John 14, 1-7.

I'm going to read it. Just leave your Bible down there. Take my word for it; it's all I've got as I'm reading it.

Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you.

By the way, in my Father's house are many mansions. That means you and me. We are a temple of the Holy Ghost. Would you get your eyes off some material thing? That's not God.

In my Father's house are many mansions, many temples. That's you and me. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.

And I'm going to see this in a whole different light tonight. I don't want to blow your theology, and I'm not trying to take anyone's blessed hope away from them. By the way, my blessed hope is not the rapture. My blessed hope is Christ in me now.

The hope of glory. Christ in me, the hope of glory. Christ in me now, the hope of glory.

And where I am going, now listen to this, where I am going, you know, and the way you know.

Thomas said unto him, Lord, we don't know where you're going. We don't know the way.

Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. If you had known me, you should have known my Father also. And from henceforth, you know him and have seen him.

Now here is the most profound revelation the Holy Spirit has ever given to the church. We've missed it. We have missed it, and the Holy Spirit's opening it in these last days, not just to me, but to many people who are seeing it right now.

This was Christ trying to introduce His disciples into a new dimension, a new way of thinking, a new kind of life in a new realm, ascension life. He was trying to say, I'm going to leave you now and prepare a place for you in another realm, in the Spirit, and I'm going to bring you into that new realm, to a glorified, resurrected realm.

You're going to be united with me in the power of an ascended life. I'm going to put you above the world. I'm going to put you above the circumstances of this life.

You think it registered with these disciples what he's saying? Not anymore than it's registered with you and me as we look at that.

Christ was going into a supernatural realm and he was going to prepare a place with them there and come immediately in the Spirit, sending the Spirit to bring them into the new world, into this new realm. He said, I am going to seek you in a heavenly place with me and I'm going to bring you into the full riches of my glory.

Look at the incredible blindness of these disciples. They spent three years listening to Jesus talk about an abundant life that he was preparing for them, about his ascending to the Father, and to bring them to himself.

And they were told that even when he left, there was to be no breach, no break in their relationship to him. He was just going to go into a greater realm.

He said, if any man serve me, this is what he had told them, if any man serve me, let him follow me.

That where I am, there also my servant shall be.

You say, well, Brother Dave, he was going to heaven. He was going to the Father to be seated at the right hand of the Father. Yes, and he said, follow me there. Where I am, there ye shall also be. Where I am, there my servant shall be.

Where did he go? He went to the Father, to the right hand of the Father. Where is the servant supposed to be? With him at the right hand of the Father.

That where I am, there you may be also.

God help us to see what these disciples did not see. That Christ ascended into heaven to the right hand of the Father to prepare a place there with him in Christ.

He said, I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. That didn't mean that he's just going to come down, but he's going to bring us to himself. He's not going to forsake us because the Spirit is going to bring us into heavenly places to be seated with him at the right hand of the Father.

When he said, take up your cross daily and follow me, where do you think he intended us to follow?

Where are you going to follow him? You follow him where he is. He is not here. That's what they said at the two. He's not here. He's gone.

Oh, you say, well, two or three gathered my name. Didn't he say he's going to be in the midst?

Yes, but where are two or three people that gathered his name? They're at the right hand of the Father. They're in his presence. That's where I am.

You'd understand that when he ascended, he was a flesh and bone man, just like I am. Though he had no blood, he was a flesh and bone man. And he ascended physically, bodily, into the Father's presence.

And he said that where I am, you're going to follow me. That where I am, there you may be also.

He's ascended at the right hand of the Father. Where are we off? We are with him. We are ascended at the right hand of the Father.

Hallelujah.

I've been raptured already. I have been raptured.

If you don't like that term, call it enrapture. I've been evacuated.

The Lord's intention all along was to go up as the firstfruits and prepare a great ingathering of His children into His kingdom life. And we've missed it.

He said, I will come again. When did He come again? When He poured out His Spirit to bring us to Himself.

I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.

And we've made the mistake the disciples did, and we put it off in some far-off rapture.

In the meantime, we just try to get by. We try to pray for me, we say, that I'll hold out to the end.

God never intended that His people go through this life living misery and loneliness and divorcing and sin and degradation. God's intention was never to be that. He sent the Holy Ghost to link us to Himself in a heavenly place, seated at the right hand of the Father.

We were to live an ascended, overcoming life.

This was never His plan, and we've missed it.

Now, I tell you right now, I said it this morning, I'm going to repeat it. He said He's not coming until.

Until what? Until His enemies are made His footstool. And do you see all of His enemies made His footstool yet?

And it will not happen until God raises up a new people by a new name, an overcoming race of people who take dominion in the name of Jesus over all power and authority in heaven and earth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He's coming back for an overcoming people. He's coming back in glory for a glorified people.

Hallelujah.

My Bible tells me that right now I'm seated in the heavenlies. You don't believe that? Well, believe this.

But God, but God hath raised us up together and made us to sit together in what?

Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

What did Jesus say he would do as soon as he went to the Father?

Prepare us a place that where he was, we would be with him.

He said, follow me that where I am, there you may be also.

God raised him from the dead, speaking of Christ, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places.

By faith, that is where you and I belong. That's where you by faith should know and understand.

And the Holy Spirit wants you to understand tonight that that is where you and I are.

We are in Christ at the right hand of the Father seated in heavenly places.

Hallelujah.

We are not to be in an earthly realm conformed to this world, a victim of lust and evil. Christ intended our life to be lived in the full presence of His glory.

We were to lose our earthly life and find it in Him.

The Bible said we were to go out and meet Him as a bride adorned for the bridegroom.

We were to go out of the world, out of our things, set our affection on things above.

We were never intended to be tied down. God intended if you have a car that transportation was all you needed. You didn't need the bigger better.

He didn't mean for you to have just a palace. It was to be sufficiency. It was to be just enough.

God's not trying to condemn anybody in their lifestyle. But if you're never satisfied and you're reaching more and more, if you can't just say, Lord, I have enough and I'm satisfied, I glorify you in it.

But now, Lord, I want to go beyond all of this and I want to see this new life in a new realm.

I want to get away from the earthly. I want to become detached here and attached to the throne.

I want to understand my position in Christ Jesus and go on.

Now listen to this. Incredibly, the disciples, Jesus was saying, you need me now.

Not after some evacuation. You need my supernatural power and strength to live a full, abundant life now.

And by my Spirit, you'll be linked to me.

I'm going to put you in the vine, linked by the Holy Spirit.

I was with you on this earth, but I'm coming to you immediately in a new realm.

You were attached to me on earth by my teaching and by my presence, but I'm going to give you even a more vivid expression of my presence.

You're going to be closer to me in the new realm than you were when I walked this earth.

And incredibly, the disciples didn't know where Christ was going. Jesus suggested her, he said, where I'm going, you know where I'm going, and you know the way.

And listen to Thomas, he said, Jesus said, where do I go you know, and the way you know.

It was as if Jesus was saying to his disciples, don't you know I've made it simple to you, I've made it clear, I'm going back to my Father, and while I'm there, I'm going to prepare a place for you, so that where I am, you'll be also.

I'm going to ascension life. I'm going to bring you into ascension life. You see it, don't you? Don't you see how simple it is?

And listen to Thomas. Lord, we don't know where you're going. And we don't know how to get there.

And you know where the church is right now?

Oh, our Lord is out there somewhere in the universe.

And every once in a while we get a spurt of overcoming victorious life.

And it feels good, but we go right back down to our despair and our loneliness and our emptiness.

And like Solomon, he walks the streets saying, Where is my beloved God? Where is he?

Where is he? Where is he?

It's not where he is, it's where are you? You're supposed to be with him. He knows where he's at.

I get tired of hearing people say, I found Jesus. Well, he was never lost.

We keep living our lives like spiritual beggars and paupers.

We're swallowed up with fear and loneliness and worry.

We're victims of lust and sin and the principalities and powers of this world.

Occasionally, there'll be some Christians that feel a pull to a greater thing. They'll start fasting and praying.

They'll start out, but something happens and they stop and they don't press in.

Something drags them back down. They never do press into this glorious ascended life that Christ has opened.

The Holy Spirit, believe me.

And I'm prophesying.

And I know it. His Spirit's on me now.

The Holy Spirit's trying to bring back the truth to the church of the supremacy of Christ.

A truth that He's provided in the last days when the devil's going to come down to us angry, having great wrath.

And all the dregs of hell are going to be vomited out onto this earth.

The very atmosphere is going to be polluted.

But God is going to raise up a new people by a new name, an overcoming race of people who take dominion in the name of Jesus over all power and authority in heaven and earth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.