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

He’s equipped with things that even Adam didn’t have. Look a little closer, and you will find the eternal God within that human spirit. This One has eaten of the tree of life. No, this One is the tree of life. There is the body and the soul, like unto this realm. There is the Spirit like unto that realm, and within that Spirit is that which is like unto God the All. The Spirit of God has been put inside of Him without measure. He has divine life in Him. He has God the Father dwelling within His being. He is God, come through the door, to live among us for 33 or 34 years.

Now let’s look at it. Saints, which realm does He belong to? Yeah, the answer to that is yes. The answer is yes. Which realm? Both realms. Neither realm. Both realms. Here is the true hybrid. Very God of very God and He is yet sinless, perfect man and utterly totally God. All of God is in Him. For His spirit was given without measure. The only begotten Son of God. All the rest are adopted.

So, He’s going to live with us for a while, right? And then He’s going back to the other realm, right? He’s going back to the other realm. No, that is absolutely not correct. Brothers and sisters, that is not correct. He’s going to live 33 years in both realms. Hear me. He is going to live 33 years in both realms. I’m going to go through that scene again. He’s at a wedding feast. He got a spirit in Him. and He lives in His Spirit and He’s over here and He’s life and He’s light and He’s water and He’s food and He knows all this and He’s wine and He hears a voice that says they’re out of wine and He looks and says, “Don’t bother Me, my time is not yet.” It was though she turned to Him and said, ‘Real wine, they are out of the picture wine, image wine, shadow wine.’ And He says my time to give them the real one has not come.

What am I going to do? Okay, then I’ll keep talking. You gave me permission. And do you feel all right about this? I don’t want to stop this story in the middle garden. Brothers and sisters, how can I explain to you, how can words declare to you the great injustice we have done to our Lord without even realizing it? We have looked at Him as though He opened the Bible and learned all about God His Father, that He learned from the Jewish traditions all about God His Father. I hear this all the time in speaking, and the Lord Jesus did this because in their culture, this and this, and the Lord made this statement because of this tradition, and so on, so forth. Hey, listen. Please look at Him again and know that He knows everything that has ever been.

Oh, Gene, that’s not possible. Stay with me. He knows everything that has been, and He knows everything that’s going to be. And He can meet a little girl possessed of seven demons, and look at her and remember way back yonder, right? Way back yonder. Is that correct? Maybe. Maybe way down here, maybe at the end of creation. You and I are never going to know because He’s free of space and time, but somewhere with the finite captured within Him, somewhere here in the beginning, or somewhere here at the end, and remember, He encompasses them both. He is the beginning, and He is the end, and He’s both of those at the same time because He’s on both ends of creation. Creation is in Him. The scripture says creation is in Him. All things were created in Him. And He remembers that he marked off a portion of His being for this girl who has seven demons. And He says, “Well, perhaps now is the time to clean out the house.” And He cleans out the house, and the seven demons go, and He puts His life on earth. That which was a portion of Him chipped off, marked off, and penciled off before creation, and was put in that girl. The same thing happened to you and me.

Now look, try to see what happens to your Lord. And please remember, He belongs to both realms. He’s got God and His Spirit in Him. He gets about this high, and He’s learning Hebrew and Aramaic, and how to take care of His clothes, and that God is His Father and that Mary is His mother. He gets a little bit older. He starts school, and He begins learning the Hebrew alphabet and how to write it. If he could write, I’m sure he could. And He also remembers that He wrote the word.

And then He gets about this big. He is growing in wisdom and in stature, physically and spiritually, together. As one matures, the other matures, so that when He’s fully mature in one, He’s fully mature in the other. When He’s about 12, He goes to Jerusalem. He had never seen Jerusalem before. As a human being, He’s never seen it. He looks at He says, “Well, I’ll say so, that’s what Solomon and Herod built as a replica of what I have lived with for all eternity.” It is my Father’s business. That’s my father’s business right there.

And He goes in, and He asks questions, and He asks questions, and they ask questions. They had never heard questions like this, dealing with things. This is not theology here, folks. And they are so awed with His questions. They ask Him questions. And now they’re awed with His answers. All I can tell you is by the time He is 12 years old, He knows He’s got a Father from that realm and a mother from this realm, and that temple is not the real temple. That there is a real temple in the other realm where His Father dwells, and that He is here upon this earth to be about the things of His Father. Now he’s got that.

Let me imagine this one, if I may. He’s 28, and Joseph dies. He knows that He will be crucified. He knows that He will leave His mother widowed and without the oldest child. And He is concerned and He is considering that, and He’s walking along the road and then He sees some of the lilies He created, and He remembers when He created them, and He remembers that they toil not neither do they spend and then He remembers Solomon’s temple, and sees it in all of its glory and sees Solomon arrayed in garments made out of finely woven silver and gold, and He looks at those lilies He created And He says, “Those lilies are more beautiful than Solomon’s temples and Solomon’s clothes. Now, if I can take care of those lilies, surely I can take care of my mother.” And He’s twenty, and He remembers.

Brothers and sisters, He interfaces between two realms constantly. He says, “I am the light of the world.” He literally means true light has been brought into this realm. When He says to them, “I am food to eat, and I am water to drink. I am food to eat, and I am your drink.” He is literally speaking of that which is the reality of the other realm. He is speaking in the other language in the other realm, using our language to try to give those people some comprehension of the other realm. He is walking about in two realms.

Listen, just reread John three and see two things there. See Him talk about the Son of Man came down from heaven, and no man can go to the heavens except He who has come from the heavens, who is the Son of Man, who came down out of the heavens in John 3:13 and who is now in the heavens. I want you to say that, and who is now in the house. He was sitting in Nicodemus’s living room, sitting in heavenly places. He belonged to both realms. He was the only species that belonged to two realms.

Now again, He is talking to me, and I think this is maybe John 7. He is talking to the scribes and the Pharisees. They’re mad at Him and He’s saying, “You’re trying to kill me.” And they say, “You’ve got a demon. We’re not trying to kill you.” He says to them, “I am going away. And where I’m going, you cannot come.” They say, “Oh, you’re going to go to Rome and preach to the Greeks or to Athens and preach to the Greeks, the Romans.” And then He says to them, “Where I am, you cannot go, where I am right now, you can’t get there. You are of your father, the devil. I am of My Father, God the Father. And where I am right now, you’ll never get. I am in here with My Father. I am doing what I do best. I am fellowshipping with My Father as I did in all eternity.”