Debrecen Messages #11 – The River of Life Within: Christ as Living Water (Genesis to Revelation)

And Paul understood that this God who created, he announced in Colossians that it was Christ who created, that this Christ would have a bride. There’s something awesome taking place here that has nothing to do with Eve coming on the scene.

And when Paul quotes the next to the last verse in Genesis 2, he says, Don’t let your flesh be joined to a prostitute, because then you too become one flesh. And that is a picture of when spirit comes to spirit, and we with Christ become one. Not one spirit – One.

Now that word is incredibly deep. One. One has not got two parts. And I think sometimes when we think of becoming one with him, we think of something like this. Well, it’s not like this. You don’t have two parts to one. You got, I can’t do it. The only way I could possibly describe this is showing you a pitcher of molten gold poured into something, and another molten gold poured in together, and you just got one gold.

You don’t have two golds making one. G-O-L-D is one. And when this hour comes, they are one. We are one. One. And we have returned to a situation similar to that which is before creation, when there was only God, but now there is something added to God, but not two parts making one, but One.

I don’t know what’s out there, but I know when all this creation has dissolved, there’s going to be a One that’s more than the One who said, Let there be light. He’s still going to be one, but there’s going to be more to him than there was. For he’s like the garden, part heaven, part earth. He was only spirit then, but he has changed and become man and God, and there will be an hour when the man and God, the divinity and the humanity, are not divinity and humanity. They are One. And he will be defined as One. Just one. Not two, but one. One. Is He deity or Humanity? He’s one. And is there a girl involved? Yes. And she stands beside him? No, they have become One. And when a man and a woman mate and two flesh become one flesh, it is a high, glorious, holy symbol, if it’s marriage, of One.

I think we are seeing, as Genesis goes, the curtains close. I think we’re seeing something here of the very heart of God. Okay. Be impressed. God was looking at himself when he created Adam.

Now I’m coming up with another question. Adam, God calls all the animals together, and the birds. He says, name them. And Adam’s looking at those animals with one eye, and he’s looking down the line with the other eye. That’s a lion, that’s a tiger, that’s a parrot, that’s a canary, and that’s a pig, and that’s a dog, and that’s a cat, and on he goes, that’s a mountain lion. And all the animals are around us, and the last one comes through, probably a turtle, and a turtle comes past him, and he looks and he looks and he looks and he runs around. By now, this guy is not happy, and he’s feeling there’s something not good.

He’s alone, but he has no concept of female, even though he has seen them, because he can’t imagine female himself, and in the book The Divine Romance, he just tells God he’ll do anything to get this, he says I want my me. He’s struggling to find this term God seems to understand perfectly. God did not make man a neuter to rule the earth forever with no progenity coming from him, progenity coming from him. He made him a male with all the drive, the biological urges of a male, and Adam was living with that, and he was restless, just like every young man is restless. And I won’t call any names. It just happens.

And so, they make a little deal. And God puts Adam to sleep. What can I say to you, that when Adam laid down there on the ground, the ground out of which he came, what do you think Jesus Christ, the Eternal Son, saw when He saw that? He saw an event that had already taken place in eternity, that had not yet taken place in time. He saw himself slain. And then he opened the side of the man, and he saw the pierced side. And the man lay deathly still, and he saw Himself being hauled down from a cross, laid on the ground, dead with a gaping wound in his side. And that had already taken place in the Eternals.

And he watched that man asleep, or what is death called, the disguise of sleep, and he reaches in, and he brings out this bone that’s flesh, and he knows there’s something else in there he could bring out, he could reach in there and bring out spirit, but he brought out flesh, and he remembered that which has not yet happened, that there is something of his Spirit that is brought forth, not out of the cross but out of the tomb, that water poured out of that side as well as blood, something spiritual, something earthly.

Now you know what happened next? Let me tell you a secret. The Lord pulled that bone out of this side, and he revealed to nobody, absolutely nobody, His great mystery in picture form.

I told you that everything in Genesis 1 and 2 speaks of what His purpose is, and His purpose is revealed to the Gentiles, but a lot of things happened before creation, and God was clear about what He was doing, and He reveals the mystery hidden in God. And that mystery is very simple. I want to shout it from the rooftop sometimes. There’s a girl inside God. There was a girl inside Adam. Adam didn’t know it. The animals didn’t know it, the angels didn’t know it. Nobody knew it. There was a girl inside God, because there was a girl inside Adam.