06.22. How Scripture Explains The Inward Witness

How Scripture Explains The Inward Witness The Word Of GOD needs to be laid by the HOLY SPIRIT - into us - in the revealed fullness of the LORD JESUS CHRIST. The Book Of Hebrews (10:15-16) explains that the HOLY SPIRIT is the ONE WHO is forming the mechanics of a Covenant within us by a process of writing HIS Laws upon our heart and into our imaginative mind (Greek: “dianoia”). As we have discussed earlier the writing of the Covenant is in substance unveiled in and by witness of a living and growing reality of the Master’s Fullness (see Exodus 32:16; 2 Corinthians 3:3-6, KJV/NKJV). The reality of the Master’s Fullness is the Testimony Of JESUS realized in defined Covenant terms, in which we are to function by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS. The Covenant unveiled from the Testimony defines the FATHER’s will for our life - forever. The Witness that communicates this “I AM” actuality in called the AMEN, the true and faithful Witness, the Beginning of the creation of GOD. This Witness is sourced in the FATHER, the WORD and the HOLY SPIRIT (see 1 John 5:7, NKJV) is unveiled in us and amongst us in a Witness of Blood, Water and Spirit (see 1 John 5:8, NKJV; 10a). We develope a response to this Witness in our inward parts. Our response unveils as an inward witness. The realized witness in our inward parts unveils as a Blood Covenant actuality of remembrance in the realities and actualities of the Word realized through the Spirit and Life of MASHIAH YESHUA. A Covenant Alive By Witness Unveiled In Hebrews 10:15-16, the HOLY SPIRIT declares: “This is the Covenant that I will make with them .... I will put MY Laws upon their heart, and upon their mind I will write them.” We will talk about these Laws in the context of the New Covenant in Book II. But, what is being said here is that the HOLY SPIRIT uses HIS Laws to make a witness in Covenant alive in us.

What this means is that our inward witness is being fashioned through the Laws Of GOD being manifested in us in actual fulfilled terms. What is being fashioned into us will enable us to fully function in GOD and by GOD - for GOD. This actuality is the Law and the Prophets fulfilled.

Understanding The Witness To The Law Fulfilled In the realities of the Law Of GOD being unveiled in us in fulfilled terms, we see for example that the Law of the Sabbath (see Exodus 31:12-18) is brought alive in our witness as a growing sanctified rest. A growing sanctified Sabbath rest - defined through a circumcised heart of flesh - in which we function in GOD’s Name (see Hebrews 4:7-11; Ezekiel 36:25; Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6). The inward state of sanctification is manifested in the actuality of YHWH as YHWH-M’KADDESH (the Sanctifier).

Similarly the commandment not to steal is brought alive in us as a nature conformed to CHRIST JESUS, in which there will be no desire to sin. And, this fulfillment unveils as we increasingly become partakers of the divine nature through the knowledge of CHRIST JESUS realized (see 2 Peter 1:3-4) in our inward parts (see John 1:16-17, NASB). A Witness In Covenant That Knows YHWH

All this results in a living witness to “I AM” being actualized within ourselves. And, this actualization grows in our inward parts forever. A witness in Covenant is thus simply the witness of “I AM” realized - in HIS Righteousness perfected and completed in substance - within us. This witness is laid forth in the Word unveiled by the SPIRIT, in the substance and witness of CHRIST JESUS Fullness, according to the FATHER’s perfect will.

And, we can function in GOD and by GOD in this witness fashioned as a functional Covenant in our inward parts. The Covenant describes the realized functional construct of the revealed Word fashioned within us by the Finger Of GOD (see Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:16). And, this functional construct is fully conformed to MASHIAH YESHUA. In the reality of forming and developing our inward witness, as a Covenant reality, the HOLY SPIRIT will in effect actually bear witness to us and also bear witness through us. Notice that this is a formative process in which a Covenant is actually realized in substance. It is a realization born of communion with GOD. And, this reality in Covenant, functions through our inward witness through an actual construct of the Word by GOD HIMSELF in our inward parts (see Exodus 32:16). That is, the Covenant is a realized actuality of the revealed Word, in which, we actually function in GOD, by GOD and with GOD, under HIS Authority and the growing actuality and totality of HIS Provision. The Covenant of the revealed Word is unveiled in accordance with our free will response to YHWH - in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT. This free will response is born and developed in the reality of an actual relationship, substantively formed in us in the growing evidence of HIM in our inward parts. So the Covenant is a reality of the Word fashioned in us in the Spirit and Life of CHRIST JESUS, that knows YHWH. Knowing YHWH is in fact therefore an actual Covenant state of being. And, every article of Covenant will be described in the Spirit and Life of MASHIAH YESHUA - being established in HIS Faith and being fulfilled in HIS Love.

Knowing GOD is the basic form and substance of Christian growth. It is also perfectly normal and natural for a Christain to be able to know GOD and come to actually love HIM. Nothing in the universe is more normal than knowing GOD. Knowing GOD is the essential form of Truth unveiled. Knowing GOD is a Covenant witness structured into our inward parts as an actual creation (see Exodus 32:16; 2 Corinthians 5:17). The LORD’s Inward Witness In this concluding segment we want to unveil some secrets of the inward witness as noted in Scripture. We will develop the functional implications of the inward witness more fully in Book II. In this concluding segment of Book I, we will begin by seeing the Inward Witness of the LORD JESUS in HIS manhood.

How HE used this Witness and, how HE pointed to this Witness - HIS Witness - as being available to us, are key aspects of the revelation that we need to understand and receive and develop with understanding, in partnership with the HOLY SPIRIT. See for example: John 5:19-20; John 5:30; John 8:13-29; John 11:33-43; John 17:6-8; John 17:26. The GOD Given Ability To See And To Know From John 1:45-50 we read: “Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found HIM of WHOM Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote, JESUS Of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” And Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” JESUS saw Nathanael coming to HIM, and said to him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile!”

Nathanael said to HIM, “How do YOU know me?” JESUS answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael answered HIM, “Rabbi, YOU are the SON Of GOD; YOU are the King Of Israel.”

JESUS answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these.” The Witness Of The TRUE MAN The LORD JESUS came into this world to establish the position of “TRUE MAN”. HE came and HE lived amongst us as a MAN. HE came to realize and establish a new MAN able to belong to GOD perfectly and completely. A new MAN able to love GOD with all of HIS heart, soul, mind and strength. This new MAN is called “TRUE MAN”. In order to accomplish this, the LORD JESUS fully functioned as a MAN in HIS life here on the earth. And through the cross and HIS resurrection, HE established the living reality of the TRUE MAN WHO has overcome sin, sickness, disease and death for us. HE established a living Rhema Testimony in the SPIRIT, to be communicated perfectly and completely into us (see Revelation 3:14; Revelation 19:10; John 6:63; Luke 21:33; Luke 24:44). The design of the Testimony Of JESUS is that we will live by the substance of the Testament communicated (see Exodus 32:16). The substance of the communication - the actuality of HIM and HIS Fullness - is received in the realized substance of HIS faith “unto all and upon all them that believe” as noted in Romans 3:22 (KJV). HIS Testimony unveils the true and faithful Witness that is the basis for a new creation to unveil conformed to HIM (see Revelation 3:14 b; Ephesians 2:10; Colossians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17) through the realization of HIS faith and HIS love for us (see 1 Timothy 1:14; John 1:16-17). The Covenant Witness Manifested Through HIS Faith The realized strength and power of HIS faith, is meant to be perfected and completed in us, so as to become the substance of our faith in HIM. This faith is entirely of HIM, formed through our response to HIM in hope (see Hebrews 11:1, KJV/NKJV; 1 John 3:3). This faith formation within us, finds true and specific expression through the Covenant that is mediated into our heart and mind by the LORD JESUS CHRIST (see Hebrews 8:6; John 17:26). Our faith is meant to be unveiled in JESUS Name in the Word unveiled and explained into us by (or, according to) HIS “I AM” realized. This Word formation in HIS “I AM” becomes Covenant when we have come to understand (see Hebrews 1:3 a; Proverbs 9:10 b) what the FATHER means to perform with HIS Word.

Covenant involves the Word that GOD will perform and honor in us and through us in HIS will. The Author And Finisher Of Our Faith In the mediation of the Covenant specific to our life and the calling upon our life, the LORD JESUS (see Hebrews 8:6) becomes the Author and Finisher of our faith (see Hebrews 12:2 a). Let’s take a look at this reality through an example and come to see the deeper meanings being unveiled to the eyes of our heart. The faith of CHRIST JESUS is expressed in the true and faithful Witness that brings forth the creative work of GOD into our lives (see Revelation 3:14 b). Acts 3:16 (KJV) talks of “the faith which is by HIM (the LORD JESUS)”. “The faith which is by HIM” (see also 2 Peter 1:1; Hebrews 12:2 a) communicates the living actualities of HIS Testimony through HIS faith for us. This is the faith that the LORD JESUS HIMSELF authored and perfected in HIMSELF, which is released from HIS Name, through our faith in HIS Testimony, which in the passage from Acts 3:16, brings about the healing of the lame man.

[Where does our faith in HIM come from? Every human being has been given a measure of faith (see Romans 12:3). That measure of faith has the capacity to grow as we express our hope. Depending on what we set our hope on, we have the capacity of developing the faith in us in truth or in falsehood. Notice that the LORD JESUS proclaimed HIMSELF as being the Truth. The implication of this declaration is that we are required to set our hope on CHRIST JESUS so that the substance of HIS faith unveiling the Witness of “I AM the Truth” can be communicated into us. So faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Rhema Of GOD unveiled in the Spirit and Life of CHRIST JESUS (see Romans 10:17, KJV/NKJV; John 3:34; John 6:63). When we use our faith to set our hope on MASHIAH YESHUA the substance of our faith developes in conformance to the substance of HIS Testimony of faith towards us and also for us. Hope becomes the conduit for the communication of realities built in the Testimony Of JESUS through HIS faith and HIS love for us. In this process in which HIS Testimony of faith is communicated to our inward parts, HE becomes the Author and Finisher of our faith (see Hebrews 12:2 a). And, we are changed in the substance of HIS faith communicated into us (see John 16:14). The substance of our faith is perfected and completed in conformance to HIM through HIS Testimony received - through the conduit of our hope in HIM.] The faith of JESUS is released into us by our hope in HIM. HIS faith is communicated in substance and becomes the evidence by which we are able to do all things through CHRIST WHO strengthens us (see Php 4:13). A new creature in CHRIST JESUS is expressed in the evidence of HIS faith made alive in our witness.

HE is the Truth and, it is the evidence of HIS faith, purely received, that sets us free in an actual evidence of HIM formed and made alive within us. A New Creation Is Unveiling

Ephesians 2:10 declares that we are being created in CHRIST JESUS so that we will each become the workmanship of GOD. This workmanship manifests a new creature. 2 Corinthians 5:17, expresses this new creation as follows: “Therefore if any man is in CHRIST, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”

Take note of the phrase “any man” and understand clearly the meaning and implications of the word “any”! Also, please take note of the declaration: “Behold, new things have come.” Behold is a fundamental expression of hope. The willingness to receive the Light of HIS Testimony (see Matthew 6:22-23)! This book has been written to give some expression to the reality of new things. In CHRIST JESUS, “new things” are a limitless continuum opened by the Door of HIS “I AM” Name. The Door of HIS “I AM” Name is opened through the Key Of David. The Key Of David is formed in the actuality of HIM and HIS faith and HIS love for us, becoming in us a living expression in which HE is increasingly ‘our BELOVED’ (the prophetic actuality of CHRIST JESUS as the David - the Well-Beloved - of our lives). The Testimony Of JESUS With this background let us now examine John 1:45-50. We see the LORD JESUS functioning in HIS manhood. HE sees Nathanael and knows him. The LORD JESUS is functioning in partnership with the HOLY SPIRIT from HIS Inward Witness and, HE explains that HE identified Nathanel even before Philip met him (see John 5:19-20).

Nathanael is astonished. But, then the LORD tells HIM that this is only a small thing! And, HE declares that Nathanael himself will see and know even greater things than what HE has just described to him! In John 1:51, the LORD JESUS says that Nathanael will see awesome (apocalyptic) realities of the LORD JESUS CHRIST.

How will all this happen? By the HOLY SPIRIT WHO searches the depths of GOD and then reveals the deepest levels of the Word (see 1 Corinthians 2:10-14) that will unveil these depths, through the Spirit and Life conduits of the Testimony Of JESUS (see John 16:13-15). In the same way in John 14:12, the LORD JESUS declares that he who believes in HIM will do even greater works than what HE displayed in HIS ministry on earth (see also John 5:20 c,19-20). This will happen because HE will go to the FATHER and, we will each come to function with the HOLY SPIRIT (see John 14:16-17) in HIS Name (see John 16:13-15) by faith in HIS Name (see Acts 3:16) realized from HIS faith “unto all and upon all them that believe” (see Romans 3:22). HIS faith “unto all and upon all them that believe” will be perfected and completed into us so that we can actually function in and by HIS Name (see John 1:16-17, NASB). The Faith That Opens A Reality In GOD HIS faith “unto all and upon all them that believe” is called the Testimony Of JESUS in Revelation 19:10 c. HIS Faith unveils through the Spirit Of Prophecy. The Spirit Of Prophecy is the anointing that enables the fulfillment of GOD’s Word in our lives through the LORD JESUS Testimony (see Luke 24:44) realized (see John 1:17; John 1:16).

[Understand from 2 Corinthians 4:13 that the Spirit Of Prophecy unveiled from the Testimony Of JESUS results in us all potentially having the same Spirit Of Faith! See also 2 Peter 1:1.] The Name Of JESUS is actualized through an actual Witness brought alive within us by the HOLY SPIRIT and, this Witness Of CHRIST JESUS is meant to function in agreement with the SPIRIT Of GOD! AMEN! This functional reality describes the FATHER’s will fulfilled within us (see Colossians 1:9-11). This actual Witness in HIS Name is built into us in HIS faith actualized through substance perfected and completed in us as the creative workmanship of the HOLY SPIRIT. This fulfillment in us is the realized expression of the prophetic Rhema Word expressed in Isaiah 48:16-17. “”Come near to ME, listen to this: From the first I have not spoken in secret, from the time it took place, I was there, and now the LORD GOD has sent ME and HIS SPIRIT.” Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the HOLY ONE of Israel; “I AM the LORD your GOD, WHO teaches you to profit, WHO leads you in the Way you should go.”” The Ability To See And Know With Understanding

Let’s look at another passage from John 5:19-20. “JESUS therefore answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the SON can do nothing of HIMSELF, unless it is something HE sees the FATHER doing; for whatever the FATHER does, these things the SON also does in like manner. For the FATHER loves the SON, and shows HIM all things that HE HIMSELF is doing; and greater works than these will HE show HIM, that you may marvel.””

Here the MAN JESUS is describing the ability to see what GOD is doing.

Seeing is much more than mere “sight” or “vision”. Seeing implies the complex realization of a reality in knowledge, wisdom and understanding to know and see all that GOD is doing. To be alive to the counsels of YHWH. The LORD JESUS came to establish this dependent inward witness so that we will each come to marvel at GOD as we each learn to function by HIM. The dependence necessary to the proper functioning of our inward witness, is realized in a living (fully dependent) relationship with the PERSON of the HOLY SPIRIT.

What we are seeing above is the key to understanding the inward witness. The inward witness has the purpose of causing us to come to marvel at GOD; and ultimately, come to admire HIM and, come to willingly serve HIM and, come to love HIM in a living relationship alive through the witness alive from within us, by the SPIRIT Of GOD.

Always remember that if the witness within does not love and worship GOD and glorify GOD, the witness is the witness of carnality and falsehood. This is why every form of self-denominated meditation, is a perversion of the truth because, it deifies ourself.

Truth marvels at GOD. The LORD JESUS describes how we can judge the true witness in John 5:30, “”I can do nothing on MY own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and MY judgement is just because I do not seek MY own will, but the will of HIM WHO sent ME.””

Notice the LORD say “as I hear” which is reference to the reality of the Inward Witness alive in HIM, in partnership with the HOLY SPIRIT.

Notice also that in John 5:19, the LORD JESUS declares something crucial to our understanding of functioning in the truth: “”Truly, truly, I say to you, the SON can do nothing of HIMSELF, unless .....”” The inward witness has the intent of enabling us to function by GOD instead of in ourselves. No human being has this ability to function by GOD in himself. We have to receive this ability and grow into this ability, which, only comes from CHRIST JESUS. This ability comes alive within us, as the Spirit Of Prophecy takes specific Word denominated form within us in the Spirit and Life of CHRIST JESUS released to us. This ability unfolds and comes alive with the witness within. This ability is the Law and the Prophets fulfilled (see Exodus 32:16; 2 Corinthians 3:3-6 KJV/NKJV).

We actually begin to realize a functional reality in GOD as we grow in HIM. This functional reality enables us to live by HIM, to live in HIM and, to live through HIM as a fully developed and fully enabled lifestyle.

It is with a view to opening the vast riches of the FATHER’s provision made available to us in HIM that the LORD JESUS made the all-encompassing statement: “I AM the Way, and the Truth, and the Life!”

Growing From Our Inward Parts

Let’s explore the subject of growth by looking at John the Baptist and, understand how Scripture describes his growth in Luke 1:80. “And the child continued to grow, and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.” The Baptist represents the last of the Old Testament prophets. And, in his life GOD unveils a realm of the prophets that foreshadows the growth in the soon to be unveiled New Testament and the soon to be unveiled New Covenant.

Growing In Spirit The Baptist grows strong in spirit. We have here the central form in which we grow. We must grow in spirit. We grow in spirit in Spirit terms. This Spirit comes from the “Words (Greek: “Rhema”) Of GOD” as noted in John 3:34, “For HE WHOM GOD has sent speaks the Words Of GOD; for HE gives the Spirit without measure.”

HE speaks the Words Of GOD by HIS living Witness - the living communication of HIS Testimony. The living Witness is called the true and faithful Witness (see Revelation 3:14 b). Through this Witness HE communicates HIS Spirit without measure! HIS Spirit is the Spirit Of Prophecy that the FATHER is jealous for; because it enables the unveiling of HIS Name that is described as Jealous (see James 4:5, NASB; Exodus 34:14).

Growing Through The Words Of GOD This passage from John 3:34 is speaking of the LORD JESUS CHRIST and the reality of the Word Of GOD coming alive to us in HIM in such a manner that the Word Of GOD actually becomes the “Words Of GOD” that expresses HIS Spirit (and HIS Life) to us. See John 6:63 together with John 3:34 to understand this. This is the total expression of the Word Of GOD brought to us by the SPIRIT Of GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT. We need to understand that the HOLY SPIRIT is also called the SPIRIT Of CHRIST and, it is the HOLY SPIRIT WHO wrote the written Word of GOD through human vessels opened to the inward witness (see 1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:10-12). The Righteousness Of GOD Unveiled In John 6:63, the LORD JESUS CHRIST describes this reality as follows: “.... “the Words (Greek: “Rhema”) that I have spoken to you are Spirit and Life.”” HIS Words communicate HIS Spirit and HIS Life. In this expression HE is the Bread Of Life (see John 6:48). And we grow as a consequence of HIS Words becoming revealed in us and, becoming part and parcel of our state of being through substance communicated. This is why we can all grow. And, we can all grow as long as we keep receiving the Words (Rhema) Of GOD in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

These Words - HIS Words - are “the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of GOD.” It is in the expression of these Words - HIS Words, expressing HIS Fullness in some measure - that we are created in CHRIST JESUS as noted in Ephesians 2:10. This is the reality in which we grow. This growth comes through our inward witness alive to the Witness Of GOD unto us through substance communicated. This Witness of GOD is described (amongst other things) as the Righteousness Of GOD, witnessed by the Law and the Prophets. The Righteousness Of GOD, witnessed by the Law and the Prophets is the reality that the LORD JESUS declared as “must be fulfilled” in Luke 24:44-45. The Righteousness Of GOD, witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, comes into us by the faith of the LORD JESUS CHRIST “unto all and upon all them that believe” as noted in Romans 3:22 (KJV).

Romans 3:21-23 (KJV) puts it this way: “But now the Righteousness Of GOD without the Law is manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets; even the Righteousness Of GOD which is by faith of JESUS CHRIST unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of GOD.” The Witness Of GOD The Witness Of GOD is described in 1 John 5:7 (NKJV) as follows: “And there are three WHO bear Witness in heaven: the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY SPIRIT; and these three are ONE.” The abundance of the Witness Of GOD is made alive on earth in a living faithful and true Witness, that unfolds the creative power of GOD for supernatural growth. 1 John 5:8 (NKJV) describes this faithful and true Witness as follows: “... there are three that bear Witness on earth: the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood; and these three agree as one.”

What does the Witness of the Water and the Blood represent? The first portion of 1 John 5:6 (NKJV) describes the Witness very precisely: “This is HE WHO came by Water and Blood - JESUS CHRIST; not only by Water, but by Water and Blood.” This is the Witness of CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF making the reality of HIS Words of Spirit and Life alive to us today.

What does the HOLY SPIRIT do with the Witness of the Water and the Blood? The second portion of 1 John 5:6 (NKJV) describes this precisely: “... And it is the SPIRIT WHO bears Witness, because the SPIRIT is Truth.”

Now we can catch the whole picture. The HOLY SPIRIT bears the Witness Of CHRIST JESUS (see 1 John 5:6), the faithful and true Witness that is the creative expression of GOD (see Revelation 3:14 b), as expressions of HIS Spirit and HIS Life (see John 6:63) to us right now (see John 3:34). Please be reminded that this is the realized fulfillment of Isaiah 48:16-17.

Growth Manifests Through The Witness Of GOD Received By HIS Spirit and HIS Life, which are expressions of the Fullness Of CHRIST JESUS (see John 1:16-17), we are created in CHRIST JESUS (see Ephesians 2:10). This creative reality - from glory to glory (see 2 Corinthians 3:17-18) - is expressed as growth in our inward witness. HIS Spirit and HIS Life are expressions of Water, that cleanses us supernaturally (see Ephesians 5:26-27); and Blood, that unfolds a living relationship of love by Covenant (see Luke 22:20) through the Word Of GOD realized in our inward witness.

Growth Is A Passover Continuum

We celebrate the growing reality of our growth through the witness within, in a living inward totality called a living and growing Memorial of the Name (see Exodus 3:13-15; John 17:6; John 17:26). This is a living Memorial of the Name by which we are saved. We celebrate this inward totality - in which we are being created - prophetically, in Holy Communion (see Luke 22:19-20) as the Passover being fulfilled in the unveiling of the tabernacles of GOD. In the institution of the Memorial Testimony of the Memorial-Name Of GOD fulfilled in us, through the realization of a Passover within our heart and mind, the LORD JESUS (in Luke 22:15-16, NKJV) opens the Eternal Witness of HIS Heart in the following terms: “Then HE said to them, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom Of GOD.””

[Notice that the Passover is eaten (see John 6:53-58; John 6:63). The Passover is described in HIS Flesh - in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (see Luke 22:1). The Passover is realized in HIS Spirit and HIS Life that describe the realities of the Word of the Kingdom in which we are each meant to realize our functional status of being fearfully and wonderfully made. Now this Kingdom is opened to us from within, through the “I AM” Door of the Name Of JESUS.] Kingdom Fulfillment In The Name Of GOD Where does the Kingdom Of GOD unveil its fulfillment? The LORD JESUS describes it as follows in Luke 17:20-21 (NKJV): “.... “The Kingdom Of GOD does not come with observation; nor will they say, “See here!” or “See there!” For indeed, the Kingdom Of GOD is within you.””

What is the inward witness meant to reveal? The Name Of GOD by which we are saved (see Psalms 54:1)! This is Testimony that arises from Isaiah 9:6-7; which, is the Testimony Of JESUS (YESHUA) that will express the reality of the new creation of GOD able to function by HIS Name, from the realized realities of the Passover fulfilled within us.

Isaiah 9:6-7 describes the reality of our growth as being a realization that sees and experiences “I AM” (HIS Name explained - see John 1:18): as Wonderful from within. As the Counsellor WHO is alive to us by HIS SPIRIT - within the temple of our being. As the Mighty GOD WHO teaches us and enables us to live in the reality that HE is our all-sufficiency. As the Eternal FATHER WHO loves us and blesses us with every good thing and every perfect gift, WHOM we are to come to actually hallow in the witness of our hearts, as we taste and see the LORD our GOD. And, as the Prince Of Peace our BELOVED, WHO has won our hearts, souls and minds in HIS Beauty which, establishes itself as the peace of HIS Blood Witness of love alive inside of us.

We now have an understanding of how GOD means to enable us to know HIM. It is in fact, a fact of life, that GOD wants every one of us to be taught of HIM (see John 6:45) so that we will all come to know HIM (see Jeremiah 31:33-34) and, we will all come to live by HIM. This lifestyle is defined into us by the SPIRIT Of Life - in CHRIST JESUS. This lifestyle is a Passover attained in CHRIST JESUS, by the SPIRIT Of Life, according to the FATHER’s will and appointed time. The witness within is realized in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Functioning in this reality, is unveiled as a Law Of Covenant called the “Law Of The SPIRIT Of Life, In CHRIST JESUS.” See Romans 8:2. Covenant is actually expressed in and by the reality of knowing GOD. As we know GOD through the witness within, we also come to realize the framework of a living Covenant with HIM through the Word that HE has explained into our heart through the LORD JESUS CHRIST (see John 1:18, NASB). We come to understand how GOD wants us to live in HIM, by HIM, through HIM and, for HIM. This is the subject of Book II. May YHWH ADONAI bless the Word that HE has made alive in your heart so that you may increasingly know HIM - in MASHIAH YESHUA, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in the FATHER’S Will - forever! AMEN!

EPHPHATHA MINISTRIES An Apostolic Teaching Ministry Dedicated To Unveiling The Witness Of YHWH To The Body Of MASHIAH Email : ephphatha_ministries@yahoo.com Website: www.thetabernacleschool.com For of HIS Fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through JESUS CHRIST John 1:16-17 (NASB). And HE put all things in subjection under HIS feet, and gave HIM as HEAD over all things to the Church, which is HIS Body, the fullness of HIM WHO fills all in all Ephesians 1:22-23 (NASB).