14.1 An Impossible Salvation
© 2017 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Salvation is impossible.
When a person learns a new language (something I have never succeeded at), for awhile, they must translate from the new language to the old in order to think. Then, as they take on the new language personally into themselves, there comes a time when they can think in the words of the new language without resorting to translation. So it has happened with me in this word, “Salvation.” Only through writing these Symmorphy courses has the real meaning of Biblical Salvation become the entirety of what I think when I use the word. The final piece, I think, was writing Lesson 14.3 A Highway for God in Kingdom.
NO ONE Seeks God. Now, when I read or speak the word, “salvation,” I think only one thing. I think of Father known by all through His Church. Salvation is impossible.
As I have been writing these Covenant sessions, all the basic gospel verses have been coming to me and I am seeing them totally differently than ever before. Readers are also saying the same thing to me. You see, some of these basic verses we once relegated to the “coming to Jesus” part of the “gospel message.” Here is one of those. There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God (Romans 3:10-11).
Someone Is Lying. Most Christians say, “We must seek God’s will for our lives and not our own.” God says, “No, you don’t. You never did and you never will.” One of these is telling the truth, and the other is lying. I will let you take your pick.
“No one seeks after God” is far more importantly applied to those drawing near to the Holiest than to those drawing near to Jesus as the Gate. David said, “Search me, Oh God, and know my ways and see if there be any wicked way in me.” Paul said, “Search me, Oh God, if You want, but I already know that there is NO righteous way in me.”
Best to Shut Up. So, they come up with this alternative – “But God just wants me to try my best.” And God’s answer is: Your throat is an open tomb; with your tongue you practice deceit; the poison of asps is under your lips (Romans 3:13 - modified). You are lying. Best to shut up. That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God (Romans 3:19).
Let’s get one thing clear. We are toast. I have known many Christians in my life, in many streams of the Church. The only Christians I have known who actually believe they are guilty without hope are those who actively confess and practice full union with Christ.
Without Hope. NO ONE UNDERSTANDS (Romans 3:11a). I think now that the most important moment in my Christian life was in February, 1998, when, in the darkness of winter and in the frozen wastes of my hopelessness, God spoke to me, “Give My people hope.” I did NOT understand; I had no hope of my own.
If you have any hope, any hope at all, that you are going to please God or do what is right in His sight or successfully discover “His will,” let alone do it, you are completely worthless for His Salvation. But that isn’t even the half of why this Salvation is impossible.
No Vacuum. The problem is not that no one understands; the problem is that every Christian “understands perfectly.” There is no vacuum in the human soul; if the knowledge of God is not there, then “Christian knowledge” is filled with a vast panorama of what ain’t true.
There is no greater darkness in the Christian mind than the profound definition of death as “savior” and of being dead as “salvation.” A Christian dies – “Oh, they went to their ‘reward.’” No, they are dead, and now they are waiting at whatever level of knowing God they came to, waiting for Salvation, real Salvation, Biblical Salvation, to be revealed on this earth.
You Are NOT Righteous. So – Salvation is Father known by all through His Church.
Then we look at God’s definition of all Christians. You are NOT righteous, you do NOT understand; you do NOT seek after Me. You are always turned in the wrong direction; you have no value to me. You never, ever do what is right or good. You lie; when you speak, only death comes out. You are always speaking curses, and you are quick to put people to death. In short, you neither fear Me nor believe in Me.
So, tell me, how is God Almighty going to be known by all creation through Christians? Salvation is impossible. God brings His own as close to Himself as He can, and still, they refuse to enter into Life.
We Do Not Believe. Here’s God’s problem. Salvation is the easiest thing in the universe. Even a child can traipse into salvation. Fools can find it; the crippled can stumble into it. The least and the littlest can live now and forever inside all the Salvation of God. Yet no one will; Christians refuse, having replaced Salvation with a convenient fantasy that requires only lying of them.
I have stated that the difference between the manifest sons of God setting creation free and you and me right now is that they believe that God speaks the truth and we do not. We do not believe. – We do not know; we do not understand. The fact that I KNOW that I do NOT know is why I will not stop writing.
I Am NOT Capable of Salvation. As I continue to peruse “friend” requests on Facebook from Christians all over the world, I continue seeing God’s church. The biggest problem I see is that everyone knows what the gospel is all about. And the ones that know the most are the ones that seem to me the coldest and the emptiest. Yet I do find, on occasion, those Christians who don’t have a clue. They are the ones who talk about Jesus.
Nineteen years ago, I came to the profound realization that I will NOT be pleasing God. I will not be finding His will, let alone doing it. I do not hear; I cannot obey. I am not capable of salvation; I will not be revealing Christ to anyone. I CANNOT cease from sin.
Where Angels Fear to Tread. You are reading a very desperate man, a man who CANNOT escape from selfishness and iniquity. And so in my despair, I have done something horrendous. I have rushed in where angels fear to tread. I have put myself inside the HOLIEST, inside of God, where I do NOT belong. I have done so by the proclamation of faith. And I have done so WITH and IN all of my wicked sinfulness.
So – what has God done to me in all my presumption? God executed me. Yet I WILL NOT leave His Fire nor find any solace elsewhere.
Where’s the Stuff? But that is only the first part of my desperation. I see in my Bible that God says some pretty big stuff. He says that He seizes certain individuals in His grip and never lets them go. He says a whole lot more big stuff than that.
And so, in my complete inability ever to do what God says, I have taken God’s word and stuck it in His face, poked it into His eyeballs, one might say. God – You said this – Okay. So where’s the stuff? You make some big boasts, God. So do it. Do it in me.
Inside this Fire, I have locked my forehead against God’s. I can understand perfectly why anyone would want to get as far away from me and what I teach as they can, yet I will not be turned away.
My Desperation Does Not End. You see, I have not only forced my way into the Holiest place in the universe, into the very FIRE that IS God Himself, by audacious presumption ALONE, I not only stick God’s word in His face, my forehead against His, but I have also turned around. I have claimed that my stupidity, my never-ending failure, my flesh-riddled soul, my tired and lust-filled body is GOD with me, one with me, revealing Himself as He wishes now through all of my difficulty and lack.
And yet, my desperation just does not end. For I am sitting here telling you that this that I now know IS Salvation, and that all my brethren are stumbling in not knowing the Salvation Who always carries them!
Playing Games with God. Yet, as I sit here inside of God, observing my brethren, it is quite clear to me that they are lying to themselves about themselves and that they are playing games with God. Not one of them is righteous. Not one of them seeks after God.
And those whom I once looked up to as men and women of God, examples to me of a life of holiness and seeking after God, I now know were faking it entirely. They convinced me that they were godly only because they had first convinced themselves, that is, they were or are confidence tricksters, that is, con-men. If you ever sense in my words any idea that I might be a “man of God,” then please, save yourself from my delusion.
Salvation Is Far from Us. Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as at twilight; we are as dead men in desolate places. …We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: in transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood (Isaiah 59:9-13).
There Was NO Justice. Let Isaiah’s true words hit you hard, for he is speaking of you, dear reader, and of all Christians you have ever known and of all Christians who have ever lived. Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falseness: “I am seeking God’s will for my life.” Bull sh–!! (Forgive my French).
Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice. He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; and His own righteousness, it sustained Him (Isaiah 59:15b-16). – His own arm brought Salvation!!!
Pro-Determination. For those whom God pro-knows, He pro-determines to symmorphose them with Jesus as the revelation of Father, that Jesus might be the firstborn of many sons just like Himself (Romans 8:29 modified from the Greek). – Put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14a).
Pro-orisen, pro-determination, typically translated by Calvinists into the awful Calvinist word, “predestination.” What is God’s Pro-Determination? God’s pro-determination is God’s decision TO DO SALVATION HIMSELF! In fact, God was determined to do Salvation Himself in the garden, but Adam said, “Let me try, let me lie, let me cry,” instead.
God’s Forehead. Picture a loaded train, a mile long, going at 300 miles an hour. You are standing on the tracks directly in front of that train. Now increase the size of the train to the size of the universe and the power of that train as all the power lighting all the stars and its speed as the speed of light. Yet it is still on the tracks heading straight at you.
That train is God’s forehead. Pro-Determination. God is DETERMINED to reveal Himself through you. There is no man. You are not and will never be worthy of or capable of revealing God to anyone. What games we have played with God, that we are going to “prove” that we love Him! Balderdash. Hogwash! 100% crap.
Bug Splats. Here is the best definition of “turn around in the Holiest” that I have found yet. If we have turned around as that MIGHTY Determination hits us, then we are now bug splats on the face of God! Who in their right mind is going to twiddle and dance, prevaricate and jerk around, pleading and crying, “Oh please, don’t hit me!”?
Here is my problem. I believe in God. Those who are always repenting of themselves have never repented of themselves. Listen to their words; it’s all about themselves. “I, not Christ.” By the cross, I say one thing only. I am crucified with Christ.
God Must Do It. God’s ENTIRE purpose throughout most of the Bible is to MAGNIFY the Cross of Christ. That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
If my sin MUST be purged, then God must do it. When He had by Himself purged our sins (Hebrews 1:3). If God is going to fill me with all of His fulness, then He must do that; I sure can’t pretend that I am “godly.” If God is going to flow out of me as rivers, then He must do that. Of what value is all my twisting and prancing? Yet this Fierce and Mighty God does ask one thing of me. He asks me to: “Believe that I am.”
Fleeing Calvinism. I began a word study of pro-orisen and election and being called out and called into and God choosing us according to His own counsel and to His own ordering of all things. It became evident to me very quickly that such a study, analyzing all those verses, fitting them together, attempting to come up with a mental understanding of God’s election would produce only one thing for us. Calvinism. That is – God has chosen His elect, fine and dandy, but you CANNOT know if you are one of them or not, so you had better get with the program or you might discover that God did not, in fact, chose you.
God CHOOSES Me! I lived in that doubt and hopelessness for many years. I could not know God at all. And so, in my desperation, in my tears, in my utter lack of hope in myself, I do one thing only with this HUGE word, Pro-Determination. I put myself INSIDE of it. God CHOOSES me!
– Believe that I AM. – God, You ARE all Salvation in me and as me and through me right now and right here.
The Pro-Determination of God has no real meaning for us any other way than by our own determination to be found nowhere else, regardless. I would rather be a bug splat on God’s Face than to be perfect and right in myself (Psalm 84:10 – paraphrased).