Ephesians 1:16-18 (I Paul) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may Give Unto You The Spirit of Wisdom (spiritual wisdom) and Revelation In The Knowledge (Gk. epignosis, the fullest knowledge) of Him (Christ): 18 The Eyes Of Your Understanding Being Enlightened; (so) that ye may Know (Gk. eido, know innately) what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance (currently) IN the saints,

Col. 1:26-27 Even the mystery (Gk. musterion, the secret plan of God) which Hath Been Hid from ages and from generations, BUT NOW is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this ‘Mystery’ among the Gentiles; which is ‘CHRIST IN YOU,’ the hope of glory:

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to The Revelation Of The Mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

Though I had known I had ‘received the Lord’ in 1968 and that He somehow was with me, I did not at that time know of Paul’s Mystery gospel of Christ literally indwelling me as my life and my ALL.

I did not yet have the powerful "Revelation of the Mystery" of Christ in me as my new life until about 1975, and then later the Revelation of the Mystery of Christ in me grew in a greater way by more revelatory encounters.

• In 1975 I was reading a Watchman Nee book about the normal Christian life that spoke of Christ’s very own ‘Spirit of Life’ in the believer, being as a life that soared above life’s situations and circumstances. He said the Christian life is a matter of relying upon “His Life” and His capacity versus that of our own limited wits, and self-abilities. He cited the ‘bird-life” that, unlike a man, was able to spontaneously soar above and overcome gravity, the pull of the world… simply due to the nature of its “bird-life.”

The truth is that we have become partakers of the limitless and powerful Christ-life… as our new soaring life. In reading this book, the words were Spirit anointed to me and my understanding… I had an initial degree of the ‘REVELATION of Christ’s LIFE In Me.’

• One evening in 1993 a friend and I visited a home meeting in Southington, Ct. when I heard a man share the most explosive Revelation for me. He spoke of something I had never heard. He literally spelled the Greek word for “seed,” being “S P E R M A’ and linked it to two verses; Gal 3:16, and 1Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible ‘SEED,” but of incorruptible (seed), by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever (Christ is the ‘Word’ Jn 1:1, ‘Seed is Christ,’ Gal 3:16).

He went on to explain Galatians 3:16, which speaks of “thy (Abraham’s) Seed, which Is Christ.” Abraham’s lineal descendant or ‘Seed’ is Jesus Christ (cf. Matt. 1:1), who the Holy Spirit conceived as the “Seed (sperma)” of God the Father in the womb of a 14-year old peasant girl, Mary.

By “Revelation” of God my spirit immediately exploded with the fuller realization that Christ is not only ‘the Life’ but that He lives IN ME, in my human spirit, to be My Life Core. The “Christ- Seed” dispensed into me bore the Divine nature of the Godhead, bearing the Spirit-DNA of God’s own loins.

This was a core "Revelation of ‘The Mystery" for me. My life was forever changed. My view of life was forever altered to see be God’s view toward me... that I am eternally loved and accepted by God ‘in Christ’; my creation is “complete’ by Christ in me as my life.

• Yet, the greatest Revelation of Christ in me as my life is that which I’ve gained in the course of enduring the sufferings of the trials of life. These my situations and circumstances have pushed me to stop my incessant self-reliance to see and trust Him. I’ve learned His voice, I hear Him speaking in me by the sense of His life in me. Jesus said, “He that is of God heareth God” (John 8:47).

Note that Paul wrote this not long before his death. “That I may know (Gk. ginosko, experientially know) him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death” (Phili 3:10). The fact is that the greatest witness of Christ Indwelling Me as my source and life is that which I have gained through suffering the trials of life. The situations and circumstances of my life have served to press and push me to stop my incessant self-reliance… to trust Him. I’ve learned His voice and I hear Him speaking in me, seeking to restrain me from within. After all Jesus said, “He that is of God heareth God” (John 8:47). Now it is up to me to co-operate with my sense of Him in me.

At one time it seemed that I was able to fix or control my circumstances. But then came the time when I hit the preverbal “wall.” In my case it was a seemingly unexplainable stressed induced heart attack at age 49. This and later physical issues have worked in me causing me to recognize my utter helplessness in trying to control my circumstances as I had had in the past.

I’ve come to recognize that within reason, I can’t control my health, my wealth, or the relationships that surround me. By this we come to see that we in fact are no longer ‘the god of our own lives,’ and we are turned to find Him as our ever-enduring source of love, care and power for living overcomingly... with His peace. It’s here that the dialogue really begins, when I call out to Him in my pain I find that He and His peace is always there… ALL THE TIME.

His eternal presence is in me… as a new way of living! I now have the resource to endure in the midst of life’s many sufferings… because I KNOW His presence is in me as my life and my guide.

Most know the account in Daniel about the ‘three Hebrew children cast into the firey furnace.’ God did not deliver them out of their situation, but rather… a fourth ‘man’ appeared with them in the furnace “one like the son of God.” Here’s the story.

Daniel 3:19-25 "Then (King) Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

Then these (three) men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore, because the king's command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?"

They answered and said to the king, "True, O king."

"Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."

We must come to see that the other “man,” is ‘Christ With Us’ and that today He is… ‘IN US,’ as our ever-present internal deliverer. Keep in mind that my experiences were none of my doing. Far from it. These revelations are the result of His intervention in my life, to do for me what I cannot do for myself.

“For it is ‘God which worketh in you’ both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13)

Thus we see that "The Revelation of ‘The Mystery" may come all at once for some, or more likely as with me, it may come to us progressively. The Lord may use men’s speaking, He may use His written word, and He may use our trials to push us to Him… but always the “Revelation of The Mystery” of the indwelling Christ comes to us only by “the work of God the Holy Spirit” who Jesus said “will not speak of Himself but only of Me.” Now, as I endure life’s trials, I find that He is ever in me, sustaining me with an eternal expectation... to be manifested in this Life or in that Life which is to come.

Then after you’ve seen Christ in you as your all that you may likely have another wonderful Revelation… which is that ‘God the Father’ as Your ‘REAL FATHER’ – overseeing it ALL Things.

Luke 10:22 (Jesus said) All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and… He To Whom The Son Will REVEAL Him.

After you’ve had have the Revelation of Christ IN You as your life you can come to see that Christ is the “Seed” of God… YOUR BIRTH FATHER!!!