4.3 Atonement to Dedication

Even though the date of the Day of Atonement would not come until September, God enlarged my understanding of the meaning of the Atonement in completion in the days following the date of Pentecost, from June 14 on.

Our understanding of the Atonement and our view of our Christian brethren go hand in hand. The Atonement is the action of Jesus in receiving us. We then turn and receive our fellow Christians in the same way. It’s a very simple equation. The Atonement has two parts, first towards ourselves and second through us towards all other believers. There is no going on into the experience of God-Among-Us, that is, Tabernacles, except we allow God to be Love through us towards all who call upon His name.

Placing God with Me. After the experience of Pentecost, our speaking as and for the entire Church, I found myself again in an embarrassing foolishness. I did as I always do, I said, “Father, You are sharing even this silly foolishness with me.” Immediately I knew the presence of my Father, swallowing up into Himself all my humanity.

Then, I listened again to “The Meaning of a Life” for my autobiography. As I was listening to the incredible flow of God with me over many years, and as I was thinking of the travail I shared with God for the sake of His people, the next great part of the Experience of Completion arose from inside of me. I thought about all the people in my life, and I saw them all without any pain at all. My heart enlarged inside of compassion and I thought to myself, “It is so easy to forgive every single person and to receive each with all joy.” This is the meaning of God-with-me.

What Is the Church? I want us to fix in our understanding, our “mind’s eye,” for whom it is we are praying. Cast your mind across all Christians you have known of every stripe, color, and flavor. Cast your mind across every country and people-group on earth. Reach out to include every sect, and denomination. Include all in the heavens out from all human history. Include those who do not yet know the Lord Jesus, but who will. Consider Christians you don’t like. Draw into your mind the faces of those you once despised.

In this third part of experiencing completion; God will enlarge you to be compassion for ALL. Have you not loved? Of course you have never loved, for you are not God. God is Love – ACKNOWLEDGE Him.

The Path of Life. On that same eventful morning, June 15, I understood that the greatest provision that could ever be given to God’s people on this earth right now is to speak in the presence of God as her and for her sake. None of this is exalting ourselves. That’s the whole point. We are a total failure in everything. It is God our Father, sharing our lives with us, who is exalted. And God is exalted as you, dear reader, come to know Him inside this Experience of Completion as I also know Him now.

Every moment of your life has been as filled with purpose and with Father sharing everything with you as mine has been. CALL IT TO BE SO, and you will see. This is knowing God; this is the path of Life.

For the Sake of the Church. Jesus came into us out from God with great purpose. Jesus cannot “rest” until He has fulfilled inside of us everything for which the Father Sent Him. Jesus sending you means that your whole life has been for the sake of One greater than you. Those who care about God, who share Hheart with Him, give God their entire lives to be for the sake of His Church. This is not human effort, “Let me prove myself.” This is faith in God, the acknowledgement that God already has done so in every moment of your life, that your every moment has been and is now, with the Father, for the sake of others.

On the morning of Pentecost, we ended our prayer with “Let our 'Yes, Lord,' be the 'Yes, Lord,' of all.” Let’s continue with that spoken declaration for all who belong to Jesus.

Praying for the Church. “God, our Father, we stand here inside Your presence, in intimate participation with You and with one another, as, and for the sake of Your entire Church in heaven-earth. Enable us to speak for their sake what others are not able to speak, not until their eyes are opened to the Path of Life.

“As and for the sake of the entire Church, we repent, Oh God, of not desiring to know You above all things. Cause us, with all who belong to Jesus, to KNOW You. As and for the sake of the entire Church, we repent of having not obeyed the one command of the gospel that counts. Cause us, with all who belong to Jesus, to put the Lord Jesus Christ upon all that we are, with no thought regarding our human weakness.

Every Single One. “As and for the sake of the entire Church, Oh God, we close our mouths about ourselves. It is so good to be utterly and completely WRONG; apart from Jesus we can do nothing. As and for the sake of the entire Church, we stand upon firm and we SEE the Salvation of God, the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilling all. We SEE all sin purged away; we SEE no more disconnection from God. We SEE a life shared with our Father forever. – For ALL who belong to Jesus.”

“Father, let our travail stand in for theirs; cause Your people to KNOW YOU, that we might also KNOW YOU, together with them. For God, we will not let You go, we will give You no rest, until every least little one who loves Jesus has passed out from death and into LIFE.”

Through the Season of Tabernacles. I chose not to look at the “dates” for the season of the Feast of Tabernacles, for the simple reason that our confidence is in the Word God speaks, and not in any outward signs. Nonetheless, here is a list of the letters I wrote and sent out through the season of Tabernacles, September and October.

(1) A New Fire; (2) I Am Just Like Jesus; (3) The Meaning of a Life, 1964-2022; (4) I Set Forth My Soul Part 1; (5) A New Altar; (6) I Set Forth My Soul Part 2; (7) I Ask for All Word Fulfilled; (8) A New Direction; (9) I Love out from God.

This is our study of 1 John, centered on the ruling verse in which God turns us around, 1 John 3:16, all merged with the completing of my life story including the most difficult chapter for me to write, “A New Altar.”

The Atonement Fulfilled. In this we have known Love, in that Jesus set forth His soul for us; and we also are committed to setting forth our souls for the sake of our brothers and sisters. – These are the two parts of the Atonement, first, Jesus for us and second, Jesus, with us and through us, for others.

Call every moment of your life to be God with you for the sake of His Church. Receive every person with whom you have ever interacted with the same joy that Jesus receives you. The Atonement was finished when Jesus said, “It is finished.” But it becomes complete in our own knowing only when we call it to be so. Every moment of our lives becomes the Salvation of God when we place Jesus upon each of them.

Tabernacles. The Feast of Tabernacles is God tabernacling among His people, God made visible. Speak the fulfillment of Tabernacles.

In myself, I am no good at loving my brothers and sisters. Just like Jesus did, I often feel contempt. Jesus says to me, every moment, “Stay inside of Me.” Yet I interact daily with my brothers and sisters wherein the issue of God-made-visible, that is, “Love one another,” always frames my day. It is not I who loves, but God. As I rest myself utterly inside of Jesus, so I acknowledge that God, my Father, is always all-Love coming through me. This is a costly Love, for I must place myself with Father beneath of others, lifting them up into joy. Yet my delight is sharing life with God, and my Father’s delight is being Love through me.

Tabernacles Fulfilled. God can never be seen or known except through Christians loving one another as Jesus loves us. At the same time, Christians are incapable of such love of themselves. As I gather together daily with my fellow believers, we together acknowledge God as Love among us. God is our source every moment, both individually and together. We live inside of God, and God lives inside of our togetherness. I Love out from God. We Love one another out from God. As all creation sees our love for one another, the completion of Jesus, so all creation sees and knows God. We remain human, and God gets to be Himself in all delight.

People don’t understand. Salvation is OF God; and Jesus is the only present and active agent of that Salvation.

Dedication. It so happened, in December of 2022, that our Sunday morning Zoom meetings fell on the first day and the eighth day of the Feast of Dedication, the ninth month of the completion of travail. In both services, we placed ourselves inside of God at the same moment the “Day” began (6 AM Israel time), and we prayed for the entire Church in all heaven-earth.

“God, our Father, be through us that flow of pure and Personal, Living Spirit Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, flowing as golden oil into the knowledge of all whom You have given to Jesus, causing all Your people to know that Jesus alone is their life, that Christ is all that they are. God, LIGHT YOUR CHURCH ON FIRE.”

I Have Loved You. As I noted, this experience of Completion God was giving to us corresponded with my completing my life story, specifically the account of God speaking to me in some way over the years found in “The Meaning of a Life.” Inside that flow were many unique instances of God speaking personally and directly to me inside of my spirit. Sometime in mid-2023, God spoke another such word to me.

God said to me, ~ “Daniel, I have loved you with an everlasting love.” ~ In hearing those words, I knew that He MEANT in every past moment of my life, regardless, and towards every present and ongoing moment. I live every moment rooted and grounded in the meaning of this Personal Love, the Completion of God.

The Evidence of Completion. What, then, is the experience in the life of a believer in Jesus who has received full Completion from God through faith? What are the ‘signs’ of such a gift of Grace?

When we were born again, we received Jesus into our hearts that we might know Him as our Redeemer. When we were baptized into the Spirit, we allowed the Devoted Spirit to flood into our souls, so that we might know this Jesus inside of us, who and what He really is, now our only life. Then, when we receive God as our completion, we are allowing this same Jesus to connect us with the Father in all ways and as all that He is and does.

Completion is sharing Life with the Father.

Sharing Hheart with God. We must begin with the final evidence. One who lives inside of Completion is set upon knowing the Father’s Heart, that God might win His Desire, that the Father’s Purpose might be fulfilled.

Then, inside of this shared Hheart with God, one who is Complete receives every Word coming forth from God with “Let it be to me,” and then, in receiving, believes that Word fulfilled in all that God means. – “I am filled with all of God.” One who is Complete blesses every next moment and step, circumstance and interaction with others by giving thanks, by calling it “our dwelling place, Father and me,” regardless. This is the normal human life as God intended from the start.

Believing in Jesus. One who is Complete magnifies the Sacrifice of Jesus as greater than the universe, as absolute and all, and sees all their Christian brethren only through that Sacrifice, clothed with Jesus in all glorious liberty. One who is Complete receives all things from God and then gives back the same to God through giving it to others, a life of continual reciprocity, a life of travail, of being with Jesus the Love of God revealed.

And here’s the thing. None of this is of us. Just like Jesus, we do nothing of ourselves. We are channels only, that God might be free to be Himself through us. And thus, believing in Jesus is Completion.

Let’s Pray Together. “God, our Father, there is nothing more valuable to us in our time on this earth than to share every moment of our lives with You and Yours with us, through Jesus. We know that this is the meaning of everything taking place in human history, that all are judging themselves only by their treatment of others, beginning with their treatment of You.

“God, our Father, we acknowledge You in all, that You are God and that we belong utterly to You, that every moment, circumstance, and interaction of our lives is Yours forever. Father, we are Your wide-open door, Your path into Your creation. You ARE Love through us now, for we share Your Heart, we share Jesus, with You.”