Christian, This is Your Lord

As he was in glory before he ever created, He did exist, and He was glorious. We also seem to not be aware of all the things He did before He created, and He did many things. Please join me in a place where there are no angels and there is no dirt, nor earth or skies, nor heavens. Join me where there is only the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Join me in that place where all things are real, join me in that place before creation, join me before there were shadows and types and images and replicas and replications before there were symbols.

There existed in the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – gold. There existed pearl, and there existed water, and there existed food. Only it was not a shadow, nor a symbol, nor an image, nor a reflection. For the gold was Christ, and the pearl was Christ, and the water was Christ Himself, and the light was Christ, and the sun was Christ, and the moon was Christ, and He was everything. And there was the Father, and there was the Son, and the Spirit, and nothing but reality. And there was no unreality or shadows.

And they were having a wonderful time, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. What they were doing was they were having church life. There was no law, and there was no legalism. Those concepts did not exist.

There was absolute freedom. There was no grace, there was no grace. There was peace—the peace was Christ. And they fellowshipped, and the Father was the glory of the Son, and the Son was the glory of the Father, and the Spirit was the one who did the exchanging between them. And the Father adored the Son, and the Son adored the Father, and in their rich, unobstructed fellowship in the council of the will of the Godhead, the Father decided that He wanted eyes that were not His to see His Son, and eyes that were not the Spirit’s to see how glorious His Son was.

And they colluded together, and they made a decision, and they did some things that you and I can’t understand. First of all, I would say they made a terrible and frightening gamble. And having made an awesome, even terrible gamble, they worked out a plan in which that gamble was no gamble at all.

I could spend the next three days trying to explain to you what it was they did, but I cannot do that because what they did was utterly incomprehensible. But I’m going to tell you what they did. They decided that there would be portions of the Son that would be separated, I use the word very cautiously, separated from the Godhead. Except that’s not possible. For in the nature of God, everything that is God and all the riches that are God be the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. All that is in all of the Father, all that is in the all of the Son, and all that is in all of the Spirit is any part and is in any portion, no matter how small, of God.

Nonetheless, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit chose that in this glorious, bright, brilliant Son, there would be marked off in Him portions of his being that would be given great destiny, great honor, an incredible inheritance. They were marked off in Him, but nobody knew it except the Father and the Son and the Spirit. Then what did they do, Gene? They brought forth the book of life, and they did this before they created, and they took every name; they took every portion that was marked off of Christ, that was Christ, and they gave every portion a name. Gave every portion of Christ that was marked off in Christ and that was Christ, they gave a name to each part, and then, they wrote those names down because each of those portions were life, the very life of God. And they gave each one of them a name. These were wonderful, glorious, and highly honored portions of Jesus Christ, the glorious One.

The Father made a promise that if there is any separation, and in a way there can be, in a way there cannot be, but if there is any separation, these portions of Him that now have names will become His glorious inheritance. And they understood that all of those parts were separate and would be separate, but the Father and the Son and the Spirit also understood that all those separate pieces would one day come together and be one.  Yet, still separate from the Son, yet never separate from the Son, and when they had all come together, the Father would give those glorious, wonderful, chosen, honored portions back to the Son to be utterly one with Him.

And they closed the book, and it was sealed with the understanding that nothing could change the selection of those portions of Christ to have a wonderful, glorious, and highly honored destiny. They closed the book with the understanding that nothing could prevent what they had decided to do and that these glorious, wonderful, destined, and highly honored portions of His being would come back to Him. That was guaranteed in the book that nothing could prevent that, but the portions that were marked off remained in Christ. And the Father was so impressed that He poured out all of His love upon the Son. And He loved the Son before creation. And then they decided that they would create, that these honored portions might fulfill their destiny. And then, the moment to create came, but it was halted because there were several things that had to happen first.

I cannot tell you what Jesus Christ was like then, but I can tell you this: that when creation came, God put something in this universe that would let us know what Christ was like before creation. And He made sure that when He finally got around to creating, there would be one creature that we would be able to look at and know this was what His Son was like, and that was a little lamb. But that lamb is not a lamb. That lamb is a symbol and a picture of a lamb, the real Lamb, and the Father slew once and only once, never before and never again.

The Father slew His Son, and the Lamb, the real Lamb, was slain before they created. And when He was slain, He died, and when He died, all those parts of Him died, too. For they were of Him and for Him, to Him, through Him, but most of all they were in Him, and so all those honored portions died once, never before and never again. And they were slain with them, and then He rose out of death. And when He rose out of death, all the honored portions of His being and all their glory and splendor and perfection rose with them. And they rose once, never before and never again. They were resurrected from death, and death could not touch them, and death could never again touch them. And that happened before He created.