11. An Enemy Has Done This

© Christ Revealed Bible Institute

I want to continue with the things I have been pondering, but back again to the viewpoint of “A World of Life.” My goal is to understand the reality inside of which every one of us lives.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil does not exist in any form or shadow outside of the human mind; that is, it is entirely fantasy. And death extends itself from the human imagination in only two very limited ways.

Now, it has been essential to me from the start to know exactly how to place sin and evil inside our present knowledge of union with Christ and God all-in-all. I cannot whitewash or “cover up” sin. Neither can I tolerate the claim that evil is just part of God. Yet both of those perversions are to be found inside realms of “ultimate reconciliation” and “union with Christ” thinking. They have never been inside of my thinking.

Nonetheless, I must know a reconciliation of all things that deals in a godly and just way with every action of sin. And I must know a God all-in-all that separates evil from “all” in a fully sensible way without the satanic claim of darkened hearts that “God knows and begets evil.”

And so, from the start of my writing, I have been compelled, in part, by a deep need to know how to place sin and evil inside our present knowledge of God all-in-all. I am fully satisfied for myself that I have done just that.

Let me explain the two briefly. There is no evil substance. None. Nothing is or can be evil in itself – in just the same way that nothing is or can be good in itself. All entities and beings are coming out of the good speaking of Jesus every moment regardless of what they do with themselves; yet no being is ever imposed upon by God. The devil is not evil in his source; neither is he compelled either to honor God or to dishonor God.

Sin, then, is every single momentary thought, word, or action that hurts another or hurts God or hurts one’s self. Sin is theft, taking, and typically destroying something that belongs to another.

You see, I must put every moment of my past into the Lord Jesus Christ, along with every moment of my present. And I must see myself in that moment as Jesus living as me, just as I do in every present moment. When I did something that was wicked, I am able to place that wicked action into Jesus dead upon the cross. When I do something that hurts another person in the present, I am able to put that action into the empty grave, even while I ask for forgiveness of the one I hurt.

But what I cannot do is place the intention for the wicked action upon Jesus. Thus, the Lord has taught me to say, “God did not intend my sinful action, but He did intend me in that moment and He does take full responsibility for my wicked action upon Himself, upon the cross of Christ.”

What, then, is evil? Evil is a series of sinful thoughts, words, and/or actions, coming out from an intention to live contrary to the good speaking of Jesus. Evil is momentary; evil is passing away. The reality of God-all-in-all has no need to include evil because evil as an intention is a vapor; it has no substance.

And when we say that God does not know evil, we do not mean that He is unaware of the effects of sinful actions. God is very aware of the consequences of evil actions, for He carries all that pain inside Himself first before any of it hits another created being.

God never “covers up” sin; rather, He covers over sin with the Sacrifice of Jesus, something entirely different. To cover over sin with the Blood of the Lamb is the greatest judgment against wicked actions that could ever be declared. And to submit to that judgment is to declare against one’s self, never to engage as a “self” before God ever again, that is, to shut up.

Let’s go back, now, to my earlier statement.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil does not exist in any form or shadow outside of the human mind; that is, it is fantasy. And death extends itself from the human imagination in only two very limited ways.

Those two very limited ways by which sin and death extend themselves out from the fantasy of the human mind are first, the wicked actions that hurt others, and second the defacing of the creation in outward appearance.

The appearance of our physical bodies is that they are dying. The reality of our physical bodies is that they are alive forevermore. The transformation of appearance to reflect reality we call the resurrection; our bodies being swallowed up by life.

So, we have delineated three specific things. First, the fantasy of the human mind, the only place where the mind of “good and evil” exists. Second, the actions of sin that hurt others. And third, the temporary defacing of the appearance of created things by death.

Now, Hades in the present is not external to any dead soul, but rather the continuation of the same fantasy mind they have always had, just without any outward expression towards heaven or earth. That is, “gehenna” continues as their view of themselves; whereas “hades” is their judgment of everything outside of themselves, especially God. Thus, all that is hades remains a function of human imagination, the thinking of “good and evil.” Yet they are locked into such thinking for the present season.

And I want to paint those three things as they are, tiny, disconnected, and quite irrelevant.

In much greater measure, I want to ENLARGE the GOODNESS inside of which everything lives and moves and has its being.

God is not only HUGE, but all of God exists all around every little bubble of self floating around inside of pure and intrinsic GOODNESS, and all of God is found in-between every two such bubbles. You cannot touch another human being without passing first through all the fullness of God.

Reach out your hand and touch another person or even any object. To do that, you have passed first through ALL the FULLNESS of Love, Life, and Goodness.

So, if the space in-between you and any other person or even any object is filled with all the fulness of God, then we must define that space in practical terms as VAST. In other words, we can think about the amount of God in between us and other persons to be greater than the distance between the sun and the nearest other star. All of God is quite a bit, in fact.

The idea that I live inside of another Person, Jesus, has been growing in me the last while. I may have written about such a thing for years, but knowing it in quiet contemplation is something further.

Every particle of who and what I am is embedded utterly inside the Person of the Lord Jesus, inside of all that He is. I live every moment encased in Jesus, and specifically, encased inside His heart, the Heart of Father.

Look out from your eyes – what do you see? You see the Heart of Jesus all around you, part of you and you part of it, yet encased utterly, and you see that Heart pumping life into all of your surroundings and into all the people with whom you connect.

You are EMBEDDED in Life and you’ve never been anywhere else.

Darkness is the gross fantasy of the human mind. Not knowing the God in whom we live and move and have our being is darkness; knowing what ain’t true inside of all truth is gross darkness.

But here is the most extraordinary darkness of all. Let’s reference again Brother A and Sister B, only let’s use Sister B this time.

Sister B is born again and filled with the Holy Ghost. The Lord Jesus Christ lives inside of Sister B in all of His glory and she lives only inside of Him. Sister B is not only filled with all the fullness of God, but she is also connected as one person together with the Father by the continuous and active operation of a symmorphic Jesus inside of her. The Father shares all of her life together with Sister B, and through her sends forth rivers of Spirit as the fragrance of Christ into every place.

Wow! Sister B lives inside of absolute glory and goodness, is filled with absolute glory and goodness, and sends forth absolute glory and goodness everywhere she goes.
So what is Sister B’s problem?

Sister B does not know any of that.

So what prevents Sister B from knowing the glory of full Salvation in which she already lives and which already fills and flows out from her?

Sister B uses the verses of the Bible to imagine for herself an entirely different gospel and salvation than the one in which she lives. Sister B uses the verses of the Bible to hold to the words of the serpent in the garden and to the rebellion of Adam as the very meaning of the gospel and of “salvation.”

We can say only one thing – an enemy has done this.

I began this lesson with the title “Embedded in Life,” but then I changed the title to “An Enemy Has Done This” because that is what I want to talk about next.

I have said that one cannot find the right answers without first asking the right questions. What prevents Sister B from knowing the glory of full Salvation that is her only reality? – is the right question. “An enemy has done this” is the right way to frame the answer.

And so we are looking at one thing – a series of thoughts in Sister B’s mind. Those thoughts do not and cannot prevent Jesus from being what He is inside of her, but they can and do prevent Sister B from knowing Jesus as He is.

Here is our problem – if you try to take away those false thoughts from Sister B, she will fight you tooth and nail, convinced that you are trying to take salvation away from her.

Now, let me explain something that I perceive is happening through my writing of these things. I had hoped to write another short text titled Let My People Go. In that text I wanted to clarify the “gospel of the serpent” as outlined in Symmorphy V: Life – Lesson 27.2 The Anti-Design. As I attempted to write an outline for that book, I was not finding success. And when I attempted to write the first parts of the book, the subject seemed to withdraw from me and what I wrote went nowhere.

At first I thought that maybe that’s not what the Lord had for me to write at present. But now, as I am writing this topic – entirely because it is what is on my mind – I see that I am actually writing parts of what I mean to write in Let My People Go. Yet what I am writing here is rambling, that is, writing to learn. The actual text of Let My People Go must be writing to teach, compact and focused.

Now, the truth is, I find the section of Symmorphy II: Essence on the fall into Roman darkness to be one of the clearest explanations of the truth of Christ our life that I have written. I love reading through those several chapters starting with “16. How Was the Flesh Exalted” because of how clear Jesus becomes to us through that contrasting approach.

I have realized that I cannot write a harangue against the “gospel of the devil.” God is not in any such approach. Yet what I am doing here is arriving at the same purpose, but entirely through God’s viewpoint.

And so I am thinking of placing Let My People Go into the specific point of view of teaching a student of ministry how to win believers in Jesus for Christ. One could even be tempted to call the book “How to Win the Lost into Salvation,” but we will refrain. We cannot include any shadow of disrespect if we are to succeed in saving our brethren from the march of death.

Let me repeat again here the central question we are addressing.

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Sister B lives in absolute glory and goodness, is filled with absolute glory and goodness, and sends forth absolute glory and goodness everywhere she goes.

So what is Sister B’s problem? – Sister B does not know any of that.

So what prevents Sister B from knowing the glory of full Salvation in which she already lives and which already fills and flows out from her? – Sister B uses the verses of the Bible to imagine for herself an entirely different gospel and salvation than the one in which she lives. Sister B uses the verses of the Bible to hold to the words of the serpent in the garden and to the rebellion of Adam as the very meaning of the gospel and of “salvation.”

We can say only one thing – an enemy has done this.

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You see, I want Brother A and Sister B, millions of Spirit-filled believers in Jesus, to know the overflowing joy and goodness of the Salvation in which they already live and thus to turn around from their former pursuit of death and BE the revelation of Jesus Christ into all creation.

And the ENEMY of the revelation of Jesus Christ is one thing only – wrong thoughts concerning the definition of the gospel lodged in their minds.

And maybe I should change the title to “Set My People Free.” Of truth, “Let My People Go” is addressed to the evil one. We have no need to address the evil one; he holds no power over those thoughts in the minds of our brethren, though he is the author of them. The power of evil is one thing only, the power of suggestion. Everything else of darkness is the province of the human soul. On the other hand, “Set My People Free,” is addressed to the second witness of Christ in these last days. It is the true focus of exposing the anti-Design.

Let me ground even further exactly what I am doing in my present writing. May I suggest that you read again through the three chapters on the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles in Symmorphy III: Kingdom, starting with “24. Victory over the Evil One.”

Picture millions of Spirit-filled believers in Jesus across this earth. Picture the image of the serpent being shattered. Picture all of them rushing into the full knowledge of the Salvation in which we already live.

Our job is to teach them Christ all through their beings, that is, to sing the Song of the Lamb. And we can begin that job only AFTER the image of the serpent is shattered out of their thinking.

And so the purpose of my newly named next book, Set My People Free, is to shatter the image of the serpent in the mind of any reader. And thus I will write it to go hand in hand with Knowing Jesus as He Is.

Notice that the title is not “Make My People Free,” for they are already made free by the Lord Jesus Christ. They already live in sinless perfection; their hearts are already filled with the love of God outpoured. – Jesus has done this.

There are no chains or bars, there is absolutely nothing preventing, nothing except unnecessary thoughts. – And an enemy has done this.

We do NOT blame them; we blame only their enemy.

We do NOT fight against other people, but against the wickedness of heaven (Ephesians 6).

 And even though the agents of the evil one in the church are the preachers, we do not fight against them, either, for as I have shown in my own experience with Buddy Cobb, they are born again and thus in their hearts the love of God IS already poured out towards us, in spite of the gospel of the serpent which they preach.

And so we continually say, as Jesus and Paul have taught us, that it is the evil one who has done this.

Okay, we have moved in our thinking from “Embedded in Life” to “An Enemy Has Done This” to “Set My People Free.” Of truth, all three of those concepts work together in order to understand our ministry as the second witness of Christ.

We are not taking anyone anywhere. Every created entity exists only inside of ALL GOODNESS and LIFE, and every believer in Jesus lives only inside of all the Joy of their Salvation. Their problem is they don’t think so. Instead the thinking of their mind contains the ideas of a gospel drawn from many Bible verses, but ruled by the serpent’s gospel, “You can be if you try, loser.” Or, just as bad, death as “salvation.”

And so our task is to set them free from the words of anti-Design that lock them out of knowing reality.

One problem is human power, an essential part of how God creates anything.

The issue is the surrender of the heart to Father. This is why I have placed “for Father’s sake” as the only reason for anything important. And that is not a surrender to command and control by hear and obey, that is a surrender to love, to sharing heart with God, to rejoicing in the power to turn all circumstances towards goodness by confidence in the Holy Spirit without any need to “control” anything.

But we cannot tell people that the “problem” is them, that their hearts are “bad.” Their hearts are not bad but filled with Christ. And the essence of – “the problem is you” – is the gospel of the serpent – “Fix yourself, loser.” Notice I always put the word “loser” at the end. That’s because the gospel of self-improvement, including “we’ll be just like our image of ‘Jesus,’ AFTER we die and go to heaven,” ALWAYS leaves the taste of present falling short of God. – “Going to heaven will be an improvement in my life, for I will be a ‘better’ person, because right now I am a loser.” 

Do you see the horror of that rebellion – a rejection of God here and God now. The day after one’s death is still TODAY and the need to find God right and true inside any difficulty continues in every Today forever.

And so we cannot say, “The problem is you,” for that is a lie. Christ is their life already; the problem is not them. For that reason, we say as Jesus said, “An enemy has done this.”

And thus we switch the seeing of the mind and the speaking of the mouth from false word to true word without ever imparting shame.

Nonetheless we must know exactly what the enemy has done with word.

Now, I have said that the power issue is one of the problems preventing our brethren from knowing the GOODNESS in which they already live. Another issue, I think, is deeper than that. You see we are speaking of people who love Jesus.

I want to enter into the thoughts inside of Sister B. We know her thoughts very well, for they were formerly ours. Sister B has two kinds of ruling thoughts. And in saying this, I see the pattern of my own thinking through decades of loving a God I did not know.

Sister B has thoughts in her heart and she has thoughts in her head. Sister B KNOWS out from Jesus alive inside of her that the thoughts of her heart are out from God. Sister B believes, however, that the thoughts of her mind are also out from God, even though she cannot place a finger on God ever making those thoughts alive inside her heart.

This is how I once lived. I KNEW Jesus alive in my heart and I knew His grace in which I walked. BUT – the thoughts of my mind were always working contrary to the thoughts of my heart. And some of the words Sam Fife preached, God made alive inside my own heart, but out from His Word. None of the words preached by Buddy Cobb, however, did I ever know as Jesus alive in me, but only as “right theology” in my mind. And I always knew that I was bending Bible verses in order to argue those ideas.

The power of the thoughts of my mind were that they all came out of the Bible and out from the word being preached into me. Nonetheless I never knew them as Jesus in my heart. But I did know the grace and kindness of God towards me as Jesus in my heart in spite of all my failure.

As I poured over the Bible, writing out endless pages of verses on every topic, I found much reinforcement for the thoughts of my mind. Nonetheless, because I never tried to “figure out” the Bible, but rather hid those words in my heart, I also found many verses that came alive in me as Jesus in my heart. Yes, there was a war going on inside of me, a war of which I was not aware. I knew the thoughts of Jesus in my heart, but I believed that the Bible thoughts of my mind were also “of God.”

And the funny thing is that I remembered loving to sneak into 1 John. I did not understand 1 John, but I knew there was a word of Christ in that short letter that did not agree with the theology of my mind or with the word being preached into me. And as I secretly read 1 John, I felt as if I were sneaking into “heresy.”

BUT – I “knew” that the “Christian” thinking of my mind was “of God” and so I was stuck.
And this is Sister B’s root problem. Just like Eve, she believes that the thoughts of her mind are of God. Contrary to Eve, however, Sister B also has Jesus in her heart and thus also knows deep inside the true grace of God.

I was strong in the beliefs of my mind, and, although I was even stronger in the knowing of my heart, it did not seem so. In fact, the war between these two, as God took me through the circumstances that would break the thoughts of my mind without also breaking the knowing of my heart, that war was horrendous. It was a war that almost destroyed me.

Yet, no matter how much the knowledge of God that I held in my mind was blown all to pieces over a period of about six years, never once was the knowing of Jesus in my heart ever touched.

And this is what I am trying to say, that the process of rooting out the false in the thinking of the minds of our brethren is a BIG DEAL. In order to accomplish that change in my thinking, God took me right up against the wall dividing sanity from insanity and held me there for the first three of those years. For the remaining years, I continued without the press against insanity, but frozen inside, loving Jesus, but unable to go forward.

And then it took God another three years, as I walked with John Eldredge through his books, to heal all the broken places of my shattered soul BEFORE He could then, bit by bit, move me towards that moment when I heard Joel Osteen say, “Speak what God says you are.”

You CANNOT hammer the thoughts of another Christian’s mind into submission to the thoughts of their hearts. They are convinced that you are destroying God in their knowing, and they have many Bible verses, all in the wrong places, to give full support to their mental theology.

Now, I have known all this intuitively from the start of writing these letters. And I have expressed that knowing in two things. First, that the one thing true inside of the knowing of our fellow believers is “Jesus lives in my heart through faith.” We teach them NOTHING that is not first coming out from that knowing. And second, the words of the Bible must be lined up in God’s order so that they can know that Christ alive in them, as them, and through them is the only thing the BIBLE actually says.

They CANNOT let go of God or the Bible as their thinking is transformed from heart and mind all mixed together to the mind being only a servant of Jesus as He is, as Word in their heart.

I started writing my first book, a larger volume titled The Unveiling of Jesus Christ around the summer of 1994. If you read through it now, you would be astonished at how much the present word of my heart can be found all through those pages. But you would also be astonished by the veil of darkness cast over that word of Christ by the wrong theology of my mind. I “knew” both, and I did not know the difference between the two.

Thus it took God twelve years of – my oh my – to alter my psychology without shattering me before He could sow His Seed – “speak what God says you are” – into my thinking. But it wasn’t until this summer of 2018 – 26 years – before I knew Jesus as He is even as I finished the final two content chapters of Symmorphy V: Life.

And thus I now understand Jesus’ words differently than I once did – for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened (Matthew 24:22). It has been my hope all the way through that because of the path of decades through which God took me to plant His word in me and then to separate out from that Word all the tares of serpent thinking, that God will use all that to shorten the days for other precious believers in Jesus, that they might have a path into all the knowledge of God that does not slow them down or threaten to shatter their psyches.

This rambling letter is simply a further attempt to place the setting of our ministry of Christ. What I will attempt to do next is to draw from these several letters, now, to formulate the outline for Set My People Free and to write the first parts of that text.