Christ Is ALL - Chapter 1

The Quest

Father, teach us to pray Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven so in earth. Father, I pray that Thy realm of Consciousness within me is manifest, that That which is Thine come forth into expression.

Father, I do not know what I have need of, I only know what the outward experience is telling me. But You know all things and You know what I need. So, I forget my personal self and seek only Thy grace to be made manifest in my life, Thy purpose, Thy will. All that Thou has is mine, and I seek only that which is for Thy glory to be made manifest in my life. For I have died and my life is now hid with Christ in God. It is no longer I who am living, it is the Christ within me. I do not know anything as I ought to know...Thou knowest. Reveal Thyself as my Self that I may live in Thy sight.

I was physically born in 1960, but I was spiritually born--when I began my spiritual journey--into Christ almost 30 years ago; but I entered a new phase of that journey in January of 2000. When I began the Quest that was set before me I began to take notes of those inspirations that quickened within me. Many scriptures opened up to me in a new light, and many new scriptures became a part of my consciousness. I will begin this writing with what was unfolded to me and the sequence thereof, in the hope that it might prove useful in your Quest to attain the fullness of Christ. I do not think that I have yet attained, but one thing I do, I press on toward the High Calling that we have in Christ.

At the time that this new intensity to enter into a deeper understanding of the Mystery of Christ began to unfold in me, I became aware of the importance of meditation. Since this time meditation has become a very important part of my Quest for Christ's fullness. I realize that I have always had meditation to some degree in my life, though I was mostly unconscious of it, but now it has become a conscious part of my Quest. Purposely shutting down and going within to hear what the Spirit is saying, or taking a scripture or a spiritual truth and meditating on it for greater enlightenment by the Holy Spirit is what meditation is all about.

A meditation sheet was begun so that I might keep a record of all that was being unfolded to me. There was no way I could understand all that was going on within me...I must keep a record. It was so. With this record I will attempt to put in words what I have seen by the Spirit that is within me. I do not say that I am right and you are wrong if we do not agree. Only that this is how I am seeing the things of the Spirit, and this is how it was unfolded to me. I consider myself to be continuously a student of the WORD and teachable by the Spirit. There should always be a progression upward into the Truth of Spirit.

"Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all." 1 Tim. 4:15. To see the importance of meditation one need only look to the scriptures. In the Psalms we see frequently the importance of meditating: "I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings." Psalms 77:12. "I will meditate on Your precepts, And contemplate Your ways." Psalms 119:15 (and many others). Meditation is not something regulated to the cults, or to a past ancient time, it is as much for us today as it was for mankind in any day.

Meditation has lost its form in today's Christian society, even though it has had a resurgence in the last few decades. Meditation takes on several forms: contemplative meditation and silent meditation are two of these. Contemplative meditation is to take a thought of God and seek an inner, deeper, understanding of it. Silent meditation is listening for the still small voice without any words or thoughts, and is much deeper, and harder to attain. But with practice we will get there. I would encourage all who read these lines to practice meditation to whatever degree you understand. Please pray and consider what is being said, and do not just take my word for it. You must hear the Word for yourself, I am only relating my experience to you.

(If you have not studied the Finished Work of Christ then I would encourage all who read these lines to do so. An understanding of what happened to Jesus in His death and resurrection, and our union in Him is a MUST. Be fully grounded in the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in His death, burial, and resurrection.)

The Beginning

To begin, let us take the thought of Paul in Galatians 2:20 and seek to know the inner depth of this scripture. "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."

My personal self, the little ego that I think I am, the missing of the mark that I was, has been done away with in the work of Jesus Christ. My selfhood apart from God has been destroyed in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Living no longer am I (personal self), but living in me is Christ (my new Self, the inner man that I am in God). I can now turn within to the Christ of my being, for it is He that is living in me to will and to do His good pleasure. He goes before me to make the crooked places straight; He is behind me as my rear guard; He is around me as my wall of salvation; He is beside me as my tower of strength; He is over me as a shadow of covering; He is the Rock that I am built upon; His kingdom is within my very being. I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

Jesus Christ took the I, personal self, self-for-self, out of me in His death, and is now the I of me through His resurrection. This I, Christ, is now who I really am. Christ the I AM is who I am, so where I am, I AM is there. It is no longer I but I. And I must be about my Fathers business. If we can learn to yield to the real Self of us, instead of believing the lie of personal self, we will be lead of the Father in all our ways. If we will acknowledge Him as the Reality of us in all our ways, He, I, will direct our paths.
(Whenever I use the letter I, italicized, it is in reference to Christ as the Reality of my individual being, the Real, or the Truth of me).

I now live out my life in the understanding that what is true of Christ Jesus is true of me, no matter what the appearance is. I judge with Righteous Judgment and only hear what the Father is saying. I only see what the Father sees as true, regardless of the lie of a personal selfhood apart from God. My life is hid with Christ in God, and I must find this to be the Truth of me, even if the whole world is trying to crucify me with its lies. Let every "man, whose breath is in his nostrils," be a liar, and let God's Word be true.

Christ is now the Center, the I of my being: He is the New Self in me. He is the "I" in I am, for He has swallowed me up in Himself. Christ is the Life of my Spirit, the motion of my Soul, and the existence of my Body. In Him we live and move and have WHO WE BE.

I am One with Christ like a branch on a vine, and I am the very extension of His Life. Through Christ I have been created in the image of God, for it is in Him and by Him and through Him that all things exist. He is the beginning of the creation of God. Our beginning, and end, is in Him. Christ is all and in all.

He is in me and I am in Him, for I am joined to the Lord and One Spirit with Him. Christ is my Spirit, Christ is my Soul, Christ is my Body; anything less than that is a finite concept of the Truth of Being. Christ is all and in all: Christ is Truth, and that which doesn't line up with this Truth is a lie, and comes from the father of lies, the spirit of error, in whom there is no truth. Truth is Reality! The falsehood of finite concepts is the carnal mind, the lie of a personal selfhood apart from God that lives in "this world" of good and evil.

The kingdom of God has nothing to do with good and evil, that is an Adam--man of the dust realm--thing. The kingdom of God is LIFE, LIGHT, and it has no darkness at all...no opposites, and this kingdom is within you--a realm of consciousness within your very being. In the kingdom "all that the Father has is Mine," yet in my flesh I see no good thing--nor evil thing--I must bear witness to LIFE. I do not believe in the lie of a personal selfhood apart from God anymore. I do not believe I am a god, or that I can ascend to the prominence of the Godhead. I died and it is no longer "I"; everything that I am today I am in Christ. He is the Reality of my being, and He is Life; and that Life is flowing through me like the life of a tree flows through the trunk and into the branches. I have the Life of God in me, and I am One with that Life. Like the light of the sun that is shinning through my window, so the Life of God flows through me; I am but the pane of glass through which this Light of Christ shines through. "I am that substance of matter and Spirit through which the Invisible steps down into visibility."

It is no longer I but I, Christ in me; He is Who I am, I am who He Is...we are One. The place whereon I stand is holy ground: So, wherever I am God is. I am an individual expression of the Christ, a member of the body; One in Spirit, One in Truth, One in Life...One. My Father and I are one. Walking out of who I know. . .I AM. God is living and expressing Himself as me. I don't think that I am God, or ever will be, "of my own self I can do nothing"; but God is within me as the Reality and Truth of who and what I am. I must now come to the conscious awareness of who God is in me, and who I am in God. Then miracles will began to happen.

So that I am not misunderstood: I do not think that I (personal self) am God; I do not think that I am the Christ; I do not think that I am Divinity of any shape or form. I am nothing of my own self, I am only that which God has made me to be through His Son. The Son of God, the visible manifestation of the invisible Father, has made me to be all that He declares of me...an heir of God and a joint-heir with Christ.

I, personal self, am crucified with Christ. All that constituted a selfhood separate and apart from God has been crucified with Christ. My ego, my self-for-self nature that I was born with from the Adamic consciousness has been drawn into the Christ, and there I, self, became extinct. I was eliminated, annihilated, destroyed, through the person and work of Jesus the
Christ.

One Spirit

There is only one Christ, yet, that Christ has many members. The fullness of the Godhead dwelt in Christ Jesus, and we are individual expressions of the same Christ. Christ is the Reality of my being! Christ is Spirit, Christ is Soul, Christ is Body.

Spiritual maturity is growing up into Christ-consciousness. It is a conscious awareness of who I am in Christ. We constitute the visible expression of the Christ on earth...His Body. Christ is all!

"There cannot be Jew or Greek,
there cannot be bond or free,
there cannot be male and female,
for, all ye, are one, in Christ Jesus:
Now, if, ye, are of Christ, by consequence ye are, Abraham's seed,
according to promise, heirs." -Galatians 3:28,29, Roth.

We are all ONE in Christ...Abraham's seed...heirs.

"Now, unto Abraham, were spoken the promises----and unto his seed; ----He saith not----and unto thy seeds, as of many, but, as of one----and unto thy seed, which is Christ:" Galatians 3:16, Roth.

Of one seed is Christ!

"For, just as, the body, is one, and yet hath many members, but, all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so, also, the Christ;... Now, ye, are the body of Christ, and members severally;--" 1 Corinthians 12:12, 27, Roth.

As the body is one...so, also the Christ.

"So, we, the many, are one body in Christ, yet, severally, members one of another." Romans 12:5, Roth.

We, the many, are One.

There is only ONE and Christ is the ONE. Christ Jesus is the Head and we are the body. We are ONE in Christ: Christ is ONE in us. We constitute "the Christ." The Christ is ONE.

"And I consecrated myself for their sakes that they may be made holy by the truth. "I am not praying only for these men but for all those who will believe in me through their message, that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, live in me and I live in you, I am asking that they may live in us, and that the world may believe that you did send me. I have given them the honour that you gave me, that they may be one, as we are one-- I in them and you in me, that they may GROW COMPLETE INTO ONE, so that the world may realize that you sent me and have loved them as you loved me." -John 17:19-23, Phil.

"But, he that joineth himself unto the Lord, is, one Spirit." -1 Corinthians 6:17, Roth.

"And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:" (Mr. 12:29 ). There is only the one infinite Divine Consciousness, the Creative Principle of the universe--Father God--expressing and manifesting Himself as the visible creation. "Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me. "Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other." -Isaiah 45:21,22, NKJV. "I" is the LORD, and we must look to "Me" and be saved. The "Me" and the "I" is Christ. Christ Jesus was the manifestation of the God and Savior who has declared Himself all through the Bible. And this Great God and Savior is within us as the Reality of our Being. "...'Surely God is in you, And there is no other; There is no other God.'" -Isaiah 45:14. There is no other selfhood apart from God. A relationship of ONEness is our true condition.

I am so perfectly in union with God that we are ONE SPIRIT. We are in Christ, Christ is in us, the Father is in Christ ; all perfected into One. "I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one." -John 17:23. If anyone is in Christ he is a New Creation...the old has ceased to exist.

The New Creation Man is not the personal I that thinks he is something special, the little ego that thinks he is a big shot; the little personal self that thinks he is God. Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God, only that which is of Spirit can enter the kingdom. Only your Spirit-man, your Real man can enter the kingdom. "The natural man receives NOT the things of the Spirit of God...nor can he know them." The New Creation is the Christ-man; the New-man, the True-man--the inward Man of Spirit.

If you have been born again you have had a spiritual birth. That spiritual birth has birthed in you what is true of you in Spirit, no matter what the flesh screams. The mind of the flesh is a liar, and the father of them. The Mind of Christ is the Truth, and that Truth will set you free from the limitation of your human hood. Let the flesh scream, let the soul roar, they are not what is true of you. It is the Spirit that gives life, the outer lie will fade away as the inner Truth is realized. "Jesus answered him, 'Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above... Jesus answered, 'Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit... 'What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 'The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.'" -John 3:3, 5,6,8. You are born of Spirit, so you must look to Spirit for your Life; for your true identity.

"A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven." -John 3:27. The New Man is Spirit and he can only receive that which is of Spirit. You can't put New Wine into an old wineskin: The invisible truth of Spirit will not be expressed in the old Adamic consciousness. Quit looking for your blessing to come through man, for if you do, one day it will be good and another day it will be evil. That is the consciousness in which man lives. The New Man lives out of his Christ-consciousness, and this comes through the renewing of the mind to spiritual truth.

"Acknowledge every good thing that is in you in Christ." -Philemon 6.

"Let the meditation of my soul be upon you O Lord." -MC.

"He performeth the thing that is appointed for me" -Job 23:14.

"The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me" -Ps. 138:8.

"Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or wither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." -Ps. 139:7,8.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me" -Ps. 23:4.

"Fear not: for I have redeemed the, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." -Isa. 43:1.

"I have overcome the world." -Jn. 16:33.

"I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me" -Jn. 14:10a.

"The Father who dwells in Me does the works." -Jn. 14:10d.

"I am in the Father and the Father is in Me" -Jn. 14:11.

"Because I live, you will live also." -Jn. 14:19.

" I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." -Jn. 14:20.

ALL ONE!

ONENESS WITH GOD CONSTITUTES ONENESS WITH ALL THINGS OF GOD.

YOUR ONENESS WITH GOD CONSTITUTES YOUR ONENESS WITH THE NEW CREATION.

Our ONEness with God is the Quest that is set before us. The end of our mortal life will be when we have reached the consciousness that we and God are one, then we will be fully clothed, found not to be naked, we will have put on the Reality of Spirit and will forever be an expression of Him that created us in His image.

Sentient BEings
Christ Is ALL