Another Look at the Third Day By Sharon Killion E-mail, sparrow557@aol.com Website, cherubimnetwork.com/brokenbread
	There is so much awesome truth being taught today on the Third Day that, with fear and trembling, I broach the subject. In the natural, we are in or at the beginning of the third day from Christ. Peter taught that "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years" (Humor me here - I know we all know this, but I promise I'm going somewhere.). So, we have had two days (2000 years) since Jesus Christ was here and paid the full redemptive price, and are into the third day (3000th year). If all of this is true and it is, then someone has begun to live, experientially, in the third day. Here's my point - the "third day" is not just a time on the Roman calendar; it is a place in God! There is a lot of “Tabernacle-of-Moses” teaching out there which puts the third day church living in the Holiest of Holies. I believe this is true with all my heart. My sorrow lies in this...How many of us are really going to press into this place to "know Him?" How many of us are willing to pay the price to live, experientially, in this "place" with God? It is so easy to know all the "stuff" about the third day. We can quote all the scriptures and see all the types and shadows, but who is going to qualify to live there? Who is going to go through the "process" necessary to live there? Who's willing to set aside their agenda for His? How will the third day Christian look? What will they act like? What is the high calling anyway? We all say we're pressing in, but if we don't know the destination how will we know when we get there? Do you know anyone living in the third day? Please e-mail me their address-I'd love to meet them (seriously). Do you know anyone abiding in the Holy of Holies? In the fullness? In mature sonship? I personally believe there are some people out there who are walking in union with God right now. Unfortunately God is waiting for a people (a many-membered body of believers) to enter in and manifest to the world His nature and His likeness. These individuals will be so tuned in to the Head (Jesus) and so submitted and obedient to Him, that they will walk as one new man...doing the will of God in the earth. I sense that we have no vision and so we perish. We need to see the finish line. We need to see the destination God has for us. It's not just another conference or another dip in the river; nor is it just another dream or vision. "Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of God, which includes that of man]-blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he." (Prov. 29:18, Amp) I also think this scripture applies here...Hosea 4:6a - "My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge; because you (the priestly nation) have rejected knowledge…" For years I have been drawn to the teachings of St. John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila. They have articulated what it is to achieve "union with God." Their works are very scholarly and in depth as to the process that God takes His children (if they will go and if they are obedient) on this road to union. I thank God for men and women through the ages who were willing to pursue God at all cost. "Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses (who have borne testimony to the truth), let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us. Looking away (from all that will distract) to Jesus, Who is the Leader and Source of our faith (giving the first incentive for our belief) and is also its Finisher (bringing it to maturity and perfection)…” (Heb. 12:1- 2a, Amp) Let me comment here that the way we do this is just like He did; concerning Jesus, Hebrews 12:2b says, “For the joy (of obtaining the prize) that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of God." I would highly recommend a book by Fr. Thomas Dubay called "Fire Within." He condenses the teachings of both St. John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila into one, readable volume. Some of you may be saying, "Oh no, the Roman Catholic Church!" I make no apologies. I've learned over the years to eat the meat and spit out the bones. Like Ruth (Sharon Ruth Killion), I'm a gleaner. If you are serious about dying to self, about Him increasing and you decreasing, about being raised with Christ (to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead) - Col.3:1-3 (read it all) - then I challenge you to get into deeper water…who knows?...it may even be waters to swim in.