~ Total War II

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I am continuing this lesson as the second half of the last. Here is the great War of Words.

Homo-Logia > Anti-Logia
Same-Word is greater than Anti-Word.

Yet we understand that word cannot exist except through and by spirit and that all spirit carries word inside itself. Could you hear me talk if there were no air? And in our world today, what space of air exists that does not contain innumerable words flowing through it in the form of radio and high frequency waves?

Nine Months of Total-War. Concerning the time period of my life, when for nine months I battled all accusation against the speaking of Christ made personal as me, I write this.

– I cannot express overmuch the relentless awfulness that assailed me through all these months, the crying, wailing voices of accusation and despair. Yet none of these voices were on the inside of me, as I had once known them.

My own speaking of Christ my life was on the inside of me and all these voices were outside. They were close, they were all around, but they were NOT me, nor did I ever give them heed, not for one moment.

Ears Closed Against. Now, all these voices were of three larger types of accusation. The strongest in my ears was that I had no right, that I was exalting myself against God.

The second was against Jesus, that these words I was speaking were not actually He in my heart and mouth, that they were just words and that speaking Christ personal as me was gross hypocrisy, for such claims are patently untrue. And the third was against myself, that I am a failure and a loser, that I so fall short of God.

I would not hear them; I kept my ears closed against the screams against me by speaking Christ without fail. Christ is my life; I have no other life. Christ is all there is in me.

Anti-Spirit. We must understand “spirit anointing,” that is, the psychological and emotional hypnosis caused by anti-spirit. This is actually one of the primary purposes of John’s first epistle, to enable us to KNOW the difference between Spirit and anti-spirit and the words that each speaks.

“Antichrist” is NOT a person in the world; anti-Christ is a spirit in the Church. This is absolutely clear in the text.

Here is the truth. – We know that the Son of God IS presently and actively come and has given us an understanding, a through-mind [a spirit-mind capacity], so that we might know [Him who is] the true (1 John 5).

Sounding “True.” When we give ear to the anti-speaking of demons, things SO FAMILIAR to us, our human minds are split apart from that “through-mind-knowing” of the Spirit that enables us to know the true God, our Father.

In that moment, we do not know and cannot hear the words as Christ Jesus our life; rather, they have become “just words” to us and we imagine that speaking them is “hypocrisy,” that God wants to hear “not-Christ” from us. Cast that evil spirit down. Refuse those words. Strike your enemy to the ground.

Anti-spirit causes anti-words to sound “true.”

Violent Words. Consider this line, “They are just words.” Consider this line, “Did God really say that?” Is there a difference? – None at all.

Yet look at the violence in those words, “They are just words.” In one mighty blow, Jesus is driven far away, up there somewhere, coming someday. Jesus is NOT every word God speaks. And you are ON YOUR OWN – loser.

And there, wandering in rebellion and unbelief, screaming against God, we accuse Jesus, “I am so fallen short.”

Driving Jesus Away. First, the evil one, with his “wise” and “true” utterances, drives Jesus away from you, and second, he drives you away from the Salvation of God. This is Satan.

And these claims have been preached by almost every preacher in almost every sermon you have heard in your life.

I continue to be overwhelmed by the discovery, chapter after chapter, that there has been NO randomness in my life, but that every season and every setting has been PERFECT to the intentions of God, and that my life has been a straight-arrow shot right into the target, which is knowing Father-with-us as our continuous life.

Killing All. Consider the enormity of what I did from February to November 2008. (I did not know.)

These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-Basshebeth the Tachmonite, chief among the captains. He was called Adino the Eznite, because he had killed eight hundred men at one time (2 Samuel 23:8).

The Philistines came shouting against [Samson]. Then the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him; and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds broke loose from his hands. He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it (Judges 15:14-15).

“I Don’t Want to Die.” These men were neither giants nor muscle men. They were just ordinary men, no different than you or me.

Now, even though Samson was not mighty in himself, still he boasted in himself rather than in God, thus he is not the best example, though the words here are truth. But David and his mighty men were different. Consider Adino. Why were their 800 enemies dead all around him?

A very simple answer. Because Adino did not want to die. “This man is trying to kill me; I don’t want to die. This man is trying to kill me; I don’t want to die. This man is trying to kill me; I don’t want to die.”

Defining Death. I cannot know, of course, but it would not surprise me at all to discover that every demon that assailed me through these nine months of total war was bound in the mighty chain of John’s vision by my desperate need not to die.

That they are gone from the human experience and cannot return until after the Age of Tabernacles – it would not surprise me at all.

Yet I was nothing more than a desperate man who did not want to remain living in death. What is death? DEATH for me IS – NOT knowing Father with me at home in my heart. That is a DEATH I cannot bear or know.

Stop Speaking Anti-Christ. Every single anti-word carried by every single anti-spirit that assailed me, from the moment I began writing The Jesus Secret on August 6, 2006 until the summer of 2013, came to me for one purpose, to block me from knowing Father with me at home in my heart. – That is, to kill me.

I am not a mighty warrior; I just did not want to die.

At the same time, the critical importance of God placing us into Lakewood Church is increasing in my understanding. So often in the services, I connected with God-speaking inside the Spirit. And Joel taught me to stop speaking anti-word in my mind against myself, and thus against Jesus.

Accusing Jesus – Provoking God. If Jesus Himself has come to you and entered into union with you, taking all that you are into Himself and connecting you utterly with the Father in every moment, THEN – every word you might speak against yourself you ARE speaking AGAINST Jesus.

There is no more vicious accusation against Jesus that we could speak or think than, “I am fallen short of God.” You are accusing Jesus of being a jerk of a “savior,” incapable of doing what God sent Him to you to be. And you are exalting and worshipping yourself in all dishonesty.

The writer of Hebrews calls it “provoking God.”

Not Repentance. Consider those words, “I am fallen short of God.” These are not words of human sorrow or of godly repentance.

The one who says this is boasting in all the arrogance of self, “Look at me, I am independent of God. I have managed to break free from Jesus, and here I am on my own. But I hate myself, that is, I hate the way God made me, and so I will weep over myself, for I really and truly ought to be better. I ought to be like the super-Christ image I hold in my imagination.”

There is no “repentance” in these words, but only self-exaltation. Godly repentance runs with all joy into Jesus.

From Hebrews 3-4. Look carefully, brothers and sisters, lest there would ever be inside any of you an evil heart of unbelief into withdrawing from the living God. But encourage each other every day, while it is called, “Today,” so that not one of you might be hardened by the false impression of falling short. For we have become partakers of Christ – [IF INDEED our confidence, our bold and public speaking of Christ our life and the exultant boasting of our hope] – IF INDEED the source of our substance and assurance we should hold firm until all completion.

As it is said, “Today, If you should hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the provoking.” – Who were those who provoked God even though they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses? With whom, then, was He angry forty years? Was it not those having sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? To whom, then, did He swear that they would not enter into His rest? Was it not those who refused to be persuaded? And so we see that they were not able to enter in through unbelief, that is through the absence of faith.

We should fear, therefore, regarding being left behind of the promise to fully enter into His rest, lest any of you should imagine you have been left out [that is, have not entered]. And indeed, we have had the gospel preached to us just as they did; but the word that they heard did not benefit them, [that word] not having been mixed together in full union with the faith of those who heard.

Since, then, it is reserved for some to enter into that rest, and those who first received the gospel did not enter in because they refused to hear, for that reason, He appoints a certain day, as David said, “Today.” It was a long time after, then, that David said, “Today, if you should hear and comprehend His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

We should be eager, therefore, to enter into that rest, so that no one should fall in the same pattern of refusing to hear. For the Word of God is living and energeoing and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating through as far as the dividing of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and is capable of judging the pondering and purposes of the heart.

Which Image? Look at these two words – “They are just words,” and “I am so fallen short.” What do they do?

They prevent the Word that is Jesus, living and energeoing, from entering into you through your faith to be all that Jesus is in you, as you, and through you. They prevent your being conceived out from God, that is, they kill you dead, placing you under the “anger” of God.

You have to make a decision. – Which image shows us God? Jesus, a Man stumbling under a cross He cannot carry? Or the highest heavenly being, the super-Christ? And then hold to your decision absolutely, regardless.

Turn Around. Holding to your decision absolutely regardless is called faith, the only thing that pleases God. If you could see outward results, it is not faith.

Then, however, having struck down your enemy until that moment when you never again “hear” the voice of evil accusing God, turn around. Turn around and be what you are, Salvation revealed, God through you into your world.

To accept God’s sovereignty in giving thanks, that you ARE what God MEANS, and that Jesus is well able to join the Father with your humanity, is to honor Father and Son. Jesus is already complete through you.

Fight. Now, I think you will find, from the first Christ Our Life letter that I sent out (Our Path Home: Chapter 5. Faith Makes Christ in Me Personal), that I have urged you to FIGHT and that I have taught you everything there is to know about striking down your enemy, that is, demons who HATE you and want you DEAD, that is, never knowing Father with me at home in my heart.

I cannot help those who will not fight for themselves; that is, I cannot make them part of this firstfruits battalion of God.

Yet I think you see in me every evidence that I am not a “strong man.” And I think you see in me every evidence that I don’t want to die.

Jesus in Person. I am beginning to realize that most of our brethren know nothing about believing INTO Jesus, rather, they believe “in” an idea about Jesus that they have in their minds.

Here is the mightiest weapon of victory I have placed into your hands. – Jesus IN PERSON alive in my heart regardless of what I see, feel, or judge (through faith). And here is the second weapon of victory I have given to you. – God is telling me the truth.

Either Jesus is real or He ain’t. There is no other possibility. Jesus as an “idea” of the mind is no Jesus at all. Either God is with us or not. There is no back and forth.

Father in Person. Now, this is our “mightiest” weapon of victory. – Every Word God speaks, every word of the gospel, is Jesus IN PERSON alive in my heart regardless of what I see, feel, or judge (through faith).

But it is not our most important weapon, the deepest bottom line. And I have given you that bottom line of WAR over and over; seize it as your own.

God is a Person, with a Heart, who wants beyond the desire of the universe, to share His Heart with you. All that is Salvation is entirely and only out from God in Person in every moment towards, in, and through you.

Know Yourself. This is the other side of Sun Tzu’s equation. We know our enemy, that he is as “the wizard of Oz,” all smoke and mirrors, but nothing of substance behind the screen.

And we know ourselves, that we are inside of our Father’s Heart, and that He shares all things with us as one together. We know ourselves, that we ARE the words that are first our Father’s thoughts, coming through Voice, that is, the good-speaking of Jesus, to become all that we are. We know Words BECAUSE we ARE words inside of Spirit.

“Just words?” You bet, that is, HUMAN, always coming out from a Personal God filling me with all that He is.

The Sperm of God. Here is Hebrews 1:3 as I have it now in the JSV. This Son is the shining forth of glory and the character and exact reproduction of God’s substance, bringing forth, carrying, and sustaining all by His power-filled word. Having crafted by Himself the full cleansing away of all falling short, He sat down inside the right hand of exalted Majesty.

Power. Power-filled WORD. This is the very Sperm of God by which you are conceived and birthed out from God.

Person – Jesus. Person – Father. Inside of and all around you, sharing all with you for the sake of others. – Turn around.

Turn Around. Turn around! – Turning around IS your VICTORY.

Turning around is the cessation of the evil one ever finding any whining voice of “Oh, sorry me” that he recognizes in us as his own. Turning around is living every moment in the full consciousness of absolute CONNECTION with God. Turning around is now you, a mighty warrior with Jesus, standing in the battle line for all your brothers and sisters.

In full assurance of faith; having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil consciousness; and having our bodies washed with pure water.

Let’s Pray Together. You can know momentary deliverance from all false spirits, as that deliverance comes to you from others. But those voices with their feelings and their words WILL BE BACK. Jesus said that they will be back. And those voices are SO familiar to you. Christ as you alone must strike them down; you alone will be free.

“Lord Jesus, we know that You sustain and carry us every moment by Your power-filled Word. We receive into ourselves all that You speak, all that You are, for we know that those words become You inside of us.

“Lord Jesus, we BELIEVE INTO You!

Teach Us to Fight. “And Lord Jesus, we KNOW that Your mighty words, coming into us through our faith, are the very Seed of God, living and energeoing us. We then hear all the anti-word so familiar to us, spoken by the anti-spirit that wants to keep us bound under unbelief.

“Lord Jesus, we ask that You cause us to KNOW the extreme difference between Your power-filled words and the false and whining voices of evil.

“And Lord Jesus, we ask that You teach us to FIGHT, that You be and You are that Mighty Warrior inside of us, now all that we are, in casting down all that speaks against You.

Be the Strength of Our Hearts. “Lord Jesus, we believe that we have received all that we ask. And in believing into You, we cast all these false words spoken by false spirits out from our heavens.

“We cast down every lying word and every voice speaking against. We refuse. This has no place in us, for only Christ Jesus is inside of us. We refuse.

“And Lord Jesus, be the strength of our hearts, be the skill of our arm, fuse us with Your mighty determination to prove that God is telling us the truth. Be inside of us all striking down of every false word that mocks our Father. Let it be so; it is so.”