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

And then He leans forward and says, “If anyone shall keep My word, He shall not see death, not ever.” The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say, if anyone shall keep Your word, he shall not at all taste death forever.” And about that moment, somewhere on the other side of the realm, somebody’s jumping up and down and saying, “Father, tell them. Father, tell them. Father, tell them.” And the Father says, “I’ll tell him, and He will tell them.” “Son, tell them Abraham knows You. Tell them that, Son. Tell them Abraham believed in You, and he not only knew You, but knows You and is going to keep on knowing You.” And Abraham’s hollering back here somewhere in the heavens, “Tell him, Lord. Tell him, Lord,” and the Father says, “Son, turn around and look; there he is, he never died. He believed, and he crossed over. He never died. He never tasted death. He never died.”

“Son, if they would but believe, they would never taste death, and Abraham is back here shouting their witness that he never died because he believed in you; He believed in Me. Tell them, Son.” And so, the Lord Jesus really says something here. He’s listening to them. “We know you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say, ‘If anyone shall keep My word, he shall not at all taste death.’ Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died, and the prophets who died?” And way back here in the corner, Elijah and Elisha cry out, “Tell them, tell them. We believed, and we never tasted death.” “Who do you make yourself to be?” And the Son says, ‘For 10 minutes now I have not once glorified Myself. I have no glory, but I have glory. It is my Father’s glory. I have none of Myself. I have no glory within Myself.

Brothers, here’s the real Christian living, the Christian life.  Apart from His Father, He can do nothing. And apart from His Father, He has nothing. Jesus Christ has no glory. He says so right here. The only thing He has is the Father’s glory heaped upon Him, and the Father, at this moment, is heaping glory upon the Son. Though you don’t know, you don’t know what’s just been said.

Brothers and sisters, what did the Father tell the Lord Jesus just a minute ago? He said, “Son, you’ve done it again. You’ve glorified Me, and you’ve glorified Me, and you will continue to glorify Me. You’ve not failed in all this ugly conversation; you’ve come back to Me again and again and honored Me.” And now they’re getting even more vicious. “And now, Son, I’ve just, I adore you. I love you. I pour out My glory.” And He reaches into His being and pours out a river of sparkling living brilliance, and He senses that God His Father is glorifying Him and glorifying Him. Glorify Him more.

You understand what I am telling you? What is going on inside Jesus Christ? What is going on inside and indwelling Lord? Tell me what is going on. Will you please tell me what is going on? Are they discussing theology? Are they talking works? Are they discussing the beast? What are they doing in the Godhead? Tell me what they are doing. The Son is glorifying the Father, and the Father is glorifying the Son, and that’s all you’ll ever see in eternal realms. You won’t see visions; you won’t see horns coming up out of the ocean; you won’t see theology. No worries. No problems. You open that door and look into the Godhead, and you will see one thing. You’ll see the Father exalting the Son, and the Son will exalt the Father. That’s what they do. That’s what’s going on inside Jesus Christ right now, while some people are standing there calling Him illegitimate.

The Father is heaping glory on the Son, and the Son is heaping glory on the Father, and Abraham stands up and the prophet stands up and Isaac stands up and Jacob stands up and the whole heavenly host stands up and exalts the Son with the Father, and there’s more and more and more glory going on inside of them. I’m going to repeat it: there is only the glory of the Father to the Son and of the Son to the Father, and that’s what Jesus Christ has done every moment of His waking hours for three and a half years of His ministry. He has done nothing of Himself. He has only stood there and answered that which glorified His Father, and His Father inside has said, “Son, it’s wonderful. You’ve done it again. You’ve done what I sent you to do, and I heap glory and honor over you.”

“If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying Me. And it is Him you say of whom you say that He is your God. Yet you don’t know my Father or you would glorify Me right now or my Father is glorified, but I know Him and I’m looking at Him right now and I’m listening and I know what He is doing, and were I to say that I do not know Him I would be the liar but I experientially know Him, and right now, I am keeping His word for He told me to tell you, I know Him, and I’m going to tell you something else He just told me to tell you. “Your father Abraham exalted in that he would see my day. And Abraham saw and went out of his head.” He said, “Abraham believed, and having believed and looked so long, finally he saw my day, and he exalted in my day. Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Go live with this for a couple of months, would you? Just soak in it, drench in it, consider it, and start turning your being that way. Now, here is the most important thing that I can say to you tonight, the most important thing I can say to a group of people who are seeking now to touch the unseen, who are just now beginning to realize there’s another realm, just now beginning to realize that God, when He made you, made you with a spirit and that spirit does not belong to this realm and it is free of time and space because that other realm is free of time and space and the Lord Jesus Christ dwells in you and the Father dwells in Him and there’s fellowship going on between them.

Now then, I know what you’re thinking: hot dog, let me in on that fellowship. And brothers and sisters, the answer to that is No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No, but now hear me carefully. Don’t you come dragging in. I know what you’d do if you broke into fellowship with the Father and the Son. You’d say, “Yeah, this is great, but I have problems at home.” You understand what I’m saying? You want to know how to join in the fellowship of the Godhead? You don’t do it by getting involved. You do it by watching. You watch. Do you understand? You don’t get involved. You enter into the fellowship of the Godhead. You just watch the Father glorify the Son, would you? Watch the Son glorify the Father, and watch the Father glorify the Son, watch the Son glorify the Father, and then watch the Father glorify the Son, and then watch the Son glorify the Father. But, Gene, can’t I get in? If you do, somehow it vanishes, brother, it just vanishes.

I said to you that three things we have problems with prayer are sleepiness, a wandering mind, and not knowing what to say. And then last night, I said to you two things that I would seek to deliver you from. One is you, and the other one is now. Brothers and sisters don’t get involved; just behold this. This is what I’m trying to say to you: that’s that other mountain. It’s not getting in there and becoming part of; it is a continuing, everlasting fellowship – watch it. Become part of it as one who beholds, sees, and hears what’s going on. Protect yourself from theological screwballishness. Be a beholder. Look into His face and watch His face transform you. Don’t be so self-centered. Be like the Lord Jesus Christ. Be God-centered. Don’t go there for your own glory or for your own edification. Go there to watch the greatest thing in the universe. Watch the Father behold the Son. Watch the Son, behold the Father.

For those of you watching this recording, may God open your eyes, and may you lay everything else on earth down and pursue the path that Christ pioneered on this earth, the fellowship with His Father. Get the mind of God to glorify the Son. Get the mind of the Son to glorify the Fathers. This is the spirituals. This is the spiritual realm. This is what is going on inside of Jesus Christ, and that’s what’s going on inside of you.