Winona Conference Part 4 – Here’s the Truth of You in Christ

I want to go a lot further than this, but maybe this will help you understand. And again, I have used this illustration many times, but I cannot improve on it, so if you have heard it before, please forgive me. Albert Einstein was asked to explain in simple words His theory of relativity. A newspaperman asked Him because they could not understand it. ‘Tell us so we can put it in the newspaper, and a person can understand.’ He said, “Alright, you think of this universe around us in terms of space and time.  And our universe is filled with mass. And we think that if we could take all the mass out of our universe, gather up the mass, do away with it, there would still be space, and there would still be time. And he said that’s not true.  Time and space, in order to exist, are dependent upon mass. Remove the mass. And all measurement disappears. All time disappears. And He said, Do not imagine a great abyss of nothing would be there because even nothingness would disappear.

If you could understand what Albert Einstein said, you can understand what was before creation. What did God do when He created? He made visible mass.  And in so doing, created space and created time? Remove the creation, the physical material mass, and you remove the dimension.  All dimensions. There’s no up, down, no length, no depth, no breadth, nor height. Everything is measureless. I cannot comprehend that, and you can’t because we belong to that mass, but if you took all the creation away, you would be back to this. God, the All, not even nothing surrounding Him. And there is no measurement. And if you can pocket comprehend, there is no time.

If you don’t understand that, then let me give you this theory. Have you ever thought that maybe God, whenever He created, started by creating the end, not the beginning? And worked in this direction. You say He couldn’t have done that. Don’t kid yourself that He couldn’t have done that. He could have started at the end of the consummation of the ages and created there and worked back, and there’d have been no difference to Him.

Tomorrow, we will see that this is time and space; it’s the space-time continuum right here. And it’s got a beginning and an end, but it’s surrounded by a God who has no beginning and end and no front and no back, no top and no bottom. He is All. And this is within Him, and that may be the end for you and for me, but it could very well be the beginning for God. And if you’re really worried and wondering if you really are saved, and if the Lord really did love you, and if He really did choose you before the beginning of time, then you’d better realize that He’s already been to the end of the ages. He’s already visited there. He is there now.

And He sees you. And guess what? You made it. And if you hadn’t made it, He wouldn’t have chosen you in the first place. Well, Gene, that’s mind-boggling. I can’t comprehend that. That doesn’t keep it from being so. Now, can you understand where He got His name? You’ve got to keep one eye on our little created universe here? Praise the Lord, I AM  I AM, I AM. Where’s the Lord right now? Why? He’s helping Moses get across the Red Sea. He is raising His Son from the dead. He’s saving me. He’s choosing you. He is bringing this universe to a close. He is drawing us back into himself. We’re in eternal fellowship, in God, with Him. Where is He? Yes, yes, the answer is yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I am, I am, I am, that I am, that I am, that I am, that I am.

I am without dimension, and I’m not caught in space-time. I am free to burst in anywhere I wish.  And I have chosen you before the foundation of the age. And one day, His choice for me was a cemetery in Commerce, Texas. For you, maybe it was in a sawdust trail or a church or out aIone somewhere. I don’t know where it was, but one day, His eternal now intersected with your time and space. I’m saying all of that to encourage; it’s got nothing to do with how you get into that realm. But I have to encourage you. A little bit more, and we’ll go home. There is one place where eternity and time do intersect. And if you’ve heard me give this once before, only one time before, you can give me the answer. There is only one instance where time and eternity intersect.  Only once. That’s it, brother.  Brad, I thought you would tell them. It is right now.

You see, there’s no time now. Now just passed, and we measured it. That’s the past. Did you get that? Okay. And there’s going to be, that’s the future. But eternity and time meet now. Now is gone. You measure now. It’s past. That’s time. Listen. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live. Yet it is not I that lives, but Christ lives in me, and the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God. His faith. His faith. His faith. Based on the reality of having been there.  His faith. His faith.

Are you following me? And the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.  Okay, Stanley, the next time you pull a big one, remember it’s past. But right now, right now, it is Christ. It is not I but Christ right now.  Only now, but right now is Christ. Stanley, you sit down somewhere and say that’s past now. It is Christ. Now it is Christ. Brother, move your life outside of space and outside of time, and go where things are real and where they are eternal, and say to God and angels and men, now it is Christ. Saints, it’s now that Christ lives in you. Though it is also now that we have access to that door to go into that other realm.

Tomorrow morning, I’ll take you a little bit closer to that door. I’ll try my best to be true in time and show you how a little bit to get through that door. You have a right to leave here and go here. Not physically; I’m not talking about an out-of-the-body experience. I am talking about this is the realm of the spirit, and that realm is where? You still don’t know.

Where is it? Say it. Point. Right there. You’re not big enough for it to be in there. No, that’s true. But inside there, you’ll find a door, in your spirit, that goes into the other realm. And when you walk through that door, what are you going to discover? Well, you’re going to discover the seven weeks of Daniel, and you’re going to discover the bear’s tail in Revelation, and the dragon’s tooth in Daniel, and the horn in Ezekiel, and you’re going to get it all together, and you’re going to discover when the Lord’s going to come back.

No, you go through that door, you go through that door into His realm, and I’ll tell you what you’re going to discover. You’re going to discover that which has always been, which is, and always will be. You are going to discover the fellowship of the Father and the fellowship the Father has with His Son. That which we have seen, that which we have held, that which we have handled, we declare now unto you that you may have fellowship with us here in the body of Christ, and our fellowship is there. Our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is your inheritance, for He has given you all spiritual blessings in heavenly places that are in Christ; they are yours now. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord, Amen. Thank you, Lord. I finally got it said. Hallelujah!