all. {25:14} For [it is] as [when] a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. {15} And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on his journey. {16} Straightway he that received the five talents went and traded with them, and made other five talents. {17} In like manner he also that [received] the two gained other two. {18} But he that received the one went away and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

{19} Now after a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them. {20} And he that received the five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: lo, I have gained other five talents. {21} His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord. {22} And he also that [received] the two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: lo, I have gained other two talents. {23} His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

{24} And he also that had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering where thou didst not scatter; {25} and I was afraid, and went away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own. {26} But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter; {27} thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest. {28} Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the ten talents. {29} For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away. {30} And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

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