The Absolute DANGER Of Being Alone

The last time we met and got together, we were discussing looking at the history of our spirits, but I don’t like to give titles to things. Where your spirit came from, essentially what your spirit is, the relationship of your spirit to the Lord’s spirit, the Lord’s spirit Himself, and what He is like, and we end it on a point of glory. Now then, all the fun is over with. Up till this moment, we have rejoiced. We have been glad in our redemption. We know our spirit is alive. We have access to another realm.

Now, we must face our biological problems. We’re going to look at what we are biologically presently. We are, in fact, a new species. A Christian is a new species. He is not biologically constituted the same way a lost man is. This may help you, by the way, to get off the subject just immediately when someone says, “Well, isn’t it terrible that God lets some people be lost, and some people be saved?” Shouldn’t we, as Christians, that’s one, and here’s another, but shouldn’t we care for the poor and take care of this? And aren’t we as Christians supposed to, you know, take care of the down and out and all of that? I would just like to respond to you. Do you know of any society on earth for the protection of crawdads? No, I don’t think you’ll find such a thing. Are you deeply, profoundly concerned about the octopus, the shark, the salmon? Does that really, really, really, is that a central focus in your life? Now, I know there’s concern for different species, but are you really caring about and tied up and involved with the sparrow and their needs? The Lord said, “Remember those who are in prison,” but that’s not really what He said. He said, “Your brothers who are in prison, your brothers who are in prison,” and He made it biological. If you go back and look at many of those passages, we quote to be the caring people for all the earth, you will find a biological word in there. It’s our brothers, our sisters. We are biologically kin to one another. We have a common life form between us. We have a common Father. We are biologically sisters and brothers, not physically biological, not psychologically biological, but we are in the spirit, where there is a form of life, there is a form of life in the spirit. I don’t want to use the term spirit and say Ah, yeah, spirit woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, kind of thing. I mean, thinking of the spirit as a form of life, then you and I have the same form of life. We are as kin as your brother and sister who came from your dad and mother, because we have the life of God within us. We are biologically construed differently from other creatures on this earth, and part of us has been alive forever. There is part of you implanted in you that is the Lord, which is eternal and goes in both directions. There’s a part of you that belongs to another sphere. You are not a simple creature. You’re very complex.

Now, unfortunately, that’s all wonderful, but unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there. Alright, I would like to…I’ve asked you to read Mary’s little book, and I’ve asked you to look at the little charts, and she uses circles to show these differences, and I enjoy them. I once had some artwork done that I felt was better, and a single brother threw it away. I walked into a meeting one night, and a single brother had sold the stand that I used to put my Bible on. No, no. He took it to the junkyard and threw it away. That’s what it was. Just hauled it off. No one knows. He has never given a logical explanation for that. Same thing with these. It showed God as a bright shining glowing gold. The angel was a lighter, whiter, glowing thing, and you could see a form within the glow. Then there was man, Adam, and there was deep within him the spirit growing, and then there was the neutrality of the soul, which you could see was white within the body, sort of an overlay-type look, and they were one right after another. Then I could remove the Adam one, and there was another one, and he was all crunched over as in a falling position about to fall, and he was man, and deep within his being that which had been bright and light was now black, and the outer portions of him were black, and the inner, the middle portion of him, was gray. Don’t always…don’t undersell the soul too much. The soul is in this universe the most precious of all things. We down the soul too much, and I’m going to do it, but I respect the enormous fact that Jesus Christ died for my soul. He died for my soul.

Then, of course, there were the other forms of life beneath them. I want us to look now for a moment at Jesus Christ. If we pictured Him in eternity past, we would in some way picture the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit all one. They are not three Gods. They are not even three persons. They are God. Just…there is God. And He has some way managed…by some immutable, incomprehensible way that He has expressed Himself in different ways. He has taken upon Himself names. It was Tertullian who invented the term “Trinity”. It’s not in the Bible. He used the persons of the Godhead to present abstract terms that none of us really understand. But anyway, there’s God, and some portion of God, and perhaps maybe all of God, for who knows, perhaps He can be in two realms at one time…the all of God was somehow condensed and put into a woman’s womb and came forth, and if we looked at Him, we would see the living Spirit deep within, gold, glowing, and we would see that utterly permeating a flawless soul. Now, the body, I really wouldn’t know how to depict. I know it was at least sinless. Maybe we should let the gold come all the way out through the body, too, but there is no question that there was a veil wrapped around it so that the glory would not come out beyond the physical skin. Or perhaps the body should be depicted as neutral. I don’t know. Don’t ask me. I’m not a wise man, but at least I can tell you with certainty, the spirit utterly permeated and controlled the soul.

As you watch the life of Jesus Christ, you see a form of life, human life, utterly in subjection to another form of life, divine life. Every moment He lived and breathed…and the test really began the day He was baptized…every moment He lived and breathed, the soul was constantly in submission to the spirit. The human was in submission to the divine. That is essentially our goal on this earth. Don’t kid yourself. You’ll never make it. Single brothers, it can’t be done. God will retain glory to Himself. Single sisters and married saints, fanatics and screwballs, theologians and all.

Now then, He would not speak with His humanity till He first heard what His Father said deep within. I do not speak anything except what I hear my Father say. That is oneness and the humanity utterly one with the divinity, and also totally in submission to it. I will never meet a human being who can say I never speak until I hear my Father speak, and I only say what my Father says. If I meet that man or woman, it will be in a mental institution, and they will be locked up in a padded cell. That cannot be done by us. But brothers and sisters, that kind of relationship should be and must be established within us. That kind of relationship is possible. Anyway, we see the ultimate ends of God’s purpose for man here. We see the human life utterly in concert with the divine life. Would you please take Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and watch that concert? Watch that submission. Watch a human life living by divine life, and watch the fellowship that goes on in the interchange between the human soul and the divine spirit, between the human life and the divine life, between humanity and divinity. That was the Christian life. That was the Christian life. That is the Christian life. There is no other Christian life. That is the Christian life.

So, I want to look at it a little bit more before we come to ourselves. You need to understand and realize that there is a speaking, living creature within you, implanted there by foreknowledge and by the redemptive process. He lives within you. Who? That Father and now that Son have both combined as one. They are one. They always were, and they are living in you. Read Romans 8. The Father and the Son, we are told, live and dwell within you. Your soul should be able to pick up on an indwelling Lord. It takes a little time and cannot be done perfectly.

Now, at this moment, I have to change the subject radically and say this is as dangerous as anything on earth can be…what I’m saying to you…and it is dangerous because of our fallen nature. Now, you take what I’ve just said, and you put that in the mind of some mentally deranged human being, and you don’t know what you may get, or unfortunately, we are not mentally deranged, we’re all just a little strange, and there are hundreds of brothers and sisters I’ve met that I hope never hear what I just said, because they will use it to who knows what ends. But God in His wisdom put a safety check in that, and it’s called the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, even there, there is danger. You take some fellow who really feels he’s got a freeway right to his spirit, and he can hear God speaking, and everybody should obey him. That immediately is a flag that shows it’s not true because I have God in me too, and God speaks to me, but then if you press that, you have anarchy. Everybody has their opinion of what God is saying within them. But let’s just take some sort of an oddball creature who starts a church, teaches something close to the truth, and pretty soon everybody’s listening to the voice of God through him. There’s something missing. You know what it is? It’s the church.

If you know me very long, you will hear me say, and I’ll say it again and again and again. Wilbert, listen to me. Mark, listen to me. Andy, listen to me. Young brothers and sisters out there, listen to me. We are never going to see the restoration of the church in its proper form until there are young men and young women who have grown up in church life, experiencing the deeper Christian life. Those people will be checked because when you are young, you will be found out and you are not going to be so stupid, so idiotic, so inane, so dumb as at the age of 40 or 50 to start a something or other and start acting like some sort of a messiah because you will have been found out at the age of 25 to have been nothing but a young dumb single brother and the edges will be off of you and humility will be in you. And you, young man and young woman, you need body life and church life when you are young to be exposed to and balanced, so that the things of the spirit can be trusted. We will not know what proper church life is until we have kids who have grown up in body life together, and they will have wisdom at 40, 50, and 60. And they’ll know a phony at 2,000 feet. These are some of the burning convictions I have when I meet a man who leaves the ministry, the professional ministry at 35 or 40, and starts something at 45 because he read a book and he’s seen something and he’s out there and he’s got 4-500 followers. Man, I go to the ticket counter and say, “Give me a one-way ticket in the opposite direction from where I am, just as far as I can go.”

You ask young brothers and sisters that I have lived with, what they have seen, what they have been through, and I think they would tell you they could not possibly put their trust in a man or a woman who had never been through what they have been through because they have learned the 10,000 times 10,000 pitfalls that lie in unchecked men and women. And I come back to the gospels. Jesus Christ did not allow some men to go out and be the foundation of the church until they had lived with Him for three and a half or four years and had been really exposed.