Sermon Notes

COME UP HERE, I WILL SHOW YOU

OVERVIEW

• Introduction
• Come up - Ascend
• The Glory Zone
• The Life and Death of Moses
• God’s Perfect Will in Our Life
• Power of the Holy Spirit
• Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

Revelation 4:1
1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was
like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after
this.”

Many of the physical issues that we face today in our life are because we are just dwarfs in the Kingdom of
God. We do not ascend or grow in the spiritual realms. It is high time we all take a decision to ascend into
the higher realms of the glory of God.

Let us examine two people from the Bible as how they ascended into the higher realms. We all have a basic
nature of having affinity towards some places or someone or something. Many a times when people came to
Lord Jesus Christ, He did not preach spirituality but Jesus always blessed everyone physically. It is a
misconception that we should not desire physical blessings because every emptiness in our physical realm is
fulfilled when Jesus manifests in our lives as He is a God of fullness. We cannot be married if we do not
believe in material blessings. Paul lived in the spiritual realm and was not married. We should believe and
pray for material blessings in our life and marriage is always a part of physical life and never a part of
spiritual life. Paul would have been the first person to get married if marriage was considered to be a part of
spiritual life. Paul was never married and yet he had a very powerful spiritual life. In the Bible it is all about
physical blessings one after the other every time when Jesus manifested His Glory, especially the seven
times according to the Gospel of John. The most important point is that we get attracted and remain
stagnant with the physical realms and the blessings that God had already accomplished for us in our lives
when we are infants in the Kingdom of God. This is exactly where the Bible asks us to “COME UP” or ascend
into the higher realms as God wants us to experience higher dimensions of His Glory.

COME UP - ASCEND

John 1: 12 - 14
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His
name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the
Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth.

Revelation 1:12, 13
12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in
the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded
about the chest with a golden band.

John says, we have already experienced the glory of God which manifested in his ministry and our life. John
who already perceived the glory of God saw a wonderful vision when he turned in response to the voice he
heard, to see an altogether different Jesus in Revelation Chapter 1 verse 12. The way John saw Jesus could
have been like a Jewish individual or as any other Jewish youngster.

Revelation 1:14 – 18
14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like
fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; 16 He had in His right hand seven
stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its
strength. 17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not
be afraid; I am the First and the Last. 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.
Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

Here we see a sudden shift in the way John recognises Jesus. Three and a half years Jesus was physically
visible to John, saw Jesus face-to-face; they were happily together all the time, eating and resting together
after which Jesus ascended into higher realms. The Bible says, Jesus was ascended into and seated in the
higher realms. John is about ninety years of age at this point in time of his life, was persecuted for
preaching the gospel and was consigned to the island of Patmos. The fate of John is death as there are no
human beings in the island except for bones, skeletons and vultures. John was in the power of the Holy
Spirit even in the midst of this barren and sterile isle of Patmos. Ascension to higher realms will never
happen without the power of the Holy Spirit. Attending a church may encourage us to climb up into higher
dimensions but it is only all about the power of the Holy Spirit that helps us to ascend into the higher
realms. John ascends into a higher realm at the age of ninety and he is surprised to meet a Jesus whom he
did not know for the last seventy six years because John started following Jesus after being saved at the age
of fourteen. All throughout his life he had a picture and a clear understanding of Jesus but when John was
asked to climb up by Jesus, it was a different Jesus whom he saw in the higher realms. Let us open our eyes
of understanding to experience Jesus in a distinctive aspect; not just as a normal healer, not just as a God
who hears our prayers and not as the Lord who will bless us with all that we require in life but ascend
higher into the Kingdom of the almighty God.

Let us delve into the old covenant to understand the person who spoke so powerfully about the Glory of
God. It was none other than Moses. As we read through the Bible about the life of Moses, we find that he
was beautiful and handsome as his face was different from others, Moses was not killed when every other
boy was killed, he was in the palace for forty years, spent forty years in the wilderness and another forty
years of ministry taking the people of Israel to the promised land. There is only one target in the mind of
Moses which is to take people to the Promised Land. It is interesting to find that Moses lost his passion and
enthusiasm for the Promised Land over a period of time when we read between the lines or if we notice
carefully upon reading the Bible. Though he was leading, it came to a point when Moses asked God to head
the people into the Promised Land. Moses ascended ten times into the higher realms during the course of
the journey to the land of milk and honey. Moses found out something more beautiful than the Promised
Land in the higher realms. If we surmise, it is so fascinating to understand that Moses had started to forget
himself entering the Promised Land as he started to see the revelation of Lord Jesus Christ in the realms of
the Glory of Almighty God. A man who was determined to enter the Promised Land with his eyes always
focused on the land of milk and honey; he started liking and longing for the promise keeping almighty God
instead of the Promised Land when he ascended into the higher dimensions. Let there be a shift in all our
lives by ascending into the higher realms; where the “PROMISOR” becomes more beautiful than the
Promised Land instead of focusing on the promises of God. Moses saw and understood the beauty of the
Glory of God which is far greater than the Promised Land.

In the Old Testament there are only three people who are addressed by God as His servants.

1. MOSES
2. ABRAHAM
3. DAVID

Did these people inherit what God had promised them? When we study the lives of these three servants of
God from the Bible especially Moses and Abraham from the Hebrews; it says they did not possess what God
had promised them in this world but they ascended, stood afar and experienced something extremely
powerful than the promises in this world which they valued more higher than what was mundane.

Hebrews 11:13
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them,
embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

In another translation of the above verse in the Bible, it says Moses and Abraham ascending high above saw
these promises being fulfilled beyond the horizon and gladly embraced it from afar confessing they are
strangers to all the promises as they moved upward into higher realms to be citizens there for their lifetime.
This shift will release all the fullness of blessings of God in our lives. God wants us to ascend and He wants
us to desire Him by the power of the Holy Spirit. A person filled with the Holy Spirit is not just to speak in
tongues or not to operate with the gifts of the Holy Spirit or to manifest miracles but to know the revelation
of the true living God.

Hebrews 11:8, 9, 10
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance.
And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign
country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the
city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Even Abraham was called out to go into the place named Canaan. God called him not to ascend but to
inherit the land as a blessing. Abraham was in this world when he received the call to go to the Promised
Land and God started blessing him on his journey. The Bible says, Abraham dwelt with Jacob in another
realm which is very interesting. Abraham lived with Jacob when he did not physically exist in the world. It
implies that Abraham ascended and saw something infinite and powerful which our human brains are not
able to comprehend and the Bible explain that it was not a physical city that Abraham looked for, but a
conurbation that had the foundations by God – a higher realm. It is very easy to say, have a faith like
Abraham but it was not just faith that promoted Abraham to be the father of God’s blessings to be released
in the new covenant but a powerful revelation of ascending into the higher realms. Stop being a dwarf in the
Kingdom of God if we have to experience the fullness of God’s blessings in our life. In other words every
fulfilment of the prophecy that God has given us is not limited to the life here but absolute to the spiritual
realms which is unlimited where our joy will be full.

THE GLORY ZONE

We have to face all sorts of problem in our life in this lower realm. But God does not limit a believer to the
lower realm but asks us to ascend to a Glory zone even in the deepest dangerous sphere of Patmos. Normal
people and churches will not be able to grasp this message related to glory as the Holy Spirit searches for
the deep things of God which reveals the heart of God and the church will manifest the manifold wisdom of
the almighty God. Our prayers are not answered in the physical realm but beautifully decorated and
answered in the spiritual realm. Amazing blessings will signify which we will never be able to assimilate
with our human mindset.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MOSES

We all know about the death of Moses and many preachers portray his death inappropriately as a one who
failed to reach the mark. The Bible says, there was no human being in this world like Moses which proves
even in the new covenant that there will not be anyone like him who is the son of God from the old
covenant. Moses had three names in the old covenant – Servant of God, Man of God and Son of God. All
these three names are equated with Lord Jesus Christ in the new covenant. The story and life of Moses was
not a failure but a revelation which we people could not realise and understand.

Numbers 27:12
12 Now the Lord said to Moses: “Go up into this Mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the
children of Israel.

This is the realm which the Church should perceive things. The people of Israel are still in the wilderness
dying, not crossed over and Moses is old. This is when God asks Moses to come up to a higher realm to
understand what is already being done; never to see the beauty of the land flowing with milk and honey but
to see the beauty in the spiritual realm. Our real beauty is not how physically we look and we will be
discouraged, disappointed and depressed if we are not able to see how we are positioned beautifully in the
spiritual realm. We can ascend into this wonderful realm where Moses was asked by God to come up.

Numbers 27:13
13 And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered.

We should ascend into this wonderful realm where Moses was asked by God to come up which is a
wonderful promise already accomplished. Here God does not use any words related to death as a Christian
demise is only a gathering.

Deuteronomy 32: 49
49 “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the
land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession;

God calls up Moses into this mountain and for the last forty years he heard about the Promised Land. When
he views the Promised Land standing on that mountain he realises the Glory of God which is more
beautiful, far higher and further wonderful than the physical land full of milk and honey. This is exactly
where Christianity and especially the Pentecostal belief system went completely wrong as we were forced to
focus on the physical realm rather than to understand the exact beauty in the spiritual realm. Physical
blessings are always connected to the spiritual reams because God asked Moses to ascend into the higher
realms and in the spiritual realm he enjoys the beauty of the Promised Land. What was the land which
Moses saw in the spiritual realm where the Israelites gathered? The land which Moses saw was exactly the
same as John the Apostle saw in the higher realms which was the new beautiful city of Jerusalem full of the
glory of God where Jesus becomes the centre part and His face illuminating it. This is the realm where God
wants all of us to ascent. Our life will become beautiful in all the areas if we can ascend into this heavenly
realm. In the Bible it is all about ascending into the spiritual realms. People had a very different perception
about everything in this world every time they ascended into the spiritual realm. Moses had this revelation
of the glory of God which peaked at such a high point when he started disliking the land flowing with milk
and honey. Moses was told about the Promised Land; however, in between in Exodus 33 he prayed to the
Lord to reveal His Glory. When God displayed His Glory, his understanding, his vision and his
representation of the Promised Land changed to something even greater. This is perhaps the first death in
which God was involved along with the angels. For us, death is the separation or end of life but for God
death is the beginning of the right life in spiritual realm. Jesus said, some of us will be positioned alive even
when he comes back. John died and ascended into the permanent realm even before Jesus came back.
There will be no power of death working in our life and death will not have any grip on us once we access
the permanent realm for something more glorious.

Romans 5:14
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the
likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

The Bible does not say that death reigned from Adam to Jesus. The above scripture has a connection with
the legal systems and the law of God. Death had a stronghold on human mankind even though Enoch was
taken by God; there was Abraham and Moses who understood the need to focus on the Glory of God rather
than Promised Land which broke the chain of death over humanity once and for all which is the reason why
God got involved in their deaths. Imagine God who digs the grave for Moses because he ascended into a
higher realm. God had a deep connection and a relationship that it really looked like Moses wanted to die
even though he was perfect in health at the age of one hundred and twenty two with eyes that were not dim,
and his legs that never pained due to strain as he lived in a higher realm. This can happen in our lives as
well if we can truly believe this revelation which is not limited to Moses and is a true gift to the new
covenant church.

Romans 34: 1 - 5
1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho.
And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, 2 all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and
Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, 3 the South, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the
city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. 4 Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you
shall not cross over there.”
5 So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.
6 And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor; but no one knows his grave to this day. 7
Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor
diminished.

Moses had the responsibility to lead three million people. He could see this vast multitude only through his
spiritual eyes as the human physical eye has severe limitations to see across a certain distance. The Bible
says, God showed him thousands of kilometres which happened in the beautiful spiritual realm. We will
stop worrying about our promises that something above and beyond our comprehension will manifest in
our life when we love living inside the realms of the Glory of God.

The death was a promotion for Moses and this was the first burial in which God was involved that gives us a
clear insight into the realm Moses is associated with.

Our natural realm will be very powerful if we ascend into the supernatural dimension. The problem is
people want their natural realm to be powerful when they do not wish to or ascend into the supernatural
realm. We will be surprised to see our God answering to all our problems exquisitely and magnificently
when we ascend into the higher realms.

GOD’S PERFECT WILL IN OUR LIFE

1 Thessalonians 2:12
12 that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. God has created us for His
Kingdom and Glory as per the Bible.

2 Thessalonians 2:14
14 to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God has created us for His Kingdom and Glory. We read in the above verses from the Bible that Gospel had
been preached for us, to be called for His Kingdom and Glory.

Jude 1:9
9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not
bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

Ephesians 4:9, 10
9 (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

The Bible says in the above scripture; “He descended even before He ascended”. In the old covenant as the
resurrection of Lord Jesus was not yet accomplished, a person progresses into the system named paradise –
Abraham’s Bosom as per the legal system of the old covenant if any individual who has a connection with
God died. Jesus was not the first person to experience a resurrected life after death considering the Old
Testament. A dead person who never had any acquaintance with God is emplaced in a torment area on
which Jesus spoke a parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke chapter 16 : 19-31. The angels came, and
carried Lazarus off to heaven – the paradise known as Abraham’s bosom and the demons came for the rich
man, and dragged him off to hell which is the torment area. This was the system that was followed until the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Bible says; when Jesus resurrected, the tombs were opened, bodies
emerged and appeared in the city of Jerusalem.

Revelations 1:18
18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and
of Death.

This system was controlled by the Satan as explained in the verse above. Hades had two segregations –
Paradise and the Torment Area; the keys of which were with the devil. Legally the body of anyone who died
belonged to Satan who gathered all the corpses for his purpose. However, in history for the first time God
almighty came alone, conducted a funeral and is involved in contending for a body of the saint. Moses
disappeared because of his desire to see an ascent into the realms of glory, as there is no door for a return
once ascended into the very high realms of God’s glory. There is no exit door for anyone who ascends into
such very high realms of the glory of God and the proof is in the Bible from the book of Revelation chapter
22 which ends with the description of a beautiful glorious city finished off in a high realm. Moses is already
in a higher realm where there is no exit door; who probably is one among the very few people to have the
privilege to ascend into the higher realms even before the resurrection of Jesus. However, he cannot ascend
into the highest realm where Jesus is today and they had to appear in this world once again and go through
the same process. When God says, people are being gathered on the mount of transfiguration; the two
people who did not taste death appeared on the left and right side of Lord Jesus Christ. It was Moses; the
man who had already ascended into the realms of God’s glory and who had the revelation of God’s glory
prophesied what would happen in the life of Jesus.

All knowing Jesus Christ had to get the prophetical realm from a person who is on a higher dimension; tells
that Jesus has to suffer in Jerusalem. Moses assured they would stand along with Jesus and in prayers as
people in the Old Testament who suffered reproach.

Hebrews 11:26
26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

This is why the Bible says in the above verse from Hebrews; Moses suffered for the reproach of Christ. How
did Moses from the old covenant know Jesus who was manifested in the new covenant? This is where
Moses, Abraham and David, the only three from the Old Testament who ascended into the high realms of
God’s glory could understand this revelation. Sometime in the childhood or in the first forty years of his life
itself there was a special connection where Moses starts to get the manifestation and penchant for Jesus
Christ else he would have probably become the next Pharaoh in the Kingdom. Our spiritual life will be
beautiful; the more and more we get the manifestation of Christ Jesus.

Romans 1: 19, 20
19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the
creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even
His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

God wants to reveal himself to us. The above scripture depicts the nature of God. What is known of God is
the revelation knowledge of God manifested in everyone who has the revelation of God. The Holy Spirit asks
us to climb up to show us something more beautiful.

What should be the desire of our eyes and our heart? The greatest revelation of God was through the person
Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:15
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Jesus existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation.

John 1:18
18 No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has
revealed God to us. (NLT)

A self revealing God.

POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Moses and John ascended into the higher realms not by their spiritual or materialistic understanding but by
the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said when he was in this world that no one belongs to Him without the
Holy Spirit. Why did Jesus make such a hard statement? We can never understand the Glorious God
without the Holy Spirit. There is always something new in the higher realms of the Glory of God that keeps
us excited every moment and every day to ascent into the higher spiritual dimensions. God will raise up a
generation that will carry the excitement every moment to see and understand His new revelations and not
anything of this world. A generation is arising which desires and seek the revelation of Lord Jesus Christ.
Every other desire will be drowned when people start ascending into the higher realms and experience
revelations of Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 60:19
19 “The sun shall no longer be your light by day, Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; But the Lord
will be to you an everlasting light, And your God your glory.

Every work of darkness will cease in our life when we ascend into the higher realms of the Glory of God.

Psalms 139: 11, 12
11 It’s impossible to disappear from you or to ask the darkness to hide me, for your presence is everywhere,
bringing light into my night.
12 There is no such thing as darkness with you.The night, to you, is as bright as the day; there’s no difference
between the two. (TPT)

When we ascend into the higher realms of the Glory of God, darkness and light will be alike.

CONCLUSION

We have been made in the image of God. Our journey of knowing Christ is a rediscovery of this image. As
we journey in relationship with Him, we are transformed into His image with an ever-increasing glory. Our
personal journey of rediscovering the image of God within is our spiritual ascent. As we climb, we go higher
and higher into the pure atmosphere of heaven. We discover the image of Christ and the hope of glory
within us. We are moving from the miraculous to the glorious. The glory of God will now be the focus and
not the blessing of God. We are moving from the supernatural to the eternal. The natural has no place
where eternal values are in bloom.

SUPERNAL FULLNESS OF GOD