Final Part of the Covenant Series P19: The Bond of the Covenant by Daniel Yordy

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19. The Bond of the Covenant

Final Observations:

First, thanksgiving brings all things to rest in submission to Jesus, but the expectation of God arising is always current and primary.

We never give thanks for that which is difficult without also, to greater measure, expecting God to arise within that thing, transforming it and turning it into wondrous good. Giving thanks brings all things into God's sphere of redemption; expecting God to arise sees Him always doing all that He speaks.

Do you see how strongly Theistic this way of walking really is? Bring all things into God, see God arising in transformation making all things brand new in the new creation.

The extraordinary difference for us is the Blood. By bringing “cancer” by name into the Mercy Seat, we are not “honoring” cancer. Nor are we dumbly submitting to any powerful continuing of “cancer.” You see, the one with cancer does NOT want healing first. They want God first. What good is healing if there is no knowledge of God arising from within into the new creation?

The purpose of vanity is that the sons of God would transform the old into the new by glorious liberty. Healing taking place inside the perimeters of the old may be convenient for the moment, but if the full inner knowing of the Pillar of Fire inside of us is not the thing that brings the healing, then all of it is just one big waste of time. People get sick; people get well; everything stays the same.

More than that, it is easy to see that the practice of not saying, “Cancer” because then it will be “more powerful than Jesus,” actually makes that thing something big in the eyes of the one frightened by the horror gripping his or her body. It becomes just one more form of a(no)-Theism. Giving thanks for the cancer by name brings it into the Mercy Seat, into the sphere of Jesus living as us in this world. Suddenly our weakness is the dwelling place of His strength.

Having brought the cancer, the autism, the difficult circumstances, the hurt, the loss, into the sphere of the Lamb-Having-Been-Slain, into thankfulness, into love for ourselves as we find ourselves to be in the present moment, now we see only the Lord Jesus Christ arising on high as the Pillar of Fire inside of us, carrying ever part of that which was once “wrong” up into goodness, into the new creation, into resurrection Life.

Giving thanks for Asperger's causes me to expect God like I have never expected God, in spite of any present weakness. Yet it is God alone that I expect, arising within me. All outward things and circumstances are perfectly in His hand, and I am at total rest in Him. I will not be driven by any biting whip of “Get healed, brother.” Yet I expect God always arising within me with healing in His wings. I expect only what must be real. Pretending for healing is a terrible hell in which to live, a way of living I banished some years ago.

Second, every piece of furniture in the Tabernacle comes forward with us and is found fully in the final three, the Ark of the Covenant, the Mercy Seat, and the Pillar of Fire. The Lamb-Slain is the Brass Altar, the Altar of Sacrifice, yes, but He is also the Mercy Seat. Every element of the Brass Altar, as it truly is, is found now within the Mercy Seat. God caused us to see those things as the Brass Altar at first, yes, because it was necessary for us to see the Lamb-Slain for our own redemption. Now, sitting upon the Mercy Seat, we have no need to see any element of redemption for ourselves. We are redeemed. Rather, we see that same redemption, now, for all creation.

Thus the Brass Altar, the Brass Washbasin, the Table of Showbread, the seven-branched Lampstand, the Altar of Incense, all things that were once our path into the full knowledge of God are now revealed as the Mercy Seat/Ark of the Covenant, through us to all.

That's why, even though the Ark returned to the Holy of Holies in Solomon's temple, it really is David's Tent that God restores in the church – the Holy of Holies, by itself alone, with the Ark of the Covenant covered by the Mercy Seat, and surrounded by many worshipers, Jew and Gentile (that is, neither Jew nor Gentile, but one new man in Christ), all worshiping God with all abandon together.

“After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up; so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by My name,” says the Lord who does all these things. Acts 15:16-17

Third, we see ourselves seated on the throne of grace, looking out upon creation.

The purpose of looking at the Path of the Atonement, at the progression of the furniture of the Tabernacle into the Holiest is so that the Spirit of God can cause us to understand, to know, and thus to move in all confidence in the throne of God upon which we presently sit.

This is the power of metaphor and why God uses metaphors and symbols all through the Bible. You can go back and find everything I say in these last few letters all through the three volumes of Our Path Home. But I never saw then what I see now. I never had the confidence then in the truth I was writing that I have now.

By draping the truth of Christ across the structure of the symbols God gives us, we know Him far beyond how we could have known Him otherwise. This picture of drawing all things into the Mercy Seat upon the Blood where all things might be caught up into the Pillar of an always arising God is the most powerful picture of our present reality that I have ever known.

Yet here upon the Mercy Seat, here in the Tabernacle of David, in the Holiest of All cast wide to include all things freely to enter in, we are looking out from God to all creation.

The first thing we see is our brethren laboring in the Altar of Incense on the other side of the veil, unable to enter in because they believe that their hearts are evil and that their flesh cannot be filled with God. They simply do not believe the 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th Most Important Verses in the Bible.

Then we see our brethren locked into Holy Place or Outer Court mentality, seeing nothing more in God than their limited present knowledge. Then we see all humanity laboring under the curse, whether dead or alive. Then we see all angels and animals, fallen or unfallen, wandering or kept. Then we see all the substance and reality of both the physical side of creation and the  heavenly side of creation.

We KNOW Jesus-Christ-Sent. And the knowing of the Sent One flows through us out to all. All creation is our mission field. You shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Acts 1:8 – As Jesus said at the end of His sharing in the upper room, He speaks figuratively.

The brethren laboring in the Altar of Incense are Jerusalem, the mother of us all, the Jerusalem of God, the woman clothed with the Sun, laboring to give birth. Indeed, it is this Jerusalem alone that God sees and that we honor with all the honor of David. Those found in a lessening experience of the Holy Place and in the Outer Court are “Judea and Samaria,” and all the rest of creation are “to the end of the earth.”

This is our calling, our mission, our sending, our view. From out of us flow the rivers of living water that alone set creation free.

Fourth, the picture of the Pillar of Fire is how we see ourselves, all things caught up into God through us.

This image of myself as the tip point of the Pillar of Fire touching the earth upon the Mercy Seat, my heart, causing all things to pass across the Blood, becoming brand new in an always arising God is the most powerful knowing of the revelation of Jesus Christ I have ever known. What wonders will I come to know as I practice this way of seeing God revealed through me?

Let's find out together.

Finally, we must look, now, at the Covenant as one complete whole. I had thought at first to write this as an actual contract document. That would be powerful, yes. But then I could see such a thing taken by our fellow silly humans and turned into something outward that it cannot be. So I will not cast it quite in that way. Nevertheless, here is the Covenant. We do not call it “the New,” anymore because the old is gone and forgotten. It is –

The Covenant:

Party of the First Part:

God the Father, entering all creation as the Spirit of God in the heavens and the Son of God in the earth.

Party of the Second Part:

All human believers, first as individuals – whosoever will may freely enter in, and then as a corporate body of Christ. You and me.

Bond of the Covenant:

Blood, the Blood of the Lamb as God ripped open for all to see Him as He really is upon the cross of Christ. A Man laying down His life for His friends – God revealed as He truly is. Binding and forever.

Nature of the Covenant:

A Blood Covenant. That is, regardless of who and what God is, regardless of who and what man is, in the signing of the Covenant, both become equal in all things. Everything God is belongs to man; everything man is belongs to God. The two are made one, Person inside of person inside of Person. Back to back, looking out for each other in all ways. Shoulder to shoulder, walking together in all things as the closest of friends. Heart to heart, sharing unending intimacy. Eye to eye, in equality of heart in every way. Person inside of person.

The Signing of the Covenant:

On the first part, the Blood, written by the finger of God upon the dirt of this earth and found now upon the Mercy Seat, hearts of flesh.  On the second part, the waters of baptism as an initial gesture, sealed by man in finality by abandoning himself utterly into the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ as the final act of passing through the Veil. Total surrender to the reality of Christ as us, becoming us, carrying us as we find ourselves to be all the way into Life.

Personal Goal of the Covenant:

On the first part – a body You have prepared for Me. The ability on God's part, finally, for the first time, to be seen and known and touched by His creation throughout all the heavens and throughout all the earth for all the ages to come through many sons, just like Jesus. On the second part – Glory. Man is HEART made to be filled at all times and in all ways with Omnipotence. Man must have glory. We cannot live any other way. Many sons to Glory.

Secondary Goal of the Covenant:

God and Man, together as One, set all creation free into the glorious liberty of the new creation. God and Man, together as One, search out every lost and hurting soul hiding in the darkness and coax them out into the Light and Love of God, translating each one from darkness into light, from the old creation into the New.

Long-Term Goal of the Covenant:

On the inside, God and Man share the unending intimacy of knowing one another in joy, in longsuffering, in Love. On the outside, God and Man, a corporate Man, the corporate Body of Christ, together as One, Guide and Shepherd all creation, as it flows in unending increase out of this God and Man who are always too much. God who is always thinking up new things, Man whose heart demands new worlds to conquer, new glories to unveil.

Adventure! and many, many “Unexpected Journeys,” yet always Home and Comfort and Peace.

The Central Point of the Covenant:

First: We KNOW that we ARE just like the Lord Jesus Christ, for we see Him AS HE IS.

Second: Romans 8:28-30 (my paraphrase).

And we know that God and we work all things together for good, we who love God and are the called according to His purpose. For from the very beginning, God determined to conform us to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Inside that original determination, we were called, we were justified, and we were glorified in all the glory of Jesus before God right now. We have never lived anywhere else.

We are the image of Jesus Christ revealed to all creation; we stand fully in the glory of Jesus before God in all ways right now, and we and God together cause all things to pass from evil to good, from death into life.

The Primary Terms of the Covenant:

One – We KNOW the love of God; God fills us with All the Fulness of Himself.

Two – We drink of all that is Christ; the Holy Spirit flows out of us as rivers of living water.

Three – We carry the Blood upon our hearts, the throne of God, we speak all that Christ our life is through us, and we abandon all former “sense of self” with all joy into the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ living as us in this world; all that speaks against the Word God speaks falls into silence and submission before Him.

The Central Challenge against the Covenant:

First by the serpent – “Did God really say that?”

Second by that body of people who exalt the law, the tree of knowledge, pretending by human performance to look like God, to be “gods” – “Come let us kill Him that the inheritance may be ours.”

The Lie against the Covenant:

“Do what God says,” and then you can be “like god,” with no need for God Himself in Person filling you full as your very and only life – and you can subdue the earth, get your own flesh underfoot, by your own smarts and ability without the need for rivers of living water to flow out of your belly.”

The Voice of that Lie:

“God, I hate the way You made me; if that be sin, then curse me.”

The Voice that Conquers the Lie:

Jesus, as He arises from Gethsemane: “Father, I will drink Your Cup – Oh, the Joy You have set before Me.”

Jesus, in the last moments of the Cross: “Here am I. I and the children whom You have given Me.”

The Path by which We Are Led to Conquer the Lie:

First – I AM already and fully crucified with Christ, but I am still alive – alive unto God, only it's not me, it's Christ, only it is me, the me brand-new alive unto God. And the life I live in this present body of flesh, flesh of God's flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who fills my heart full. Just as Jesus is IN the Father, so I am in Him and He is in me, every part of me in Him and Him in every part of me.

Second – I enter with all the daring boldness of God's heart filling mine right into the Holiest Place in heaven, the very throne of God, with my heart, the Mercy Seat, sprinkled always with Blood, and with my body, flesh of His flesh, washed with pure water. I have the right to be just like Jesus; I have the right to set all creation free.

Third – I declare with all confident boasting that I am just like Jesus before God right now. I partake of all that is Christ as my confidence stays high all the way through. I give thanks for all things, expecting God always to arise in me, carrying me on high, and I in Him. I exult boastfully in the full and final victory of Christ in me, though I see it not and though I remain forever in the perfect weakness God made me to be.  God ALWAYS leads me in triumph.

Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Look at me, God. I belong to You.
Let every word You speak be fulfilled in me
in all that You mean and forever.

The Proving of the Covenant:

– And the Glory of the Lord filled the House of God.

– Declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead; death is swallowed up in victory.

– All creation is set free into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

– The Glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the sea.

The Everlasting Treasure of the Covenant:

I have found Me a Man after My own heart.

The Eternal Essence of the Covenant:

God in Person revealed through human flesh, you and me together, and flowing out of our bellies across the universe as rivers of living water. God manifest in the flesh.

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If you would look back at letter one of this series, “The Covenant,” you would see that the proving of “my experiment” and the proving of the Covenant are the same.

And so you see, the “Most Important Verses” in the Bible are, in fact, the very terms of the Covenant – and that is as it must be.

We could add many addenda to the Covenant, things God does say, but to add much more here is to lessen the power and effectiveness of the central issues of God and man, of creation and eternity.

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All good things must come to an end, and so I must close out what has been the most life-changing (for me anyway) series I have written yet.

The concern over the Mayan Calendar was much more widespread than I had realized. All across the world people were preparing. My only interest was to understand the basic facts behind it, otherwise I paid it no mind. The purpose of setting “dates” is to make money. It's a great scam because nothing ever happens as it is “supposed to” which means the scammers get to write another scenario and make more money as soon as everyone forgets.

Everyone has their eyes in the wrong place.

Everyone is convinced that nothing happened on December 21, 2012. We would be wrong to believe that.

When Mary said, “Behold I am the handmaiden of the Lord, let it be to me according to Your word,” she altered the universe; the former age came crashing into ruin. No one knew; she hardly knew. But growing inside of her was the new age that would transform everything.

And so it is today. No one knows that the age of human folly has ended. No one knows that the new age has begun. No one knows that the world is finished and that the Kingdom is rising upon the earth. They are all looking in the wrong place.

On December 21, 2012, I wrote the majority of “The Pillar of Fire,” completing it the next morning. I didn't plan to write it on that date; that's just the morning that I was filled with the fire of that word. Yet that picture of the Pillar of Fire has changed me as much as the writing of “Filled with All Fulness” at the end of the Kingdom Rising series changed me.

In and of myself I am not anything. But I am not in and of myself. The Creator of heaven and earth fills me with all of His fulness and by Him the world HAS ended and by Him the Kingdom arises, swallowing up all things into Love.

For this concluding letter, I went through the entire series of the Covenant, listening to the audios and writing down those things that needed to be repeated in the final wrap-up. Rather than attempting something “brilliant,” I will simply write out those notes as they came through the series – in slightly expanded form.

One – the groaning travail of the creation, the hopes and fears of all are pinned on one thing alone, the fulfillment of this Covenant in all of its terms through you and me and others across this earth of like precious faith.

Two – by the Covenant, both God and us obtain all things that we desire. All things. God desires to be known, to be seen and touched and handled; we desire glory and adventure and utter HOME.

Three – This is a bloody, bloody Covenant, written in Blood, pressed through by Blood, seated upon Blood. By Blood, the Cup became Joy, by Blood, we stand fully in the light, by Blood, all things are translated out of the old and into the New.

Four – This third place of knowing God is the Holiest Place in the universe. No one can see what is found in this place, not as it really is, except they pass through the veil of Jesus' flesh. Except they eat of His flesh, allowing Jesus to be their flesh, allowing Jesus to become them, carrying them all the way through. Then, having entered in, we now, for the first time, see all things as they really are.

Five – the core point of the Covenant is that we shall be just like Jesus – bringing many sons to glory.

Six – from 3 AM at the beginning of Gethsemane to 3 PM, when Jesus released Himself from His body upon the cross, twelve hours of darkness, God walked between the bloody pieces of the Covenant, God as He really is, in Core, in Being, in Nature, God ripped open for all to see – the Bond of the Covenant. This Bond, this Covenant, is the most powerful thing in the Universe. This is not something God “did.” This is the only God; know Him.

Seven – glory is the end result of the Covenant for man. Glory is what we want.

Eight – we walk as Jesus walked, in the way of triumph, giving thanks for all things, expecting God to arise every moment. We draw all things into love upon the Mercy Seat, upon Blood, KNOWING that the God who fills us full is always arising on High as a Pillar of Fire, carrying all things into newness of life, carrying all things into Love.

Nine – Christ is revealed in our flesh.

Ten – the Word made flesh is what it's all about.

Eleven – the Inheritance and the contest over the Word God speaks, the conflict between the two trees, is central to the fulfillment of the Covenant. God requires a second witness of Christ, a second tearing open for all to see.

Twelve – the Covenant fulfilled is God in Person revealed in human flesh and flowing out of our bellies across the earth as rivers of living water.

Thirteen – God comes in Person to be Himself our insides and our outsides.

Fourteen – the turning of the Covenant was the moment Jesus rose to his feet the third time in Gethsemane and the Cup turned into Joy.

Fifteen – there is only One death, we cast ourselves into that One death with all abandon, only to discover that there is no death, only an everlasting arising into Life. God arises, and we arise in Him carrying all creation inside the God who fills us full.

Now – in my initial articles on Gethsemane, I presented the reality that, although we signed the Covenant initially in the waters of baptism, in truth, we have not yet fully signed the Blood Covenant with God. Yet by the end of this volume, I am speaking as if, yes, we have fully signed that Covenant and that it is sealed forever in us. You may well have the question, “But Daniel, just how, exactly, do we accomplish that final, real, forever signing of the Blood Covenant with God?” You may think that I did not spell it out in this book.

But that's just it. That final signing of the Covenant is a transaction hammered out between you and God, privately and personally.

Yet you will find the final signing of the Covenant in the last part of the letter “God of the Cup.” You will find it in the steps of Abraham ascending Mt. Moriah with Isaac at his side. You will find it in Jesus rising to His feet in Gethsemane, the bitter Cup turning into Joy. You will find it in the Battering of Desire as the Acacia Wood of the Ark is formed in the desert places, as David weeps alone in the caves. You will find it there, upon the Mercy Seat. You will find it in Blood.

You will find it when God teaches you to cry.

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I have found Me a Man after My own Heart.

God Manifest in the Flesh.

Look at me, God. I belong to You.
Let every word You speak be fulfilled in me
in all that You mean and forever.

 

Beginning of Covenant Series

The Covenant Series P1 : The Covenant by Daniel Yordy

Saints.....Truth is cyclic. Rob Rufus uses the picture of a spiral staircase. So we go round all the same aspects of truth from generation to generation, except the revelation expands and rises, from glory to glory.

I'm a 1970s convert. In the 70s God rigged us up with some "Covenant men". The Fort Lauderdale crowd, and in particular in my case, Don Basham, Derek Prince and Ern Baxter. Ern's Thursday night message at Capel Bible Week in 1976 was on Covenant Love and used David and Jonathan as an illustration....well it blew me away...and was just building :

• on the experience of being with the Fisherfolk when they came to Dr Challenors Grammar School in Amersham, fresh over from Houston Texas,

• on experiences with "my life joints", Olive Dover, Ron and Pam Knight, us at school. It wasn't theory. I had tasted this Psalm 133 business!!!

• In the 80s, Kenneth Copeland was used to expound from his Cherokee background what Covenant was.

But, I must admit, I've been slightly panicked by the lack of teaching on this area in the last 20 years....until Daniel Yordy and Rich Novek, who both speak this language. You may also like to read Lance Lambert's last book, as he relates the story of Jacob to Israel as a nation and to the rest of the world, corporately and individually.
From micro to macro the material world is in covenant. By learning the ways of God....all we are doing is synching up to this same world, the world that recognises the Cross in the heart of God. See Alan Parker's book on Jacob Boehme who caught this one 500 years ago.


So with all joy I present a cycle of articles that may change how you think forever. All Daniel's books are on Amazon here.
This article originates here, is able to be downloaded as a PDF, and able to be heard as audio also. I recommend listening and reading!!!



You will find all adjoining posts listed in the lefthand index. Where there is a gap I have included a next button for your convenience.
The New Covenant Fulfilled


Part One  The Covenant

Our Path Home - © Daniel Yordy 2012                                                             

I am conducting an experiment. My decision to conduct this experiment is full and final. I made this decision progressively over the course of thirty-five years; however, in the fall of 2006, over five years ago, I made the final conclusion of that decision. This decision is a willful and personal decision.
My decision is fixed and irrevocable; if I am wrong, then I lose everything.
People imagine that they should attempt in some way or another to move me from that decision; I really do not understand why they think to try that.
My Experiment: 1. I take into myself ALL that God says in the New Testament. ALL. When I say, "the New Testament," I mean the words on the page from Matthew 1:1 to Revelation 22:21
2. I exclude EVERYTHING that God does not say in the New Testament. EVERYTHING. (The Old Testament contains the New AS it is read BY the New; but the New is destroyed IF it is read BY the Old.)
3. I take into myself ALL that God says in the New Testament in TEN specific ways. Each of these ten things comes BY what God actually says at the core and center of the New Testament.

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The Ten Steps of My Experiment: 1. I take into myself what God says, exactly as He says it in the context without any reference to human ideas or traditions that alter what God says. I understand that occasionally, though not often, the Greek words are mistranslated or misconstrued - in those cases I accept the Greek as being what God says, not the English mistranslation.
2. I take into myself all that God says even if I "imagine" that something God says in one place contradicts what God says in another place. I never place my human "intelligence" or lack thereof above the Word God speaks.
3. I take into myself all that God says in the New Testament by the Holy Spirit; that is, through the immediate presence of the Holy Spirit such that, as the words come off the page, they come through the person of the Holy Spirit and thus come into me as Spirit and as Life - AND by the immediate miraculous power of the Holy Spirit enabling me to BELIEVE that what God says is true. I know that I CANNOT believe that what God says is true except by an immediate miracle of the Holy Spirit.
4. I take into myself all that God says as the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word God is always speaking, made PERSONAL in me. Thus every word in the New Testament is personal, Christ Jesus my life, and alive in me.
5. Since I take into myself all the God speaks AS the person of the Lord Jesus Christ inside of me, I take every word AS God Himself fulfilling ALL that He Himself speaks - in me and through me. I take every Word into myself as a human being created to contain all the fullness of God, but without any ability in me to do or to fulfill any of it. Yet I expect that God, through Christ my life, fulfills every word in me and causes me at all times both to will and to do His will (as He says).
6. I take into myself all that God says as being NOW without limitation or restriction or boundary of any kind - except those very few times where God Himself gives some limitation directly in the context. (I.E. the "lake of fire," whatever that symbol represents, is clearly LIMITED in the context to a future age and is thus either non-existent or irrelevant for anyone in the present age.)
7. I accept fully all that God says in the New Testament concerning His use of symbols and metaphors and I understand all such symbols and metaphors entirely by what God Himself says and by the immediate application and power of the Holy Spirit.
8. I speak everything God speaks in the New Testament. I speak it as Christ fulfilled personally in me without limitation of any kind. If what I see with my present eyesight seems to contradict what I speak, I speak what God says and not what my eyes "see." I call those things that "be not" as though they are.
9. I ask God, specifically, to fulfill every Word He speaks in me. Then, in asking, I believe that I have ALREADY received ALL that I ask. I expect in all ways and at all times that God fulfills ALL that He says in me.
10. I engage directly with God, He in me and I in Him, in a mutual relationship of respect and honor, that EVERY Word that He speaks be fulfilled THROUGH me, personally, into this life, into this age, and upon this earth.
Now, having read through these ten points, let's refer back to #2 above.
2. I EXCLUDE EVERYTHING that God does not say in or by the New Testament.
(Understand that studying "facts" in this world is in a separate category. I do not "believe" any facts of this present age; I study them only and view them entirely out from what God Himself actually says.)
Notice, first, that every one of the ten steps given above is something "I do." That is the structure of the experiment. These are the process steps I undergo in the "lab." Equal in importance to the specific steps of my experiment, however, is the THEORY behind the experiment.
What theory do I hold; that is, what, exactly do I expect to PROVE out from following, as best I can, the specific steps of this experiment?
Here is my theory and the PROOF I hope to see:
The Theory and Proof of My Experiment: If I believe all that God speaks as He speaks it by the power of the Holy Spirit AS Christ personally in me without limitation, if I speak it out loud, asking God to fulfill all that He speaks in me and through me AS Christ my life - THAT:

God Himself WILL DO ALL that He says
in ALL fullness and without limitation IN me now
and THROUGH me into this present world.

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Now, I readily admit that is a very tall order - the idea that God would actually do what He says through someone who believes with all confidence and rejoicing that what He says is true!
When I began this experiment, I was told by a dear Christian sister, a friend of mine over many years, that it will not work. That is, my following the steps of this experiment will not result in God doing all that He speaks in fullness in and through me.
More than that, a number of people have expressed in one way or another that I am off my rocker in even considering such an experiment. Beyond that, others attempt to argue at me that I MUST include things God does not say because those things are, after all, so spiritual and "deep." A larger negative response comes from those who INSIST that I have no business at all believing or, worse yet, speaking this or that word God says in the New Testament because they have discovered why that particular word is decidedly NOT God speaking. (Understand that there are a few verses that I do not and cannot understand - but those things are relatively few and quite minor. I am so enthralled by the BIG things God says that minor things that no one can understand simply do not matter.)
The largest negative response, I'm sure, is simply laughing, walking away, and utterly ignoring this foolish, foolish man.
So - five + years is a decent amount of time! What are the initial results of my experiment, an experiment that is by no means over and will not be over until my body is swallowed up in Resurrection Life - what are the present results?
Present Results of My Experiment: 
1. I find that all the emotional turmoil of the autistic neurological disability that I bear, turmoil I have known constantly since age 9, turmoil that is first a physical condition of the nervous system, but that also has been worked on by spirits of torment - has all leveled out into the peace of the immediate knowledge of God filling me in all goodness - leveled out in a way I have never ever known. I cannot say that my nerves are fully healed, nor other elements in my body; nevertheless the settledness I know now, a settledness that continues day after day in spite of momentary and outward fluctuations, this continuing I have never before known.
2. I have moments, now and then, but growing in power and intensity, where I suddenly see by my real eyes, the eyes of my spirit, to my overwhelming amazement, that what God actually says is actually true! This is a phenomenon I have never before known in all my years of walking with God in the experience and demonstration of His power.
3. (This one is first in importance.) I have come to experience, continually, a heart-to-heart intimate communion, not only with the Lord Jesus Christ in person, but with the Father Himself, an intimate communion of His Person inside of my person, His consciousness inside of mine, that answers all the longing of my heart for 50 years, that answers that longing so fully, so completely, that I would be more than happy to be "wrong" in my experiment just to continue enjoying this precious, precious communion.
4. My certainty concerning the enveloping reality of the Holy Spirit has increased significantly, my certainty of His goodness and favor attending my way, His provision always coming just as I need, His love abounding in my heart, His life and joy flowing out from me as mighty rivers of living water, this certainty of the phenomena of God with me (what the person of the Holy Spirit is) has increased beyond what I have ever before known.
5. My understanding of all that God says, that it all makes sense, that it ALL fits so perfectly and logically together, grows and grows. God makes sense to me, in ALL that He says in the New Testament, above and beyond what I have ever known in the past.
6. Number six is different from the other initial results. The more I speak all that God speaks as He speaks it, the more I quickly recognize when other Christians say things God does not say. I recognize those things immediately, and instantly feel sick in my stomach when I read or hear them. Something in my gut tells me that it's just not a good idea for any Christian at any time to say things that are NOT, or that oppose, what God says. (Writing things is identical in the spirit to saying them with one's voice box.)
7. And number seven is this, the boldness and certainty, the clarity and power, by which I move forward in the continuation of this experiment is far greater than any "daring" I held in my heart as I began it five years ago.
NOW - is the theory of my experiment PROVEN in any way by these seven points?
NO!  No it is not.
There is only one final PROOF of my experiment - since it is, in fact, ruled by ALL that God says in the New Testament. And understand, God Himself has commanded us to prove Him true. This PROOF has four parts, two concerning me, one inward and one outward, and two concerning this planet - Earth, one negative and one positive.
Here are the necessary PROOFS that my experiment is a success.
Required Proofs of My Experiment: 
1. I stand upon this earth, together with all who love His appearing, as the revelation of Jesus Christ as confirmed by the Father.
2. My physical body is swallowed up in the resurrection life of the body of Jesus, immortal and incorruptible, with no knowledge of any shadow of sin or death - forever.
3. The entirety of the curse, the rule of wicked men, and all demon spirits are removed utterly from this planet and from all the experience of mankind.
4. Rivers of living water flow out of me AS the very glory of God covering this earth and bringing all the healing life of God into every place.

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Now, first, there is not an ounce of self-exaltation in any of this expectation, but simply the quiet faith of a man who believes in Jesus and wants to be with Him more than life itself, expecting what God says in the New Testament.
Second, it is not hard to see that this experiment of mine, if it should actually succeed, will overturn everything else. It is apparent that the vested interest of billions of persons, both human and angelic, including millions upon millions of Christians in their present state, requires that I be wrong, that I be silenced, and that my experiment fail utterly.
Third, it is also not hard to see that this experiment, should it succeed, must be followed by every created being - following not me, but Christ, all the way into the Father.
What a novel idea!! That what God actually says in the New Testament is actually true and that God would actually do all that He says in and through a simple-hearted people, you and me, who actually believe in all confident rejoicing that He does what He says through them!
Why would anyone believe such a preposterous thing? (I speak facetiously.)
Well, hey. Everyone is gambling; everyone is experimenting on their own personal and willful decision to follow some form of truth or reality as they perceive it. Why on earth should anyone fault me because I do the same as they? And why should any Christian be bothered by this personal and final decision of mine?
You might say, "Well, Yordy, you can't possibly claim that you are following all the steps in your 'experiment' perfectly." And I certainly do not make such a claim; I don't need to. Look back at the underlying premise of all my claims. The underlying premise is simply that Christ Jesus is my life and that He fulfills ALL that God speaks inside of me, including every element of the "believing" part of it. All I do is agree with Him in joy - when I remember to, which is more often now than at any time in the past. And when I forget? I give thanks with all joy for my silliness and continue on in full confidence that Jesus does all things well.
I now want to come back to Result #6: the instant recognition when another Christian says or writes something God does not say or clearly misconstrues something God does say because they do not believe all that He says, and the sickness I feel in my stomach when I recognize such words.
God sends difficult things my way, partly because I always reach for Him inside those things. When I do that, He shows me things of Himself and of His Word I have never seen before.
Over the last couple of weeks, God has taken me through what outwardly were minor challenges, yet because of their nature, these challenges caused me to look at the root of my faith in God and my relationship with Him. Out of that challenge, God opened our shared heart for me to see the present need to spell out, as clearly and as specifically as I can, our Covenant with one another.
The Covenant is everything.
Some series that I write are spelled out as specific teachings, building one thing on top of another. Other series I write are more of a following the wind wherever it blows. Others may be a mixture of the two. This series, The New Covenant, I intend to be as specific, line upon line, as the Lord and I together can make it. God gave the arguments of the Covenant spelled out in Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews, through a mind, Paul's, of a much higher IQ than mine might be. Those arguments are built through sure logic, line upon line. I will attempt to apply my limited abilities in the same direction, bringing the strength and specificity of the Covenant into the present hour.
Let's start with the initial speaking of God.
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. Genesis 1:3
First is God. Paul said, "There is one God, the Father." John said that Jesus Christ is both the beginning of the creation of God and the Word spoken in the beginning. Thus, "Let there be light," is the Son of God. Finally, "and there was light" is the Spirit of God, that is the phenomena of God in the heavenly realms.
Now, look at these two words, "Said, 'Let'" Those two words are the Covenant, they are the first part of the always speaking of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Always Speaking of God begins with the action of the Father, first, and the permission of the creation, faith, second. That is the Covenant.
Covenant is the first part of Christ. God exalts Christ, the Word He speaks, above every other part of Himself.
God does not lie. God is limited and bound - by the Word that He speaks. His Word is more important to God than any other part of His person or being.
All those who attempt to relate with God separate from ALL the Word that He speaks through the Covenant dishonor Him in a way that sends a tremor of horror all through me. I do not know anything about that tremor of horror beyond this: it's just not a good idea. It is not what anyone wants to be doing.
No Covenant means no Christ. The Word begins with Covenant.  
The Covenant begins with Blood. It is a Blood Covenant.
Now, I take a very broad view of my Savior and His Salvation. He carries inside Himself all who belong to Him, wherever they might find themselves to be right now, He knows exactly what He is doing with each, and He does all things well. I continue fully confident that He speaks to each, that He reveals Himself to each inside whatever confinements and limitations they presently stumble through. His mercy, by His shed blood, covers everything; His grace sustains all. Even in the midst of horrors, He shows Himself kind, opening blind eyes to see Him alone out of hearts that once raged against Him.
This I believe about my Savior absolutely - and YET! I find that there is more than one way in God of seeing anything. Seeing the same thing from an entirely different angle does not in any way remove the truth found in the other way of seeing. It is perspective, not truth, that changes.
Over the last couple of weeks, I was hit with two completely opposing ways of approaching "God," two ways that I myself do not know - and have never really known.
The first was a cry that Christianity in this critical hour is being destroyed by this whole modern nonsense about "experiencing" God by the "Spirit." The only hope for the church and through the church for the world is if we rush back to the clear logic of "word only." What was not acknowledged by those crying for "word only" was that they really mean, "Augustine," and not the New Testament, which is, in fact, with the Old Testament as well, filled with more Spirit experience inside the human story than any other book on the planet, a minor fact they conveniently overlook.
The second was a cry that Christianity in this critical hour must abandon the limitations and confinements of the words on the pages of the New Testament or this individual, Jesus, and follow the "God within" into the exuberance of a "spirit only" gospel. What was not acknowledged by those crying for "spirit only" was that they really mean whatever imaginative human fancy rocks your boat. It is clear that they want no "words" from a personal God, and especially, no need for any messy "blood."
As this second cry hit against me, it seemed as if the ground on either side of me - and those walking with me, dropped away and I saw myself standing on a knife's edge. I saw all the ages of Desire standing on a knife's edge. Suddenly, the Way that leads to Life became very, very narrow.
On the one side of that knife's edge are the murky swamps of "word only," filled with millions of precious saints, all beloved of the Lord, all brethren with us, yet caught in that which they cannot escape, save by one means alone.
On the other side of that knife's edge are the murky swamps of "spirit only," filled with thousands of our precious brethren, many who came out of the "word only" swamps, yet now they leap headlong into the "spirit only" murkiness on the other side, as much caught in that which they cannot escape as the others, save by one means alone.
All creation labors in the agony of travail right now, groaning to find and to know one thing alone. All those who died in Christ are leaning forward in their seats in the heavens in breathless anticipation, right now, all their hopes and desires pinned on one thing alone. All the bowels and yearning of God Almighty are poured out upon one thing alone right now. All of our brethren, caught now in the final hour of trial, floundering in whatever swamp they have chosen, are utterly dependent on one thing alone.
That one thing is the fulfillment of the Covenant.
This is the great story of God. This is the climax; the whole point of everything. Everything that is gone before is for this one moment. Everything that is to be comes out of this one moment. If there is no possibility of utter loss, there is no story. God is more reckless in His faith in His Word than we comprehend.
The fulfillment of the Covenant stands upon a knife's edge.
I care nothing, in the present moment (in an outward sense), for those who do not want to know the Covenant. They belong to Jesus, not me. I care only, rather, for myself and those of like precious faith, that we would know that Covenant, not "about" it, but that we would know the Covenant in all fullness in all fulfillment. Out from the fulfillment of the Covenant alone proceeds the love and help of God that will alone set all our brethren free.
To that Covenant and to its fulfillment I commit my life utterly and without reservation. From before the foundations of the ages, God seized me in His determination for this very thing, for this very hour, to reveal Christ in me.
The Way home, the ONLY Way home, is 100% Word and 100% Spirit all the time and forever.
The moment people attempt to separate the Spirit from the Word, He vanishes and another spirit takes His place. The moment people attempt to separate the Word from the Spirit, Jesus is no longer in their hand, and another takes His place.
Paul, all through the AD 50's and 60's, was attacked by "word-only" Christians. Everything he wrote came out of the travail of Christ inside of Him to separate the precious saints whom he loved from the legalism of word-only. John, all through the AD 80's and 90's was attacked by "spirit-only" Christians. Everything he wrote came out of the travail of Christ inside of him to separate the precious saints whom he loved from the gnosticism of spirit-only.
John stated in no uncertain terms that any "christ" that was spirit-only, separated from the flesh of humanity, was anti-Christ. Paul was a bit more crude; he suggested that we would all be better off if the pushers of "word-only" would just castrate themselves and be done with it.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, His Gospel and Covenant, comes to us primarily through these two men, and through the strength of their hearts in doing battle against the word-only and the spirit-only mutterers of demonic "wisdom" that seem to fill the ranks of Christian ministry then and now.
I signed a Covenant with God and He signed a Covenant with me. That Covenant is binding in all ways upon both of us. I signed the Covenant with God because I wanted something from God only He could provide. God signed the Covenant with me because He wanted something from me only I could provide.
The something I wanted from God was Himself in all fullness filling all of me. The something God wanted from me was myself in utter abandon given to Him that He might show Himself through me to every reach of His creation.
[As you know, I do not say, "I," to separate myself in any way from you or you from me, but to put into the boldest terms possible the faith that must come from each of our hearts. All that we are, we are together, as one body of Christ, one communion of saints, forever.]
Yet we in God and God in us, we will do exploits. Eternity cannot contain the mighty things we will know, God and us, inside this Covenant, this arrangement by which God and us both obtain all things we Desire.
The Covenant is forever.
I do not yet see the specific order by which we must explore the Covenant. I do know that we must begin with something I have already written, but not included as a Christ Our Life letter. We will begin where Paul begins, in the book of Galatians and the contrast he shows between the two covenants, between the Old and the New.
We must know the legal nature of God and how He grounds everything that He does and will do utterly in legal law. And by legal law, I do not mean the law of sin and death given by Moses, which law Moses first shattered upon the mountain-side, but rather the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. For you see, the Covenant also REQUIRES the continual spontaneous operation of Spirit, for God is never Word without being, fully, Spirit, and He is never Spirit without being, fully, Word.
The Covenant is certain and sure, established in all certainty by both the Word that God speaks and by the Oath of His mouth and fulfilled in the bathing, in the immersion of the Holy Spirit.
We must know how the Covenant is written, yet more than written, forged, through the passage of Atonement, starting with Jesus' prayer in John 17 and ending in His ascension on High - and centered in and drenched absolutely by Blood.
This is a bloody, bloody Covenant. 
We must know the specific terms of the Covenant, the fine-letter print that is binding on God and on us.
And finally, we must know just exactly how the Covenant is fulfilled in all fullness in our lives right here upon this earth.
The fulfillment of the Covenant is what all things are all about. Yet, by the ordination of God, that Covenant is fulfilled only upon a knife's edge and only at one pin-point of time and human reality.
There is no question in my mind that there are many alive upon the earth today who are seized by the determination of God for that moment of birthing, that "singularity." There is no question in my mind that you and I are among them.
Believe in Jesus; with all your heart, believe in Jesus.
The travail is upon us. Push, push, beloved woman of God, push!