2.3 Jesus as Word
© 2016 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory – sustaining all things by the Word of His power.
A word is an articulation of sound or marks on a page that carries in itself a meaning from one person to another person. In order for one person to communicate with another person, both must share a common language, that is, both must share the same definitions for the particular sounds uttered. Most human argument comes from two people using the same word, but having very different definitions for that word.
How is Jesus word? And how do words sustain all things? The answers to these questions are beyond us; here we must focus on DNA and our own stories.
Story and Bond
The Word become flesh is story, and Word sustaining us is the bond of connection between our persons and Father’s Person.
Let’s begin with Word as the bond of connection. Here is the simplest and clearest definition of Word: Word is a conveyance of knowing from one heart to another. Pro-ginosko– pro-knowing, inside the heart of God. That knowing is a knowing of me – those whom He foreknew.
Am I foreknown by God? You bet I am. I am a pirate, and I will seize hold of being chosen by God with all the ferocity that is in me – and you the same.
DNAIn the core of His being, God knows me, a knowing that is all here now and absolute. Jesus as Word is that knowing of me inside of God. Then, Jesus as Word comes into me, having passed through the form of a servant. And Jesus as Word becomes the same knowing in my heart, a knowing of Father. Otherwise known as eternal life. [Diagram: A Model of the DNA Structure – showing the connecting bond between two.]
One Knowing
Let’s correct, however, what could be a wrong impression in our minds. Jesus as Word does not connect Father’s heart with ours as tying together two slightly distant things as the DNA diagram seems to show. Rather, Father’s heart, all here now, fills my heart full and overflows as love outpoured. The connection of Jesus as Word weaves Father’s heart and my heart together such that they are the same. The knowing inside of God IS His knowing inside of me.
Christ as Us
This lesson seems to be a repetition of things we already know, things I repeat over and over. Two things in the prior two lessons are deeper in our understanding, however. First, the role of human words in shaping our consciousness in conjunction with the knowing of our spirits. And second, the awesome reality of the pro-knowing of God, you and me already inside of God as part of Himself, with this transfer of knowing coming into us as our knowing of Father.
But in this lesson, we then want to place our simple and present understanding of Christ living as us smack dab in the center of the pro-knowing of God.
A Simple Word
Let’s follow this transfer of knowing through to see how it works, using a simple Word from God – “Do not be afraid.”
Well – hey, I am afraid of specific things – very much afraid. So in the midst of my present fear, I look at myself. “This fear belongs to You, Jesus. I am your flesh; you share even my fears together with me. My fear is Yours to bear.”
And Jesus, inside my heart, speaks this word to me: “Our Father knows you in this situation, and He is not afraid. I take your fear that you have given to Me and I am Our Father’s strength of certainty in its place. Our Father’s certainty is yours to know.”
Our Weakness
Why is it critical to our bond with Father that we not turn away from our weakness?
Recently on Facebook, I posted a piece in which I placed the present weakness of my physical body into the carrying of the Lord Jesus. Someone responded that I should not look at my body and its difficulties, but only at Jesus. Instantly, the image of the “super-Christ” would come at me (if I did not know Father): “If you would just get it together, you could be like Me.”
They do not KNOW Father’s Heart. Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart, and you will find rest for your souls (Matthew 11:29).
Jesus Becomes Us
The only way we can know Him is if Jesus first becomes us, becomes ALL that we are. Then, carrying us in all that we are inside Himself, He causes to know Father. And the Father we know is meek and lowly of heart, always seeing us as better than Himself. And by our very weakness, we know that we are just like Him.
God’s Heart NEVER replaces our hearts of flesh. This we must know. God shares Heart with us by the Lord Jesus as every Word that He speaks.
The Story We Tell
Clearly you are an epistle of Christ – written by the Spirit of the living God – on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart (2 Corinthians 3:3 condensed). Word – words – a story that we tell – our very human consciousness.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. I do like writing and speaking that phrase, over and over. The Word becomes flesh in us; the Word becomes our story, the fabric of our consciousness.
What is the story we tell ourselves about ourselves? What does such a thing mean?
Opposing Stories
Here are two opposing stories; the first is common to the Christian mind.
“God will make me a better person – God will make me (someday) to be like Jesus; I’m just not there yet.” Underneath this false piety is another story upon which every word in this lie is based. “I am evil now. I am fallen short of God now. God does not approve of me now. And most of all, I’m okay with a Jesus far away from me – up there – someday.”
Let’s place against this expression of Satanic evil another story line, another way of thinking, another consciousness. Let’s place against this expression of Christian Hades the speaking of Christ.
I Know the Love of Christ
Christ dwells in my heart through faith; I am rooted and grounded in love. I comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—I know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; I am filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:17-19 modified).
Do you see how the most important verses must rule?
This knowing of Father coming into us by every Word that is Jesus is a knowing utterly rooted and grounded in love. I know the love of Christ. God likes me. – God likes me just the way I am, just the way I find myself to be.
Altering Our Consciousness
And this God who likes me just the way He created me, in all of my stumbling weakness and foolish inability, fills me full with ALL that He is. My only lack is that I did not know this Love; I did not know Him. But now, being filled full with all the liking of God for me, every part of me that I once thought in need of “fixing” now shines forth His glory in ways I never could have imagined.
God likes me. Jesus becomes me. All of my person, just as I find myself to be, am utterly inside of Him. These very simple thoughts ALTER our human consciousness, becoming the only story we know.
Rest for Your Souls
Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
I don’t know about you, but this morning I am in tears. I need the utter simplicity of Jesus carrying me, and I can repeat these words over and over and they only grow in depth, in meaning, and in value.
I am making this line the logos of Christ Revealed Bible Institute, along with a sketch of the shoulder yoke. “Rest for your souls” is our human consciousness; the words flowing through the knowing of our spirits. Jesus as Word.
Tucked Inside
In the next session, we want to address the question, What Is Reason? I want to define godly human reason. I want to show how science/religion work together inside the consciousness of all, either to death or to life. And I want to put in front of us a specific layout of how we replace the false thinking of life as we have known it with the true consciousness of Christ.
BUT – we look at all of this from one place alone. Perched, tucked, cemented inside the Pro-Knowing of Father, now the very knowing of Jesus living as us.