24.2 Pure Water
© 2017 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Earlier we asked this question. Do you and I have, by Covenant, the authority, the ability, and the power to call forth this glorious Church without spot or wrinkle, through whom Jesus is seen as He is and by whom the world believes and KNOWS?
We first established the authority – the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Spirit who is given to us. We then established the ability – the Word is near you even in your mouth. In the next lesson, we will look at the power to accomplish all that we speak out from hearts overflowing with the love of God, that is, Rivers of Spirit flowing out from us.
Purity of Word. In this lesson, we want to establish the purity of Word that must be in our mouths before we will ever be sending forth Spirit into visible transformation. The water that is God is pure. That means there is nothing not of God that is in it.
Now, this creates an interesting puzzle. You see, we have all heard the claim that, if something is to be purely of God, then nothing of ourselves can be added to it. Yet symmorphy has taught us something quite different, for if we ourselves are not part of that pure water, then God isn’t in it either. If I don’t know you, I cannot know Jesus who is in YOU.
What Is Pure Water? We can identify immediately, however, water that is not pure, and impure water does contain expressions of religious flesh. What then is pure water?
Water, in this application, is a metaphor of Spirit-Word flowing out from us. It is knowable as words, whether spoken or written, but those Words are carried by the Holy Spirit going forth. Thus those Spirit-Words flowing forth bring forth life wherever they are received. Those words include (a) the good-speaking of Jesus, (b) the honor and closeness of Father, and © our own real selves, all together. For word to be pure, each of these three must be intrinsically linked together.
Impure Water. From our definition of pure water, we can then define first, the flood of the dragon, and second, the impure water flowing out from unbelieving Christianity.
The flood of the dragon is the speaking of accusation, the exaltation of the state, and personal hostility and disrespect mingled entirely with group think. This flood is carried by a powerful spirit of control. We are not concerned, here, with the flood of the dragon except to position it against the impure water of unbelief.
To define impure water, then, we must begin by defining unbelieving Christianity. – And I must add this. This burden of pure water flowing from us is of great weight to me; it is of utmost necessity that our speaking be entirely PURE.
Refusing to Enter. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to completion, while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed was it not all who came out of Egypt… And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief (Hebrews 3:14-19 reduced).
The words “enter in” refer directly and only to the passage through Moses’ Tabernacle is it is fulfilled in the Christian life. And this is referring to those who “came out of Egypt,” thus we are looking specifically at those Christians who pile up in the letter of the word, refusing to enter the Spirit or in the fake “dealings of God,” refusing to enter full union with Christ.
Ravenous Wolves. It is from these, then, the leaders who turn their backs on the Door or on the Veil and preach a word designed to keep God’s people from entering in, who speak the impure words of “Christianity.” These are the ravenous wolves Paul warned against, beginning with those called “the Church Fathers.” They speak as “of God” words God Himself has never spoken.
Now, the flood of the dragon is as “pure” as the river of life; there is no mixture of Christ inside of it. The key term is “mixture.” Thus an impure word is a mix of the good-speaking of Christ AND accusation, the closeness of Father AND the exaltation of the state, a modest amount of real self AND a whole lot of pretending, always drawing from BOTH streams of word.
Mixed Spirit. Now, the worst part of such a flow is that the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. Thus the Holy Spirit given to those who speak a partial word is truly the Holy Spirit. Yet that mixed word, then, draws unclean spirits into the same flow with the Holy Spirit – for indeed, they exist only in Him. Now, this has not been a bad thing for us, for as we walked through our Christian experience, we found the Holy Spirit even while some nearby were connecting with the unclean.
The rule of impurity, however, is not spirit but word. The carriage and impartation is spirit, but the seed being carried is always word. – Speaking words about God and about us that God does not speak.
Jagged Rocks. I am acquainted with a certain brother who himself is carried in the safe boat of Christ his life, yet the Lord has led him into the waters of the Holy Spirit moving in a main-line denominational church. Up until now, the only concern of that fellowship has been the good-speaking of Christ carried in the anointing of the Spirit. Certainly, there has been expression, on occasion, of Nicene thinking and of a limitation of God, but not “too much.”
Yet, as is always the case, he finds his boat sailing quite close to the jagged rocks of “correct theology.” Should his boat hit those rocks, they would tear him to pieces. Yet I have no fear, for I know the boat in whom the brother sails; the boat’s name is Jesus.
Under Control. The brother showed me a list of Nicene theological terms against which he was “supposed to” write his “beliefs” with attendant Scripture. My advice and his inclination was to ignore it. First, there is much in the list with which to agree, though we see union-with-Christ only by those terms. The false things are so irrelevant, that to “debate” them is to sever the work of Christ without need.
But here is what I am driving at. Nicene theology has created a list of “received definitions” regarding all the essential “beliefs.” This list serves two purposes. First, it “corrects” all the contradictions of the Bible, and second, it keeps God’s people from entering into God and thus “under control.”
An Impure Word. I read recently a post from a brother who teaches a very similar word to what I teach, that is, knowing Christ our life inside the realms of Spirit. Yet this brother has never compared what God actually says against Nicene theology. Rather, he simply assumes that the Nicene “God” is the one he is knowing, and thus everything he shares is coming through the structures of Nicene thinking. It is an IMPURE word.
Now, in saying that, I am not exalting myself as the one “who has it right.” I must certainly be wrong in many directions. I am saying that we MUST speak only what God Himself speaks regarding God, man, Christ, and salvation.
No Life in Scripture. One category on the list was “the inerrancy of Scripture.” The “answer” to that question must be wrong, regardless of what answer one comes up with, for the simple reason that the question, itself, is wrong. “Right” answers to the wrong questions cannot do anything for anyone.
Here is God’s response inside that same arena of thought. You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.(John 5:39-40). All Scripture is speaking of Christ in us. Every other use of Scripture must be in error. “Error” refers to the use of Scripture.
One God, the Father. Against one’s belief in the “Trinity of God,” I would write one word God Himself speaks and leave it at that. There is one God, the Father, and one Connection between God and man, the Man, Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2). We could also include these words. Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things (including Son and Spirit), and we for Him (1 Corinthians 8:6).
Do you see how that positions man as well? Man comes out of God and exists FOR Father alone. The problem is, of course, that everyone can come up with other verses that seem to say something different. And thus the “need” for human reasoning to sort out God’s “problem.”
Five Qualities. The center problem of impure word is the definition of God, seeing God through the lens of the serpent instead of seeing Him through the human Jesus. In Symmorphy III: Kingdom, Lesson 12.2 Father as Quality, we listed five things that Father is. Father is meek and lowly of heart and sees others as better than Himself. Father is kind to all. Father does not know envy or evil or lying. Father carries all. Father turns all things meant for evil into goodness.
Through the lens of the serpent, “God” is superior and sees Himself above and separate from all. God is indifferent to human concerns. The perfection of God reveals the sinfulness of man. God saves only a few, and that from a distance. And God turns all evil actions into everlasting punishment.
Replace Nicene Thinking. Now, many who teach grace and union with Christ will attempt to soften this view of God in various ways. What they do not do is abandon it. We replace Nicene thinking with two things – first, with the image of the human Jesus, and second, with what God actually says in the most important verses of the Bible.
Speak what God speaks and speak what God speaks as Christ now in, as, and through you.
I cannot stress enough the utmost importance to the Rivers of Living Water flowing out from us that our words be purely what God speaks as Christ now in, as, and through us. And the importance of eliminating from thought and speech all twisting of Nicene theology.
Defining Pure Water. The Spirit flowing out is only as pure as the Words of our mouth.
Let’s now define further this pure water. Pure water includes three things – the good-speaking of Jesus, the honor and closeness of Father, and our own real selves, all together.
Let’s start with the good-speaking of Jesus. – Sustaining all by the Word of His power (Hebrews 1:3). – The fellowship of your faith is made effective by the acknowledgement of every good thing that is IN you as you are IN Christ Jesus (Philemon 1:6). – God… speaks good things into us with every spiritual good-speaking in the heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3).
The Expression of Jesus. If we exist by and through Christ Jesus, then we are His expression, the expression of His good words.
But here’s what I have learned. – Now, I’m not sure of any specific Scripture to back up this claim, but it is the full and grounded experience of my own life. When I make the Words coming out of Jesus’ mouth an expression of my own person, then I find those Words to be PURE water. For instance – “filled with all the fulness of God” becomes “I am filled with all the fullness of my Father.” But when I hear someone “talking about” such a thing as an idea and not personal, it is, to me, impure water, water mixed with unbelief and accusation.
Honoring Father. Honoring the closeness of Father is the second part of Pure Water. Consider this word, deemed by most to be a flight of extravagance coming from Paul, and not serious “theology.” For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen (Romans 11:36). All things are coming out OF God. All things are THROUGH God. All things are returning TO God.
Dealing straight with God as a Person confronting us with Himself right from the start. Trembling as He speaks His Word into us. Believing Him inside of us and nothing else. A “distant” God is not God at all, just human imagination.
Our Own True Selves. The third thing that must be present in any Pure Word is our own true selves. Now, when I say, “Speak only God’s pure words,” I am not excluding our normal human conversation as part of God-speaking. We do not turn God into a magical elitist Thing. God reveals Himself ONLY through our everyday humanity.
Be simple. Be real. Be yourself. Live by your own true heart, made known to you by God’s proving. Christ is in YOU. If you ain’t around, then neither is Christ. Those who treat Father as He IS also treat themselves as they ARE, the outward appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We Are HUMANS! In the past, I came across pamphlets written by one who would not put their name on their pamphlet lest they “defile” the holiness of God with their own person. I refused to read such a thing. If I do not know who I am reading, I KNOW it ain’t God.
I disregard all kind assertion that my writing does not need to be edited. I love editing – whack away. I have seen only improvement, great improvement, coming out of good editing. We are humans, and we will be humans forever. We reject all sick and Satanic definitions of “perfection.”
Knowing Christ living as us, as we find ourselves to be right now, is not an option, it is God’s only Salvation.
Speak a Pure Word. I cannot, with my limited writing ability, make this Pure Water as critical as it must be.
Speak regarding Christ Jesus, the all-speaking of God, – “I am filled with all the fulness of God; Rivers of living Water flow out from me.” Speak regarding Father, “I love walking through all things together with my Father; I see all things as He sees them.” Speak regarding yourself, “I am real; I am me; I am the full expression of Jesus as I am. My delights are the Father’s delights. My concerns are the Father’s concerns.”
Speak a Pure Word – and as you speak, Rivers of Spirit ARE flowing out from you as the Power that sets creation free.