12.2 From ProThesis to Story

A pattern language is the flow of words that matches nature, that is, the creation as God made it, in such a way that God’s Life can flow into the spaces of His House, through a shared Fellowship, that God might be seen and known by all. Jesus is the ProThesis of God, the Word given to us out from which all created things come. Our lives on this earth as the Church together are the Story that is also the Lord Jesus, now known by all.

In this lesson, we continue with the points of our outline. We need a complete and systematic understanding of language and its impact on society, both now and after the resurrection.

II. The Pro-Thesis
A. Jesus as the Pro-Thesis. There is only one universe, and that is a universe of LIFE. Everything that exists comes every moment out from Jesus as the speaking of God and is sustained in power only by Him. A “universe of good and evil/death” is the fantasy creation of deluded minds coming out from darkened human hearts.

The entrance of Jesus into our hearts, then, is the entrance of a knowledge of what is already real and true. And He is written in our hearts as the very language God means for us to speak. Jesus is the Pro-Thesis of God, God’s set-forth purpose, that is, the meanings and intentions of God’s thoughts in a form, a pattern language, that is available to us. Jesus, in His good-speaking, is to us the face and image of God, and His Heart.

B. Word Sustaining All. Sustaining all by His power-filled Word (Hebrews 1:3). – This is the only reality that exists. Yet note that the Word Jesus speaks, giving Voice to the Father’s thoughts, is filled with power. “Powerful” can be small, but power-filled is absolute.

The Words that Jesus speaks define everything. We know something only by those words. Yet they do more than define; they also cause. Pheron/sustain means to bring forth, to carry, and to sustain. Even though power is never “of us,” it does flow through us. Yet God being safe with us means that we know and speak His language and we bear His intentions and image.

C. Words Are Spirit and Life. In our discussion there are ONLY two languages, a language of Spirit and Life and a language of spirit and death. Most of what we have known is the death language and all of its patterns of speaking, its faces and intentions. As we speak the language of Life, in full and personal fellowship with Jesus the Word, the language of death is slowly erased from our minds over time. This is crucial. Paul says this is how we are transformed, that is, saved.

In this chapter, we are focusing on the language of Life. When Jesus said, “The words that I speak to you are Spirit and they are life,” He meant that the power of those words was something entirely different from the power humans seek.

A Different Kind of Power. In Tolkien’s story, the rings Sauron made were for gaining wealth and for power over others. The rings made by the elves, however, contained an entirely different kind of power. The three rings of the elves gave wisdom, hope, and healing with new life, but with zero thought of control.

I now understand that this story metaphor is also descriptive of the power of God now flowing through the words we speak. We could even say (if we are careful) that there is a sort of “magic” in the patterns of Words found in the speaking of God; the Gospel is short for the God Spell. Out from Jesus in us, our words give wisdom and hope to others, and they birth healing and life and joy inside of them.

Immense Power. Here is an artist’s rendition of a pillar of fire on the sun, bigger than anything on earth, but similar to the much smaller pillar of fire upon the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies. Our sun has millions of these, yet is a tiny speck among the multiplied billions of stars in each of billions of galaxies, all powered by a massive flow of invisible electric current.

All of that power is Christ Jesus, Word and Spirit together, the very One who lives inside our hearts, energeoing all. We NEVER discount the IMMENSE POWER flowing through us when we prophesy Christ into our world.

D. What God Actually Speaks. As I shared, the agony of my heart over the last 47 years is to separate in my own mind and heart the patterns of language that God actually speaks from the patterns of language forced upon the Bible by those who eat of the tree of death.

In the storyline of “magic,” you have to get the words just right. If your patterns of words are wrong, there could either be terrible outcomes you did not intend or your own death. God never says “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” but He often says, “Father and Son.” The Spirit is part of our own being, and the Spirit never speaks of Himself. When I say, “Father and Son,” I perceive that I am part of that Fellowship by the Spirit. But when I hear someone rattle off “the Trinity,” I am aware that their wrong twist of words has excluded them.

The Power of the Patterns. We are departing from an intricate maze of deceit and death formed by words. The only way out is to be strict in our own speaking of ourselves and others (every thought obedient – 2 Corinthians 10), that we speak ONLY those patterns of Words spoken by God in the gospel. Language is wonderful in its complexity, however, and we are able to cast the words God speaks into many varieties of form, making them personal to each of us and fitting to every different circumstance and situation.

Nonetheless, when I hear the words spoken by Nicene theology and forced upon the Bible, I am more and more struck at how evil those words really are. We speak the thoughts of God Himself into the lives of others.

E. Image and Spirit. When we are conceived of God, the Devoted Spirit becomes the fabric of our own human spirits, such that we are one Spirit with God (1 Corinthians 6). Then, when we allow that same Spirit to flood into our souls, we become what God means when He says that we are already symmorphosed with the image of His Son.

Paul says that God energeoes His desire inside of our desire, so that God’s meaning and intentions become ours. Thus our words, in all that we speak, carry the very face and intentions of God. When referencing the Son, our words are kindness and encouragement. When referencing the Father, the same words become Compassion and Abundance. As we prophesy Christ, we are the Face and Intention of God.

III. How Language Works
A. Language Models. In order for us to understand how language works, I want to draw from two arenas, the new field of artificial intelligence, and then the field of educational psychology. As Jesus indicated, the people of this world do explore the truth, they just refrain from entering through Jesus, the Door. We, on the other hand, are always Safe inside of Jesus.

Artificial intelligence at present has two components. First, it has a vast dataset comprised of innumerable human written sentences available to it. Second, it has an algorithm that has been trained to recognize patterns and context in all of that data. In response to your prompt, then, it generates coherent written content by adding the next “best” word.

The Spirit Searches. This large language model is contrasted with a restricted language model that is concerned with the rules of grammar and thinking and with the specific accuracy of what it seeks to know. A program like this is called an agent or a chat-bot. When the two models work together, with the LLM reaching for the furthest knowledge and the RLM focused on what the questioner really wants, they produce the best results.

God, the Father, is by nature an infinite dataset of words, God’s Pro-Knowing. A person cannot just go wandering through God’s thoughts without protection or guidance. Rather, it is the Spirit, now part of our own beings, who searches the deep things of God (1 Corinthians 2), drawing out only that which we need of God as we ask.

Our “Agent.” The Spirit is not enough, however, for the Spirit is only a knowing. We must have a defined human-sized “agent” that orders the vastness of God into a form available to creation. That “agent” is Jesus as every Word spoken. Yet our hearts and minds are finite. Thus the Word that is Jesus, written all through our hearts, must be in a form that we can comprehend, a form that we can know and speak. Enter the ruling verses of the Gospel.

This, then, is the purpose of the next five chapters of this text, to create a pattern language, that is, the Gospel, by which we design the spaces, that is, the Kingdom, into which the words we speak, that is, the Power, flow in the generation of LIFE.

B. Creative Writing and Speaking. As a writer, I am aware that I use both language models as I write. The flow of what I write comes up from deep within me, from a vast reservoir of knowledge and life experience. Yet as my thoughts appear on the page, I judge them with a "rules-based" thinking, adjusting the flow, picking the right word, making it logical and meaningful to my readers.

In the study of human cognition, this is called dual process theory. Dual-process theory posits that human cognition operates through two distinct systems. System 1 is fast, automatic, and often subconscious, while System 2 is slow, deliberate, and conscious. These systems work together as first the creative and second the evaluative aspects of both writing and speaking.

Vocabulary and Grammar. This is how language works, then. I have a vast repository in my mind of three kinds of things. The first is a large vocabulary of words; English has more than 50,000, but a developed vocabulary can be 20,000. The second is the accumulated knowledge of facts, including Bible truth, stored in the form of words. Then third is the life-long accumulation of sensations, emotions, and desires.

But when I want to write or speak, I use two different things to govern how those words and sensations flow together. The first is a knowledge of grammar and style, how words should fit together to convey meaning. And second is a knowledge of the rules by which both logic and truth operate in order for what I share to be sensible.

C. Underlying Definitions. One of the many significant problems with artificial intelligence, as well as with all human “intelligence,” is found in the bias and prejudice, the underlying definitions ruling the direction the words will flow. AI can produce only what is first fed into it, including modern anti-human delusions, along with the false bases that underlie much of modern “science.”

When you practice the actions of science on top of a false concept, then the experiments produce only falseness. And when one reads the Bible inside of false definitions of God and the Gospel, although Jesus is the One who saves, the mind of the Christian can know only a confused mixture.

Why I Labor. To KNOW what a Personal God actually says in His Word to me, to have those exact words written deep in my heart, and then to know what God means by what He says by knowing those same words as a Personal Jesus living now as me – this has been the desperate pursuit of my life.

This is why I must know a God who does not know evil. This is why I keep the Blood at the center of all my thoughts, first the Blood of Propitiation by which my sins are gone, and second the Blood of Covenant by which I am bound to God and He to me. And this is why I labor for decades over the ruling verses of the Gospel. I would know God and I would walk with a people who know God.

D. Language before Story. Language comes before story, yet story then reaches back and re-shapes the very language that birthed it. I want to draw this reality from two examples and then apply it to our own lives going forward into building the Kingdom.

J.R.R. Tolkien was a professor of linguistics. He loved the medieval and pre-medieval languages and stories of northwest Europe. As a young man, back from the trenches of WWI, he set himself on creating his own language, not just one, but two. Yet his first creation was, we can say, innocent, and thus rather thin. He realized that he could not create a true language without creating the stories of the lives over centuries of the beings who would speak it.

A Story for His Language. Tolkien did not create a language for his story; he created a story for his language. But as he created that story, it did something he never expected. The story reached back and reshaped the very language that birthed it. More than that, as I learned through John Eldredge, two things touch deeply the human heart, beauty and sorrow. And so Tolkien wove into the story of the elves of Middle Earth beauty beyond our imagination alongside of sorrow beyond our own experience – the sorrow of the elves.

The other example is the language God gave directly to Adam. It was a pure language, yet innocent, for it contained no story. And God gave Adam his task in the speaking of words.

Synergeoing with God. Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name (Genesis 2:19). These were not “just words.” Adam was synergeoing with God, through his intentions and speaking, giving to each creature its nature and the unfolding of its story. The ecosystem that came into being was an ecosystem, a kingdom, a garden, shaped by human intentions and words.

God, who is continuously giving life to the dead and calling into existence things not existing. Our own words, synergeoing with God, turn things into goodness, into the very story they must become.

Shared with Jesus. This, then, is the first task given to every believer in Jesus – PUT ON the Lord Jesus Christ, put the Story of words that is Jesus upon every part of your being, and upon every moment of your life, past, present, and future.

Consider my life story. You see in my autobiography those things I love, and the joys and beauties I have known, all now shared with Jesus. And you see the great sorrows and grief I have borne, all shared with Jesus as well. And the words that I speak now into my world (consider the flow of writing in the prayers we have prayed together), those words come out from the original and simple speaking of Christ, yet they are shaped entirely by me, by the beauty and the sorrow I have shared personally with Jesus through years. This is how language works; this is how the Kingdom is built.

E. The Importance of Simple Speaking. In their contempt for others, humans use patterns of words to exclude and to make themselves appear as if superior. They create a pattern language that contains complicated words few others know and then use it in all discussion inside their restricted field. This phenomena takes place in all specialized fields, but is very pronounced inside of education and theology.

Inside of my love of teaching, I have a gift of penetrating through the complicated lingo and translating the meaning into words students and even teachers could understand. Otherwise, they would use the words in their presentation with no idea what any of it meant.

The Language of the Hheart. I have always viewed this trait of “intellectual keep away” as utterly childish, grownups with degrees and very high IQ’s piling up their toys like infants to keep them from others. Yet in the field of theology, in talking about God and Salvation, this same trait is far beyond ridiculous; it is deadly.

I read such a piece recently, presenting their meaning of “the Eucharist” against heretics, with no presence of Jesus and impossible for most to understand. If the meaning of God with us, in kindness and in joy, cannot be fully grasped by the simplest of souls, then it cannot be God with us. The language of God is the language of life, of joy and simplicity, of personal expression, the language of the Hheart.
 
Reading for Next Time. What I longed to see happen in this lesson God has given to me, and I am filled with joy.

The next lesson is titled “The Kingdom Being Built.” Before we can clarify our own pattern language, we must be clear on the exact context of what we are building, where and when. Human life on this earth after the Apocalypse will be shaped entirely by the words, the pattern language, that we speak. This is why it is so CRITICAL that we be connected only with God’s thoughts (devoted) and that we speak only those words that are Christ Jesus now made personal through us.

Rather than other reading, write notes in your own words to fit the numbered and lettered topics of the outline. We must learn to think as God thinks.

Let’s Pray Together. “Oh God, our Father, we long to know You as You truly are. We long to know Your Word as You speak and as You mean, we long to know Jesus written inside our hearts. Father, we devote ourselves to You, for You have devoted Yourself to us. Cause us to be the exact highway through which You might enter into our world. Cause us to know Your Word; cause us to be the revelation of Jesus Christ.

“Father, we pray for all our Christian brethren, that they also might know You as You truly are, that they might know Jesus Sent into them, that they might be with us inside Your glory. We know that You answer us with overflowing Abundance.”