02.13. CHAPTER 13: THE SHABBAT-SHALOM OF OUR INWARD PARTS
CHAPTER 13: THE ‘SHABBAT-SHALOM’ OF OUR INWARD PARTS
Deuteronomy 29:29 declares: The secret things belong to the LORD our GOD, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this Law.
“That we may observe all the words of this Law” – what an astonishing outcome to revelations actualized from GOD (see Mark 4:22; Revelation 19:10 c, 13c)! AMEN! The secret things of GOD open to us in the Mystery of CHRIST and, the outcome of the revelation of CHRIST JESUS is that we can do all things through CHRIST WHO strengthens us!
All things that belong to us – from GOD – are revealed, inscribed and developed functionally in a circumcised heart of MASHIAH YESHUA’s flesh fashioned and formed within us (see Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15-16; Ezekiel 36:26; 2 Corinthians 3:3, NKJV; Romans 2:28-29; 2 Corinthians 3:6). [We are in fact being developed – in salvation progressed in our inward parts - to function through the veil of YESHUA’s flesh (see Hebrews 10:19-20, NASB).] The secret things that belong to the LORD (see John 16:15; John 16:14) are brought into our spirit by the HOLY SPIRIT in revealed realities (see Mark 4:22). What is revealed – when perfected into us – through living expressions of the Spirit and Life of JESUS CHRIST, via choices made, into actual functions – come to belong to us in/from our heart. The result is that we are enabled to obey GOD as described in Ezekiel 36:27 – as GOD causes us to obey! This enabling to obey is at the heart of salvation! This enabling to obey is the fulfillment of the Law! This tells us that it is through the revealed Word of GOD – the Word manifested in us in the Spirit and Life of YESHUA – which, when quickened into its energized (see Ephesians 3:20) form, manifests actual change in us and enables us to obey GOD in growing, and potentially fully functional terms: That we may observe all the words of this Law. - as declared in Deuteronomy 29:29.
[See Psalms 119:25-35 and understand its fulfillment in CHRIST JESUS (see Luke 24:44-45) through the communication of HIS Fullness through actual impartations of HIS Spirit and HIS Life through the Rhema Word (see John 1:16-17; Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 1:17; Colossians 1:20; John 6:63; Hebrews 3:14 (NKJV). Such a work in our inward parts is engineered and developed by the HOLY SPIRIT in accordance with our response to GOD’s Word.]
Obedience involves a strong and growing spirit man and, it involves the transformation of our soul – through renewal and regeneration by the HOLY SPIRIT (see Titus 3:5; Ephesians 5:26-27) - through the energized contents of the revealed Word of GOD. The energized contents of the revealed Word are released into us in and as the contents of the Spirit and Life of MASHIAH YESHUA, according to the kind intents of the FATHER’s will (see Ephesians 1:5; Ephesians 1:3-11).
[We can energize the revealed Word into its functional realities through the use of tongues (see Isaiah 28:9-11; Zephaniah 3:9).] In earlier chapters, we described a spirit ó soul interface in which the soul is perfected by all that the spirit actualizes by the HOLY SPIRIT. In actuality, this interface of spirit ó soul always takes place through the heart. The heart is the interface where expressions from soul and spirit commingle, and responses to GOD are made in a potential enabling, actualized from the Spirit of CHRIST. The phrase “potential enabling” is used because all enablement still requires a free will affirmation and agreement from the soul of man.
[And it necessarily involves the heart because it is the soul ó heart interface that manifests our freewill choice and response to what our spirit expresses by the HOLY SPIRIT. Our freewill response – ultimately actualized in a resultant lifestyle - is crucial for anything to come to fruition in us in the abiding. Ultimately all things are measured by how and by whom we live.] The heart actualizes enablement from our spirit and, our heart also actualizes a response (to GOD) from our soul! Our heart actualizes enablement from the Spirit of CHRIST, and our heart actualizes the necessary agreement or acceptance from our soul.
Enablement (from our spirit), acceptance and agreement (from our soul) commingle in our heart and, the HOLY SPIRIT patiently engineers a circumcision that perfects our heart according to the Words of MASHIAH YESHUA that the HOLY SPIRIT has quickened to us (see John 6:63; Luke 21:33).
[All words in truth manifest from GOD the WORD through HIS Spirit and HIS Life. In HIS Spirit and Life – through communications in HIS Faith and HIS Love – the Word of GOD becomes flesh in our heart. This is the sole conduit of truth that stands in accordance with the “I AM” of GOD (see Psalms 138:2 c).] The commingled realities of enablement (from our spirit), acceptance and agreement (from our soul), in the heart, in turn become the basis of feedback from heart to soul and, from heart to spirit.
These feedbacks are crucial to our soul and spirit being perfected and completed into a functional spiritual equilibrium. This functional spiritual equilibrium is in our freewill standing in agreement with what GOD is saying and doing. This functional spiritual equilibrium is prophetically addressed as GOD’s “Shabbat Shalom” to our inward parts. This “Shabbat Shalom” is the true and faithful Witness in Spirit, Water and Blood (see Revelation 3:14 b; 1 John 5:10 a, 8). Tongues facilitate the growth and development of this “Shabbat Shalom” (see Isaiah 28:11-12). And, this facilitates the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets (see 1 Corinthians 14:21). The prophetic significance of “Shabbat Shalom” is an inward state of rest in peace with well being that derives from GOD and, is exclusively an expression of HIS work in our inward parts – both spirit and soul. Under the Law the Sabbath was declared to be a compulsory day of rest. In GOD we function (or, operate) in a rest that proclaims GOD’s All-Sufficiency in all that we function (or, operate) in (see Psalms 46:10; Isaiah 54:10; Psalms 64:10). In the fulfillment of the Law, the Sabbath is an inward functional state of rest that enables us to know that we are functioning in a state of rest in GOD (see Psalms 46:10). This is a rest that is an actualization of what we can do through CHRIST WHO strengthens us (see Php 4:13; Galatians 4:19) versus what we do in flesh! The ability to actually function by GOD is the fulfillment of the Law!
We become actual functioning vessels of GOD’s Righteousness!
Shalom is peace with well being. Shalom – in personal terms - represents victory over our flesh as well as victory over satan in the quality of the Witness that we express. Shalom is described in the Prophets as an expression of the reality of being in functional Covenant with GOD (see Isaiah 54:10). Shalom also represents the tangible witness of victory over satan (see Romans 16:20) and is the witness of the over-comer (see Revelation 2:7; Revelation 2:11; Revelation 2:17; Revelation 2:26-28; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 3:12; Revelation 3:21).
Shalom is the spiritual expression of our inward parts attaining – by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (see Romans 8:2) – a functional Covenant guarantee in CHRIST JESUS (see Hebrews 7:22; Isaiah 54:10) through our inward witness before GOD (see 1 John 5:10 a, 7-8, NKJV). This functional Covenant guarantee is the “Shabbat Shalom” of YHWH actualized.
“Shabbat Shalom” is the prophetic expression of a functional Covenant Spirituality – in truth - that stands in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets actualized from our inward parts. It is the actualized assurance of YHWH that results in us having no doubt (see Matthew 17:20; Mark 11:23)! Having some level of confidence (see Hebrews 3:14, NKJV) is the “Shabbat Shalom” that expresses a functional Covenant basis in CHRIST (see Php 4:13; Galatians 4:19).
“Shabbat Shalom” is the necessary inward state that leads to the actual removal of spiritual mountains (see Mark 11:23; Matthew 21:21; Matthew 17:20) that stand in opposition to GOD and HIS Word. The removal of these spiritual mountains, give clarity and expression to HIS will, HIS plans and HIS purposes in our inward parts. The result is an inward state having “no doubt”! This reality of having “no doubt” is an outcome of salvation in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets! It is part and parcel of GOD’s provision to us. From the removal of spiritual mountains, mountains in the natural can also be removed – both instantaneously as well as progressively with time. But, all of this flows in a “Shabbat Shalom” so that we can clearly ascertain that this is of GOD and not of our carnal flesh. The witness in the “Shabbat Shalom” of the LORD results in a growing confidence in GOD as we unveil as partakers of CHRIST (see Hebrews 3:14).
We need to understand that fundamentally the removal of spiritual mountains relate to the removal of the spiritual barriers of our flesh that are a hindrance to our functioning by the HOLY SPIRIT. So “Shabbat Shalom” is the spirituality by Covenant Witness that stands above any fleshly impediment. “Shabbat Shalom” is the Covenant Witness – in Spirit, Water and Blood - the over-comer has actualized by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS.
It is important to understand that what stands in contradiction to the “Shabbat Shalom” of the LORD is an internal violence (see Ezekiel 28:16 a) and a heart and mind that is full of self and self-importance and self-righteousness (see Ezekiel 28:17-18). Such a persistent spiritual state of disequilibrium in the inward parts is what led to Lucifer’s downfall and destruction. “Shabbat Shalom” is our on-line Blood Covenant connection to YHWH ADONAI (the LORD GOD).
Given the fact that the “Shabbat Shalom” is engineered by GOD in our inward parts, we can understand that the witness that is contradictory to the “Shabbat Shalom” of the LORD is reflective of an upset in our inward operating conditions that need a corrective response that involves repentance and the pursuit of actual change in our inward operating conditions. This inevitably involves the nature and character of our inward operating conditions.
Additionally, the preeminence of JESUS CHRIST is also crucial to our spiritual well being. And, this preeminence of the LORD JESUS is established in a “Shabbat Shalom” in our inward parts. HE is the Prince of Peace (see Isaiah 9:6) the actual revelation of YHWH SHALOM to our inward parts (see John 17:6 a, 26)!
And, HE is YHWH ADONAI the LORD revealed to our inward parts (see Psalms 46:10)! AMEN (see Revelation 3:14 b; 2 Corinthians 1:20-22)! In the “Shabbat Shalom” of YHWH alive in our inward parts we can do all things through CHRIST WHO strengthens us! AMEN!