1.3 Connections to Pro-Thesis
The ruling verse of the Bible is Romans 8:28-30. – God determines me conformed as one person together with Jesus as the revelation of the Father. Everything in the Bible and in all reality must come under and be known by the universe-shaping words in these three verses together as one.
This course is based entirely on the six prior Symmorphy courses, Purpose, Essence, Kingdom, Covenant, Life and Mankind. Thus, on a regular basis, this course assumes that the learner has completed every element in the prior six courses and knows by experience that they are already just like the Lord Jesus and that the Father shares every moment of their lives with them.
Ruling Words. Five HUGE Greek words, then, coming into English, come out from this most important verse, the first defining verse of everything in our minds. Pro-Thesis; Pro-Knowing; Pro-Determined; Symmorphosed; and Image.
Pro-Thesis is the set forth purpose of God out from which all things flow and towards which all things work, God’s intention, the Father’s DESIRE. Pro-Thesis is the Word by which all things are created.
Pro-Knowing is the intimate knowing of the Heart of God out from which all things proceed, a knowledge that IS God, His KNOWING of you and me at all times and in every way.
Pro-Determined is the action of God, out from the core of His Being, a Determination that has seized you and me in its grip, a Determination that WILL accomplish all that the Father intends.
Symmorphosed is the ruling verb of the nature and Being of God, Person inside of Persons inside of persons, God and us joined together as one person by every word that is Christ, sharing the same form.
Finally, Image is the outer expression of God’s purpose, God Himself appearing to His creation as you and me, the revelation of Jesus Christ, that the Father might be seen and known, touched and handled by all of His creation.
We will find truly defining verses to fit each one of these five words as they mean in God’s intended Completion.
Defining Verses. Consider God’s completion (derivatives of pleroo) in these verses.
All things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me (Luke 24:44). – That you might be filled unto and with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 3:19). – For inside of Him dwells all the fulness of a Personal God bodily, and inside of Him, you are made full, fulfilled, and complete, who is the head over all influence and authority (Colossians 2:9-10).
All Scripture concerning Christ in His Church MUST BE fulfilled on this earth and in this life. Just as our humanity is fulfilled inside of Christ, so all the fulness of a Personal God is fulfilled inside of us bodily. (Same color, same word.) Then this knocker. – The Church is His body, the fulness of Christ filling full all inside of all (Ephesians 1:23).
Enemies of Completion. Note the two great enemies of completion, false definitions that defy at every point the proving of Christ as Word. First, “go to” heaven is the greatest of the demon birds that snatch the seed from a Christian before it has a chance to take root. If any Word concerning us is to be fulfilled only somewhere else, then there is no response of “Let it be to me.” Second, if God is “arrogant,” then being filled with all of God must be rejected as the same “temptation given to Adam.” OR – some then place “God” upon their own arrogance in the church.
These two false definitions, of God and of Salvation, that is, the nature and meaning of the Word spoken, are the very things that must be brought to fulness in the ending of this age.
The Completion of this Age. Here is the verse that rules the completion of this age. – Let God be true and every man a liar [a fake], as it has been written, “That You may be justified inside Your words, and will overcome inside Your being judged.” – That every mouth might be closed, and the entire cosmos brought under judgment before God (Romans 3:4 & 19).
The entire purpose of God, in closing this age of human folly, is to bring every single human to say, “I am completely and utterly wrong,” and then to speak no more of themselves. The effort to escape this certain doom (judgment) is the cause of all the things humans will do against each other and against God falsely called “the apocalypse.” The Lamb will prevail; they will close their mouths.
Fulfilled to Totality. Yet the silence is not what it’s all about, as important as the silence is. The age of human folly ends because of the rise of COMPLETION inside the knowing of God’s firstfruits, that is, LIFE, that is, God is and does what He speaks, that is, the full knowledge of the Father as the only thing TRUE.
Every Word God speaks concerning the Church and each believer in Jesus IS fulfilled to totality inside this present age right here on this planet. Here is one example of many. – Until we all come down to the unity of the faith-and-acknowledgement of the Son of God, into being a complete or perfect man, into the measurement of the maturity of the fullness or completion of Christ (Ephesians 4:13).
Pro-Thesis. We understand “Pro-Thesis” as that speaking of God (Christ Jesus) from the beginning, in which God sets forth His intentions for all created things, including the unfolding of days. This speaking is utterly complete and continues complete through the unfolding of all human experience.
Our life is about one thing only, then, and that is coming to know what is already true, what is already spoken out from God. Here is another way to say this exact same thing. – This is the life that unfolds the ages, to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ (Pro-Thesis) whom You have sent (John 17:3). And again – See that [in completing] you make all things according to the Pattern (Hebrews 8:5).
Pro-Knowing. All things and all unfolding of days exist first inside of God as Word before they are ever spoken by Jesus to become. Yet, as each sentient being becomes out from God’s pro-knowing, including you and me, God treats each with utmost respect and desires the living relationship of a shared life. This shared life includes the full expectation of God in the completion of every Word spoken concerning us as God and we participate together in building every unfolding moment as our dwelling place forever.
I know that I come first out from God’s thoughts concerning me, yet I also know that God respects me as the Lord Jesus. I entwine myself with Jesus in the proof of every Word fulfilled.
Pro-Determination. The grip with which God has seized hold of us is also called Love. God loves with the expectation of receiving all Love back from me in return. It is God’s expectation in what He has placed inside of me, the Lord Jesus, that draws from me a full equality in return.
Here is the completion of that same determination out from us. – This is My full completion, that you love one another in full reciprocity just exactly as I have loved you (John 15:12). – Carry one another’s great weight of value, and thus you shall complete the law of Christ to full measure (Galatians 6:2). – By this we have known love, because He set forth his soul for us, and we also are committed to setting forth our souls for the sake of our brothers and sisters (1 John 3:16).
Symmorphy. Symmorphy is sharing life with God and God sharing life with us in every moment and in all conscious awareness. – If anyone loves Me, he will keep, guard, and watch over My word [in full completion], and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and will make Our home in intimate participation with him (John 14:23).
Jesus’ “name” is every Word God speaks proven faithful and true in all completion in our knowing. We ask God to complete all Word in us “in Jesus’ name.” This interweaving of our life story with God’s Word fulfilled and God’s Word fulfilled with our life story is how we bear fruit and how the Father is glorified through us.
Image. Image is the interpretation of the mind. No one “believes what they see.” Everyone has always seen what they first believe only. – He did not judge that deadness [of his appearance] through unbelief, however, but he was filled with power in faith, into the promise of God, giving God glory. Abraham was convinced to full measure and completion that what God had promised, He is also able to do (Romans 4:20-21).
We see God everywhere we look, for we have asked for the Completion of all He speaks and now we know that we have received all that we ask. Here is the image of God full and complete. – The Church is His body, the fullness of Christ [every Word God speaks] filling full all inside of all.
Principles of Completion. This brief lesson is just a first-look at the gospel verses regarding the fulness of the Word God speaks fulfilled now upon the earth and unfolding as our every moment. In the next chapter of this text, “Defining Completion,” we will present God’s principles of completion as found across the breadth of the gospel, a vast interwoven doctrine that must be a full tenet of true Christianity. Then, we will place those principles upon a view of the unfolding of the Kingdom of God across the ages.
Jesus is the Pro-Thesis of God, His set-forth purpose in the declaration of every Word. – See that you make all things according to the Pattern.
God’s Pro-Thesis. He has made known to us the mystery, the hidden secret of His desire, according to His good pleasure which He purposed and set forth inside of Jesus, for the stewardship over the full and complete season or opportune time; this secret of gathering and bringing together ALL into Christ, all upon the heavens and all upon the earth inside of Him. Inside this same Jesus, we also were lot-cast, given place by divine choice, having already been pro-determined according to God’s Pro-Thesis, His set-forth purpose, Christ, Who is energeoing all down to the finest details of the counsel and deliberate wisdom arising out from God’s desire; which is that we who actively hope and expect inside of Christ might be the praise and the full outward expression of His glory, His great and intrinsic value (Ephesians 1:9-12).
Already Become. Therefore, if anyone is inside of Christ, he is a New Creation. The old things are already gone; look and see, the New has already become. And all things are out from God… (2 Corinthians 5:17-18).
There is no “place” where the Word God speaks is not already and utterly fulfilled and complete. All “lack” is found only in the false perceptions of the confused human imagination, entirely specific to each confined bubble of self-awareness and to each personal self-story. All Christians live right now inside of and as all glory revealed, Jesus proven true as every Word God speaks, yet they see it not because they don’t want to believe the obvious.
Concluding Thoughts. Our personal goal, then, in writing and in studying this wondrous topic, is to FILL our eyes with God and with the Completion of His Word. Yet it is the core reality of our everyday lives that gives us the confidence to know that God is True. That core reality is that the Kingdom of God emanates forth, unfolds every moment, from Father and us sharing life together.
My next step is always coming out from Father and me sharing life together. All the circumstances coming my way are NOT “happening to me,” they are coming out from Father and me sharing life together. This is the only way I want to live, now and forever.
Welcome to This Course. As learners going through this course and all courses at Christ Revealed Bible Institute, you will know the Spirit of God leading you, personally, into all truth, into all the knowledge of Jesus alive and real inside your heart. There is no other purpose for anything, yet all things of joy and goodness flow out of our hearts, the Mercy Seat, the throne of God, out from Father in all abundance.
As you work your way through this course, stay always with Jesus. He alone teaches you. The pages of this text have no meaning at all unless Jesus is making Himself known to you by using what is written here just a little bit. I am confident that is exactly what He is doing in you.