The Fellowship of the Father and Son Comes to Earth (DCLC – July ’87, Part 3)

Now, why didn’t someone tell me that? Why do we not open the Word of God and see these things when we see the scripture? Why not see the Lord’s own relationship with the Father? And when the disciples got back that day, He said, “I’ve been eating real food. I’ve been drinking real water. It comes from the other invisible realm, and I have been worshiping in reality.” Well, these are the hidden things of the gospels that we don’t see.

The feeding of the 5000, do you remember? You’ve heard it your whole life. Do you remember? You remember what He said about it? He said, “He who drinks my blood and eats my flesh has a place in Me, but He who refuses to eat my flesh and drink my blood has no part in me.” And then they said, “Oh, this is too much. Let’s go.” And He said, “I’m not talking about this. I’m talking about spirit and life. I’m talking about eternal life, and I’m talking about spirit. To drink of the spirit of My life and to eat of the life of My life. This is what I’m talking about.” Brothers and sisters, that’s not just salvation; that is a daily thing of partaking of your Lord. Your body was made by God to need physical food, which isn’t real food. Real food is in the other realm. I don’t know exactly what my soul needs, but it has needs, and they really need to be met. And this is why this aestheticism stuff won’t work because you really have some practical human needs, but your spirit drinks and your spirit eats, and it eats in the other realm. And it drinks in the other realm. Why doesn’t somebody show me how to eat and drink in another realm?

Well, I was just going to say one more here. One year, I talked about it, and I’m going to mention it again. The Lord talked about a man who had a demon, and the demon was cast out of him, but the demon just couldn’t find any place to go. Now this is a real spook show; this will scare anybody. He found six friends, got them, went back, found an empty room in that man, and now he had not one demon, but he had seven. What’s the point? The point is, never clean up your life. That’s the point. Never clean up your life. Never get everything out of it. Never clean it up. Fill it up; don’t clean it up, because if you clean it up, it’s empty. It’s going to be filled with something. He understood that there is a room inside of you, and it has got to be filled one way or another. It will be filled with something. And He was saying, “Fill it up with me.” And the reason He said it was that He was speaking out of personal experience. He had a room inside, and it was filled with God the Father whom He walked with, worshiped, adored, and fellowshipped with every day of His life, and all theology as far as I’m concerned pales in the presence of this. I would like for you to remember that the gospel of Jesus Christ was delivered to the poor and the ignorant. And it’s got to be a gospel that the poor and the ignorant can understand. It is not some high-fluting, high-sounding thing. It is for illiterates. For illiterates. If it is not for illiterates, it’s not for anybody. That’s right. It’s got to be simple because most of us are simple. And we have to walk on this earth, and whatever it is that He has supplied to us can’t be all that complex. It’s got to be simple.

You know, if I never learn one more thing about the Lord Jesus Christ, as long as I live, I think it’d be okay because I got the horse out there in front of the cart, finally. Now there are 12 men following Him around, and they are illiterate and they are not well educated. They really don’t know a whole lot, and look at their lives. They cannot be called theological. What are they watching? They’re watching the healing, and they’re watching the power, and they’re getting into this, and He rebukes them for it. And little by little, as they live with Him longer and longer, they go from watching the outward things, and they begin trying to discover the engine from whence all this is coming. And they begin to concentrate more and more on what’s going on inside of Him, and they begin to pick up little secrets of the Christian life, and brothers and sisters, they’re all internal. They’re all internal. And I want you to know that before those men had ended their time with Him, they were a lot smarter than they realized and a lot dumber than they realized, but after they got over being dumb, after the resurrection and the Lord came into them, then all the things that were spiritual and all the things that were of the other realm and all the things that were of the spirituals lit up inside of them. And now they didn’t remember miracles. They didn’t remember the betrayal. They remembered the fellowship; they remembered the fellowship they had with Him. And they remembered the fellowship He had with a Father inside of Him.

We’re going to tell you about the time we laid on His breast, about the time we held His hand. We’re going to tell you about the time we sat with Him. And then we’re going to tell you about the day He died. And then we’re going to tell you about the day He rose again. And then we’re going to tell you about the way the day he ascended. And then we’re going to tell you that we kept on fellowshipping with Him even though He disappeared off the face of the earth, and we continued our fellowship with Him, and it moved inside of us, and daily we touch Him, and daily we know Him. And daily we fellowship with Him. And daily we drink Him. And daily we eat Him. And daily we hear Him speak. Oh, not to go out and do some big deal or that Neo was going to die of something or other, but the fellowship of eating and drinking with Him and hearing the word of love and comfort within us.

And we declare to you these things, that you who have Him in you may fellowship with the Father and the Son, and you’ll know what we’re talking about, and glory, you will then be able to fellowship with us and fellowship with Him. Then we’ll be able to fellowship with one another. And out of there will come the church. Fishermen make lousy theologians. Praise the Lord.

Well, that was the deeper Christian life on this earth. Are you clear? All this week, I am going to unfold for you more of His fellowship with the Father. That’s why I live with this book. And sometimes I open this thing, and I think, no, this story, this passage is not there. Here’s something that nobody on earth could possibly find. I just sit there and wait, and I read it and wait, and I come back. I look at it some more, and one day it bursts open, and I think, “Oh, foolish Gene. Oh, blind Gene. Oh, foolish, blind Gene, you cannot see the end of your nose.” Here is what this story is really telling. And I am illumined, and I am awed by what I see.

Now, dear brother and sister, I would tell you that I would give up reading the scripture tonight from the viewpoint of what God is demanding of you. You’re not trying hard enough. And I would stop seeking for that which you ought to be doing. Go do that next year. Okay? Take a year off. Do that next year. You did it last year. You did it the year before. Do it next year and the year after, but this year, discover His relationship with an indwelling Father and pursue that with all you’ve got and you sometimes, oh I tell you reading some of the passages you just get, I’m just you know I never have walked two miles with anybody who I didn’t like and to forget, I can’t forget that guy and you just get, so forget it brother keep looking in there look not at you and your obligation and your relationship to the gospel of what you need, keep looking at Him and keep looking at the Father. Look at Him. Look at Him. Look at Him. Look at Him. Look at Him. Look at Him. Then look and see if you can find the Father, see if you can hear the Father talking to Him. He said He never uttered a word unless He heard the Father utter it first. Listen when He speaks. What did the Father say to Him? Then He says something. What is He really talking about? Is He talking about something earthly or heavenly? Look and look and look again. Don’t study it. Just wait and let it come bursting out on you.

Well, brothers, we ought to turn that thing off, and we’ll talk practically now. For those of you watching the video, would you like to hear about all these practical things we’re discussing? You have to come join us. These things are not given away lightly. So, we’re going to turn you off right now, and we’re going to talk about wonderful things. Okay.