Understanding Christ and His Relationship with His Father (DCLC – July ’87, Part 4)

And the Son says what He also knew, not only because the Father said it, but because He had been there and because He had been sent with that mission and that ultimate goal of being lifted up that the I am was being lifted up on that cross one day, and the Father and the Son were so knit together, so one that as the Father reminded Him and they both remembered eternity past and remembered that moment of sending, the Father spoke the remembrance and the Son repeated it to these unbelieving men. But He is giving us, do you understand what I’m really doing here is to give you a peek of what’s going on in the internal parts of Jesus Christ.

I have a major point to make at the end of this message. It is one of the biggest points that I know that can be made on this earth. Okay, we’ll go on. “You will know that I am He and that I do nothing on my own, but even now, I am saying the things my Father told me to say.” There is a vindication of the whole first half of this book, which is that even now I am speaking only what My Father has told me to speak. What a fellowship. What a joy divine. What a leaning on the everlasting arms. What a fellowship. What an incredible relationship. The Father speaking, the Son, the Son speaking to the Father, and the Son, everything that we’ve just read, He said, “Even now, what I’ve spoken to you, I’ve only spoken because my Father said to.” And there’s the Father once more standing behind the Lord or standing in Him and listening to those voices. And He says, “Son, tell them I just told You to tell them what You’re telling them.”

Now, have you ever seen such a sight? This is why when I began this message, I said, “Some passages are beyond me. I can’t preach on this. All I can do is walk through it with you. It’s too big for me. I’m doing the best I can.” But we’re beyond our understanding, saints. “And my Father who sent me will be with me, was once with me.” You got your Bible open there? “And my Father, who sent me, is with me. Where is He? Where is He? Where is He? They’re out here, objectively, like, where is He? Brothers and sisters, He is almost literally inviting them inside of Him. Do you understand? This is almost an open invitation to get inside the Son of the living God and watch what’s going on. Why are you sitting there like that? I’ve waited years. I’ve waited years to bring this message. I mean, I have waited years and years and years to bring this message. I haven’t ever brought this message before, and I’ve been going through The Life of Christ in Stereo; I’ve been waiting for chapter 8. I’m also waiting for chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16. John 8. This is an invitation.

My Father heard you. He talked to me, and we talked and fellowshipped in other realms. We remembered that I am. And I responded and told you who my Father was and who I am. And now I am telling you that my Father heard you respond to Me and then told Me to tell you that I just heard Him and that He just heard you and He told me to go ahead and tell you what He just told me. He just said to me, “Tell them that right now, we are together in fellowship, I in the other realm, you in the other realm, and you in their realm, and they in their realm. Speak to them on their basis; drive them crazy, children, right now, of truths, of heavenly places. Tell them of the spirituals. Tell them of the spirit. Tell them, ‘I am in Your spirit.’ Tell them, “I just talked to you. And now tell them I am with you.”

These are the awarenesses of God the Son; these are the internal workings of God the Son. These are the internal workings of the Christian, the first Christian to ever visit this planet. And I am going to seek to make a little point to you. And that is, if you want to dig, dig here. If you want to be a Christian, be a Christian on this level. Well, I got it, Gene. I’m going to listen to the Son, and He’s going to tell me when the mark of the beast will come. No. When the stock market’s going to rally. No. I’m going to see future things that I’m going to do. No, we are talking about fellowship. We’re not talking about ghosts and goblins and spooks. We’re not talking about magic, and we’re not talking about miracles, and we’re not talking about signs. We’re talking about an indwelling Father in whom Christ is fellowshipping with; their territory.

If you want to dig for the rest of your life, dig there. As far as I’m concerned, that makes positional truth look like so much toothpaste. And brothers and sisters, that makes signs and wonders just look out of date. That makes everything pale. I am now considering a door and another realm. In where dwells my Father and where dwells His Son, my Lord and Savior. I wish the whole Christian kingdom could hear this. This is where I need to dig. This is where, if I have to have needs, here’s the place to go with all my spiritual needs; I’ll bet you they’ll pale. I’ll bet you they’ll pale.

Now, brothers and sisters, you’re the third motion here. God the Father, God the Son, and the sons of God, the children of God, the third motion, the third level, the third stage in all of this, but I want you to be really careful. I have got something to say to you at the very end that’s extremely important. Are you seeing what’s going on? Are you beginning to sense the unseen a little bit?

Okay. I’m so glad John did this. Now, John didn’t do all this to make us hate Pharisees. John didn’t do this to give a snob appeal to the religious. John didn’t do this to tell us about judgment to come and all that. He is seeking, as best as that dear brother can, to show us the fellowship that he’d been watching for four years, having lived with the Lord. This is what the 12 did most. They watched that internal thing happening. They watched and tried to hear a Father speaking to a Son on the other side of those eyes in a realm of light. This is not happening in darkness; when you get on the other side of those eyes, and you have gotten into the other realm, it’s a realm of light, blinding light. And He can move back and forth between those two realms. He can talk to them and talk to His Father. He can fellowship with those disciples and fellowship with the Father. And the apostles, the disciples, are sitting there at this incredible. Oh, my Lord. “And He who has sent Me is with Me, and the Father did not leave Me alone.” And I don’t even know what that means, I guess they thought that He had an illegitimate Father whom He never saw. He’s telling them that He has a Father who has been with Him constantly. Maybe He’s telling them again, in other words, that my Father’s with me. My Father, from the day I was able to talk and to think, has been with me and in me. I have had a growing consciousness of Him and my oneness with Him. In my discovery of my past, my Father has never left me. For I am always doing the things which are pleasing to Him. Or what are you doing, Lord, that’s pleasing to your Father? You’re listening to Him. You’re living with Him. You’re being loved by Him, and you’re letting Him love you. And you’re loving Him back, and you’re waiting to hear Him fellowship in you before you share with others about your Father. You’re not overdoing it. You’re not underdoing it. You’re not making a great display. I am always doing those things that are pleasing to Him, to my Father.

Now, those are some of the elements, but as we go a little further, you’re going to find out the one thing He did that most pleased His Father. And I bet you can’t tell me what it is. The one thing above all else that He did that pleased the Father. We’re going to find out in just a minute. And I hope you become partaker of that faith.

“By His saying these things, many believed on Him.” And then Jesus said to the ones who believed on Him, “If you continue in my word, you’re indeed my disciples, and ye shall know reality, the truth, the truth, and the reality shall set you free.” What are they going to know that’s going to set them free? They’re going to know, I think so, I am not certain, I am not a wise person, but I think He’s talking of the reality of those things which are real. He is talking in this whole passage about those who do and do not know the Father.

Now, some of them were offended at this, and they said, “We are of the offspring of Abraham, and we have never been enslaved by anyone. How can you say you can make us free? We are free.” And Jesus said, “Everyone who is practicing sin is in slavery to sin.” And a slave can’t live in the home, but the Son lives in the home. Slaves can’t live in the home. Slaves to sin can’t live in a home; they have to live outside somewhere. You can’t live where I live. But the Son dwells in that house forever.” What does your translation say? “The Son is in the home forever, and if the Son goes out and makes you free, you come to dwell in that home too, and you are free indeed.” Praise the Lord, brother. If the Son goes out to the slave outside and breaks him loose, saying, “You’re free,” the free man, the free one can come live in the house. Slaves live outside; sons live inside. You can come live where I live. This is an open invitation from Him for you to be free. And I will tell you something else, brother. There are a lot of you who have been in bondage to all sorts of stuff. If you will give up your doctrines and your pet ideas and your overcomer and your latter day and all these things that are so important to you, and if you’ll get enamored with Jesus Christ, and if you will come and break through into that fellowship, you’re going to be free from so many things. I doubt that there’s anything on this planet that’ll ever enslave you, because brother, I want to tell you something. When you’ve had first best, second best loses its glitter. You’re driving a Ford; the Ford looks great. It sure was better than walking, wasn’t it? My goodness. If you run around in a silver cloud Rolls-Royce, I don’t think anybody is ever going to really sell you on Fords anymore. I just can’t see that salesman talking you into going back to a Ford. Enslaved somewhere else. The Son dwells in Him. If the Son goes out and sets you free, you get to dwell where the Son dwells. I invite you this night to go dwell where the Son dwells. Does anybody understand? Do you understand what brother John is telling you here? This is the gospel, and it will never get any higher than this.

“That you are offspring of Abraham I know, but you’re seeking to kill Me because My word has no entrance in you, I can’t get inside you any more than you can get inside my home. I cannot get inside you. You’re going to remain a son of Abraham forever. That’s all you’ll ever be, a descendant of Abraham. I can’t penetrate you. I can’t live in you. I can’t get in there. My word doesn’t speak in you like His word speaks in me. My Father speaks in me, and I am His Son, but if my word does not speak in you, you’ll never be His Son; you’re simply a child of Abraham.” Oh, this next sentence, they just can’t handle it. Listen to this. I am declaring to you right now what I have seen.” Oh, when did he see it? Reading His Bible back when He was a kid? Somewhere back when His mama taught it to Him? Somewhere back in eternity? I am declaring to you what I have seen. When did He see it? Right then, at that very moment, they were arguing, saying to Him, “We’re our father Abraham. How can we be in bondage?” And the Father says to them, “They don’t live in Me. They got no home in Me. I dwell in You; you dwell in Me, but you and I cannot penetrate them. My word can’t get into them. Your word can’t get into them. They’ll remain forever the sons of Abraham. Tell them, I just now told You this even now while you live in this realm and see Me and see My face and hear Me.” And the Lord Jesus says, “What I am telling you right now, I heard, and I saw, and I am now seeing in the very presence of the one I told you a minute ago was with Me. I’m telling you that He is not only with Me, but even right now, I am telling you what I’ve seen while I’ve been in the presence of my Father. And what I told you, my Father just told me now while I was standing in His presence.” What a relationship! What a remarkable thing! I don’t believe man could have lived on this earth forever and thought up such words to write down.