23.2 Speaking the Seven
© 2017 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Homologia – meaning speak the same Word that is Christ – has been translated by the Calvinists as “confess.” And that word “confess” has a small and rigid meaning, pretty much the same in Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. “Confess” the doctrine, the mental ideas, of Nicene Christianity spelled out by Augustine, primarily, as well as contained in the Nicene declaration.
As we go forth with God into His Church as the Holy of Holies, we are rebuilding the Altar that was broken down, we are restoring the Tabernacle of David. And we are redeeming the Words of God from the tares cast by the evil one. This is a most critical task.
Homologia. Homologia – speak Christ personally as yourself, first; then speak Christ visible now through His Church. Speak the same Word that IS Jesus, the all-speaking of God.
When we get to the Inheritance, we will look again at the names of God, of Jesus, and of the New Jerusalem written upon us – as our age-abiding possession. Yet what we are saying in the title “Speaking the Seven,” is to speak the signature of God upon us seven times, and our signature upon God in the same seven times. The first three are our agreement as we enter into the knowledge of God, the fourth is our seal inside of God, and the final three are God’s revelation of His name through us.
Combining the Sevens. Yet let’s bring in that most wondrous layout from the last lesson, for just as we combined the tens, so we are combining the sevens, even as we speak them into appearance.
Pro-Thesis, the set forth purpose of God – Pro-Knowing, the Heart of God in which all things first exist – Pro-Determination, the Fire of God by which all things are set in their course – Symmorphy, the nature of God by which He reveals Himself – Image, you and me through whom God reveals Himself – Pro-Calling Forth, God Himself, now in our mouths – Inheritance, all of God and all of creation given to us.
These are not ideas to know, but signatures to SPEAK. The Word is in our mouths – the same Word that is Christ, the same Word etched upon our hearts with Spirit ink.
Entering the Gate. Oh, to know the Covenant – to KNOW the Covenant. What unbelievable privilege is given to us!
We entered the Gate into the beginning knowledge of God’s Pro-Thesis, of the Pattern Son, and, coming to the Altar of Sacrifice, we knew forgiveness of sins and a brand new life. Inside this wondrous place of coming to know Jesus, we go back and forth between the washing of the Word and the knowledge of what that Sacrifice means for us. Let me suggest that, if you do not KNOW the simple truths of that Sacrifice as expressed by Watchman Nee in The Normal Christian Life (or other similar teachers), then it behooves you to let God plant those things in your understanding.
We were called according to God’s Pro-Thesis (Romans 8:28).
Beginning to Speak Christ. What do we speak inside this beginning?
I am at peace with God, and God is at peace with me. I am clean; I am clean; I am clean. Jesus lives in my heart. I have the right to become a child of God.
God works all things together for good; therefore, I justify God in all things and give Him thanks.
I gain simple wisdom from the Bible, not for performance to “make myself” right with God, but as wise living, that I might live in peace, maintaining good relationships with others. I catch a view, dim to be sure, of the purpose of God to reveal Christ through me.
Entering the Door. We entered the Door and the Spirit of God flooded all through our minds, our wills, and our emotions. Our entrance through the Gate is our willingness to be forgiven of God. Our entrance through the Door is our willingness to surrender utterly to Jesus as Lord.
The primary purpose of this Holy Place for us is that we might begin to know the Pro-Knowing of God, that His Word is Spirit, that word without Spirit profits nothing. By the Bread we know a living Word, by the Lampstand we know the light of Spirit upon us and by the Altar we lose the false clinging to a material life. We are prepared to enter into John 14:20.
Speaking My Knowledge of Spirit. Inside this Holy Place I speak first that Jesus IS Lord, that He knows what He does with me. I acknowledge the good things of Christ inside of me; I live in the good speaking of God towards me. I speak the abundance of God in all provision; I speak healing, not just for my body, but for all wholeness of life.
I consider that I am one Spirit with the Lord; I begin to understand that the Spirit of God dwells in me. Out from that Spirit, I speak blessing and comfort and hope into you. I prophecy; I speak in tongues. I learn the language and utterance of Spirit. I comprehend the heavenlies.
Entering the Veil. Then the day comes when we close our ears to the false teachers who say that we are “dirty,” and we step easily and boldly through the open Veil into John 14:20 now the only life we know.
We surrender ourselves to Jesus in the greatest surrender of our Christian lives, that our flesh IS His flesh, our stumbling is His stumbling, Jesus has become us. Our flesh is washed with pure water; our hearts are sprinkled from all consciousness of sins. We are caught by the Determination of God; we have entered into Jesus alone. Here we begin by knowing the Ark of the Covenant, the Word made flesh, now living as us.
Speaking Christ My Only Life. I speak Christ as the only life I am; Christ as all that there is in me. I call every particle of my present being to be the Lord Jesus Himself, now living as me. I speak Jesus into every moment of my life, through every moment of my past as well as in every present circumstance.
I cast down every voice of accusation against me by knowing that Jesus is ALL there is in me. I close my ears to all shadow of doubt. Jesus has become ALL that I am. I learn Jesus now living as me until I rest utterly inside of Him, allowing Him to carry me regardless of the sight of my eyes or my human judgment. I speak Christ my only life.
Turning Around. As we learn to live only inside of John 14:20, to call ourselves by Christ and by nothing else, we become more and more aware of Father inside of Jesus inside of us. And we see our final surrender to God, our final placing of our signature upon our Father.
We turn around upon the Mercy Seat; we become the fulness of Salvation, God’s Mercy Seat, bringing all things into love, seeing all things by love. Here we come to know Symmorphy, Father sharing all things as One Pperson together with us. We share Hheart with God. From here on out, we see our every circumstance as God in us as He wishes, reconciling the world to Himself.
Speaking the Mercy Seat of God. In this Holiest Place, having turned around upon the Mercy Seat, I speak Father through me in all things. Christ, the all-speaking of God fills my mouth. I speak as Christ Jesus, together with Jesus as His body.
I am careful to speak only what God Himself speaks, making it personal and presently relevant to me, but cutting out all “Christian” things God does not say. I speak forgiveness; I speak no-consciousness-of-sins; I speak Christ into and upon all of our brethren. I see all things as God sees them; I call that which is not into appearance; I call that which appears into nothingness.
I sing the Song of the Lamb; I prophecy Christ through us.
A Song of Surrender. Let’s re-word that song that was once mighty in my own desire for God into the present knowledge of the Holy in which we live.
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I entered the Gate to a brand new life when I came to the Altar. I entered the Door and Your Spirit fills me through and through. But then my heart still longed for something deeper, and I could see life through the veil that You have torn in two.
So I stepped through as Christ becomes me. I know as I’m known, I know You alone; I now reveal You. To where no sin remains in my way, I enter in with boldness and say, I am Your glory, I am Your way, I now reveal You.
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We put on incorruptibility; we put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Veil as Us. Now filled with the Knowledge of the Covenant as our own beating Hheart, we step out as one body together with Father through the Veil once again, now our flesh, flesh of His Flesh. We together reveal Jesus to His Church, we take the name of the New Jerusalem upon ourselves. We are the Image of God’s dear Son; we show the Church to the Church.
We birth Communities of Christ across this earth, brethren dwelling together in love. We lay down our lives for the brethren as we are the beating heart of our Father inside those Communities of Christ. We nurture God’s woman in the heavens and in the earth.
Speaking the New Jerusalem. And in this mighty Sending we speak Christ into the lives of every dear believer in Jesus. Jesus IS all that you are; know Him inside of you. We teach God’s precious people to sing the Song of the Lamb, to cast down all accusation, to place Jesus upon every moment of their lives.
We break the image of the serpent as “what God looks like”; man alone is the image of God – people, family – Jerusalem. We speak the perfection of God upon the bumbling foolishness and tender hearts of God’s people. We speak the absence of sin and the good things of Jesus into the hearts of every member of Christ’s glorious Body.
The Door as Us. Then, as the Church together, we step through the Door out into a world and a church that does not know God. We are the face of God; we are the proving of Jesus faithful and true, even yet in these bodies of mortal flesh.
We open our mouths filled with Fire, and we Pro-phecy Christ, we call forth every Word that Jesus IS into the knowledge of all creation. We are the revelation of Jesus Christ, His name written upon our foreheads for all to see and to acknowledge that the Father indeed sent Jesus.
We are meek and lowly of heart, sharing Hheart with God; we see others as better; we lay down our lives for the least.
Speaking Jesus Faithful and True. We Pro-phecy Christ. We call the knowledge of every Word that is Jesus into the human experience. We speak “the Father and we are One,” even as we dodge the spears thrown at us.
We speak the emptiness of this world and the falseness of the powers of darkness. We speak a living Word, a Word that stands in judgment of all things, a Word that judges all things to life. We are the life of Jesus made visible in our mortal flesh. We speak all victory over this world, over all darkness, and over death. We speak the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The Gate as Us. And then, as Jesus proves Himself faithful and true through us, His Body, the River of Life begins to flow into outward manifestation, and you and I are caught first in that River as LIFE swallows up all death in our physical bodies.
We step through the Gate into our Inheritance. We put on immortality; the name of God is written upon our foreheads. All things belong to us, all that is God and all of creation. Yet we continue as the revelation of Jesus Christ in this present heaven/earth, causing all things to be ordered by the freedom and the peace of God. We shape this heaven/earth as the New Creation, as God meant it to be, as we with Him mean it to be.
Speaking the Abundance of Father. We speak life from the dead. We reveal Father through every Word that we speak.
We speak rivers of living water flowing out from us. We speak healing. We speak liberty. We purge the pollution cast upon this planet by the gentle words of our voice. We speak light into every crevice of darkness.
We speak healing. We restore broken hearts. We speak healing. The knowledge of God flows out from our mouths as the waters cover the sea. Father, now visible, speaks words of blessing and abundance into all through us. We are the revelation of Father.
All Speaking Continues. Now I want you to see that, although this speaking goes rapidly ever deeper in faith in God, yet we do not ever lose any speaking that has gone before. As we stand in this world as the revelation of Jesus Christ, yet in these bodies of mortal flesh, the words, “I am clean,” and all giving of thanks in and for all things remain as important in the present moment as they ever were when we first learned to say those things in the outer court. In fact – far more important.
And thus that Fire that began upon the Altar of Sacrifice consuming all that we are has become the Fire burning as Father in our hearts and the Fire as Christ singing now through our mouths.
A Holy, Holy Place. When I wrote my first text on The Covenant, written through the year 2012, as I came to see the real meaning of being the Mercy Seat of God for the first time, I was struck with the fear of God that what I was entering was HOLY and not for any playing of games. Thus I taught you to practice being the Mercy Seat entirely out from life laid down and love poured out.
As I have written on the Covenant again, an even greater journey of wonder and discovery, I come again to that same place of being stricken with the fear of God. For I see something more HOLY and more REAL than I have ever known. I see Christ; I see His calling forth.