42. Building by the Pattern
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We want to continue with the same thinking of the last lesson, that is learning to apply God’s patterns as He means them. In this lesson, however, we are shifting over to building our lives and the lives of others by the Tabernacle Pattern.
Our minds cannot change from the old ways of serpent’ thinking to the thinking of Christ, unless we alter the words that we speak to fit the gospel truth.
By properly using the Tabernacle pattern, we can know when our words are in the old, for the old words always lead us to “Christ is, I ought.”
“Death” as Nothing. For instance, from April of A.D 29 until now, “You are dead” means only one thing – You are NOT in trouble with God. In fact, you as you are, YOU are coming always and only out from God, out from your Father.
If I were to tell someone about their “death,” I would say it only in this way, with “dead” as a reference to “nothing.”
“My dear brother, my dear sister, nothing separates you from God, for you are coming out from Him through the good speaking of Jesus. You are alive, and all that you are, as you find yourself to be, is and always has been God’s desire, God through you for the sake of others.”
The Use of Bible Words. Words are the building blocks of everything. Humans are a story of words inside of a spirit self-awareness, guided by personal intent, that is, heart. What – How – Why.
Bible words can build, that is, give life. And Bible words can tear down, that is, kill. Yet no words operate apart from spirit and intention.
I have heard a speaker of words inside the Holy Spirit, use the words “nothing can separate me from the love of God” to drive a massive barrier between me and God. Yet this speaker’s intention was not evil but deceived sincerity.
The Flow of Five. Your intention can be good, you can be anointed of the Holy Spirit, yet you can still use Bible words to kill. How then can we be saved?
We thank God that Salvation is not up to us; it is Jesus. Then, we see God’s Tabernacle pattern and we see how God enables us to use Bible words to heal, to build up, and to give life.
Let’s look at the flow of five in the Tabernacle pattern. (1) Word as letter – (2) Word as Spirit – (3) Word as Jesus in our hearts – (4) Word as sharing Christ with Christ – (5) Word that shapes a new creation.
The Turn Around. What, then, causes us to turn around at the center of knowing Word?
The thing that spins us around is always the Pillar of Fire, that is, the Energeia of God energeoing away inside of us. And the part of God that is Word, that spins us around in the Holiest, is God’s Pro-Knowing.
First, we thought that Word is getting the correct ideas in our heads. Then we knew that Word was living and Spirit, but we had no real idea what that meant. Then we trusted Jesus utterly that He is in us all that God means. BUT – God’s Pro-Knowing flips all that right around.
The Pattern of Seven. Let’s look now at the pattern of seven regarding Word.
(1) Letter ideas – (2) Spirit knowing – (3) Trust in Jesus in us – (4) God’s Pro-Knowing contains all Word – (5) Our bold proclamation, speaking the same Word – (6) Speaking Christ Word into one another – (7) Shaping all things by true Word out from God.
Consider 1, 3, and 5, then, in The Jesus Secret II. First, you find the Scriptures themselves written on the page. Letter is vital for an unchanging Covenant; the question is how we use it. Then, the “Jesus Secret” boxes, Jesus speaking word to us, is our trust in Jesus that He is all Word as God means it inside of us.
Knowing God’s Pro-Knowing. Finally, all the confessions of faith, our bold proclamations of that same Word as ourselves, happens as the result of our hitting up against that thing in God that spins us around – His Pro-Knowing.
Knowing God’s Pro-Knowing changes how we think about everything and everyone.
Everyone and everything has always been coming out of God’s GOOD thoughts concerning them, spoken by Jesus. Each one’s false thoughts, false words, and false actions are not only contrary to God, but contrary to themselves. Those who accuse only increase their own pain and falseness.
Never Worry Again. The death of the Lord Jesus upon the cross, then, was not for God, but for us. God has always known that you are always coming out from His good thoughts and from nowhere else.
You are the one who has not known.
And so the death of the cross is that which allows you to simply never worry again about your false thoughts, your false words, and your false actions, for they are not and never have been YOU (the gospel meaning of “dead”). This is what we learn as God spins us around inside the Holiest; then this is how we think about everyone else.
Trigger Definitions. Let’s return now to the serpent’s definitions that still trigger in us a forgetting of God’s Pro-Knowing and a momentary return to using the letter of the word to kill people, that is, to cause them to imagine disconnection from God.
And the letter of the word is used wrongly in two ways; one is imposing a false obligation and the other is intellectual argument over meaning.
We see someone we don’t trust and conclude they are up to no good. Then we find words in the Bible that convince us we are right. We then use those words to impose obligation on them, at least in our own imagination. Incredibly, it’s not them we are killing, but ourselves!
Affirming Christ. Then, someone shared some small disagreements they had with me on the meaning of this or that. My choice was simple – do I reply with argument showing that I am right? Or do I affirm Christ as them?
It is knowing God’s Tabernacle pattern that allows me to freely choose Christ as them, regardless. I KNOW God’s knowing of me, and that’s what everything is about.
We can see, then, that all misuse of the letter of the word comes out from contempt for others, that is, being willfully blind to the good-speaking of Christ by which they exist.
From Letter to Christ. Let me use 1 Timothy in The Jesus Secret II in order to better show what I mean. Look carefully at Paul’s words as he wrote them. Also look at the portions I left out, found here – Rough 1 Timothy, along with my statement that these instructions are contrary to Paul’s gospel.
You can see how easy it is for “rulers” in the church, who despise their brothers and sisters, to use these words to convince God’s people that God is far away from them.
Next, as you look at the letter of the word in 1 Timothy, look also at the columns alongside that contain the statements of faith. See how each statement comes out from the letter through the speaking of Christ.
Standing in God. Then look at the statements of faith that I have placed as the main headings of 1 Timothy. Scroll on down to see the three pages that define those three main headings. – Jesus Has Set Me Forth Into Service – I Care For God’s People; I Am A Pattern For Believers – I Fight The Good Fight Of Faith.
I stand inside of God in the full assertion and conviction that what is found on these three pages, out from these statements of faith that ARE Christ Jesus as us, IS God’s meaning and intention through 1 Timothy.
How can I do such a thing? Because I know God’s Tabernacle pattern.
Using Word for Life. I have the authority, then, to use Paul’s words in 1 Timothy to increase your knowledge of God’s thoughts concerning you by which you exist. I am able to use the letter of the word, that many use for death, to build you up inside of Jesus, inside of LIFE.
Heart always rules, for it is my intentions towards you that determine how I hear any word I might use, whether by the serpent’s definitions or by Christ your life.
Our job as the revelation of Christ is not to showcase some false image of “Christ perfection,” but to show each one that they have always been coming out from their Father.
The Mind of God. The Tabernacle of Moses, as we have seen in this study, gives us the patterns of the mind of God, how God thinks of us and how God thinks of everything through us.
In this conclusion we have looked at Word through five patterns and then through seven. You could easily do a similar thing with Spirit and with Heart. We have looked at how each of the three entrances and the seven pieces of furniture are misused in order to prevent God’s people from knowing God’s knowing of them.
And we can see how Satan’s simple twist turns everything from “Christ is, I am” to “Christ is, you ought.”
Study for Yourself. All the truths of the gospel are found inside this simple layout, all connected together as God means them and easy to understand.
It seems complex, as you go back through all the teaching, yet God’s pattern of organization makes it all simple to know and to remember.
I would urge you to obtain your own copy of The Rose Guide to the Tabernacle, which I use throughout. Make your own charts of these patterns of God, then, and fit the layout of Heart – Spirit – Word through the patterns until they become the rule of how you think.
God’s Thoughts Now Ours. The renewing of our minds happens entirely as the full interaction of God with us and us with God. God will not renew our minds without our involvement; we cannot renew our minds without God’s involvement. God intends a full working together, a synergeia.
This study of the Tabernacle has resulted in a massive solidifying of my thinking inside of God, in conjunction with writing my life story. I find such joy in resting utterly inside the patterns of God’s thinking; I have the mind of Christ.
God’s thoughts are become our thoughts – are become us.