Christ Is ALL - Chapter 7

Living Out of The Reality of Our Being

"For in him we live, and move, and have our being...For we are also his offspring." Acts 17:28, KJV.
"For in Him we live and move and exist...For we are also His offspring." Acts 17:28, GLT.
"for in him we live, and are moved, and do exist...For we his offspring are." Acts 17:28, LO.
"for in Him we live and move and exist...For we also are His offspring." Acts 17:28, NASB.
"For in him we have life (Spirit) and motion (Soul) and existence (Body); as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring." Acts 17:28, BBE.

Who are we and what do we have? Christ! Christ is the reality our being. When we understand this, come to a realization of Christ as the nature of our existence, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

Christ is our true identity. We are no longer of "this world" even though we are in it. We have now come out from among them and become separate; and therefore, we are not subject to this world's laws of sin and death, except for those that we accept in our consciousness. None of "this world's" laws are binding upon the child of God, the offspring of Spirit, which we are. We are under Grace, the Law of the Spirit of Life.

The degree of our demonstration of this truth is based upon the degree of our awareness of this relationship. If we will abide in His Word and let His Word abide in us, not only will we see a change in our consciousness, but we will see a change in our experience. According to our faith it will be done unto us, and what we do not have a conscious awareness of we will not have faith in. Whatever TRUTH you have in consciousness that will be your demonstration. "The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened," Matthew 6:22, YLT.

It can also be said that, whatever degree of the lie is in your consciousness, that lie can very easily become your experience as well. The way to be protected from this is to know and understand that God is the only Power, and the lies of the carnal mind are not truth, not power. You must recognize this when it presents itself to your experience.

The real Being of us is Christ, the Center: the I. Christ is our INNER-MAN; He is the quality, the quantity, the cause, the life, the reality, and the substance of who we are. All that Christ is...we are in Him. It is this Christ that is to manifest as our individual Being. The invisible activity of Christ is to appear as the harmony of our Being. What is true of Him is to be seen as what is true of us.

"For God is my witness, whom I SERVE IN MY SPIRIT in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers" Romans 1:9, ASV.

Our Spirit is the REAL of us, the center of our Being--the New Self. We are to serve God out of our spirit because we are Spirit. We are a Spirit having a human experience, and it is out of our Spirit that we know God, contact God, and that God lives through us. It is out of our Spirit that a river of Life flows out to the creation. God is Spirit, we are Spirit, individualized as soul, and expressed as body. So, we must serve God out of the Real of us, otherwise it is just works of the flesh.

"For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self," Ro. 7:22, NRSV. The law of God in our inner Self is the Law of the Spirit of Life, the spiritual law of God that is true of us in Christ. We can delight in this law of Life for it is working in us, ever bringing us higher in the Truth of Christ in God. It is here that we will find the way to a life of righteousness, peace, and joy in God's Holy Spirit.

"For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man (self) perishes, yet the inward man (Self) is being renewed day by day." 2 Corinthians 4:16, MKJV. The belief that the outward self is the real man is double-mindedness, and the picture of your life will reflect who you believe to be the real you.

We believe in two self's, an outer-self that lives according to "this world," and an inner-Self that belongs to "My kingdom." Not that there is two persons, but that we have two expressions of Soul. One is the carnal mind of man, the other is the Mind of Christ. The outer-man is basically made up of a belief system in a selfhood apart from God. We have been born into the belief, and taught, that we are two persons living in a crazy mixed up world. Sometimes we do good and sometimes we do evil, and in many variations. The truth is that we are one new Self that has yet to tear down the old thinking patterns handed down to us from our ancestors. Everyday we do battle with the prince of the power of the air-waves that is bombarding us with the universal carnal mind of man. These universal beliefs are so strong that very few find their way through them. We must ascend through these lies into the truth of Being. Then we will come to the place where we can be living a seated life.

Jesus lived a seated life. He was absolute in what the Father was doing within Him. "My kingdom is not of this world" speaks of these two realms of living. Jesus was right here on earth but living in a totally different reality. He lived in "My Kingdom" as opposed to the rest of the human race that were living in "this world." We were born into "this world" and its ways of thinking; but, we are born-again into "My kingdom" way of life, and we must learn to function in it.

It is not Christ and you, but Christ in you that is the hope of glory. "If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true." John 5:31, NKJV. "If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;" -YLT. THERE IS NO TRUTH IN MY S-E-L-F! The only truth is the truth of your inner-man. If I speak of my personal self there is no Truth in that. I may give you facts about me as a person, but those facts are not the Truth of who I am in Christ. When we speak of one another we should be speaking what is true in the inward Self, not what we see in the outer self. We are to no longer know Jesus Christ after the flesh. Why? Because it is not even the earth walking Jesus that we are to identity with anymore. Christ Jesus came up out of death and the grave the Head of the New Creation. He lived His life out of His inner-most Self and that is who He has put on in its fullness. Now, through what He has done, we can enter into the Reality of our Spiritual Truth. He has "opened up a way for the imprisoned splendor to escape."

It is no longer "I" who live. The I AM is the new I in you. (Jn. 8:58).
I am the vine....Jn. 15: 1-7.
I am the light.

ALL THAT CHRIST IS WE ARE; ALL THAT THIS INNER SELFHOOD IS, WE ARE.

Duality has separated us from all that we are: But it is not really duality, as in that we are two, but it is a sense of duality based on our five physical senses, and our beliefs. The physical senses of our outer man have dictated to us what we are and we have built beliefs based on these, and what others have taught us, and that is a lie!

The carnal mind is a liar, and the father of them....the mind of flesh only minds the things of the flesh, the outward man, and that is not who, or what, you are. Christ, the new creation Self, is the Reality of you and you are to live out of that Truth. We must learn to live out of the reality of our being and that Being is Christ.

"Christ is all and in all." -Col. 3:11.

"The Body is ONE." -1 Cor. 12; Gal. 3:16 & 26-29.

"ONEness is a state of Being."

Ever since I was in the sixth grade I have loved to watch the waves come off the ocean and on to the shore. The waves that do this are called "breakers" as opposed to waves that are " a wind driven ridge or swell of water at sea." A breaker is a wave that is "a moving mass of liquid on the surface of a larger mass." Breakers make their way toward shore from a very long way out at sea. I have painted and drawn these waves several times over the years, and have only recently come to understand why:

A wave is one with the ocean, and even though it is a wave unto itself, it is still one with its Source. Its Selfhood is the ocean; and every other wave is a wave expressed individually, but they are all part of the whole. The wave is an expression of the ocean: The ocean is the wave expressed. Whatever the ocean is the wave is. The life of the wave is the life of ocean and they are not two but one; one ocean expressing and manifesting itself as waves. So are you one in Christ in God. You are that point where God has stepped down out of the invisible and become visible, as Christ Jesus was the Word made flesh.

I have had in me a desire to paint the perfect wave and have tried to do so with little success. The reason is: the ocean is God and the perfect wave is Christ; so, now instead of all the waves trying to be the perfect wave they can rest in knowing the perfect wave has made the way for them to follow. We don't have to be the perfect man, Christ Jesus is that, we just have to follow in the Way to life that He said He was. Our perfection is in Christ, but we must wake up to this truth.

We are one with God like the wave is one with the ocean. This is why Jesus taught us to TAKE NO THOUGHT (Lk. 12) about our natural lives; but rather, just do what we see the Father doing. It is our Father's good pleasure to< give us the kingdom. The wave doesn't have to take thought about its path, it just flows in union with the ocean it is absorbed in. This is truly living by Grace. Thy grace is my sufficiency.

If we are going to live, and I mean really live, out of the Reality of who we be, then we must have faith and confidence in what is true of us. Now I am not talking about blind faith, faith in faith, or faith in what we don't know; I'm talking about a faith in who God IS in us, who Christ IS in us, who we ARE in Him. A speaking of the Truth in love, knowing that "He performeth the thing that is appointed for me" -Job 23:14. Do you believe that He goes before you to make the crooked places straight? Do you? Do you believe? You believe the sun will come up tomorrow don't you? Do you have to make yourself believe this? Or, do you just have faith that the sun will rise as scheduled...without taking thought about it? I think so.

Do you believe that "The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me" -Ps. 138:8. You should! Because it is true, but you will not experience it until you do not doubt. The other kind of a wave is a wind-blown wave. It is driven this way and that way by all the seeming forces. A storm of trouble comes our way and we are driven to the brink of disaster because we don't have faith. "O you of little faith." The natural man is of little faith, but, the Inner Man is of great faith, for he knows how to speak to the storm. He calls the storm what it is...a lie. "Peace, be still," and the lie of human problems calms down to a peaceful experience.

Oh, dear brethren, if we could only see the Truth of our existence, the Reality of our Being, we would not be afraid. "Be not afraid, it is I. " We must hear this from deep within our being. There the still small Voice is speaking to us. There we must go within and enter into the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, the realm of Reality; and from that place we can live and move and have our being. We will follow the Lamb wherever He goes, and another voice we will not hear. We will not listen to the voice of the stranger, the outer man with his lusts of the flesh, the wolf of our carnal thinking. Rather, we will hear the Lamb, and the wolf will lay down with the Lamb. There, crucifixion of the self will be seen and understood, and only the New Creation will come forth. We will be living out of the reality of our being and all will be well. It is well. It is well. Can you hear?

"But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." Isaiah 43:1, KJV. "Thou art Mine" what a powerful statement. If I am His, what do I have to fear? To fear would be to sin, to miss the mark of faith. Fear is the opposite of faith. It is a belief in another power other than God. It is having other god's before Him. Thou shall have no other God before Me: Thou shall believe in no other powers other than Me. God is the One and only Power and He is in you.

Do we not know that we are complete in Him who is the Head of all powers in heaven, on the earth, and under the earth? If we will know the truth the truth we know will make us free from the law of sin and death. The way up is down and the higher we ascend into the Truth of our being the deeper we go within.

"For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority." Colossians 2:9,10, NRSV. You have come to FULLNESS in Him. Do You hear? Your fullness and your completeness is in Christ in God, and where is He to be found...within you. Seek Him where He may be found.

"Fear not, I have overcome the world." There is a Power within us that is greater than all temporal powers, greater than all human beliefs of good and evil, greater than all devils and doctrines of demons; and this Power is Christ in you, the Reality of your Being. Relationship with that I, with that Christ, who IS our life, is the key.

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Christ Is ALL