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The Foundation of True Beginnings 2
by Tony den Hartog
Preached 11/07/10
A transcription of Tape 3053
Transcribed by Jackie Weber
Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and
say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord, to the house of the
God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out
of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word
of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Now of course all these sayings that we
read in Scripture like "the word of the Lord
shall come from Jerusalem" we know that
it's not coming from a pile of bricks in the
Middle East. The government of God and
the thing that God has ordained right from
the beginning is that we will understand that
we are actually the house of God and that
we are coming back into a realm that God
has ordained for us before the world was.
We have forgotten who we were. In our
humanity we can no longer really
understand the spiritual government that
God has ordained in Genesis 1. And of
course we know also that when God saw
what He had begotten out of Himself, it was
perfect. And you were there—and there
was no flaw in you.
Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also,
since the day we heard it, do not cease to
pray for you, and to desire that ye might be
filled with the knowledge of his will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto
all pleasing, being fruitful in every good
work, and increasing in the knowledge of
God;
You know that the Scripture also says that
"My people are perishing because they
have rejected the knowledge of God" (Hos
4:6). We have interpreted what we think
God has ordained or done—and we enter
into a realm of confusion. And God is not
the author of confusion (1Cor 14:33). The
pathway that we are walking in has to come
from a central point which I would call the
Presence.
And in every one of us, regardless of your
color or creed, whether you are male or
female—there is something within us that
speaks. And it will always say, "You are my
beloved child in whom I am well pleased."
We respond to this with thoughts that God
must not know what we did or what we are
thinking. But He says
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts
that I think toward you, saith the Lord,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give
you an expected end.
"I have toward you only thoughts of peace,
that all your happenings in this world, in
your own life. . . ."
—what we call our life, which is not really
your life. You say it is your life, but it is
really God's life. There is no other life.
And that's the problem. Most people think
that they've got a life of their own, that
they've got a mind of their own and a will of
their own. They think that they have a
purpose in life by setting particular goals
and achievement so that eventually we get
to our destiny and we will be fulfilled.
But let me tell you, you will never be fulfilled
in your human destiny. The prodigal asked
for his inheritance so that he could make a
life for himself and be successful. This
applies to every area of life, be it business
or relationships.
God gave us a whole new paradigm, as it
were, that we might discover again the
hidden mysteries, the hidden manna. And
those that overcome the idea that we are
simply humans and come to the conclusion
that Jesus came to do away with everything
that represents the belief that we were born
in sin, that we were shaped in
iniquity—because that is not true. I do
agree that your humanity was "shaped in
iniquity" but not while it was in the mother's
womb. It began to be shaped in iniquity
(which means a lack or understanding or a
lack of righteousness) when we began to
develop a personal sense—me, my, myself.
The ego was formed, and we thought that
we had some kind of wisdom.
But the Scripture very clearly says that the
natural man cannot understand or perceive.
. . . And when I say the natural man, I'm
also talking about natural people that call
themselves Christians, Jews, Moslems,
black or white. And if we think we have
something that we call wisdom, we don't
have it in our humanity. Really we don't. I
thought I had some. And there were times
when I really felt a despair. Now for 25 or
30 years I have been declaring
righteousness.
Righteousness is not just being good or that
you obey the ten commandments to the
best of your ability—and then you become
righteous. You may think that is the way to
go, but righteousness has nothing to do
with our morality.
Righteousness is a state that I arrived at
when I knew that my life (or that thing which
I called my life) was not my life. Now that
life that I thought was my life Jesus bore in
Himself when He was born of a woman.
This is very significant because we have
always thought that Jesus the man when
He was born of Mary and Joseph—that that
was the actual pattern or the Son that we
should look at for our salvation. In other
words, knowing Jesus "after the flesh"
(2Cor 5:16)—knowing Jesus after human
birth. There's always been a real conflict in
people about this "immaculate conception."
But something which is called spiritual birth
is an immaculate conception. Immaculate
conception has nothing to do with flesh and
blood or human body or a woman's body
(the thing that is born) because in our
humanity we were all born in sin. So said
Jesus and so said Paul.
And it's not because sin is in the blood.
That was the issue with Hebrew
doctrine—that sin was in the blood and that
the sins of the fathers would come upon the
children even to the fourth generation.
So something had to happen. And they
believed that a Messiah would come who
would be immaculately conceived by a
virgin. Now I'm not saying that it didn't
happen. But the thing that I emphasize
would be is that everything that is born (I'm
not saying born of a woman) or ordained of
God is born of God.
But we have forgotten that we were born of
God, so we began to entertain a selfhood
separate and apart from God and simply
forgot who we were.
And we didn't even know what God was
anymore. We did not have the knowledge
of God within ourself to maintain our
lifestyle. We tried very hard, but the more
we try, the more we see the corruption that
is happening in the world because of
misalignment to reality.
In Genesis 1 God begot us of Himself, and
we were immaculately conceived of spiritual
reality that is eternal and immortal. It's
invisible and it's incorruptible. It can never
be taken away from God's love, God's
hands, God's wisdom or God's peace. But
we have so much turmoil in these areas
what we today call religion. And everybody
presents some kind of idea of what they
think is the truth—this is the way we've got
to go and this is how it happened.
But these mind-formed doctrines that we
have heard so many times of what we
thought the truth was isn't the
truth—because the human mind cannot
conceive truth. It can have opinions. Like
Nicodemus said to Jesus, "How can a man
be born when he is old? How can he for a
second time enter his mother's womb?" (Jn
3:4). But Jesus was not talking about the
physical generation of a body out of the
womb of a woman. We will never be "born
again" in that sense. We were born from
above when it came back to us by the Holy
Ghost that I am not a human—that I'm a
spiritual offspring of the living God,
immaculately conceived of God in the
beginning.
And there is not one thing in the whole of
creation that is not immaculately begotten.
Even the leaves on the trees and the grass
that you see growing—everything is perfect.
And God saw that it was wonderful! And it
still is wonderful.
Long before man said "I'm afraid" and
heard the Voice say, "Who told you?"
There's no such thing as fear. There's only
love. There's only ordination, and the
ordination is that we should be fruitful. And
the fruit of the spiritual man or woman is
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, 23 Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law.
So the moment that you come into the
awareness of a realm. . . . Jesus said, "I am
going to prepare that realm again for you"
(Jn 14:2)—because it was already there in
the beginning. Heaven was already there.
The absoluteness of life was already there.
Don't ask me where sin or fear came from.
If God Himself doesn't know, why should
we entertain it or try to build a regime of
doctrines around it so that it becomes
acceptable? That's what we have done.
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is coming into
a place of silence where the mind activity
no longer races around trying to prove a
point or trying to teach somebody
something. You cannot teach anybody
anything. As the Holy Ghost is bringing
back to our remembrance the things that
we have forgotten, the flow of living
essence begins to flow out of our innermost
being. Of course that applies first to the
mentor, teacher, priest, minister or
whomever—if he is anointed by the Holy
Ghost to bring that back to our
remembrance what we have forgotten when
God said, "Let there be light."
What is this light? Is it sunlight? God's light
was there before the sun was there. What
does light represent? Light is actually the
logos—or the Word of God. The logos is
the light through which everything came
into being—birds, bees—everything that
was perfectly begotten out of God.
Everything is begotten out of God, even the
rocks, planets, constellations, moon and
stars. And it is all absolutely perfect.
Science has discovered that there is
absolute perfection in chaos. So we can
never say, "God, you made a mistake. I
need something. I need some
improvement." No, you don't need
improvement. You don't need healing
either. What you need is to know God
aright. Jesus said that you've got to know
"the true God" (Jn 17:3)—not the god that
you've been believing in, or thinking that it
was God. That god we know today as
Yahweh was a tribal god that was formed in
the mind of people based upon the idea
that we are separate identities from that
living Presence that we call God.
So we named ourselves. Right through the
Scriptures all the names and the places,
analogies and parables and examples
never led to anything else but more
confusion.
But I'm still sticking to the foundation of
righteousness without the law.
Jesus said, "You will not leave my soul in
hell." Was Jesus in hell? You must realize
that hell or sheol (the Hebrew word for hell)
doesn't mean a place of torment that you go
to when you die. Hell simply means a place
for the dead. And everybody who walks on
the earth in their humanity are dead. And
even some of the Christians (like Paul said
to the Ephesians)
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake
thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light.
Awake thou that sleeps in the realm of
mortality, in the realm of physicality, in the
realm of opinion, idea and the philosophy
and the metaphysics and the orthodoxy of
religious persuasions. You must rise out of
that. We must
1Corinthians 15:34 Awake to
righteousness, and sin not; for some have
not the knowledge of God: I speak this to
your shame.
"What do you mean I don't have the
knowledge of God? I've been reading the
Bible for the last 35 years!"
You're still not understanding what the
Scripture teaches. I'm not saying that
everything in the Scripture is ordained of
God. We have canonized the Scripture, put
them in 66 books and say that everything in
them is inspired by God. I don't believe it.
But every Scripture that IS inspired by God
is for correction and for instruction in
righteousness.
2Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness:
Paul said:
Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also,
since the day we heard it, do not cease to
pray for you, and to desire that ye might be
filled with the knowledge of his will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding;
We know also that in the beginning was
willed action. Everything that God willed in
the beginning is perfect. If God willed you
into being, you are perfect. I don't care what
you think about yourself or about
others—you are already that which God
says you are.
Therefore, we must come to the place
where we are
Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all
might, according to his glorious power, unto
all patience and longsuffering with
joyfulness;
We all have experienced some of that some
of the time. Longsuffering with joyfulness?
That's not so easy, is it?
Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the
Father, which hath made us meet (capable
or able) to be partakers of the inheritance of
the saints in light:
Now that's a mouthful! You can stay with
this particular Scripture for the rest of the
year and begin to meditate on this—that we
are already delivered. And that comes by
acknowledgment. I have to acknowledge
that God descended into the form of a man
for the purpose of destroying that false
sense that started when man said, "I'm
afraid." Out of that fear came the whole
regime of doctrine right up to Mark, chapter
1 where it says:
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
The beginning of the gospel. "But what
about the rest of the book?" There is only
one thing that is still real, and that is
Genesis 1 and John 1. But we have tried to
compile a whole regime of ideas and
doctrines out of all these books in the
Scriptures while all along somebody came.
It was John the Baptist whom Jesus said
was the greatest of all prophets (Luke 7:28
For I say unto you, Among those that are
born of women there is not a greater
prophet than John the Baptist). How could
he be greater than Isaiah and Jeremiah and
all these wonderful men?
Yes, they all began to reveal a prophetic
thing that was going to happen at a certain
point in time. And John the Baptist said
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus
coming unto him, and saith, Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world.
He takes away the guilt, the fear, the
torment of the human mind so that we can
again come back to the house of God and
be taught by the Spirit of God—because it
is the letter that kills (2Cor 3:6). The letter is
important in a lot of cases; so is study. But
you can continually mental-ize that which
you think is spiritual and you will fall down.
You will not be able to hold yourself up
anymore after awhile. And things begin to
happen in your life. You say, "Why is this
happening to me. I know so much about the
Scriptures."
And here comes this unlearned man who
has been dragged out of the pit of
alcoholism; and he begins to declare the
counsel of God which is wisdom. I'm not
referring to myself. But the wisdom of God
does not come by the prudent and by the
theologians or by the scribes and the
Pharisees or the doctors of the law. Jesus
said, "Let the children come unto Me, for
such is the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 19:14).
And when I say "children," I mean the ones
that are not really educated. Well, they are
educated—because education does not
come from the outside. Actually, the word
"educate" means to be taught from within.
Something is happening to us that gives us
the ability to be partakers of the inheritance.
In our humanity we are all prodigals. I don't
care what kind of church you go to. If you
are a human being trying to promote the
issue of humanity into the world, thinking
that therein lies the answer—you are just
the same as everybody else. And you will
lose.
I don't want to lose anymore than I've
already lost. I know that we can be
persistent in our opinion, our viewpoint. And
eventually—this is the most terrible thing
that can happen to any man or
woman—you will lose your spiritual sense,
or the witness of the Spirit within you that
tells you that I am the child of God and I'm
well pleasing in God's sight. It is so easy,
especially for religious people that still have
a sin consciousness—a feeling of guilt, a
feeling of fear. "What's going to happen to
me when I die?" Jesus said that all would
know Him:
Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach
every man his neighbour, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all
shall know me, from the least to the
greatest.
—because God has never known anybody
after the flesh. He has never known you as
a sinner. This is a very hard idea to
understand. If God did not know about our
sin, how can He come as a vicarious priest
to deliver us from our human anxieties and
the pangs of fear that come so often to us.
"What is going to happen to me when I
die?"
Of course it's a mystery to me still, but I
know that it is true that God descended
Ephesians 4:4 There is one body [not
Baptists or Catholics—that's not important],
and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of your calling; 5 One Lord,
That's the Spirit
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that
Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is
recognized within you as the counselor, as
the paraclete, as the advocate—that is the
thing that we have to know—when the
presence of God is realized in our
meditations after we have accepted that we
cannot pull ourselves up by our own boot
straps.
So there had to be a vicarious priest. And
that is not known in metaphysics or
Christian Science and many other
teachings. Although they have a lot more
understanding about spiritual values than
the average church teaching, they do not
understand the vicarious. And I'm so glad
that I have come to that place right from the
start. I came out of death, out of hell—the
place that I was in—and I was translated
out of all the darkness of my own human
mind into the glorious liberty of the sons of
God (Rom 8:21).
And I didn't even have to do anything for it
except give thanks. That's all I had to do.
Ephesians 4:7 But unto every one of us is
given grace according to the measure of
the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith,
When he ascended up on high, he led
captivity captive,
I was captivated by my own ego, by my
own feelings of guilt about what I had done
to other people in my dark days, what I had
done to my wife and to my children—I was
captivated by this horrible guilt and I was
terribly afraid.
But now I no longer fear because I know
that perfect love casts out all fear (1Jn
4:18). I don't have to be afraid.
8 . . . When he ascended up on high, he
led captivity captive,and gave gifts unto
men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it
but that he also descended first into the
lower parts of the earth?
I may have experienced a low part of the
earth, but Jesus experienced the lowest
part of the earth. The lowest part of the
earth is the depth of hell. That's where He
cried out, "My God, why have you forsaken
me?" (Mt 27:46) and "You will not leave my
soul in hell; neither will you allow your holy
one to see corruption (Ps 16:10-11; Acts
2:27-28).
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the
author and finisher of our faith; who for the
joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
This is what I believe to be the Gospel. I
have experienced the Gospel. I know that
it's real. I may have applied it wrong
sometimes and even preached it wrong
sometimes; but there is something that
always brings me back to the beginning
where I was immaculately conceived of the
Father.
I did descend, but that was not God's
will—although some preach that it is. I do
not believe that God caused us to be
lowered into a pit. The Scripture doesn't say
that. It says that by one man's disobedience
death reigned, sin reigned.
Romans 5:19 For as by one man’s
disobedience many were made sinners, so
by the obedience of one shall many be
made righteous.
People talk about the evil of a righteous
God. They really believe that God applies
evil to teach you. And this is where so many
things went wrong. They believe that in
Genesis 2 God created the serpent to
become a teacher—something like a mad
dog on a leash to teach you so that you
won't fall altogether into the pit of hell. That
is false doctrine. That's not ordained of
God. God never lowered us and did not
send some kind of serpent (Satan) to tempt
and test us—because the Scripture says
very clearly
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is
tempted, I am tempted of God: for God
cannot be tempted with evil, neither
tempteth he any man:
It is actually your false beliefs, your desire,
or your own lust for knowledge (that is not
on the right pathway) that causes you to be
tempted and tested. And if you are in that
realm of falsities and you are living in
error—I'm talking about error as far as the
truth is concerned—yes, you will begin to
experience all sorts of things that you don't
want in life. Like it says in the Scripture,
your own backsliding will test you.
Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall
correct thee, and thy backslidings shall
reprove thee:
It's not God that's testing us or trying us. I
don't believe it; I've never believed that. I've
always been against that teaching. It's very
rampant in the United States and various
other places in the world—this belief that
God tests you, that God puts something on
you to teach you lessons. It's not true.
Ephesians 4:9 (Now that he ascended,
what is it but that he also descended first
into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He
that descended is the same also that
ascended up far above all heavens, that he
might fill all things.)
It says in the Scripture
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of
Israel know assuredly, that God hath made
that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified,
both Lord and Christ.
This applies to every human who has been
born into this world. This Jesus is now the
spiritual dimension, a heavenly
understanding that this omni-active,
omnipresent and omniscience that we can
actually in meditation begin to hear the still
small voice.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint.
They that wait upon the Lord (which is the
Spirit) shall renew their strength. Have you
ever seen an eagle when he loses his
feathers? Some of us may have lost our
feathers. And we are sitting there not sure
about what's going to happen. To get
encouraged, be still even though all things
around you begins to happen—you might
even get things in your body or
circumstances, in your family or whatever it
may be. Sometimes we get very disturbed
about things like that.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength;
—begin to grow or bring back to you the
memory of self-containment,
self-sustainment—because originally we
have been given the dominion not only over
the conditions of what we call the world
(which is not God's world at all), but also to
maintain the integrity of the willed action of
God that brought about a wonderful,
eternal, immortal and invisible creation. The
thing that God made was out of the
invisible. So, actually, the real thing is
invisible.
Those that can see the invisible can do the
impossible. But if you keep on looking at
and feeling the things that you can see,
you'll be troubled. So don't look or judge by
any appearances (or what you see). I know
that it can sometimes be very trying. When I
begin to experience some things in my
body, I have to become still. I have to wait
on the Lord. And now I will begin again
through this meditation and silence to begin
to hear from the Father.
I call it "the bubble" to be in the place that
Jesus prepared for us—far above all
heavens, above all principalities, powers
and rulers of the darkness. In this world
Jesus has prepared a realm for us where
we can be safe. And doors open.
We must enter back into the place of safety
by the recognition of the finished work, or I
could also say the finished kingdom. When
was the kingdom finished?—when God saw
that it was good. It was perfect; He rested
from all His works.
If we are really sincere and believe what
God says, there cannot be another thing
added to it after He said that it was good
(perfect) and He entered into His rest. If we
believe something else is going to happen
after that, we are in error.
Go to John 1 and read of the perfect
creation, the invisible, incorruptible creation
of God in which there is life and in which
there is no death.
1John 1:1 That which was from the
beginning, which we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have
looked upon, and our hands have handled,
of the Word of life;
What was that which was from the
beginning? v 2 (For the life was manifested.
...
What was the manifestation? Perfection
and love. Sometimes we might tell people
that God loves them, but do we love them
or do they love us? Do you understand the
implication? The issue lies not in whether
God loves us, but rather in whether or not
we love one another. Do I love only those
who agree with me or who are nice to me?
Only those who harmonize with my ideas?
No, we have to love unconditionally. It
doesn't matter who or what they are
because
Matthew 25:40 . . . Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me.
If I speak anything about anybody, I've
done it unto the one that's called God—or
Christ.
1John 1:2 (For the life was manifested, and
we have seen it, and bear witness [of that
life], and shew unto you that eternal life,
which was with the Father, and was
manifested unto us;)
John 3:3 (MESSAGE) Jesus said, “You’re
absolutely right. Take it from me: Unless a
person is born from above, it’s not possible
to see what I’m pointing to—to God’s
kingdom.” 4 “How can anyone,” said
Nicodemus, “be born who has already been
born and grown up? You can’t re-enter your
mother’s womb and be born again. What
are you saying with this ‘born-from-above’
talk?” 5 Jesus said, “You’re not listening.
Let me say it again. Unless a person
submits to this original creation—the ‘wind
hovering over the water’ creation, the
invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a
new life—it’s not possible to enter God’s
kingdom."
Nicodemus didn't understand even though
he was a ruler of the Jews and a preacher
in the synagogue. The same was true of
Saul of Tarsus who knew more about God
than God did. He was trained under the
great Gamaliel (Acts 5:34). He was a
teacher. But later on he said that he
considered everything that he had ever
learned in that religious realm but "dung"
that he might win back the understanding
that he needed to know about the finished
work and to realize that he was crucified
with Jesus (Phil 3:8; Gal 2:20).
Anyone who has been indoctrinated and
laid a foundation not based upon the truth
of what God said can get side-tracked.
There are two pathways. If you are on the
wrong one, you will finish up in outer
darkness where the gnashing of teeth will
be (Mt 8:12)—because we cannot deviate
from God's perfect order.
It's the order of Melchizedek (Ps 110:4). It's
without father and without mother (Heb
7:1-3). So that Son of God, the High Priest
of our confession and profession
(everything that we do) (Heb 3:1) is after
the order of Melchisedec, the order of an
endless life.
I want to be an administrator of this life,
don't you? Not arguing about doctrine or
agreeing or disagreeing. For that only
brings more confusion and separation. I
want to stay in the way of righteousness. I
want to be thankful to a loving God that has
ordained me in the beginning; and He has
never deviated from His will towards me.
It's our own perception of things that causes
so many problems. And we say, "Why is
this happening to me?" The Scripture says
Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but
he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the
Spirit reap life everlasting.
What is sowing to the flesh? It's not just
committing adultery, getting drunk or
whatever—which is really the outworking of
sin. When the Greeks were in an archery
competition and the contestant would miss
the target, they would yell out "sin." Every
time I hear something that is not true
according to the Word, I say, "Sin!" It
misses the mark; it goes in the wrong
direction. It will create disturbance and
disharmony amongst the brethren and is
not good.
Jesus said that we are to love one another
and know that we are one.
John 13:34 A new commandment I give
unto you, That ye love one another; as I
have loved you, that ye also love one
another. 35 By this shall all men know that
ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to
another.
John 17:11 (KJVS)
And now I am no more
in the world, but these are in the world, and
I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through
thine own name those whom thou hast
given me, that they may be one, as we are.
. . . 21 That they all may be one; as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they
also may be one in us: that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the
glory which thou gavest me I have given
them; that they may be one, even as we are
one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they
may be made perfect in one; and that the
world may know that thou hast sent me,
and hast loved them, as thou hast loved
me.
The oneness is not in compromise either.
It's not the oneness of getting a bunch of
people together with their different ideas.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who,
being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made
himself of no reputation,
This is a wonderful aspect of the Gospel.
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
—has made the old order obsolete. Well, is
all that is written in the whole Old
Testament obsolete?
You must remember that it is like the
aborigines with their tribal story-telling of
events that have taken place thousands of
years earlier. In the Hebrew days the elders
would sit around the campfire and tell
stories about Adam and Eve and the snake
and all that type of stuff—which is really a
story about a dream state. It's not a story
about something that is real. It's an
imaginary realm that God never ordained.
And this is where all the trouble is. You
must go to God and ask Him what is real.
"What I spoke in the beginning is real." And
THE LIFE was manifested—that thing
which is called the Son of God was seen by
Peter. Remember?
Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered
and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God.
That was the shift from the old Hebrew idea
to a new vision—something that man began
to see on the Mount of Transfiguration.
And do you know what Jesus said to those
three disciples who were with Him there?
He said that they should tell no man the
vision—for the time is not yet. For the new
heaven, the new order, the new world, has
to be revealed (disclosed).
Mark 9:9 And as they came down from the
mountain, he charged them that they
should tell no man what things they had
seen, till the Son of man were risen from
the dead.
We are still looking "through a glass, darkly"
(1Cor 13:12). But eventually, when we
return to the Spirit, there will be
emancipation and freedom.
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that
Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty. 18 But we all, with open
face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of
the Lord.
We are being changed from one degree of
glory to another. What is this glory? What
does it mean?
John 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self with the glory which I
had with thee before the world was.
What does it mean "before the world was"?
Didn't God create the world? No, He didn't.
Jesus said
John 16:33 These things I have spoken
unto you, that in me ye might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be
of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
So you know that the Hebrew idea of God,
man and the universe wasn't real. If God
created this world, it would be real and
Jesus would have been sinning by
overcoming it.
Jesus came to do away with what I would
call the knowledge of this infamous tree
which is an allegory of a development of a
knowledge that was not the knowledge of
God. So Jesus gave us another knowledge.
People perish because they have rejected
the knowledge of God (Hos 4:6).
No longer can you be a priest or a minister
of this thing because you would put people
under law by even speaking to them. Now if
we do not have operating in us the mind
that was also in Christ Jesus, we put people
under law. We are going in the wrong
direction. But people are beginning to
awaken to righteousness again.
1Corinthians 15:34 Awake to
righteousness, and sin not; for some have
not the knowledge of God: I speak this to
your shame.
There is an awakening taking place, but not
awakening to more knowledge or some
fantasy. There are many things being
taught that have no bearing on anything
God did or said.
John 3:5 (MESSAGE) Jesus said, “You’re
not listening.
We aren't listening because we have
something in our minds that is set in
concrete and must be loosened by the
Spirit, by the oil of the Holy Ghost.
John 3:5 (MESSAGE) Jesus said, “You’re
not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a
person [every one of us—everyone that
lives] submits to this original creation—the
‘wind hovering over the water’ creation, the
invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a
new life—it’s not possible to enter God’s
kingdom."
Why would Jesus say "original creation"? Is
there something that is not original? Yes,
Genesis 2 is not original. It's not a spiritual
development. It's simply a dream state that
started and brought women that we know
today (as Islamic women). . . . Because of
that belief, darkness came upon all the
world. Think deeply about this. It's not
God's ordination that women should be
subservient to men—because we are all
one in Christ.
Matthew 19:3 The Pharisees also came
unto him, tempting him, and saying unto
him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his
wife for every cause? [This is serious
business. Even now in Islam a man can kill
his wife if she displeases him.] 4 And he
answered and said unto them, Have ye not
read, that he which made them at the
beginning [the original creation] made them
male and female,
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there
is neither male nor female: for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus.
Christ, which is your true identity, which is
really the true order of what you are (the
new creation man or woman); and you are
complete in yourself. You've got the Self of
God operating, and God is not male or
female. God IS. Yes, God is the
manifestation of male and female. So you
can be just as spiritually minded and have
the same spiritual integrity as a woman as I
have as a man.
That's what I am—I'm a man. In my body
I'm a male. Everything that lives has a male
and a female counterpart—simply for
procreation. But that's not true for the new
creation:
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have
been baptized into Christ have put on
Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for ye are all one
in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
This is a whole study in itself if you want to
go that way. But I think that we have put too
much emphasis on that and have not
realized that the emphasis should be on the
Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the
emphasis should be on John 1, not in
Genesis so much—because it can create a
lot of differences of opinion and confusion.
And where there is confusion, there is every
evil work (Jas 3:16). There is disturbance
and separation, and it really doesn't do
anybody any good.
So let us stay in that way of righteousness
where we have been established in the
present truth.
"Freedom is an inherent aspect of my God
identity, and it is constantly insisting on
being realized."
This inner Christ is insisting that you realize
It—because there is only one body; there is
only one Christ. There is only one spiritual
wisdom, understanding and
knowledge—that we all shall know him,
from the least to the greatest.
Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach
every man his neighbour, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all
shall know me, from the least to the
greatest.
And that's happening. But it's not
happening in a lot of tumult. It's happening
in meditation, acknowledgement and
submitting ourselves to the original idea.
And the original idea is that you should
have dominion, that you are of God, that
you are not born of flesh.
It says in John 1 that the Hebrews rejected
but we have accepted and understood and
to them gave He power to be the sons of
God.
John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his
own received him not. 12 But as many as
received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on his name: 13 Which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God.
We are born and regenerated of the original
seed, which is Christ to whom the promises
were made.
So I rest my case. And I'm not God's
lawyer, either.
Father, we thank you for your love that you
have bestowed upon us that casts out all
fear. Just as certainty and the wonderful
sense that we now have that Jesus came
and experienced the thing that Adam has
caused through fear—that you completely
took upon Yourself as the vicarious priest
and dissolved it into its native nothingness.
And now we can stand again in Your
Presence. And that You have given us
access by one Spirit to that place that you
have ordained for us to be in the beginning
where we had dominion over the whole of
creation and that you instructed us not to be
faint-hearted but to come to the
understanding that this is the ordination of
the living Father.
John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I
have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, and that your
fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye
shall ask . . . .
—whatsoever you dwell upon as the living
Word of God, as the manna that you will be
receiving and the understanding that you
now have of ME and of one another that
you will not violate the spiritual realms of
harmony and perfection that I have
ordained that you should walk in it.
Thank you, Father, for Jesus and the
revelation of your Word that's coming to us
as you inspire us to go on and lay down
every imagination and every high thing that
exalts itself against the true knowledge of
God and bring into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ.
And we give you thanks in your lovely
name. And everybody said:
AMEN!
THE END