21. Turn Around
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Your third season inside the Holy of Holies is a momentary action, yet that action MUST BE utter and complete, never to be repeated, in its essence, again.
This action is the true repentance of the gospel; until you do this one thing, you have not actually repented. This action is entirely and only an action of faith; you do it in full and satisfied opposition to ALL outward appearance.
Yet you can do this one thing that means EVERYTHING to God, only after you have allowed living inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of you to become the pure REST inside of which is found the story you tell yourself about yourself.
The Atonement. The one thing that you must do is – turn around. Never again will you be “going into” God. From this moment and forever, Father and you together are going forth to all.
Turning around is the action of the High Priest on the Day of Atonement. In the account in Leviticus 16, Aaron turned around twice, first regarding his own sins and second regarding the sins of the people.
Aaron’s action of turning around signified that he accepted that God had accepted the sacrifice and that all Israel was restored to full relationship with God.
Accepting the Sacrifice. It does us no good for God to accept the Sacrifice of Jesus when we ourselves have not accepted its finality. Life is not God, per se; life is knowing God.
To turn around, then, means that you accept the Sacrifice of Jesus, the full meaning of the Day of Atonement, absolutely and forever. It means that you never turn back to any attempt to “reach for” or “try to please” God. If God is UTTERLY WITH you, then “reaching for” Him is the wicked refusal of unbelief.
God IS with you in all that you are, sharing all things with you, regardless. KNOW that He IS.
Lostness and Salvation. To understand what turning around really means, we must understand what lostness and salvation really are.
God created humans with the capacity to contain and to reveal God, as God wants to be known, to everything in creation, heaven and earth. God designed humans to be symmorphic, to be capable of containing His Person inside of their persons, Person inside of person inside of Person, as Jesus described.
But God never forces His knowledge on anyone. To walk in what it means to be human requires willing agreement. Adam saw the meaning of symmorphy and refused it.
The Biggest God Stuff. No human on this earth is real except each KNOWS in full willing agreement that “I am filled with all of God; I am revealing God to all.”
And to know it in being simple and real as humans, that is, that God is not the big stuff, but the little, everyday, expressions of human kindness and regard.
If you want to know the biggest, most overwhelmingly glorious God STUFF that can ever be, it is this. – Little acts of kindness and gentle words of encouragement. – The Revelation of God All-Carrying. – That is, humans as we are, as God created us to be.
Ignorant of God. Lostness, then, means wandering around as humans inside of God, willfully ignorant of God.
No one is ever “outside of” God, for there is no such place. No one is ever “empty of” God, for God is all here now. The problem is the knowledge of God; humans keep themselves deliberately ignorant of the God in whom they live and who fills them full. And this life is not God, per se; life is KNOWING God.
But the primary thing that humans use to keep God “far away” from their knowing is their SIN. “Look, God, I have sinned. That means You can’t be part of me.”
“Sin.” For He made the One who never once knew any disconnection [SIN] from God, to take upon and into Himself that disconnect [SIN] for us, for our sakes, so that we might become the just innocence of God inside of Him (2 Corinthians 5:21).
The Greek word translated “sin” in most New Testament translations is harmatia, a term used in an arrow shooting contest to signify when an archer failed to hit the target.
The Calvinist translators chose the English word “sin,” which meant “guilt,” to represent harmatia. The very choice of the word “sin,” then, turns humans away from the real problem and to their own selves.
No Consciousness of Sins. God means NOT living in the knowledge of full connection with God through Jesus.
The word “sin” means its all about me, my constant transgression of the law, my guilt and shame. God means its all about Christ, taking all my disconnect into and upon Himself and thus connecting me with God in every way and in every moment regardless of what I feel.
Salvation, that is, KNOWING my full connection with God through Jesus, means no consciousness of sins, that is, no idea in our minds that we are not fully connected with God. It means – turn around.
God IS. Let me explain again “turned around.” To turn around is an absolute statement in two directions simultaneously.
It means first that you abhor all thought of you connecting with God, or becoming a better person, or “going to” glory someday. These thoughts are the worship of self.
And it means second that you, in every particle of your life, your thoughts and words, your ways of thinking and seeing and doing, your ups and downs, your ins and outs are GOD utterly WITH YOU, that God IS IS IS IS IS IS IS sharing all things with you, in travail with you in ALL THAT YOU ARE, not for you, but FOR OTHERS.
Father with Me. Let me define “turn around” again. The moment you “turn around” inside of your full union with Christ to now become the entrance of God into His creation, is that moment when you whisper to Father. “Father, I am willing to share Hheart with You. I am willing to be the expression of Your Heart towards others.”
It is the moment when you cease calling your heart by anything other than “Father with me,” or calling Father’s Heart as anything other than, “I with Father.”
Let’s make “turn around” even more vivid by looking at three different pictures of “what God looks like.”
What Does God Look Like?
Another important part of turning around is to see God – not something “other,” but God through a Man.
God-As-He-Is.
Then, this same Jesus lives inside of us, connecting us always with Father. The Church which is His body, the fullness of Jesus who fills all inside of all (Ephesians 1:23).
To turn around, then, is to accept that the mighty revelation of God is the Church sharing life together and that loving one another with pure hearts fervently is the greatest thing in the universe.
All Here Now. To turn around means that you take every Word God speaks and make it your life now. It means that you put nothing of God-through-you into some future day, but you accept that all of God is already all here now, showing Himself as He wishes through you, right now, as you are.
Certainly, there is an unfolding of the knowledge of God in expectation, but we rest in God-IS as God wishes right now.
Yet we have hardly touched on what it means to live turned around. The heart of turning around is – sharing Hheart with God.
Your Final Season. Your final season of Holy of Holies experience is to learn what it means to share Hheart with God, that is, to live and walk as Jesus lived and walked – turned around.
Of course all things we “learn” in the Holiest are our life forever, for wherever we might go as the Ark of the Covenant, we ARE the Holiest.
In this teaching, however, we are looking at the Tabernacle layout as God’s pattern for our school as believers in Jesus. Our next step, that is, going on to college, is to take all we have learned with Father inside the Holiest, out with us into the Holy Place, that is, God’s entire Spirit-filled Church.
The Tabernacle Pattern.
Seeing the Church. Here’s the thing. To turn around is to see the Church of Jesus Christ yet remaining inside the Holy Place, unwilling to enter into all the knowledge of God. To them, there are two rooms with an impenetrable VEIL keeping them out from all the fullness of God.
But to you there is no Veil, except that we are the flesh of Christ, one flesh with Him.
For that reason, as we find ourselves now seated upon Mercy, as the tip point of that pillar of Fire that is God, it is the Church of Christ, our brothers and sisters, who fill our eyes and our hearts.
Christ in My Heart. The next four lessons, then, are describing the things we must learn as we first turn around inside of God, before we are ready to take our God with us into His Church.
Let’s position, now, our sharing of Hheart with God inside this moment of turning around.
You might ask, “How on earth do we imagine that we are to share Hheart with God?” – For You have magnified Your word above all Your name (Psalm 138:2). – Christ lives inside your heart through faith (Ephesians 3:17). – I rest my case.
For the Sake of Others. The love of God has already been poured out and shed abroad inside of our hearts through Spirit Holy, the One having been given to us (Romans 5:5).
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 entirety of your present life is something very, very different from what you have ever imagined before.
The Spirit also joins as help together with our weakness… the Spirit personally brings us in line with Father for the sake of others, with inexpressible groanings (Romans 8:26).
Father with Me. God is not “working on you,” or “bringing you to Himself,” or “taking you to heaven,” or any such nonsense. Your whole life is and has always been one thing only – Father with you for the sake of others.
Now, I am able to teach you all about each season in the Tabernacle pattern thus far because I am here, in this final season in the Holiest in my own walk with God.
And here is what I have learned to say, especially when I am feeling my worst. “Father, You are with me, sharing this same agony with me as part of me. Father this is You and me together in travail for the sake of all these precious ones who are Your Church, the very fullness of Christ Jesus.”