The Real Food and Drink (DCLC – July ’86, Part 2)

Audience: As He watched the Father living the Christian life, I’m going to watch Him watching the Father living the Christian life.

That’s right, you’re getting very close. And that’s good enough. Sit down. Somebody get a little closer. Just a little closer. Yes, sir?

Audience: I’m going to do as Jesus did, as compared to what He did to the Father. Watch the Father and do as the Father has told Him to do: Beholding the Father.

There it is! Beholding Jesus, the eternal Son, live the Christian life. He will show you how. By another Life. I just would have you learn to see Him. Just look at Him. Gaze in His face. What are you going to find Him doing? You’re going to find Him gazing at the face of His Father. And what are you going to find Him doing? He’s going to be gazing into the face of His Father. And all you’re gonna do is just eavesdrop and you’re gonna peep and watch, and behold, and you mark my word, you’re going to come away from there with something more than you ever got speaking in tongues, and something more real and more wonderful for you than ever reading your Bible and praying. I know you believe that.

Brothers and sisters, I did not try to lay anything on you tonight. I believe the Lord is my witness. I tried my best not to lay anything on you. I asked you to watch a Christian living the Christian life. And how did He do it? He did it while He was doing all these other things. He was beholding His Father and partaking of His Father and drinking His Father and eating of His Father and laying hold of His Father’s life. And His Father was living in His place. He was living by means of His Father’s life.

And I’m not telling you to eat. I’m not telling you to drink. And I’m not telling you to live by His life. I am telling you to open your eyes and behold Him. And I can’t get it any more rudimentary than that. It is a truism that if your spirit is touched, it doesn’t matter what got it touched; it’s touched. And you’re wanting your spirit touched and your needs met – I’d like to ask you to give that up and know that your spirit can be stirred by watching Him be the Son of God in the presence of His Father.

If you could go through this book of mine, you would see it all marked up. And I confess to all of you that it’s difficult for me to find these things because something in me is always saying, “How do I get involved now? Oh my, I have to do that.” But little by little, I am learning to behold other realms and see what’s going on and watch and praise and glory; no, just sit there stunned. And there’s more food and more life and more light and revelation in beholding Him than all the things I could possibly do to charge my battery to live the Christian life.

I recommend a new mountain to you. Do you recall I said I was going to give you a new mountain? Is this a new mountain? Is it a new mountain? This is a new mountain. This is taking you to a totally new place, is it not? And it’s getting you out of the involvement, but it is not taking away from you one part of the engine of the Christian life. The strength of the Christian life is still there; it’s just that the center has moved to the Father and the Son. And aren’t you glad? Aren’t you tired of coming in with the big ME? The great big ME and the great big bucket. Leave the bucket, and bring your eyes, and see and behold, and be touched and be awed by what’s going on out there. What’s going on here? That which we have seen and heard and held with our own hands, we declare unto you, that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

Now, those of you who stood over there in that corner in the morning, I’m going to ask you to get up in the morning and leave you and your poverty in your bedroom, and I’m going to ask you to come back to that passage in Colossians again and look at it without getting involved. And those of you who got up so courageously this morning and prayed, and you got up, and you got right in the middle of a Christian life.

Lord Jesus, You’re my shepherd. I shall not want. You made me lie down and get room pastures. You restored my soul; my cup ran over. Righteousness for my sake. You put me in front of my enemy. And I’m going to live in the house of the Lord forever and forever. Me, me, me. Now I’m just going to ask you to shift that a little bit. When you get up in the morning alone with the Lord and say, Lord, I’m leaving me completely out of this. Bring forth the Son in fellowship with the Father, and let me do, let me learn what you have been doing all along. Let me just behold, and take Psalm 23 and lift it out of time and lift it out of space, and take it to eternity, or take it to eternity, or take it to Nazareth, or take it to Gethsemane, but lift it out of there and release it from you and give it back to the One to whom that Psalm really belongs.

He gave it to you to comfort you. Give it back to Him that you might see Him and see His God and His Father. Amen. I believe you’re clear. I believe you’re clear. You’re quiet, but I believe you’re clear.