27. Singing the Song

You are the song Jesus is singing. You are the self-portrait He is painting.

You are the home He is building for Father and for Himself.

None of that does any good for God or for you unless you know. And knowing what is true is a process that includes singing the same Song that is Jesus.

To sing the Song of Jesus, I am the resurrection and the life, is not to take His place but to be His place. Those who sing another song are, in fact, taking His place, for they are making themselves their own source. We sing His Song only because we have no other song to sing.

This text is about how we enable our Christian brethren to escape the trap of Nicene Christianity and to enter into the joy of their Salvation. Yet in coming to understand the specific effects of the serpent’s words on Christian thinking, on what is taught from the Vatican to the House of Prayer, from the Baptist Church to the move of God, I have become horrified at the criminal tragedy of such teaching.

In going through this exercise, however, we see those things that are true and right in all Christian thinking, the very things that cause the Church to remain the plant of Christ in spite of all the other wrong thinking.

Here is the universal anchor. – We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. Every one of the groups I named above and every group in-between hold, for the most part, to this one reality of our redemption. And most would also understand that any teaching that removes “redemption through His blood” is not actually Christian.

More than that, we can see “Jesus lives in my heart” as a major dividing line. There are those, especially in the hierarchies of power in various groups, that would disdain this line. But all who love the Jesus of their heart, at whatever level they might know Him, are those whom we would teach to sing the Song of the Lamb.

Third, there is a universal acknowledgement that the Bible is the Word of God, that God speaks to us through the Christian Bible. What that might mean, then, is taken in many different directions; nonetheless, the words of the gospel do carry weight in all who are our brethren.

Finally, there is a universal awareness that the goal of Christian maturity is that we would love one another. That is, Jesus’ one commandment to us is understood to be a standard or goal.

And there we have the four steps by which we approach our brethren. I do not believe that the love of God is poured out towards me through any unregenerate. But if someone holds to “we have redemption through His blood,” then I know that they love me even if they don’t know it.

Your heart is made clean by the blood – Jesus lives in your heart – God speaks to us through the words of the Bible – let me love you with kindness and respect.

Now, with these four things, our brethren are far more anchored in the truth then we might imagine if we knew only all the other stuff they hold in their heads. As I think about it, these four lines are the structure of what I wrote in Knowing Jesus as He Is.

It boils down to this understanding, that the simplicity of the gospel is shared by all who are truly our brethren. Upon these four beams, however, the serpent has built structures of theology that serve one purpose, and that is to keep the Christian from the knowledge of God, from living inside of what he or she instinctively knows to be true.

You know what, I have gotten up and left, I have stopped listening or reading, I have disconnected myself from, based on these four things. The first is the removal of redemption through His blood. The second is a Christ without Jesus. The third is either twisting or disdaining God’s speaking to us through the Bible. And the fourth is open contempt for other Christians.

It was an extraordinary thing to me to walk with my children towards the entrance to Lakewood Church through a picket line of “Christians” with bullhorns, shouting at us that we are all going to hell. Then, when we were seated inside, the song we sang was “redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.” The Blood is our redemption, not bullhorns or placards.

We could even say that hearts cleansed by the blood is the harmony; Jesus alive in our hearts is the melody; God speaking to us through the words of the Bible is the rhythm, and kindness and encouragement is the enjoyment of the symphony heard by all – by this the world will know.

So how could the words of the serpent ever stand against the words of the Lamb? They cannot; they will not. Let’s see if we can create a diagram showing the problem and the solution.


We are not changing any REAL fundamentals in the knowledge of our Christian brethren, we are merely blowing away the fog to let Jesus become their only Song.

You know, having this simple clarity does so much for me. We walk in no fog.

But look at what this simple layout shows us – the four bars of written music. We can write the Symphony of the ages on those four bars. We can sing the Song of the Lamb.

– Let Jesus Become the only Song You Sing –

Not “about” Jesus, but Jesus Himself through your mouth. Most singing in Christendom is the singing about Jesus. We teach them the gospel, that Jesus is in their mouth, that they speak the same word that is Jesus.

Now, it is not my purpose to “wax eloquent” in this final chapter, but rather, to drive the truth of Christ home, both into myself and for your sake.

You are singing a song; you are designed by words.

The question is – Which song? And what words?

Let me be frank with you. A year or so ago, I experienced something very sobering. I don’t remember the circumstances, but I experienced an unclean spirit entering into my bubble of self. This unclean spirit began to speak, inside of me, the words of Christ my life, words I have taught you to speak. I was repulsed; the words of Christ were unclean. At no point, of course, did I accept any part of such either as me or as Jesus; nonetheless, I put even that foul thing into the Lord Jesus, my Savior, and it was soon gone.

As I said, the experience was very sobering, because I realized that there will be many who will speak the same words of Christ that we speak – to a limited degree – but they will be speaking out from unclean spirits as their source.

At the same time, as we discover to our wonder and amazement that God is our only source, that we are coming out from Father every moment by every Word proceeding from His mouth, so such “knowing” will be seized hold of by many who still define God by the serpent. And thus we will be confounded by many who also see “God” as their source, using the same words we use, yet they will continue to see themselves as superior and other Christians as inferior to their gift.

At the same time, we are seeking to bring our brethren out from a life of imagining themselves as their own source, simultaneously exalting and condemning themselves and simultaneously despising and pretending before the face of others. The words of their story are filled with Bible verses all in the wrong places and separate from knowing Jesus as their only life.

Yet, for the first time in human history, God is beginning to become visible and known AS HE IS. Jesus was the revelation of God as the Seed, but Jesus was alone. God reveals Himself through many moving together as one.

So how do we stay safe in this massive transition between two ages, a transition that is proceeding rapidly?

Two things. – We cannot know what we are unless we speak what God speaks personally as ourselves, as Christ living as us. And we cannot know what God is unless we know a Man on His face in the mud under a cross He cannot carry, carrying us inside Himself, carried utterly by Father.

When I wrote The Jesus Secret, I knew almost nothing of what I know of Christ my life now. If I wrote the same thing today, I would undoubtedly write some things differently. Nonetheless, the verses of the New Testament that I began to write down the day I first heard the words, “Speak what God says you are,” are the speaking of Christ my life. How could I know what Christ is, that I am designed by Him, that I am just like Him, except I speak His words as me?

And so, as you make use of The Jesus Secret, if there is anything that I include that should be updated to our present knowledge of God, you have the wisdom to do that. His name is Jesus.

The second part of our safety is as I have taught you, that we meet with God in the bottom of the Jordan, in the lowest place on earth. In fact the picture of a Man stumbling under a cross He cannot carry and the Ark of the Covenant (there I will meet with you) fixed at the bottom of the Jordan River are showing us the same reality of God.

When God appears inside His creation, He is always humbling Himself, placing Himself beneath, not in subservience, but in honor, lifting people up, life laid down and love poured out.

And we come to know such a God by the path I shared with you in “Going Under,” by giving thanks for all things becoming justifying God in all things becoming speaking good grace, regardless, into being the Mercy Seat as God’s Heart, you and Father together turning everything meant for evil into the result of unending goodness.

I just did the JSV translation of John Chapter 13. I just love seeing the Bible in this way; everything becomes fresh and new. More than that, I just love seeing familiar verses I once understood wrongly, broken free from that wrong place and rushing with joy into Christ my only life. One bit that did just that was Jesus’ washing of His disciples’ feet.

And supper having taken place… knowing that the Father has given all into His hands and that He comes forth from God and goes towards God, He rises from supper and sets aside his garments. And, having taken a towel, he wraps Himself with it. After that, He pours water into the basin and He began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel He had wrapped around Himself.

…Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you possess no part with Me.” …Jesus says to him, “The one having been bathed, has no such need except to wash the feet, but is wholly and entirely CLEAN. And you all are clean, except not all.” …

When therefore He had washed their feed and taken back His garments, and, having reclined again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say rightly, for I am. If therefore I have washed your feet as your Lord and Teacher, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.” {You also ought to see one another as clean in their walk.} Let it be, let it be as I say to you, A servant is not greater than his master, nor an apostle [messenger] greater than the one having sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them (John 13:2-17 – reduced).

(I switch tense from present to past in this rough draft because that’s what John does all the way through.)

I was taught and lived in the belief that “washing one another’s feet” meant telling another that what they were doing was wrong and helping them to “clean up their act.”

“No consciousness of sins” is NOT “see no evil.” “See no evil” is foolish human denial, mental games of self-delusion that cannot bear any fruit. “No consciousness of sins” is the Mercy Seat, and the one seated there first sees the Blood sprinkled upon their heart, and through that Blood, they see all things clean.

Jesus is giving us the same picture of our Father again, the One who places Himself beneath, who sees others as better than Himself, who always lifts people up, who always cleanses away all offense.

But then look at what Jesus really means when He speaks the creative words of God into us, generating us and sustaining us by those words every moment – “Let it be, let it be, as I say to you – BE just like Me.”

Just a couple of days ago, I wrote and spoke into audio Chapter 26, “Designed by Christ” out from how I am beginning to know God and myself. Then I listened to it again yesterday evening.

When I awoke in the night, I began to know myself as coming out from my Father every moment. God is my only source. And then I realized that I’ve been saying all sorts of things for many years now that I had no idea what they meant. And God kept me from knowing what it means for God to be our God and not ourselves lest we abuse God out from any other place than God as He is.

And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord (Deuteronomy 8:2-3).

I live by every Word proceeding out from God. I live by nothing else.

“That He might cause you to know.” All things in creation are coming out from every Word God speaks, but none know such a thing.

God is causing us to know what is already true.

To realize that God is inside of Jesus’ bubble of self inside of my bubble of self. And that I am inside of Jesus’ bubble of self inside of God’s bubble of self is astonishing enough.

But to know, now, as real, as my every conscious moment, that God is generating me, that I am coming out from my Father like the pictures I painted with words in the last chapter – that knowing is absolutely overwhelming.

For the first time in my life I can see the healing of my physical frame, not as obligation or attainment, but as simple and obvious joy bubbling up into me.

Let’s turn, now, to the vision of our expectation.

I expect that over the next few years millions of Spirit-filled believers in Jesus will be rushing into the knowledge of Christ living as them, of Father filling them full, of rivers of living water always flowing out of them, of being the Mercy Seat, of setting creation free, of being the revelation of Father together.

I expect the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles in the life of the Church.

But what is the Song? And where is it sung?

The Song is a love song, the love of Jesus in and towards His Church, the love of Father through His Church towards His creation. It is the Song we sing together as the Church.

Here is one version of that song, from Psalm 133. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

How good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
It’s like the precious oil running down, this dwelling in unity.
It’s like the dew of Mount Hermon coming down on you and me.
Oh, how good it is, how pleasant it is to dwell in unity.

The Song of the Lamb is Christian Community, brethren dwelling together in unity; Christian Community is the Song of the Lamb, the blessing of God in the cluster – age-unfolding LIFE. This is the Song I would sing.

It is time for the gathering together unto Christ.