27.1 The Name of Father
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And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them (John 17:26). – He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God (Revelation 3:12a). – They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads (Revelation 22:4).
If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him (John 14:23). – That you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19).
Defining Inheritance. Let’s define inheritance.
Inheritance (Webster’s 1926): 1. Act of inheriting; in the broadest sense, the acquisition of property, real or personal, movable or immovable, by one person as heir to another… Also a perpetual and continual right which a man and his heirs have to an estate or property.
2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person. 3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing; especially one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. 4. Possession or right of possession; ownership. 5. The reception or acquisition of characters or qualities by transmission from parent to offspring.
Symmorphy. The first part of our inheritance is God – All the fullness of God – Father, written upon our foreheads, that visible expression by which we are called. This is not God as our “commander,” but God as our Life. The difference is Symmorphy, and Symmorphy is the great mystery by which God joins His will with ours and ours with His, such that Wwe live and move and have our being, though two, yet as Oone.
To inherit is to receive the right of possession, of ownership. Two men, entering into Blood Covenant together, possess in full, not just what the other has, but what the other IS. This is a mutual ownership.
Inheritance Goes Both Ways. That you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints (Ephesians 1:18). Inheritance, inside of Covenant, goes both ways.
Here is a strange statement from the writer of Hebrews. For where there is a will, there must also of necessity be the death of the one who wrote the will. For a will of inheritance is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the one who wrote it lives (Hebrews 9:16-17 - modified).
Consider the following words, then, in this context of inheritance GOING BOTH WAYS! – I have been crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20).
Receiving Nothing. Let’s think this one through. Most interpret these words as meaning, “I am not now actually dead (Look, I’m still doing things contrary to God), so, I must place myself and keep myself upon the cross, I must put my ‘flesh life’ to death.”
Yet, as in all games of trickery, the visible words are not what is really being said or thought or lived by. What this way of thinking means is that “I” am very much alive. But if I am alive, then Christ has not died for me, and I, also, am not dead. And thus such a one receives nothing from God and God receives nothing from them for the ones who wrote the “double” will are still alive.
The Measurement of Value. Accepting the cross as complete is not just the doorway into Christ as we have known up until now. But it is also the securing of the inheritance, both for God and for us.
Now, we see ourselves as “poor” and God as “rich” in this mutual inheritance. Yet that is not the whole picture. The value of anything is determined by one measurement alone. In fact, no other measurement has anything to do with the “worth” of any single item. That measurement is the specific amount which the purchaser deems to be the price they will pay to obtain that item for themselves, not a penny more and not a penny less.
This inheritance goes both ways at the same moment; I am crucified with Christ goes both ways at the same moment.
God Is Poor; We Are Wealthy. God is the poorest bloke in the universe. Every other entity, regardless of what it is, has a form, a way of expressing itself, of connecting with others, of being seen and known. God has no form. He cannot be seen or known. God Himself is stricken with poverty; God is disabled.
You and I are the most wealthy of created beings, for we have a form that works in the heavens and in the earth equally and both at the same time. How much is God willing to pay to win our form for His own possession? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are (now) God’s Body and God’s Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:20 - modified).
As Poor as God. God paid a pretty penny to buy your body and your spirit for Himself to be His own form, His own Body and His own Spirit. And what, exactly, did God pay you to purchase from you your body and your spirit? God paid His LIFE.
But, let’s turn this equation around. You and I may have the very forms that are capable of containing and revealing all the fullness of God, good and well, but what use are such forms without Life? You see, we are as poor as God. For, as He has no form, so we have no Life!
Inheritance Has Three Parts. And the moment we ACCEPT the death of the One who wrote the will, the One who IS the will, not just as the Life of God poured out for us, but as our own death as well, the final will and testament comes into full effect – going both ways.
Look at that – an inheritance has three parts. First, everyone must accept that the one who wrote the will is, in fact, dead. Second, there is a waiting time during which the will must be read to those who inherit. And third, those who inherit must then take possession of their inheritance.
The First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles is the moment when we and God both take full possession of Oour mutual inheritance – He of His Body; we of our Life.
Mutual Wealth. From that moment on, both we and God go from being (almost) completely broke to being the wealthiest entity in the universe, for now we both have what we did not have. God has a Body, and we have Life. What good is Life without a Body in which to live? NO ONE knows you’re there! And what good is a body without Life filling it full and flowing out from it? No one connects with a walking corpse!
What I am attempting to underline is the full equality of this Covenant. Everything in the Covenant goes both ways at the same time and to the same degree. Being filled with all the fullness of God goes both ways at the same time and to the same degree.
Mutual Benefit. Symmorphy: The mutual benefit of exchange between God and us, that we might possess God-Life, Father in Person, and that God might possess a visible form relevant to heaven and earth in the same expression, that is, us in person together. Thus being filled with all the fullness of God means that we together are God’s visible form. That’s what His name is doing on our forehead.
And so, as we look at our inheritance, we must understand EVERYTHING as being this mutual inheritance. God wants to enjoy a meal of fried chicken, corn on the cob, heritage tomato slices, and baked beans around the campfire together as much as we do. The Mmeek (God included) shall inherit the earth.
All the Fullness of God. You and I together are God’s only way into His inheritance, heaven as well as earth.
Now, taking to ourselves the right of possession over ALL that God is in His Person, in His Heart, in His Might, and in His Extent, all the fullness of God, is the largest part of our inheritance, yes, but it is also the least delineated in the Bible in terms of the totality of our inheritance. Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward (Genesis 15:1). Some who don’t know God very well deride Abraham for then responding with a complaint about not having a kid to inherit all his stuff. It is only through the mutual Seed of God and Abraham, Christ Jesus, that any reward of God could ever be.
Taking Possession. And so, it is only through all the specifics of Christ and the New Jerusalem that God Himself becomes known to us in all that He is. It is through taking possession of every specific detail inside the new name of Christ and the name of the New Jerusalem written upon all that we are that we come into the full knowledge of our possession of the name of Father.
He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name (Revelation 3:12).
The Mercy Seat. What, then, does it mean for us to take possession of all the fullness of God Himself in Person as our very own right now?
Since we are seeing this “taking possession” as a mutual equality of Covenant, we see one picture only as the deepest meaning of possessing God. The Mercy Seat. Every moment of my life, every particle of my make-up, every circumstance of my path, every thought I think, every breath I breath – is God Himself filling me as I am as He wishes, reconciling the world to Himself, setting creation free. To possess God is to possess the Heart of the Almighty, to share Heart with God.
Father’s Heart. Although possessing all of God is not spelled out through many different verses, just mostly Ephesians 3:19, with our human weakness verses as its close companions, yet Father as our own possession is found in some of the verses regarding the Spirit given to us.
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us (Romans 5:5). You know, if we had a Bible with only one verse in it, Romans 5:5, we would have all that we need, the entire SEED of God, through which Christ could enter into us, become us, and reveal God through us.
To some of us, inheriting our own hearts as God’s heart is EVERYTHING. – Father at Home –