Chapter 2
Our True Identity
Who are we? There's a lot of confusion about this,
because some people are not hearing this message with Tabernacles ears. They're
hearing people say, "We are God." Whenever Adam, (our carnal nature)
says, "I am God," that is the abomination of desolation.
Whenever self sits in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God, it is
blasphemy. However, if you enter into the realm of Tabernacles and God
fills your temple with His glory, tell me, who are you? And if you come
into that place where the apostle Paul says that the Church, the body of
Christ, is the fullness of Him who fills everything, everywhere with Himself,
please tell me who are you? Are you beginning to hear what I'm saying?
If Adam no longer motivates me and if I'm not
driven by the natural desire to be godly, and if there's nothing in me any
longer that tries to be godly and I simply rest in His ability to do that in me
which I cannot do, and He begins to replace all my good, carnal, natural
desires and with the Law of His Life, and He fills my temple with Himself and
His glory, then who am I, and what is my true identity?
This is what is beginning to happen and this is
what the world is longing to see. God manifested in humanity. If you
don't see this, you'll go to the grave waiting for the Sons to be manifested.
You have to understand that you are not a carnal human being. You must
understand that if you still see you and God as two separate beings, then you
are living in a mistaken identity, like it or not, accept it or not.
Don't just turn off what God can do for you
because of your Pentecostal mind set and attitude. And whatever you do,
don't regulate all of this to sometime in the future. In Pentecost there is
still God and us because in Pentecost we see Him as someone up in heaven
somewhere. When I was living fully in the realm of Pentecost I could see
clearly that there was God and me. However there are times now when I
walk in Tabernacles in that realm where there is nothing but Him. When I walk
into that realm I can see that the work is finished and that there is
absolutely nothing any longer that I need to do. I don't need to be anything, I
don't need to aspire for anything, I just need to bask in the presence of my
God. In that realm David (in his carnal nature) doesn't exist because my carnal
nature has been crucified with Christ.
When we stand manifesting the glory of God, who
are we? It is true that the carnal mind may get involved and as a result
we have people running around saying, "I am God," that are no more
walking in the reality of Tabernacles than someone in the outer court.
But just because someone else is running around claiming to be God does not
mean that you cannot have the ability and the understanding to walk into that
realm of Tabernacles where there is nothing but God.
Jesus never ran around telling people that He
was the Son of God. On the contrary, He told people that HE was the Son of Man.
For years, some of the Kingdom and Sonship preachers have been telling the
world what God is going to do. Jesus said 2000 years ago (if you can hear
it), "The kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21). Those who
heard entered in, and those who didn't hear were waiting for something to
happen.
Because we haven't understood the message of
the Kingdom, Adam has been trying to build the Kingdom of God for 2000 years
and has done nothing but made a miserable, mockery of the Kingdom of God.
Flesh and blood cannot and will not ever enter into the Kingdom of God. The
message concerning Tabernacles is such a message of rest and relaxation.
Christianity for years has been trying to teach Adam how to be like God, and,
as a result, has covered over our true identity with the veil of trying to make
Adam perform according to godliness.
The Law of Sin and Death is so prevailing in
our churches today. The systematized theology of our day is absolutely under
the Law of Sin and Death. The Aaronic priesthood ended at the Cross. The veil
of the temple was rent at the Cross, yet, today people are waiting and waiting,
and praying and praying, and hoping and hoping to someday go beyond the veil,
when all the time it's been rent wide open. With just a little bit of faith and
a little bit of understanding of your inheritance and who you are in Christ will
cause you to enter in.
I am not Adam because Adam will never be worthy
to enter into the Holiest of All. Adam is dead. He died with Jesus. This is why
so many ministers today are calling the Ademic life a mistaken identity. If you
are still functioning in the Adamic life and are still living the life of
trying so desperately to be godly, always trying to make yourself better,
always making resolutions, and always confessing your sins, you are living in a
mistaken identity.
You must receive the revelation that there is a
life in you that has never known sin. There is a life in you that has never
known death. There is a life in you that's called eternal life. It's not something you got when you were born again, it's
something you had before you were born and were unaware of. We are not
Adam and we are not a human race of people trying to be godly. If we are, we
will go to the grave. I tried for 50 some years to make Adam godly and I never
succeeded even a little bit. And even if I had the strong willpower and the
character to make Adam into what religion says is a good Christian, what have I
gained? When I would stand before God He would have to say to me, "Depart from me, I don't know
you."
Would I be a Good person, of course! Go to church all the time, read ten
chapters a day, pray for an hour a day, pray in the Holy Ghost for an hour a
day, and God would say, "I
never knew you. "
How could that be? Well, the only way that He
can know you is to become you. Tabernacles’ is an intimate, intimate
relationship. The word we use as 'know' is the Greek word 'eido, i'-do' which
means to see and to have an intimate relationship with. We cannot know God
until at least in a small degree, He becomes us. Then we begin to understand
the spiritual truths that have been hidden in the Word. Men think they can have
Bible classes and teach people how to operate by Kingdom principles. This is
very important for those who are searching for answers and who have their
spiritual ear opening because the understanding only comes by revelation.
Teachers have been trying to teach people how
to set the Kingdom of God up on the earth for 2000 years now and it just
doesn't work. No matter how good Adam is and no matter how much Adam wants God,
when you put him in the role of leadership, whether it is in the church or in
the community, there are still going to be some hidden agendas hidden motives
in him. There is still some self-seeking and self-gain, and it corrupts. Jesus
said, "A little leaven corrupts the whole."
You must realize that you are not Adam. The
real you is Christ. Paul said in Gal 2:20 (KJV),
"I am crucified
with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the
life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave himself for me.
This is the true understanding of Hebrews 4:12
which says (KJV),
"The word of
God is living and operative, even to the dividing asunder of
soul
and spirit."
When I first began to understand these truths,
God began to show me very clearly the difference between Adam and Christ. Once
I had an understanding of the father-heart of God, which is never, ever
condemning, it helped me deal with the Adamic nature. God is always pouring out
His love and His correction. His purpose it to bring us more fully into an
understanding of who He is in us. Not to reveal to us who we will become. You will never become
anything in God,
but He will become everything in you.
There are a lot of people running around trying
to become godly and some even declare that they are God, or that they are the Christ. You have to be in the
right realm to see this, or at least you have to have had a vision. Many people
today are seeing this, but they won't cross over. They will say, "Brother,
it's blasphemous for you to declare you are God." Well, I agree with
that 100%, and I don't say I'm God. But I do say this: If Adam is replaced, and
God has filled me with His life, and when we come together we express, as the
Word says, the fullness of Him who fills everything everywhere with Himself. if
I am not Christ, then who am I? I am not the corporate Christ, but I am a
part of those who make up the corporate Christ.
Can the Body be of a different nature than the
Head? I believe that the greatest problem in the universe is man's
mistaken identity. Because of this when people hear this with Pentecostal ears
they think that it's New Age, or they think it's seducing spirits. They have
become blinded to the truth because of the God of this world has blinded them
with this mistaken identity.
Listen! As long as you're still in fear, of any kind
whatsoever, whether that fear is for yourself, or for those you are ministering
to or fear for the young ones in the Body of Christ, you have not yet entered
into the realm of Tabernacles. You have not yet seen that God is all in all.
You have not yet seen that "Known unto God are all His works from the
beginning of the world" (Acts 15:18). You do not understand that He
truly is the head of all principalities and powers in the heavenly realms and
the earthly realms, and above the earth and below the earth, and in the sea and
under the sea. Col 1:13-20
You have not yet seen that He is Lord of all,
because if you do, you will no longer have any fear. If you have fear of being
deceived and fear for others being deceived, you don't know the fullness
of God's love. Known unto God are all of His works. Because I have been
an avid seeker of God all my life, I have seen deception. Yet God has used that
very thing to teach me some things and give me some understanding that I would
never have received any other way. Even deception will work to your good
if you keep seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
Do you think that God birthed you into the
world and then just left you alone to work yourself into whatever you needed to
be? There are a lot of Christians that believe this. I know that before
my feet ever stepped on this earth God had a perfect plan and purpose for my
life. Not for David and not for that identity that I picked up at birth. He has
no plan for that. It takes several years of going through His dealings and
workings until you realize that is what you need to let go of. In Adam, you are
afraid to let go of your will power to keep him under control. You are afraid
that if you do he will go out into the world and do the things that he has
wanted to do all the time. I really understand that, because I've been there
and done that.
But until you let go, you'll never know if God
is able to keep you.
I really know that He will because He has kept
me! You have to understand what I'm saying here. Listen; if God has really
called you (and He has), then you're going to go through some of the most
horrible fires of tribulation. Today, God is giving us a vision beyond the
realm of Pentecost. However, God won't bring you into that realm until the
Potter has finished His work, because Adam cannot enter into Tabernacles. In
the Holiest of All, in the realm of Tabernacles, there is nothing but God. I'm
not telling you that I'm fully walking in Tabernacles and there's nothing of me
left, but I'm telling you that more and more, day by day, there is less and
less of my carnality. You may say, "Well, I certainly don't see any
improvement." That may be true but you can't see what is happening
inside of me and what is taking place right now. But just stick around.
It will be revealed soon!
Now you say, how do I know if I'm really there? You know! You know when you're just being religious or
when, at times, you can sense the fullness and the closeness of God. There are
times when there's just God in you, there is not both Adam and God. God is
producing sons on the earth, not someday, but today. If you are not
manifesting today, at least to some degree, the Son of God, you'll go to the
grave and never be a manifested Son. You don't have to wait for this because it
is not something to be waited upon, it's something to enter into.
Many have gone to people who had great
deliverance ministries and wanted them to cast the devil out of them.
Boy, wouldn't it be nice if you could just cast this thing out of you. It's
just not that easy. You can't cast Adam out. The truth is that in reality
Adam is no more. Children that are being born in the earth today are going
to begin to be taught their true identity. That's when you'll see the children
stand up and they will sound like the wisdom of the ages.
The reason that God has not brought some of you
into this is that He hasn't got you to the place where you are willing to lay
down every one of your agendas. If you want to have a ministry, if you want to
be a speaker, if you want to be an author, if you want to be anything, you are
not ready for God to be all in all in you. That has to be a working of God,
because Adam will never want to give up totally. You can't come into this thing
wanting anything for yourself. But if you'll understand what you are going to
get on the other side, then anything that you might want now will seem absolute
dung compared to what you will have when you enter into Tabernacles.
There are no personal agendas in the Kingdom of
God. You may feel that God has given you a ministry, and of course you want to
fulfill it, but you have to realize that if God has really given you a
ministry, then God will bring it to pass. The moment you put your hands
on it, you absolutely defile it. If God gives you some understanding of
Tabernacles and begins to pull you into that area where there is nothing but
God, you'll be more than happy to lay down your personal agendas.
We have to quit hearing with natural ears and
understanding. If you are hearing me with natural ears it's not going to help
you, not one bit. If every word that I speak to you is absolutely from the
throne and the heart of God, but you are hearing it with natural ears, it will
do you no good. The most it will do is stir up the Adam in you to try to be
better. The prayers that the apostle Paul prayed, I have prayed for years.
"Lord, open the
eyes of my understanding. God I so desperately want to see into the realm of
the Kingdom."
This is what is happening today? The eyes of
the blind are being opened. The eyes of the spiritually blind, those who sit
in darkness, and those who are bound in religious traditions are being opened.
Those who have heard words like this for years and have heard about the Kingdom
of God can imagine what it would be like, but they've been blinded and deaf.
Today, the eyes of the blind are being opened and the ears of the deaf are
being unstopped. Those who are sitting in religious dungeons and
traditions are beginning to see
and hear
and as a result the lame are beginning to walk. Every one of us when we
come into the revelation and an understanding of who we are, can say as Jesus
did when Philip asked Him to show them the Father, John 14:8-11 (NIV)
"Don't you know
me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has
seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't
you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I
say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is
doing his work."
If you want to see the Father manifest come and
live with me for a while. Will you see someone who doesn't make mistakes or
someone who never misses God? No! But, I guarantee you, if you come
and live with me; you'll see God manifested. I know many of us are
excited and think we have it made because we've come a long way.
We are not in the old religious system anymore.
We're not in an old, cold, dead move of God anymore, but there is still so much
of the Adamic mindset that we have. Before we can walk from the realm of Pentecost
into the Holiest of Holies, everything of the Adamic mind set has to fall by
the wayside. You cannot become the presence of God on the earth and have Adam
alive. To become the presence of God on the earth and to become a dwelling
place where God absolutely, totally swallows you up, all of the human belief
systems must fall away. The reason that we are not fully walking in and
listening, to our infallible guidance System (the Holy Spirit) is that we
are still clinging to the old human beliefs and limitations and religious
precepts and concepts.
There was a time a few years ago when I was
interested in the deliverance ministry and everyone that I talked to about
it saw demons everywhere. When I thought about the Devil and casting out
demons I was seeing demons everywhere. Then one day the Lord said to me,
"You are more concerned about the devil and demons than you are about
me." That's when I begin to teach about seeking His Face. Once you cross
the threshold of the Holy of Holies, there is nothing there but God. And your
vision is suddenly focused on Him because that is all that is there. There is
no more Adam to pull you down. There are no more devils that can defeat you.
When you begin to enter into that realm there is absolutely nothing that can hinder
you or can stop you in any way from being able to do that which God has called
you to do.
When you come into the Holy of Holies you will
begin to look and see everything and everybody through the eyes of God. You
cannot enter the Holy Holies and
look with
the eyes of God and see evil. You just can't do it! God's eyes are too
wonderful to behold evil. In the realm of Pentecost where it was me and
God, I saw so many other things. We see all of the evil in the world and we see
all the faults in other people. But once you enter into Tabernacles you will
begin to see with the eyes of God that all things are complete. You are then
able to see the end from the beginning.
Please! Understand that even in
Tabernacles we grow through a process. From sixty fold to 100 fold. Your
eyes are opened as the revelation of God's eternal purpose comes into focus.
What you must understand is that in Christ all things are finished and
complete. Absolutely nothing that needs to be added to Christ, nothing.
We have
been so centered on our condition in the natural that it absolutely hinders us
from interring into the land where there is nothing but God.
Listen! Whatever you focus your attention
on will be attracted to you. Not too many years ago, I was focusing on my
inabilities, shortcomings and focusing on my habits and on those things in my
life that were not of God. I couldn't get away from them because they were all
I could see and the more I focused on them, the worse I became. I told God that
I wanted to go back into the ministry but that I would not do it unless He
would allow me to see into the spirit world so I would know what was happening.
I was expecting Him to let me see all the demonic work that was going on in
people’s lives and boy did I receive the shock of my life. God answered my
prayer and has allowed me to see through His eyes and all that I can now see in
people is Him; even the vilest of people. He allows me to see that His
seed is planted in them and just waiting for a word of the Lord to be spoken to
them by one of His sons. He showed me that if I would focus my attention on the
loveliness and the beauty of His life that He has place in me I could walk into
the Holy of Holies. That's when I realized that whatever you focus on and whatever
you put your attention on, is what you will become.
In Zechariah 12:1 (NIV) it says
"This is the word
of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who
lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within
him,.."
In John 4:24 (NIV) Jesus said,
"God is spirit,
and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
God formed you spirit. You came out of the very
substance of what He is. Adam can't comprehend that because in our natural
human Adamic life the natural understanding cannot comprehend the things of
God. We know experimentally that there is no way we could take our
carnal, Adamic nature and make it good. We can dress it up, make it look
good, and if we have a good character and strong self-will, we can stop
sinning. But it's still Adam and it's still the nature of good and evil.
You have to understand that God formed you a
spirit before you ever became an Adamite.
What is happening to us is that we are
returning back to what we were really created to be. Your eyes are being
unveiled and your Adamic grave cloths are coming off so you
can see that you are not a canal human being; you are a spirit. Paul told
the Corinthians that you (the Church) are the Christ. Well, what does that
mean? We know that the word "Christ" means "anointed. We
are God's anointed on the earth. I'm not Adam and you are not Adam. We are
God's Christ upon the earth. This is really hard for some to hear, and
there's a lot of confusion when this is heard. Jesus said in Mark 4:24-25
(NIV),
"Consider
carefully what you hear," "With the measure you use, it
will be measured to you--and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever
does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."
Many are just hearing this message wrong. We
are not saying, "I am God," but what we are saying is that Adam our
Adamic nature is a human. Why is he a human? Because he had a natural father
who gave him birth. We inherit from our natural fathers all the way back to the
original Adam everything that we are in the natural. We are human because
we have life in a human nature. Religion has done nothing more than to try to
teach us to make the human man godly. Whenever the human man, Adam, stands in
the temple of God, declaring himself to be God it's the abomination of
desolation.
What we are saying is this, “Just as I am human
and I inherited my human Adamic life from my earthly farther Adam, I have now
received my spiritual life from my heavenly Father who is God. My Adamic nature
died on the cross with Jesus.” Paul said in Romans 6:3-10,
(NIV)
"Don't you know
that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his
death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that,
just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we
too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in his
death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we
know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be
done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin because anyone who
has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that
we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised
from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The
death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives
to God."
So what does that make me? Not only is
God my father but also I was created out of the very substance that He is. If I
am living in the Adamic nature, I am living in a mistaken identity. The truth
of the matter is that I simply don't know who I am. As a result, I
don't know where I came from and I don't know where I am going. And so I keep
trying with the help of religion to make Adam better so he can someday enter
into the Kingdom or die and go to heaven.
You need to realize that I you are not Adam.
You are spirit. There are loads of scriptures concerning this, Paul said in Col
2:9-11 (NIV),
"For in Christ all
the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given
fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority. In him
you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a
circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by
Christ."
If something is full it is complete and it
doesn't need any more work. We are beginning to realize that the work is
finished, and now comes the unveiling. If you don't realize that the work is
finished, you will keep trying to make Adam better. The work that God has
done in us is complete. Paul told the Ephesians in Eph 1:22-23 (NIV),
"And God placed
all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the
church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in
every way."
You are the fullness of Him. When he says
'You', who is he talking about? Certainly not the Adamic nature that you
once were. He is talking about the son of God He gave birth to in the
spirit. The real you! As a spiritual being, I have all the attributes and
all the characteristics of my father. As a result, everywhere I go I manifest
what He is. And if I truly understand and begin to live according to
spirit, I don't have to try to be godly. I don't have to get up each day and
try to make myself act godly because I realize that I am not Adam, I am Christ
on the earth.
You cannot get out of Adam until you realize that
you are spirit and that you are complete in Him. There is nothing you need to
add to Him, you just need to be unveiled. Most people know about a man by
the name of Michelangelo who was one of the most famous sculptors who ever
lived. He would take a block of marble and from that marble he would produce a
statue that would become world-renowned. When they asked him how he did it, he
said, "When that block of marble is in front of me, David is already
there, I just chip off the part that's not supposed to be there."
And this is what God is doing to us today.
Jesus said in John 10:10 (KJV),
"The thief cometh
not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might
have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
Most of our Christian life we were taught that
we had to die to the flesh, and we tried. However, the life Jesus spoke about
only comes from Him. This life that comes from Him will expel death from you if
you walk in it. If you never experience this life you can't get rid of death.
But if you will receive this life, even if you are dead to God in sins and
trespasses, this life will cause you do what is right in His sight naturally.
Paul said in Eph 2:4-5 (NIV),
"But because of
his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ
even when we were dead in transgressions--"
There are multitudes of people out there who,
in the eyes of their own senses are dead to God. Totally dead men have no
awareness of God. But Paul said, "Even, when you were dead in sins,
you were made alive. That's the message we need to take to the world. People
all over the world need to have their true identity revealed to them. God is
saying to those who have an ear to listen to Him, "Come up higher.
I want you to enter into realm where there is no death, no demons, no sickness
and disease." When you begin to enter into that place
your life changes so drastically that, at times you feel like you're
backsliding. This happens because not only do you lose that bad Adam you loose
that good Adam!