“Do
you realize most of Christendom is spending all their Christian life trying to
get ‘rooted and grounded in the love of God’? (Eph. 3:17)
“You
find in the Crosswork of Christ the love of God, and if you study that and see
how, when you understand it, you ARE rooted and grounded in love, after that you’re
on the mountain peak, looking out, comprehending what God is doing.
“But
if you spend all your time trying to figure out, ‘Am I really saved? Am I
really forgiven? Does God still love me?’ you’re spending all your time
trying to GET rooted and grounded, and you’re NEVER going to be ‘filled with
all the fullness of God’! (Eph. 3:19)
“It’s
when you just study (and believe) what God’s love has done for you, and how God
IS part of your life, and what God IS going to do in you, that you then see
that is YOU BEING rooted and grounded. Paul’s writing as if you can ALREADY be
rooted and built up! Colossians says the same thing.”
*****
On
this same subject of being “filled with the fullness of God,” Jordan explains, “When
God says to Israel, ‘I will make of thee a great nation,’ that doesn’t mean
they’re to have the most people in the earth. It isn’t just to be numerous;
it’s to be great in the Deuteronomy 4 sense of, ‘What nation is it so great
that hath God so nigh unto them?’
“It’s
greatness in having an identity as being ‘God’s people’; having Him as their
God and them being His people. Sonship status. You know where He says, ‘They
shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them’? That isn’t the
idea that they’re all just going be saved. That is there.
“But
you know God told Israel in Jeremiah, ‘When a man boast, let him boast about
this . . .’ Do you remember what he’s supposed to boast about? ‘That you know
me and you understand me.’ You see, to know the Lord in that context, and
understand Him, is to be able to understand His thinking.
“It’s
entering into an intimacy of fellowship with God where you know what He’s
doing, and He knows you know, and you all do it together and you’re in the know
with one another.
“You
know how wonderful it is to be in-the-know? There’s a wonderful intimacy with
this adoption; this Sonship status we have in the fullness of all God has given
us to understand.
“You
see, Israel is designed to have that kind of intimacy with God; that thing
where He writes His law in their hearts. That’s not just to keep them from
spitting on the sidewalk or cussing when they get their finger busted. That’s
so there can be some intimacy of fellowship between Him and them.
“He’s
their God, they’re His people, and they work together in harmony and joy, and
there’s an excitement of them working together with God. When I look at that,
to me that’s the most exciting thing in all the world.
“That’s
why God put Adam on the earth to start with! He was supposed to know God, know
what He was thinking, know what He was doing, and then work together with Him.
God gave Eve to Adam as a ‘help meet’ for him—somebody to work with him in
harmony and fellowship and intimacy to accomplish the purpose together—and God
created man for that purpose for Him.
“What
a wonderful thing it is for us, a bunch of no-good, rotten, useless, worn-out
Gentiles—idol-worshipping heathen idiots like you and I—that we get to be a
part of that too!
"And then He takes us and tells us stuff He never told Israel
about! He says to us, ‘Let me show you my genius,’ and we go around and moan,
‘Oh, is this going to get over soon? Magnum
P.I.’s on.’ ”
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