DOUBLE-PORTION UNDERSTANDING
MAKES A DIFFERENCE

• One omer of manna was a single man’s portion of manna, given to Israel on each of five days.
• And the sixth day saw two omers for every man.
• A two-man portion for one person.

• And flesh and blood was also spoken as food and drink in reference to His death on the cross in which His body would be broken and His blood shed for us.
• He said that BELIEVING UPON HIM is what eating the bread of His body and drinking the wine of his blood means.
• We do not literally eat his flesh and drink his blood.
• We spiritually do that when we BELIEVE and apply the work of the cross to our own lives as the only way to be saved.
• So if one man’s portion of manna speaks of faith in the cross of Christ for salvation, then a double portion of manna must speak of a double portion of faith in the cross.

And the double portion revelation is that TWO died on Jesus’ Cross.

• You died WITH HIM, If... you were baptized into His death.

• It affects many things in our lives once we have this revelation.
• We referred to two New Testament parables last week.
• The five wise and five foolish virgins of Matthew 25, and the “Lord, Lord” criers of Matthew 7 who performed wonders but did not enter the Kingdom.
• Let us look more closely at these parables and notice an aspect we taught about last year in one service.


Matthew 25:1  Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:10-12  And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.  Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.  But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Matthew 7:21-23  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

1. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,
2. and A DOOR or ENTRANCE into it,
3. And entering because JESUS KNOWS US.

What is this speaking about?

• Going to Heaven one day?
• No.
• Let me now prove why.

• Some people propose that the Kingdom of GOD and the Kingdom of HEAVEN are two different things.
• That is incorrect.
• Compare Mark 4:30-31 with Matthew 13:31-32.
• Both speak of the idea of a grain of mustard seed being so tiny, yet one that grows into the largest of all trees.
• And Mark says that is like the “Kingdom of GOD,” whereas Matthew says that is like the “Kingdom of HEAVEN.”
• So the two terms are synonymous.

Galatians 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

• Notice that each of these works of the flesh circle around treating others in a very wrong way.
• Think about that and read it again.

Let me state right off the bat that I do not propose eternal security.

• You can definitely lose your salvation.
• Some of the works listed in Galatians 5 are certainly worse than others.
• But a life of having to repent every time we turn around and get right with God again is a wasted life for Christ.
• Instead of trimming the hedges of our bad habits, why don't we go to the root of our lives, our hearts, and just get right with God altogether?
• We may be saved after repenting all of our lives, but we will have done nothing for God.
• And especially note three in this list — STRIFE, SEDITIONS and ENVYING.

1Corinthians 3:3  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions [same as seditions], are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

1 Corinthians 3:9  For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

1 Corinthians 3:10-15  According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Paul said that the envying and striving and dividing of the people in this church was compared to wood, hay and stubble being used to construct the building of God which they themselves were.

• Yet verse 15 says that these people would themselves be saved.
• They had the foundation beneath them.
• Verse 11 — CHRIST.
• But they did not build the temple of their LIVES with the proper materials.
• You do not build your lives with envying, fighting and divisions.
• That is not a very good LIFE to live.
• Houses speak of your life — where you live.

• Such a building cannot stand.

• That is exactly what these Corinthians were doing.
• And many people are like that today, also.
• Yet we read they talked in tongues, and performed many wonderful works.
• The 9 gifts of the Spirit are listed in 1 Cor 12, and we read in 1 Cor 1:7 that they came behind in no gift.

• Yet they operated the gifts of the Spirit, such as healings and miracles.
• Outward wonders and no inward blessings.
• And we read they would be saved, but enjoy no rewards.
• Therefore Galatians’ reference to not inheriting the kingdom of God due to manifesting these things cannot refer to not being saved.
• And that means that not inheriting the Kingdom refers to something NOW, before we die or are raptured and go to Heaven.
• There is something that the fighters and envyers and dividers are not inheriting here and now.


Matthew 7:21-23  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

• There is a KNOWING OF JESUS that they are not experiencing.
• And that is barring them out of the Kingdom!
• How many know that Israel was God’s people but yet due to sin they were bound in Babylon and not in the Kingdom of their homeland!

God will allow your life to be miserable if you do not love one another.

There is something beyond filling your head with Scriptures.

• There is something beyond having faith to heal the sick.
• There is something beyond sitting there and listening to me preach.
• THERE IS A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS THAT IS THE DOUBLE-PORTION EXPERIENCE, WHERE JESUS KNOWS US.
• Look at the lack of blessings the Lord, Lord criers had.


Matthew 7:24-27  Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

• It is being blessed by God.
• Its beyond blessings of physical healings and miracles, though.
• It is blessings of strength in life’s storms.
• Blessings of divine protection in life’s trials and tribulations.

Paul spoke of the structure being messed upon 1 Cor 3.

• Jesus spoke of the foundation being messed up in Matthew 21.
• But both speak of houses that FALL.

• The fire will burn the wood and the storms will blow the sandy-founded house down.
• The point is that BOTH HOUSES FALL.
• Life will rip you apart if you fail to build properly.
• You need to know Jesus in a world like this, let alone to be ready for Heaven one day.


Colossians 1:18  And he is the head of the body, the church

Colossians 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

• They cannot KNOW Christ, or intimately LOVE Him, because they fight the BODY OF CHRIST, each other.

• Yes, and so did the envying, dividing and fussing Corinthians.
• But you may not Know Christ!
• Many seem to automatically think that those who operate miracles are in God’s pleasure.
• However, operating gifts does not imply that God is pleased with your life.
• The Corinthians proved that.

• Jesus choice of saying “I never KNEW you” means that there is no intimacy between Him and the person.
• Therefore, it is a situation in which, if He does not know you, you do not know Him.
• This is not speaking about the acquaintance aspect of knowing.
• It is speaking about the intimacy of knowing someone.

• ...then GOD IS TRYING TO TELL US THAT IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER, THEN HE WILL ALLOW YOUR LIFE TO BE BATTERED, AND YOU WILL STRUGGLE AND YOU WILL ALWAYS FALL.

• Things will always go wrong for us.

The God of Peace will be with us — THAT MEANS WE WILL HAVE PEACE IN OUR LIVES.

• Jerusalem means CITY OF PEACE.
• And Israel had peace so long as they obeyed God’s laws.
• They dwelt safely in the KINGDOM in JERUSALEM.
• But when they rebelled, they were removed and taken to BABYLON.
• People will not have peace but will have confusion in their lives — nothing going right for them — when they do not obey the Word and love one another.
• It is to the same Corinthians that Paul said this...


1 Corinthians 13:1-3  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

• They had no love for one another.
• Love covers a multitude of sins.
• But they did not cover one another’s differences, let alone sins, and did not overlook them.
• They attacked them head-on and refused to get along .
• They had the gifts, coming behind in none of them, but they lacked love.

They did not LOVE Jesus.

1John 4:7-8  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

• This man knew that loving one another is loving Jesus, because we are all His Body.

• If there is one brother or sister whom we cannot love, then we do not know God.
• He is saying, “I never knew you.”
• And storms are rocking your house to pieces.

• Let’s reference these same poor Corinthians again.

These people in that church had cliques in which they gathered and when everyone was together in their clique, they ate the communion supper.

• They did not see the unity of the entire congregation together being of the same Body of Christ.
• And by eating when their clique was together, as the rest still were gathering to eat, these people were completely disregarding the rest of the church.
• In their hearts, they had cut off the other members.
• Paul said that this is not what the Lord’s supper is all about.


1 Corinthians 11:22  What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

• The CHURCH is the people, not the worship building.


1 Corinthians 11:29  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

• The Lord’s Body is everyone who is born again.
• Not just the ones in your clique.
• And to have this kind of attitude is to not be fit to eat the Lord’s supper.
• It does not suit the Lord’s Supper and what it means.
• It is contradicting everything that the Lord’s Supper is all about.
• Everyone who is saved is part of the Lord’s Body, whether you personally like them or not.
• And that is why we should eat the bread and drink the wine together as a congregation, and not scurry into the corner and eat when our clique is ready.

• Think of the fool’s house on sand, and the Corinthians’ wooden, hay and stubble-comprised houses that burned in the fire of God...


1 Corinthians 11:30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

• Is it a coincidence that today is the first Sunday of 2001 and we are studying this subject this morning?
• Is it a coincidence that this year marks the SEVENTH MILLENNIUM since Adam, and the THIRD MILLENNIUM since Jesus?
• A thousand years is likened to one day in the Bible.
• The number seven implies perfection or maturity, and rest.
• The number three implies resurrection

• Its 100 years exactly since the restored Pentecostal revival hit Topeka, Kansas.
• Its time we stopped playing with tongues and gifts of healing and grew up into maturity where we treat one another as the Body of Christ that we are.
• Its time we do our parts for the Kingdom here in this church.
• If you’re not supporting this church in tithes and offerings, its time you started this year.
• Let’s pull together.
• Let’s love one another.
• If you love this church, this congregation,  you will support it spiritually and financially, both.

• Why?  Because love of the Body and of the Lord is the same thing.


Malachi 3:8  Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

• And lack of paying tithes is robbing God.
• Because the CHURCH is Jesus’ body.
• Where our treasure is there will our heart be also.
• We’ll do our part to ensure people find a place to worship God in and grow with true believers when they come here.
• If we believe in what we’re doing here, then we’ll support the work here.
• We’ll do our best to do what we can with whatever gift we have here, and not shirk our ministry because of someone with whom we strive, divide and envy here.

• So if you’re holding out because of a person here, you’re completely mistaken.
• Let God deal with that person.
• You do your part for God and minister.
• EVERYONE IS A MINISTER.

Imagine part of your body hurting and the rest of your body laughing and saying, “That’s just what you deserve.”

• And the rest of the Body hitting it and kicking it.
• Or one part of the body saying, “Let the others help it.  I can’t stand that member.”
• That is nonsense.
• But it happens all over the world in Christ’s body.

• It’s a double portion Christianity.
• Because we learned last week that a double portion is that you are one body with Christ and you died with Him when He died.
• The dual aspect of the cross.
• But today we discover that everyone else who died with Him is part of the BODY OF CHRIST.
• And our union to Him brings a union to each other.
• Communion was not only for recognition of our unions to his death by putting the broken bread into ourselves, as though we apply His death to ourselves, ....
• But it is also a unity with everyone else who is in the Body.
• We eat it together.
• The double portion revelation makes a difference between you and everyone else in the Body of Christ.

• The BODY needs to be together in times when we pray to the Lord around the truths that the sermon ministered to us.
• We’re trying to get you to come together as one body.
• And you should come to the altar everytime we have altar call.