1.1 Out from God

God created humans for a specific purpose, a central function between Himself and all other created things. God designed us in detail to be capable of fulfilling that role and He gave us precisely what we would need to be successful. More than that, God designed the entirety of creation, spiritual and physical together, to NEED humans functioning in their assigned role, in order to live and in order to be good.

Creation continues bound to vanity for one reason, humans are not doing their job. More than that, creation is filled with death because Christians continue to oppose God and His desire in the same way Adam did and for the same reasons. Nothing is more difficult and more costly than Salvation.

The Role of Humans. The role of humans inside of creation has two parts, one personal to each and the other that happens only together. The task for each of us is to synergeo with God to turn into goodness all of life’s moments and all created things that God brings to each of us. And the task for us together is to make an invisible God known to creation. 

Let’s expand on the meaning and the criticality of these two functions before we look at how incredibly equipped God made us to fulfill them. You see, this role given to us is not just vital to creation, both things in the heavens and things in the earth; it is also vital to God Himself. Our role is central to who and what God is.

God’s Thoughts Spoken. Everything that exists in every moment of time forever is found first, and always now, inside of God’s thoughts concerning all things, thoughts that are part of God Himself before He ever speaks them forth. God’s thoughts become the existence and experience of created things only as He speaks them forth. The speaking of God’s thoughts IS Christ Jesus.

All through Him become, and apart from Him (the Word, God’s thoughts spoken), nothing becomes (John 1:3). Christ Jesus is every Word God speaks, and He is always all connection between God inside His own thoughts, and the thing created, coming out through the good speaking of Jesus.

Jesus Sustaining All. But once something exists, it still cannot be “on its own.” Christ Jesus sustains all things by His power-filled Word (Hebrews 1:3). The Greek word, pheron, translated “sustain” contains three meanings, first to bring forth, then to carry, and finally to sustain. Jesus sustains everything right now, including you, dear reader. In every moment, in every energeia of your life force, and in every breath that you breathe, Jesus sustains you.

But that’s not the whole picture. You see, there is only one “place,” and that is the Devoted Spirit of God. Everything coming out from God’s thoughts through the good speaking of Jesus exists inside of the Spirit of God, for there is no other place. And the Spirit hovers over all.

God’s Problem. There is a huge problem inherent inside of God, however. You see, God is Love. Along with that, God does not know evil, that is, He cannot sin. The thought of acting unjustly against any one else never enters His mind. God never forces His knowledge upon anyone.

Out from His own Being, God releases His thoughts through the speaking of Jesus to become something real outside of His own Being, something and someone God loves. And in loving that thing that is now real in its own existence, God sets it free of Himself, never thinking to force Himself upon that created one. Life, knowing God, comes to each only as an invitation.

Two More Problems. But there are two more big problems inside of God’s being. The first is that only God is good; nothing created can be good in itself. And the second is that God is invisible, nothing created, whether heavenly or earthly, has the capacity in itself to detect God. Yet the thought of NOT being known and NOT fellowshipping, inside of deep friendship, with anything that comes out from His own thoughts is impossible for God.

God created humans to become His solution to these two secondary problems. Yet God’s first problem still stood, that God is Love, and in loving, He sets every human free of Himself, just as He does towards every visible expression of His own thoughts.

The Tree of Life. To solve this larger problem between Himself and humans, God placed the Tree of Life into the path of Adam and Eve with these words, “Of every tree in the garden you may freely eat.”

The Tree of Life is invitation only; God compels no human ever to eat of it. The Tree of Life is the Lord Jesus Christ, the One who connects between God, the Father, and every thought of His that has come into creation. Here is the Tree of Life. – Know that I am inside of the Father and you inside of Me and I inside of you (John 14:20). To partake of Life, Adam and Eve would need to ask the Lord Jesus Christ to enter into their knowing and to live inside of their hearts.

Possessing Life. This is age-unfolding life, to know You, the only True God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent (John 17:3). Adam and Eve would then possess Life out from God, that is, they would know the Father for real, by first knowing Jesus Sent into them. – He who has the Son has the Life (1 John 5). Then, in response to knowing Jesus Sent into them, Adam and Eve would put the Lord Jesus Christ upon themselves, upon all that they were, in all their thoughts (Romans 13:14).

Christ lives inside of your heart through faith (Ephesians 3:17). Through Christ Jesus, then, connecting them in all ways with God, Adam and Eve would be fully equipped to accomplish the purpose for which God had created them.

Synergeoing with God. God began the first task with Adam before He began the second. In fact, Adam practiced this role towards creation before he had the opportunity to ask Jesus into his heart. God brought the animals to Adam, giving to Adam the authority to call them what they would become. In doing so, God was setting forth His purpose for mankind right from the start, that those who love God would synergeo with God to make all things good, inherently, intrinsically good (Romans 8:28).

And God said, “Let there be light, and there was light.” And God saw the light, that it was good (Genesis 1:3-4). Something created is good, only as God sees it good, first.

Calling All into Goodness. Yet this judgment of goodness, this seeing, God shares with humans, and then we call that same thing into goodness. It is only in this way that any ongoing circumstance could ever become good. Our task is to see as God sees, to synergeo with God through faith, our life force and God’s life force swirling together, and to CALL every moment, circumstance, and interaction with others into goodness, causing the goodness of God to be known by the created thing.

Yet this judgment is even more costly, for God remains Love. Thus in calling every created thing into the knowledge of goodness, we also set it free of ourselves into glorious liberty. Just as it does with God, love costs us everything.

Making God Visible. That brings us to the second task given by God to humans, that of making an invisible God to be known by creation, inside of creation, to be the embodiment of Love. God is symmorphic. In order to be known inside of creation, God must dwell inside of and share form with other persons.

God-made-visible is one thing only inside of creation; God-made-visible is humans, believers in Jesus, loving one another with pure hearts fervently (1 Peter 1). When any sentient created thing sees believers in Jesus loving one another just as Jesus loves them, they are seeing God, and they know that God indeed sent Jesus into the world (John 17:23).

Love One Another. And so God began this wondrous second purpose for mankind by drawing Eve out from Adam’s side and bringing her to him. The text of Genesis 1 & 2 describing God’s intentions inside this picture is worded best in John 15, the speaking of Jesus. “This is My full completion, that you love one another, in full reciprocity, in exactly the same way that I love you.”

And so God set forth His purpose for humans right from the start, Romans 8:28-30 being read clearly in Genesis 1 & 2. All that Adam and Eve needed to do to draw all creation into overflowing JOY was to eat of the Tree of Life: “Jesus, come into my heart; make Your home with Father inside of me.”