41. Proven Faithful and True

© Daniel Yordy – 2019

I want to apologize for not setting the distinction of Christ our life through the last few letters; that is, I try to explain things, but I sometimes forget the main point. Our full and complete union with Christ sometimes seems to be in contention with the revelation of Jesus Christ through us together. And the revelation of Jesus Christ through us together sometimes seems to be in contention with our full and complete union with Christ.

Our goal is always perfect rest in the midst of all travail. And all travail in the midst of perfect rest. This is how God lives.

I have shared with you that we do not say, “God has chosen me because I…”, but rather, “God has chosen me.” But there is a further extension of that second statement. We do not say, “Because I have sought God my whole life (or whatever has been our story), God has chosen me.” Rather, we say, “Because God has chosen me, I have sought Him my whole life (or whatever has been our story).”

Union with Christ is not of us, but of Father. And the revelation of Christ is the same; it’s not of us, but of Father.

And thus we bring every moment of our lives into the full realization that all of it was the Lord Jesus from the start. We bring every moment of our lives into Him because He…

When we do that, we discover that some things in our lives that we thought were more important become less so to us now. And other things in our lives, including many things that were distressing or difficult for us, we now see as of vital importance to God and to us.

I want to talk about the individual who provided the “inside information” to People magazine for their hit piece on “religious cults.” I am aware of some of the difficulties that were part of this person’s path. I am also aware of the anointing in which this person moved.

The important thing, however, is always TODAY! What about this moment?

You see, this moment today, right now, I can look back at my entire life and call all of it, every moment of it, by Christ. And this moment today, right now, I can look back at my entire life and call all of it, every moment, by ruin and loss. And so, this person has made a decision in the present moment to call the specifics of many years of life to be ruin and loss. Yet this person could, just as easily in this present moment, call every one of those specifics through those years by Christ. If this person did so, everything would be transformed in their seeing.

Such transformation does not make unjust things to be anything other than unjust. But what about just things? How are just things in this world to be anything other than ruin and loss as well? A “just” individual, who has experienced only “good” things his or her entire life, is just as dead as the drunk next door.

So you made a mistake! So you did it perfectly! Exactly how are either one of those performances Life? Doing it “correctly” will not bring forth life any more than making a mistake.

What brings forth life and goodness is you and Father together, in the present moment, calling and seeing all things by goodness, turning everything, good, bad, and indifferent, into the outcome that is pure and intrinsic goodness by your expectation of faith. This is the task God created us for, to synergeo with Him in turning every created thing and every event and circumstance and every moment of time into goodness and life – by giving thanks and by calling it to be so.

Death rules because we have not been fulfilling our place.

And so God has given this individual the task of turning all the moments of life towards goodness together with Him. Yet in the present moment, that individual has chosen to turn all the moments of life into ruin and loss, in the speaking of the mouth and in the seeing of the eyes.

Yet there is nothing this individual has gone through that I have not as well. And the truth is, everyone of us has lived a life of dealing with other people’s nonsense as well as our own. But I, in this present moment, call every one of those same things by Christ, the only story of my life. And as I do, I see glories that I never knew existed. My whole life has become glorious, including dealing with the same things at the same time from the same persons that this individual faced.

But here is LIFE. At this very moment, today, even after the evil report might be published, this individual can turn into the good speaking of Jesus, and in this moment call every one of those difficult moments of life by Christ our only story. And in doing so, everything that seemed evil, whether it was right or wrong, will take on a glory of purpose not seen before.

But what is that first purpose, that all things in our lives become essential towards as we place the Lord Jesus Christ upon them?

I have uncovered a major doctrine of the New Testament that we have hardly known, a primary teaching that has been covered over by translators who knew neither Spirit nor Father nor the all-sufficiency of the Atonement nor Christ our only life.

And that is the doctrine of our travail with the Spirit of God for the sake of the Church. Yes, it’s still there, and by the Spirit, we have found those few verses they could not squelch. Nonetheless, we had no idea the extent to which this teaching fills the New Testament.

You see, when I first used this verse from Colossians 1, I knew it meant something important for us, but I thought I was going way out on a limb because you cannot build a New Testament teaching on one verse. – Now, I rejoice in sufferings for your sake, and I am filling up that which is lacking of the travailing pressures of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His Body, which is the Church (Colossians 1:24).

“The travailing pressures of Christ” shared fully with us.

“To travail” means “to bring to birth.” It means that something that has not been before comes into the experience of all. That something that has not been before is God-seen-and-known. And God-seen-and-known is the Church, His Body.

We are in travail, and have been so all our lives, if we choose to call it so, to bring forth out of our bellies “love one another as God among us” in all that “love one another as God among us” could possibly mean.

What you will see expressed fully, in The Jesus Secret II, is this travailing pressure set forth by the New Testament writers as a central element of the Christian life. In fact, you will find this teaching to be one of the primary shapers of everything written in the New Testament.

You see, it was only as I was writing The Kingdom Rising, after God had turned me right-side-up and I now saw that God was beneath of all, carrying all through death and into life, that I first noticed 1 John 3:16 creeping into my awareness – And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. I had lived inside of Christian teaching my whole life until then, yet that verse had never had any meaning in any of it – except as one more strap in the whip of “Die, brother, die.”

No one imagines that it means being just like Jesus in His weakest point.

I have lived my whole life in the experiencing of the deepest of travails. I used to call it awfulness or angst or “what is wrong with me?” Now, as I call my whole life to be one seamless story of Christ, regardless, I am beginning to realize that I was completely wrong about the agony  that I thought marked me as “not.” I am beginning to realize that from childhood, I have been seized in God’s grip and through every circumstance, I have always been calling forth Christ into the human experience in the expectation and agony of travail.

Do I think, then, that I am able to share this Word of Life because I have spent a life in the travail of calling forth something that is not yet known? Not at all; rather, it’s quite the opposite. BECAUSE I belonged to Father before Gethsemane, BECAUSE Father gave me to Jesus, there in His agony and tears, BECAUSE I am coming out from my Father every moment, then all my life cannot be anything other than His travail in me bringing forth that which is my portion of Christ to give, the energeia of my supply.

You see, when we boast in ourselves, our boasting is so clearly empty to everyone except ourselves. But when we boast in the Lord, our boasting is mighty and overwhelming. And boasting in the Lord, speaking Christ personal as us, is another full New Testament doctrine that has also been covered over, little known, and even less believed or practiced.

And here’s the thing. As you call every moment of your life by Christ your only life, His story unfolding as you, you will discover that you have been part of God’s travail, His longing ache to be seen and known, as much as I have been. – Call it to be so, and you will see wonders.

The title of this chapter is Jesus “Proven Faithful and True.” In the last letter, we saw this as the climax of God’s story, the moment when the winner wins absolutely, the moment when all accusation ceases. In the Symmorphy texts, I called it “the singularity,” that moment that changes everything. The deepest description of this moment is John 17:21-23.

That all might be one, as You, Father, are inside of Me, and I inside of You, that they also might be inside of Us, that the world might believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You have given Me, I have given them, that they might be one as We are one; I inside of them, and You inside of Me, that they might be perfected, brought to full completion inside of one, that the world might know that You sent Me, and have loved them in just the same way that You have loved Me.

Brought to full completion inside of one body of Christ, the many-membered Body of God.

And the full completion of Jesus is “Love one another.”

Since this is the only real ending of God’s story, we are confident that we will be loving one another in full in exactly the same way that Jesus loves us, before much longer. Indeed, the signs of such love are beginning to appear.

The accusation in the beginning was against the word God speaks. Jesus proven faithful and true is every word God speaks fulfilled.

We have seen that the nature of Satan’s words, “Did God really say that,” turn the word God speaks into intellectual ideas wielded by humans instead of Jesus written upon our hearts. In contrast to the serpent’s perversion, Jesus faithful and true, all that God speaks written upon our hearts, takes place inside of human weakness and in the face of all opposition.

Now, in the last letter I said two things that might seem to oppose each other. First, I said that the story line comes out from who and what the main character is, their decisions and actions. Then I said that the hero wins, not by introducing something not found inside the world as it exists, but by meeting the enemy at his own game and defeating him by his own rules. Both of these things are true. You see, our hero, the Lord Jesus Christ, out from who and what He is, out from His own personal actions, seeks one thing – to win our hearts for Himself. And to do that, He must live inside our world. If we are to be redeemed, we must be redeemed inside of and out from the reality of where we live and who we are.

What, then, is the simplest description of God’s final story line?

That final story line is – God seen and known as He is through us together as His form.
This final story line, then, is the same as the opening story line – “Let Us make man in Our image and after Our likeness.” The story has never changed, for this is the Covenant – symmorphosed with, sharing the same form with the image and revelation of Father.

God seen and known as He is through us together as His form.

God does have a form, and that form is the Church, many together as one.

Only One is capable of causing the Church, millions of humans in all their goodness and foolishness, abilities and disabilities, to be together the form of God, and that One is the Lord Jesus Christ, our Symmorphic Life. Jesus alone is capable of symmorphy, of joining us together with Father and Father with us together.

Jesus came into this world through the screaming travail of a sixteen-year-old girl. Without Mary’s travail, no Life could ever be known by us. Humans cannot know SPIRIT, but we can know a Man by the Spirit. And Jesus wins our hearts and our trust because He is a HUMAN life-giving Spirit. We know Him, and we know that He knows us.

Therefore, Jesus is proven faithful and true as He wins each one of us into full connection with Father with us.

You see, “many together as one” does not mean a “group.” There is no “group” anything, no collectivism of any kind. Love, Jesus proven faithful and true, is always and only one with one. There might be many one with one’s happening all at the same time, but Love remains always one with one.

I want to talk about these two things, a personal travail and one with one, and I want to talk about them inside the context of “God seen and known as He is through us together as His form,” that is, Jesus proven faithful and true.

Jesus ALONE is responsible to cause the Word God speaks to be fulfilled in our lives against all the accusations of the evil one. This is the task laid on Him by the Father from the beginning – “Let there be light.” Or, we could say it this way, “Jesus, I send You forth to cause Me to be seen and known as I am through My Body, the Church, many together as one.”

Desire is Jesus in us, causing us to draw Him into ourselves that He might become all that we are, but travail is Jesus in us, pressing against all in order to birth a world of LIFE into the knowledge of all.

As I have shared, I have known the pressing agony of travail my whole life. I never knew of it as that; I called it only “something terribly wrong with me.” Others called it “melancholia” with the injunction that Jesus was not melancholic, and if I wanted to be like Him, I would have to stop being me.

Yet when I look back now, calling everything in my life by Jesus, I see two things concerning this agony of travail that marked my person since I was twelve. First, it was a quality of spirit, a reaching forth into something I knew must be there, but did not know at all. And second, it was a deep anguish to see and to know something real, life as it was meant to be.

My years in Christian community served only to increase that agony, because this form that I knew was the form of God, Christ community, was out of whack. I did not know how or what, but I knew that what I longed for was not yet made known in our walking together.

This agony of travail has been constant, if not in the forefront of my emotions, then it has always been the normal background hum, an always reaching for something that must be, but is not yet. And it has always been spirit, that is, a “speaking in tongues” going on even when I am occupied with something else.

Now, you might imagine that I am positioning myself as someone “unusual.” I am not. Here is the reality of all. – The entire creation groans together and travails together until now. Not only that, but even we ourselves, possessing the firstfruit of the Spirit, we also groan inside ourselves, eagerly expecting… (Romans 8:22-23).

Your entire life has been the same travail. See it as so, call it to be so, every moment.
The thing that must be everyone’s reality, but has never been, is a world, a cosmos, a universe of LIFE. It is for the birthing of such a universe, out from our own bellies, that we have been marked with groanings our whole lives.

Now, because we once treated the Bible as the serpent’s domain, that is, disconnected ideas for the human intellect, we have never viewed passages as a whole that they might enter into us as one word. The entirety of Romans 8 is the most important “whole” in the Bible, being confirmed in every way by Revelation 12. And inside of Romans 8, verses 18-30 are a complete whole. Yet I have never studied or presented them as such.

Here is another word that means Jesus faithful and true, that is, “God seen and known as He is through us together as His form.” – For the earnest expectation, the eager anticipation of the creation awaits intently for the unveiling, that is, removing the cover from off of the sons of God (Romans 8:19). Yet this verse comes out of the most powerful verse of travail in the Bible. – For I reckon, I speak, I place to my account, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy and have no value compared towards the glory ready to be unveiled inside of us (Romans 8:18).

Jesus proven faithful and true AND “the glory ready to be unveiled inside of us” are the same thing.

In-between the unveiling of the sons of God and Paul’s mighty declaration of the Covenant in verse 29, is placed this whole reality of travail.

In the same way, the Spirit also joins as help together with our weakness; for we are not aware of the things that are necessary for us to pray, but the Spirit personally brings us in line with Father for the sake of others, with inexpressible groanings. Even more than that, the One who is actively searching hearts, that is, to know present needs, is aware of the thinking of the Spirit, because, according to all the details that are God, He joins us together with God – as on the Mercy Seat – for the sake of the holy ones, [our brothers and sisters] (Romans 8:26-27).

Now, in this letter it is clear that I have no central argument to establish. Rather, I am simply laying out some essential elements in our knowing and being a part of the climax of God’s story, God ending this thing by the rules He set forth in the beginning – Jesus faithful and true.

More than that, we are looking at what every “one with one” relationship must come to inside of the fulfillment of Tabernacles, that is, the dwelling in booths, prior to the final Great Day of the Feast.

My agony is very private, and I have always tried to hide it from others. When I did not know someone was looking, they thought there was something “wrong” with me.

Yet here is the only thing that will bring forth life – when I look into your face and you into mine, and we freely share together this same agony of travail, receiving one another in all that we are. Christ as many is always one with one.

In a recent letter I shared about the increase in my difficulties as I get older. I asked forgiveness for not always replying to your emails. Several of you responded to me in great kindness; thank you for receiving me as Jesus receives me.

But one reader, Dennis Rhodes of Western Australia, made a private video and shared the link with me. Dennis has communicated with me for some years, one of those in whom this word I share, that is, the Lord Jesus inside of him, has wrought a remarkable transformation.

The video was not long. At the start, I realized that I was receiving directly from him, face to face, and I placed myself into that mind. In tears and in brokenness, Dennis shared with me that he receives me as I am just as Jesus receives me.

I knew immediately that something wondrously good was taking place inside of me as a direct result of his face and his words. But as time went on, I also knew that something far greater was happening.

This experience was a first in my life.

Yes, I have known people speaking kind things to me and I to them, but without the intimate bonding that is the Tabernacling of God among us.

This experience was the first reality of Tabernacles in my story line.

It had to be a personal video communication lest I be overwhelmed.

This is My completion, that you love one another just as I love you.

Always one with one. God among us is always one with one.

There is, in a sense, a firstfruits of the firstfruits, a tithe of the tithe that belongs only to Father. In order for millions to enter into this level of knowing one another, of receiving one another, of loving one another, there must be those who pave the way, who forge the path, who show them what it is and what it means.

The real crime coming out from Adam’s rebellion is the animosity and contempt humans hold for one another. That is the second demon seal, the demon that removes all peace among humans so that they would accuse one another, or at the very least, hold one another in suspicion and at arm’s length.

And so we humans have been towards one another.

The story Dennis and I shared together is a story that has never yet been told, the opening of a world of life, of life as it was always meant to be.

It is the Great Story of God.

You know what, receiving one another as Jesus receives us is not the intrusion of something else into the human story line. It is the first time that the human story line becomes what it is, what God always meant it to be.

It is Jesus proven faithful and true.