11. Keeping God Out

© Daniel Yordy – 2020

We will start with the negative in this letter, those things intended to keep God out. In the next letter we will look at the positive, those things that must bring God in. Then, for seven letters, we will split each letter between the positive and the negative and how the negative vanishes as if it never was in the light and warmth of the true.

We know the negative only by knowing the true. Then, the negative serves to give the outline and boundary of what is pure and true inside a world that is savagely false.

In The River of Life we saw the seven seals of Revelation 6 & 8 as seven powerful demons casting their spell of darkness upon God’s people. That is an accurate and critical way to understand these things.

But man is the master, and even more, Christians possess the authority of Christ given to them. For that reason, in this series we are looking at these same seals as, first, the action of Christians to keep God out, and second, that awfulness of calling God into His creation contrary to His desire.

In spite of the strength with which we must speak, however, we in no way despise or look down on any of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Their opposition exists only in their imagination, out from fear and unbelief. They are the Lord Jesus living as them otherwise and each one is of immense worth as the expression of Father. We cannot bring healing to anyone, however, unless we first have a clear diagnosis of the cause of their disconnection from God, that is, not knowing in all completion their full and present union with Christ.

And I saw a scroll upon the right hand of the One sitting upon the throne, having been written from within and from behind having been sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?” (Revelation 5:1-2).

Because we have placed the ruling verses of the gospel over every other thought or word in the Bible, we know that this vision of a scroll written within and without and sealed with seven seals can be only one thing – The Entrance of God into His creation – our human hearts of flesh written with all that is Christ Jesus.

Christ lives inside of your heart through faith. – You ARE a letter of Christ, having already been written with the Spirit of the living God – inside tablets of hearts of flesh (2 Corinthians 3:3 – reduced).

Paul used the word “tablets” to describe the writing of Christ in order to place this line fully as the COVENANT inside the Ark of the Covenant. Then, the scroll is this same thing, now as that same Ark going forth as the knowledge of God into the knowing of all, that is, what is written now read and understood by all.

And so these seven seals have bound the Christ of our hearts and prevented the Entrance of God-Is into His creation to be seen and known by all.

We now understand the meaning of the word, “Come” in Revelation 6, as each of the living creatures speaks. To speak “Come” is to CALL IN, it is the action of a Caller.

But there are two kinds of callers, the true and the false. The true calls God-Is into His creation after the seal against God has been removed, but the false has called God by the false, and presented a “gospel” to God’s people that opposes the Entrance of the Father at every point. This “gospel” appeals, then, to every impulse and choice Adam made in the garden.

Two terms from John’s vision have become a popular element in modern pop culture, the “apocalypse” or “post-apocalyptic,” and “the four horsemen of the apocalypse.”

Both of these terms are used and defined as the very OPPOSITE of what they actually mean.

The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse are NOT the judgment of God against humans.

The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ARE the judgment of humans against God.

The unregenerate, however possess neither authority to keep God out nor authority to call God in. That authority belongs only to Christians. It is only Christians who keep God out.

Nicene Christianity is the greatest enemy of God in the earth. It is a perfectly dovetailed mixture of the gospel of Christ with the gospel of the serpent. A Nicene preacher, of any and every sect, can go back and forth between the expressions of the two gospels 30 times in a 30-minute sermon and every hearer imagines that it is all the same thing.

This is the power of the confidence trickster. By speaking the truth half the time, the preacher draws into the clearing in the middle of the garden all good people whose hearts are longing to know God. Then, by intermingling the lie with the truth, the preacher ensures that those same people are driven back from the tree of life leaving death as their only alternative.

The best way to trap good people within the lie is to embellish the lie with the truth, to grow tares together with wheat, just as Jesus said they would do.

Nonetheless, it is entirely for their sakes that you and I are now calling God IN.

In The River of Life we came to understand both overcoming and seal much more clearly as we placed each together side by side. We will do it that way through seven chapters, but first, in this chapter, I want to express as explicitly as I can the real meaning of each seal that prevents the revelation, the apocalypse of Jesus Christ through us. Then, in the next chapter we will approach the seven overcomings in the same way, as the seven virtues of Christ already proven inside of us through faith. We are attempting to set out a broader definition so that we can then create a shorter and precise definition of each.

At this point, however, we now see the “seals” as seven locked doors keeping God out and the “virtues” or overcomings as those same seven doors inside of us, now wide-open welcoming God in.

Seal 1: Arrogance.
And I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living things saying, as a voice of thunder, “Come!” And I looked and behold a white horse and the one sitting upon it having a bow; and a crown was given to him and he went forth conquering and that he might conquer.

The sensation first felt by the mighty angel in the tree of knowing good and evil was the sense of challenged and aggrieved superiority. When the serpent said, “You shall be like God,” he was playing the greatest trick of the confidence trickster. This statement meant three different things in the hearing of the humans. First, it meant, “God lied when He said you are like Him, for you are NOT like Him at all.” Second it meant, “If you try really hard (loser), you might be like God someday (or not, loser).” But third, and most important, it meant, “Eat of this fruit and you will be like me, for you will possess my own aggrieved superiority. You will be ARROGANT.”

I KNOW humans; I KNOW Christians; and I KNOW Christian ministries.

Arrogance rules inside of all, just as it has ruled in me and in you, dear reader, and sometimes still pokes its nose under our tent.

Religious arrogance. – I am superior; give way to my superiority. – I am right; acknowledge my rightness. – I am ‘closer’ to God; submit to me.

We are not speaking here of that which goes out towards others, which is contempt, but rather the citadel, the source of all that opposes God, the image of the arrogant ‘Christ’ by which humans cast themselves.

Arrogance is the rejection of a God who reveals Himself through the way He made you, through your human weakness. Humans imagine that they deserve better than God; they share with the serpent his sense of aggrieved superiority.

In sharing that same sense of aggrieved superiority with the serpent, Christians then create an image in their minds of what “Christ” should be like contrary to what He is. They raise this imaginative image of “Christ” on a pedestal in their minds, and then “aspire” to be like something superior that exists only in their imagination.

Arrogance (Webster’s 1926): Act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which exists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of one’s self to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.

To Arrogate (Webster’s 1926): To assume or claim as one’s own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit.

Since the human definition of self and the human definition of God are the same, Christians justify their own sense of aggrieved superiority over others by casting God as the same, a God who “knows good and evil,” a “God” who has cast the universe into all good and all evil forever, a “God” who thinks more highly of Himself than He does of anyone else, a “God” through the image of the serpent.

And out from this twisted definition of “God,” they accuse those who want to be His image and likeness, God as He is through them as they are, of following the devil into “presumption,” even while they call their own refusal to be God’s image as they are, a “humility.”

This imaginative exaltation of self is, in fact, the creation of a “self” separate from God. It is the source of all other qualities and actions that keep God out of His creation. It is a barrier of human mental fantasy.

Arrogance as a Closed and Locked Door: A profound sensation of self-identity best described as aggrieved superiority rooted in the accusation that God should have made me better; a profound lust for superiority, whether in earthly things or heavenly things; the imaginings that cast Jesus as “superior” and “perfect” in outward expression and “God” as one who knows evil.

Seal 2: Contempt
Contempt is the outflow of arrogance, the expression of one’s feelings towards all other humans, coming out from that sense of aggrieved superiority. Arrogance and contempt are two sides of each other. Arrogance is the regard of self, and contempt is the regard of others.

And when He opened the second seal, I heard the second living thing saying, “Come.” And another horse, bright red, went forth and the one sitting upon it. It was granted to him to take the peace out from the earth and that they will slay one another; and a great short sword was given to him (Revelation 6:3-4 – rough JSV).

Of the seven overcomings set as the true way of Christ in opposition to the false, the second is the only one expressed in the negative – “shall not act out from the second death.”

It is impossible to understand God or the gospel without understanding the motive of the Father; it is impossible to understand sin and death without understanding the motive of Adam and all humans alike.

“Shall not act out from the second death” means the transfer of motive from Adam’s to Father’s. Sharing heart with God is not “blasphemy”; it is our escape from death.

When Adam stood there in the garden, considering the two images set before him by which he could know God, he saw “no comeliness, no beauty that we should desire Him,” set against “full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.” Adam coveted the beauty of the serpent and despised the weakness of Jesus. The darkening of Adam’s heart was unthankfullness, a rejection of the form God created him to be. Yet Adam had not yet sinned, nor was he yet subject to death.

How can one who lusts after superiority despise himself? It doesn’t work that way. Aggrieved superiority must have a target, someone ELSE to despise. When Adam saw what his wife had done, he despised her in his heart. Adam’s motive for choosing death, then, was to seize for himself the power to dominate others out from his overwhelming contempt for God. “Your husband shall rule over you.” This was the “first death.”

In that moment, peace was removed from the earth, and people from then until now have been striving against each other out from contempt, doing to one another what they would prefer to do to God if they could get their hands on Him.

Contempt (Webster’s 1926): 1. Act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn. 2. State of being despised; disgrace; shame. 3. An object of contempt. 4. An act or expression denoting contempt.

Contemptible (Webster’s 1926): 1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable; also, unworthy of consideration. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject.

It is clear by Adam’s choice that he despised the Lord Jesus Christ as the image of God. Towards himself, he spun the false story of the serpent’s “superiority,” but he transferred his contempt for man as the image of God to Eve and all other humans, as Jesus said, “Whatever you do to the least of these My brethren, you ARE doing it to Me.”

Contempt as a Closed and Locked Door: The lens through which aggrieved superiority views all other humans; that which places self “up” by viewing others as “inferior”; includes contempt for self as it comes out from the same sensation that “I ought to be better”; the cause of all war, theft, and murder.

Seal 3: Dishonor
The longer I walk with God, defining myself by every Word of the gospel made personal as me, the more wicked a certain “Christian” phrase becomes to me. That wicked phrase is the Calvinist, that is hyper-Nicene phrase, “limited atonement.”

After establishing absolutely – one UNLIMITED sacrifice for sins and our living utterly inside of God with hearts sprinkled from an evil consciousness, the writer of Hebrews said this. … who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29 – NKJ version).

Here is this “Christian” judgment against God as John saw in his vision.

And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living thing saying, “Come!” And I looked and behold a black horse and the one sitting upon it having a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the midst of the four living things saying, “A measure of wheat for a denarius and three measures of barley for a denarius and you should not do wrong against the oil and the wine” (Revelation 6:5-6 – rough JSV).

The false scales – measuring the sacrifice of Jesus – It will buy you only a little bit.

As Agur pointed out in Proverbs 30, “Not enough, not enough, not enough. The Cross of Christ is not enough for me, the Blood of Christ is not enough for me, Christ my life is not enough for me. Not enough, not enough.”

To Dishonor (Webster’s 1926): 1. To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of. 2. To violate the chastity of; to debauch. 3. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; – said in respect of a draft, bill, check, or note, which is duly presented for acceptance or payment; as to dishonor a bill of exchange.

The refusal to give to Jesus what He purchased from all – calling their sins and their sinfulness to be their own. You see, the sacrifice of Jesus “lays the axe to the root,” so to speak, that is, it eliminates the cause of aggrieved superiority. To give one’s sin to Jesus is to humble one’s self. To hold onto it by claims of a “limited atonement” is to maintain superiority and contempt even as a “Christian.”

“Limited atonement,” then, is never directed at self, for, of course, “I” have it right. “Limited atonement” is the primary tool used to extend control out over those who are held in contempt.

Dishonor as a Closed and Locked Door: The effort to place a measurement upon the Atonement of the Lord Jesus, exercised in order to maintain one’s sense of aggrieved superiority and its consequent license to treat others with contempt; the bringing of reproach upon the Atonement in order to maintain a sensation or outward appearance of control over others deemed inferior.

Seal 4: Death
Death is the big one. Death is the replacement of Jesus as Savoir and Salvation. You will not surely die – death is what “real life” is all about. Just die and “go to” heaven, and your troubles will be over.

And when He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living thing saying, “Come!” And I looked and behold a pale horse and the one sitting on it; his name was Death and hades followed with him and authority was given to them over the fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with death and by the wild beasts of the earth (Revelation 6:7-8 – rough JSV).

Remember that we do not place anything in this list as God’s “judgment against humans,” but all of it is the human judgment against God. Death is the refusal of God, and hades is the mind that lives in opposition to “Father with me, here and now.”

Indeed, those who exist according to flesh, think about and out from the flesh… For death is the thought of the flesh… Because the thinking of the flesh, that is, the thinking of separation from God, is alienation inside of God (Romans 8:5-7 – reduced).

The Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ is God’s declaration that He NEVER removed man from Himself. It is humans who drive God out. By man death (1 Corinthians 15:21). God never once used sin to separate humans from Himself – not counting their false steps to them (2 Corinthians 5:19); it is humans who use their sin to drive God far away from them in the fantasy of their minds.

Death (Webster’s 1926): 1. The cessation of all vital functions without capability of resuscitation, whether in animals or plants; act or fact of dying. 2. Cessation of the spiritual life, called spiritual death… Spiritual death is variously conceived as alienation from God, as annihilation of the spirit in consequence of sin, as irredeemable damnation. 3. Personified: The destroyer of life – conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. 4. State of being dead or without life, energy, or activity. 5. Anything as dreadful as to be like death. 7. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation of function or existence; annihilation, as the death of memory, the death of a language. 8. Murder; bloodshed.

In this one case, Webster’s definition is inadequate for us, since Christians have not known the Biblical definitions of death.

Death (Daniel Yordy – out from Bible context clues): 1. The violent ripping apart of the human spirit from the human body. 2. Living in heaven-only severed from one’s earth form, whether in a state of hades or a state of knowing Christ. 3. The disconnection of the human spirit from the knowledge of God the moment Adam ate of knowing good and evil; this disconnected human spirit is called “the old man.” 4. Living inside of a self story of separation from God; seeing and judging everything by outward appearance and not by Christ our life. 5. Using one’s sin to drive God away in the imagination of the mind. 6. Murder as the ultimate destruction of the image of God. 7. The delusion that death is “Savior,” taking us to glory, and that being dead is “salvation.”

Christians then place death as the barrier between themselves and the knowledge of God, and place everything in the Bible that speaks of God now to be known only on the “other side” of death. This quality, then, gives answer against the limiting of the Atonement, for surely “Death” can do what Jesus cannot; that is, death can make me superior, something Jesus has failed to do.

This death, set right in the middle, is the strongest of the seven closed and locked doors. Then, although these first four are primary; the remaining three are simply logical extensions coming out from these four.

But why horsemen? Because a man on a horse is far stronger than a man on foot. A man on a horse is able to run down and beat down lesser humans, including a God who reveals Himself through weakness. The horse gives him the superhuman power for which he lusts.

Death as a Closed and Locked Door: The extreme conclusion of arrogant superiority and contempt, that since the Atonement of Jesus is not enough, something far greater is needed to attain to the lust for “above-ness,” and that is the elimination of human flesh, my weakness gone; the greatest accusation against God in existence, that is, “only death can connect me with ‘God.’”

Seal 5: Refusal
And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar [of incense] the souls of those having been slain through the word of God and through the testimony which they have possessed, and they were screaming with a loud noise saying, “Until when, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those dwelling upon the earth?” (Revelation 6:9-10 – rough JSV).

This picture is NOT a good thing.

Nowhere in the Bible, either in the Old Testament pattern or the New Testament gospel is there any idea of any Christian camping out inside the Altar of Incense. To remain in the Altar of Incense is an abject REFUSAL to live inside of God. These deluded souls are screaming vengeance against their enemies, because they have no real knowledge of Christ. They have never turned around to be the revelation of Father. Because they are born again, their spirits are made perfect inside of Christ, but they have no idea what that means.

They refused to know their entrance into the Holiest when they had their earthly bodies; they continue to refuse, even though they are dead in Christ.

Refusal (Webster’s 1926): 1. Act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance; as, a refusal of an invitation. 3. The opportunity or right of refusing or taking before others; the choice of refusing or taking. 5. That which is refused or rejected.

To Refuse (Webster’s 1926): 1. To keep free from; to avoid; to shun. 2. To decline to accept; to reject; specifically, to decline to have as wife or as husband. 3. To decline to submit to or undergo; to decline to do, give, or grant; to deny; to decline. 5. To renounce; to give up; to abandon; to cast off; to decline to bear. 6. To put, thrust, or drive away; to expel. (Intransitive) 1. To decline to accept; to withhold compliance or permission; to make a refusal.

Living Christians refuse to live inside the Holiest, inside of God inside of them, even though the invitation is clear. They will not, because being responsible for themselves, for their own sins, is too important to them; it is the only thing that enables their sensation of aggrieved superiority. This refusal, then, is matched with the next seal, which is a turning from the knowledge of God to the knowledge of everything not true.

Refusal as a Closed and Locked Door: The innate rejection of God here, God now, and God with me; the closing of eyes and ears against the good speaking of Jesus sustaining all; a false ‘humility’ based on aggrieved superiority; Christian unbelief that allows the Christian rebellion of dishonesty.

Seal 6: Dishonesty
And I saw when He opened the sixth seal…. And the kings of the earth and the great ones, and the commanders and the rich and the strong, and every servant and free hid themselves into the caves and into the rocks of the mountains, and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall upon us, and hide us away from the face of the One sitting upon the throne and away from the opposition of the Lamb, because the day of His opposition has come and who is able to stand?” (Revelation 6:12 & 15-16 – rough JSV).

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And… Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden (Genesis 3:7-8).

We can see that hiding behind fig leaves and tree trunks just doesn’t cut it anymore. Now humans need to spin the great stories of caves and rocks in order to hide themselves from God. We can see part of this in the spinning of the non-scientific “theory” of evolution, “Look, we came only out of the earth, we can pretend there is no God.”

Pretending – dishonesty, the endless spinning of false stories of self – “I am my own source; I am responsible for myself; I am my own “god;” I am whatever fakery I want to imagine.”

“I am a sinner ‘saved by grace’ and ‘on my way’ to heaven” is the Christian expression of hiding from God.

Consider the opening of the sixth seal. Wood is God’s metaphor for human flesh filled with God. Stone, however, is a metaphor for human flesh as a place to hide from God. Notice that it is these liars who are claiming that if God does actually come through, then He will destroy them with WRATH. An ‘angry God’ is their excuse, the accusation that it’s God opposing them, and not the other way around.

Dishonesty (Webster’s 1926): 1. Dishonor; shame. 2. Lewdness; unchastity. 3. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. 4. A dishonest act; violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity.

Dishonest (Webster’s 1926): 1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. 3. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.

To Pretend (Webster’s 1926): 2. To hold before or put forward as a cloak, veil, or disguise for something else. 3. To hold out, or represent falsely; to put forward or offer as true and real something untrue or unreal; to assert or allege falsely; to show hypocritically or deceitfully; to feign, as to pretend friendship. 4. To put forward, assert, or allege as a ground, reason, pretext, or excuse. 5. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

At the beginning of the Church age, Ananias and Saphira pretended to be something they were not; their death signifies to us that pretending has no part in the gospel.

Honest Christians know that they cannot please God; that’s why they speak Christ as their only life. Dishonest Christians put forth a face that asserts that they, in fact, are “trying to” please God, even while claiming that those who call themselves by Christ are the “dishonest ones.” It never enters their thoughts of a ‘superior’ self that they fail, utterly and completely.

This dishonesty is the source of all self-righteousness.

Dishonesty as a Closed and Locked Door: The spinning of identities of self in denial of the good speaking of Christ; the attachment of self-identity to anything and everything in this world; the enclothing of “self” with rightness; the outward garbs of superiority and contempt.

Seal 7: Accusation
This seal is the only one of the seven that is expressed positively instead of negatively.
The entrance of accusation into the universe came through the serpent, “Did God indeed say.” Adam, of course, and all humans and all Christians since, have continued to speak against the Word God speaks in every imaginable way. “You don’t really believe that, do you? ‘Filled with all the fullness of God?’ What kind of an idiot are you.”

Every human judgment from Adam until now has been an accusation against God expressed in one way or another.

Here, then, is the moment when all accusation ceases. – And when He opened the seventh seal, there was silence inside of heaven for about half an hour (Revelation 8:1).

The “about half an hour,” then, signifies that, while everyone pauses to receive the full meaning of NO MORE accusation, still the good speaking of Jesus sustaining all things continues right on with all joyous expression.

Accusation (Webster’s 1926): 1. Act or fact of being accused; arraignment. 2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.

To Accuse (Webster’s 1926): 1. To charge with or declare to have committed a fault or offense; to blame; to censure; specifically in law, to charge with an offense judiciously or by a public process; to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. 2. To betray; show. Synonyms: Impeach, arraign, indict; criminate; reproach; censure; blame.

Accusation is the only actual action one can do directly against God. Hurting other people is hurting God, yes, but since all these are so far “beneath of God,” the human does not see success in hurting God by hurting humans.

The prior six closed and locked doors are primarily inner sensations created by the imagination. Accusation is an action, something one does. Accusation is the speaking against the good speaking of Christ.

Accusation as a Closed and Locked Door: The one action humans can wield against God; the words of heart, mouth, and mind that condemn God for falseness in not creating me superior; the speaking against the good speaking of Christ; cursing God by cursing self.

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Now, here’s the thing. Since our hearts are the entrance of God, then “keeping God out” is, by definition, the blackening of our own hearts, contrary to the Blood of Christ.

There is a New Testament word for this quality of keeping God out – refusal, or sons of refusal, or refusing to hear, that is, refusing the entrance of the good-speaking of Christ into our knowing as our source and life, that is, not hearing the creative Words that are Jesus by which alone we live, hearing those words instead as “All that the Lord says, I-I-I-I-I-I will do.” This statement is, of course, the ultimate expression of dishonesty.

Keeping God out is something one does personally regarding him or herself. Calling God in falsely, then, is something one presents towards others.

Let me define calling God in falsely. To call God in falsely is to see God through the image of the serpent, to see one’s self as yet disconnected from God, hoping to connect “someday,” and thus to pray according to both of those lies.

The thing is, one’s definition of God and one’s definition of one’s self are ALWAYS the same. “God” and “man” can be defined only as mirror images of one another.

To call God in falsely is to require God to act towards others in a way that is contrary to God.

God comes, however, even when He is called falsely, because of the Blood of Jesus and because of His outpoured love, even though most are not knowing Him as He is. And so we knew His presence with us, not because of us, but in spite of us.

In the congregation, then, there are two responses to this limited and confined entrance of God In. The majority perceive the “things of God,” and set themselves on the task of lining themselves up with the things of God that they might qualify to make those things a part of their lives. Of these are three types, those who perceive word mostly and thus attempt to line themselves up with word, those who perceive spirit mostly and thus attempt to line themselves up with spirit, and those who perceive word and spirit together, but still only as the “things” of God. These last are the ones that draw close, yet they do not enter.

But there are also another group of people, those who see something entirely different. They are aware of everything that is “the things of God,” but they also notice a Person, and they are transfixed by this Person. They want to know this Person, who tells them to call Him Father, by Word and by Spirit. They want to know His Heart.

These are so mesmerized by this Person that they drift away from all the “lining up” with the things of God and reach towards knowing Him. Then, in a blinding flash of light, they connect with the Heart of Father and KNOW, in that moment, that it has always been God Himself lining Himself up with them, Jesus, now their only life, fulfilling in them by His Spirit all that God means by what He says.

In that moment, these ones are seized into the Holiest, into God and into His throne, bypassing all the experts in the knowledge and application of all the things of God. They are seized into the humility of Christ.