35. Expectation and Authority
© Daniel Yordy – 2021
What is the expectation of God?
We must have a clear picture, that is, the diagram of John 14:20. But let’s establish this as fact. John 14:20? All true now or someday?
Today or not today?
This is a personal decision which only you can make; nonetheless, if you make the decision that, for you, it is today, then you must ask God to seal that decision inside of you and then believe that you have received what you ask. Then, never think of God any other way, for there is no other God for you to know.
Central to the calling of God is the call to war, for we live in a world filled with all speaking against. If God is coming through us into our world, then He comes through as Personal Spirit Word that operates as if it is the only thing true or real – in the midst of every twisted fantasy story filling the minds of humans.
And for us to STAND UPON FIRM as a God of war comes through us into our world, we must KNOW the meaning of this diagram of John 14:20 as our only way of knowing ourselves, Jesus, and the Father.
Now, you and I are tucked into Christ Jesus, inside and out, who is our Life, our Savior, our Friend, and our All-Connection with the Father. If we ever wonder about anything, we rest utterly in Jesus, another Person who shares all form with us, that He has already taken care of everything, Blood, Cross, and Resurrection.
But here is what I want to focus on. Consider the two parts that are Father God in this diagram, Father on the inside and Father on the outside. God on the outside is the sending forth of Spirit as rivers of living water bringing life and healing and joy to all. AND – God on the outside is the mighty Warrior bringing all into submission to Jesus, that is, to giving thanks in all things. The third and fourth ruling verses in the Bible are always paired together in their work.
God on the inside, however, is God as the Source – filled with all the fullness of God.
As the diagram so clearly shows us, however, and the Ark of the Covenant, which this diagram also represents in simplified form, in between the Source and the Fulfillment is a wall that is you and me, our humanity, our human flesh.
Now, we are always encased inside of God, and that reality has meanings of glory and wonder beyond count. Nonetheless, we are speaking here, not of God, per se, but of His knowledge. We live in a world that does NOT know God. And until people know God, including our brethren, all they know instead is death.
So, when we say “God coming through,” we are speaking of the knowledge of God coming through us into every place, and that knowledge of God comes through in two forms – rivers of Spirit and that Spirit Word that casts down all speaking against and all mental fantasies.
Abide inside of me and I inside of you is fully reciprocal. In the same way, for without Me you can do nothing is fully reciprocal with Jesus also saying – “without you, I can do nothing.”
You see, God cannot go from Source to Rivers/Victory except by passing through us. And God does not have the authority to pass through us, for God does not know sin. God cannot enter into our world as the knowledge of God except by our authority and the confidence of our expectation of God.
God inside of you cannot be God moving out from you apart from your expectation and authority.
When Moses established the calling of the trumpets in Numbers, one of the purposes of the call was for war. And with that calling of the trumpets, the priests carrying the Ark were instructed to shout, “Let God arise, and His enemies be scattered.”
Paul lays out this progression. Hope – Faith – Love.
Love is the goal; love is God going forth. No knowledge of God among us as all our connections together MEANS no love. So we could say, in the purposes of this topic, that Love is beyond us; Love is that which goes forth from us as, one might say, both male and female, that is both kindness and toughness, both healing and war.
Hope and faith, on the other hand, are part of our humanity, Christ Jesus as us.
Hope is on the inside, hope is that which says, “Let God arise.”
We live inside the gospel, however, and so we must alter the wording of the second part just a bit. Hope on the inside of our human parts says, “Let God arise,” and faith on the outside of our humanity says, “His enemies ARE now scattered.” Hope is that which is not seen, but faith is the evidence of that hope.
And that, of course, is the Greek word “amen,” a word which should always be translated into its English meaning. Let it be so; it is so.
Hope says, “Let it be so,” and faith says, “It is so.”
Hope is the expectation of God out from our hearts, and faith is the authority of God going forth from the speaking of our mouth.
The problem with hope is that it has two definitions in the human mind, even as it is used in the Bible. For the most part, “hope” means “I wish, but.” And so the saddest words in the Bible were spoken to Jesus by His disciples on the road to Emmaus. Not knowing it was Jesus with them, they said, “We had hoped it was He.” – that is, “We must have been wrong.”
That is not the definition Paul means when he uses the word “hope,” and so we must use the other definition, which is a much stronger word, though it remains fully hope – and that is EXPECTATION. To hope is to expect, without any need to see outwardly.
That is, the expectation of God.
Let’s look at the line that shows us that God Himself is a Caller in the essence of His Being – calling into existence things not existing. In fact, the whole paragraph describes hope and faith working together.
Before God whom he believed, this One who is continuously giving life to the dead and calling into existence things not existing. Alongside of hope, Abraham believed upon hope for the purpose of becoming father of many peoples, according to what God spoke, “So will your seed be.” And not having become weak in faith, he perceived his own body already having become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not judge that deadness through unbelief, however, but he was filled with power in faith, into the promise of God, giving God glory. Abraham was convinced to full measure and completion that what God had promised, He is also able to do (Romans 4:17-21).
In Galatians Paul said that this “Seed” coming through is one, that is, Christ.
And so this entire picture is God coming through.
But look at the last part, “What God had promised, He is also able to do.” This wording is one of those things that we place entirely into what Jesus said, “Everything I have said to you about God is figurative. But now I will speak plainly of the Father” (John 16).
God words things in a figurative way for those who have little faith, that they might have something to hold to even in their limited knowledge of God. But we hear Jesus inside of us showing us the Father plainly, and thus we word the same thing now in this way. – All that God speaks He IS, in all energeoing.
Having established this picture and rooted it in full gospel verses, I want to consider this passage from hope to faith, from expectation to authority. As we saw in Chapter 5 of this series, “The Portal,” that passage from expectation to authority, from hope to faith, is the pinch point of God coming through, the door, that is, ME. (Which you say as yourself.)
God coming through is entirely and only up to me.
God coming through is God doing what God is inside the knowledge of this world, that is, Father just being Himself. We have nothing to do with making God be God, that is, the power is not of us, but of God.
But the authority does belong to us and only to us. God does not have the authority to enter our world, for He has given that authority to us.
Consider this line. – This One, moreover, having offered one unlimited sacrifice for sins, sat down inside of the right hand of God; from now on waiting expectantly for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet. For by one offering, He has perfected those who are continuously being made holy by God (Hebrews 10:12-14).
“Waiting expectantly” is a synonym of hope. And we understand now that Jesus is waiting expectantly for all to give thanks inside of and for the sake of all things, that is, Jesus is waiting for each individual person to place Him upon themselves and upon every moment of their lives.
Jesus can’t do that by Himself. Jesus cannot force us to give thanks or to synergeo with God to make all things good.
Expectation becoming faith is to live turned around. One who is turned around is now sitting with Jesus inside the right hand of God upon and as the throne of heaven, the authority of God in the universe, complete in all things, even as we are continuously being made holy by God.
I possess all the authority of God, in my heart and in my mouth. God possesses all power to do and to be. God and I synergeo together to make all things good, that is, to call all things into the knowledge of God, even to give life to the dead in every possible definition of life and death.
Father at Home in my heart is the Source; Jesus as Word in my mouth is the authority that sends forth Rivers and Victory.
And yes, I have taught these things all the way through, nonetheless, as we go through them again each time, they become more real and alive to us and we are ever more established inside the certainty of Salvation through us.
I want to give you an updated version of 1 Peter 1:13 in the JSV. This might not be the final version, but it is close.
Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being soberminded, set your hope as all assertive expectation upon the carrying and sustaining, enabling and energeoing presence of God inside of the unveiling of Jesus Christ.
Then, verses 3-5. God and Father… has conceived us again into a living hope… to an unfading inheritance being kept inside the heavens entering into you who are being guarded, watched over, and kept inside the power of God through faith penetrating with purpose into full salvation ready to be unveiled in the opportune time.
These guys all like to write with long sentences packed with vast arrays of meaning. And yes, the Greek wording supports this rendition fully.
The “power of God” inside of which you and I are being kept is the throne of heaven, the Mercy Seat, the right hand of the Father, seated there with Jesus, inside of Jesus, and He inside of all that we are in all our human frame.
To put it another way, we sit between the cherubim, Keep and Make Holy. But we sit looking out. We have nothing whatsoever to do with “going into” God, for those who remain in that initial way of thinking do so because of fear and unbelief, refusing to believe.
And so, the living hope, hope that is alive, a living essence, the expectation of God, sits inside of Keep and Make Holy looking out. And in looking out, our faith penetrates with purpose into full salvation being unveiled inside our world, the revelation of Jesus Christ, that is, God coming through.
Set your hope as all assertive expectation upon the carrying and sustaining,
Two words, pheron and charis, fully contain the meaning of this line – the carrying and sustaining, enabling and energeoing presence of God.
Hope, which is God within. God within, that is, the inner circle in the diagram, all the fullness of God, Father at Home in my heart, we are to know absolutely as these four meanings.
All-Carrying. – All-Sustaining. – All-Enabling. – All-Energeoing.
We are defining HOPE, that is the expectation of God.
Now, look at Peter’s phrase – having girded up the loins of your mind.
We could say it this way. FILL your mind, your thinking, your soul, your heart, your gut, your speaking, your entire HUMAN EVERYTHING with the KNOWING of a God who fills your heart and all that you are as All-Carrying. – All-Sustaining. – All-Enabling. – All-Energeoing.
Or we could say it this way – hope in God. Same thing.
But faith is that which lives turned around. Faith is the authority of the throne upon which we are seated, the Word now in our mouth.
What I’m really trying to do is to increase the meaning in our knowing of a four-word phrase – UPON FIRM WE STAND, the foundation of the seventh ruling verse which defines our going forth together with God, that is, Salvation revealed, that is, God coming through.
Please understand that I am not a confident man. For God to work this ever-increasing confidence inside of Daniel Yordy – that is a miracle beyond most. Yet God does not do anything apart from you and me, and so I must synergeo with God, my little fire inside His big Fire, amplified out from me as Rivers and as Victory.
This is what we are saying. – Good grace and thanks be to God, who always leads us in the triumphal procession inside of Christ, with the aroma of His knowledge being made visible through us in every place (2 Corinthians 2:14). Yes – God coming through.
I must now tie all this into our larger picture through this series. In the next chapter, “Calling God,” we will consider the action of calling an invisible God into being made visible through us inside our world. In this chapter we are placing ourselves as Callers in the full meaning of the clear Bible doctrine of calling God into our world.
And yes, everything inside this topic and this entire book and in all that I teach is 100% clear and unmistakable Bible teaching, things that up until now, Christians have read over and over and refused to believe.
Now is the time. Today is the Day of All-Salvation revealed through us into our world.
And so we continue to go back and forth between our preparation as Callers and the action of calling an invisible God to become seen and known through us (the Ekenosis), as Paul so clearly said, with the aroma of His knowledge being made visible through us in every place.
I want to spend the remainder of this chapter on the place of our authority, that is, the open door of our faith.
The one presently and actively overcoming, I will give him to sit with Me inside My throne, just exactly as I also overcame, and sat down with My Father inside His throne (Revelation 3:21). – And again – For all who have been conceived out from God overcome the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith (1 John 5:4).
The one who is “presently and actively overcoming” is the one who looks at the invitation to sit with Jesus upon the throne of God and responds in one way only – “Let it be so; it is so.”
And this throne is one concept only – the Mercy Seat. – And there I will meet with You.
I want to show you now where authority is found, for God has given me understanding.
Look at John 17 in all that it means, especially verses 20-26. – Father, I DESIRE that those whom You have given Me might be with Me (inside of You).
Look at Psalm 22 in all that it means, especially as I have shown you, that Jesus allowed the Father to be part of His troubled human soul AND He received you and me, in all our offensiveness, into Himself, that we might meet together with Father, there inside of Him, just above His Blood poured out for us.
John 17 is 2 AM. Psalm 22 is 2 PM. Twelve hours apart! Same day, same Man.
And what is it that joins the two together? Two things. – For the JOY set before Him – Here am I, I AND the children whom You have given Me (Hebrews 12 & 2).
Actually, let’s follow the progression, including what we know from Abraham in Hebrews 11.
1. Jesus covenants with God – I DESIRE that those whom You have given Me might be with Me.
2. Jesus wrestles with the agony of including all Christians inside that Covenant inside Himself all the way through the darkness of 2000 years of history.
3. Jesus rises to His feet in Gethsemane, receiving all of us into Himself in that moment.
4. Jesus shouts the loudest words ever uttered inside the creation – HERE AM I, I AND THE CHILDREN WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME.
5. Jesus sets His eyes upon the joy set before Him, more than two hundred million of believers in Jesus revealing God to all.
6. As Jesus stumbles forward, pushed each step of the way, He binds God to Himself by Covenant. God, You will raise me up – and all who belong to Me. God, I will rise from the dead, and YOU WILL include every individual person whom You have given Me. Father, LIFE, LIFE, LIFE – BUT not without these dear ones who love You rising with me as You raise Me up. I and the children whom You have given Me will rise together into incorruptible life, into knowing and revealing You forever.
7. Jesus can’t do it. He stumbles under the weight of a cross He cannot carry with His face pressed into the dirt.
8. Father carries the cross for His incapable Son, through the stout legs and willing heart of another, showing us that Father is carrying His Son and all those inside of Him all the way through.
9. Jesus does okay for about three hours on the cross, but then the agony becomes unbearable.
10. In the agony of His confused human soul, Jesus cries out as one separated from God in his knowing. He hurts beyond comprehension by the contradictions, the anti-logia, spoken against Himself as the All-Speaking of God. – “I am a worm and no man.”
11. But in His heart, Jesus says, “Father, You ARE WITH ME.” And with His mouth, Jesus speaks, “Father, forgive them.”
12. And there, in the agony of His human soul, Jesus receives Father with Him, and He receives you and me with Him, regardless of all our offense, and He places us together with Father by COVENANT in His Blood.
And God raised Jesus from the dead and you and me inside of Him.
Then, the most extraordinary verse thrusts itself into our awareness.
AND WE ALSO are committed to doing the same for our brothers and sisters.
AND WE ALSO are committed – to receiving one another, regardless of any and all offense, in the same way that Jesus receives us.
When you and I, in the agony of our human pain, receive Father with us as sharing all our human confusion fully with us for the sake of others, and when we receive this one who has so hurt us into the Mercy Seat of our hearts and placed Father and them together, completely free of us, and when we proclaim to God, “You will raise me up AND my brother or sister WITH ME.”
LOOK OUT! For our God is rushing through us into our world. And our bodies cannot remain as they are, for LIFE transforms them.
What will convince our brothers and sisters in Christ that all the stuff that keeps them out is nonsense and false and that Salvation is Jesus alive in their hearts sharing their lives with them?
The same two things that convinced you and me concerning Jesus. 1. Life laid down and love poured out. 2. Resurrection.
This is the place of authority. This is the meaning of being like Jesus. This is where we hear, with Abraham and with Jesus, “Because you have done this thing, in blessing I will bless you.”
What, then, does that authority do?
Earlier in this letter, I said this. – Hope says, “Let it be so,” and faith says, “It is so.” Hope is the expectation of God out from our hearts, and faith is the authority of God going forth from the speaking of our mouth.
And “IT IS SO” goes out from us in two directions, in casting down all the false speaking against by life laid down and love poured out and in the release of resurrection as rivers of life into people’s lives.
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I want to briefly lay out for you the flow of topics in this part of A Highway for God, as they have unfolded themselves.
Two chapters inserted themselves into this flow from elsewhere, 23. “The Present Crisis” and 24. “Pray with Us.” In fact, the circumstances of our world today thrust us rapidly into practical reality in the great battle in which we are engaged, God proving Christ Jesus faithful and true through our lives. Those two chapters set the tone of war as an essential part of God coming through, that is, casting down all that opposes.
Then, from Chapter 25, “The Word of Our Hearts” on, we continued with the original layout. The next chapter is the final chapter of this segment, “Calling God Through.” In it we will consider what we actually do as callers of God, including a wrap-up of our use of Neryn in Shadowfell as an illustration of a caller, something far more Biblical than we have known.
Then, Chapters 37, “Enclothed” through 40, “Understanding the Prison Cage,” also came into this layout from elsewhere to become as an essential “parenthesis” in our understanding of this truth. We will wrap up these four chapters with 41, “Utmost Purity” and 42, “ Healing God’s Heart,” before returning to our incredible ministry of joining our Father together with our brothers and sisters in Christ, Heart with heart, and all the many wondrous qualities of God through us that appear to everyone as coming “from” us.
We call those wondrous qualities of God our five SUPERPOWERS! And they are, they are the only real and very human, God-through-us, super-powers.