3.3 Casting Down Accusation

© 2017 Christ Revealed Bible Institute

The Fourth Most Important Verse
Revelation 12:10-11. Now salvation, and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

The action verb, “to overcome,” is the central action of the universe and the defining action of God through us. We understand everything God says by the action verb, “overcome,” along with its close synonyms that God also uses: subdue, make subject, conquer.

Subdue All. The commission God gave man from the beginning was to subdue all things, to bring all things under his feet. But we can do that only by the rivers of living water flowing out of our bellies. God subdues nothing by force, but only by life and by love.

Without an enemy, however, there is no story. God is not just word, but that Word became flesh, and that means God is story. And God placed, at the center of His story, the very enemy that would most oppose God’s hero, Christ, the word God is always speaking – “Did God really say that?” God placed that precise enemy there for the sole purpose of revealing Christ to all.

Empty of God. All contradiction in the universe, all evil and death come as a result of the first four words of the serpent. “Did God indeed say?” They don’t come “from” those words because the words are complete blither; the serpent was blowing smoke. Rather evil and death are known as the result of any hearer giving heed to those serpent words. The result of hearing those words IS that God goes quiet to the hearer. All darkness and sin, hurt and death are the results of the seeming silence of God, the “absence” of Jesus, the emptiness of a man created to contain God, but absent of God, a heart of daring boldness, created for Omnipotence, but absent of Christ.

Accusing God. Every form of “Did God really say that?” is a savage blow struck against the Lord Jesus, against the very heart of God. If I say, “Be perfect, just as our heavenly Father is perfect,” how many would say, “You don’t really believe that, do you?”

NOT ON THIS EARTH! NOT IN HUMAN FLESH!

It’s not a good idea to treat Jesus in that way. We are free to do so, yes; God does not defend Himself. But I think 6000 years of sorrow and death are enough to prove that attempting to silence God is not the thing to do. The accuser accuses God. All other accusation flows out of that one accusation. “God, You LIE! Your words are not true.”

Receiving Word as Christ. God Himself set the accuser in his place; God set the serpent word against Christ for purpose and for glory. We set against the words of the serpent the most important words spoken aloud by any human upon this planet, save Jesus. Let these words be the constant refrain in your mind, ever present upon your lips, shouted out with your voice box every time you read anything God says in the Bible.

“Behold, I am Your servant, let it be to me according to Your word” (Luke 1:38). This is Mary’s response when told she contained God Himself and that God would come forth from her body into this earth. At that very moment Christ was conceived inside of her.

Let It Be to Me!
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light (Genesis 1:3). God said, “Be filled with all of me,” and we are. Here is a paraphrase of the fourth most important verse in the Bible.

A Paraphrase. The Salvation and Kingdom of God are come now, the full Power of Christ revealed is known now upon this planet as the accuser, claiming that God lies, the accusation standing hostile against every believer in Jesus, “Not here, not now, not you,” has been cast down by a people who know that what God says is true. And they overcame that accuser by the Blood of the Lamb-Slain always flowing over them. They overcame that accuser by speaking Christ, “Christ is ALL there is in me; I am alive unto God.” They overcame that accuser by abandoning all sense of self, all idea that they are anything other than the One life of Jesus filling them full. They replace the human psychosis, double hearted, doubled minded, with the One death of Christ; they are alive unto God.

Proving Christ. Why the contest? We must accept that God Himself sets this great contest, the lie of the serpent against the Word of Christ, from the very beginning. God sets this great contest all the way through.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12:1-2). God intends to prove His will, to prove Christ, to prove Himself IN our bodies.

On this Earth, in Our Flesh. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 5:10). God intends to prove His will, to prove Christ, to prove Himself right here on this earth.

That the life of Jesus also may be manifested (appear fully) in our mortal flesh (2 Corinthians 4:11). God intends to prove His will, to prove Christ, to prove Himself IN our human, dying FLESH. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God… (2 Corinthians 5:4-5).

God Proves Himself. God intends to prove Himself by the very defeat of death, our physical bodies swallowed up by life. Those who would attempt to remove “the battle” from our present Christian experience are attempting to remove the determination and proving of God – not gonna’ work.

There is no civil war inside of me. I am at peace with God; His will and my will are the same. God proves Himself in my body. My enemy is outside of me, this one who always attempts to silence God. I do not hear him; I hear only what God says about Christ my ONLY life.

How Do We Overcome? You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is IN you is greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). We are created to cast down every voice that opposes the Word God speaks. That quality of our makeup always moves in full conjunction with the rivers of living water – God in Person, flowing out of us.

But let’s look more closely at the how. How, Lord, do we overcome? And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

One Carried by Two. This is not three things, but one thing carried at every step by two. Sandwiched between the two aspects of the Lamb is you and me, speaking Christ our only life, the word of our testimony. Yet we stumble and fall. There in one hand we are carried utterly inside the Lamb, His blood always cleansing us. Nothing we are is found anywhere else, especially our sin and our shame. And there in the other hand we are carried utterly by the Lamb having become us. His death IS our death; His life IS our life. Everything we find inside ourselves and inside our way is He. And thus, carried utterly by the Lamb, we speak Christ our only life.

Why First; How Second. By this means alone the accuser is cast down, the enemy of Christ. And by this means God has chosen to reveal Christ to all the universe. That means that we interpret every verse in the Bible to be talking about God proving Jesus faithful and true through us.

The first four most important verses in the Bible all answer the question – WHY? The next three most important verses in the Bible answer the question – HOW? How does the beyond-all-belief wonder of the purpose of God for us become real and complete in our lives right here on this earth? How does it happen?

The Salvation Verses. We must ask the question – How? because God wrote the next three most important verses specifically to answer that question. The first four most important verses show us the determination of God to fill man with all of Himself and to flow out from man setting all creation free. The next three most important verses are the salvation verses, the verses that enable us to be all that God intends.

You see, the picture of our entering into God, of our seeking and knowing God, of our walking the path by which we are led into life, that picture is from the earthly point of view. We see that way as babes in Christ, growing up into Him.

God Now, Through Us. But there comes a point in our knowing of God that the whole picture reverses. We discover that it never was us going into God, not really. From the very beginning this whole thing is about God Himself winning for Himself a body, both a spirit body and a physical body in one, humans, so that God in Person can be known and seen and touched by His entire creation, most of which has not yet come into being.

Yes, we read the next set of three most important verses in the Bible as how we come to know this incredible God who fills us with all of Himself. And we must walk this path. But the further we are led in this way, the less we see ourselves “going into” God and the more we see God in Person going out into all of His creation utterly together with us.

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