20. Thankfulness Dispels Accusation

© Daniel Yordy – 2020
 

Thankfulness: The primary action that we do in speaking good grace into and for the sake of all, the practical means by which we encourage and lift up one another and by which all are defeated who yet remain in opposition to God; being the authority of God.

Accusation: 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 and others.

This is the door of seeing or judgment; that is, Door 7 is Judgment.

And this is why God placed the most important verse in the Bible as the ruling verse.

We are synergeoing with God to turn all things towards goodness.

Two judgments – a river of life in all that it costs, seeing all things good, extending forgiveness to all – or – a river of death that pretends no cost at all, but sees all things evil (including Christians) and condemns all.

When we look at others, what do we see? How do we judge?

The Door of Judgment closed is accusation; but the Door of Judgment flung wide open is thanksgiving and gratitude, that is, speaking good grace into all, that is, being the very expression of Jesus sustaining all things by His good-speaking.

What does that Door of Judgment wide open to God mean in our lives? And what is God free to be inside of and through us as He enters as that Door?

Here is a more accurate translation of Genesis 1:26. Then the Judges said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.”

Judgment is the central quality that makes God God; judgment is the central quality that makes humans human. Judgment plays a far bigger role in our human frame and experience than we have ever considered or known.

The entire economic world is based on judgment. When you go to a store, you choose to purchase one item and you choose not to purchase the item sitting next to it. This decision comes out from judgment, and you have very definite personal reasons for your action.

When you married, you performed the greatest act of discrimination in your life, for you excluded all other women (or men) and you chose to join with one only, entirely for your own personal reasons. Without judgment, without discrimination, no freedom exists, and we cannot be human.

An army of slaves never judges anything and never acts out from their own personal reasons. All they think or do is what they are told and nothing else. This quality is inhuman and ungodly. Yet we are finding this very world closing in all around us.

If people are not free to hate, neither are they free to love. More than that, “socialism” is every judgment that is rightfully yours being made by others and then forced upon you by violence.

Yet look closely at the first actions of both the serpent and Adam as they turned into wickedness. The first words out of the serpent’s mouth were, “God lied; you are NOT like God, but you should be.” And the first motive of human action, arising in Adam’s heart, according to Paul, was UNTHANKFULNESS, “God, I HATE the way You made me.”

Adam’s second motive, his false purpose, was the power of law, of the knowledge of “right” and “wrong,” that he might manipulate and control the people in his world.

This practice by humans, then, of judgment against one another, is the continual accusation – “You are fallen short of me.” Think about human conversation. In fact, listen in on other people’s conversation when you are in public places. What is almost the universal topic? – Other people’s failures. In one way or another, people speak judgment as condemnation of others whom they perceive to be fallen short of them.

Nonetheless, human judgment is a strong positive as well, for all understanding and wisdom, all art and creativity, all honor and a “job well done,” come out from this God-quality we share as humans, that of judgment.

Defining the Open Door:
Virtue #7: The proof of Christ through me, that I synergeo with God in my seeing and in my speaking, seeing all things good, and turning everything, good, bad, or indifferent, into the path of goodness. My continual judgment that all things are brand new, that all things come out from God through the good-speaking of Jesus. My extension of the Salvation of God upon every created entity. My going under with Father, carrying all things through the darkness and into joy. My judgment of my brothers and sisters in Christ, that they are my greatest treasure, that their hearts and persons dwelling in all favor are more valuable to me than the universe.

Virtue #7: My utter gratefulness for God with me as I synergeo with Father judging all to life.

It is easy to see how this Open Door of Judgment corresponds with an Open Door of Completion, for as we judge the Atonement of Jesus, one unlimited sacrifice for sins, so we see an entire creation by that same sacrifice, and judge all things good. Our knowing of that Atonement for us becomes our practice of that Atonement for others.

God-in for Us:
The truth is that God planted this seed of giving thanks in and for all things into my heart when I was but fifteen years old. Giving thanks was not my own inclination or nature; nonetheless, it was always the thing arising inside of me after I had become weary of arguing with God.

I learned over the years that giving thanks was the one human action that would always dispel the darkness and bring the joy of Christ. And so, it was the first of three, for I did not yet know of asking and believing or of speaking Christ. Yet that is God’s order, for giving thanks in and for our lowly estate always comes first; it is the requirement of God.

In 1996 and 1997, the question of God’s order for His church became important in my life. And so I wrote out and then categorized every commandment in the New Testament. That exercise did two things for me. First, it introduced me to a commandment I had never seen before – “Receive one another in just the same way that Christ receives you,” along with all the other “be just like God” verses.

Second, in looking across those large lists, I could see that “Give thanks in and for all things” had risen to the top and there it has remained from then until now. To give thanks is to accept God as God at the level of heart. Giving thanks is pure and true surrender.

Giving thanks is the one human action that can never be impure or deceitful. Even the one who is trying to be insincere will find that, in giving thanks, they have tricked themselves into one moment of honesty.

Nonetheless, God-In through the Door of Giving Thanks is entirely turned around, out from a life of giving thanks, to become “speaking good grace into others” in all the speaking of Christ, the true meaning of the Eucharist.

Defining the Door Closed
In complete contrast, holding that door tightly closed and locked is a simple thing. Simply accuse. Accuse God, accuse self, accuse others. And the truth is that humans, including Christians, are more skilled at the practice of accusation than anything else.

Accusation is always Satan in one’s mouth, and demons always attend every utterance of accusation, including that which is internal.

Accusation is the beginning and the end, the true human replacement for God. And it is accusation to which the last holdouts in hades will cling as their ultimate strife against God. “I am fallen short of me – all others have fallen short of me – and God is utterly and completely fallen short of me.”

Do you see how accusation exalts itself as God above all? Accusation, God-Curse, is the supreme essence of anti-Christ.

Keeping God Out
Unthankfulness is the bedrock lying underneath of all human misery. Unthankfulness is the dull, demonic presence of an absolute rejection of the good-speaking of Christ. And unthankfulness places the voice of Satan into the mouth of humans, accusing, accusing, accusing.

Accusation is the beginning of keeping God out; accusation is the middle of keeping God out; and accusation is the end of keeping God out.

Accusation covers a wide range of human expression. It is often very subtle, as in most of the things the serpent said in the garden. But it can also be hard and adamant, as the face of the aristocracy saying, “Know your place.” Or it can be shrill and hysterical as today’s screaming-against taking place on the Internet.

And all three, actually, take place inside the Church in the calling of God by how other Christians are called.

You see how reasonable “Did God indeed say” sounds; yet it is the declaration that God lies, the mother of all subsequent accusation. Then, “You shall be like God” is the horrific accusation that Adam and Eve were NOT like God, not at all. But then, “Know your place,” or, “God is displeased with you,” become the hardness of accusation, whereas the hysteria is found often in the attitudes of the congregation towards one another. Christians often tear each other to pieces.

My point is this, that accusation sits underneath the soul of the Christian, filling all their self-story with shame. That shame, then, becomes their definition of themselves and all that they speak. And shame as the definition of self must also be shame as the definition of “God.”

The False Call
What, then, is the “God” who is called falsely through an otherwise closed Door 7 into the knowledge of Christians?

 Calling God in falsely through a closed Door 7 is to present a God of cursing. Indeed, look at Calvin’s definition of God. – “When you see God you will know just how wicked you really are.”

And thus we see that Door 1 Being and Door 7 Judgment are pivots of each other, for how we define “God” is then how we see and judge. If Calvin were correct, then the serpent was speaking the truth, that God KNOWS evil and generates sin and death in the judgment of all.

And so the horrific accusation of the devil against God, that God knows evil, becomes the same accusation against humans – know that you are evil.

Consider the God coming through the wicked and false use of Paul’s injunction to us in Ephesians 4, “speaking the truth in love,” as meaning “telling other Christians their sins and sinfulness” as if that is the “truth.”

You see, I have experienced such false speaking many times. Understand that, in saying that, I exclude entirely those times when someone, with kindness, was showing me a better way to treat other people. Rather, I am speaking of the definition coming to me through words that I was fleshy and sinful, a definition that can come in many subtle ways.

The God who came through such false “speaking the truth” to me was a God who, by his very nature, as Calvin claimed, was pushing me ever further away from himself – which is God’s definition of sin. In other words, the “God” coming through cursing was a god who caused me to sin even more by making me believe I was ever further away from him.

Indeed, this is the greatest accusation that can be made against God, that Satan (which word in the Greek means “the accusing one”) really is His image.

The True Call
But look at the place of the believer in Jesus, something utterly different. After placing us inside the gospel of Christ, inside all salvation, inside full symmorphy with Jesus, inside sinless perfection, Paul made this observation, as the only reality that can be.

What then do we say to these things? If God is for our sakes, who could be against us? For He who did not spare His own Son, but traded Him for us all, for our sakes, HOW shall He not also together with Him grace us freely with all things? Who will bring an accusation or debt against God’s elect? God is the One who has already made just and innocent! Who is the one condemning? Christ Jesus, the One having died, rather, having been raised out from the dead, is also inside the right hand of God and is continuously and actively connecting us together with God. Who will separate us away from the love of Christ? Pressures of travail within and without? Or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written, “For Your sake we face death all the day; we are accounted as sheep of slaughter.” But inside of all these things, we are hyper-overcomers through the One who loves us.

For I am persuaded and filled full with confidence that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things at hand, nor things about to happen, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing has the ability to separate us away from the love of God inside of Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:31-39). – Absolute and complete.

One could write a list – which I will allow you to do, of the kind of God that comes through every line in this passage. Indeed, He sure does look like the God that I know.

Comparing False with True
And so calling God in falsely through Door 7 is turning the good-speaking of Christ into the speaking of everything not-Christ.

It is the words of speaking coming out from the heart that turn the eyes of seeing, that is judgment, to the seeing of a “God” who knows and begets evil and to the seeing of other Christians as thus driven far away from him.

Indeed, it’s hardly two or three pages into his massive book, Institutes of the Christian Religion, that John Calvin gives us this Satanic definition of God. And then the most remarkable thing happens throughout the entire rest of the book. John Calvin takes all the wonderful gospel verses of grace and faith, and weaves them around such a “God.”

And remember that Calvin did nothing more than take the thinking of all Nicene Christianity and made it hyper. Indeed, this is the “God” coming through the preaching, in one way or another, of every sect or church I have known.

Let me paraphrase Ephesians 1:3. “Speak good things concerning the God who speaks all good things concerning you.”

Consider again Calvin’s definition of God. – “When you see God you will know just how wicked you really are.” This is the “god” who drives you away from himself; this is the “god” of sin and death.

Two types of calling God-IN. Hate what you are and be ashamed; God is against you until you prove what you cannot do; preach condemnation against others – or – give thanks in and for all; rejoice that God shares your life; speak good grace into all; judge all into life and joy.

To a false prophet of Door 7, God knows evil and He knows that you are sinful and His revelation causes you to know just how far away from Him you really are. Therefore hate what you are and be ashamed.

To a true prophet of Door 7, God knows Christ and He knows that Christ is your life and His revelation causes you to know that you are just like Him. Therefore value your human weakness, as God made you, and know God with you for others.

To a false prophet of Door 7, speaking words of cursing is the speaking of truth. To speak Christ your life is false because you are joining a God who knows evil together with your sinful and vile humanity.

To a true prophet of Door 7, speaking the words of Christ now made personal as you is the speaking of truth. To speak Christ your life is life forevermore because you are connecting yourself utterly with God with no consciousness of any disconnection at all. Indeed, the one who speaks Christ your life into others is the only real obedience of the gospel.

To a false prophet of Door 7, the final witness of Christ in the earth is a last great speaking of sin and shame against everyone, a river of death bringing wrath upon all.

To a true prophet of Door 7, the fulfillment of Christ in the earth is the great speaking of the good words of Christ, a river of life carrying all into a goodness they were never expecting. Indeed, as Paul said in Romans 11, this good speaking of favor into the most wicked people on earth brings the resurrection, life out from death, into the human experience.

The True Dispels the False
How, then, does the true calling of God into ourselves through Door 7 dispel as a meaningless vapor all accusation that has ever been uttered.

And here is the most wonderful thing in the universe, our ministry of Judgment as the authority of God – speaking the good-speaking of Christ into all. By speaking that same word that is Jesus into ourselves and especially into one another, our eyes are opened and we see as God sees, we see with eyes of Fire, we see all things brand new, we see all things good.

I know this and can testify of the truth of my words – that speaking the Jesus Secret, especially in The Jesus Secret II, WILL CAUSE your eyes to open from their blindness and will enable you to see the Lord Jesus everywhere you look.

The good-speaking, then, coming out from such seeing, is a River of Life indeed. And before that River, no accusation can ever stand.

Every mouth of accusation will go silent, every person will give thanks, and all will speak the same word that is Jesus.

Let us Pray
“Father, I give You all thanks for my lowly frame, for You have made me to be filled with all that You are. Father, I gladly join with You in walking beneath of others, lifting them up, for Your sake, because I value Your Heart above all things, that I might live every moment of my life forever only there. Father, I see through Your eyes, I see through eyes of Fire, that Fire that changes everything into life and goodness. Therefore I judge all things into life, not flippantly, but in the full bearing of all cost as Christ Jesus now sharing Himself with and as me. I am a member of Your Body, my Father, reveal Yourself as the All-Carrying One through my brothers and sisters with me together. Father, be God-Love through me; it is so.”

The Meaning of God-Through
What does this wide open Door 7, the Door of Judgment, mean, then, for God’s entrance into His creation through and then beyond us?

The River of Life is the flow from our mouths of the good-speaking of Christ into the ears and hearts and lives of everyone, so that all might know that they are, indeed, sustained and carried every moment by that good-speaking.

Indeed, the meaning of God-Through this final Door of Judgment, in the giving of thanks for the sake of all becoming the good-speaking of grace into all, as The Jesus Secret II, the mystery of Ephesians, God made known to all through us His Church.

And so, at the same time that I am sending you this letter, I have a link to The Jesus Secret II Ephesians, now available on my website.

Speak Ephesians out loud through the entire chapter. Then speak it again, recording your voice this time into audio. Then listen to your own voice speaking the mystery of God made known through you.

This is how our minds change. This is how we are transformed. This is how we see as God sees and how we speak as Jesus speaks.

This is our sending of a River of Life together into our world.

The Eucharist:
I speak good grace. I remember the Lord Jesus, in His blood shed for me and in His body broken for me. I bring Jesus into my mind and give Him thanks. I give thanks for my human frame and my lowly state. I give thanks for every circumstance of my life and for the sake of every individual person with whom I ever interacted.

I speak good grace. I speak the same words that are Jesus concerning myself and concerning every individual person who belongs to Him. I eat of Jesus’ flesh and I drink of His blood in the speaking of my mouth, confessing Christ Jesus as the only thing true. As I do that, I am transformed, the true transubstantiation takes place, the very substance of Jesus now becomes all that I am. I am the substance of Christ. I am His life; I am His flesh; I am His revelation.

I speak good grace. I speak the same words that are Jesus into every one I meet and especially together with my brothers and sisters in Christ. We speak the good words of Christ that sustain all things in power into one another. As we together, then, become those good words in all that Jesus is, then we also turn and speak the good-speaking of Christ into all creation.

We together speak good grace; God our Father is made known to all through us.