The Seven Eyes of Grace: Empowered To Live

By Ted J. Hanson

THE SEVEN EYES OF GRACE – The Holy Spirit is a sevenfold Spirit. He is God among us and He has come to cause the evidence of what Jesus has done as the Last Adam to overtake the evidence of what first Adam did in his fall. Holy Spirit has come to put the life of God to use in the lives of redeemed humanity. The material presented in this book is meant to activate the reader to seek the fullness of the transforming sevenfold Spirit of grace and to experience God’s plan for the maturation of the Body of Christ. May all who read this book be inspired to find the fullness of God’s amazing grace at work in their lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9780990825135

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Chapter 1. 1

The First Eye of Grace

- The Spirit of The Lord

Let’s begin by looking at the first of Seven Eyes of Grace. The first grace is the Spirit of the Lord. It is a grace of the Holy Spirit at work in our lives allowing us to be born again believers in Christ. It is important for each Christian to become a part of the Body of Christ. It is not about what we can do for God. It is about being in a relationship with Him. God gives us grace so that we can be valid and active members of His family, also known as the Body of Christ. God wants us to become something, not merely do something for Him. God never wanted sacrifices and offerings. He wanted a place to live, a place where He has a relationship with us and we with Him.

Heb. 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.’

We must keep this in mind when we read the Old Testament Scriptures. If God never desired sacrifices and offerings, why did He require them? We must look at the sacrifices and offerings in the Old Testament from a different perspective. The context in this Scripture in Hebrews is that sacrifice and offerings are compared to a Body, the Body of Christ. Jesus is the one who finally came as a real human being destined to glorify His Father in heaven. He was the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person (Heb. 1:3). He was the living will of God sent to do the will of God in the earth. He was the very habitation of life (Jn. 1:4).

The Old Testament was a shadow of that which is made real in Christ. It was a shadow of things yet to come. That shadow was merely an imprint of information concerning the real image in heaven. The light of God shown through the image of life and cast an exact imprint called the shadow of the truth of Christ. If we look directly at the shadow of a person on the ground, we look at the exact information about a real person. It reveals to us there is a person, but it doesn’t allow us to personally meet that person or get to know him or her. A shadow is like a diagram or a picture of something that is real. The Old Testament is full of ceremonies and requirements that are like a diagram or a picture that speak of something that God wants to be alive, practical, and real in the life of every human being. They are informational truths of transformational realities only found in heaven or in Christ’s heavenly Body upon the earth. Since the writer of Hebrews equated sacrifices and offerings to a comparison of the Body of Christ, we must look at sacrifice and offerings in the light of a living relationship of a living organism. We can no longer view sacrifices and offerings as merely an order of service or ceremony. They must apply to the power of transformation to Christ’s image and not information about His image. They can be understood as expressions of relationship to God from the heart of the Body. The sacrifices and offerings were merely shadows cast by the truth of a heartfelt relationship with God in Christ.

Deut. 12:5 "But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His habitation; and there you shall go. 6 There you shall take your ¹)burnt offerings, your ²) sacrifices, your ³) tithes, the ⁴) heave offerings of your hand, your ⁵) vowed offerings, your ⁶) freewill offerings, and the ⁷) firstlings of your herds and flocks. 7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you."

In this Scripture we see the type and shadow of something that is very real in the New Covenant. The children of Israel were told to seek the place where the LORD their God chose, out of all their tribes, to put His name for His habitation, and to go there. In order for us to find the place that God desires for His habitation in our lives, we must also seek the place from among our tribes (spiritual family members) that God chooses for us to relate. We must seek a legitimate expression of local church that God desires to be our spiritual family. The full dynamic of God’s house can only happen in a corporate expression of His house. We have a responsibility before God to find that place. That place is not a place that we choose; it is the place that God chooses for His name to abide for us. In this modern world of commerce, we are taught to shop for the best deals. We are taught to shop by convenience, not by conviction. This same weakness has entered into our view of finding the right church. Many people have the idea that the place of God’s choosing is the place of natural convenience, natural likes, or natural benefits. Rather than seeking the place of God’s choosing for the divine relationships of our lives, many people seek the place of their choosing. They join their lives to what they think is the right program, the right preaching, or what they perceive to be the right environment. They don’t understand that true life comes from right relationships. God wants us to find the place of right relationships. In the Old Covenant it was your family tribe; in the New Covenant it is your divine connection in the family of God. They are the relationships that will make us truly come alive!

When we find the divine place of God’s choosing, we are to experience the full dynamic of seven offerings. These offerings were shadows cast into the past by the greater truth of relationship in the Body of Christ. Each of these offerings speaks of a level of relationship in the House of God – the Body of Christ. Each offering represents a level of relationship granted to us as an expression of relationship to God and our life-giving function as members of His House – His Body – His Family. I will begin by addressing the burnt offering and how it relates to the Seven Eyes of Grace. Before we can begin with the Old Testament shadow, we must look at the New Testament account of when the Body of Christ became anointed and real. It is at that moment that the sacrifices and offerings mentioned in Deuteronomy, Chapter 12, became real expressions of relationship to God in the Body of