BIRTH PANGS

Posted on May 05, 2025 by Joe & Erin Pinto | Comments (0)

"And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues." 1 Corinthians 12:28

You see gifts; I see a womb. You see a government; I see a womb. You see titles, you see callings, you see types of ministries, but I see the structure of a womb that is set up to birth the manifestation of Sons of God. That's every daughter, every son, who submits and decides to be raised by the Body of Christ. The structure is set by this scripture in 1 Corinthians, set by God to birth every son, every daughter, into the full stature and measure of Christ as illustrated in Ephesians 4:13. This is our calling; this is our destiny. Did you think it was to move here and do this? No, that is how God is setting you up for the higher calling, which is actually our calling, our destiny. There's always a higher calling. Something bigger than our personal calling. What's the deep purpose of why I am here? At least what the Bible says it is!

Many are called to the Womb of the Bride, but few will find it. It's one thing to be saved and go to heaven, and it's another thing to be raised up to look like Jesus and manifest Christ on the earth. This is actually the biblical calling of the Body of Christ: to be raised up by the gifts to look like Him, talk like Him, and walk like Him. He was the first living example and prototype of the image that the Bible says we were predestined to walk in before the foundation of the world, which is the image of God (Romans 8:29). This was your first calling before God even made man. You want to know your calling? This is the higher calling. This is actually the calling of man, to become the Temple, to become the Image of the invisible God, like Jesus was. In a time when the image of the beast is rising, we are called to manifest the image of God, which is Christ on the earth in power and demonstration.

See, even Jesus is just a part of the Body. What?! Well, it says He is the Head of the Body, and we being the Body, and with Him, we are the fullness of Christ. It says just as when a man and woman marry, and they become one flesh, so has Christ and the Church become one. We are the completion of Christ as He has first become our completion. How? Well, how can a head be called a body without a body? We are one organism with Him, one living being, one new man in the spiritual realm now. We have all been baptized into one person! There's now no Jew nor Greek. There's now no this one or that one. We are one new "man" in Christ Jesus, one person. You are not only connected to Jesus, the Head, but also connected to every born-again body part around the world, for there is one body, one baptism. Do you know that when we have been baptized into Christ, we have not just been baptized into Christ, the Head, but into His body because His head and His body are one?

We don't realize how connected we are because we look in the flesh. We know each other by the flesh but don't realize we make up one person. Shall the arm say to the hand, I have no need of you, or shall the hand say because I am not the eye, I am not of the body (1 Corinthians 12:15-21)? Everyone has an excuse, but every born-again believer has a part in the Body whether they know it or not, everyone is called to the womb. The purpose of this body is to birth every believer into the manifestation of Sonship. You are a son, but are you walking like one? Are you walking like Jesus? So the world can see His Glory and His image? And when they see Him, they will cry out to Him and be saved. We are His hands and feet on the earth. As He is, so are "we" in this world (1 John 4:17).

Jesus was looking for a place to rest His head, but He could find none because He didn't have a body yet to rest His Head upon. Jesus spoke about spiritual things, but carnal men thought it was physical. Destroy this temple, and in three days, I will raise it up. Their carnal minds thought He was talking about a physical temple, but He was talking about Himself. Now, we are the Temple, the Body in which His Spirit shall dwell. Jesus was crucified, but now He has received a new body, a glorified body! Who is His body? We are. Where is the Glory? John 17 says the same Glory that you give to me, I give to them. See, now the Glory is in the body, in us, and it says we will be glorified together (Romans 8:16-17), not just the head, not just the arm, but the whole body glorified as one new man.

When they went to the upper room, they were filled with the Holy Spirit (the Glory). And He is preparing this body that He has been receiving since then for Glory to be glorified so that He can receive His glorified body. The Bride, the Church without spot or wrinkle, a Glorious Church, a body without spot or blemish, perfected to be crowned with Jesus as its Head, and as we cast our crowns, we receive Him as our crown, our head forever and ever.

Jesus went to the Father, and now, when we become born again, we have ascended with Him in our spirits because it says that we are seated with Christ in heavenly places. We're not just sitting next to Him; we are connected to Him because we are His body! Standing as Him with Him! Eve was in Adam before she was taken out of Him. Now, we are Eve, and Jesus is Adam, and we are being put back into the new Adam, being made one again as Adam and Eve were before they became two; now we and Jesus are one! He is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. Ezekiel prophesying in the valley over the bones was also a prophetic word for the flesh of Jesus to come upon the bones of the Body. It's The Calling for God to come upon mortal flesh, but also us as the bones, the body parts being joined together and becoming one with God, His flesh coming on our bones. As we eat His flesh and drink His blood, you are what you eat. Your blood is not type A, B, Negative, or Positive. It's the Blood of Jesus, and it runs through our veins because we have been born again. We have new blood, new flesh, and a new family. Our old man is dead, who we once were, and who we were one with is now crucified. This life I now live is Christ, but not just Christ, the Head, but Christ, the Body of Christ, because the two are now one. He shed His blood to have us. Now, we give up everything to have Him, but He wants all of us, not just a few of us, but every single part of His body!

There's no more race or creed because anyone in Christ is a new creation. We don't live by the appearance of this outward suit or temple, but instead, we use it as a place for God to dwell and manifest His Glory and nature. That people would see Him and encounter Him, even through our mortal flesh. He will quicken our mortal bodies, and resurrection power will be upon our flesh. Our spirit is saved, but it is the renewing of our heart and our mind and the offering of our body unto God that we give daily, so we can be changed and transformed into His likeness. That's why He sets in the house apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers, pastors, and so on for the raising up of the saints and for the equipping of the ministry. Until we all come unto the full stature and measure of Christ unto a perfect man. The world is waiting and groaning for that perfect man, but not perfect as we know, but that man, that woman, who looks like Jesus and manifests Christ. He is perfection. And that is what these giftings are set and placed in the Church for - to manifest the fullness of Him until we come unto that full stature and measure of Christ unto a perfect man. Perfect, meaning exactly like Him, not a little like Him, not somewhat like Him, but when we imitate Christ, it will be perfect because it will be just like Him! This is what we're called to manifest!

These gifts are for the body, but the Sons and Daughters are for the world that they may see Him in you and be saved. That when He pours out His Spirit on all flesh, it will not just be from heaven, it will come out of your belly. You're not just the fulfillment of Joel (Joel 2:28), but you will be fulfilling Joel every time you pour out the Spirit from your belly. Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. The new wine is in you. When Jesus had the water pots, it was not a miracle to show off. It was a prophetic demonstration of what He was about to do in man, 6 being the number of man. For three years, He filled His disciples with the water of the Word, and on the day of Pentecost, He turned that water into wine and made His words Spirit, revelation, understanding, power, and transformation. That's now what He wants to do in us. As the baby, which is us, sits in the womb of the body, it sits in water. The water of the Word, the sustaining life in the womb of the body. And like the two witnesses, which are the two trees that receive the golden oil from the golden pipes (Zechariah 4:12-14), as a placenta feeds a baby through the cord in the womb, so shall we be fed our daily bread and grow in the womb of the bride, which is the woman with the 12 stars around her head, 12 being the number of the Apostolic, which is the covering of the bride. Jesus, being the chief apostle, covering the body as it continues to carry the baby, the manchild. The Sons and Daughters of God, to be birthed and manifested to the whole world. See Revelation 12:1-2.

See, you have two callings, one to birth the man child, which is every believer into the full stature and measure of Christ. This is your calling as a body part in the Body of Christ. And two, to climb into the womb of the body and be birthed into your destiny, which is really "our" destiny, which is to manifest into what the world is waiting for, which is the manifestation of our sonship. This is the greatest call because this is what every great calling and gift is working towards and leading up to! You might say, "Well, I am a son or daughter." Yes, but you're not fully walking in that yet, but yes, you are it! Jesus was the Messiah from birth, but He needed to be hidden for thirty years to learn who He was and grow in stature and measure to manifest who He was. That's what we're doing now. It's not an overnight thing, but thank God, we have the Body to raise us up and get us there!

Even our ministries are not our own, but it's to administer what the baby in the womb of the bride needs, so that he or she can be birthed and manifested into the manifestation of who they are. The bride's womb is for every son and daughter to climb into, to be birthed into the greatest calling, which is to be a son or daughter. Wow, you're a prophet; wow, you're this, you're that. Yet that's not the higher calling. The greatest calling is to be a son. That's what Jesus manifested. He didn't come as this or that; He came as the only Son of God at the time. His greatest office was Sonship; although He's an apostle, He's a shepherd, but His greatest manifestation was His Sonship because it always led back to the Father, not to Himself, although He was God. The world is not waiting for sons and daughters. They are waiting for the "manifestation" of the sons and daughters. A son or a daughter is who you are in the Spirit, but God wants you to manifest this divine nature on the Earth. What does it look like to be a son or daughter? Jesus was it! That's why we look to Him. That's who we're being birthed to be like. We already have the picture. We already have the words, but now we need the mind, the nature. We need to make it flesh and make it who we are in the natural, not just in the Spirit. We want the supernatural to become natural. We have His divine nature to become 2nd nature, but really, first nature, because this is who we were always meant to be until the fall of man corrupted our nature. The fall of man was the 2nd nature. Man's first nature was divine. Then the fall. Now we need to shed off what is actually 2nd and connect to our first nature that was ours in the garden.

The Bride is the Church, and the man child is the birthing of the full stature of Christ in every believer. If you have a gift, you are a part of the womb, but although you are called to help birth sons and daughters, you also need to get in this womb yourself and become a son or daughter, not just in name but in power, demonstration, and character. The Bride and Bridegroom are having a baby, and it's you and me. There are twins in the womb because we are identical; you are going to look like Him, and I am going to look like Him, and we will look like each other. The Bride, the Gifts, the Womb, is going to give birth to this manifestation of our identity. We're going to walk like Him, talk like Him, and do the same works as Him, but we need to get in the womb. A maverick can't be birthed into a son. Only those who are joined to the Bridegroom and in the womb of the Bride will manifest Christ. The Bride shall know the Bridegroom, and what shall come forth shall be one new man in Christ Jesus. One person, one body, with one Head. And together, we make Christ on the earth. No male nor female, just Jesus.

You have to know who you are! You are Christ on the earth! As He is, so are you. If you don't know that, then you don't know why you're here! We have one calling now as one organism. It's not your calling, it's not your destiny; it's now our calling, our destiny, and the world is waiting for it! Until we "all" come unto this place and this unity of the faith. We need to become one and be joined together and fulfill our destiny. We cannot be individuals anymore; we are one. That's why it says do not forsake the assembling of the saints, because we're actually forsaking the assembling of the body parts of Jesus and hindering Him from having His fullness on the earth. Your life is not your own anymore. What you do and don't do affects Jesus and His body because you have been baptized into it. We all have been baptized into "one" baptism. Some are becoming a limp body part and making the body walk with a limp because they don't want to become a limb for the body, because they want to be the whole package! You cannot be the fullness of Jesus by yourself! Jesus has many parts of Himself, and we can't have all of Him without being joined to all of them now. Humble yourself and submit yourself to the greater vision and purpose. Your life is not about you; it's about Christ, the body of Christ, from the Head down. This is now your life. This is His vision for your life. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, and He will exalt and manifest you into His dream and purpose for Himself! This is why the body is groaning. It says in Romans that even we ourselves groan, but we are also groaning to become like Him, birth pangs, a groaning in all those who are birthing and being birthed. There's a fire that is burning; there's a baby that is churning in the womb. Think it not strange that such a fiery trial shall come upon as if it were some strange thing that happened to you, but rejoice that you are a partaker in the sufferings of Christ because it is to test you, mold you, shape you, and remake you into the image that you are called to. It's the birthing you are going through. Don't fight against the grain of the womb because the pain is the contractions of the Bride, birthing, pushing, and thrusting forth the Manchild, the Sons, and the Daughters into the earth. It's every child in the womb, in the body, that submits to one another in reverence for Christ, but also in reverence for what God is trying to do in them. Don't fight the Fire, don't fight the Body, don't resist the birth pangs because when the baby is born, it will be all worth it all, and the price you have paid to endure the crushing, endure the trials, the tribulation, and the dying will seem as a small price to pay. For the sufferings of this present world are nothing to be compared to the Glory that is to be revealed in us...

BIRTH PANGS

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