26.3 The Rule of God

The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel’ (Psalm 2:7-9). – The one presently and actively overcoming and keeping watch until the completion of My works, I will give him authority upon the peoples, and he will shepherd them with a staff of iron, as broken earthen vessels; even as I also have received from My Father, and I will give him the morning star (Revelation 2:26-28).

God created us to rule. God designed us such that He can rule through us forever.

A Third Level of Knowing God. The inner working of our human soul is the most important place in the universe to God. Just as God met together with us inside the confusion of Jesus’ soul upon the cross, so God meets together with each created thing inside the workings of our own human souls. This is really what I am beginning to understand about Completion. Completion of Word comes out from one action, God and us synergeoing together, making all things GOOD, the very thing God proposed right from the start.

I now know that there is a third experience in God prior to the resurrection of our bodies, a third level of knowing God that is the emanation of Life.

An Unfolding to Permanence. Receiving from God this third experience is equal to, yet far greater than, being born again and being immersed into the Devoted Spirit. The result of this experience over the last few weeks is that I KNOW that a shared life with God is part of myself and true to who and what I am. This experience has come to me as an unfolding to permanence, one might say. It is a knowing out from Joy.

The experience of being conceived of God comes to us. The experience of being immersed into the Spirit comes upon us. But this experience of Completion flows out from our own person, out from our own heart and soul, Father with us.

Out from Joy. Now, the path to this experience of completion and fullness and the outflow from this experience are part of Kingdom and will be featured in Symmorphy VII: Completion. Here we are defining mankind, and thus “the Rule of God” as part of our human design.

The rule of God contains no shadow of “rule over” or of “command and control,” or any outward or imposed darkness. Joy is the center of my person, and the rule of God flows out from that JOY in complete harmony, not just with, but as all that I am. In my knowing, God remains God and I remain me, and there is no confusion of person. Nonetheless, our sharing of life together is so complete such that we are the same note, tune, and rhythm.

Synergeia. “The same note, tune, and rhythm” is the meaning of synergeia. The rule of God forever is synergeia, the full entwining of God’s life force and my life force as one together, such that the flow of “This Treasure through my earthen vessel,” is simply normal and natural to me.

I remain fully human, yet I am also Joy. I am Joy inside my person, and I am Excitement towards every forward step. The flow of Life through me is normal and natural to myself, and it is normal and natural to God my Father. My mind thinks only in terms of all completion of Word fulfilled as the outflow of my own person, Christ Jesus my life.

For the Sake of Others. I am not boasting “of myself.” What I am trying to do is to make this present experience as clear as I can express it. You also will have this same experience with God, yet your knowing of this act of Completion will be true to your own heart and person and to how God has always synergeoed with you.

You will not have this experience as a result of any “Pentecostal travail,” which is little more than unbelief on the one hand and a longing for superiority on the other. There is one path to this experience, and I have shown you that path. In fact, the four actions of Love, described in the last lesson, becoming how you think and live, is that path. Giving thanks and expecting God – for the sake of others.

Out from Me. Synergeoing with God is now the only knowledge I have of myself. And I know synergeoing as the fulfillment in me of every gospel Word spoken by God and written in the Bible. This synergeoing with God, this fulfillment of every gospel Word, is normal and natural to me, it flows out from what I have always been and how I know myself. And it is permanent, regardless of the winds or the waves.

Yet this flow of synergeoing is the Rule of God, a Rule that contains no carnal effort on my part. What removed carnal effort from me? – The revelation that my every next moment is Father sharing with me the building of our Home together, a dwelling place for us and for all.

To Tend and to Keep. Here is our first place of synergeoing with God. – Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. – Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name (Genesis 2:15 & 19).

The “garden of Eden” is to us the Church, millions of believers in Jesus all across planet Earth, Jesus all inside of all. What I CALL anything is what that thing becomes to me and even how it begins to know itself. My impact on my world is complete.

Calling into Being. Consider a child who wets the bed. I refused ever to call such a one a “bed-wetter” or by any kind of shame. Instead I called such a one “courageous,” and so he became. This is no “magic wand,” for the actions of Cover and Carry require years of cost. Yet this is a river flowing out, bringing my call to all.

This One who is continuously giving life to the dead and calling into existence things not existing (Romans 4:17). This is the rule of God, flowing out from my synergeoing with Him as my true and only self. Nothing created can live of itself, nothing created can be good of itself. You and I call it to be so – and it becomes.

A Description of Us. We know moreover that those who are actively loving God are synergeoing together with God to turn with purpose all—all things, all entities, all circumstances, all moments—into pure and intrinsic goodness, that is, into the knowledge of God. These are those who are continuously being called as and by the precise details of God’s Pro-Thesis, His set-forth purpose from the beginning (Romans 8:28 – expanded).

For years I understood the meaning of these words and I acknowledged them and called them to be so by faith. Yet in this wondrous third experience with God, an experience that flowed out from the Joy of my own person and as the Excitement of my every next moment, I now KNOW this simply as a description of myself – and of you as well.

Calling out from Death. Yet, as we have seen, this synergeoing of God and me together is sandwiched between the two actions of covering and carrying all inside our garden, that is, our immediate world. – For the sake of others.

Consider these two callings. “Sir, you are a sinner.” – versus – “My dear brother, you are entirely wrong about yourself and everything else. Close your mouth concerning yourself and hear the good speaking of Jesus out from which you come every moment.” The first call seals that person into death until a greater caller comes along. The second call opens the path of life to the one hearing the call. – This is the rule of God.

My Call Prevails. My call prevails over all false calls, for my call is always with the Father. Whatever I desire, God does, just as Jesus said He would. This is normal and natural, and it flows out from Joy.

This is how Jesus walked. His walk was the rule of God. Nobody understood that because they all defined “rule” by the devil. In fact, they wanted a Messiah who would rule like the devil, and they killed Jesus because He did not. Yet Jesus prevailed over those worst of men. They wanted Him dead; He wanted them WITH HIM in glory. Jesus called them by “Father, forgive them.” Jesus won. This is the rule of God.

A River of Life. The rule of God flowing out from each one of us is fitted to our own human persons and personality. Then, the rule of God flowing out from our local togetherness is fitted to that particular Christ Community, its ways and expressions. This rule protects. It provides. It brings joy. It embraces with belonging. It places all into respect. It is a River of Life flowing out in power from our own hearts and from our shared lives.

What we call something is what that something becomes. This is not “hear no evil, see no evil,” this is power, the power of Spirit carrying power-filled Words.

The Mercy Seat. Psalm 22 gives us the dynamics of the Mercy Seat of God, the place out from which all rule of God flows forever. John 19 shows us the outward view of that same Mercy Seat. The inward is all the turmoil of a confused human soul clinging desperately to God. The outward is a gentle voice calling each one into Life.

Psalm 22 shows us that we are just like Jesus in our confusion. It shows us that even when we feel as if God must be far away from us, we stretch out one tiny finger – “Father, You hear me,” and we KNOW that our God is sharing even that confusion utterly together with us. John 19 shows us that, just like Jesus, even in the midst of all agony, we can still speak life into others.

A Set-Forth Soul. John said that Jesus “set-forth His soul for us.” Tithemi psuche, set-forth soul.

Salvation is being a normal human. Redemption is an escape from madness. A person who is angry with God over being made just like Him can be diagnosed only as insane.

“Set-forth” means two things in my present knowing. First, it means an established word, certain and sure. And second, it means available to me, there where I can access it. Jesus is just like me in my soul and I am just like Him. For that reason, I can follow Him out of my insanity and into the eye-blinking light of normality.

Sharing Our Infirmities. Therefore, He ought to be made just exactly like His brothers and sisters in every possible way, that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest connecting us continuously with God, into making reconciliation and reconnection [the Mercy Seat] for the people who were falling short and disconnecting from God (Hebrews 2:17).

You cannot guide someone out of the darkness of their own confusion if you do not know their exact and personal weakness for yourself, intimately and personally. This Jesus did for us. This we do for one another. This we together do for every part of creation. Taking upon ourselves the infirmities of others for their sakes brings the rule of God.

And We Also. To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some (1 Corinthians 9:22).

I had imagined that I was stretching it in my present understanding of why our Salvation must take place inside the confusion of Jesus’ human Soul. But the moment I understood what I was reaching for, all kinds of verses came flowing in. There are many more verses than Hebrews 2:17 and 1 Corinthians 9:22 saying the same thing.

And we also – allow the vulnerability of our own souls to be a path for others to find the only thing good and true.

The Soul – the Throne. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7). – For we have this treasure inside of earthen vessels, so that the surpassing beyond-ness of the power may be of God and not of us (2 Corinthians 4:7). – 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).

To hate being a living soul made out from God and dirt, earthen vessels filled with God, is to hate God without a cause, for we are just like Him. Our human souls are become the place where all the Word God speaks is fulfilled and made complete.

Normal Humans. We overcome hating God without a cause as we come down to being the full measure that is Christ Jesus.

Until we all come down to the unity of the faith and acknowledgement of the Son of God, into being a complete or perfect man, into the measurement of the maturity of the fullness or completion of Christ (Ephesians 4:13).

It is normal to be just like Jesus. It is our insanity down from which we have come. It is normal to love as God Loves, synergeoing with our Father. It is normal to build our habitation inside every moment shared with our God. We are normal humans. We are the rule of God inside all creation forever.