Read Between the Worlds

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Mission Not So Impossible

At last, the battle lines are drawn. The playing field has been leveled. The time-race is temporarily stripped of access to the eternal realm and prohibited from experiencing the power of union. The elohim are barred from the spatial world and confined to a region that has only one thing left in common with the earthly dimension, time. The two races are now locked in battle. The outcome will mean the ultimate destruction of all of the rebel elohim and a significant number of the time-creatures who embrace their rebellion; but most excitingly, it will result in the bringing together of all things in heaven and on earth a condition that has not been seen since the rebellion in the garden.

Who's Holding the Rope?

Domination and passivity have nothing to do with submission. In fact, they are exactly NOT what subjection is about. They are opposed to the central feature of the human character that is distinctly in His image: the ability to choose—more than that, the requirement to choose.

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Perfume on the Latch

Even now the Creator is preparing an army of time-creatures, a human army, to bring an end to the elohim insurgency. He has put the responsibility for training in the hands of The Seed, Jesus. He is a combat veteran, a living lesson who has fought in the trenches facing and defeating death. He demonstrated by example the secret of a fully responsive spirit. He is skilled in the use of submission, the weaponry of this war.

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An Apparent Need for Parents

Jesus, the submitted son, was a careful observer of the Father, and a faithful imitator. That is a picture of wisdom. Paul calls Jesus “God’s mystery…in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Just as wisdom is personified in the 8th chapter of Proverbs, Jesus’ example of subjection to the Father becomes the living embodiment of wisdom and wise behavior in the New Testament.

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My Master, My Mentor

Christ as a son, demonstrated how to act like the Father, but Christ, the servant, teaches how to act on behalf of the Father. The child’s role draws life from simply being—we are children. The servant, on the other hand, learns to defer his own purposes to those of another. The will of the master is the duty of the slave.

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Lord, Pierce My Ear

As bondslaves we have something very important to lay before the Master: our freedom. To walk again in a fully responsive relationship with Him as we were designed —this is God’s definition of “liberty”—we have to be willing to walk in submission, understanding the will of God and choosing it.

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To Love and to Cherish

There is something in the triune nature of God that is revealed in the “two-become-one” imagery of the bride and bridegroom.

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"Heirarchy"

How does one go about living in an “heirarchy?” If order in the home and church isn’t established by the rank of its members but by their roles how does the whole thing keep from flying apart in a great power struggle?

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Part 3: Deployment

In the Arms of Love

The story of redemption is a romance. It is a story of God’s unrequited love, His relentless pursuit of His faithless bride. It is the tale of His boundless heart, His passion, His sacrificial quest to restore relationship. God extends to humanity an invitation to once again rest in His love and to be subject to Him as a child, a servant, and a bride:

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Key to Unity: All for One

One of the reasons that unity suffers among Christians in America is that we tend to preserve hierarchical structure in our churches. Rather than operate according to the principle of “one body with many equally valuable members” we often elevate some gifts above the others. In essence we make celebrities out of those that have “public” gifts such as pastors, administrators, and worship leaders, while people who exercise “lesser” gifts remain non-functional, and sometimes become dysfunctional. The reality is that we have inadvertently created “key roles” that become lightning rods for conflict.