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The Pneuma in the Kardia

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:11:00 GMT

<div id="PageWrapper"> <div id="Header" onclick="location.href='http://thejesussecretsociety.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi';" style="cursor:pointer;"> The Pneuma in the Kardia <div class="floatclear"></div> </div> <div id="Content">  [<a href="http://thejesussecretsociety.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/profile_login/">Profile Register/Log In</a>] (<a href="http://thejesussecretsociety.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/profile_help/">What's This?</a>)  The Pneuma in the Kardia By Daniel Yordy - June 13, 2010 PDF Version for printing and distribution </div> <div></div> My next letter in "The Life of the Age to Come" series will be an exploration of the nature of our two bodies, our spiritual body and our physical body, how they are interrelated and how we learn to walk in both at the same time. We know very well how to walk in our physical body, but we are less skilled at functioning through our spiritual body. But in order to have something real to share with you, I needed to know what God actually says about these things. I have done this type of word study many times over the years. In the past, I wrote out every verse in order to receive more fully the sense of what God is speaking. This time, I cut and pasted from Bible Gateway. I have found, over and over, that a close look at what God actually says about most anything will always give a different perspective from what Christianity says He says. Sometimes you will discover that God says the opposite of what Christianity says. But the close look at the word God speaks that comes from writing it out over and over is not sufficient by itself to impart a true understanding. Two other factors must also be there. We must also believe that what God speaks is true. And we must allow God to reveal to us the meaning of His words by His Spirit in us. Trying to "figure out" what it all means will take us nowhere. I know that many Christians do not believe that what God says is true; they believe that what their church teaches is true. You can show them a clear verse in the New Testament, but it means nothing to them if their church does not teach what God says. I suspect there are no such "church" people receiving this letter. But still, I have always greatly valued the word God speaks and have sought to plant it in my heart over the years of my walk with Him, as I know you have done as well. Writing or typing the word out does that best for me, and I have done it so many times over the years. Then, the words are there in my heart and mind for the Spirit of God to use as He reveals Christ to me. And so here are ten Greek words with every verse in which they are used in the New Testament, grouped into four groups. The first study is heaven and earth. The second is Spirit and life. The third is flesh and body. And the fourth is mind (twice), soul, and heart. But the thing that blew me away in this study was the junction of the words pneuma and kardia, the Spirit of Christ in the heart of the believer. In this letter I want to share some thoughts about what that means. Four Important Word Studies (all in PDF) <a track="on" href="http://www.dyordy.com/PDFVersion/OuranosandGeintheNewTestament.pdf" shape="rect" linktype="link" target="_blank">Ouranos and Ge in the New Testament</a> <a track="on" href="http://www.dyordy.com/PDFVersion/PnuemaandZoeintheNewTestament.pdf" shape="rect" linktype="link" target="_blank">Pneuma and Zoe in the New Testament</a> <a track="on" href="http://www.dyordy.com/PDFVersion/SarxandSomaintheNewTestament.pdf" shape="rect" linktype="link" target="_blank">Sarx and Soma in the New Testament</a> <a track="on" href="http://www.dyordy.com/PDFVersion/Nous,Dianoia,Psuche,andKardiaintheNewTestament.pdf" shape="rect" linktype="link" target="_blank">Nous, Dianoia, Psuche, and Kardia in the New Testament</a> "Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our kardias by the Holy Pnuema who was given to us." Romans 5:5 "But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your kardia" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your kardia that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the kardia one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10: 8-10 "Who also has sealed us and given us the Pneuma in our kardias as a guarantee." 2 Corinthians 1:22 "You are our epistle written in our kardias, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Pneuma of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on sarx tablets, that is, of the kardia." 2 Corinthians 3: 2-3 "For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our kardias to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." 2 Corinthians 4:6 "And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Pneuma of His Son into your kardias, crying out, "Abba, Father!" Galatians 4:6 ". . . to be strengthened with might through His Pneuma in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your kardias through faith . . ." Ephesians 3: 16-17 "And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your kardias." 2 Peter 1:19 And then this one: "Ananias, why has Satan filled your kardia to lie to the Holy Pneuma . . . ?" Acts 5:3 There is a direct and limitless connection between the Spirit of Christ, our hearts, and our mouth, but incredibly, the connection can go in the other direction as well. In this letter, I simply want to share a number of thoughts that the Lord made real to me as I went through these verses in this way. First, there is only one part of the human makeup that is evil in itself. Here is a very telling verse: "And you shall love the LORD your God with all your kardia, with all your psuche, with all your dianoia, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment." Mark 12:30 The only part of man that cannot love God is the fallen human spirit. The heart can be hardened and dull or it can be filled with faith. The mind can be darkened or it can be renewed. The flesh can be immoral or filled with the revelation of Christ. None of these things are evil in themselves; they are simply reflective of that spirit that fills them - except the fallen human spirit. Our fallen human spirit was evil in itself because by it the spirit of Satan was able to impart his breath into man. That human spirit is what God calls "the old man." God put that fallen human spirit to death in us at the moment that we were born again. And at the same moment He recreated a new spirit inside us. Our new human spirit is utterly immersed in God's spirit so that no meaningful distinction can be found between them. Here is how I see that union. Everything that is found in God's Spirit has an expression in our spirit and everything that is found in our spirit is God's Spirit. We are one spirit with God. But God's Spirit goes far beyond our spirit, whereas our spirit is limited to us. In other words, a drop of water in an ocean of water is still a drop, it is not the ocean, yet there is no meaningful distinction between the drop and the water of the ocean. They are one. And this union of God's Spirit and our spirit finds its dwelling and center in our hearts. Literally, in that organ we call the heart. And so, as you read through these verses, you can see that the work of God through the time of our life on this earth is to turn our hearts from dullness to faith. That happens by the words that we speak with our mouth. Going through difficult things cannot change our hearts. Speaking what God speaks while we go through difficult things does. But you can see how the theological belief that our hearts are "deceitful and desperately wicked" can neuter and cut off every transformation that God wants to work in our lives. One who believes that Old Covenant theology can never speak in faith, personally and direct, what God says about us in the New Covenant. But here is our problem as believers inside our physical bodies that remain dead because of sin. The shadow of that "old man" still casts itself across our minds and our hearts only because we are blind. The pure in heart see God. To the pure, all things are pure. Our mind and conscience can be defiled only if we do not believe. Believing comes by the words that we speak. Any time we say something negative about ourselves, we cut ourselves off from the Spirit of God in our hearts. That is, we dull our hearing and our seeing so that we are unable to see the Mighty and Glorious One who fills us with Himself. That is an incredible blindness. How on earth can we fail to see Him when He fills us full? Yet so it is, if we speak that which God does not speak. [Speaking negatively about ourselves is different from glorying in our weakness that the power of Christ may rest upon us.] Let's look at exactly what God says about the various parts of our make-up. "Do you not know that your somas are members of Christ?" "Or do you not know that your soma is the temple of the Holy Pneuma who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your soma and in your pneuma, which are God's." 1 Corinthians 6: 15,19-20 "For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal sarx." 2 Corinthians 4:11 "For we are members of His soma, of His sarx and of His bones." Ephesians 5:30 "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole pneuma, psuche, and soma be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thessalonians 5:23 "Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith-the salvation of your psuches." 1 Peter 1:8-9 "Since you have purified your psuches in obeying the truth through the Pneuma in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure kardia," 1 Peter 1:22 "Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our kardias by the Holy Pneuma who was given to us." Romans 5:5 "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us a dianoia, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and zoe aionios." 1 John 5:20 "But we have the nous of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:16 "But he who is joined to the Lord is one pneuma with Him." 1 Corinthians 6:17 So let's stop speaking any of the other stuff. We can speak all of these things about every part of our being with full assurance of faith because these are the things God says about us. The old man is gone; all that's left of him is a memory. We erase that memory by speaking what God speaks. That is how we are renewed in the pneuma of our nous, in the spirit of our mind. Did you catch that verse in 1 John? There is more power in that verse than in all the militaries of this world put together. God has given us a dianoia, God has given us a "mind," that we may know Him. And knowing Him IS life eternal. God has given me a mind to know Him! My mind knows God. Let me tell you something! That is the only mind I have, that is the only mind I know. That mind, that dianoia to know God, fills me. It fills every part of my soul, every crevice and cranny of my heart, of my mind, of my emotions, of my will. God has formed and created me, Daniel Yordy , to know God without limit and without end. (Put your own name in the blank and speak it out loud at the top of your lungs.) I know God personally and intimately. I know His heart; I know His mind; I know His ways; I know the deepest cry of His soul. "But God has revealed them to us through His pneuma. For the pneuma searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the pneuma of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the pneuma of God. Now we have received, not the pneuma of the world, but the pneuma who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God." 1 Corinthians 2: 10-12 And what has God freely given us to know? Himself. "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God manifest in the sarx." I have shared these Annie visions in previous letters; I will share them again here. I have read many of these visions over and over through the course of my life. They have helped shape my knowledge of God and His ways. Yet, if you obtain a copy for yourself, which I strongly recommend that you do, we judge all things by the word God speaks. If, at times, I feel that something Annie shares does not quite fit the word God speaks, as He is revealing it to me in the present moment, then I set aside that part of that vision for that moment. But these things ARE being fulfilled in us right now. We are in the fullness of times. There is no more delay. That Holy Thing "As I entered His presence, He showed me something so impressive and frightening that I feared greatly. Although He specifically told me not to fear, even so, I could not feel completely at ease, for in almost unbearable pain and in great love, He tore open, as it were, His own spiritual form or body. Even though He had told me to look at it, I feared to and wanted to hide my eyes, for after this great tearing open of Himself I could see within. There I beheld something so terribly perfect in its holiness, that even the word perfection seems to sully it in my memory. This living something was very much a part of Himself, yet it seemed as though He were bringing forth, in a tremendous beginning, a new being from His own person. It was the same beginning in God that He had shown me several days before, in "The Place of a Beginning." For long eons He has waited to manifest this most Holy Thing which He is about to bring forth. "The tremendous, radiant perfection - the holy glory of this beginning that He showed me - was so far beyond expression and so filled with holiness and God-life, that I felt greatly perturbed, and trembled even though He told me over and over again not to fear. It was something too high, holy and perfect to look upon. "When He said, 'The hour has now come,' it seemed that He was about to explode, not in an explosion of terrible destructive violence, but rather a pacific explosion. Then He came forth, as it were, in this explosion, and it was tremendously sweet. From this sweet, explosive breaking forth, He extended Himself over all; that is to say, He desired to manifest Himself, pouring this forth upon those of His own ones who were waiting upon Him. To me it seemed so imminent that it appeared to be right now, yet I know it was not at this moment of our time." The New Life and the Angry Storm "Of late, every time He takes me unto Himself, I am made exceedingly conscious of the coming storm of persecution that is drawing ever nearer. It is already forming and developing, gathering its forces and heaping together its strength, preparing to break forth in hellish fury at a predetermined time. "This great storm of hate and fury, with its pain and bloodshed, is timed to break forth at the very same time as this high and Holy Thing that He (the Father) is bringing forth out of Himself shall be manifested upon the earth. The two things are forming in the invisible world at the same time and at the same pace. The storm of persecution and hatred shall break forth simultaneously with the coming light of this Holy Thing that He is bringing forth; which shall be manifested upon the earth in those whom He has chosen exclusively for Himself, and in whom He shall come forth in this new beginning." Then this: God's View of the Storm "In prayer, God lifted me up into Himself and again showed me the great storm of evil and persecution that is coming upon all the earth. For the first time He showed it to me as He sees it, and not as I have seen it through my own eyes. To Him this storm was a most beautiful and glorious working out of His perfect will, which was bringing forth great blessing and not the destruction I had hitherto seen. In spite of being such a tremendous storm, nevertheless, it was not evil at all, but was filled with goodness. Seeing the storm as God sees it took away all the horror I had felt before concerning it. "Before it had appeared tragic and evil to me, and its image had haunted my natural thoughts because of its evil portents and terrible power, darkness, destruction and pain. I now saw an entirely different image: the storm as it really is - a wonderful and powerful wave of His cleansing power and grace which is bringing forth rich blessings." And finally this one: His Presence Develops "God placed within His own ones something that did not fully develop in all of them. The development of this living thing only came forth into fullness in those who came into a state of His continual Presence, and who were continually dwelling in Him. This development came not by works, nor by strengths, nor by the strivings of man, but only by the continual Presence of Christ in their lives." [Annie received these visions in 1971, the time of their fulfillment is now. I urge you to obtain a copy of these visions for yourself. You can find them at <a track="on" href="http://www.thequickenedword.com/annie.htm" shape="rect" linktype="link" target="_blank">http://www.thequickenedword.com/annie.htm</a>. Here are all four volumes in one. I am quoting from I Looked & I Saw Visions of God," edited by R. Edward Miller.] Let us receive with all confidence of faith this most Holy Thing, this manifest presence of God's person Himself, revealed now in us upon this earth. We receive all the fullness of the Pneuma without measure. We walk just as Jesus walked, tempted, yes, but without sin, in full obedience to the Father who is the only life we know. We set the captives free. We heal the brokenhearted. We give sight to the blind. We proclaim the salvation of God. We are the presence of His vengeance upon the earth. God proves Himself through us. Out of our belly flows the river of the life of God transforming this planet, cleansing it of every unclean thing and of all that offends. Even so come, Lord Jesus. Go back to <a href="http://www.dyordy.com/"> Fulfilling the New Covenant </a> </div> </div>

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Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:43:00 GMT

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ: Seven Key Aspects

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:38:00 GMT

<div id="PageWrapper"> <div id="Header"> <div class="floatclear"></div> </div> <div id="Content"> The Revelation of Jesus Christ: Seven Key Aspects From: Daniel Yordy www.dyordy.com There is so little focus in the Christian world today on what God is actually doing right now in the earth. Most don't have a clue. God's people receive truth and revelation and power and anointing from God and then take those things in every conceivable direction. Few consider the revelation of Jesus Christ. I am not saying that to disparage anyone who is genuinely seeking the Lord, but there is so much being offered in the realms of power and truth that simply does not appeal to me in any way, primarily, it does not speak to the fulfillment of the New Covenant. There is no question in my mind that we are at the end of the age. By that, I do not mean the end of history and the life of man upon this planet, by any means. The age that is ending is the age that began on the Day of Pentecost in AD 29. It is the age of the establishment of the New Covenant, the time of the "in-part" that Paul spoke of. (Some try to call it the ending of the "age of grace," but this is absurd, grace is the essence of God. It is only the in-part time that is ending.) But the age of the New Covenant will end in a much different manner than the age of the Old Covenant. With the Old Covenant, God had a contract with a small group of people who were racially descended from Jacob. To fulfill that covenant, God sent them His Son. But thinking they could get their hands on the inheritance without the Son, they murdered Him. This act broke forever all terms of the Old Covenant. That Covenant ended upon the cross and has no existence today. In stark contrast, the age of the establishment of the New Covenant will end with its fulfillment in all fullness of all of its terms. God Himself will do this. But that is not the only age that is coming to an end. At the same time that God fulfills all terms of the New Covenant, He will bring this age of human folly to a close, the age that began with the fall of Adam into darkness and separation from God. The age of the establishment of the New Covenant has been two thousand years long, or two days. The age of human folly has been six thousand years long, or six days. But here is the thing we must understand. God is doing and is about to do mighty and wondrous things and we will see those things with our eyes. What God does now upon this earth will surpass all things He did in the past put together. When God accomplishes all that He is presently doing and has ended the time of man's rebellion and separation from Him, all creation, looking back upon what just happened will notice three dramatic things about the great and wondrous thing God has done. And make no mistake about it. All of creation, all of human history, all of God's redemption story is all about what is happening right now on the earth. This day is what it all was for. The first thing all creation will understand about God's final act in fulfilling His intention and determination is how far off-base the church's understanding of these times really was. The church's definition of the end of the age and the revelation of Jesus Christ turned out to be as far away from reality as was the Jew's definition of what the coming of their Messiah would be. The shock of watching most of today's Christians, especially American Christians, opposing the Lord Jesus Christ vehemently in His return and joining with those who seek to put Him to death once again, will have stunned heaven. The second thing that will be obvious and apparent to all is that everything God actually did upon the earth as He birthed the fulfillment of His eternal purpose and determination was in extraordinary agreement with what He actually said in the New Covenant stripped of all the ideas and definitions that were tacked onto what He says and understood by the Spirit of truth. In fact, everything God said in the New Covenant had its complete and perfect fulfillment in unimaginably powerful ways in the lives of His people on the earth. But the third and the most extraordinary thing that all created beings will recognize with all amazement is this. Everything God did in the earth, as stupendously awesome as it was, shaking the foundations of all things to their core, proving His Word in the face of all calamity and darkness, demonstrating the supernatural power of God upon the earth, bringing all foes and all liars into submission upon their faces before Him, all of it, was done in and through a simple, gentle, and quiet people, a scattered people, to whom none of it was a surprise. Not really. It will not be a surprise to them, because they already believed that God would do all that He says, in their lives, in this age, and on this earth. That is why Jesus talked so much about weeping and gnashing of teeth. It was all there for whosoever will, but few wanted to believe all that God says. When the many see how simple it really was to be a part of the awesome and wondrous fulfillment of all that God has spoken from the beginning - all you had to have done was to yield to His hand and to believe with a simple heart all that He speaks. "I belong to You. Let it be to me according to Your Word." When they see it and realize that they will wait another age before they also can enter in, they will weep. This letter is Christ Our Life. As such, my purpose is to speak to all that the New Covenant reveals to us that God is fulfilling now through the revelation of Jesus Christ in us and through us. So far, though I have alluded to a number of things God is doing right now in our lives as He unveils Christ in us in past issues of this letter, I have not covered the larger picture. In order to broaden my focus, I have laid out seven aspects to the revelation of Jesus Christ. Everything God does has first an inner part and then, secondly, an outer part. The outer part exists only as an extension and outworking of the inner part. Here are the seven things I will continue to expand on in this letter.    1. Our union with Christ (inner) - being transformed into the image of Christ (outer). "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loves me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2. "In that day you shall know that I am in the Father and you are in Me and I am in you." John 14. "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Corinthians 3. Christ is my life, I have no other life. Every part of who and what I am He carries utterly inside Himself, including all of my weakness and lack. And Jesus fills every part of me, every part of my humanity, in the messiness of my human experience. At the same time, I am becoming what I already am before God right now. There is a rest in what I already am, but there is also a becoming of that same thing. Both of these truths go hand in hand, simultaneously. Right now, Jesus reveals Himself in all the messiness of my human life in this world. At the same time, He is transforming me, from the inside out, into the same image of Christ standing in glory before God from before the foundations of the world. I am just like Him, for I see Him as He is.    2. The acceptance of our limitation (inner), the overthrow of the curse (outer). "I will glory in my infirmities, for when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12. "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8. "For this mortal must put on immortality, and this corruptible must put on incorruption." 1 Corinthian 15. "Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." Romans 8. I do not think that I can "do" what God requires, in fact, I do not try. There is no victory over anything without first coming to a complete and continuing rest in the sufficiency of the salvation of Christ inside. "His grace is sufficient for me" must be far more than a slogan, it must be the essence of our life. That is one side of this truth. But at the same time, nowhere does God say that I must continue under sin or under any part of the curse. I believe God to see total victory over sin in my life, to walk without sin, to walk in full victory over physical death and all aspects of the curse right here on this earth in this life. I am expecting a grace from God that has not yet been given to the church that will enable me to do just that. Everyone says that all things are possible with God. Yet most reject utterly the possibility that He would work the same freedom from sin in my experience that Jesus Himself walked in. [This is the one thing that must be impossible for God!] Can I do this? Of course not. Will God do it in me as I walk in expectation of faith before Him? This is the great challenge that was thrown in God's face from the beginning. Will God prove Himself true? Watch and see.    3. The ministry of intercession (inner), the river of life (outer). "Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation." 2 Corinthians 5. "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." John 7. "And they shall nourish her there . . ." Revelation 12. Central to Christ residing in us in our humanity is the action of intercession. We think that we ourselves are going through things, struggles, difficulties, and so on. But that is only if we see ourselves as separate from God. When we walk in the consciousness of our union with Christ, then we see these things entirely differently. Everything we go through, God is working for the good of others. In a way, we stand in the stead of many. As we pass through and find the revelation of Christ in the valley of the shadow of death, we open the door to many to come freely through. Christ is working His reconciliation through our circumstances. This is our great privilege. At the same time, there is an out-flowing of the Spirit of Christ through us. Everywhere we go, a river of life flows out of us, touching, healing, bringing life to others. We may not see it, but that does not mean it's not happening. If we believe in Jesus that is what is happening. What times we see it in actuality bringing healing and life to others, it is our joy. But more particularly, I find the Spirit of Christ in me drawing these words to great depths for our lives right now, "And they shall nourish her there." We are called to be the ark, to be Joseph, to be the provision for many who will not know where to turn in the times to come. God is filling us right now with the knowledge of Himself with power, that we might be that nourishing when it is needed.    4. Casting down the accuser (inner), casting down powers and principalities (outer). "And they overcame him (the accuser) . . ." Revelation 12. "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6. "God shall crush Satan under your feet shortly." Romans 16. Evil cannot exist, except God gives it form and energy, all evil is guided by God's purpose, and God works the doings of all evil for good. Yet evil itself is not God. Evil exists because in God's determination to have the many-membered son He desires, He ordained that He would form that son through defeating and overthrowing of evil, through casting off that which limits God. God allows evil to exist that we might defeat it and cast it off. But our part is to cast down the accuser in our own minds and hearts. Separating our mind from all accusation against us is the battle we are in. Knowing about our union with Christ does not remove us from the assault against our minds and hearts. We must "practice" that union until it is unassailable, until the prince of this world comes and finds nothing in us. We strive to come into complete rest in Christ living through us. But outwardly, right now, the whole world lies under the sway, the control, the governing dominion of the evil one. To consider any idea for improving life on this earth that does not include at its core the removal of Satan and all of his demons utterly and completely from this planet and from human experience is not only pointless, but actually serves the purposes of darkness. As we cast down the accuser in our own hearts and minds, we release the powers of heaven to do their part. We do not "get rid of Satan" per se, but God Himself breaks the evil one under our feet.    5. The fulfillment of the covenant (inner) and the contest over the inheritance (outer). "The meek shall inherit the earth." Matthew 5. "For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come - all are yours." 1 Corinthians 3. "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son." Revelation 21. "Come, let us kill Him and the inheritance shall be ours." Mark 12. "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled." 2 Corinthians 10. "When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them." -- "And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!'" Revelation 11 In the last few months, addressing this issue has become illegal in the United States, as it already has been in much of the world. Judaism is anti-Christ. The nation and government of Israel, as it exists right now today, is the head of the beast that was wounded unto death and now lives. The same small group of people who opposed Jesus directly during His ministry, the Pharisees, continues to this day in the same opposition. It may astonish you to know that, at the present moment, the faction of the Pharisees dominates utterly the American political system, the media, business, and finance. [And that of most of the rest of the world.] And through the television set and the media, the Pharisees of the Talmud teach us how to think about everything, that's why God calls it the image of the beast. God needed the Pharisees to oppose Jesus. He hardened their hearts for His purposes. He is using them in the same way and for the same purpose today. The second witness of Christ is central to what God is doing in the earth today, to the revelation of Jesus Christ. God requires a second witness to prove all things, a second confrontation, a second death, a second resurrection. This also is Christ our life. But this is the outer parts of the inheritance. The inner part, where God has us right now, possessing all things, including all things of the age to come. This also, we must explore.    6. Being members one of another (inner), together, giving an invisible God shape and form so that He might be seen and handled (outer). "Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit." Ephesians 2 "Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: 'Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.' Then I said, 'Behold, I have come - in the volume of the book it is written of Me - to do Your will, O God.'" Hebrews 10. "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory." John 1. We are members one of another. God is preparing each of us for the place He has ordained for us in His temple. There is no truth of God that is fulfilled in any of us as individuals separate from one another. All things that God speaks, He fulfills in a many-membered corporate body of people. The greatest event of the ages is the moment when the Father Himself fills His fully prepared temple. That moment is soon to come. The fulfillment of all that God speaks takes place, not in "heaven" but on this earth and in His people. God is an invisible Spirit. He cannot be seen or heard or touched. But this is not satisfactory for God. He is forming for Himself a body, that He might reveal Himself through that body. God wants to be seen and heard and handled - through us.    7. The manifestation of the authority of God (inner and outer). "All authority in heaven and in earth is given unto me. Go therefore . . ." Matthew 28. "And I will give to my two witnesses and they will prophesy." Revelation 11. "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." Revelation 3. To sit with Jesus upon the throne of God is to be the authority of God in the universe. Every word we speak carries great authority. We have no idea. Yet this topic in its fullness is beyond my present place upon this path God has us on. I will share of it in part, but I cannot now share of it in its fullness. This layout of seven things, inner and outer, concerning the revelation of Jesus Christ is not meant to be exclusive, simply a way to approach the wondrous experience that God is taking us through. We will not experience any of the outer until first we know fully that which is inner. Yet God never stops with the inner, but always, He proves His mighty victory in that which is visible and outward. This is the incredible purpose that God has seized us for in His determination. This is the turning, the transition between two ages. This is the day in which we live. <DIV ALIGN=CENTER>*****</DIV ALIGN=CENTER> I find it necessary, once again, to clarify the purpose of this letter. I am actually writing it to share with a few specific friends and family members the things that God is teaching me as He takes me along this path upon which none of us have ever trod. In doing that, I have opened up this private letter to others who also find the Lord speaking to them through it. But in order to be able to share faithfully with my friends and family all that the Lord is teaching me, I must maintain the freedom of the private-ness of this letter. I also receive a number of similar letters - or I go to other blogs to read things written by others. Often, I find things that I witness to and that feed and encourage me in all that God is doing with me. But I also often find things that I think are nonsense or off-based or just plain deceptive. [And everyone who writes is absolutely convinced they are speaking straight from God.] When I see those things, I simply ignore it, or skip over that part. God did not put me on this planet to straighten anyone out. Truth is a relationship with a Person, truth is not discovered by debate. If you are receiving this letter and you find that God is not speaking to you through it, then I would ask you, please, have the integrity to unsubscribe. It is a simple process; just scroll down to the bottom, and click on the "unsubscribe" link. Then, fill in your email address, and again, click "unsubscribe." Your email address will be removed from the list automatically. By being as honest as I can about what this letter is about, I am giving every reader the full opportunity to take advantage of the simple unsubscribe process below. If this is not your cup of tea, there is no need for you to intrude on a private letter. I am fully open to gentle correction from people I know and trust. I welcome with joy comments and questions, whether I answer or not. But anyone who imagines that God is telling them to "straighten me out," I will and have taken the liberty to remove those addresses from my list. I am not writing for that purpose; I cannot write under that shadow. I have a thesis, and that is to take all that God says in the New Testament, all of it, not removing any part nor adding anything from human thinking or the traditions of men. To receive all that God speaks, to believe for the fulfillment of all that God speaks by the power of the Holy Spirit in my life. To make all that God speaks in the New Covenant personal to me; to see God fulfill every word He has spoken since the beginning in my life in this age on this earth in all of its fullness and meaning. That is what I want to do by God's grace and why should I be faulted? Everyone does what they want; everyone believes whatever they choose. I find that very few people subscribe to such a practice. There is not one thing God says in the New Testament that you will not find some Christian who will rail against it if you try to teach it. And almost all Christians are willing to take what God reveals in His word or by His Spirit, and extrapolate it with human reason into theologies and philosophies of existence that God does not actually say, and that require them to then denounce or explain away other things God does say. Whenever I find myself twisting verses to get across my point, or explaining why other verses don't really mean what they obviously say, I stop myself short. I choose not to do that. I do not care if the things God says seem to oppose each other. My place is not to figure God out, my place is to believe what He says, and to yield to His hand that He might accomplish His determination in me. I am not a minister. I do not fellowship with a small group. Though I desire such a thing and have lived there for years in the past, God has not brought that to me in this season of my life. I am a limited fellow, emotionally. I have had so many experiences blow up in my face, so to speak, with great hurt through all the years of my life, that I find myself in a state of "shell shock," even in my early fifties. I seek the Lord for healing, but until He does just that, His grace is sufficient for me. You may wonder who and what I am. I am nothing more and nothing less than a friend of the Bridegroom. By sharing with you the journey God has me on and the light upon my path He is sharing with me, my only desire is to take your hand and the hand of Jesus, to place them together, and then to step back into the shadows rejoicing in the joy of my Friend. If that happens, here and there, for you, then I have fulfilled my purpose in writing. If it does not, there is nothing gained. Yet, my Friend, the Lord Jesus Christ, is doing more right now than bringing His bride to all purity and faith in union with Himself. He is also vindicating His Father upon the earth. And the sound of the shattering of all things that can be shaken is growing louder in my ears. That, also, is the revelation of Jesus Christ, and I must share those things with my close friends and family members as well. If you wish to read along with them, you are more than welcome to do so. <DIV ALIGN=CENTER>*****</DIV ALIGN=CENTER> I would urge you in the next few days and weeks, to be sure you have sufficient food for your family in the pantry, to last for at least a couple of months. That practice is simply wise living. Much more than that we probably cannot, at present, do. There is reason to believe that the harvest of food, not only in the United States this last fall, but throughout the world as well, is the worst in decades. Yet the US government continues to report abundance, keeping prices low, when they really should be much higher to limit consumption. We trust in the Lord, but, as Patrick Henry once said, "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it." This is how I, also, am made. Here is an article and website that carefully explores the present world food status. Check it out for yourself. http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/12/2010-food-crisis-for-dummies.html The world is not our source; God is our source. But when the world seems to have some answer to the dilemma, and God seems not to, many will be tempted to turn to the world instead of waiting on God. But the world will have its price and that price may be more than we are willing to pay. Go back to <a href="http://www.dyordy.com/"> Fulfilling the New Covenant </a> </div> </div>

The Essence of Trust

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:09:00 GMT

Except You Eat My Flesh

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:59:00 GMT

Stepping out of Darkness: Part 2

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:09:00 GMT

<div id="PageWrapper"> <div id="Header"> <div class="floatclear"></div> </div> <div id="Content"> Stepping Out of Darkness (Part 2) From: Daniel Yordy www.dyordy.com For this series of three articles, I take my text from Revelation 3: "I counsel you to buy of me gold refined in the fire that you may be rich, and white garments that you may be clothed and eye salve for your eyes that you may see." I am not interested in nice discussions about nice Biblical topics. I am interested in what God is doing in the earth right now. And right now, God has me focused on His fulfilling all that He speaks in the New Covenant in our lives right here and right now. This focus brings great distress along with great joy. The joy is the wondrous knowledge that He fulfills all these things in us in our weakness and that He does so AS US in our humanity, that all of His ways concerning us are perfect. But the distress comes from the reality that we live in difficult times and what God speaks in the New Covenant appears to us as impossible. Here, in the church of Laodicea are a group of poverty-stricken, deprived, empty, bottom-of-the-barrel Christians who are convinced that they have all abundance. They are also blind, but are convinced they can see (I talked about that in Part 1); and they are naked and shameful, but are convinced they are clothed (which I will discuss in Part 3). I will make no apologies for the fact that I am convinced we are about to enter times of deprivation and death and chaos in this world worse than anything we have ever known. As an amateur student of history, I am fully aware that the incredible bubble of safety and abundance of the last 60 years through which we have lived in America has no correlation in history. It is so unusual that it it is hard to understand how it has existed this long. More than that, most people have no idea how incredibly fragile the massive interwoven worldwide support system that brings us our sustenance daily really is. The food you will eat next week is at the present moment hundreds of miles away from you. One large coronal ejection from the sun, or one large nuclear blast high in the atmosphere, will eliminate that support system in a moment and there will be no recourse. No one knows how to survive. There will be no electricity and no water and no food and no one will be able to fix it. Then , things will start to get bad. There is an argument that says that we must not think about such things because they are so "negative." We must express only positive things so that only good things will happen to us. "Don't be so negative, God would never allow anything bad to happen." For some reason, I find that argument repulsive because it requires me to live in a lie. I cannot believe that I can know the truth that is Christ Jesus and wrap myself in lies at the same time. The revelation of Jesus Christ is within the world as it is, not the world we wish in our fantasies. I would much rather grapple with fear now and bring my faith into the knowledge of Jesus Christ now, than to deal with that enormous transition all in a moment, as most people have chosen to do. In China, when the Communists took power, they (as in all Communist takeovers) targeted the churches last. While all other freedoms vanished, Christians continued to believe they were free. Then, the Chinese Communists did not assault the church openly, but through backhanded means they spread dissension and accusation. The church in Shanghai that Watchman Nee was a part of was one of the most dynamic and healthy churches in China. It had been birthed by one of the greatest apostolic ministries in church history, Hudson Taylor. Ninety percent of that church turned their backs on God and walked away from Him; the other ten percent went to prison. An honest reading of history will show us that this is the normal Christian life. We are terribly poor and we need the wealth that Jesus is talking about here more than we understand. I am saying these things for a purpose, to share hope and faith with you - and with myself. But faith is specific to reality; it does not work inside of the dullness and fantasy where many American Christians live. "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5 "Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according the power that works in us." Ephesians 3 "And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4 There is inside of the life of Jesus inside of us all provision for all things in all abundance. If we do not know that we are poor, we will not live in the abundance of Christ. In order to step out of poverty we must become poor. Because we think we are rich, we are content to live separate from the abundance of Christ. Why do we need His provision when we have the corner store? The curse stripped mankind of the abundance and wealth of God. But trying to live as a collective of selfs separate from God, man has built a vast system of provision that is much larger than food and drink, clothing and shelter. It is a system of thinking that extends in many different directions. In other words, there are so many ways that our minds and the trust of our hearts will go that is other than that which comes out of our union with Jesus. That fact does not distress us because in all things God is working together with us for good. There is not a single struggle that you and I wrestle with right now that we will not discover is really producing unending blessing and benefit both now and in the ages to come. But all of it comes out of our discovery of His fullness in our weakness. The purpose for the limitation in which we live is to know Jesus as we can know Him only inside the vanity of our present state, and inside of casting off the curse by faith. There are so many ways in which we imagine we are rich when we are actually trusting in something other than Jesus. At every point of imagined "wealth" we ask Jesus to bring us to poverty that we might know Him in His abundance. And don't think I'm talking about monetary poverty. The issue is not money or the lack of money, corner stores or not corner stores; the issue is our source. Two ways in which we imagine ourselves to be "rich" are found first in those who are "getting ready for what's coming," and second in those who believe we don't need to "get ready for what's coming." For many years I lived in a community of believers who were "getting ready for what's coming." I know what it takes to get your food out of the ground without the use of cheap oil. It takes unending hours of backbreaking work. Today I see much more clearly just exactly what is at stake then I did then. And I know this: no natural preparation is going to help us. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have extra food on hand; that's just a normal part of wise living. In fact, I've had the Lord impressing on my heart the need to have good hiking shoes for each member of my family. If we have to literally walk away from everything, not having good shoes will show itself very quickly. Everything we depend on in this world is being framed more and more in the need to be identified in order to buy or sell. The Real ID Act that Bush II tried to push through required you to have a radio identification chip in your National ID card in order to enter a federal building, or an airport, or to have a banking account. Although that failed because of opposition from the states, the same principle is coming through many different directions at once. Soon, if you want to participate in the world system, you must be marked and identified. One such way is pandemic emergency. The law is already in place, the emergency already declared. The entire world is presently subject to the dictate of the World Health Organization. The constitution of the US ceased to have any legal authority on September 12, 2001 when Bush II declared a state of national emergency, that's why they make no effort to follow it except in show. In order to ensure that every person on the planet is vaccinated they have decreed an armband in which is a radio chip identifying you. If you do not have that chip, you are not allowed to function in society. The vaccination itself is a deadly evil. I can in all confidence advise you to refuse it. (Of course, this intent has faded with the mildness of the "swine flu.") All of these things are fully in place. The WHO declared a Level 6 pandemic last spring which means they are now the de jure authority over all nations. Being the de facto authority requires frightening the population, something not easily done, actually, but they are working hard at it. The first President of Europe, Van Rompuy, who took authority on December 1, said in his first public statement after being secretly chosen (by Henry Kissinger no less), "Global governance has already begun." How shall we walk through what is ahead? How do we prepare? Those who are frantically trying to be prepared cannot be prepared; they will fail. But far sadder than that are those who imagine that they don't need to be prepared. "I'm just trusting in Jesus. He will take care of me." Forgive me if I don't believe those who glibly make that claim. I really do not. For me, the circling creditors alone are scary. It's easy to write about how the children of Israel should have celebrated the victory before they saw it with their eyes; it's quite another thing to do the same. Most American Christians, when push comes to shove, will choose to trust in the government, convincing themselves with all of their hearts that in doing so, they are trusting in God. A popular news commentator recently presented five points of argument that have been embraced by many dear and foolish American Christians. Point 5 is the worst. It states: "I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet." The angel, speaking to John, gave her these words: "I sit a Queen and shall see no sorrow." Those in whom Christ is revealing Himself flee as fast and as far from such a proclamation as they can. When an arrogant and wicked nation idolizes itself so blatantly, it, by its very nature of collective self-exaltation, must implode. Why am I saying all this? My purpose in these letters is simply to share with you a running narrative of the things God is teaching me and dealing with me concerning the life of Christ revealed in us. We are coming into the full knowledge of our union with Christ in the context of unimaginable disaster sitting upon the people of the world. In fact, it is our coming into this union with Christ that is causing the light to go on in the world. Don't think, over the next few years, that the world is "becoming more evil." No, it has always been what it is; it has just persevered in darkness, its evil was hidden. Now that the lights are turning on, we will see what it is clearly. Christ is everything we need, and Christ is the only life we have. Everything we need to be before God, Christ already is as us. God is taking us through many small difficulties now for the specific purpose of enabling us to learn to hold to Christ our life now in little things so that when the big things come, we will be found in Him and we will not join most Christians who will run to the world for their help, calling it "God." "And they shall nourish her there . . ." Revelation 12 That word "nourish" is so breathed upon by God right now. We are that nourishment and through us, God sends rivers of living water. We are right now buffeted on every side. The powers of darkness are terrified, and all of their fighting ability is directed against us. God deliberately led the children of Israel to a place where they would be pinned between an impassible sea and the vicious killers of Egypt. God deliberately led the children of Israel to an entrance into the Promised Land that required crossing an impassible river at flood stage. This is what He does. Why? So that He can show Himself mighty on our behalf. God likes to prove His stuff. More specifically, God is focused on faith in what He speaks. We are not trusting in God when we are filled with joy and peace while things are easy. When destruction is upon us and the way forward is impassible, then we know what faith in what He speaks really is. It is on this point that God focuses every part of His creation throughout the whole history of time - unwavering faith in the word He speaks when confronted with all opposition. And out of this connection of unwavering faith with an impossible word in the center of all opposition, God releases all provision, not only for ourselves, but for the entire creation through us. We must become poor; that is, we must cease looking to any other source besides our union with Christ for all provision. Will you stay at your job if doing so requires receiving a radio identification chip? Will you go to the doctor if payment requires having a radio chip? I know there are many Bible teachers who are saying that receiving a radio chip under one's skin is not a problem - that it is not the "mark of the beast." That is a personal choice they are making. Are they really brave enough to teach that to others as well? Most American Christians are convinced that nothing can be that mark because they are not raptured and it can't come until after they are gone. I have no idea what "the mark of the beast" is. I know that phrase has many spiritual applications. I know that in our union with Christ, His blood covers us in all things. I know that many people say many things about it. Yet, I am left with these facts of present reality. 1. The system requiring a radio identification chip will not allow you to function in any part of modern society if you do not have it, which includes buying and selling. 2. The chip is an identification that tags your body, marking your body, which is the temple of God and the focus of salvation, as the property of the government. 3. The chip is a tracking device that allows anyone with the right equipment to be able to track your every movement. 4. The chip is a direct electronic control device through which your thoughts and feelings can be manipulated and controlled. 5. As time goes on, those who have an active radio identification chip under their skin will develop cancerous sores as a result of the pinpointed microwave exposure taking place at that site. 6. The people pushing these things are evil and their intent towards us, particularly towards those who love Jesus, is evil. 7. The system that creates the "provision" that comes through being chipped and identified is imploding even while it is reaching for power, and all who put their trust in it will discover that it will not meet their needs after all. Would God place His people between impossibility and impossibility and in the middle of screaming contradiction say, "Stand still and see the salvation of God"? Actually, that is the point of the whole fall of man and all the ages of vanity. It is for this that God has chosen you and me. "You who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith - the salvation of your souls. . . Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ."1 Peter 1:4-13 Again, I am not trying to convince anyone of anything. I write only for those whose hearts are yearning to be found in Him and He in them, ready and willing and able as He reveals Himself in His glory. Peter says here that there is a grace that is yet to come, a grace, a divine enablement, that neither he nor Paul, nor John, nor David, nor Moses, nor Elijah, ever received or knew. Peter is claiming here, that at a certain point in time, as God wraps this thing up, we, you and I, must have our hope focused on receiving a grace from God, an enablement, a reality of life and power that no Christian or saint has ever known before us, save Jesus alone. Not Wesley, not Patrick, not Wigglesworth, not Madame Guyon. This is a grace. We do not earn it. We can do nothing to deserve it. Yet when it comes, most Christians will miss it. They will not recognize it at all. Because we look for it with all desire, because we believe God for the fulfillment of all that He speaks, because He has said so, we will recognize this grace when it comes, and we will receive it. And in receiving that grace, we are not made "elite." No! The whole purpose of receiving what we "do not deserve" is to turn and give it to others, though they also do not deserve to receive it. "And they shall nourish her there." This is the source of all abundant provision. <DIV ALIGN=CENTER>*****</DIV ALIGN=CENTER> I had to move this mailing list from one server to another, that is why things have not been working right. Everything is resolved now, and I will be able to continue to send out this letter. May the Lord bless you, Daniel Yordy Go back to <a href="www.dyordy.com"> Fulfilling the New Covenant </a> </div> </div>

Stepping out of Darkness: Part 1

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:18:00 GMT

God Speaks to Us Face to Face

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:57:00 GMT