35. Enclothed

© Daniel Yordy – 2020
I am driven to understand what I am and how I work.

Let me give another definition for full salvation. Full salvation is being a normal human. Let me define being a normal human. A normal human is a man or woman, completely at rest in being human, filled with God such that God and the human are one in Spirit, two in fellowship, and one in expression.

I have been a normal human since age seven when I asked Jesus into my heart. NOT knowing what that meant has been the cause of all my grief. And I did not know God-with-me because of two reasons. The first reason is that I was never taught such a thing; rather, I lived in the assumption that Nicene Christianity, the gospel of the serpent, was the actual teaching of the Bible.

The second reason why I did not know goes hand in hand with the first, and that is that the lust for superiority, enhanced by that other “gospel,” is agreeable to most humans. For that reason, the knowledge of God-with-me, for so many, including myself, results not in a God who humbles Himself, but rather in the human positioning him or herself above others.

God cannot let any believer in Jesus know Father-with-them until self-exaltation has been burned from their hearts and minds. And the trickery of humans secretly pursuing self-exaltation behind all the Christian faces is remarkable, to say the least.

I know of only one way now for my heart to be turned away from self-exaltation, and that is to practice speaking Christ, that all my life is Father-with-me FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS.

God is in me, in every stumbling step, reconciling the world to Himself.

I chose the word “enclothed” as the title of what I hope to explore in this letter. But I could just as easily have called it “The Ring into the Fire” in referencing Frodo and Sam taking the ring of power to Mt. Doom, where, with Gollum’s help, it is destroyed by fire, and with its destruction, all the power of the evil one vanishes.

It’s not Tolkien’s story that I want to emphasize, but rather this line of Jesus – The prince of this world comes and finds nothing in Me.

But Tolkien’s picture of a ring containing all the power of the evil one, and that ring, being eliminated, also eliminates all that is false, that picture is how I want to frame our look at what Jesus meant by what He said.

The servants of Sauron were drawn to the ring carried by Frodo. They would not fall until that ring was gone. We can use that same idea to comprehend Satan coming to Jesus, but finding nothing inside of Him to claim as his own. When Satan perceived a human containing nothing of himself, he was filled with great wrath, for he knew his time was short.

Our question, then, is what must be eliminated inside of us that will remove the evil one from this planet and from the human experience. What must “go into the fire,” and – beyond Tolkien’s story, but very much in our story and in Jesus – What has taken the place of that which vanishes from us?

From the moment the serpent’s words, “Did God indeed say,” entered into Adam and Eve’s mind, he had a claim on them, a claim that continues until now, if we also heed those words.

Let’s stop there and come at this same thing from a completely different direction.

Consider first John 14:20. In that day you shall know that I am inside of the Father and you inside of Me and I inside of you.

Then, let’s enlarge that line with 1 John 4:12-16. No one has seen God [has not observed Him to know Him] at any time, ever. If we should actively love one another, God lives inside of [and among] us, and His love is brought to full completion and perfection inside of [and among] us. By this we know that we live, dwell, and abide inside of Him and He inside of us, out from His Spirit given to us. And we have seen and testify that the Father has actively sent the Son as Savior of the cosmos. Whoever shall speak the same word, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God dwells inside of him and he inside of God. And we have come to know and have come to believe the love that God has inside of us. God is love, and the [one] living inside of love, lives inside of God, and God lives inside of him.

Again – Whoever shall speak the same word, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God dwells inside of him and he inside of God.

And then, the most telling point of this togetherness of God and the human presented here by John as the gospel.

Accomplish your salvation to full completion in fear and trembling, for God is the present and active energeoing inside of you, both to desire and to energeo for the sake of good pleasure and satisfaction (Philippians 2:12-13).

Again – salvation to full completion MEANS living as one person together with God. Notice that Paul does not say that God energeoes His desire inside of us. Paul said that God IS the active energeoing of all our desire, or, as the Calvinists want it, our “will.”

Paul said that God IS the cause of all the choices we make. God’s choices and our choices are the same.

This is the gospel, but it is attacked as giving people an excuse for “sin.” Instead of “the devil made me do that wicked thing,” it seems that humans can say, “God made me do that wicked thing.” But, as Paul also said, “It cannot be so.”

You can see, then, that we are back to this question of sin, being defined as that which the prince of this world can claim as his own inside of the human. What is the cause of that which is contrary to God, that which has been NOT God?

I know that it’s not just “God” who inhabits, lives in, dwells in, resides inside of ME, but all the fullness of God.

All the fullness of God lives inside of all that is me and I live, in all that I am, inside of all the fullness of God.

God is very thick, yet no one sees Him or knows Him, as John said.

There is not the slightest pin prick that is me, spirit, soul, and body, that is not filled with all the fullness of God. And there is not the slightest pin prick that is God in which I am not found. John’s words in 1 John 4 allow for no other conclusion.

Even more than that, as David joins Paul and John’s testimony, I originate inside of and come out from God’s thoughts concerning me, becoming me through the good-speaking of Jesus, bringing me forth, sustaining me, and carrying me in every present moment, according to John 1 and Hebrews 1.

Words. It’s all about words.

All created things live only inside of God and God lives inside of all created things in all of His fullness at every point of space and time.

BUT – as John says, regardless of how “thick” God really is, no one sees God, and no one knows that He exists.

So – let me get right at what it is I want to know.

Here am I, Daniel Yordy, sitting in my chair this morning, pecking away at my keyboard and watching the words appear on my screen. I am very human, weak and foolish, but I am completely content in my humanity, in all gratefulness for the way God made me, including the personality traits that cause all my stumbling grief.

AND – I am filled with all the fullness of God my Father, God All-Carrying, who lives in perfect compatibility with all my human weakness, such that it is God Himself who energeoes all that is happening inside of me. Even more than that, even though Father and I fellowship together in sweet communion as two, yet we both recognize fully that we are entirely one in Spirit and one in all outward expression.

How is it, then, that an invisible God shares my life with me and I share His life with Him, as one person together, sharing the same form in spirit and in flesh? How does this connection work?

And that, of course, has been the question behind all of my writing from completing The Feast of Tabernacles in 2014 until now.

I bring that question up again because since completing my account of my years in the move of God fellowship, placing the Lord Jesus Christ upon every experience and interaction, God has become so much thicker inside my consciousness, God the Father part of me and I part of Him.

I, me, Daniel Yordy, I am enclothed in all possible ways with all of God. Yet I remain utterly human. In fact, my contentment in being the weak and foolish human that I am has grown in equal measure with my thickening consciousness of Father-with-me.

Let me reduce all this down to as clear of a question that I can ask.

What is the psychology of Father-with-me?

You see, it’s all about words, Spirit Words, in the thoughts of my mind.

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Romans 12).

Let this same MIND be inside of you that was also inside of Christ Jesus (Philippians 2). – We possess the MIND of Christ (1 Corinthians 2).

I, me, the very human Daniel Yordy, am connected utterly together with God, inside my person, as part of the fabric of my being, by the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus connects me as one person together with God All-Carrying.

This Jesus exists as a life-giving Spirit and lives in Person inside my heart. Yet He is also every Word God speaks, causing me to be and sustaining me as I am in every moment by His Word of power. Thus this same Jesus is the speaking of God by which I exist AND He is every word God speaks written with Spirit ink upon my heart.

Yet I know the words that are Jesus by the thoughts of my mind.

The option the evil one gives, then, are contrary words that are not Jesus, but that cause the imagination of the human mind to imagine that a very thick God is “faraway” and has “nothing to do with me.” But we understand that all words are carried by some spirit, and that all words are accompanied by emotions and all words attach themselves to some part of human desire.

So, when Jesus said that the prince of this world finds “nothing” in me, He meant “I do not think any thoughts that are not FATHER-WITH-ME.”

I like the word “psychology” because it is a very useful word. Psyche, of course, is a frequent New Testament word which I always translate as “soul” in the Jesus Secret Version, and never as “life.” “Ology,” then, is simply a systematic and orderly study of something.

And so, I define the psychology of a normal human being as my desire to understand systematically how the words of my mind cause me to KNOW that I am inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of me, and through Jesus, that I am inside of God and God inside of me.

What is the psychology of Father-with-me?

How do the Words that are Jesus speaking me, work together to become me, as they are carried by the Spirit of God, one Spirit with me, and as they carry my human emotions with them, emotions that are Father sharing Himself with me, and how do they attach themselves to my human desires energeoed by God?

What am I and how do I tick?

There are three kinds of humans. First, there are normal humans. Second there are delusional humans. And third there are Christians.

Jesus was the first normal human to walk this earth. He never thought anything other than “Father-with-Me.” Delusional humans think only by the serpent’s words driving God far away from them in their foolish imaginations.

And then there are Christians. Christians are filled with Jesus and think His thoughts, BUT – they also entertain the thoughts of the evil one that place an imaginary barrier between themselves and God. Christians are double-minded, double-hearted, and split-souled, that is, schizophrenic, another Greek word that became English and means “of a split-apart mind.”

And so you and I have also been, which is why we are so glad that salvation is not of us, but of Jesus, and that He is very good at carrying us all the way through.

But we prefer to be normal humans, that is, just like Jesus, knowing that we are filled with all of God and that we live only inside of the Person of God, that Father and I are one person together, sharing all of life, with no thought otherwise, ever.

I want to be real. I want to think Father-with-me in all things, in all circumstances, and in every aspect of my humanity.

It is only as I think Christ that not-Christ is found no more.

Nonetheless, God placed two trees in the garden and in each of our present lives BECAUSE He wants the sharp distinction between Christ words and serpent words to be unmistakably clear. Another phrase that means the same thing as “the sharp distinction made unmistakably clear” is “Jesus proven faithful and true.”

I am becoming more and more amazed at the GENIUS and the POWER of the serpent’s first words – Did God indeed say?

Every single door for every single lie that the evil one wishes to insert into the human mind is flung wide open every single time by those words.

“Let’s talk about what you think God might mean by what He says.”

Here is God’s problem. All words He might speak mean something to us ONLY as they are human words. If God’s words came to me in Klingon, that would be ridiculous, for I could never know them.

BUT – the moment God’s thoughts become human words, neither God nor Jesus are visible to the human anymore. Any connection any human makes between those English words (in our case) and either God or Jesus, happens only through faith.

And the serpent’s simple and “wise” question is always diversionary, it’s always sleight-of-hand, it always gets the human to think about and consider the wrong thing, using “right words” to think things that cannot be true.

ALL Christians are enclothed utterly with the Lord Jesus Christ connecting their person at all times and in every conceivable way as one together with God’s Person. A normal Christian, a normal human, doesn’t know anything else.

But most Christians don’t think so because serpent words are bouncing around in their minds.

Let’s consider the most powerful and second most deceitful use the serpent made of his brilliant question. (The most deceitful part of that question is that it rips the words God speaks away from the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, making them human ideas only.)

The serpent didn’t give a rip about the issue of dying or not dying. He had a much more important target for his deceit. By presenting an unimportant issue as the direct object of his powerful question, the serpent was placing a great distance between the initial question and the real issue. A distance that humans fail to connect.

But let’s word the serpent’s question as it really stood, without the psychological trickery.
Did God indeed say that you are like Him? You are surely NOT like Him, but you should feel obligated to “try” to be like God.

This is EXACTLY the sermon the preacher (not Joel Osteen) preached to Lakewood Church the last time we attended. First, he quoted God, “As He IS, so ARE we in this present world.” Then he turned to the audience and said, very strongly (in so many words), “You are NOT like Jesus.” Then he spent the rest of the sermon imposing on the congregation the obligation that we must “try” to be like Jesus with all our pretending, all the while knowing that we are failing at every point.

I felt all the pain of being an observer in the garden of Eden knowing the awfulness of what was taking place in my hearing.

Here is the entire issue. Words in my mind that are Christ Jesus causing me to know Father-with-me VERSUS words in my mind that are not Christ Jesus causing me to imagine Father not with me.

The ring of power into the fire is no false words inside any part of my human consciousness.

And it happens by Jesus being all I think myself to be in every particle and moment of my life and humanity. Because He IS.

Here is what I am also trying to say. – We are very close to Satan and all his demons being ELIMINATED from the human experience and out of all heaven-earth. BECAUSE he is finding fewer and fewer words generated by him inside our consciousness.

We do not get rid of the evil one by not thinking his thoughts. We get rid of the evil by thinking only Christ our only life connecting us always and utterly as one Pperson together with our Father.

And so, while God’s purpose requires this distinction to be made absolutely clear, it is not “getting rid of false words” that I intensely want to KNOW.

Here is what I want to KNOW. – What is the psychology of Father-with-me?

Here is another question asking the exact same thing. – What does it mean for me to be enclothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, such that Jesus connects me with everything, but especially with God my Father?

The human psyche, that is, the human soul, we consider as three qualities always working together. Historical thinking has called those three qualities “mind, will, and emotions.”

In the field of modern education, those who have injected the opium of Marx deride “mind, will, and emotions,” as elements of a “false ideology” that has been thrown into the dustbin of awful human thinking. Nonetheless, those who still retain some scientific thinking inside the educational field, though they have no connection to Christian thought, study students in the classroom in three qualities, always working together. These three qualities are called “cognition, motivation, and affection.” Which, as you can see, are simply other English words meaning exactly the same as “mind, will, and emotions.”

When I wrote literature reviews, I spent a lot of time studying the very valid theories of cognition and motivation especially, although affection, or “emotional intelligence” is never left out of the mix. All of this study is very valuable to me, and most of it is true. When science studies scientifically, it is doing nothing more than giving measurement and definition to God’s wondrous creation of us.

Now, I am saying all this because I want to bring God’s three HOWS into this study of our human psychology, the working together of our mind, emotions, and desires. And I am using the word “desire” rather than will, or “choosing” because the Calvinist “will of God” is not really Biblical and is very much a part of seeing God through the serpent.

God’s desires and intentions are ALWAYS fulfilled exactly as God intends; it’s just that they are never imposed as some sort of “above-human fixed box” that we either crawl into or fall out of, that is, the very heart of the serpent’s gospel, “You are at war with God.”

The first how of God is Christ our only life, which we KNOW in our minds as we speak the same words that are Jesus now made personal as us.

Speaking Christ fills our minds with Christ thoughts.

The second how of God is our bold entrance into all of God, seizing everything of God as our own. We know this quality of God in our human emotions as we ask God to fulfill all that He speaks inside of us and then believe that He has done so.

Let me explain. Every single time I “feel” awful and “far-away” from God, I remind myself that I have received all that God is as part of myself. The result is always the deepest of peace arising in all my emotions, turning rapidly into overflowing joy, with the awful human feelings placed into and giving way to the goodness of God.

Now, this is much more than feelings, for every moment of my past, every circumstance and interaction exist in me now in the form of emotions, emotions that attach themselves to the thoughts of my mind.

Believing that I already possess all that God is and speaks causes me to know that my emotions are God’s emotions.

Finally, the third how of God is our confidence that we are part of Christ as we give thanks inside of and for the sake of all things. This giving of thanks is a continual yielding of our hearts to Father, that all things are for His sake, and to Jesus, that He is indeed the Lord and generator of our lives in every moment and particle.

Giving thanks causes me to know that God’s desire and my desire are the same.

I speak Christ to know that my mind is Jesus’ mind. I believe I have received to know that my emotions are God’s emotions. I give thanks to know that my desires are God’s desires.

This is what I mean by “normal human psychology.”

When I say, “normal human psychology,” I mean studying the Words that are first Father’s thoughts concerning me that become Jesus speaking me, how those Words that are Jesus work together to become me, as they are carried with the Spirit of God, one Spirit with me, and as they carry my human emotions with them, emotions that are Father sharing Himself with me, and as they attach themselves to my human desires energeoed by God.

Please understand, this is a thousand times more important than just a prosaic and fascinating topic of study. The turning of the ages is upon us and the elimination from the human experience of all demons and all false humans inflicting rule by violence is at hand.

And that ENTIRE battle with all of its victory is taking place right now inside our very human souls.

Since I was twelve years old, I have said with Frodo, “I will take the ring to the fire, though I do not know the way.” And since I was twenty, I have understood that quest as any particle or shadow belonging to the evil one vanished from our human souls.

But only recently have we come to know this battle inside a very confused and very human soul, portrayed for us by David inside Jesus’ mind on the cross, in Psalm 22, paired with John, observing Jesus’ outward words and appearance in John 19.

And now we discover that this is what Jacob was doing, as he wrestled with God-in-the-flesh all night long, “I will NOT let You go until You do all that You speak inside of me.”

I am enclothed with the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus stands between me and everything. Jesus is between me and God. Jesus is between me and you. Jesus is between me and myself. Jesus is between me and sin. Jesus is between me and Satan. Jesus is between me and my possessions. Jesus is between me and all my past, present, and future.

I am enclothed with the Lord Jesus Christ. I have seized hold of a God who is part of me, and I will never let Him go.