10.2 Tablets of Covenant
© 2016 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts (Hebrews 8:10). – Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart (2 Corinthians 3:3).
It is clear from the gospel that the stone tablets of Moses become the hearts of the believers in Jesus and that “law” in the Old translates into Christ Jesus in Person in the New. What is it that is written upon our hearts? Christ in Person begins first as every word God speaks.
Without Measure. Now, the primary form which a complete thought takes is the sentence. Instead of sentences, however, we will use the number of verses in the Bible as complete thoughts – 23,145. If we use David’s numbering of God’s complete thoughts concerning each one of us, that means that inside of God, and thus written upon our own hearts, are around 2 quadrillion Bibles’ worth of thoughts. That is, the extent of all that is Christ written upon our hearts CANNOT be measured or counted.
But here’s the thing. These hearts that ARE the Covenant are our own hearts, and they are hearts of FLESH. Hearts that say, “All that the Lord says we will do,” are hearts of stone. – Hearts of flesh say, “Let it be to me according to Your word.”
Contending with You. Before continuing, I want to contend with you and you with me concerning the Word God speaks. I am using these mighty symbols of God, symbols of holiness and sinlessness – the VERY Ark of the Covenant, to place upon several New Testament verses a meaning that almost all Christians I know would call sheer, unmitigated BLASPHEMY.
I want you to go back through every New Testament verse I used in these two lessons. Look up those verses in their context. And find, to my satisfaction, the answer to these questions. Have I twisted these verses? Have I, in any way, imposed any meaning upon these common and familiar New Testament verses that is NOT there in plain sight in their obvious wording?
My Rest Forever. I entered into my precious knowing of Jesus living now as me, as all that I find myself to be, as two urges working together. The greater urge was to know this Jesus whom I love, and the lesser urge was to flee from all the horrors imposed by a separated “gospel.” And inside this knowing that Jesus lives as me, not “in spite of” all my foolish mistakes, but utterly as me, even as my very inability, I rest and will rest forever.
Yet, the more I live inside this Consuming Fire (ENTIRELY by faith, regardless of what I “see” or “feel”), the more that old way of seeing which I once knew becomes more and more evil, a terrible horror of darkness out from which we must save our brethren.
Seeing Only Christ. Looking at one’s own heart, as a believer in Jesus, and failing to see Christ in all of His glory, Christ as every Word God speaks written now upon that heart of flesh as the very COVENANT of God through them, but, instead, choosing, by willful intent, to “see” deceit and wickedness and then to turn and “see” the same fantastical human imaging of sinfulness and falling short upon their brother’s heart, this practice is such a horror of evil that I can now only shudder all the way through my entire being at the dim memory of it.
Inside this FIRE that is God, we have shut our mouths. We have become silent and ignorant and blind. If we are to see or know anything, the Father must speak His Word to us and as us, for He sees only Christ.
Two Quadrillion Bibles. But I am getting ahead of myself, for seeing through eyes of fire belongs in the next lesson, this beyond incredible experience, this ACTION of ours that is Aaron’s rod that budded. Yet if we are to know our own hearts as they really ARE, all shadow must be vanished forever from our minds.
And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written (John 21:25). Let’s take John’s thought a bit further. Picture two quadrillion such books, all Bible, all more and more writers and books speaking God’s word ever further. Your HEART of flesh is MORE God’s Bible than ALL of those together.
A Letter of Christ. And your heart is you, your essence and person, your dreams and delights, your sorrows and tears. This is a GREAT mystery, but we are speaking of symmorphy, that is, we are speaking of Christ and His church.
“Father, it is clear to me that my heart, my own heart of flesh, my center and person, my joys and my sorrows, is a letter of Christ, ALL that you speak, not just the Bible, though including every Word in the Bible, yet also including all those infinite and complete thoughts You have of me inside the Story You tell Yourself about Yourself. It is clear to me, Father, that my heart is Your Story, my heart is Your Covenant.”
An Open Bible and a Human Heart. We have no way of knowing the shape or dimensions of the stone
tablets upon which first God and then Moses wrote the ten commandments. Nevertheless, the familiar representation cannot be improved, that of the merging of two forms, the form of an open Bible with the form of the human heart.Now, look closely at the entirety of 2 Corinthians Chapter 3, the context for this incredible statement of Paul’s that grows larger and larger to us, that our own hearts of flesh are the very Word God speaks, Christ Jesus Himself. Beholding as in a mirror – Does not the context require us to say, “Beholding IN our own hearts of flesh”?
Every Word IS Jesus. Now, I think that maybe I should bring in more New Testament verses that confirm and expand on 2 Corinthians 3:3, but I hesitate, and then I realize that, no, it is the Word as hidden manna inside of us that we would know. Rather, in this initial seeing of the Covenant written upon our hearts, we retain the picture of hiding every Word God speaks in the Bible, and every Word God reveals to us by His Spirit, all through the pathways of our hearts, not needing to know what any of it means, not needing to remember its details, just knowing that every word is Jesus and Jesus IS all that He IS in our hearts.
What we need to know here is this picture God gives us in the second half of Exodus, what everything is all about.
All About the Covenant. Everything is all about the Covenant. The Ark, that is, our human persons filled with God on the inside and covered with God on the outside, that is, this full union between the Person of God inside of our persons as humans, is just a box, a container, which has one purpose only, to carry this Covenant inside of it.
And the entirety of the Tabernacle of Moses, the Holy of Holies, the Temple of Solomon, the Church of Christ, the House of God, is for one purpose only, to house this Covenant inside of it. And where this Covenant goes, all Israel and all that is God goes with it. And when this Covenant rests, all Israel and all that is God rests with it.
My Heart. And that Covenant is Jesus, and that Covenant is our own human hearts of flesh. When I look inside myself and behold my own heart, my own desires and dreams, my own fears and sorrows, my treasure, all that is ME, I see, not just all of God, but that ONE THING in all of God’s being, that ONE THING in all the universe that God values above all else.
My heart. Jesus, every Word God speaks.
You have magnified Your Word above all Your name. My heart of flesh. The Covenant.
God’s Great Treasure. We are beginning to see just how HOLY, just how important to God these words are coming from our lips, arising from our hearts: “Look at me, God. I belong to You. Let Jesus be to me all that You speak.”
Here is the other Covenant line that is this same MOST HOLY Thing, this Great and Exalted Treasure of God. Christ lives in my heart through faith. It is my deepest hope that you are as overwhelmed by these seven words as I am right now.
The whole purpose of all that FIRE stuff coming down out of heaven, scaring the tar out of everyone, was simply God pointing out to all His GREAT Treasure – our hearts.
Christ Lives in My Heart. Yes, Paul said “We have THIS TREASURE” in 2 Corinthians 4:7, still referring directly back to 2 Corinthians 3:3, our own hearts of flesh, all that is Christ written with Spirit ink, yet still our own hearts.
Now, I am fully aware that I have taken the plunge into complete insanity without recourse or hope of recovery. Yet what else do these words mean? Christ lives in my heart through faith. They are the entire overthrow and repudiation of all that is Nicene Christianity.
I keep swinging my sword for one reason only. I want you to give your heart to Father with all turned-around confidence. I want Jesus to win your heart for Himself.
My Heart Is Yours. “Father, my heart is Yours. All the treasure house of Your Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, exalted above the heavens, is written all through the pathways of my heart. And my heart, Jesus Himself living now as me, belongs utterly to You, Your Son, Your Treasure, Your Word, faithful and true.
“Oh, my Father, let my heart, coming back now to you as Your Son carrying with Him the Joy He has found, let my own heart be the firstfruits to You of the Joy of Your creation restored. Father, my heart is Your Heart. Possess it as Your dwelling place, the source of my life, Your bubbling Springs of Life arising in me forever.”