8.1 Placing the Holiest
© 2016 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
This session is a look at the Holiest of all, its place and purpose, its essence and qualities. Inside this Holiest place, we also have four more sessions. The next session is Pro-Knowing, a practical word meaning the same thing as God's Heart. Then the Ark and the Mercy Seat each have a session as well as a fuller exploration of what Life, the Life we have entered into the Covenant to obtain, really is. Thus the purpose of this session is to give the context and place in which these other things are found.
Also, starting with this session, I hope to conclude with a very specific written statement that is an essential part of the terms of the Covenant along with the New Testament verses that are those specific terms.
The Word God Speaks. First, I have been impressed lately by a great error into which too many of those who take on the form of Christianity fall. That great mistake is that they place the words God speaks into their minds by figuring out and knowing what God means and has to mean by what He says.
All words God speaks begin in and are entirely of the Holiest. These words that are Christ, the all-speaking of God are known as what they are, ONLY by those who have abandoned all responsibility for themselves to live only inside of God. Yet those words are going forth and must go forth towards the hearing of all. In order to reach those who sit in darkness, the Words that are the Holiest must take on, first, a Holy Place form as the Bread and second, an outer court form as the cleansing water. From there the words God speaks become, as Paul said, clearly seen in the things that are made, and as Solomon said, as wisdom speaking to every human being.
What Do We Do with the Word? The problem is the purposes of every human being towards those words God is continuously speaking to all. All who are hiding from God will use those words to buttress or defend or benefit themselves, imagining they know what everything is all about.
Yet nothing God speaks will show its real meaning except to those who live in the Holiest. To those who remain in the Holy Place, as it is the path into the knowledge of God, those words are in the form of spiritual experiences and revelations. To those who remain in the outer court, those words are in the form of mental ideas. Yet all believers must begin their walk into the knowledge of God through the gate into the outer court, through being born again and first becoming aware of God among us.
The question is entirely what we do with the Word God speaks.
Mental Folly. Someone wrote to me telling me that they no longer regard the book of Revelation as having anything to do with God. They had connected with some mental explanation “proving” that the “Jesus” found in John's vision cannot be our Jesus because that “Jesus” is busy killing everyone. But did Jesus not kill everyone? He most certainly did. And the Day of Slaughter was a terrible day indeed. If One died for all, then all died.
Here is what happened. Both those writing their arguments out from mental knowledge, and the person who has, at least for now, embraced with certainty that he KNOWS what God has to mean by what He says, are sinning against the Word God speaks. They imagine that they have the mental capacity to know what God means by what He says. This is human folly at its worst. And I have seen far worse recently, evil men reading evil things out from and then against the Bible.
Hiding His Word. What, then, are we to have done as we read the Bible through our time walking into the knowledge of God through the outer court and through the Holy Place? I have hid Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You (Psalm 119:11). Those who figure out what God has to mean all the way through are sinning against the Word, against God, and against themselves.
This is why I am so grateful that during my mid-twenties, God forbade me directly to engage in such folly as to “know” what God means. And I continued in full doing what I had mostly always done, hiding every Word God spoke in the Bible all through the pathways of my heart. I did not know what any of it meant, but I valued that word above all things and covenanted with God many times in tears that He would cause those words to be all that they are in me.
And You with Me. Thus we see those walking now through the outer court and holy place as split into two kinds of people. The few called of God look at the words of the Bible coming to them and say, “I do not know what these words mean, so I will hide His word in my heart.” The many, on the other hand, say, “I know exactly what God means by those words, let me explain them to you.”
But some who find my websites discover the same word they have also hidden away in their hearts taking on life and form and joy through what I share AND as they themselves speak those same words as Christ their only life. These are the ones, including you, dear reader, who have done what God wanted you to do with His word all your life. And because you have done so, hiding His word, along with all the Spirit experiences of the Holy Place, in your heart, unwilling to “know” what it all really means, now God is free to be all that He means as those words really ARE inside the Holy of Holies.
And here in the Holiest, we see that every Word God speaks is real and true and speaking of something utterly different than what all those who limit God have imagined.
Bearing Responsibility. I came up again against the question of responsibility, that regardless of Christ in us as our life, yet we still must, ourselves, find the will of God in our daily lives, that we might do His will and not our own.
I was once asked the question by a reader, “How do we respond to those who say, 'but I have a responsibility myself before God'?” My response to that question became my book, Musings on Union. Yet that is, in fact, the one big point of resistance, of the rebellion of Adam remaining in most of our brethren. And thus the answer God is giving us to that question becomes ever more focused and clear.
That claim, that “I” must seek God's will and not “my” own is, in fact, the essence of maintaining a self separate from God, to maintain control, to keep one's own “life.” In the end, no matter how much such a one “draws near to God,” yet they will not enter into the Holiest of All. Entering into the Holiest REQUIRES the full abandonment of self into the Lord Jesus, that He ALONE bears ALL responsibility for that which is me.
The Veil. You see, the one who maintains, in Christian piety and in a spirit of walking with God, desiring to be pleasing to Him, that they themselves must seek the will of God daily, so that they do not follow their own will against God, in the end, such a one is remaining IN dishonesty. One can “keep” the will of God 99.999% of the time, yet two things have not changed. First, they still retain the right “to do their own will,” and second, they are still fully capable of putting Christ to death. That is, they will not have Christ as He is. (And NO ONE is ever actually doing the will of God, not even 0.001% of the time, regardless of how they judge their actions.)
Now, Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3 that the Veil is what keeps people from understanding the word of God as Christ Himself. To walk in the light is to abandon all claims that “I am seeking God's will and not my own,” for all such claims are inherently dishonest. And it is the full surrender to Christ Jesus in Person as our ONLY life, that His flesh (the Veil) is our flesh and that our FLESH IS His flesh, that alone causes us to let go of being incense to become the aroma of Christ that alone enters behind the Veil into the Holiest.
Turning Around. Our surrender to our full union with the Lord Jesus Christ IS the greatest surrender of all, and it is a complete and final surrender. Maintaining responsibility for one's self before God is a refusal of God's salvation.
Now, these things I have expounded on through all that I teach. Here, we are speaking, not of entering BOLDLY into the Holiest, into Christ as the ONLY Oone I am, but of living entirely inside the Holiest as our only knowledge of God and all reality. And to live inside the Holiest, seated upon the Mercy Seat together with God as the tip point of that Pillar of Fire touching God's creation, we must have done the final greatest Action of Boldness inside of Christ, we must have turned around. To live inside the Holiest is ENTIRELY by faith, by our bold proclamation that Christ is the only life we are, against the sight of our eyes and against the judgment of the human.
Life and not Death. Thus I am making this point again, as it is essential to our knowledge of the Covenant, that as we live turned around in the Holiest, we see that every Word God speaks means something quite different from what our brethren who have drawn near but will not enter interpret that word as meaning. Our brethren use the same verses we do, but they use them in an argument woven together that allows them to maintain their own story of self, of ever trying and so often failing to “please” God.
Jesus said that he who tries to keep his life in this world will lose it, but he who loses his life (soul, psuche, self-story) for His sake will find his true self. Those who draw near to God, but who remain within the Altar of Incense, not entering into Christ alone, remain in death. We who have abandoned all claims to any “self that is seeking God's will and not its own,” live only in LIFE, which is entirely another PERSON, a Person, Jesus, who is now also ourselves, our only, our true self.
The New Creation. Holding this picture, then, we want to look further at God's placement of this Holy of Holies in which we live. Let's look again at the picture God gave us in the first chapter of this course.
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As you can see, the Holy of Holies where we live turned around is entirely inside the New Creation, inside of Jesus, inside of LIFE. In this picture, the Holiest, attached to the Holy of Holies, represents the church as she is waiting to enter into God. Yet she will not enter in.
A Different Picture. But, that picture is just one view, one angle or perspective. Let's look at the same thing from a different viewpoint.
This picture gives us the position and priority of all reality forever. Yes, all creation appears to be larger than the church and larger than that which is visible of God seen and known, but that is appearance only. This picture gives us the true view, the view of substance. And our FAITH, the faith of the Son of God our only self, is that substance forever.
The Cross. There are two more things we must include to find the perspective we need to place the Holiest inside our experience as the Action of God's Covenant in and through us. First is the cross. - If One died for all then all died.
This statement and all the implications flowing out of this statement forever are simply staggering. Most envision a little cross, a “back-then” cross, or a cross that is effective only by our own workings, our own energeia. We see the cross as absolute, as larger than the universe, as final and complete.
Nothing in the old creation retains its own self-existence. All entities, all humans, all angels, all beings of heaven and earth DIED upon the cross of Christ. The original creation ceased the moment Jesus gave up His spirit to death.
The Determination of God. Our brethren, hiding from God, now, in the Altar of Incense (I saw the souls of those who had been slain for (by) the Word of God… and they cried… “How long, Oh Lord…”) do not know that they are guilty, executed, and dead. They, as themselves, do not exist. God is asking them to let go of something that no longer exists. Yet they will not let go, “But I am responsible before God to DO…”
Here is God's response: the zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall do this – therefore His own arm brought salvation to Him. We will study pro-determination as we pass through the veil with God, the veil, now our flesh as Jesus' flesh, the fierce passion of this absolutely DETERMINED Fellow inside of us, now one with us, to seize ALL into life. But here we must place the entire focus of the Holiest in the present hour.
God and Us Together. We do not study our Covenant with God so that we might know something about future ages to come. We study our Covenant with God so that we might know this extraordinarily determined God energeoing away inside of us as He bursts forth, together with us, through the Veil, now our flesh, the very Flesh of Christ Jesus Himself, to seize all these, our dear brethren, INTO life.
And there is only one thing we can do for our brethren. We must kill them; we must put them to death. So yes, Jesus goes forth in the harvest killing every person found in the Old Creation, in the tree of knowing what is right and trying to do it and knowing what is wrong and trying not to do it, and always falling short of God. If One died for all, then all died. And when each one surrenders to their already completed execution, then, and only then, can God Himself seize them into LIFE.
The Terms of the Covenant. We will wait until after completing the lessons of this session before attempting to craft the wording of the Covenant regarding the Holy of Holies. Yet we have the verses we need.
For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, those those who live should live no longer for (in) themselves, but for (in) Him who died for (as) them and rose again (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). - Therefore, if anyone is IN Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new. Now all things are of God… (2 Corinthians 5:17-18a).
You and I live entirely inside of God; we have never lived anywhere else.