What I Believe: I
© 2018 Christ Revealed Bible InstituteTo believe in Jesus is to see Him as He is. To see Him as He is, is to be just like Him. To be just like Jesus is to be the love of God outpoured.
It’s already true, already complete; the love of God is already poured out in your heart – God is telling you the truth! Your task is not to “accomplish” anything; your task is to believe in Jesus as He fulfills in you every Word that He is.
Let every Word that You speak be fulfilled in me
as the Lord Jesus Christ alive in my heart
and living now as me.
Here is a list of those things I am convinced are essential to knowing Jesus as He is.
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1. The first work of God in a believer’s life is knowing that the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself in Person, lives inside of your heart.
- 1.1 You know the Lord Jesus Christ as He is only as the One who dwells in all that He is in Person inside your heart. You know Jesus only by heart and only through faith.
- 1.2 God’s Heart, ruled by His determination, stands above and directs all that God speaks in the Bible. We are overwhelmed with God’s determination that we would be just like Jesus as Father made known.
- 1.3 Your knowing of God and God made known through you is the completion and fulfillment of all that God speaks and does. It is the age-unfolding life that Jesus gives us.
2. Jesus is every word God speaks. We treat with every word God speaks only as it is the Person of the Lord Jesus.
- 2.1 The Bible can be the Word of God, but only as the words of the Bible enter through your faith and by the Spirit to become Jesus Himself alive in you as every Word God speaks.
- 2.2 Jesus is our Savior and Friend, the One who carries us, the One upon whose breast we always lean our heads, connecting us together with God our Father in every way.
- 2.3 Jesus is the design and pattern of everything that exists, sustaining all things by His good speaking. Jesus, specifically, is our design as humans, fulfilling God’s intentions to work together with us, making all things good, and to reveal Himself to all through us.
3. The second work of God in a believer’s life is knowing the full immersion of the soul into the Holy Spirit, those becoming capable of learning heavenly realities.
- 3.1 As you are immersed into the Holy Spirit, you know the Words written upon your heart as Spirit and Life. Word and Spirit are always entwined together and Personal inside of you.
- 3.2 You eat of Jesus as Bread as you ask God to fulfill in you all that He means by what He speaks and then believe you have received all you ask. Then, having asked and believed, you speak Christ as your own soul, your own story of self.
- 3.3 As you walk in honesty, knowing you are incapable of pleasing God, so you walk in confidence that God Himself is performing all He desires in you. You give thanks in and for all things; Jesus Himself directs your every step, regardless.
4. God is always together with us, filling us with Himself, in the same way that heaven and earth are always together.
- 4.1 Heaven and earth are part of one another, one place together. Heavenly things and earthly things act upon each other continuously. All created things exist only inside the Spirit and the knowing of God. What appears in creation may not look to us like the substance out from which it comes.
- 4.2 God created humans weak for His purposes. – That the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. For that reason, God embeds our human weakness and every particle of our lives inside of His love, rooted and grounded in love.
- 4.3 God created humans to be filled with all of Himself. Man is created to contain God; man is custom made to fit God; man is what God looks like when He appears inside heaven/earth.
5. God is together with His creation, bearing all sin and grief inside Himself and expecting with all faith that Jesus with restore everything.
- 5.1 God is personal, invisible, and symmorphic. That means that God is a Being who reveals Himself through other persons. For that reason, a believer can know God only personally inside him or herself and only through the permission of their faith. Yet God is also the One who carries us through all things.
- 5.2 Sin is falling short of one’s created place. For a believer, that means not abiding in Christ and Christ in them through faith. It means unthankfulness, self-hatred/self-exaltation, pretending to be right, and contempt for others.
- 5.3 God accepts nothing less than all creation restored back to Himself. This is the purpose for which He sent Jesus into us, to share form with us, to make us just like Himself, thus making God visible and known to a creation that does not know God.
6. Christ is our life, every Word fulfilled. We have no other life.
- 6.1 Everything is already finished. God never speaks anything that is not already fulfilled and completed inside Himself. Just as God exists as complete in Himself, so, in the same way, every Word He speaks exists fulfilled.
- 6.2 The Cross is absolute and complete. Every element of the old creation has already perished in totality upon the cross. The cross is our doorway into Christ; the cross is our protector from all sin and death.
- 6.3 Complete and present union with Christ, Jesus living as us, is the only age-unfolding life. The Lord Jesus gives us all that He is inside of all that we are and takes all that we are into Himself as His own.
7. The third work of God in a believer’s life is knowing full union with Christ and thus living inside of God as the Holy of Holies in all boldness.
- 7.1 The Blood removes all consciousness of sins. By the blood, you never see yourself as “fallen short” or “disconnected” from God in any way, ever.
- 7.2 The boldness of a true heart alone takes believers into everything inside of God. An aggressive desire to know and to live inside of God is the only thing that pleases Him.
- 7.3 Believers live only inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of them. This symmorphic relationship is Salvation, now and forever, the only place you live, the place where you BELONG.
8. We then turn around inside the Holiest, in absolute confidence in God, with hearts utterly devoted to Him.
- 8.1 Absolute confidence in God is the only thing that pleases Him, declaring with all certainty that His Word, the Lord Jesus, is true and Personal inside of you and giving thanks in all.
- 8.2 Believers put the Lord Jesus Christ upon themselves entirely through faith, sinking into Him living now as them in every circumstance and moment of their lives.
- 8.3 As Father God is devoted to you, so you also devote yourself utterly to Him, to share His Heart together as your own. And as you are devoted to Father, so you separate yourself from the outward human “glory” of this world.
9. Our hearts are God’s Mercy Seat as we share with Him His love for one another, carrying each one in our hearts.
- 9.1 The essence and meaning of God is Love. Know Father’s Love; live inside of His Love in all confidence; be as you are already, the expression of that Love.
- 9.2 God is travail through you, carrying all things inside Himself, laboring with you over all for their sakes, seeing with you all things good, bearing with you the cost of love, bringing forth His knowledge through you, that all might know Him.
- 9.3 As believers love one another, so they share Hheart with God. Know that you are the Mercy Seat of God, practice being that Mercy Seat, love one another out from your shared Hheart with Father, that is, the Lord Jesus Christ.
10. We see the Church as the Beloved of Jesus, one body and one Spirit together. We commit ourselves to that Church.
- 10.1 Christ is a many-membered body; believers are part of one another. The Church is the end of all salvation, the fullness of Christ, the dwelling place of God forever. Church is Father made known.
- 10.2 Believers live in and by the same One Spirit. We see each other as belonging to each other. We drink of the same Spirit together. We see the entire Church across the earth as one Spirit and one body.
- 10.3 You commit yourself to walk together as one with other believers in Jesus, to love one another, to be together the revelation of Jesus Christ, Father now seen and known.
11. Together we take our place as God’s authority, setting creation free, bringing life to all.
- 11.1 God placed humans as His authority over all. Changing our place never enters God’s mind. We have the authority of God to love one another and to call all things into goodness.
- 11.2 The work of God flows into all creation through humans. God reveals Himself, makes Himself known through us together, and His work is accomplished in creation by the sending forth of the Spirit as a River of Life.
- 11.3 The great task of believers is to set creation free. Our confidence is the first proof of Christ, and our loving one another is the second. As we love one another, so that River of Life flows out into all things, bringing all things into the glorious liberty of our Salvation.
12. We walk together as the full expression that is Christ, casting down every false word and sending forth the Holy Spirit as Rivers.
- 12.1 Believers walk as if already resurrected, just as Jesus walked, by this response to every Word God speaks – Let it be to me. Having no sufficiency in ourselves, we know that God directs our every step in the celebration of victory.
- 12.2 Through humans God proves Christ against all that opposes. The accuser accuses the Word God speaks of falseness; we cast that voice down as the Church together. Jesus proves Himself true as we see Him as He is in one another.
- 12.3 The ministry of Christ is the sending forth of the Holy Spirit to accomplish all that Love desires. That river of the Spirit flowing out from Father and us together will transform everything with the knowledge of God-made-visible.
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To believe in Jesus is to see Him as He is. To see Him as He is, is to be just like Him. To be just like Jesus is to be the love of God outpoured.
– We have NO sufficiency in ourselves –
– My strength comes to full completion only inside of your human weakness. –