THE CRISIS OF THE CROSS - PART I 
                               by J W  LUMAN 
 
I am trusting that, during these few lessons, we will come to a crisis. I 
would like that we would be provoked to a crisis. I will be following 
along the line, "The Crisis of the Cross". Now, I sincerely hope that our 
lives are just torn completely up, filled up, and as a result of that 
filling up, emptied out. It is always the increase that produces the 
decrease, you see. I trust that we will come to an absolute crisis of 
confrontation with the Lord. That is what we are all about. We are 
gathered together, not unto ourselves, but unto Him. When you are 
gathered together unto Him it is crisis time for you; but, oh, what comes 
out of that is beautiful indeed. We may not bring anything beautiful; but 
that which goes away is beautiful unto the Lord.  
  
The Lord has been dealing with me concerning the Cross, and the 
tremendous division that the Cross makes - from the old, dividing all 
that is old from the new, dividing all that is not Christ from all that 
is absolutely nothing but Christ. Now, the Cross makes that division. 
Nothing else does, but the Cross distinctly makes that division. The 
Cross is not a piece of wood. You and I know that. It is not a historical 
fact. We know that also. When this divine principle of God begins to be 
worked in our heart and in our understanding, there will then also be 
this divine circumcision of all that is not Christ being simply cut away. 
Not injured, but cut away. Not stabbed at and wounded and left bleeding, 
but cut away. The cut of the Cross is so clean, so clear, so precise, so 
definite, so final. I desire that cut be made by the Spirit of God, and 
it must be made in our hearts. This is the circumcision that we must 
embrace, that we may put away. Now, I do not mean putting away all of me 
that is not like Jesus. I mean putting away of me, period. We want to get 
down to that in these lessons. Not putting away all of me that is not 
like Jesus. Just putting away all of me, where there is just that left 
that is just indeed the Christ of God. Nothing else will please the 
Father. Nothing else will do. The Father has desired nothing else, and He 
certainly is not going to receive anything else. That which is of the 
bondwoman shall be put away, and shall have no part of the inheritance 
that is of the free.  
 
I trust that God will prepare our hearts for this crisis. I want to 
present these lessons to you in the light of the Tabernacle. The Lord is 
beginning to change my understanding of the Tabernacle. I had to go back, 
and am even now in the process of readjusting what the Tabernacle is a 
true type of. I am trying to restrain myself from just jumping over in 
the middle and making a lot of waves. I think this lesson is going to be 
wading time. The river is first just to the ankles. This is probably the 
most difficult time, the time of wading. We may stir up some mud along 
the shore, so we may be wading for awhile here, but we are going toward 
the middle. We are not just wading down the seashore. We are going to be 
wading out toward, and trusting the Spirit of God to lead us there. So, 
what I am trying to tell you is, if some mud gets stirred up; if, in 
tying some of these things together, we begin to be brought to a crisis 
in some of our points of theology, just hold on, just exercise patience. 
Now, patience is the ability to wait until the coming of the Lord, so 
just exercise patience; and I guarantee that out of all of that He shall 
begin to emerge. He shall begin to come forth; because I have had to do 
some readjusting of my viewpoints concerning the Cross.  
 
I am going to use the type of Egypt and Canaan and the Tabernacle; and we 
are going to see how that relates to you and I right now in Christ Jesus. 
I am using Egypt, and then we will look at some types that I want to see 
there in Egypt. If we will look beyond some of our boundaries, and just 
see what the Spirit of the Lord is trying to say, then we will be better 
off in these days; so that we do not have to stop and go back and defend 
every little theological point along the way. We are here to see the 
Lord. This is not a theology seminar. I am sure we do want the truth to 
come forth; but just see what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. So, we 
are going to use this as a type of Egypt, and then a type of Canaan. I 
understand that no type is absolutely true, or is absolutely perfect; but 
I think we shall see Him in Whom this thing is made perfect. I cannot 
draw that on the board, but the Spirit of the Lord can reveal Him in us, 
as we will join our minds and hearts together. I just want to emphasize 
one thing; so, just hold on to some of these words. If you will, I 
promise the Spirit of the Lord will deal with you about it. ABSOLUTENESS. 
This is what I want us to see.  
 
This is what the Lord has had me in for several months. I do not know 
that I have seen it yet, but I am seeing the absoluteness of the division 
of the old from the new, being totally divided, absolutely divided; where 
that one is absolutely dead, and the other absolutely liveth; where one 
is absolutely done away, and the other is absolutely established in the 
heavens; where one is passed, and the other is present. Now, this is what 
I am seeing, and this is what I want us to see together. If we do not get 
anything else in these lessons, I want us to see the absoluteness of the 
division of the putting away of one from the other; so that in our hearts 
we'll have an absoluteness of turning from the one unto the other; 
because it is in the turning from one to the other that the veil is done 
away in our hearts, and we look with open face in a glass, beholding 
there the glory of the Lord and are changed into that same image from 
glory to glory. And it will never work, until there is an absoluteness of 
turning from the one, looking only, absolutely only, to the other. That 
absoluteness can only be worked in your heart by the Cross. As long as 
there is something there that we think to look back to, as long as we 
think there may be something there, even if we think it is running behind 
us trying to catch us, we are prone to look at it. Have you ever watched 
an old boy running a race? I know good and well that his coach tells him 
to keep his eye on the finish line and not look around or look behind; 
but I have watched it on television with close-up cameras, and these old 
boys, even in the Olympics, just cannot resist to glance back. They know 
that they are out in front and all that is in front of them is the finish 
line; but there is this agonizing thing, "There is something behind me. 
Something is behind me and I am going to see if it is going to catch me". 
Nine times out of ten when they look back, it does, and passes them on 
the other side.  
 
Did you know that the Lord understands this in man, and says that "He 
that putteth his hands to the plow and looketh back..." He did not say, 
"Turneth around and goes back". He said, "...turneth around and looks 
back..." Just consider that there is anything at all behind you. Now, 
this is what I want to get rid of today. I want the Spirit of the Lord to 
absolutely get rid of anything behind. Paul said, "Forgetting that which 
is behind." I mean forgetting it, having it wiped out of my mind, done 
away in my memory. You say, "Can that be?" It not only can be. It 
absolutely must be. If it is not, then the power of the Cross is no good, 
and the Word of God is not effective; and we know that is not so. The 
work of the Cross and the work of the Word is to absolutely do away, in 
our hearts, in us, of all that is behind, that we may press on. I mean 
with a pressing press on, with a running run on, only toward the mark of 
the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, with no thought at 
all of that which used to be; but only by the Cross is this so. The 
division has to be made distinct. The division has to be made absolute, 
until you are indeed free.  
 
So, the verse tells us, "Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath 
made you free." Not "set", hath "made" you free. "Stand fast in the 
liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free". This dealing of the Lord 
started with that one verse, and just keeps escalating; and the Lord 
said, "I am going to show you the absoluteness of the liberty. I 
completely and totally did away with the thing." "Stand fast in the 
liberty wherewith Christ..." Not something that He just gave to us, but a 
liberty that He Himself is. Learn this liberty, and then, "be not 
entangled with the yoke". There are two yokes involved here, one the yoke 
of the Adamic, and the other the yoke of Christ. Jesus not only says, 
"Come unto Me"; but, again, to those who come, "Come unto me and I will 
give you rest". But to those who come and find that rest, He says, "Now, 
take My yoke upon you. Enter into an absoluteness with Me, a oneness with 
Me that you have never known before, and learn of Me, and ye shall find 
rest". And, he that finds this rest is one who hath ceased from his own 
works, from his own life, even as God did cease from His works. He hath 
entered in to the absoluteness of union with Christ. He has entered in to 
the absoluteness of placement with Christ. He has taken the yoke, and he 
is learning daily of that which is Christ. Stand fast, immovable in this 
liberty and look not back; for, as sure as you do, the yoke of bondage is 
on you once again.  
 
Let us look at the Cross. Here is the thing that the Lord has been 
dealing with me about. At the entrance of the Tabernacle there is a 
brazen altar. A little farther there is a laver. Then there is a 
candlestick. Then there is a table of incense. Then there is the 
shewbread. Then there is the Ark. This is the Cross. If the Tabernacle in 
the wilderness is a type of anything at all, (and you know it is); it is 
a type of the Cross. I want us to see the Cross, and you cannot see this 
Cross, except you see Christ. In some cases, you may be way ahead of me; 
but, in some cases, we have missed the type of the Tabernacle by trying 
to separate as it were, Christ from the Cross. In fact, you cannot see 
the Cross without seeing Christ; and you cannot see Christ without seeing 
the Cross; because they, as manifested to man, are not separate. And to 
come unto Him, you must come by this way, and there is no other way. Now, 
God pictured this very clearly. He could have, I suppose, used any number 
of ways in getting His Son out of Egypt, (and you do know that is what He 
took out of Egypt, do you not?). He took His Son out of Egypt. There was 
no other way for God to do it, but bring Him by way of the Cross. Now, 
there was a shorter way, geographically speaking, to do so; but there was 
no other way in the heart of God for it to be done, but by the way of the 
Cross in the wilderness. So, in the wilderness, not in Egypt, and not in 
Canaan, but in the wilderness God brought into being, brought into life, 
brought into reality, the place of the Cross. That is what the Tabernacle 
is.  
 
You I am sure, have seen studies of the Tabernacle. Not only is all the 
furniture in the Tabernacle arranged in the image and shape of the Cross, 
but even the encampments were so camped round about by name and by the 
definition of all of those names. We are not going to get into all of 
that here, but they also formed the image and the shape and the reality, 
even by name and definition of the Cross, so that we see a cross within a 
cross. God is trying to show us the way from one side to the other side 
is by the Cross. You cannot get there any other way. I know we have seen 
the Tabernacle as many things. The furniture of the Tabernacle, and the 
Tabernacle itself is not just a type of Christ. It is a type of Christ's 
involvement with man; and the first involvement of Christ with man is not 
in the heavenlies. It is in the earth. The first involvement of Christ 
with man is not in the heavenlies. You do not take a deep breath, a long 
breath, and a long run, and jump from here to here, and end up in an 
involvement with Jesus. No! The first involvement of Christ with man is 
in the earth, and it is at the Cross and by the Cross in the earth. That 
is the first involvement, and we must understand that. This Tabernacle is 
not heaven. It actually depicts everything that has to be, and was, done 
away with. It depicts nothing, absolutely nothing that is found here in 
Christ. We have waded through and wrestled with the definitions of all of 
this stuff; and God is just trying to show us something. He is trying to 
show us here is the place that "I am trying to bring to an end everything 
that is not My Son; and I am going to show you with every one of these 
sacrifices, all of this business".  
 
I am going to show you the absoluteness of the end, if you will just look 
to the end. If you will just look to the end, I will show you the 
absoluteness of the Cross. His involvement is with us in the Cross. Our 
involvement with Him is in the heavenlies. "He that is joined to the Lord 
is one spirit." His first involvement with us is in the Cross. He did not 
become heavenly. He became earthy. He took upon Him the form of a 
servant. He made Himself of no reputation. He made Himself not to be 
beautiful. Everything He became, even the mind becoming obedient unto 
death; but not just death, the death of the Cross. "Let this same mind be 
in you." One that is obedient, not just to death. There are a bunch of us 
who would run out here and say, "Cut my head off for Jesus". There is a 
little more than that required, and that is the laying down of your life, 
period. Your life. That is the laying down of all that is you, not just 
letting your body be killed. No, the laying down of all that is you. The 
laying down of all that is Christ, suffering the loss of it in everything 
that is counted gain, the getting rid of all that which is finished in 
the Cross. That is the death. Not just a few little stripes on the back, 
and spitting in the face, and a crown of thorns on the head. That is not 
what made Him ugly; but the literal taking upon himself all that you and 
I are, all that the Adamic creation is, all that is not Christ. That is 
the ugliness of the Cross, and that is the death of the Cross; and as 
long as we are trying to make a pet out of it, we probably will never 
understand that.  
 
Not just death. Not just being willing to die for Him like thousands have 
died for their country. I am willing to go give my life for country. I am 
willing to go give my life for God. That seems to be more noble, but we 
are talking about the same thing. It is still just our bodies, and this 
Cross requires more sacrifice than that. The sacrifice required here is 
me. The change that is here is from me to Him, all that is me unto all 
that is Him. That is the transition. That is the change that is in the 
heart and mind of God. That is what God has called us unto. From all that 
is me unto all that is Him; but, the wisdom of God mandates that be done 
through death and resurrection. The wisdom of God mandates that be done 
through the transition that we see in the Cross. The Cross comes first.  
 
Now, in this study, we will be looking at three terms, and I trust that 
these three terms will present to us a truth; because if they do not get 
out of the realm of terms, we are all wasting our time. The terms are 
these: "translation", "transition", and "transformation". "Translation" 
has to do with being taken from one and placed into another. "Transition" 
has to do with the method of that placement which is the Cross. Of 
course, "transformation" is what is left after everything else is 
finished. In this lesson we will deal with the translation. Let us look 
at this in the Scripture. I am going to be looking at three things, or 
shall we say three folds, or a three-fold measure of this that is old. We 
must understand that this old includes all that is not new. Let the 
Spirit of the Lord show us what is old and new. I want to be talking 
about first "I am"; because the first thing that is done away is just 
that, what I am. Then I want us to look at the law. I am not just talking 
about the Ten Commandments, but the administration of it, the whole 
thing. Then, there is a three-fold realm, and these realms are the realm 
of the devil, the realm of the world, and the realm of the earth. All of 
this is under the old.  
 
Here we will put Christ. We are taken from the old, and we are brought 
into the new. The question that keeps coming to my mind by the Spirit is 
"How new is new?". How dead is dead? How absolute is this tremendous 
translation that we are talking about here? The thing between us here is 
the Tabernacle, and I want us to see that the Tabernacle is a type of 
what Christ became. We enter in here by Him. We enter into every 
function, every phase; and most particularly, we enter in by every piece 
of furniture. We enter in by the exact way. We enter in. He brings us in 
there in Himself. We enter in, but only He remains. Colossians 1:13, "Who 
hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into 
the kingdom of His dear Son." There is so much to look at here. Let me 
just call our attention to a few words. The word "hath" is used twice. It 
relates both to the old and to the new. Now, we must understand this. 
This does not say, "will", or "should", or "maybe", or "might", or any of 
the other things you might give to it. The term is "hath". It does not 
only indicate something that is past. It indicates something that is very 
much present. It indicates a work that is done, a work that is finished; 
but not necessarily a work that is past, but a work that is presently 
done, a work that is on-goingly done, not one that is yet waiting, but 
one that God hath done.  
 
The other word is "us". "Hath delivered us", "hath translated us". What I 
am telling you is this. The Cross, the Tabernacle, as we will see it, the 
Cross is very much connected to us. It is overlaid with gold; but what is 
overlaid with gold, in most cases, is nothing but wood. Yes, there is the 
fine twined linen of the sheets that are sewn together, there is that 
with the fifty loops. You have studied all of that, I am sure. But over 
that there is the skin that is finally topped off with an old badger 
skin. On and on you can see that it is God's involvement with man that we 
are seeing here. It is God becoming man. No less God, but becoming man. 
Man could not do this. Man could not bring himself from the old to the 
new; so God became man. But, the act is no less sovereign, the act is no 
less God. It is God in man. It is God becoming man. It is not God telling 
man how to do something any more. No! That was under the old. Transition 
is a work of God Himself. This is your union with Christ. Your first 
association with Him, your first involvement with Him is in the 
Tabernacle, in the Cross. Here it speaks of a loss of life. It starts out 
with blood and it ends up with blood, and everything that is connected 
with it is under the sprinkling covering of blood. We have been trying to 
see heavenlies here. No! It is the death of the earthy that is seen here. 
The priesthood, everything connected with it, dies, dies by reason of the 
death of the Cross. It does not just die. It dies by reason of the death 
of Christ. That is the reason that the Tabernacle itself, and every piece 
of furniture, yes, is a type of Christ, but not a type of the risen 
Christ, but a type of the  crucified Christ. That is the One with Whom we 
have our first involvement. You do not find a sin offering in the 
Resurrected Christ. You do not find bread with leaven in the Resurrected 
Christ.  
 
I am telling you, it is the Cross that God has planted in the midst of 
the camp of Israel, and said, "Here, and here alone will I bring forth My 
Son. No other thing can bring Him forth." He comes forth by the Cross, 
and He comes forth at the expense of everything that is not Him; because 
He becomes all of that! He spares none of it. He spares nothing of the 
old. Not one thing of the old escapes Him. He becomes it all. Then He 
takes it all to the Cross, and He puts it to a final finish, and it is no 
longer found in Him. It is not there; and, if it remains in us, it is in 
the figment of our imagination. It is in the darkness of our 
understanding. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you 
free." "Ye shall know the truth." Not true things, not truisms; but you 
shall know the truth. "I am." We are going to change "I ams" as we go 
along in this little lesson. "I am the truth. I do not just say things 
that are true. I am the truth." Things that are true applied to Adam, 
applied to yourself, will not make you free; but THE TRUTH will. "I am 
the way, I am the truth, I am the life. I do not say true things, do not 
show you a way, or give you life. I am." We must see that God has 
absolutely, clearly, distinctly separated everything from His Son; and, 
all that is His, is His now in the Son, not an addition to, not standing 
along beside, but in, in the Son. He is not standing there, and you are 
standing there too. No, He is just standing there in the Son. That is the 
only way the Father can have it. That is the only thing He can bear to 
look at.  
 
Oh, that we will see as He sees, that we will see in the truth that He 
sees, that the Cross will work the circumcision in us; that you and I 
will stop trying to hold on to, pray through, sanctify and get blessed, 
that which is not Christ; but that we will turn loose of that which is 
not Christ, and embrace that which is Christ, in Whom He hath blessed us 
with all spiritual fullness in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; and that 
the Cross will work a circumcision in our hearts so clean, so clear, so 
direct that we will no longer mix the two up, that we will not be praying 
for the wrong one half the time. We are trying to bring something into 
subjection that should be, by divine truth, reckoned dead. I do not mean 
by positive speaking. You can speak positive to it all day long and it 
will just slap you in the face. I am trying to draw a line of contrast. I 
am talking about not just talking positively, but speaking the truth as 
it is in Christ; and you cannot speak what is not revealed in you. For it 
is out of the abundance of the heart where God sendeth the Spirit of His 
Son crying, "Abba Father". It is out of the abundance of the heart that 
the mouth speaketh. There has to be a work of divine circumcision, not by 
the hand, not by the natural mind, not by doctrinal ideas; but by the 
pure, clean, eternal, revealed Word of God; and you cannot separate Him 
from the Cross; because His involvement with us is in the Cross, that we 
may be involved in Him in the pureness of His, and the power of His, (not 
mine), of His resurrection. Is not God wonderful? Made a way in the Son 
to the very bosom of Himself, that we may enjoy this business that Jesus 
talks about of bosom dwelling in the Father, and bring manifestation of 
that glorious dwelling place in the earth and in the heavens, because it 
is manifested from the heavens in the earth; and we sit there for 
manifestation here.  
I would rather be in Heaven hollering down here, than down here, just 
increasing my bondage to the five senses. He has just done a tremendous 
thing, and I want us to begin to see it. We are going to just begin to 
get a glimpse of that; but the glimpse has a way of just increasing. Once 
you see Him, you are ruined for anything else. You do not see anything 
else, in Whom we live and move. Just want to see Him. Then, the third 
term here is "delivered", and "translated". From one we are delivered. 
Into the other we are translated. The deliverance is by death. 
Translation is by the Spirit of Life. The deliverance is by death. There 
is only one deliverance, and that is by death. Deliverance is by death 
and only by death. There is no other way. You cannot just decide, "I am 
delivered". You cannot get someone to write you a document saying that 
you are delivered. Death says I am delivered. My mind is twirling with 
all kind of Scriptures, and I am sure yours is also; but, nonetheless, he 
that is dead is freed from sin. Not praying about it, trying to decide 
whether it is right or not, saying I am trying to get well. No, he that 
is dead is freed from sin. That is what the deliverance is all about. It 
is through death unto life; but it is through death, by death. The 
deliverance from the power of darkness is by death; and then, translated 
into the Kingdom of His dear Son.  
 
I do want to say that we are not translated into the Kingdom of His dear 
sons. We are translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son. We need to get 
that order in our hearts and in our minds. The Cross fixes that order. If 
you just go by way of the Cross, you will get the right order. It is when 
we try to find the way around it, or under it, or over it, that we get 
the wrong order. You come by way of the Cross, I guarantee you that the 
furniture is laid out according to the pattern of God's heart; and when 
you get to the top of it there is only going to be One left anyway, and 
that is not me or you or us. It is just Him. So, I just want you to know 
that it is the Kingdom of the Son - S-O-N, period, His dear Son. We are 
the Kingdom, but we are the Kingdom of the Son. He is the King, reigning 
forevermore, and no one is ever going to take His crown away from Him. I 
am not going to steal His robe, either. I may be covered by it, but I am 
not going to take it away from Him. I just think we should get that down 
here, now. 
That is where the Cross comes in. "In Whom we have redemption through His 
blood..." See, we are going to find all of this in the Cross. "...even 
the forgiveness of sins, Who is the image of God, the firstborn of all 
creation. For by Him were all things created that are in Heaven, and that 
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, dominions, 
principalities or powers..." We are going to come on to this later. "All 
were created by Him and for Him." You see who is getting the preeminence 
in these verses, do you not? "He is before all things, and by Him all 
things consist. He is the head of the body, the church." You see, 
relationship change here now. Now we are going from deliverance to 
translation. Relationship changes here. He is not just the one Who hung 
the stars and created all things; but now, He comes into a relationship 
that is a different thing; and "He is the Head of the Body, the Church, 
Who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He 
might have the preeminence, for it pleased the Father that in Him should 
all fullness dwell." Now, I am going to tell you that, according to these 
Scriptures, any relationship that I get into with Him, He is going to 
come out on top. If it is a true relationship with Him, He is going to 
come out on top. He is going to come out the Head of the situation. He is 
going to come out preeminent in all things. We need to mark that down and 
just hold that in our minds.  
 
The other verse that we will be looking at is Philippians 3. This just 
has to do altogether with the truth of this translation. Philippians 3:7-
9, "But what things were gain to me..." Now, are you ready to suffer the 
loss of everything that you, right now, count gain to you? Right now. 
Today. Not that which is gain to God, but what is gain to you. Only by 
the Cross can we really see that; but I am wondering, are we ready to 
suffer the loss of it? If not, we may not go farther in our searching 
together, in our praying together, in our waiting together; because here 
comes crisis. Here comes crisis, thank God. You see, God is not going to 
come along and take something away from you; but if you go by this way, 
you will watch it all die. Right there while you are looking at it, it 
will just die; and you will turn from it, from all that is gain to me, to 
all that Christ is unto God. Evidently Paul came by this way. "What 
things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ." Not "things of 
Christ", not "service of Christ", just Christ. There has been a 
replacement here of all that is gain to me with Christ. Just Christ. The 
reality, the realization, the revelation, of Christ. He has replaced my 
concept of righteousness. My concept of holiness. He has replaced it. 
That which brought me much gain. He has replaced it.  
 
Now, we are talking about good concepts. We are not talking about old, 
filthy stuff. Paul says, "What things were gain to me..." He had just 
finished saying, "Pharisee of pharisees, touching the law, blameless, 
born of the right family, circumcised the right day, belonging to the 
right group." He was not talking about old, ugly stuff. Replaced by 
Christ. It is gone. "Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for 
the excellency of the knowledge of Christ." Here is what does it - for 
the excellent knowledge. "You shall know the truth". For the knowledge 
that is most excellent. Here is the thing that does it. And, not only 
that. "For Whom". He relates this knowledge to a Person. The knowledge is 
not about the knowledge. The excellent knowledge is actually the Person 
revealed in you Himself. It is not getting a few little truths about 
terminology. It is not grabbing hold of the tail end of some truths about 
Sonship. It is having the Son revealed in you. That is altogether 
different, you see. This most excellent knowledge is the Whom of the 
situation. For Whom. The seeing of Whom. The knowing of Whom. For Whom I 
have suffered. It is no longer doubt. "Doubtless I have suffered the loss 
of all things, and do count them but dung..." The refuse of humanity, 
just dung. "...that I may win Christ."  
 
Now, here is where I am going. "And be found in Him." The absoluteness of 
the translation. There is a place where I am no longer found; and there 
is a place where now it is no longer I, but it is Christ. "For ye are 
dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. And it is not I, but it is 
Christ Who liveth in me." The translation is complete. Now that this 
completeness be worked out in me in the most excellent knowledge, in the 
divine truth of it; making me free indeed from all that is old, from all 
that is done away, past, dead, finished; and joined in truth, indeed 
experientially unto manifestation to Him Who is new, even in the newness 
of His very Spirit. Oh, that this thing be worked out; for you see, that 
the academics of it will not get it done, seeing a little drawing on the 
blackboard will not get it done; but the Cross working it out in us, 
creating the division, will. What is the Cross? It is divine truth, 
creating the division in us, the dark from the light, the lie from the 
truth, the dead from the living. "In that He liveth, He liveth unto God, 
and He liveth in me, and He liveth in you, we in Him, by Him, through 
Him." Paul saw the absoluteness of this thing. "...and be found..." 
Where? "...in Him".   
 
The absoluteness in the old is the absoluteness in the new. In other 
words, you cannot be found in Christ if you are still in the old; and, 
indeed, if you are in Christ, you are not in the old. But the problem is 
not getting you out from the old, but getting the old out from you; 
having it replaced by the law of the Spirit of Life, replacing, doing 
away, setting me free, from the law of sin and death. The revelation of 
Christ in me, accomplishing in me what He hath already accomplished for 
me, and for you, at the Cross. I want to tell you, this thing works. This 
works, because it is done. Paul says, "I am crucified with Christ". Do 
you believe that is a statement of absoluteness? "I am crucified with 
Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I. Christ liveth in me." "Now," he 
says, "this absolute truth, the absoluteness of it, is being worked out 
in my flesh, in me daily; for the life that I now live in the flesh, I 
live by the faith of the Son of God". Not "by my faith in God", or this 
or that, or something else. Another faith, a more excellent faith, the 
faith of the Son of God, and that faith comes through the revelation of 
the Son in you, and the growing up of the Son in you. It is a working out 
in you of all that is Him, replacing all that is you; and how can that be 
done? Because He has already paid for it. It is actually already so. That 
is the reason such great emphasis is placed on "Ye shall know the truth". 
It is the knowing of the truth that shall make you free, the working out 
in you of the truth.  
 
Here is the truth, the Cross, the "hath delivered", the "hath 
translated". Oh, that we would wake up. "Awake, thou that sleepest". That 
we would awake to the newness of the day in Whom we dwell; and not try to 
walk in the newness of the day in the oldness of the letter, but by the 
newness of His faith; Christ being revealed in us daily, "walking in the 
light as He is in the light". Not as He gives to us. No! "As He is in the 
light". In Him there is no shadow of turning. Let us picture the light. 
Let us picture the light, the blazing brightness of the Son Himself. The 
picture is not you and I with our back toward Him this time. No, we are 
not playing Moses now. There is a greater administration now. We are 
talking about face-to-face confrontation. Greater than Moses is here now, 
a different administration has come. We are talking about this person in 
Christ Jesus walking in the light as He is in the light. We are talking 
about walking in Him. It is not this face to back business, but many of 
us seem to think that is the way it is; that He comes and sheds light 
upon my life, sheds light upon my pathway. We forget that He says, "I am 
the way, I am the path." "You cannot see the true path", He says, 
"without seeing Me; because I do not show it to you, I am it. Walking in 
the light is walking in the fullness of My life, walking in the fullness 
of all that is Me, with the understanding that your God is a consuming 
fire".  
 
In the first instance, He is shining light upon my path; but, the problem 
with this is, I am casting a shadow in the midst of it; and wherever I go 
walking this way, all I see is the shadow of my life. I am still looking 
at the type, the shadow of things to come, trying to apply all spiritual 
understanding to a shadow, in which there is no real substance at all, 
following the shadow of my life, seeing myself. II Corinthians 3:14-16, 
"But when the heart shall turn to the Lord, then the veil shall be taken 
away". The shadow disappears; because now, you cannot see to the right or 
the left. You are not going to look behind. You are walking in the light 
as He is in the light, and there is no shadow of turning. There is just 
the all-consuming brightness and fire of His Presence. That is what it is 
all about. Ephesians 5 says, "Now ye were darkness..." Not just in it. 
"Ye were darkness." Everything that the old is you and I were, 
everything. We were not just there as innocent bystanders. We were one 
hundred percent participators. As we are the Body of the New, we were the 
body of the old. The problem is, being the Body of the New, we still want 
to live like the body of the old. We still want to live with the devil 
chasing us every day. We still want to live with one hand on the things 
of the world, and another grasping for the things of God. We still want 
to live controlled by the realm of sight and sound, and by senses of the 
earth. We want to bring God down into this realm. I am here to tell you, 
He is not coming down into this realm again. He already came into this 
realm, took it in Himself, and did away with it; and He has brought you 
and I into a realm that is just Him. We are not there as visitors. We are 
citizens of the household of God.  
 
I want to tell you something. I am not a pilgrim and a stranger, 
wandering around in this earth. I am a son of the Most High God, and I am 
seated in Heavenly places. I am a soul, walking in the light as He is in 
the light. The Bible says that. Ephesians 2:19, "Now therefore, ye are no 
more strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens with the saints of the 
household of God". I am not lost. I am walking in the light as He is in 
the light. That is the taste of good things to come, but we have to face 
the Tabernacle yet, and the wilderness of our days. To be found in Him. I 
want to read the text of this lesson to you, because this is important. 
This is where the truth begins to come. The majority of the time of these 
sharings with you will be in the book of Hebrews, and endeavoring to see 
Him. "But we see Jesus." That is written here in the book of Hebrews. Why 
do we see Jesus? Because we are looking unto Jesus. You are never going 
to see Him until you start looking for Him, and not only for Him, but 
unto Him. "Well, I do not know where He is". That is the job of the Holy 
Spirit. He is going to show us where He is so we can look unto Him. He 
knows where He is, and when the Spirit of Truth is come, you and I will 
know where He is also; because, He says, "Where I am, there ye shall be 
also, and in that day, you will know that I am in My Father, that you are 
in Me, and I am in you". There is going to be some doubt taken away. We 
will at least know where to look for Him.  
 
The method and manner by which we look is the Scripture. You do not find 
Him with your head stuck under a peach basket. You find Him with your 
soul being poured out in the Scripture. "Search the Scriptures, for they 
are they which testify of Me". Yet, we have so many Bible readers today 
like they had then, who will not come to Him, "that you might have life". 
Here is where we find Him. So, it is not time to throw your Bibles away 
yet. Hold on to them. The Spirit of the Lord will captivate you there 
sooner or later. That which is written shall testify of He Who liveth, 
and it will testify of Him in you, and it will lead you and guide you. 
That which is written will lead you and guide you into the fullness of 
Him in Whom you dwell, for that which is eternal, and that which is 
established are One, the Eternal, Living Word of God.  
 
Hebrews 10 is our text, verse 5-13. "Wherefore when He cometh into the 
world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offerings thou wouldest not, but a body 
hast thou prepared Me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou 
hast had no pleasure.'" Now, we are turning our attention to the Cross. 
We are going to look at the old and the new as they two relate to the 
Cross; so we are now turning our attention to the Cross. Look what he is 
saying. He is referring to the old, the order that is depicted in the 
Tabernacle. "Then said I, 'Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is 
written of Me,) to do Thy will O God'. Above when He said, 'Sacrifice and 
offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, 
neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;' Then said 
He, 'Lo, I come to do Thy will O God'. He taketh away the first, that He 
may establish the second." Remember that. "He taketh away the first, that 
He may establish the second." How definite, how complete this is, in the 
mind and heart of God, and how completely it was carried out by the Lord 
Jesus Christ! "He taketh away the first, that He might establish the 
second." Now, Hebrews 9:2, "For there was a tabernacle made; the first, 
in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the shewbread, which is 
called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the Tabernacle which is 
called the Holiest of all;" (now, that is all a part of the first) "Which 
had the golden censor, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about 
with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod 
that budded, and the tables of the covenant; And over it the Cherubims of 
glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak 
particularly. Now when these things were prepared, the priests went 
always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But 
into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without 
blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 
The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was 
not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was yet standing: Which 
was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts 
and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as 
pertaining to the conscience; which stood only in foods and drinks, and 
various washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time 
of the reformation. But Christ..."  
 
I have been on a study on these two words "not - but". Not this, but 
Christ. Paul says, "Yet not I, but Christ". Not that which is born of the 
flesh and of blood, but which is born of the Spirit. All through the 
Scriptures there is this distinct separation by the Cross of that which 
is not, but Christ; and you will find that as we go along. "But Christ". 
Everything else fell short. Everything else brings to an end, and comes 
to an end in itself. "But Christ being come an high priest of good things 
to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle..." Not the first, but 
the second. We are trying to find Him in the first, and He is not there 
except by reason of death. The second tabernacle, however, is Christ 
Himself. We are trying to find Him in the first, and I am going to tell 
you again, He is there; but He is only there by reason of death. The 
second tabernacle is Christ Himself. "...by a greater and more perfect 
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 
Neither by blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered 
once into the holy place, having obtained the eternal redemption for us."  
I want us to notice something here in this text. While the first 
tabernacle was yet standing, the way was not yet made manifest. While the 
first was yet standing, the way into the second was not yet. "I come to 
take away the first, and establish the second."  "Why seek ye the living 
among the dead?" He is not there. The Spirit of the Lord will tie these 
things together in our heart. The term here is used "manifest". 
Colossians 1:26 says, "Even the mystery which hath been hidden from ages 
and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints". The way is 
made manifest to His saints, not by the first, but by the second. I have 
been going here to the first. I have been doing this for years, and I 
have been searching here for the living; and the whole time it is set 
forth of God to establish the death. The end of all that is of the first 
is seen right here, and it is accomplished by Christ Himself, that we may 
behold, not a type and not a shadow, but the Person of the Second, Who 
says, "I am not only the place. I am the way to it. The way is made 
manifest to the saints, and here it is. "To whom God would make known 
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which 
is Christ in you, the hope of glory; Whom we preach." The preaching is 
not that He is in you. The preaching is Christ Who is in you. The 
revelation of Jesus Christ is not just that He is in you. It is the 
Christ Who is in you, revealed in you, manifesting in you the way into 
the holiest, the way into the second and established. This is what it is 
all about. Whom we preach. Every man teaching every man in all wisdom, 
that wisdom which relates to Christ Himself, all wisdom.  
I Corinthians 2:13, "Which things also we speak, not in the words which 
man teacheth..." That is not all wisdom. "...but which the Holy Ghost 
teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual." "Teaching in all 
wisdom, that we may present every man perfect, full grown, full stature, 
complete in Christ Jesus." Yes sir, getting them saved; but not just 
saved, unto full salvation. The Gospel does not stop at repentance. The 
Gospel does not stop at deliverance. It goes on into the fullness of 
translation. I Corinthians 15:45, "And so it is written, the first man 
Adam was made a living soul, and the last Adam was made a life-giving 
(quickening), spirit." Look at that! The first man Adam was made. The 
second, the last Adam, the finish, was made a life-giving spirit. 
"However, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is 
natural; and afterwards that which is spiritual. The first man is of the 
earth earthy; the second man is the Lord from Heaven." He is not a made-
over earth man. He is not a recreated earth man. He is nothing of the old 
at all.  
 
Here in the Tabernacle, you will see the coming together of the first and 
the second; but you will only see the coming forth of the second, the 
Lord from Heaven. "As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy; and 
as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have 
borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the 
heavenly." 
 
 
                      THE CRISIS OF THE CROSS II 
 
We want to continue in our study, "The Crisis of the Cross". There is 
only one order for the old side, and we are going to be specific about 
this in these lessons. The old comes into order here. This is the order 
of it. I know that many times we try to see this as the order of 
spiritual life, and in the end, in the long run, it is; but it is first 
the order of death to all that is not Christ. That is what it first is, 
and unless we see it as that, we will keep trying to bring the old over 
into the new. We are notorious for doing that. We say the right words, 
but we do not understand the right truth. We sing the right songs and use 
the right terminology, but we have it applied, in many cases, to the 
wrong man; and we need to see the order worked out in the first, and then 
behold the second as it is in Christ Jesus. In our studies together, I 
trust that this is what God will enable us to see, that all that is old 
first comes into order, and that this Tabernacle that was set up in the 
wilderness, this Tabernacle that is a cross within a cross, that this 
Tabernacle is first the order of death, the order of sacrifice, the order 
of finish. We are going to be dealing with that word "order" in this 
lesson. Do you know that the tabernacle is in order? It was placed in a 
divine order. No one just ran out there and pitched up a tent, and threw 
furniture in it, and then decided to change it around every day. "Well, 
that does not look right. Let us change it around this way. Well, I do 
not think that is big enough. Let us enlarge it a little bit. No, now it 
is too big. Let us make it a little smaller, and I do not believe the 
candle should be up here. Let us put it down here." You read the 
Scripture. I am trying to tell you something now. This thing is of divine 
order.  
 
You will never see more order than the Cross. The Cross is an expression 
of the divine order of God; and we must come by way of the Cross; and you 
cannot miss any part of it and see Christ. It is applied to the whole, 
and the whole is applied unto it. You do not swing onto one of the arms, 
you do not hide under the shadow. You come into full embracement, and the 
divine order of death is worked out in you, that the divine order of life 
may flow forth unto others. All that is old is brought to the order of 
the Cross; and this must be so in you and I. We saw in the last lesson 
how that we who are part of all of this are delivered, and then we are 
placed in Christ, delivered from the power of darkness, translated into 
the Kingdom of His dear Son. There is no doubt about it that the believer 
is here in Christ. You are not trying to get there. You are there. You 
may not understand that you are there, but if you are born-again, that is 
where you are, nonetheless. We may not have walked out the length, the 
depth, the breadth; but if you are born-again, if you have come by way of 
true baptism, then that is where you are in Christ Jesus, in Whom the 
work is finished, in Whom you are complete. Now, the Scriptures tell us 
this. We look at those Scriptures; but having an absence in our hearts of 
divine order, of divine truth, ("Ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
shall make you free"), we do not understand half of the Scriptures we 
read; and the ones we do get hold of we are, in most cases, guilty of 
applying them to the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. The 
Bible teaches a New Man, a new place and a fullness of time; and we must 
come to the understanding of that in Christ Jesus.  
 
So, for these lessons we are going to see that the order of this Cross 
must be firmly established in this believer; because he came to where he 
is by way of the Cross. If all that the Cross is, and all that Christ 
fulfilled there is to be manifested, or expressed in that believer, then 
it must be worked out in him. It must be worked out in him by the Holy 
Spirit. That is what the revelation of Jesus Christ is all about. It is 
Christ being formed in you. It is the working out in you of everything 
that He is. It is not someone's crazy mixed-up doctrine. It is not some 
left-wing something over here. It is not some new doctrine at all. It is 
just the Son of God being worked out in you by the divine moving of the 
Holy Spirit. We are talking about the Spirit of Truth coming and 
revealing in you the Person of Truth; but when I say the Person of Truth 
I am talking about everything that He is, the Person of Truth being 
worked out in you in the divineness of His nature, in the divineness of 
His wisdom, and understanding and knowledge in the allness that is 
Christ. This is done at the Cross, the Cross becoming what it is - not a 
piece of wood but a divine principle, a divine truth, a divine wisdom; 
working out in you, bringing you to the understanding of all that 
happened to you when you were born-again.  
 
A whole lot happened other than just a few sins being forgiven, bringing 
you and I into the truth of all that Christ, in Whom we dwell is, and all 
that Christ, Who dwells in us, is. Why? That we may be changed into His 
image, and the change is necessary for manifestation of Him. What we have 
here is, in effect, what is a three year study. We know that the service 
of the Cross took a year. We should look at that as days. Actually, we 
are going to spend a lifetime. We want to run through things so fast. 
"Just tell me something new and let me get on with this." No. We need to 
be brought here carefully, then we need to learn to sit, to walk and to 
stand in Christ Jesus; and the "standing in the liberty wherewith He hath 
made you free" is a three-fold stand. You stand there against, you 
withstand, and then, having done all to stand, you just stand. We are 
talking about time. We are talking about relationship. We are talking 
about the eternal plan of God being worked out in the very Body of Jesus 
Christ. We are talking about the coming forth of expressions one to 
another, and the coming forth of a manifestation in the earth. That is 
what we are talking about, and this thing is being worked out. We are not 
talking about sermons. We are not talking about lectures. We are talking 
about Christ here being revealed in you and I who are now His very Body; 
and it is given to us to live His life, to carry out His ministry.  
  
We talk about living His life, working His ministry, doing His deeds; but 
how in the world can we really do that unless He is manifested, through 
revelation in us? How can we manifest Him Whom we do not know? How can we 
express that which is not revealed in us? We cannot do it. We will just 
tell tales about Him or form doctrines relating to Him, or we will preach 
sermons around Him, or we will glory in what He used to do, or has done, 
or is going to do; but to be a manifestation of Him, He must be revealed 
in us; and we, His Body, are the place of His revelation. He is not going 
to be revealed in the sky someplace. He is not going to be revealed in 
the dirt out there. He is going to be revealed in His Body, because that 
is where He dwells. We are His Body. This begins at the Cross. It starts 
at the Cross.  
 
Galatians 6. I want to deal with the thought concerning the way of the 
first. In the last lesson we contrasted the first from the second. We 
contrasted the first tabernacle from the second tabernacle, and we saw 
that the first tabernacle is the order of the death of the old. The old 
is brought there, and dies. That is really what it is all about. Many 
times we have taught ourselves that the tabernacle is progressing here 
into a greater spirituality, a greater utopia. Well, in the long run, 
that is all found here. What we are doing here is progressing into the 
fullness of His death. Clearly and distinctly, the tabernacle divides 
what we called Egypt from Canaan. Clearly and distinctly, the tabernacle 
is the Cross, and that is where spiritual service is rendered in the 
first place, making way for the second. Paul says, in Galatians 6:14, 
"But God forbid that I should glory except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, by Whom..." The Cross and Christ are connected here as a Person. 
They are connected as a "whom". There is no separation in the mind of 
Paul. He comes saying, "I will know nothing among you save Jesus Christ 
and Him crucified". He says, "The preaching of Christ is the wisdom and 
the power of God". There is no separation in this Man, you see. "...that 
I should glory except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by Whom the 
world is crucified unto me, and I am crucified unto the world." What I 
want us to see here as we progress is the absoluteness and the distinct 
division of the old from the new. We must get hold of this.  
 
We cannot any longer by virtue of who we are, not by virtue of what we 
want to be, but by virtue of who we are; by virtue of what Christ hath, 
(h-a-t-h) done, by virtue of the Cross, by virtue of the blood of Jesus, 
by virtue of the finished work of Calvary, we cannot continue to carry 
the old over into the new, and ask God to bless it, and to sanctify it, 
and make it holy, and make it righteous; because it stinks. It is 
finished. It is dead. It is ended. It is not found in Christ. It is gone. 
It is past. It is done away. In our hearts this truth must be revealed, 
and it can only be revealed there in a Whom; because it was by a Whom 
that it was done. It can only come through the revelation of Jesus 
Christ; and, I say again, Paul does not separate Him, nor the revelation 
of Him, from the working of the Cross in you. He does not separate the 
two. Yet, so many times we want to. If we can just have a Crossless 
Christ; or, if we can just put Him there aside from ourselves, as though 
it were something He did for me, separate from me. Let the truth begin to 
crowd our minds, that it was not Him aside from me. It was Him as me. I 
put Him there. It was Him as me. This reality has to grip our hearts. 
Resurrection will come out of nothing but death. Beauty will come out of 
nothing but ashes. Nothing that we have is beautiful. God is not going to 
take something that is me and make it beautiful. He is going to bring the 
beauty of Christ out of the absolute ashes of me. He is going to bring 
the life of all that is Christ out of the death of all that is me; and 
what we must see is that me, m-e, equals something more than sins that I 
did. Me equals me - my righteousness, my holiness, my goodness, my gain, 
me!  
 
"Do you mean to tell me that God does not take some part of it and 
salvage it?" No sir! We will see that in our progression through the 
tabernacle. This is not a salvage program. I do not want to offend 
anyone's delicacy of hearing here, but this is not a salvage yard. It is 
a slaughter house. The Spirit of God brought me there recently, screaming 
and hollering and kicking, and drug me in there, and showed me everything 
here is covered in blood. We want to make it pretty. We want to make it 
clean. We want to make it everything but what it is. It is a bloody mess. 
It is covered by blood from head to foot, and throughout the whole thing. 
It is a slaughter house. It is where all that is whole is brought to an 
end, brought to a finish, and there is nothing beautiful about it that 
our eyes should behold. The only thing beautiful about it is what God 
sees going on there, the finish of one, and the coming forth in newness 
of another. That is why all that is here, all this business is 
intermingled; wood covered by gold, then it is linen covered by badger 
skin. It is where Christ became all that we are. He became it all, and 
put it to a death in Himself; and here is absolutely nothing save Christ. 
Here He is all, and He is in all. He is the source, the fullness, the 
circumference. He is all. The Father sees nothing, nor will He give 
recognition to any but the Son!  
 
That is why I say He is Lord, and He will never be replaced. He is King 
and He will never be replaced. He is Head and He will never be replaced. 
It is His Glory, His Majesty. It is Christ that we are to manifest, not 
ourselves. It is not manifested sons. It is a manifestation of the Son, 
and the manifestation of the Son is Christ. It is not ourselves. It is 
Christ. It is not His Body we preach. It is Him we preach. We are His 
Body. We preach not ourselves, but Him; and we preach ourselves servant 
one of another. It is Christ we preach. Here it is just Christ. But we 
come to here through the order of this. When we reach the full order, 
there is nothing. Why? Because that is the finished work of God. When we 
take that trip in our hearts, when that is worked out in us by revelation 
the same way, in our hearts there is nothing but Him. It has been taken 
one at a time in divine order to the Cross, and it has been reckoned 
gone, reckoned dead, reckoned fulfilled, reckoned finished, reckoned 
past, reckoned done away; and we stand, finding ourselves in Him, having 
nothing of ourselves, having nothing of our own, but just being found in 
Him, Who is made unto us all that God desires. It is just the Son.  
 
All that enters the tabernacle must die. There are no animals running 
around here butting each other. They did not bring a bunch of goats in 
there and turn them loose - survival of the fittest. Everything that came 
through this gateway was destined to die. It was prepared to die, trained 
to die, born to die, raised to die; and only the best got to die. All 
that interfered comes to an end. All that is in here dies. It is here 
that the law of increase and decrease is at its greatest height. As we 
progress here... Every piece of the tabernacle itself is Christ, but it 
is not just Christ. It is Christ with wood. It is Christ with badger 
skins. It is not just Christ. It is Christ and Him crucified. Maybe no 
one else ever had this problem; but, in so many cases, we go here trying 
to find the glorified Christ, and He is not here. The crucified Christ is 
here. You say, "Yes, but the glory of God came down here." Only to 
recognize and receive the blood. He did not stay there. They dismantled 
this thing all the time, so they could carry it with them. It was not a 
certain place. It was for a journey.  
 
It was for a transition, so we look at our second term. Last lesson, the 
translated. This lesson, the transition, that period of time, that event, 
that means, that method by which the translation, and the transformation 
is carried out, the transition period. It is the time of the Cross, and 
we are not going to be able to get away from it. You are not going to 
make Egypt look like Heaven, or look like Christ. You can stay there and 
pray for it until your tongue falls out. It is not Christ. It is not 
blessed of God, is never going to be blessed of God, and nothing that is 
any part of it is ever going to be blessed of God. We are out from there; 
but we are out from there by death. Here is the way out, and here is the 
way in. "I am the truth. Go tell my people that I Am that I Am", and here 
He is. "I am the truth. I am the way. I am the life."  What was He 
talking about? "No man cometh..." He is talking about a means of coming. 
"No man cometh to the Father but by Me. The Way. The Truth. The Life. You 
cannot jump over Me". You cannot do that. It is by this way. It is 
through the slaughterhouse of the Cross that we come. That is what God 
established in the wilderness. Too few believers have seen it. We go here 
too often to find something other than Him in the death of ourselves. We 
want to make this first, the second; and this first tabernacle, this 
first order, this order of the first is not the second. Here there is a 
mixture of gold and wood, fine linen and goats hair; but in the second 
there is simply no mixture at all. In the second there is only Him.  
 
I want you to see what happened to you when you were born again. I want 
you to see how new the New Birth is, to see the extent of the liberty 
wherewith Christ has made us free, that we will no longer desire any part 
of the yoke of bondage, having found ourselves yoked only unto Him. The 
law of increase and decrease. We start here, and as we go up, there is an 
increase. Of what? Every piece of furniture is a type of Him. There is an 
increase of Him, and there is a decrease of us. He must increase, I must 
decrease. There is no decrease that brings about the increase. The 
increase automatically produces the decrease. That is the way God does 
it. You say, "Empty me out, Lord, and You can fill me up." But the divine 
way God does it is He fills you up and empties you out. That is the way 
He does it. I have used this little example many times.  We come into a 
building that is dark. We do not get in there and start cursing the 
darkness, and chasing the darkness with a broom, trying to get rid of all 
the darkness to make the room a fit place for light. No. We just come in 
and turn on the light; and the light dispels the darkness.  
 
But let us look at it. Exodus 38. If you are going to see Him, you are 
going to see Him in the Word. This is where the Lord brings me to see 
Him. "And he made the altar of burnt offering of Acacia wood: five cubits 
was the length thereof, five cubits the breadth thereof; it was 
foursquare..." I am just going to read this for you. We are not going to 
stop on each of these verses and discuss what I would like to discuss as 
the thoroughness of the altar made for the thoroughness of the burnt 
sacrifice. We must see this as a thorough job. When Jesus, from this 
vantage point said, "It is finished", He had completed a thorough job; 
and the thoroughness of the Cross, the absoluteness of the Cross, must 
also be worked out in our hearts, in our mind, in our understanding, in 
us. Here is where you will see it. "And he made horns there on the four 
corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same..." There is only one 
Same. Thank God, "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, 
the Word was God, and the same was in the beginning with God." We are 
going to come to the  same. Someone said, "That you have the same 
judgment, that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind." You 
know whose mind that is. It is the mind of the same. That is the judgment 
of the same. That will only come when the Same that is in the beginning 
is revealed in you, to the literal consuming of all that you are.  
 
"They made all the vessels, the pots, the basins, and the fleshhooks, and 
the firepans..." All the vessels there they made of the same thing - 
bronze. "And he made for an altar the grate, the network under the 
compass thereof, and cast four rings..." (so it could be carried); "and 
he made staves, and overlaid them with bronze. And he put the staves into 
the rings on the sides of the altar wherewith to bear it." This was a 
traveling altar. This followed you in the way. It went in the way with 
you, and it was carried upon the shoulders. It was a traveling altar. 
Thank God, it still is. Now, Adam, the Law, and three realms. I am taken 
out from the old, and I begin my journey here at the foot of the Cross. 
Here I come. Here comes I. All that I am, all that the old implies, here 
comes I. The sacrifices were five, all of them in various types of 
animals and birds. Here come I. We must see this. To this place I come. I 
told you before, there were no animals running around inside. They all 
came to this place first. This idea that we have a life of our own is 
just not true. We have no life but Christ. This idea that we have a death 
of our own is just not true. Your death is planned in the mind of God and 
executed in the Person of His Son. You have no death of your own. It is 
His death. We must come by this way in our hearts; because He brought us 
by this way in His body. Here comes I. The truth of it must be planted 
here. I must embrace it.  
 
Here is righteous judgment. Righteous judgment begins in this place. I 
Peter 4:17 says, "The time is come..." Hear me, house of the Living God. 
"The time is come." Jesus says in John 12:24, "The hour is come. Except a 
corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. If it die, 
it bringeth forth much fruit." Peter says, "The time is come for judgment 
to begin at the house of God." This is judgment. This is the righteous 
discerning of truth. This is not the wrath of God. This Cross is not the 
wrath of God. It is the righteous judgment of God; and it must be worked 
out in you as the righteous judgment of truth. It is the love of God. II 
Corinthians 5: 14, "For the love of Christ constraineth us. We thus 
judge, that if one died for all, then all died with Him, that henceforth 
we who live should no longer live unto ourselves." This is the judgment 
that comes by the Cross. When you get to this place, you are entering in 
to the door of the first tabernacle and the judgment of God comes upon 
you, and suddenly you see this thing is going to cost me my life. You 
might as well stand right here and make that reckoning to be so. Do not 
wait until you get farther and then decide, "Whoops, I made a mistake. 
Someone did not hold me on the fire long enough". That is the reason 
there are horns there, so you cannot jump off too soon. He executes 
judgment. Flesh will turn you over when you are done on one side.  
 
See the thoroughness of this. Look at the pattern. Not the reality, but 
the pattern of the reality is here. Look at the pattern, because God is a 
God of pattern and a God of order. We told you last lesson of the 
ugliness, of the thoroughness, of the completeness of the Cross. The Son 
put this thing, He finished this thing. When the truth is revealed in 
you, it is not going to be any lesser true than the Son. The death will 
be no less than His, and the life will be no other than His. So, we are 
brought to the place of righteous judgment. Not quaking, fearful wrath, 
but the righteous judgment of God that says, "In that He died, I died, 
and in that He liveth, I have no life but Him". So we who live here, we 
who live, should no longer live unto ourselves, as though we never came 
by way of the Cross; but unto Him, understanding that we have no life but 
Him. This is the judgment, I say again; and it is time for this judgment. 
When this judgment comes on us, what does it make everyone else look 
like?  
 
Turn to Leviticus 1. I want us to look at the sacrifice. I trust that you 
will just let the Spirit of God bring you, and keep you here until this 
order begins to be developed in you and I; because this is the first 
order. Christ is the second, and last, order. This is the order of His 
death and the order of His life. The sacrifice, the wood, and the order. 
Leviticus 1, "And the Lord called unto Moses, and spoke to him out of the 
tabernacle of the congregation..." Do you see where that voice came from? 
It came out of this tabernacle. "God Who in sundry times, divers manners, 
spake in times past in various ways, hath, at the end of those times, 
spoken unto us in Son". Not even "the Son". Just in Son. In other words, 
the Son is all He has to say. Everything He wants you and I to know is 
revealed in the one Son, the one Word of the one Living God and Father. 
"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you 
bring an offering unto the Lord, you shall bring your offering..." Now, 
notice who brought the offerings. These offerings are connected with the 
body of Israel. You see, all of Israel was seen in the first-born, the 
Levites. Out from the first-born came the priest. Out from the priests 
came the high priest. All of Israel is seen in this progression. No one 
comes but by way of the Cross. "If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of 
the herd, let him offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it of his 
own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 
before the Lord. He shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt 
offering, and it shall be accepted for him, to make atonement for him. 
And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron's 
sons shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the 
altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he 
shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces."  
 
Now, this is not just a hacking job. There is an order of every cut. I am 
not talking about self-mutilation here. We are talking about the divine 
order of God in requiring everything that we are in order. Neighbor, He 
will bring you and I here. Then He starts pointing out the pieces. "But, 
Lord, this is a righteous piece! This is the good part." "Put it there." 
Oft times I get into a little study on being measured out by Him. It is 
about the same thing. You are being cut up by Him, after an order. It is 
all after an order. You see, it is cut into "its" pieces. "And the sons 
of Aaron..." Here is where the priest then took over. "The sons of Aaron 
the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon 
the fire: And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, 
and the fat, in order upon the wood that is upon the fire which is upon 
the altar." The whole thing just becomes one. The sacrifice is on the 
wood, and the wood is on the altar, and the altar is on fire. Well, this 
is where we have come. You say, "Well, I do not want to go there. I do 
not know who it was preaching when I got saved; but they did not say 
anything about this. They were talking to me about wealth and good times, 
and now what is all this business about blood, and the Cross?" This is 
the truth of the situation. That is what this is. This is the way of the 
situation. "But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the 
priest shall burn all upon the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, and 
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord." 
 
There is nothing beautiful here that we behold; and the only thing 
beautiful about it, in the sight of God, is the smoke. He does not like 
the smell of the sweat of our effort, but He enjoys the fragrance of our 
being burned, consumed in the fire of His love. I am talking to you about 
love. I am not talking to you about the hateful wrath of God. I am 
talking about the love of God wherewith He hath loved you and I. He loved 
us so much He will not accept a substitute. The sacrifice here is a 
three-fold death. We can find in our search all things relating to 
spiritual life are three-fold.  Romans 6 speaks to us of this three-fold 
death. It is crucified, buried, and replaced; crucified, but not left 
hanging; buried, put out of sight. The one that comes out is not the one 
that went in. There has been a replacement. All that is old stays there, 
buried; but like as Christ was raised by the glory of the Father, even so 
we should walk in newness. There is our replacement. That has to be 
worked out in our hearts. We will not dwell on that just now; but that 
three-fold death applies to the sacrifice, and I will tell you, this 
sacrifice that came here, by the time they got through with him, by the 
time they got him on the fire; he understood about three-fold dying. He 
was not just killed. He was cut up into pieces, and then burned; and 
there was nothing going up to God but smoke, and ashes falling to the 
ground. That is all there was left! 
  
That is why Paul looks at the whole things and says, "I reckon it but 
dung". It does not merit my prayers. Crucified, buried and replaced, the 
sacrifice was killed, crucified, buried and replaced. The sacrifice was 
cut into pieces. Romans 6:6 says, "Knowing this, that our old man..." Not 
the old man, but our old man. Here comes I, me is crucified, that the 
power, the parts, the whole, the body of sin, might be destroyed, 
completely dismantled, piece by piece, and labeled as it is dismantled. 
Here goes your righteousness, JW. Here goes your holiness, son. Here goes 
your ministry. Here goes what you thought was your gift. Here goes this, 
and here goes that; and it is all in perfect order to be burned up. It 
was cut into pieces in an orderly fashion, and taken by the priest, and 
burned. And our God is a consuming fire. Why? "That henceforth we should 
not serve sin." You are not going to ever put this sacrifice back 
together again. Once you see it killed, once you see it dismantled...  
right in front of you it is being dismantled. The old boy who brought it 
stood right there while it was being cut up, and participated in it. Boy, 
he looked at it and said, "This thing is never going to live again. It is 
going to take the divine hand of God to get anything out of that thing. I 
am never going to be able to do anything with it again".  
 
I heard a Brother one time say, "It hurts so good". Paul says, "What 
things were gain to me, those I counted loss". I cannot emphasize too 
much that this that we call a type is a reality working in me. This was 
just a type; but you see, Jesus came, and fulfilled every piece and part, 
and we come by way of Him; and when He is revealed in us, this death 
comes first, and it will be fulfilled in every piece and part; and it 
will be more real to you, and in you, than if you brought a goat up 
before that tabernacle, and stood there and cut it is pieces and poured 
blood on it. It will be more real to you as you see your life passing out 
at the all-consuming increase of His life. It will be more real than the 
type could ever be; because the reality of it is Christ. Then it is 
burned. Three-fold, it is burned, nothing left but the ashes.  
 
I Corinthians 3:12-15, "Now, if any man build upon this foundation gold, 
silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be 
made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed 
by fire; and the fire shall test every man's work of what sort it is. If 
any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a 
reward. If any man's shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he 
himself shall be saved; yet so by fire. Know ye not that ye are the 
temple of God.....And if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God 
destroy." What is done away with in the fire? It is everything that is 
not Christ. Everything that will burn shall burn, and that which will not 
burn shall be purified. Ashes... They had a dust pan to get the ashes. 
Isaiah 61:3, "For sorrow He has given us gladness and joy, the oil....And 
for ashes He has given us beauty". If any man shall seek to save his life 
he shall lose it; but if you will lose it, let it go, out of the ashes of 
it shall come forth the beauty of that which is the very Person of the 
Lord Jesus Christ. So it is burned.  
 
Now, the wood. There is a lot said about wood when you are going to 
sacrifice. You can look it up, but in every case, the wood is laid in 
order. It is not just piled up, thrown up there. We are not talking about 
a pile of wood. We are talking about the order of the Cross. We are not 
talking about something you and I have constructed for ourself. We are 
not talking about burning the candle at both ends, wearing out for God. 
We are talking about the order of the Cross. We need to see the order of 
this wood. Paul saw the order of the wood. Galatians 3:13. I was teaching 
Bible college one time, and one of my students asked me, "Brother, what 
was this order? It never was described." I just said, "Well I will tell 
you what it was. It was the order, it was laid in a fashion, to produce 
the hottest fire, and burn all of it up." If you go to Boy Scouts you 
will learn there is an order in which the wood is placed for the quickest 
igniting, and the most thorough burning; and there is an order to this 
wood also; and the order, I say again, will not permit scorching. There 
will not be part of it left. There was nothing left. There was no wood 
left. There was no sacrifice left. There was nothing left. When it was 
all over there was nothing but ashes, and the ashes of the sacrifice was 
mingled with the ashes of the wood; and there was just ashes of that one 
thing. It all came together. The sacrifice on the wood, the wood on the 
altar, and the altar on fire, and when it was finished, it was all 
finished, and there was not anything left. That is the divine order of 
the wood. There is nothing left.  
 
"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse 
for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." 
The wood here is directly connected to the Cross, to the tree. That which 
lays on wood is cursed. It is no good. It is not fit to live. Let us not 
throw Jesus up there by Himself. The thing that made Him that cursed 
thing is you and me, the old man, the old order, the old system. 
Everything He became was counted a cursed thing. Paul had to see this, 
and you and I have to see it also. I point you again to the Scripture we 
have used. He came face to face with Jesus, and he said, "What things 
were counted gain to me, I counted loss." He said that a little stronger 
in Romans 7. We like to pretend that Paul was a sinner here, but he was 
not. He was a believer in need of the revelation of the Cross. That is 
what he was relating. In verse 14, he comes. There are three "I am's" of 
Paul on this side of the Cross. Correspondingly, there are three on this 
side. Notice, he said "I am". I am telling us that we come by this way. 
No one goes there for you. Jesus went there. You went there in Him, with 
Him, as Him, by Him, you went there; because you and I are the reason He 
went there. He did not go there for us as apart from us. He took us where 
we could never go by ourselves. He did it. So Paul says, "I am".  
 
"For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin." 
We want to get rid of the law. We want to get rid of the Scripture. We 
want to throw our Bibles away. There is nothing wrong with the Scripture. 
All it does is reveal a condition in me. There is nothing wrong with the 
Scripture, nothing wrong with that which is written. It is written in and 
established in Heaven; but I come there, and I see I am carnal. We may 
never make this confession, but if we do not, we will never get beyond 
this piece of furniture - the altar. It must be an "I am" confession. I 
am carnal. This is so plainly taught in the Scripture. In my flesh is no 
good thing. In the same chapter, verse 24, "I am wretched". "Wretched man 
that I am..." This is a believer being brought face to face with the 
Cross. He speaks of this death vividly in chapter 6. He speaks of the 
method of it in chapter 7; he starts out with death. Chapter 8 says, 
"Therefore now, being in....." There is life in Christ. We must see the 
importance of the truth of these three chapters placed in the very center 
of this epistle to the Church.   
 
You and I are never going to come to the Cross until we understand that 
there hangs JW Luman. There I hang, and I hang there because I belong 
there. It is not a mistake. The wrong one is not there. I have no 
righteousness to plead. I have no holiness to plead. I cannot in and of 
myself know God. I am as carnal as a doorknob. I am wretched. I am in 
need, and there I hang. Paul said of this same "I am" in Galatians 2:20, 
"I am crucified." The righteous was not crucified. The wretched was 
crucified. I am crucified. I know we want to see ourselves clothed in His 
mantle, but that is not where it begins. This is where it begins. You 
say, "Well, I jumped this first part." No we did not, so we might as well 
let it be worked out in us; because we did not jump it; and if we think 
we did, we are living in an assumed identity. We are living in the 
imaginations of our own heart, and that is why things just will not work.  
 
Then there is a third thing. We looked at the sacrifice, then the wood, 
and now we are looking at the order. Romans 6:9, "Knowing that Christ, 
being raised from the dead, dieth no more. Death hath no more dominion 
over Him. For, in that He died, He died unto sin once; but in that He 
liveth, He liveth..." Who liveth? He liveth. He is the divine order. He 
is the divine completion. In that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Now you 
come by this same order, believer friend. "Likewise reckon..." This is 
not a statement of academics. This is not a doctrinal creed. This is a 
work of the faith of the Son of God in you by which you reckon with the 
reckoning of divine truth. "Likewise...", to the same degree, after the 
same manner, in the same order, to the same measure, by the same method, 
"likewise reckon ye also yourself to be dead; dead indeed unto sin". 
Because you are dead, period, dead, dead, dead. Dead indeed unto sin. Not 
"sins" but "sin". But alive unto God, through the One that liveth, 
through Him Who liveth, and He liveth in me. That has to be a reckoning 
in you. We have to come by this same order, the order of completeness.  
 
Let me show you something about this completeness. Ephesians 2:14. I want 
to show us the order of completeness. You have probably seen this before. 
I am skipping over Romans 7, but if you want to see some divine order, 
you just sit down and read Romans 7:1-6; and you will see some divine 
order of being released from one unto another. There is an order 
connected to it. You do not just kick the traces. There are no sacrifices 
here running around butting horns. You do not just kick the traces, and 
say, "Bless God, I am free. The law is gone. The Scripture is of none 
effect, and I have a life of my own; so just bless me, God". You take 
that to the altar with you, because there is divine order connected with 
this service. We will leave that there. You just look at it. Ephesians 
2:14, "For He is our peace, Who has made both one, and hath (1) broken 
down the middle wall of partition between us." Verse 15, "Having (2) 
abolished in His flesh..." Verse 16, "And having (3) slain..." You want 
to see a good order. Broken down, abolished, and slain. That is the order 
of the sacrifice. That is the completeness of it. Broken down, abolished, 
and slain; and He did it, so it is thoroughly done. All else is done 
away, passed, over. Hear ye Him. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CRISIS OF THE CROSS III 
 
 
Turn with me to the book of Hebrews. We want to discuss in this lesson 
the second. You must understand that the second is not just second as 
being second to the first. It is second in that it has done away with the 
first, and established itself; and is now both first and last. The first 
is swallowed up in the second. Isaac had two sons, and the first was 
swallowed up in the second. All that is Adam, all of Adam, all that 
relates to Adam, is brought to the Cross, is crucified completely. What a 
tremendous study that is, and we have just glazed over the top of it; but 
I trust that you will say as never before, "Lead me through the 
tabernacle of the Cross, until there is nothing left of the first, but 
just the second; because all that is first is brought here, and is 
associated here, and is swallowed up here in all that is second. And the 
first now and the last is Christ Himself; and that is where you and I 
dwell. Because we now dwell in Him, it is absolutely essential that all 
that He hath done, and all that He is, be revealed and worked out in us 
through the Cross by the revelation of Jesus Christ through the power of 
the Holy Spirit. It is not a convenience for some. It is a necessity for 
all who are in Christ, no one excepted; because, if you are in Christ, 
you are there by way of the Cross; and you must know the truth. Not just 
you shall, but you must. Without this vision, without this revelation, 
(and I do no harm to the word "vision" there), without this knowledge,  
"My people perish".  
 
Paul picks up on this and says, "The preaching of the Cross is 
foolishness to those who perish". This truth must be revealed in you and 
I. Why? Because we are in a place that simply will not work but by this 
truth. We are in a place that we simply cannot grow up into Him but by 
this truth. We are in a place, not where God is doing in that sense, but 
where God hath done a thing. The doing relates to doing the thing which 
He hath done in you and I, and our manifesting it in the earth. That has 
to do with the doing of faith; but the being of faith is Christ Himself. 
Faith is not some haphazard blind leading the blind, stumbling along. 
Faith is evidence. Faith is substance. I beseech you brethren. Faith does 
not bring evidence. It is evidence. Faith does not give substance. Faith 
is substance. Faith is the knowing of God working out in you. No, not the 
knowing of the natural, not the knowing of the eye or ear; but the 
knowing of God. How many times does Paul use the word? You count them in 
your Bible. "Know", "knowing", "knowledge", "known", "that you know". We 
must understand that he is speaking of the living relationship, living 
impregnation of the Living Word of God, the knowing of God in you, the 
faith of Christ in you, the experience of it, the evidence of it, the 
substance of it being worked out in you; because you then become a 
manifestation of the evidence. You become a manifestation of the 
substance. You become a manifestation of the experience of it. Faith most 
perfectly operates in this realm.  
 
I am not here to talk that much about faith in this lesson, but it is 
impossible to talk about the revelation of Christ and not talk about 
faith; because that is what faith is. That is how it comes. It does not 
come by the natural ear, and natural words even read out of the Bible. 
Faith comes by hearing, but we certainly do not think it is the hearing 
that our eardrum gives us. Back up a way in Romans, and it says, "How can 
they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard?" That is this hearing. 
There must be that hearing. There must be that exposure, because that is 
connected to a preacher. There has to be a hearing of that thing. There 
has to be an exposure of it. There has to be the preaching of it to tear 
down that which is not and to lift up that. You must hear this Gospel, 
but the faith of it does not come by this hearing. This hearing just 
prepares for it, creates an environment. The faith of it comes by 
hearing, which hearing comes by the Living Word Himself being revealed in 
you. Then, "He that hath an ear to hear" comes into play. It is a 
different hearing altogether. It is a different faith altogether. It is 
not just faith in God now. It is the faith of the Son of God working in 
this believer all that is in Christ. What a difference!  
 
I do not say one to take away from the other. A progress of growth does 
not take away from anything, but builds upon it. Does the building take 
away from the foundation? No, it is an example, a manifestation of it; 
because we are not only built upon a foundation, we are built up in 
foundation. "In whom ye are builded together". We could diagram here, on 
one side of the Cross all that is me, all that is we. On this side the 
picture is most perfectly me. On the other side of the Cross we have Him, 
just Him. But not just Him.  
 
Here is a little word study for you..."He, Him, His" That is all you have 
on that side of the Cross. That which is He, the knowledge of Him, and 
that which is His. We are His Body. Here is just most perfectly Christ. 
That is a tremendous difference, but without the Cross we just do not 
understand. Here is the us. Here is the mixture. Here is where Christ 
becomes us. That is what the study of the tabernacle is all about. 
Everything there is a mixture. Everything relates to His involvement with 
us in bringing us to an absolute end. The Cross is that mixture. It is 
not Him hanging there. It is me hanging there. That is who that is. It is 
that mixture. Even the priest, whose garment had to be fine twined linen 
and have no mixture of wool in it. You say, "Well, where is the mixture 
there?". The priest himself. He was the one who had to go in and offer 
for his own sin. The fine robe was upon him, but he is the mixture there, 
the robe upon the priest. There is no mixture in the robe, because that 
specifically speaks of Christ; but it is on an earthly priest, who could 
not save himself, and had to offer blood for himself as well as for the 
sins of the people. There is the mixture. The Cross is a mixture.  
 
Now I want to look more particularly at this that is Christ. Let us do 
some Scripture reading. Hebrews 8:1-13. We must get this setting. "Now of 
things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest." 
We have a high priest. If you will notice in this reading, it is just 
Christ now. That is what we want to see. It is just Christ coming forth 
now. What are we seeing? What we hope? No. It is so. 
We are seeing what is real. We are seeing what God hath done. If I wrote 
one important Scripture on the new I would write "Ye shall know the 
truth". Ye shall know, know---k-n-o-w. Lay hold of, grab hold of, become 
one with, have it worked out in you. It is not knowing that ever becomes 
past tense. True knowledge never becomes past tense. True knowledge is 
always present tense. It is not future tense. It is always ongoing, 
always inworking. It is always present. It is always new, because it is 
always Him. Academic knowledge becomes past tense. True knowledge never 
does. We have such a high priest Who is seated on the right hand of the 
majesty in the heavens. Here is the picture of that which I want you to 
see; because where He is, you now are. "Yet not I, but Christ." There is 
only One Who is alive in me; and that is Him. As He is revealed in me, 
and the truth of that is worked out in me, not in my brain, but in my 
mind, my understanding; my soul receiving the impregnated Word of God to 
the saving of your soul, to the maturing of your soul. As He is revealed 
in me, as the knowledge and faith of Him increases in me; everything that 
is not Him decreases in me. The truth that I have no life but Him 
increases, and all else decreases. Then, I am not getting that life. That 
life which I have is being revealed in me. That which God hath done is 
being revealed and worked out in me. "You shall know the truth, and the 
truth shall make you free."  
 
I have no life but Christ. What I must have is His mind worked out in me. 
What I must have is Christ revealed in me, totally and completely; and 
that is the walk that we are on. That is what it means to walk out, to 
comprehend, to search out the length, the height, the depth of that which 
is now so in Christ; that we may know, and in the knowing be changed, 
that this change be worked out in us, expressed one to another, and 
manifested in you. It is real in Him. Do not continue to think and to 
act, and to live, and to search like you are outside of Him trying to get 
in. You are there - translated, the transition, now the transformation. 
The transformation takes place in Him, because it is a being changed. 
What is that change? It is the expressing of all that He is. We cannot 
take time to discuss all of these words, but the word "change", the word 
"transformed", the word "transfigured"; these are realities in Christ, 
and it is taking place now in those who are looking in the face of Jesus.  
 
"...A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle...",  of 
which there is only One Who lives in me, and there is only One Who lives 
in you. There is this minister of the tabernacle, and of the true 
sanctuary. The true sanctuary is not in the old. That is not the true 
tabernacle. The true sanctuary that God hath promised is in the new. Let 
me tell you something. David wanted to build God a house, and God as much 
as told David, "No sir, you are not going to build me a house. I am going 
to build you a house." So Solomon went ahead, and here we have the type 
of it acted out. Solomon went ahead, and he built the thing. It must have 
been a glorious thing, but he built it after the pattern of this one. God 
came to him and said, "This is not My house. This cannot contain me. All 
of the things that you have used have not My hands provided? Where is the 
place of My rest? Where is My true tabernacle? There remaineth a rest." 
If the first had fulfilled that, there would be no need for the second; 
but, I want you to know, here is the place of His rest; and, if you will 
receive it, it is the place of your rest. It is where your life ends, and 
His life is automatic. This is the true tabernacle, the beauty of which 
is nothing man could contribute, the beauty of which is Christ.  
 
"I will glorify the house of my glory. Now, prophet, you show The House 
to the house." Here is every member properly set in Him. That is the 
house, you see. But He says, "Now you show The House to the house". Let 
every member see Him. Let every member see the Rock. Show The House to 
the house. "I will glorify My House." He must be revealed in every part. 
Those are beautiful studies in Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. "For every 
high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices." Verse 5, "Who 
serve unto the example and shadow..." We must see something here. We must 
see that all who just serve the example and the shadow is done away. This 
business of going "to" church has to pass out of our vocabulary. We are 
the Church. We do not go to church. We are the Church. The shadow must 
pass out and be replaced by the Truth. We are the Church, 24 hours a day, 
365 days a year. That is the reason we come. We do not gather together to 
become. We gather together because we are.  
 
The more you see you are, the more you will gather; and the more unified 
your gathering is going to be unto the point that there will not be 
anyone, any devil, and angel, any doctrine, nothing that will be able to 
separate you one from another, if your gathering is unto Him. If you are 
still just going to church, watch out! God is going to split your church; 
and if He does not do it, the devil will; but, if you understand that you 
are the Church, and your gathering is because of an understanding that is 
working out in you daily: a truth, a knowledge, a faith, a love: nothing 
is going to separate you. Nothing is going to divide you. 
Misunderstandings will not do it. I do not care. Name it all. It will no 
do it, because the truth will reign supreme. Love will reign supreme. The 
laying down of our life one to another will reign supreme. Divine order 
in Christ will reign supreme. Over in the old, all you have is division. 
That is all you have, and I am not surprised that it is not worse than it 
is. We must have an end of the priesthood that worships the shadows of 
things. Why? Because the Cross brought it to an end. We must recognize 
the truth of it. We are not priests of shadows. We are not ministers of 
shadowy things, type and images. No! No more. Verse 5, "...See, saith He, 
that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the 
mount." 
 
Peter saw the greater pattern in the mount. Moses saw the shadow. Peter 
saw the reality. There stood Christ. "Peter, upon this Rock I will build 
My church." Nothing is going to split it. "Upon this Rock. Just see Me, 
Peter. Just see Me on this rock. Moses saw the pattern. Now you just see 
Me. A greater than Moses is here." Do not despise the pattern. Just look 
to the end of it. The pattern is necessary. Look to the end of it. See 
the fulfillment of it and become a minister of it. "But now hath he 
obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator 
of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." The 
first promises were conditional. "If thou shalt". But these promises are 
"I will". Look at it. I hate to make a statement like that and not go 
back into the Scriptures; but "I will", "I will", "I will". Let me see 
where that is. Ezekiel 36. That is only one. Go through and see how many 
times you can see that. What you and I cannot do, "I will". Christ did, 
and now He is; and in Him all the promises are yea and amen. If you can 
just begin to get hold of this. "For if that first covenant had been 
faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For, 
finding fault with them, he saith, 'Behold the days come, saith the Lord, 
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the 
house of Judah." Thank God. Over in the prophets there is a statement 
that says, "In that day, the house of Israel and the house of Judah will 
be one stick", "will be one house". No division in this Kingdom. Why? 
Because He takes the twain and He makes them one in Himself in the Tree, 
and He brings forth one new house, One New House which house ye are, one 
Lord which Lord He is, in that day. "Not according to the covenant that I 
made with the fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead 
them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in My covenant, 
and I regarded them not, saith the Lord."  
 
Now, do not get upset with me, but this day of walking hand-in-hand with 
Jesus is gone. It is over. I do not want to just wipe out all of our 
precious old hymns; but, "Take my hand precious Lord, lead me on", does 
not speak the truth as it is in Christ. It may be beautiful, and we may 
see beyond those words, and I am not saying do not sing the song; but 
this business of God taking you by the hand and leading you on, and the 
way gets a little rough and you turn loose. No. These days are gone. He 
has moved from without to within. It is not Him walking along beside of 
me. It is God in the midst of me. He tried to show that to Israel, but 
Israel did not see it; and most believers today look at the same 
Scriptures and the same law they had, and do not see it either. He has 
moved from the outside to the inside. He says, "There is a day coming, 
the day of the Lord, the day of the Spirit of Truth, that I will make 
this covenant known". It is a better covenant. It is not a hand-to-hand 
situation. It is a Me in you situation, and it is a you in Me situation. 
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after 
those days..." Notice there is just one house here. "...after those days, 
saith the Lord. I will put My laws into their minds, and write them in 
their hearts. I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. 
And they shall not teach...." Here it is, the knowledge of the Lord. Here 
it is, the glory of the Lord filling up the true sanctuary. "...for all 
shall know Me, from the least to the greatest... In that he saith, A new 
covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and groweth 
old is ready to vanish away."  
 
In the light of the truth, it disappears. When the truth of Christ is 
revealed in us as it is in Christ, the old disappears. We see what God 
hath done. It becomes evident. It becomes substance, then it becomes 
expression and experience, and manifestation. It is Christ. "Ye shall 
know the truth." Hebrews 9:23-24, "It was therefore necessary that the 
pattern of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the 
heavenly things..." The pattern, you see, had to be purified with the 
blood of bulls, and goats, and man-service, and all of this, but the 
heavenly things themselves with better sacrifice than these. "If ye then 
be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, not on the 
things on the earth..." Even if they are patterns of the heavenlies. Even 
if we have deemed them spiritual before. Even if we have honored and 
reverenced them before. Set your affection not on those things. I know 
people who will not turn loose of the pattern, and grasp the reality. 
They will not turn loose of this concept of "going to church". If we are 
there on Wednesday night and Sunday morning, bless God, that is all there 
is to it. "If I have it down to being saved, sanctified, and filled with 
the Holy Ghost, that is all there is to it. Do not tell me about anything 
else. I do not want to know about anything else. My grandaddy believed 
that, and his grandaddy before him believed that, and all of our family 
have gone to this piece of lumber that is constructed here on this 
particular street; and do not tell me anything else. I do not want to 
know about being the church. I am perfectly content. I sit in the same 
place, and I have sat there for 50 years, and bless God, I am not going 
to sit anywhere else. Now, I may not speak to my brother or my sister 
that sits on the other side, because ten years ago, they slapped my 
child; but I am here."  
 
Sometimes people ask me why I do not get down here to make it practical, 
so here you are. Turn loose of the shadow. The shadow is split and 
divided, and it is always going to be split and divided; because, I do 
not care how honest, how sincere you are in the pattern, the pattern 
cannot bring perfection into reality. It cannot do it. No one more 
diligently served a pattern than did the priests of God under the old 
covenant. No one more diligently served than did Israel under the old 
covenant. They served under the threat of absolute, sudden death - 
stoned. They would take them out and stone them. But, see what God is 
saying there; because everything that is established in the pattern is 
fulfilled in Christ. Turn loose of the shadows, not for nothing, but for 
the reality. I did not tell you to quit going to church. I said our whole 
motivation, our whole understanding needs to change, so that we do not 
gather together to be. We gather together because we are, and nothing can 
separate us then. I do not know about you, but I get tired of preaching 
conferences. I get tired of preaching Bible studies. I get tired of 
preaching, period. If all this is is a four day conference, we are all in 
trouble; and if all these little meditations have been is a bunch of 
sermons, we are all in trouble. We are the Body of Jesus Christ, and 
there must be a coming together as it has never been experienced or 
manifested on the face of the earth. And preaching sermons is not going 
to get it done; but the revelation of His Son will. The impregnation of 
divine truth will. Until we begin to live the truth as it is in Christ, 
and not only live the truth; but live as the truth.  
"For ye are light in the Lord." Lord, reveal Thy Son in us. Reveal the 
reality, that we may be manifestations of the reality. I am not falling 
down with age yet; but I started a long time ago, and I am tired of just 
playing games. Let the truth be known. Let Christ come forth. We are not 
here to play games, are we? "For Christ is not entered into the holy 
place made with hands..." I said it once, and I will say it again, "Why 
seek ye the living among the dead?" He is not in those things. There must 
be a total transformation, a complete transforming of our minds, a 
complete renewing. That means a totally new mind. You search out renewal. 
"Be not conformed, but transformed..." How? "...by the renewing of your 
mind," and only the truth will do that. It is not new truth, or the truth 
dwelling in an old vessel. No! The truth makes a new vessel. I am talking 
about when we are born again it is a new spirit. When Christ is revealed, 
it is a new mind, by a new and a living knowledge, the most excellent 
knowledge for whom Paul forsook all. It must be so, for He is not found 
in the shadows. He is not dwelling in the shadows. He is dwelling in the 
light. If we will walk in the light as He is in the light, the first 
result is fellowship, unbroken fellowship, unbroken unity. Unbroken 
speaks of no division, and then there is this regenerating, continual 
cleansing, renewing, the flow of His life.  
 
Hebrews 10:19, "Having therefore..." This is like starting in the first 
verse of the eighth chapter of Romans, after coming out of chapter seven. 
"Having therefore.." "There is therefore..." I appreciated what a Brother 
said - "These promises are not to everyone, but to him that dwelleth." 
There is a "therefore" here, and there is a "therefore" in Romans 8. It 
is not for everyone to come along and say, "Well, praise God, no 
condemnation in Christ." I found that most of those people really mean 
"no conviction". God has not done away with conviction yet. "Stand still 
convicted." He has not done away with conviction, and He has not done 
away with condemnation to those still, living in the flesh; because 
Christ came and condemned sin in the flesh. There is a therefore. "Having 
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter..." You see that boldness. Over 
the Cross write "therefore". Seeing the true work of the Cross. 
Understand it is not me anyway, it is Him. Having seen the One Son, the 
one faith, the one body, having entered in through the veil, which is His 
flesh, wherein I am broken down, abolished, and slain; and He comes forth 
One New Man at peace with God. "Having therefore..." I will stand in Him 
any day. "Having therefore boldness to enter into the holiest by the 
blood..." You see, through the Cross, by the blood, by the death of 
Jesus. None of me there. "By a new and living way which He hath 
consecrated for us through the veil, which is to say, His flesh. And 
having a high priest over the house of God..."  
 
How did Israel enter in to the holiest in type? The high priest.  
Remember, I said that out of Israel God chose... He saw the whole in the 
firstborn, that is true. He sees the whole in the firstborn. So, He took 
the Levites unto Him for the firstborn. Out of the Levites the priest, 
out of the priests the high priest; so when the high priest went into the 
Holy of Holies, all of Israel went with him; but that was only a type. 
The type and the shadow has been done away; because the thing which the 
high priest could not do, was actually bring the old to an end. He could 
only serve in the service of the old. Jesus did. He brought the old to an 
end. Now, we enter, not by the shadow, but by a new and living way, we do 
enter where Israel could not enter. We do, in our High Priest, enter into 
the Holiest of Holies; and we do not so with fear and trembling, but in 
the assurance that we have no life but Christ, that we are in Him, and He 
is in us. In the assurance of the revelation of Christ we enter there. In 
the fullness of faith we enter there.  
 
It has been said, "The just shall live by faith." You know where that is. 
You know who the just are, of course. "Just" comes from "justification". 
"Justification means "just as though you had never sinned". It is just as 
though you had never sinned; because when the Cross gets through with 
you, it is just as though you had never lived. Here is the statement of 
the justified man. Here is the statement of the man who is just. "I am 
crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; but not I. Christ liveth in 
me. Now I live", this just man, "I live by the faith of the Son of God." 
One of those places says, "The just shall live by His faith". Live, 
knowing I have no life but Him. Now, in the boldness of faith, I can come 
before my Father, knowing I have no life but Christ. In this realm, you 
only live by faith, and that faith is substance. It is evidence. It is 
Christ revealed in you. Colossians 3:1, "If ye then be risen with Christ, 
seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand 
of God. Set your affection..." Your mind, your heart, your affections 
must be where you are. That is the problem with the believer. There is no 
doubt, no problem with what God has done. Every believer does dwell in 
Christ. You are not trying to get there. You are there by virtue of the 
act of God; but now, what we need is the faith of the operation of God by 
which He will work it in us.  
 
We are there, but our problem is, so many times, our heart and our 
affection is still over here, in love with what was, even what was in a 
religious form; but it is still separated unto something other than 
Christ. Even a shadow of Christ is not Christ. Even a type of Christ is 
not Christ. In many cases, we are in love with a shadow. We are in love 
with a type, simply because we have not yet grasped the real. Let there 
be no division in our heart, but a single eye, and a single mind, 
separated unto Him in the fullness of truth. "For ye are dead, and your 
life is hid with Christ in God..." Verse 4 is so precious. I think we may 
just deal with verse 3, but verse 4 is magnificent. "When Christ..." See, 
we have done away with all else. There is nothing like the appearing of 
Him. "When Christ, Who is..." He is all that is. "...Who is our life, 
shall appear, then..." (not before). Before that, we are kept under the 
law (Galatians 3:23), but with His appearing, with the coming of faith, 
"...when He shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory..." 
Show The House to the house, that with His appearing, they may see Who 
and What they are, they may know their life, their place, their 
placement. "When He appears"... Not before. When He appears, then your 
life appears. When He appears, your righteousness appears. When He 
appears, your holiness appears; because you appear also. The word "also" 
means "in like manner, in exactness, in sameness". You appear with Him in 
glory, swallowed up in Him, to where it is not I, but Christ.  
 
Now, Verse 3. I want us to see something here in relation to these 
realms, and this one is three-fold. All of these are, but we will not 
break them down just now. It is a total realm of the old. Now, in our 
progression of our study of the Cross, we should have related each of 
these realms to each of these places, but we did not. The Adamic realm, 
which is the I, the me, and the you, and the we, relates here to the 
brazen altar, and to the laver of His appearing. We are taken out; but, 
remember, it is the I am taken out. A lot of us want to get Adam 
crucified as though he is someone aside from me. I am taken out from 
these realms. I am the one. These realms are for one reason only. I am 
not there. I am here; and yet, in the new I am not either. It is Christ. 
Where are you? I am lost in this picture. I am done away. I am burned up. 
Now, I relate, but I relate in Him, through Him, by Him. I have life, but 
the life is Christ. I have a body, but not my body. His Body. It is Him. 
It is Him Whose we are. Let our heart be surrendered to that, filled with 
that, obedient to that faith. There is a verse that exhorts us in that. 
The law, the administration of the law, the order of the old priesthood, 
we are taken out from that. Is the law destroyed? No, I am taken out from 
that.  
 
That is the reason the pattern is necessary. It is the pattern of the 
heavenly. It is not the heavenly, but the pattern; and until the truth of 
the heavenly is revealed in us, the pattern is necessary for we are kept 
under the law. I am not preaching lawlessness here. I am not, as I said 
before, running around butting heads with every other sacrifice. I am 
preaching coming to the truth. I am preaching coming to the Cross. We are 
not preaching me lawless. We are preaching me dead. There is a great deal 
of difference there. I am not ready to throw the Scripture away. I have 
not seen all of Him yet. In areas where He is not revealed in me, I am 
still under the law, and it is not my decision to say, "Bless God, I am 
no longer under that. I am just going to divorce that and get away from 
it." I do not make decisions like that. That decision is automatically 
made when the Father reveals His Son in me, when He says, "This ole' boy 
has been under tutors and governors long enough to see My Son, and I am 
going to reveal My Son in him"; and to the degree that He reveals the Son 
in me, the Son fulfills the law. I do not just decide that I am going to 
throw the law away. One of the worst things that ever happens in a 
ministry is when you and I just decide it is time to go preach. Saved, 
sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost, delivered from bad things, got my 
testimony, show me where to go. Don't even show me where to go, just turn 
me loose, and I will just go.  
 
You will never see anyone who had a greater testimony, even in the flesh, 
than the apostle Paul. He was a killer of Christians. With that testimony 
alone, he could get in the biggest churches in the United States. Today, 
with that testimony alone, he would not have to know anything else, but 
that "I used to kill Christians". He would have to hire a whole 
switchboard full of operators to handle calls coming from the pastors of 
the biggest congregations. Man, he was knocked down on the road. Just 
look at what happened to that man. He could go two weeks on the road 
experience alone. What did he do? He took his Bible, the scrolls, the 
Scriptures, and he went to the desert for three years until he saw Jesus. 
He was already a pharisee of the pharisees. He probably could have sat 
down and written the Scriptures over again. He did not go there looking 
for the righteousness of those written words; because concerning them, he 
was already blameless. He took his Bible and said, "There is something 
that I have not seen yet. I have all these Scriptures down. I have 
already been to seminary. I have already sat at the feet of the smartest 
teacher in all Israel. I have already perfected, but I need to see the 
One Who knocked me down in the road. I do not need to just go around 
telling how He knocked me down. I need to see Him. I do not need to 
measure the greatness of my salvation experience, or the depth of the 
dirty things I used to do. I need to get the real thing. I need to see 
the full salvation of God. If I am going to preach something to the 
Church, I need to preach something that lasts.  
 
So, he went to the desert with his Bible; then when he came back from the 
desert, he went to the Church, and submitted what he had seen, and 
himself, to the brethren. Not because he doubted Christ, or that he had 
seen Christ, but in absolute submission and confirmation of the brethren; 
because one of the things he had seen was the Body of Jesus Christ, and 
the faith of Jesus. How do I know that? Because I have read his books. I 
have read his letters. I know what he saw, and I am in the process of 
knowing the One that he saw. They saw that the same was working in him. 
What did they see? They saw the same. Then he said some more. Did you 
know it was as high as fourteen years before he had hands laid on him, 
and was commissioned to go anywhere? It was a great number of years and 
some speculate it was as many as fourteen years from the time of his 
conversion to the time that he was declared to be an apostle of Jesus 
Christ, had hands laid on him, and the Holy Ghost said, "Go forth".  
 
So, we are taken out. I am no more. Out from Adam. Colossians 2. I am no 
more. Adam is no more, because I am no more in that realm. If you are 
still alive there, the law is alive and well, spiritual and holy. Paul 
says, "I am not". How were you delivered from the law? "I died". He did 
not get mad and say, "Bless God, don't believe it". "I died in it", he 
said. "Wherein I was once held, now I am dead. The law said, Thou shalt 
die, and I did. I have seen the Person of my death, and I have seen the 
Person of my life." Colossians 2. Paul is writing to us here. Verse 20, 
"Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, 
why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances; (Touch 
not: taste not; handle not; Which are all to perish with the using;) 
after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things indeed have a 
show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; 
not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh." It does not bring about 
any real change. He said, "Now brother, what you are going to do is 
produce a lot of lawless things." No. The Cross just produces dead ones 
whose life is Christ. What are we doing, destroying the ordinances, 
destroying the commandments? No sir! We are getting rid of the one who 
breaks them. I am no more! As to the law - out from the law. See, you do 
not have to rule and regulate Adam if you understand he is dead. I know a 
lot who say they have, who have not; but I am talking about the real work 
of the Spirit. I am talking about the real work of the Cross, not just 
grabbing some of this terminology and applying it to Adam, out from the 
realm of the law and all that it is. Let me read you one Scripture and we 
will go on from there.  
 
Galatians 3:23. What is the fulfillment of the law? Faith is the 
fulfillment of the law. Look at this. "But before faith came, we were 
kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which would afterwards be 
revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster..." The law is not a bad 
thing. I tell you, the Scripture is the only place you are going to see 
Christ. Get there. Stay there. Live there. Abide there. It is the only 
schoolmaster we have, truly. "...to bring us unto Christ." Here it is 
synonymous with faith. "Before faith came...to bring us unto Christ, that 
we might be justified by faith..." We have already discussed that. Just 
as though we never lived. That we may be brought to the death that the 
law brings us to, being justified, being reckoned dead by faith. Whose 
faith? His faith. "But after faith is come, we are no longer under the 
schoolmaster." You do not shoot the schoolmaster. When you graduate, you 
do not kill the school teacher. You may need to be taken back for a 
refresher course in time. "For ye are all the sons of God by faith in 
Christ Jesus."  
 
Now let us go to Proverbs 24, "Be ye not envious of evil men, neither 
desire to be with them; for their heart studieth destruction and their 
lips talk of mischief. Through wisdom is a house builded. By 
understanding it is established, and by knowledge shall the chambers be 
filled with all precious and pleasant riches." Here is the three-fold 
working of faith. This is the house that faith built. We will not dwell 
on this right now, but faith is first wisdom. It is then understanding, 
and it is lastly and completely knowledge. It is always in that exact 
order. It is never knowledge, understanding, wisdom. It is always wisdom, 
understanding, knowledge. This is the order of faith. What fulfills the 
law? The faith of the Son of God. What did we see here in this second 
chamber of the Cross? We saw one faith, one Son, one Body. Had we gone 
into that deeply, you could have seen how that separates us from the 
letter, the administration, and the old order. It is fulfilled in Him. It 
is not destroyed as such. We are taken out of it, and it is fulfilled in 
Christ.  
 
Now, the realms. Let me just mention these realms to you. There is a 
three-fold realm. I call them realms, but it is really a three-fold 
realm; because, it corresponds to Christ; and Christ also is a three-fold 
realm. He is where we sit, where we walk, where we stand. We could go on 
and on with the three-fold realm, but it is just one realm; but it is 
three-fold in nature and in all things. We are taken out of a three-fold 
realm, the realm of the devil. I did not say the devil has been 
destroyed. I said I have been taken out of his realm. It has been said, 
concerning the business of the devil chasing you every day. He cannot 
chase me, because he is not where I am. I am in Christ. But, that is not 
just a statement. That must be a point of reality. That must be a point 
of faith, a point of truth; because if I am there, if I really do not 
understand that I am there, then he chases me every day and can do pretty 
well what he pleases; and I can quote Scripture to him until my tongue 
falls out. He knows them anyway. But, if the truth of those Scriptures is 
not revealed in me, then my life in fact is not here. It is out in the 
open. It is faith you see, that causes us to understand where we are. It 
is not that the devil is destroyed. I am just not there. How is his power 
broken? Because the guy that he had power over is dead.  
 
If you have someone in debt to you, the very worst thing on earth that 
can happen to you is for someone to kill them. If they came and did 
something to you, it would not hurt; because your heirs would benefit. 
But, if they kill that guy, you have problems; because, with his passing, 
so passes your power over him. You may have power over so many others, 
but not him any more. He is gone. He is out from there. He is done away. 
But, you see, as long as the believer who is in Christ, but is not there 
in faith; as long as that believer's heart and mind is still in the old, 
then he is still subject to the torments of the devil. I believe 
personally you could lay hands on those people all day long, and all 
night long.. (I am not talking about demon possession. I am talking about 
under the influence of the realm of Satan, the things that torment.) You 
can lay hands from now on, but until that person comes to Truth, they are 
not going to be genuinely delivered. They are going to be in your prayer 
line every time you show up there.  Now, I know about laying on of hands. 
Absolutely! Do not misunderstand me. But, "You shall know the truth, and 
the truth shall make you free". It is not the destruction of the devil, 
the realm of the world, and the realm of the earth. These three realms. 
It is that I am out from them. Until you see that the work of the Cross 
is not directly against these, but against these by taking you out, you 
are going to have problems with these three realms. If you do not have 
problems with one, you will have problems with the other, until you see 
that "I am really no longer there". May we all come to this CRISIS OF THE 
CROSS and find our life only in Christ!