11. God Knows Me

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Before writing anything here, I found “Christ the Thief” in The River of Life and read it. Now I’m all excited, for what I wrote there fits exactly what I want to build towards here. That chapter now shapes the Jesus Secret page, and so I will give the layout before we even start.

We begin with “Ask and Believe” – for white garments, that is, no sufficiency in self, followed by the statements of faith. The next box will be “Seven Spirits – Seven Stars,” followed by “Christ the Thief.” In preparing for that box, we will consider the seven laws of the Kingdom. The final box will be the largest, titled “God Knows My Name.”

Our Identity. In these three central letters to Pergamum, Thyatira, and now Sardis, God is establishing us utterly inside of Himself as His authority in heaven-earth, even while contending with us at a deeper and more personal level than He ever has.

This contention of God with us is concerning our identity. The “white garment” is our identity – Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the meaning to us of our present outward appearance, our persona, that person which we “wear.” We can be God’s authority, Christ as thief through us, “stealing” back from evil all that belongs to us, ONLY as we are utterly rooted and grounded inside of Love. We can have no sufficiency in any false self.

The Issue. God has brought us out from the ‘gospel’ of death and its false issue and given us full clarity concerning that falseness. The “issue” of good versus evil is that sin is our source and our war is against ourselves. The real issue, of life versus death, is that the good-speaking of Jesus is our source and our war is against false spirits offering to us identities not-Christ, that is, stain on our garments, the mixture of Christ our life and pretending.

The issue of death is a sin identity and the issue of life is a Christ identity (gentle and lowly of heart) and the vomit of “lukewarmness” is the incredible attempt to have both.

Out from Meaning. God’s first action towards us was to nail our ear to Christ, that we would hear Jesus alone as the meaning of every moment of our lives. And then, the hidden manna, our own personal knowing of God with us, brings every moment we have lived, into God and goodness for the sake of others. Then, out from that MEANING, God showed us how false spirits have anointed various aspects of the false stories we have spun concerning ourselves.

In essence, God made Christ our ALL, first, and then He put His finger upon any not-Christ remaining in our identities. Now He wants a simple white garment, our identity as Christ alone.

His All-Sufficiency. Now, when we say “an identity that is Christ alone,” we are referring to nothing that is “super.” Rather, we look only to that one time and place where God showed Himself as He is – a Man on His face in the mud under a cross He cannot carry, carrying us, carried by Father, all the way through death and into life.

This is our identity. This is God’s identity.

Purity is nothing of ourselves; purity is being clothed with Jesus alone, trusting utterly in His All-Sufficiency, with no need for any human spin of self. Being clothed in white is being clothed with openness and honesty, rejoicing in our human weakness filled with God.

Search Me, O God. In our great need to be clothed with Christ Jesus alone, we do not look outward at what others might do or not do. We look into ourselves, as David did. David is likely the most emotional man in the Bible. God put him at the Bible’s center for us to know how we approach God – like David did.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any [false story of self] in me, and lead me in [Jesus my only identity] (Psalm 139).

We never imagine that we know ourselves. God knows us and our anxieties. He alone must show us our false spin, and He alone leads us in Jesus our only life.

Ask and Believe. Lord Jesus, You say that You are all there is in me in my consciousness of self before You remove whatever contradicts You and Your love through me. Lord Jesus, You say that by Yourself You remove all offence from me even as I see You alone. Knowing that You are my only life, Lord Jesus, I ask that You search out any way in which I might still rely on the anointing of demons in my thoughts and actions. I stand in open honesty, Lord Jesus, knowing that You are faithful and remove from me all that is not You. Even now, it is so.

The Enflowing of Word. I possess the full outflow of the Spirit of God and His ministry to the Church. I am enclothed with purity; I walk with Jesus in all truth. My brethren are of great value to me. I prove Christ true in the fulness of times. Today, salvation comes through me. I am enclothed in the purity of Jesus. I come always out from God’s Pro-Knowing through the good-speaking of Jesus. God knows me. The heavenly realms know my name. I overcome. I hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.

How Do We Rule? These things says the One who possesses the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars.

How do we rule? What are the mechanisms of power and influence? How does Kingdom governance operate? The beast, that is, all human government from Cain until today, rules by fear and violence. People obey out from fear, and violence is directed towards those who do not obey. The ‘gospel’ of death brings this horrifying mechanism into “God” and “the kingdom.” How do love and liberty accomplish God’s desires? How do love and liberty bring people into alignment with good?

Fields of Influence. I want you to watch this Thunderbolts Project video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ez6KJWL_-NU. It is 20 minutes long, watch at least half. What I want you to see is how electrical phenomena, the existence of everything in the natural, operates as resonance, as patterns, as fields of influence.

The realms of the heavens operate in the same way. Yet more than that, these operations of influence and power come out from the Spirit of God, how the Spirit operates. Then we see that these operations of the Spirit are structured and defined arenas of resonance and influence.

The Fulness of Times. This is how we think about the Kingdom of God.

These things says the One who possesses the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. – Seven is a metaphor of completion. The principle of completion that we are equating with this overcoming is “the fulness of times.” Here is the ruling verse in the Bible concerning the fulness of times. – NOW have come the salvation, the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down (Revelation 12:10).

The Eyes of the Lord. I feel to bring in several verses concerning the “seven Spirits of God.” Let’s just plant them in our hearts.

The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2).

‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts. – For these seven rejoice to see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord, which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth (Zechariah 4).

Governing Influence. Seven lamps of fire burned inside the presence of the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God (Revelation 4:5).

And I saw… a Lamb standing, set and appointed, a Lamb who was slain, but now possesses seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent [apostled] into all the earth (Revelation 5:6).

“Father, let Your words become our life and our knowing.”

Now let’s look at the “seven stars” in terms of the arenas of influence and power that constitute Kingdom governance. A “star” in this context is the governing influence inside of a local church – moving out into all things nearby.

The Spirituals. Here is how Paul describes this same thing in 1 Corinthians 12. – Now, concerning the spirituals, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. – There are many varieties of graces or spirit gifts, but the same Spirit, and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord. There are varieties of operations, that is, effects of Energeia, but the same God who energeoes all inside of all.

Use the concepts from the Thunderbolts video as a means of picturing and understanding these things. My purpose is to establish in our minds a way of thinking about reality, about the flows of power and influence in the heavens, in a living and non-mechanical manner.

Seven Laws. I have redesigned a section of Symmorphy VII: Completion just a bit to become the seven laws of Kingdom building and the twelve patterns of Kingdom design.

I want to connect the seven laws of Kingdom building with the seven stars of Kingdom influence and governance in our right hand. Three of these laws are stated in the New Testament, the laws of liberty, love, and life; the others are clear in the text.

We begin with the law of knowing Love at the center of our circle. Then the entrance is the law of giving thanks, that is, the eucharist, bringing Jesus into our minds.

Our Diagram Again. Thanksgiving energeoes through Love to see and receive completion. The law of the Spirit of Life, our essence, energeoes through Love to become the law of Reciprocity, the means of accomplishment. Then the law of Covenant Connection energeoes through Love to become the condition of liberty, free to be human.

These are the arenas of power.

Seven Spirits – Seven Stars. The realms of the Spirit and the realms of the heavens operate together as current and flow, resonance and influence, in specific arenas and operations. Paul said that we know the spirituals, the effects of Energeia even as God energeoes all inside of all. Everything exists inside this flow of Spirit, and every earthly thing is influenced by its heavenly counterpart. Jesus gives me Himself in all His ability throughout the avenues of authority and influence in the spirituals. Now, in the fulness of times, salvation and power, out from the authority of Christ in me, casts all darkness out from every arena of influence in the Kingdom.

The Deeper Meaning. As you can see, the arenas of power inside the Kingdom are twisted by the evil one to become his arenas of power inside of his domination.

Thus we come to the deeper meaning of “Christ the Thief.” Now, I will speak out from the assumption that you have just read that letter. I will not rebuild its thinking. The “deeper” meaning of Christ Jesus as “thief” is that we are taking back the spiritual arenas of influence and power over the kingdoms of this world, beginning with the Christian Church.

We fill all entrances with thanksgiving, and contempt is cast out. This is how Victory begins.

Kingdom Victory. We place God-Love at the center and “God is against you” has no more place. The law of the Spirit of life inside of Christ Jesus, breaks forever the law of sin and death. As we make the Blood all our connections together, so all connecting demons flee in terror. Reciprocity, Completion, and Liberty fill all creation.

This is Kingdom Victory. We become the River of Life flowing out into all our surroundings, taking away from the powers of darkness their places of influence and filling those same arenas with Life and Love.

The Now-Salvation. When we, in the midst of all weakness and all opposition pressing against us, say, with quiet certainty, “Father, this is You, sharing my life with me. Father, You and I turn this next moment coming out from us into goodness for Your people’s sake,” – we are impacting the realms of creation governance like we cannot imagine. Demons are being cast down, losing their places of control. And the NOW-Salvation of God is taking their place.

As you can see, thus far, I have just given a rough outline of these things, strong and True. As we go forward through our study of John’s vision, we will fill in these mighty actions coming through us with the details.

The Arenas of Power. I have carefully considered the many sevens that have shown up in our study, seeking a harmony of meaning. I am now satisfied with what each of the seven arenas of power actually are. Each one of these can be filled either with God and Life or with sin and death.

Starting from the top is first essence, nature, cause. Second is all entrances. Third is all connections. Fourth is the means to accomplish. Fifth is response, either receiving or refusing. Sixth is outward condition or appearance. Then, the seventh arena in the center is the knowing of the heart. Our task is to take these arenas or ‘kingdoms’ back to LIFE.

Christ the Thief. Christ Jesus takes back all the realms or arenas of power and influence over human society as His own and fills them with His completion. This action casts out the demonic powers presently ruling in those arenas. Jesus accomplishes this task through me with my brethren. I know the good-speaking of Jesus as the sustainer of all. I fill all entrances with thanksgiving. I see the completed Atonement as all connections together. I accomplish all by giving. I receive God’s completion. I set creation free. I know Father with me.

The Scroll of Life. Now we come to the dynamic reality of this overcoming, this relationship we have with God through Jesus. – I will not erase his name from the scroll of life, but I will speak his name in the presence of My Father.

The “scroll of life” is God’s Pro-knowing. God speaks us out from His Pro-Knowing through Jesus; then, Jesus turns and speaks us in the Father’s hearing. We come out from God’s Knowing of us; we return to the Father inside of Jesus, now known of God in completion. This is the third of these three foundations of certainty inside of which God is establishing us.

“Erase His Name.” Here is how I understand the meaning of “erase his name.” God opens to a believer the reality that they come out from God’s thoughts concerning them through the good-speaking of Jesus every moment, that every moment of their life has been God with them. This believer plays with this way of thinking for a little while. But either of two things happens. They might see that it doesn’t make them “super,” or they might see the cost of being the revelation of Christ. Either way, they soon abandon that way of living and return to knowing self and sin as their source. They don’t care.

A Continuous Action. Because we care, we see this word only as “God Knows Me.”

I want to focus this thought, now, on what it means that Jesus speaks my name, Daniel Yordy, in the presence of God. In just the same way that Jesus makes the Father known to me, inside of me, so Jesus makes me known to the Father, inside of Him. This action of Jesus is continuous, like alternating current. In every moment of time, Jesus brings the Father into my knowing of myself, living and new, always part of me. In every moment, Jesus brings me into the Father, into His knowing of Himself, living and new, always part of Him.

I Become Real. All existence of reality comes only out from one channel, the good-speaking of Jesus – bringing forth all by His power-filled words. – Through Him all things become.

Thus, when Jesus speaks my name, Daniel David Yordy, inside the presence of God. I, in all my humanity, all my ups and downs, ins and outs, my strengths and weaknesses, my triumphs and failures, I become REAL inside of God. This is the deepest level of the meaning of the word, “to KNOW,” inside of God. It is a meaning far beyond our present ability to comprehend. God KNOWS me because Jesus makes me part of Him.

Placing the Angels. But then Jesus says, “I will speak your name in the presence of My devoted angels.”

Speaking our name inside of God is personal to God and to us, but speaking our name in the presence of devoted angels is the Kingdom. It is possible that God has placed His angels as “control operators” inside the places of the flows of influence reverberating through all created realms, carrying either death from humans or life. “Daniel Yordy coming through with the Spirit. Hey, I know that name, open the gates wide.”

The Kingdom Unfolding. I have worded that as a bit of a “cartoon.” I simply plant that thought so that better wording might come.

The One making His angels spirits [or winds] and His public servants a flame of fire. – Being sent forth into service through those about to inherit salvation (Hebrews 1:7 & 14).
This is the Kingdom unfolding out from God and us together, knowing one another, a Kingdom taken up by angels accomplishing God’s purposes, knowing our names. It is in this way that the things we love, our joys and delights, shape as LIFE the very ages to come.

God Knows Me. God knows my name because I live inside of His Heart. God’s Heart is Jesus, and Jesus is always speaking my name to God. In just the same way that Jesus makes the Father known to me, inside of me, so Jesus makes me known to the Father, inside of Him. This action of Jesus is continuous, like alternating current. In every moment of time, Jesus brings the Father into my knowing of myself, living and new, always part of me. In every moment, Jesus brings me into the Father, into His knowing of Himself, living and new, always part of Him.

Jesus speaks my name, _____, inside the presence of God. In all my humanity, all my ups and downs, my strengths and weaknesses, my triumphs and failures, I become REAL inside of God. God KNOWS me because Jesus makes me part of Him. More than that, the powers and influences of heaven know me by name. As I synergeo with God sending forth LIFE into my world, so they recognize my name and open all doors wide into All-Victory, Jesus faithful and True.

The Seven Overcomings. God places us into LIFE, even while removing us from death.

Then God gives us three certainties. The first certainty is that “God with us for the sake of others” is the deepest meaning of every moment of our lives. God approves of us. The second certainty is that we possess the ability of the Lord Jesus, given to us with Himself inside of His own Sending. And the third certainty is that God knows us, He knows our human names and all that they signify, our very persons, reverberating through all of His Heart and Being.

Now God is sending us into the two places of our victory, into the Church and into the Throne.

Reading for Next Time. The next session is titled, “I Know My Name.” This is our place inside the Church. For that session, read Revelation 3:7-13 several times in the JSV.

I will make the one who is presently and actively overcoming to be a pillar inside of the temple of My God, and he shall not go out anymore. And I will write upon him, immediately and ongoing, the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, continuously and actively stepping forth out from heaven, from My God, and I will write upon him My new name.

Jesus’ “new name” is the explosive dynamism out from which the Kingdom unfolds forever.

Let’s Pray Together. “Thank You, oh Father, that You have clothed us with the Lord Jesus Christ, Faithful and True, pure and devoted to You. Father, You have become our All-Sufficiency. Father, You are always with us as the meaning of our lives, You have made the ability of Jesus to be our own, and You have made us part of Your own Heart. Father, You know us by name, each one of us.

“Inside of this certainty where You have placed us, Oh God, rooted and grounded inside of Love, we synergeo with You to send Life in Power into our world. As that Life prevails through the concourses of influence, so all demons who oppose Your entrance flee in terror.

“We see all things coming out from the good-speaking of Jesus and the claims of sin and death are proven fake. We enter every next moment with thanksgiving, inside of Your purposes, and contempt disappears into the cold. We join together with You, Father, and with one another by the Atonement of Christ and all buying and selling of relationships and souls is driven out of Your House.

“We accomplish all our purposes shared with You, Father, by giving back what You have so freely given to us and all the thieving of Death is destroyed forever. We receive You, Oh God, as our All-Completion forever, even as we refuse all that speaks against. The spirits of anti-Christ have nothing more to say to anyone.

“God, our Father, we see all our Christian brethren as Jesus to us, as Your very dwelling place, and creation is set free. But most of all, Oh Father, we know You as love inside our hearts, always with us, part of us, and all hostility and separation, all “good and evil,” all ignorance of You vanishes as it never was.

“Your Salvation has now come, Oh God, Your power is released into all as Rivers of Spirit, Your Kingdom takes its place in all arenas of influence inside creation, out from the authority of Christ Jesus whom You have given to us. Because, Oh Father, we have cast down your enemies, we have cast down the one who accused You from the start, we have driven him out of Your Church. Let it be so; it is so.”