29.3 Looking Forward
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Through this course, I have taken us so far out beyond the camp into what most Christians call blasphemy and most non-Christians call lunacy that I must defend this place. I have done nothing other than follow Godly reasoning out from the unpopular belief that God speaks the truth.
- If God says that He determined me symmorphosed with Jesus as the revelation of Father, then – .
- If God fills me with all of His fulness, then – .
- If rivers of Spirit flow out from me, then – .
- If I cast down every voice that speaks contrary to the good-speaking of Jesus, then – .
- If Christ is the only life I am, then – .
- If I have entered boldly into the Holiest place in the universe and there turned around and their seated myself upon the seat found there, then – .
- If I walk forward in all confidence that I am utterly part of Christ as God in me reconciling all to Himself, then – .
- If I love you in the exact same way that Jesus loves me, then – .
- If I set creation free, then – .
- If I am inside of Jesus inside of Father, and if Father is inside of Jesus inside of me, then – .
What I Have Gained. And for every wondrous truth I have drawn out through each “then,” I have also placed an incredible Covenant verse into its place in our hearts.
It is my custom in this Review to set forth what I have gained through writing this course before we look at what is now ahead. The primary thing I have gained is that all the wondrous truths of the prior three courses have become so much more my own, written as Christ all through the pathways of my heart. Of truth, as I pointed out, we have done nothing more than to continually expand the height and width, the length and depth of the ten most important verses of the Bible.
Energeia and Pro-Knowing. Yet there are three mighty things that have become a part of my understanding as a result of writing this course. The first is the role of the New Testament word, Energeia, the mighty working of God as Fire inside of all that is me. What a center out from which to live!
Matching that mighty Energeia, energeoing away in me, then, is the knowledge of the Pro-Knowing of God which He has opened up to us. For just as God is inside of my center as Energeia, so I am inside of God’s center as an integral part of the very Story God tells Himself about Himself.
I know God’s Knowing of me!
Knowing God’s Knowing of Us. This knowledge of God’s Knowing of us, then, places us into a paradigm of understanding the universe and how all things really operate that is quite different than anything we have known before. We see the innumerable thoughts in God’s Story of Himself, thoughts unique to each one of us personally as well as towards all those things in our path.
And we see that God has placed every Word that is Jesus into our mouths that we might call forth that Word into its place in its season. God controls nothing; there is no “fate.” God speaks Christ, and all things have their being out from that good-speaking.
Living by the Same Words. And every created being is free of God, then, to draw those good words of Christ by which they exist into their own perversion and there seek to twist those Christ-words into their own self-story and by their own energeia drawn from angels. They cannot exist except by the Word of His power, yet their self-story appears void of Him.
We, as sons of God, however, live by those same Words that are Christ Himself in Person, innumerable words spoken regarding each one of us, to live by those words as they are. And we are able to do so, not by any ability of our own, but entirely by the mighty Energeia that is God Himself given to us, otherwise known as “grace.”
Our Task. Yet as sons of God, we do much more than live by every Word that is Christ proceeding out from the Pro-Knowing of God. For we are God’s Body, and we live inside of God’s intention to work together with us in the eternal task of causing all things that exist to turn towards the outcome of goodness.
Nothing is good in itself. Even Jesus said, “Do not call Me good, for only One is good – God.” And thus this unending task which Father has chosen to perform only together with us and we with Him is the role of the Sshepherd, of turning every entity and every circumstance and every moment inside God’s creation towards the result of unending goodness.
Learning Our Task. And we learn this practice by calling every circumstance, particle, and moment of our own lives as “God through me, reconciling the world to Himself.” As Jesus is Covenant in us, so we are the Knowing of God inside of creation.
Then we come to the third wondrous thing I have received into my possession through writing this course. That wondrous thing is my treasure forever inside of the sharing of life together. I don’t know that any understanding God has given me is more precious to me than seeing our life together through the patterns of Home and seeing the merging together of those patterns of Home with the ten most important verses.
Christian Community. Now I know how to teach Christian Community, how to build Christian Community, and how to live Christian Community.
Indeed this has been the set of my heart since I was fifteen years of age, maybe even since I was twelve. I think I was twelve when a girl in the berry field asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. My answer was clear and certain. “I want to be married.” I know I was fifteen when I stayed the weekend at the Mennonite Church with the youth group, sleeping in the classrooms and eating our meals together. In spite of our ignorance of God, something was birthed inside of me through those three days – a vision of the Community that is Christ.
Patterns of Home. I was fifteen as well when I built my first house in the woods just beyond our yard and moved into that little house as my bedroom for the next six months. God has written His patterns of Home all through me my entire life. And thus we come to our view of what is now ahead of us.
How good and how precious it is for brethren to dwell together in unity – for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even LIFE forevermore (Psalm 133).
Everything I have written, from the first pages of The Jesus Secret until this Covenant course, has been for one ultimate purpose, to call forth myself and my brethren into the fullness of Christ, that is, into Christian Community.
A Blueprint for Life Together. And so, in a very specific sense, my writing of the prior four courses of Symmorphy is for one purpose, to write Symmorphy V: Life, that is a blueprint for life together. And my only purpose in writing Symmorphy V: Life is that I might call forth and be part of successful Communities of Christ across this earth, that the world may know that Father sent Jesus.
God works by patterns. First, He shows us Christ our only life, then He teaches us to live as Christ towards others. But what God really wants is that heart, shared with Him, His Heart in us, that will be that same pattern of life together for His entire Church, a pattern of life laid down and love poured out. – And We Also!
Refusing to Enter. At times, I have pointed to Preston Eby as a deeper truth preacher towards whom I am willing to reference my readers. Yet this last week I read his most recent letter out from his present series, “From the Candlestick to the Throne.” The topic was “the harlot.” I was reading Sam Fife (almost identical in every way); I was reading a word that, pressing close to the Holiest, still refuses to enter in BECAUSE sin in the flesh keeps them out. Yet, in the anointing upon them, not knowing Christ as their only life, they view(ed) the cacophony of the Christian world with open contempt – resulting in an underlying core of exalted self-righteousness, not realizing how filthy their own eyes make (made) themselves.
The Knowledge of God. At first I was trying to figure out Preston Eby’s “problem.” But I realized that the problem is God. God cannot be known. And God has not yet released His knowledge into His Church.
We call that release of the Knowledge of God the fulfillment of the First Day of Tabernacles.
Yet that fulfillment of the First Day of Tabernacles, the Knowledge of God released through the Veil into His Church is also the spontaneous arising of Christian Communities as the Body of Christ all across this earth. And for that to happen, you and I must step through that Veil, now our flesh, Father through us, as Christ together.
Our calling is to show the Church to the Church.
Our Similarity. Then I look at those of my readers whom I have come to know over the last few years, either face to face or by ongoing email conversation. I see many similarities. Before you found this sharing of Christ, you had sought to know God through much agony over many years. Yet many of you are contrarians who just do not fit into the definitions of others. Those two things, seeking God through agony and being contrarian typically results in prickly religious personas, and such were some of you.
Yet I see you now, having embraced the speaking of Christ as the only life you are, and I see a people who are REAL and simple-hearted. I see men and women whom I KNOW.
What Receives this Word? And so I was thinking, not what are the qualities that block the word, but rather, what are the qualities that allow this Word of Christ to so transform us such that we, who were once twisted religiously into whatever contortion, are now living in such peace and joy, able to fellowship with any and all, able to give with no strings attached, upon whose face others see all that is there with nothing hidden?
The first quality is clear, a profound willingness to sink into Jesus as the only life we are, a willingness borne of desperation, of desire, and of love. The second quality follows, a profound willingness to say “good riddance” to our own twisted self-story, to embrace the joy of being already crucified, to care no more for our own creation of self.
Ready for Life Together. The brother in New York with whom I was visiting pointed out the third required quality – a teachable spirit. Those three qualities, a love for Jesus our only life, a willingness to embrace our inability in ourselves ever to please God, and a teachable spirit are the qualities that cause one who has held the invitation for years to enter with joy when the Doors are flung open and God comes rushing out into the knowledge of all.
We are now ready for Symmorphy V: Life. One body, brethren, family, walking together, loving one another with a pure heart fervently. Church Life – Christian Community.
I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.” Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! (Psalm 122).