18.2 The Veil - His Flesh
© 2015 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
We have defined the Holiest as living in complete symmorphy with the Father, two persons, living together as one in all ways, sharing the same form, sharing sweet communion.
Yet I have placed John 14:20 last, as the “tenth” most important verse because I want it to sit on top of all that has come before and thus become both the foundation and the capstone of the entirety of our lives. Know that I am in the Father and you in Me and I in you. These words are the clearest expression of the Holiest that there is; they are the source of every lesson in this course.
In this lesson and the next, I want to help you commit your greatest act of piracy – taking the flesh into John 14:20.
The Veil or the Way?
Having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh (Hebrews 10:19-20).
In looking at the Greek words, we raised the question: Does “His flesh” refer to the veil or does it refer to the living way through the veil? You see, “which He consecrated for us” is in the wrong place. Having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus consecrating for us a new and living way through the veil, that is, His flesh. The claims of Jesus in John Chapter 6 allow us to say that the new and living way through the veil IS His flesh.
The Stumbling Stone
It is true that the flesh operates as the veil preventing everyone from entering the Holy of Holies. The flesh is the great stumbling stone. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone. As it is written: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, and whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame” (Romans 9:32b-33).
How can the Messiah be a man of flesh? How can flesh live inside of God and God inside of flesh? And whoever falls on this stone will be broken (that’s us); but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder (that’s not us) (Matthew 21:44).
Our Flesh or His
The problem of the flesh and its solution are very simple. The flesh is NOT the veil to us, as it is to so many. The flesh is the Way through the veil.
Here is the difference. The flesh can be our flesh – the veil, or it can be His flesh – the Way through the veil. Either the flesh belongs to us and is our responsibility, thus ever keeping us out (and “going to” heaven does not actually rid anyone of their problem). Or the flesh belongs to Jesus and is His responsibility, and He carries us through. Desire is a simple thing: all we do is say, “Yes, Lord, let it be to me according to Your word.”
Am I Entering In?
But it is true that when we consider the entire meaning of entering in and the power of this sixth most important verse in the Bible, we tend to get anxious. “Am I entering in?”
Entering in is abiding in Jesus as our only life in pure and perfect rest, but it also includes our bodies being swallowed up in resurrection life. Thus the verse that says “In full assurance of faith,” also, at the same time, becomes the one thing that causes us to see ourselves, momentarily, separate from Jesus. Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it (Hebrews 4:1).
Because of the Cross
And again: Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. (Hebrews 4:11). The King James says: Strive to enter rest, a complete paradox. This is why we place this most critical verse here, after the cross and before the real jeopardy verse: We are partakers of Christ IF, a verse that restores our confidence fully (another paradox).
You see, the cross is always setting us free from our “self” – Christ I have been crucified with – always allowing us to let Jesus be our/His through-the-veil flesh. Because of the cross and because of the blood, we are free, not just to enter, but to dance our way into the Holiest.
Do Not Be Afraid
I see a consistent thread in the responses of readers. They are afraid to take their flesh into the Holiest; they are afraid to call their selfish misery “Christ.” They want to live in all the fullness of Christ with all their hearts, but they are troubled by this word Jesus used: “you.” You in Me and I in you. Does “you” refer just to part of me, or does “you” include every instance of my selfish misery?
May I open your heart, if you would be so kind, along with the writer of Hebrews, to the possibility of utter piracy? Do not be afraid. – Having BOLDNESS to enter.
Gethsemane
Let’s look back again at Gethsemane. Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Hebrews 5:7-9).
If you and I have to do something like this about our “flesh,” then we have no hope; we are complete failures. We become pirates because that is the only way left for us. Jesus commanded us, “Believe in Me – abide in Me.”
His Flesh
Jesus in the Today of His flesh is our only Way into life. Our flesh IS His flesh; it is our Way through the veil.
Jesus drank us into Himself, into His own prayers and supplications, into His own vehement cries and tears, into His own suffering and obedience. We drink Jesus into ourselves by the simple acceptance that our flesh is His, that He has taken upon His broad shoulders the task of living our flesh through the suffering of our circumstances into all the expression of the Father.
Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body (2 Corinthians 4:10).
Eating His Flesh
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. (John 6:56-57).
Let us eat His flesh. “Lord Jesus, this flesh, with all of its awfulness, is not my flesh, it is Yours. This selfishness is Yours, these perverted feelings are Yours, this propensity to do the wrong thing is Yours. Jesus, this shame is Your shame. This flesh is Your flesh. This weakness is Your weakness. This sin is Your sin. Jesus, You have become me. I am Your flesh. I am the cup and the dregs which You have drunk.”
Our Scapegoat
A newly sacrificed AND living Way through the veil. As we allow Jesus to be our scapegoat, we enter in: our Scapegoat who has become all of our sin and our flesh.
– Shout these words at the top of your lungs:
“There is no part of Jesus that is not found in me; there is no part of me not found in Jesus, including my sin and my shame. There is no part of me not filled with Jesus Himself in Person; there is no part of Jesus in which I am not found.”
These words are your freedom of speech, your boldness to enter, your Rock and Salvation, your life and your joy. Shout them forevermore!
Hearts Sprinkled
Seeing … Jesus … let us hold fast our confession – For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (Hebrews 4:14 & 2 Corinthians 5:21). As you allow Jesus to be your sin and all of your sinfulness, your Way into the Holiest, you become His righteousness.
Let us flee from the Christian evil of calling the flesh, “Mine.” Let us boldly enter into the knowledge of full symmorphy with God now, without claiming our continuing mistakes and selfishness to be our own. Hearts sprinkled from an evil consciousness – no more consciousness of sins.
Knowing Together With
If our hearts are sprinkled FROM an evil consciousness, then they are also sprinkled TO a pure consciousness. Consciousness – Suneidésis: (From sýn, "together with" and eídō "to know, to see") – properly, joint-knowing.
The entire “problem” of the flesh is the “knowing together with.” KNOWING together with whom? The good speaking of Christ? Or the accusation of the evil one? Believing accusation causes the works of the flesh. Acknowledging the good things of Christ in us causes the works of the Spirit. The entire difference is hearts sprinkled.
Vessels of Flesh
Our Salvation is based on the premise that Jesus is real, that He lives in our hearts, and that it is He who transforms us from the inside out – but only as we believe and abide in Him.
As we recognize accusation for what it is, we use every instance of accusation as an excuse to see Jesus alone and to remember that we do abide only in Him. And as the accusation fades away, so does the propensity to act in “fleshy” ways. Still, we never claim them as our own.
It is only as we live in the full knowledge that God fills us full and reveals Himself through us now – as we ARE in these vessels of flesh – that all that is not vanishes away. The Word becomes flesh and lives as us.
Pure Rest
“Lord Jesus, You have the strength to drink me into Yourself. You have the strength to become my sin. You have the strength to become me and to live me all the way through the darkness into life. Lord Jesus, I accept You as the only life I am.” And every time I do stupid things, I leave them entirely inside of You. I walk only in You; I walk in pure and perfect rest.”
Our job is not to transform ourselves. Our job is to know Jesus, the only life we are.
We live in pure rest; we live in the Holiest. We remain in Jesus and He remains in us.