27.1 Our Agreement with God
27.1 Our Agreement with God
© 2017 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Our Agreement with God
For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns. – You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62:1 & 6b-7).
In verse 2, Isaiah states that the Lord will call this Jerusalem by a “new name,” that is, the Jerusalem which is above, the mother of us all – the Church, which is His Body, the fullness of the Lord Jesus Christ who fills ALL in ALL (Galatians 4 & Ephesians 1). Put your eyes fully upon millions of Spirit-filled Christians alive right now across this earth.
Give Him No Rest
And then, without removing this Jerusalem from your eyes, turn and look straight into Father’s eyes. Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; and concerning the work of My hands, you command Me” (Isaiah 45:11).
Give Him no rest.
Our contention with God and His contention with us goes in both directions at the same time. When the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8b). –><– God do You DO what You say? Word against Faith. Forehead against forehead.
The Word Tested Him
In late September, 1981, God spoke to me that Maureen Mack would be my wife. For seven years I could not speak to her, though I saw her daily. Yet that word would not leave me alone. Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him (Psalm 105:19).
In late September, 1990, Maureen walked down the aisle to stand by my side. Two days earlier, I stood before the family at the Blueberry Christian community where we lived and I said, “Now I KNOW that God does what He says.”
This is My commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. Does He? Does God DO what He says?
Forehead to Forehead
Contending with God forehead to Forehead goes in both directions at the same time. When we hear the prayers of many, it sounds to us like they are trying to persuade a very reluctant God to do something He really does not want to do. I am speaking of the very opposite. God WILL DO what He says, but He cannot except THROUGH faith.
The only ones who will believe are those who take God seriously enough to DEMAND that God does what He says through them. Yet our contention with God is not really forehead to Forehead, but forehead IN Forehead, for we are utterly turned around. The contention is now God through us.
All the Way Through
Love one another as I have loved you. – Be filled with all the fullness of God. How can these words BE except they BE fulfilled in all fullness right here on this earth and in this age into which they were spoken? These words are NOT dependent on human performance, but they are looking for FAITH.
The preposition that should always come before faith is never “by” faith, but THROUGH faith. “By” is the action of the male, that is, the Word, “through” is the action of the female, you and me. And that word “through” is dia, which means ALL THE WAY through.
Covenant Is for God
Covenant is looming larger, now, hovering over everything I write as I close out Kingdom. Indeed, it is Kingdom that places before us the importance and urgency of Covenant.
Covenant is not for us, but for God. God cannot fulfill His Word, to be seen and known by all (Love one another as I have loved you – Be filled with all the fullness of God), except God can come THROUGH our faith. And faith means that you and I take what God says as seriously as does God, not for our performance, for “we” are not in this consideration, but for God’s creation, that the Word God speaks creates all that He speaks.
The Source of All Good Things
But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation (Hebrews 9:11). The unbelief of the translators that enables them to willfully pervert the meaning of the Greek is becoming annoying. The verbs rule the meaning of the sentence, but the prepositions turn those verbs in one direction or another. The verb is not “came,” the verbal is not “to come,” the preposition is not “with,” and this verse is not about “heaven.”
BUT Christ has presented Himself to us as the High Priest, the source generating all good things (same word as in Romans 8:28) THROUGH (God’s view of the tabernacle).
“A Failed Experiment”
Consider again the millions of Spirit-filled Christians living right now all across this planet. All of them are convinced that Christianity on this earth is a failed experiment, that God’s program is somehow to get them through “this life” so that He can fulfill His word to them after they are dead “in heaven.” None of them has heard this word – a fully successful Christian Church walking this earth, the fullness of every Word God speaks fulfilled, loving one another with a pure heart fervently, ALIVE and not planning to die.
It’s not a matter of getting the church from “here” to “there”; it’s a matter of getting God from “there” to “here.”
Off Like a Rocket
And God is not “reluctant” in that passage; the moment He finds faith that takes Him all the way THROUGH to God-seen and God-known, then He is off like a rocket. Our contention with God regarding His Word is that faith.
God, You said, “Love one another as Jesus loves us,” now DO all that You speak THROUGH me in absolute incorruptibility.
When we look at Christians in the present moment and then look at our proposal for that Bride through just a few years of time, we are, I must admit, looking at what seems to the human mind to be a fairy tale, complete fantasy. For seven years, Maureen being my wife seemed only a fairy tale to me, but then one day in late September, 1988, Maureen Mack talked with me, and I walked home in absolute wonder.
WHO ARE YOU?
??You?? who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest. And so we come back to the biggest question I ask. Who is it that will swing wide the Doors of the Feast of Tabernacles for the many that MUST rush through those Doors?
– WHO ARE “YOU?”
Who will so set their own forehead hard against God’s Forehead with these words, Love one another as I have loved you – Be filled with all the fullness of God, that they are absolute, that they are already all that exists, that they are the only definition of Christianity upon this planet NOW in this age?
Thy people shall be willing in the Day of Thy Power.