Taking Our Authority

© 2019 Daniel Yordy

A change of direction has been slowly arising inside of me, likely beginning with the discovery, while writing Chapter 18 “To Overcome” in The River of Life in March of this year, of the direct connection between the seven expressions of overcoming and the removal of the seven seals. I knew something had shifted after completing that chapter, and the meaning of that shift grew as I wrote the remaining chapters of that book along with Set My People Free at the same time.

When I finished Set My People Free at the end of May, a first sense of completion came to me. I kept my blinders on towards it, however, until I had finished The River of Life now, in August. At that point I became fully aware of a deep sense of completion, that I have finished this present task God has given to me.

More than that, every page I work on in The Jesus Secret II reinforces and expands mightily that deep sense of completion.

As I sit in the glory and wonder of my present knowing of the full Salvation inside of which I live, I realize that this Salvation is now complete in my understanding, filled with all that God speaks in the New Testament. Everything fits together, nothing God is and nothing God speaks is left out or twisted in the serpent’s directions.

Of course, since I am a writer, another book has arisen in my interest inside this present knowing of our glorious Salvation, a book that must be titled “A Glorious Salvation,” and which will follow Set My People Free as the third of three. This new book will attempt a simple and deeply meaningful definition and explanation of each element of what Salvation really is and really means, similar to my approach in Symmorphy II: Essence.

But that is just me having fun; that is not the change of direction.

The change of direction is our ministry towards God’s Church.

You and I are sent of God to His Church in this present time; that means “apostle.”

Now, this sending must become deep and real inside of me, personally, as it has done.
Nonetheless, I have no interest in setting myself up as anything, but rather us together as the normal ministry of Christ towards all creation. You also must know this sending deep and real inside of you personally, not as a solitary individual, but as us together, that which is normal to Christ your life.

Here, then, is my confession of faith.

I am sent of God to His Church with the Word of Christ, our glorious Salvation. I am set by God towards His Church to call each one out of darkness and into the glorious liberty inside of which they already live.

I possess the all-authority of God. I have the authority from God to love and to set forth my soul for the sake of many. I have the authority from God to direct all my Christian brethren, as many as belong to Jesus in this present hour, into the path of pure and intrinsic goodness.

Now, I could say these words until I am blue in the face; nonetheless, I require a number of things to be absolutely real inside of me before I could ever act on this authority.

In the recent letter, “The Demonstration of Spirit,” I described that power that prepares the soil to receive the seed of God. Only when I read through that chapter in proofing the final book did I realize that I had placed the primary cause of preparedness on the one speaking the word, not the one hearing the word. Of truth, that was my own experience.

There was something in Sam Fife, the apostolic ministry of the fellowship of Christian communities in which I had become involved, in spite of all his flaws and partial understandings, that awakened desire inside of me, along with that same desire awakening in many. But something else began to happen inside of me from the very first moment that I slammed the “off” button on the tape recorder the very first time I heard him speaking on a tape.

From that moment on, I became deeply, deeply distressed about the Word God speaks. – What does God actually say in the Bible? This was an autistic agony of immeasurable proportions. Up until that moment, I had studied the Bible because I wanted to learn of God and of the power and meaning of the Christian life. From that moment on, I KNEW that someone was misrepresenting what God says in the Bible.

Of course, I knew that “someone” had to be Sam Fife. And so I opened my Bible to prove him wrong. The fact that the words God actually speaks in the New Testament proved Sam Fife right turned me completely inside out.

I was 20 years old when this deep distress, this overwhelming desperation to know what God actually says in His word to me, began. When I wrote and spoke into audio the prayer of deliverance in “Placing Revelation 12,” it was exactly 42 years later.

As I completed The River of Life, that great agony came to its perfect rest.

What is that rest? That rest is that now I KNOW that when I say, “This is what God says in His word to us,” I am not lying.

But let me back up a bit from that moment, in April of 1977, when this agony was birthed fully in me. In fact, I had seen its face the summer before when I visited some Christian friends in Portland, Oregon. We went with them one evening to a public park where some were “preaching the gospel.” A young man got up on a little pedestal and began haranguing the people passing by, “You are sinners, you need to repent and turn to God.” A young woman sauntered up to him and said, “I love sin.”

I was seated with some others just behind this young “evangelist.” As he began speaking, everything went haywire inside of me. I KNEW that his words were NOT Christ, though I did not know what Christ might be. His false face towards these non-Christians caused such distress in me that the brother sitting next to me had to calm me down.

This was a one-time experience, but it was part of God’s laying the groundwork in me for that great distress that would become the definition of 42 years of my life when I first listened to Sam Fife several months later.

Now, these things will certainly show up again through the next few chapters of my autobiography. I am including them here in order to show you the extent and meaning of this word “completion” in my present knowing.

I CANNOT run with a message I do not understand. I cannot present a “gospel” to anyone that is not what God actually says. But how on earth do “I” know what God actually says, let alone what He means by those words. I cannot be a confidence trickster. I cannot pretend that I “know what its all about,” when I KNOW that I don’t.

And when I show some preacher what God actually says in the New Testament, I see the hardness of the forehead and the dishonesty of the heart out from which his words of dismissal come, and I cannot say anything, I am so stunned. I have never been able to stand in the face of such human pretense.

I now know what God says in the New Testament. I know what God means by what He says. I know the Jesus who is written as Spirit Word all through my heart. I know my Father with me in all things. I know the glorious Salvation in which I live together with you.

Finally, after finishing Set My People Free and The River of Life, I now have something to say. Even more than that, The Jesus Secret II is unveiling the glorious power of the New Testament as it has never been unveiled before.

That is one side of things for me, the authority of the Word, but there is another side that is of equal importance, and that is the authority of the Spirit. Consider these verses from David alongside of one statement of faith from 2 Corinthians 4.

Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle—my lovingkindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and the One in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me. Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Flash forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Your arrows and destroy them. Stretch out Your hand from above; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks lying words, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood… Rescue me and deliver me… (Psalms 144:1-8 & 11).

And then, from 2 Corinthians 4, – I make the truth visible; I establish myself towards all as the face and presence of God. I do not proclaim myself, but Christ Jesus; I shine forth the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, the image of God.

The key line for me right now in David’s words is this – “God subdues my people under me.” Let’s look at the other things David says before I try to explain what this line means to me.

First, David sets forth the spiritual human gift of warfare in the heavens against heavenly evil as a discipline in which we must be trained and practiced. This line – God “teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight” has been a ruling line inside of me for over thirty years. I have taught you to exercise that gift as much as I am able outside of Christian Community. Then, after stating the incredible authority God gave to him, David places himself in the same way Paul did – What is man? – We have this treasure in an earthen vessel that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.

Then the next few lines are David’s description of the action of the Lord Jesus towards us upon the cross. “From above,” in God’s definition, always means “He humbled Himself.” But in the last words of this piece, David expresses something that is deeply distressing to him, something he agonizes over through many of his Psalms. That is the speaking of lies and falsehood.

Most people are willing to live inside of lies and falsehood; most preachers are willing to contradict what God says, having figured out something “better.”

Nothing causes me greater distress.

Several years ago, when our children were still of an age to attend Sunday School, we visited a nearby Spirit-filled “Grace” church where some friends attended. This was the Sunday for rallying the congregation towards particular service needs in the church. The pastor used a passage from one of the gospels, verses filled with wondrous truth of Christ, EXCEPT he twisted the words perversely so that he might use them to beat God’s people over the head and to shame them into doing more “Christian activity” for the church programs. His act of twisting God’s word for his own power agenda, his own version of “subdue my people under me,” filled me with overwhelming horror. As soon as the service was finished I rushed over to the area where my children were coming out of the Sunday school and got us into our car and out of there as quickly as I could. To this day I feel as if I rescued my family out from a great pit of evil.

It’s not that those brothers and sisters did not belong to Jesus; they do. It’s that using the words of the Bible for falsehood and speaking lies in order to abuse God’s people for self-importance is an awfulness to me beyond what I can bear.

Oh my God, rescue me and deliver me from lying words and falsehood!

You can understand the high barrier set in me against God, that I would never accept being “sent” by Him except He has removed from me all falseness and that there be no guile in my heart or in my mouth. This is and has been an irrevocable requirement.

I now know what the authority of God is all about; it is the authority to Love, not of ourselves, but God in us.

The reason the two Thessalonians should be the first epistles after the book of Acts is how powerfully they establish the reader into the Lord Jesus and into a love relationship with other believers. If you have not had the chance to download and print out your own copy of Thessalonians, here is the link. https://christrevealed.info/secret/jesus-secret2

Be sure to read through pages 35-36 of the present rough draft, that is, “All Christians Are My Glory And Joy.” In particular is the prayer inside of “Ask and Believe” followed by “I am falling in love with the Church.” Embracing this reality of Jesus in us with all our hearts is the ONLY foundation of any true authority of God.

But this knowledge is also tempered, then, by our knowledge of our Father, that He is meek and lowly of heart and that He never forces His knowledge on anyone. There are no strings attached, no manipulation or binding to one’s self. The Spirit of God is always setting everyone free. Jesus wins hearts only by love.

Nonetheless, there is an authority that we possess by which we have the right to direct the hearts of those who belong to Jesus into the knowledge of God. That authority has a massive effect on the power of the Spirit operating in the heavens by which people’s lives are turned right side up in a moment. We have the authority to direct the power of God, the authority to love.

And so, I come around to what David’s words mean to me – “God subdues my people under me.”

This, to me, is the authority of a teacher in a classroom. As a college teacher of writing, when my students entered my classroom, they were “under” my authority. That “authority,” then, is very specific, focused, and limited. I have zero authority over their lives or what they do outside of my classroom, nor do I want any such false authority. Some college teachers get excited about punishing these adult students for the exigencies of life that intervene to make them late on occasion to class or with getting an assignment done. I respected my students too much to treat them in that way.

But I did have authority over two things in my students’ lives. I had authority over what they did in their time in my classroom, and I had authority over their writing as far as my assignments were concerned. As a teacher, inside the perimeters of my classroom, I took that full authority with purpose. With great intensity and by good design, I altered how my students wrote. I made them more effective writers. Once they left my classroom, although they were free of me, still the skills of writing I had planted in them would govern how they wrote for the rest of their lives.

Now, on my own, I am unable to secure the students for my classroom. If there were not a “school” of some sort placing students in front of me inside my classroom, I could not teach. Nonetheless, this authority also is given to educators, the authority to gather together those who desire to learn.

This is the authority of an apostolic ministry. In fact, it is the only authority given to anyone inside the Church, that is, towards other people. We also have the authority over the heavens and the earth, that they might release their abundance to God’s people, but that authority does not manipulate either humans or angels, it is an authority over non-sentient substances in both heaven and earth. (Even the winds and the sea obey Him.)

So, let’s translate this “educator” authority into the ministry of Christ.

Up until this present time of completion, I have not had, inside of me, any sense of authority to gather brethren together in fellowship. That sense of authority has come, now, inside of this completion. That authority has come because God has overcome in me the two barriers of my unwillingness to lie and my unwillingness to control.

God overcame my unwillingness to lie by causing me to know His Word in fullness and in truth. You have to know just how big of a deal it is for me that the seals and the vials of Revelation have entered into my knowledge of Christ my life. There are no more holes.

And God overcame my unwillingness to control by showing me, in practical reality, that His love shed abroad in our hearts towards one another is all that we need. We don’t need human emotions in order to KNOW that such love defines us. Human emotions certainly follow Love, but they can never lead it.

And this is why you need 1 Corinthians from The Jesus Secret II. You can get a copy here. https://christrevealed.info/secret/jesus-secret2

You can see that Father Love is the primary purpose of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, and that Father love must be sandwiched into practical reality, which is the demonstration of the Spirit inside the gathering together of the one body of Christ. It is of utmost importance to you to speak out loud the box titled “Speak Love,” on page 66 of the rough draft. This speaking is then followed immediately by – “In The Gathering Of Church, I Give What God Has Given Me.”

You see, God is very clever. When you signed up to know Jesus, you were also signing up to go to Church, even though you did not realize that right away. This is not deceitful on God’s part, for He never forces anything on anyone. Christ is, however, a complete package, and that complete package, that is, the fullness of Christ, is the Church.

Here is the first authority, then, that I now posses inside the arena of “education.” It is the authority to gather students together into my classroom.

All that the Father gives Me will come towards Me, and the one coming towards Me, I will not cast out (John 7:37). – I made Your name clear and visible to the men whom You have given me out of the world. They were Yours {in the first place}, and You gave them to Me … – Concerning them I am praying… those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours (John 17:6 & 9).

It is not a common thing to stretch one’s heart out over all whom the Father has given to Jesus all across this earth and all through the heavens. Few embrace all who call upon the name of Jesus in some way, regardless. There are few who are truly apostolic.

If you belong to the Father, if the Father gave you to Jesus, then I have the authority from God to call you into my classroom – whosoever will.

But I could never have done so except I were now certain that it is Father waiting for you, here with me in my classroom, that you might know Him alone. I cannot call you to myself, but I can call you to Father with me.

Then, here inside my classroom, since my subject matter is Christ, that is, your speaking Christ made personal as and through you, then, inside my classroom only, I take authority over the words that you speak, that I might show you to speak Christ and not cursing, to know Jesus and not some “super-Christ,” to comfort and encourage others as they are rather then to manipulate them by some pre-conceived image.

And I have the authority to cause you to know the Father and to know Jesus Sent into you.
Father the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son might glorify You. As You gave Him authority over all flesh, that He should give age-unfolding life to all whom You have given Him. For this is age-unfolding life, that they should know You, the One true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent (John 17:1-2).

But then, remarkably, there is another arena in which I am comfortable taking authority, and that is the construction of a house. And thus, in conjunction with my authority as a teacher, I also have the authority to build you together with others as the dwelling place of God.

I have the authority to establish Communities of Christ, teaching communities.

Inside the present completion, I am finally able to take that authority, and I intend to do so.

You see, I have Sam Fife as my example. He began preaching community in 1970 to 71, by August of 1972, somewhere around 2000 people had sold everything, moved into wilderness places, and committed their lives to Christian community. It was glorious, AND it was horrific.

Probably 90% of them would now call it the worst mistake of their lives.

Why? Because the word Sam Fife preached was not complete. He ran with a word he did not understand. Yet he also possessed an anointing of authority in power.

This is why God has turned away from all who are capable and chosen those who are incapable, you and me, that the excellency of the power would be Father and not an empty super-Christ that does not exist.

I cannot be found leading God’s people into ruin and loss.

The only possible way that I could direct you or anyone into my classroom or into a Community of Christ is if I were certain with all certainty that you would know Father there, the God of the Mercy Seat, the God who carries all.

And how is it that I can be certain of such a thing? It is because I have committed myself with all commitment to BE God’s Mercy Seat towards you, to set forth my soul so that you and Father might meet together, completely free of me.

Now, I have shared all this as the foundation to set before you the next small step as we walk forward with Father for the sake of His Church all across this earth.

A brother introduced me to www.zoom.us, a website through which people can meet together as a group face to face. I intend to start having a Sunday “service” each Sunday with those of my readers who wish to join with us. This will be a semi-formal time, like a classroom, with teaching, asking of questions, and sharing. I suspect there can even be breakout small-group discussions after which we return to the larger sharing group, just like a college classroom. I also hope to sing praises together, that’s something I am already working towards, as well as pray together, the prayers that I have written. I’m much better at writing prayers than at speaking them spontaneously.

I have put together the prayers from The River of Life into a PDF document. You can find that here.  https://christrevealed.info/river-of-life/start We will pray these and other prayers together. We sing praises together because Word requires hearts prepared by the Spirit in order to bring forth its Life.

Now, I will explain these things more completely in a second letter. In order to know how this works, before I open it to many, I am working with several across the planet in order to work out the bugs and to become familiar with this whole process. That way, when I open it to many, you will find a relaxed and comfortable environment in which to learn and to fellowship.

It is an extraordinary thing that I would be able to do this as an Asperger’s man. The reason is that I KNOW that I am utterly inside of my Father and that, regardless, I am nowhere else.

To enjoy these gatherings fully, you will need a webcam with your computer, preferably. You will be able to connect with a smartphone as well. If you need one, you can get an inexpensive webcam from Amazon. https://amzn.to/2ZfV3FX Then, here is the one I have. https://amzn.to/2Zarohq This gives you time to have your webcam working on your computer.

I will explain more fully in a later letter.