The Courtyard, Holy Place and Holiest of Holies represent 3 possible dimentions of the spiritual life of a believer. The Courtyard is where most believers end up living their entire spiritual lives. The courtyard is the place of presentation. Here is where the sacrifice is presented to God, and the washing of the brazen laver. All most every modern church service is simply a presentation of the gospel over and over and a presentation of performance of "church" with the spectators who are encouraged to present again and again their lives to Christ. From the Courtyard their bread must be brought to them from somewhere else by someone else who has access to that bread. For that reason the Courtyard Christian represents spiritual babies that must be fed by someone else: i.e. priest, pastors, men with titles and robes who appear to the courtyard Christian to be men or women of elevation. (modern high places) The Courtyard Christian knows something is happening beyond the Door curtain but have never actually pressed through himself to become partaker of show bread eaten in the light of God's spirit. He is a baby and must have someone bring the bread to him and feed him outside of the Holy Place, not realizing that with faith he too could press into the Holy Place where the manifestation happens. The first dimension of the spirit is presentation (the Courtyard), the second dimension of the spirit is manifestation, (the Holy Place).
Eph 4:14
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine...
(KJV)
The 2nd dimension of the spirit is represented by the Holy Place the "manifestation". The children and babes in Christ are required to grow up and not to continue in their infancy, ordered so by the Word. Unfortunately they are kept captive in a system that coddles babies and non-growers on church pews. Religion's main purpose is to "stay saved", while God's plan is for man to progress from grace to grace and from faith to faith. The baby Christian want to have the gospel presented to him in an entertaining fashion where he can draw his milk from a breast presented to him, never venturing beyond the Courtyard. When, with a small amount of faith, he could push his way into the Holy Place and experience the Bread and Light of God's Word for himself. He can come into the manifestation of God's light and Word and make direct prayer to God without the help of Clergy (Nicolaitans Rev 2:15). Now, in the Holy Place the growing Christian is in a new spirit realm of signs, voices, wonders and manifestations. If the 80/20 rule is true in the natural then perhaps it too holds true in the spirit. Then only about 20% of the new Christians ever go beyond the Courtyard (1st dimension) on to the Holy Place (2nd dimension), inside the Door, to the wonderful manifestations of God. In the Holy Place (2nd dimension) they love the signs and wonders, direct inspirations, feasting in God's presence on His Word and enjoying the wonders revealed by the Light of the Spirit. Now I believe a full 80% of those that enter the Holy Place live there for the rest of their spiritual lives, endlessly seeking a greater manifestation of the spirit and another sign or voice. Running here and there looking for this and that miracle, sign, wonder and seeking signs. Nothing wrong with this place in the spirit, any more than coming through the Courtyard, but God wants to meet us in the 3rd dimension of the Spirit. We are to grow in grace and knowledge and we have not arrived until we enter the Holiest of Holies.
There will be a people that will ever learn but never be able to come to the knowledge of the real Truth (the fullness of Jesus). They will live out the spiritual lives without having reached the promised rest! Not having faith, the Word says, they could not enter in. There are many in the Courtyard who not having faith will never press through the Door to the Holy Place. The will ever continue going to church. Their faith lacks substance and evidence. Their milk it too watery to cause the growth the spirit man. They have heaped to themselves teachers and turn readily to fables. We have arrived they say as they sit in the rain in the Courtyard. For those 20% that do venture by faith through the Door, they become fascinated upon the signs, and voices, and wonders and revelations, and forget there is a 3rd dimension, and a full 80% of those who enter the Holy Place (2nd dimension) never go beyond the Veil into the 3rd dimension.
There is those 20% of the 20% who by the Spirit they are made to understand, there is the fullness that God seeks for us. We need to go through the Veil (all things fleshly) and enter into the Holiest of Holies, the 3rd dimension of the spirit, to Habitation.
Eph 2:22
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
(KJV)
So far we have determined there are 3 spiritual dimensions portrayed in the Tabernacle. The Courtyard (presentation) the Holy Place (manifestation) and the Holiest of Holies (habitation). We have also determined that by far most Christians spend their entire spiritual journey in the Courtyard of presentation, having the gospel repeatedly presented to them never going beyond the infancy of the spirit. They have to be fed by someone else eating the milk of the Word, relying on the clergy to bring substance to them from within the Door. They are in love with the priest/pastoral system.
Some Christians venture by faith through the Door into the Holy Place where they find the light of the Spirit and Bread for Life. They become excited by the new found manifestations in the Spirit and seem to always seek more and greater manifestations but yet not able by faith to press beyond the veil (all flesh) and into the Holiest of Holies where we find habitation of God, the Rest.
Do not think for a minute that I am down on the Courtyard or Holy Place experiences! No! But we must grow in grace and knowledge and progress from faith to faith. Not acting as though we have already arrived, but we press on to the highest calling. Paul said that I might know Him. It is entering into the Rest, the true Sabbath of God were we cease from our own "religious" labors and go beyond all flesh into habitation.
We are to grow up into Him in all things! That is beyond the veil. We are to come into the full stature of the measure of Christ. That is beyond the veil. Everyone of us ought to examine ourselves and see where are we in our spiritual journey? Are we stuck in the courtyard ever learning and yet never learning? Have we moved on to manifestation of the Spirit and gotten so excited that now we want to live here ever seeking a greater manifestation? Or have we become a habitation for the dwelling place of God, where we live and walk in the Spirit and enjoy the Rest of God? Where am I on this journey?
Sunday, October 10, 2010
How I See God
John 7:38-39
38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
(NIV)
1 Cor 12:13
13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-- whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free-- and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
(NIV)
I would like to share a thought given to me. I even dreamed about this thought and have been pondering it several days. I would like to share with you how I see God. Using the above verses I want you to see it is not a stretch to compare God to water (H2O). Lets think of God as being H2O and from here on out I will use H2O to explain verse and perhaps to show God's very nature. Think of the H2O over the whole earth in the form of water, vapor and ice. Yet all the manifestations of H2O is one just as God is One. Deut 6:4. No matter what the form or appearance God (H2O) is one. Where the H2O appears as ocean, glacier, rain, dew or steam it is always and only H2O. Where God appears as a burning bush, a voice from heaven, a dove or a Man, it is still only one H2O. Eph 4:4
Now that H2O which is invisible created Himself a Vessel, a pure glass, container, a tent, a tabernacle and show us the only image of the invisible God. That Vessel could be compared to an crystal glass that perfectly reflected the H2O within. The glass container was not H2O but only a Vessel to contain and reveal the H2O within. To wit: H20 was in the Vessel reconciling the world to Himself. We beheld the Vessel as the only image of the invisible H2O. The Vessel was born, but God was never born. The Vessel died, but God can never die. The Vessel bled but H2O can never bleed and die. The Vessel became sin, but H2O can never sin. H2O was poured without measure into the glass the Vessel. The Vessel or glass was called by His Father's name, H2O. The Vessel came in His Father's name H2O. The H2O was poured out of the Vessel (why have You forsaken me) so that the Vessel could die. H2O is greater than I (the Vessel said). No man knows the time of the end, not the Vessel only the H2O. I and my H2O are one. If you have seen Me you have seen my H2O.
In the fullness of time the Vessel will surrender all to H2O so that H2O can become all in all, but until then we are still waiting for all things to be put under the feet of the Vessel which is the first visible container of H2O. Now we Christians have become visible vessels of H2O and we too reveal the one invisible H2O to the world.
38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
(NIV)
1 Cor 12:13
13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-- whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free-- and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
(NIV)
I would like to share a thought given to me. I even dreamed about this thought and have been pondering it several days. I would like to share with you how I see God. Using the above verses I want you to see it is not a stretch to compare God to water (H2O). Lets think of God as being H2O and from here on out I will use H2O to explain verse and perhaps to show God's very nature. Think of the H2O over the whole earth in the form of water, vapor and ice. Yet all the manifestations of H2O is one just as God is One. Deut 6:4. No matter what the form or appearance God (H2O) is one. Where the H2O appears as ocean, glacier, rain, dew or steam it is always and only H2O. Where God appears as a burning bush, a voice from heaven, a dove or a Man, it is still only one H2O. Eph 4:4
Now that H2O which is invisible created Himself a Vessel, a pure glass, container, a tent, a tabernacle and show us the only image of the invisible God. That Vessel could be compared to an crystal glass that perfectly reflected the H2O within. The glass container was not H2O but only a Vessel to contain and reveal the H2O within. To wit: H20 was in the Vessel reconciling the world to Himself. We beheld the Vessel as the only image of the invisible H2O. The Vessel was born, but God was never born. The Vessel died, but God can never die. The Vessel bled but H2O can never bleed and die. The Vessel became sin, but H2O can never sin. H2O was poured without measure into the glass the Vessel. The Vessel or glass was called by His Father's name, H2O. The Vessel came in His Father's name H2O. The H2O was poured out of the Vessel (why have You forsaken me) so that the Vessel could die. H2O is greater than I (the Vessel said). No man knows the time of the end, not the Vessel only the H2O. I and my H2O are one. If you have seen Me you have seen my H2O.
In the fullness of time the Vessel will surrender all to H2O so that H2O can become all in all, but until then we are still waiting for all things to be put under the feet of the Vessel which is the first visible container of H2O. Now we Christians have become visible vessels of H2O and we too reveal the one invisible H2O to the world.
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