26.2 The Song of the Lamb
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The Song of the Lamb is every possible variation of “Christ is my only life.” A brother from Nigeria, Bayila Dalaky, sent me a song which I posted on my websites, “Image of the Firstborn,” one variation of unlimited millions of The Song of the Lamb. He has shared with me how, through deep weeping, the Lord Jesus has taught him to know he is loved and that in spite of himself Christ is all that he is – through reading my letters. It is the same testimony many of you have also shared with me. It is a song we must teach the Church.
The human spirit is recreated in a moment, the human body in the twinkling of an eye, but the human soul takes time.
The Foundation of All Victory
I am glad that Victory over death is the third or bottom row in our nine points of victory. As such, it is the foundation or basis of all other victories. And victory over death has nothing to do with death; victory over death is LIFE.
God has appointed the time of dwelling in booths, the days in-between the two Great days of God – Spirit and Body, for the renewing of the minds, the saving of the souls, of all those who are members of a fully successful Church. And thus we see that our real purpose in this part of our victory is to teach the Song of the Lamb to the Church. Keeping her alive in the heavens and upon the earth is simply a necessity for this far more important task.
Has Transformed My Soul
Over the last couple of days I have been hit by excruciating autistic moments that have always devastated me in the past. This time they did no such thing. In the first, I saw Jesus taking full responsibility for a mistake that I had made, and in the second, I chose to lay down my life for another, for Father’s sake. In both instances, the confusion of mind and heart that would normally have crippled me for days vanished in a moment.
The Song of the Lamb, a song I have sung for ten years now, has transformed my soul. But when I think of teaching this same Song to the Church, I think that maybe 7 years in-between might be better than 3½.
The Task In-Between
All of our times are in our Father’s hands; what is important for us to know is what Father is doing together with us in each season of time.
Let’s position this great task in-between the other two parts of victory. First, Wwe provide for the Church the flow of that anointing oil in the heavens coming out from Father’s heart and flowing over His Church, keeping her free from all darkness in the heavens. And second, Wwe provide for the Church the flow of that provision of God which sustains her physical life as she refuses the governments of this world. (Notice the Wwe.)
Anointing and Provision
I intend to share again, in the next session, an Annie vision that shows that flow of anointing oil from us to God’s people. That anointing oil is the power of the Spirit that enables the Church to hear and to sing the Song of the Lamb. The provision for her in the natural as she flees the flood of the dragon and as she refuses the beast, convinces her to trust those who are teaching her that Song. And by the mighty sword swung on the First Day of the Feast, the image of the serpent through which she once “knew” God has been shattered and the knowing has arisen in her that Jesus is not and never has been faraway, but that He lives now in full union with and has become each member of His Body.
Soul for Soul
I first titled this lesson “Soul for Soul,” the complete exchange of Jesus’ psuche for the psuche of each one who belongs to Him. This is a transformation, by singing, of every particle of one’s self-story at deeper and deeper levels. This level of victory relates to the removal of the “beast skin” of the curse, that is, the removal of all the hiding and pretending behind things that are not – BY putting on the Lord Jesus Christ in its place.
Now, I am able to share only my own experience with singing the Song of the Lamb. Yet as I look at that experience, I see a number of critical principles that are the difference between success or drawing back. But first, let’s reiterate the five “blasphemies” by which the image of the serpent was shattered in my seeing – from Lesson 14.3 A Highway for God.
The Five “Blasphemies”
The first “blasphemy” against the lens of the serpent is to set our face upon becoming just like Jesus here upon this earth, in complete rejection of “heaven is our goal.” The second is the acceptance that “I” will not be pleasing God. The third is the acceptance that God loves me as I am, as He created me to be, and that He has no intention of changing me, but rather of filling the me He formed with Himself. The fourth is the acceptance that my heart is GOOD and it is good because it is filled with Jesus. And the fifth and final “blasphemy” against the lens of the serpent is the removal from our minds and hearts the accusation against God that His heart is evil, the full acceptance that God is NOT a Nicene Calvinist.
Speak What God Says You ARE
Only after I had passed through those five barriers keeping me from singing the Song of the Lamb could I begin to sing. And I began to sing that Song immediately upon hearing Joel Osteen say, “Speak what God says you are.”
“Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain (Hebrews 12:26b-27). Breaking the lens of the serpent is the shattering of heaven. And that’s the first principle of singing this Song. God is NOT heaven, and heaven is NOT God.
God Is a Person
God is Father. And with God being Father, Christ is Jesus. That is, God is a Person and utterly personal. There is no transformation taking place when God and heaven are merged and when Christ remains a nameless “force.”
The second principle is that Christ is Jesus and Jesus is Christ. We NEED Somebody to love us. We NEED a Savoir, our elder brother, just a bit older and much, much wiser, a Savoir who is willing to call our every mistake His own.
You see, I made a mistake driving Uber that cost my customer a bit extra. That mistake meant that I was confused as I picked up my next rider and then almost made a worse mistake with her – I almost drove off with her luggage in my trunk.
But Jesus
Bang, bang. My mind swirled in confusion. I spoke life to myself, an action that brought a bit of peace, but still, I dreaded picking up my next rider in that mind of doubt. But Jesus. You see, if Jesus was just me, then where would I be? Rather, I looked to Jesus, the only life I am, and He said to me in my own heart, “I take full responsibility for your mistake, please forgive Me.”
It was SomeOne else who took my mistake upon Himself, yet He also is the only life I am. He also has become me. Within fifteen minutes of being hit with complete autistic confusion, it was gone. I have never known such a freedom in my life. He is called Savior. I don’t know those who don’t need Jesus.
Singing Against
It is this mind, one in union, two in communion, and one in expression that must govern our knowledge of Christ as us. Without communion with Jesus, there is no union with Christ.
The third principle is that we sing the Song of the Lamb AGAINST – against the accusation of the evil one, against the sight of our eyes, against the feelings of our emotions, against the judgment of the human, against the skepticism of other believers. Yet all of our singing AGAINST is a full recognition that these things are NOT. We are not singing against something, but against nothing, a nothing that has ruled too long in the human mind.
Teaching Others to Sing
I spoke Christ my life, mostly hesitantly and in ignorance, but with all my heart, for a year and a half before, in a moment of sweet revelation, Jesus showed me His full union with me, that “I” had disappeared into Him. At that point my speaking of Christ my life, singing the Song of the Lamb became earnest and all the time. Yet accusation hit like I had never known before, yet I refused to hear it at all. Then, after nine months, that level of accusation broke, and I began to teach the Song of the Lamb to others through this Christ Our Life letter. Yet it took three years of writing before God swung me right-side up so that I was no longer standing on my head. “God on High” MEANS God beneath of us, carrying us all the way through.
The Song Continues to Grow
Then, it took a year-and-a-half of writing God as He is, the One who carries us, before God sealed me in my forehead out from all accusation; that voice found nothing in me from then on. That was the spring of 2013 when I spoke out loud into audio the letter “Sealed in the Midst of the Storm,” in Through Eyes of Fire. It was more than a year later, however, before the final pain from my experience in Christian community was healed. But still the Song continues to grow, the Song of being filled with all the fullness of Father. The hole of my heart was filled full, then, when the meaning of symmorphy hit me out of heaven, in the Spring of 2015 as I was writing Purpose: Lesson 4.2 Symmorphos.
Through All that We Are
And writing these Symmorphy courses has so broadened and deepened for me, so clarified and even simplified, the width and length and depth and height of this Song of the Lamb. I look at my just completed new book, Knowing God by Scripture, and it seems, at least to me, to be sung only out from that Song full and complete. Yet as I continue to sing, so that Song continues to grow, and so it will be forever – Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end (Isaiah 9:7).
And thus I see that the fourth principle of singing this Song is that it must be sung all the way through all that we are, in every particle of our memory, through every moment of our lives – and in continuance.
We KNOW the Song
The Song of the Lamb is our story of self.
However, this lesson is not on you and me learning this Song, but on you and me teaching this Song to the Church of Christ. We have to know the Song before we can teach it, yet teaching has it’s own set of principles based on how humans learn.
Forgive me for my vanity, but it is my heart’s hope that these five Symmorphy books, along with the other courses I am placing into Christ Revealed Bible Institute in its recasting, will provide for many the justification from the BIBLE and from the SPIRIT, for the full foundation and extent of that Song of the Lamb. God’s people NEED TO KNOW what the Bible says.
A Crazy Idea
Yes I know, it’s a crazy idea. Here are millions of Spirit-filled people no longer able to rely on the world-system for any provision, living in a world that is more openly hostile to Christ than at any time in history, and we propose teaching them to Sing an entirely different story than the false gospel that has been shoveled upon them for far too long. It’s an even crazier idea when we see that no one seems to be able to hear us now and as we know just how insignificant we really are.
But, again, that is an issue I intend to hit straight on, that is, right between God’s eyeballs, in the next session. All I know to do here is to talk about teaching.
Knowledge Must BE Personal
And the first rule of teaching is that knowledge must become personal, otherwise, it will never be learned. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. A teacher can stand forth in all the pontification of teaching brilliance and greatness, but if little Suzy in the back row is not connecting personally with what must be learned, then all the grand show of the educator is one big waste of time.
But that is also a fifth principle of the Song of the Lamb, Jesus as every Word God speaks, must be sung personally AS ME.
Make It Clear
So many times, I have come up with a brilliant plan for teaching something only to look into the blank faces of my students looking at me as if I were an idiot from Mars. When that happens, the best thing is to come back the next day with a completely different topic. And then, to reach deep inside to find a real way, a personal way, to teach the lesson that failed so grandly and to present that new lesson on the third day. It worked every time. My writing course was shaped by just such a gauntlet of learning how to teach it on my part.
Another principle of teaching is to teach in increments, a bit at a time. Alas, in writing these texts on Symmorphy, I fail at that requirement entirely. I fail because of the urgency in me to complete this task. Yet having written thus far, I find it so easy to write a text like Knowing God by Scripture that makes it all clear and simple.
This Wondrous Task
I am rambling, mostly because I have no idea what teaching millions of Spirit-filled Christians to sing the Song of the Lamb, in a similar path as to how we learned it, yet driven faster by necessity and by the power of the Spirit, what such a task might mean. Yet my rambling serves to place before us the extent and the joy of this wondrous task, this chance to teach our brethren to Sing.
Oh, what a Song we will Sing, a Song that will call forth LIFE into creation – God made visible through us. When I watch August Rush with Freddie Highmore, or when I listen to The Phantom of the Opera staged at the Royal Albert Hall, the SONG just goes all through me and I find myself singing Christ with overwhelming enthusiasm.
Sing Like You’ve Never Sung Before
Yes, watch August Rush, watch as this little boy filled with music rejects the false “husband/father” and calls forth his true mother and father to himself. It is that very picture by which a fully successful Christian Church walking this earth sings forth life from the dead, our Father revealed to all creation forever through His incorruptible, immortal Body, you and me.
God manifest in the flesh.
Sing like we’ve never sung before.