Introduction to the Deeper Christian Life Part 1 (July 1988)

Now, if anyone ever came out of that realm into our realm, He would have to take our language and turn it in order to communicate with us what He had known there. And His experience in our language would blur. You see, you’ve never tasted real wine. Real wine is God the All. There it is. Therefore, let’s say that He who is all these things were to be sitting at a banquet and His mother said they are out of wine. He has eternity’s experience, knowing that He is reality, and that is an imitation. And He is in the eternals, and He says to His mother, “Don’t talk to me that way. My time is not yet.” Don’t look at me like that, folks. You’re supposed to catch on. They are out of wine. My time is not yet. He knew He was wine, and it wasn’t time to give Himself. You didn’t get that at all. So, His experience and our language were often bumping into one another. It’s a very bright day. The sun is shining very brightly; we have a lot of light. I am light.

Now then, would you just please grasp this one point? We’re now in God looking at God the All, and I am saying to you, dear Christian, everything that’s real is there, and everything that will ever come after that is an imitation or a symbol of that which is real, and He has a great deal of experience, and the Christian life is being lived there. Now life is there, and light is there. One of the things I want to impress on you is that there and it is this: Spirit is there, Spirit. What Spirit? The only Spirit there is, the only Spirit there ever will be. And this Spirit remains there and is never anywhere else. Now, you have to understand that I know what I just said, and I mean it, and I’m nailing it down as an absolute: Spirit is only there in God the All and never goes anywhere else. You say, “But spirit came to earth.” Don’t be too sure. Don’t be too sure. Don’t be too sure. There is where spirit is. Now then, there’s spirit there. His Spirit. What Spirit, Gene? He is, in essence, Spirit. I am, in essence, flesh. That is, in essence, some sort of plastic. This is, in essence, metal. That is, in essence, wood. God in His essence is Spirit.

Now there’s one other thing that’s there. Can you follow me? And if this is not there, you’re in big trouble. I want you to see God the Father fellowshipping with God the Son, fellowshipping with God the Spirit, fellowshipping with God the Father, fellowshipping with the Spirit with the Son, the Son with the Father, the Father with the Spirit, and the things beyond us; the Godhead is in fellowship. That’s what’s going on.

Now, is it possible for us to comprehend that if His Spirit has no measure, that every bit of God is contained in every part of God? That if we could chip off a piece of God, all of God would be in the part of God. You can’t divide Him. If you’ll read Romans, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit live in us. According to Romans 8. Read, it’s there very clearly, indwells us. Now then, can you imagine that God decided to mark off parts of His being for a special destiny? Very special destiny, selected, ordained, destined. Now, that’s from His viewpoint. Now, here I am, a little bitty creature caught down here in space, and I look back and say, “Oh, He predestined and He pre-ordained. He stands outside of my little material world and says, ‘No, I destined and I ordained.” From His viewpoint, there’s no pre-anything. He was ordained and He destined, but I like the Greek the best. He marked off a portion of Himself before He created anything. There’s something else in God, and that is part of you, that is back there. Your salvation depends on this being true. “Oh, Gene, I don’t believe that part of God is part of me.” Oh, then you don’t believe what Peter said, that you have become a partaker of the divine nature.

Friend, if His life, if His Spirit, if He is not in you, you are illegitimate. Now, He marked a portion of Himself off in eternity. One day, one non-day, as you were walking along the line of time, eternity intersected with you, and He deposited that which was marked on and put in you. What day did that happen to you? What day did that happen to you? I’m just going to stay away from you. Can you tell me? What year? No, no, no, no. The real one. March 16, 1980. Time and eternity intersected. All right.

I want you to see all this. Can you get this? Now, do you realize that that portion of that was marked off in God that was placed in you came into you with an enormous amount of past experience, incredible experience, rich, and all of God is in that small measure of His Spirit and His life that He put in you, and you read John 3. He gives His spirit without measure. Let’s say it. He gives His spirit without measure.

Now then, He is going to create, and He’s going to create for a purpose. What is His purpose? What is His reason for creating? What would provoke Him to create? I’m going to tell you something nobody’s ever told you before. And now I’m going to be the one to tell you. Are you ready? The reason that He created it is a mystery, and nobody knows. There is a mystery hidden deep in God; Ephesians 5. There is a mystery hidden deep in God. It will unfold this very morning, and you will know. You understand that there is a mystery in God.

Now then, I want to skip over to the time that He creates our realm. Now then, if God is all there is and He’s going to create, where’s He going to put creation? Where’s He going to put it? Where? That’s right. He’s going to put it within Himself. He will put it in Him. That’s no place left. It’s the only choice He’s got. Creation was in Him, to Him, through Him, and for Him. Praise the Lord. You may get a Christian vocabulary yet, saints. I trust you’ll get it based on experience.

Now, we have got problems by the multitudes trying to explain what happens here. You see, you and I are looking at everything as though we were everything. This realm is very temporary, and a part of us is very temporary. This part right here is not going to be around very long. This is the material realm, and God created it. And there was a time it wasn’t. So, it starts, and there will be a time when it won’t be. So, it ends. Now, please understand that here is God. And when He put creation, the physical creation in Himself, well, see, He only has one eye. He can only see this end, the beginning. That’s not true, is it? I don’t believe it. Now, wait a minute, God’s over here, and God’s up there, and God’s here, God’s here, and here is the material realm in Him. And it has a beginning, has an end. What’s at the very beginning? What’s at the very end? Is it later on that God is here? No. No. It’s the same time. He is here now. I’ve just solved the problem of free will and election. All He had to do was go to the end, see what happened, and then choose us over here. Isn’t that neat? Now, I don’t exactly understand that, but that’s what happened. Creation was in Him, baptized, immersed in Him. Creation was utterly in Him. Your God is free of space-time. He is outside of the space-time continuum of our material universe.

Now, here’s something I want you to understand: the material realm and the spiritual realm are not connected. Now, hold on to that because that’s not exactly true. Do you understand what our realm is made up of? It’s really made up of very little. Mass, space, and time. Now, is there an Einstein theorist in this room who can explain to us how totally tied up those are with one another? Do you not have the concept that if everything that is physical, all mass, all planets, everything that’s physical, all atoms, all molecules disappeared, that there’d be a big hole there. You have that. Einstein says that’s not true. Einstein says remove the mass, and dimension will leave with it. That’s right. Remove the mass, and all dimension leaves with it. Time will disappear, and so will space. There won’t even be nothingness. Einstein said that himself. Do not imagine that if mass were removed, there would be a great abyss of nothingness; even nothingness would disappear. You would be back to God the All. And have you got this part, that God’s Spirit is free of space and time? You got that? And have you got this now? That everything that’s caught in this little mass of creation is captured in space and time. You got that? And the two realms don’t touch. We have two realms; they don’t touch. One is free of space-time, and the other is totally tied to space-time, totally dependent upon that which is material mass. It is a material world, and God creates it. Let’s go.

Watch Him create. He creates the stars. He creates the this, the that, the other. He creates this ball and then He forms it and shapes it nicely. On the third day, He gives us herbs. The angels are astonished. Here’s something that’s alive, and you can see it. They never had a thought like that in their lives. Something that was alive that was visible; how quaint. Everything they had ever seen that was alive was invisible; they thought invisible and life came together. Spirit beings are always invisible.

Now, God made the animals of this planet, and they are totally tied here. When they die, they die. As far as I know, there are no cows in heaven. Now, there’s a possibility there’s going to be one horse. Elijah’s fiery chariot, I assume, had a horse on it. I don’t know if it did or not. Maybe one horse got in. He has made a material realm that has a beginning and an end, a top, a bottom, space, and time. It’s measurable and it ends. It’s captured within its own self. Around it is another realm. You remember last night I said to you, those who know Him well have a sense of another realm. Hold on to that. Well, the Lord keeps on creating, and now He goes and gets some dirt. Actually, it’s clay and it’s red. Now, you say, and let me tell you how to pronounce ‘red clay’ in Hebrew. Are you ready? Adam. Adam. Okay. He took red clay, and He molded and fashioned it. And the angels looked and said, “How interesting.” That will obviously be the greatest creature of space-time and the material realm. This is the great physical seeable, weighable, measurable creation. We got the material realm separated from the spiritual realm. God is that realm, and yet He is dimensionless. A very dimensional place right here that you don’t touch. Now, I want to say one other thing before we finish with Adam. I want you to notice that the angels run around in bands. The fish run around in schools. The wolves ran around in packs. The cattle ran around in herds. The birds ran around in flocks, and the sheep ran around in flocks. Each had its own community. So did God. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit in fellowship with one another. And that’s the Christian life, and that was the first experience of the Ekklesia, together.