Bloodshed

Tonight’s subject is “Bloodshed.” In the Hebrew language, the word bloodshed denotes both murder and humiliation. You can take it in either manner. The Bible takes it both: the shedding of the blood and being humiliated. We’re told in the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”. Then we read in Ephesians, “Though he was in the form of God…he emptied himself, and took upon himself the form of a slave, and was born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross”. Now you read this and you may wonder, “What is it all about?”949 ¶1

I am here to tell you every word of scripture is true. It is literally true, and you, individually, will experience scripture…every one of you. Tonight we will treat this in the form of humiliation. For as you know, as we are told, “He being rich, for your sakes he became poor, that by his poverty you might be rich”. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, taking upon himself the form of a slave, and was born in the likeness of men. Every man is a slave, born from below. But he who became us will lift us as himself, and we will be God, who created the entire drama.949 ¶2

Now let me tell you a story. It happened to me only this morning, a little after four. Here, I found myself in a room not more than thirty square feet. It was a perfectly square room, not more than thirty, it might have been less, but not more than thirty. I was seated, and the men that I addressed there weren’t more than twelve, and I was talking to them about the Word of God, explaining the mystery of salvation. Then, suddenly, one rose quickly and left the room, and I knew that he was going to report what was heard.949 ¶3

In no time, a matter of moments after he left came this tall handsome man. He was the authority of authorities. Tall…about six feet four, straight as an arrow, dressed in the clothes of the ancient world; we were all in robes, not as the garb now. And he walked, he came in from my left; there was only one door, the door was here as I’m facing you. He walked rapidly to the end, turned at right angles and walked rapidly to that end, turned at right angles and walked rapidly to the middle, then came and stood before me. Looked into my face and then he took a blunt object and then he started here and he hammered it into my shoulder, right here. I felt every impact as he hammered it in here. Then when it all went right in, he took a very sharp instrument, and one swirl like this, he severed what I was wearing. Then he held the end of it, pulled it this way, and took off what would have been, like this, a sleeve. But I wasn’t wearing a suit like this, I was wearing a robe. And he took it off—and I saw the color, the palest blue, a light, light blue—and he threw it away. Then he stretched his arms out, just like a cross, and he embraced me and kissed me on the right of my neck. I kissed him on the right of his neck. As I kissed him, it dissolved, while I am looking at the discarded robe, exposing my right arm. From here to here the whole thing was discarded, exposing the arm.949 ¶4

The 53rd chapter of the Book of Isaiah, “Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”—meaning the might, the power of God. You can talk about the power of God, and tell of the stories of yourself and those who hear you and apply it, and yet in spite of the numberless stories you can tell you still find they don’t believe it. They still want a God in some strange way other than themselves. They will not accept that God that he who comes to tell you resides within you. The only God in the world resides in man. There is no other God.949 ¶5

If anything we need today it is for a new, well, you can’t call it Christology. That term is almost abused today. We need, really beyond all measure, a new way of thinking of Jesus as the Infinite God who became man and is man. All the barnacles, all these rituals, all these things on the outside, the ship should be put into dry dock and scraped of all rituals, all external palaver. Take it off completely and throw it away, and start with a new concept of the God who became man that man might become God.949 ¶6

Now let me tell you of a story given me only last Friday night. The lady, she is here, and this is her story. She said, “I have heard you for the last two years and I have benefited from all that you have said, inwardly and outwardly. My world has changed completely from the dreams and the visions that I’ve had and the application of what you’ve said. But here, last night I discovered the difference between hearing and experiencing. I heard it and thought I knew it from having heard it, but what a difference between from having heard it and having experienced it. I was aroused out of a profound deep, deep sleep, and as I came out of this profound sleep, I was thinking only of you.”949 ¶7

Now let me stop it here for you who may come up to surface when you wake in the morning and you think you haven’t had a dream. May I tell you, any thought, but any thought, that occupies your mind is consequent upon a dream. Instead of jumping up and putting cold water on your face and brushing your teeth and getting ready for breakfast as we all do, remain just for a moment and contemplate that thought. It’s consequent upon a dream. If you will simply just dwell upon it and wonder, “Why am I thinking what I am thinking?” it will lead you back into the dream, and you will know.949 ¶8

Well, she did this, and this is what she dreamt. Then she said, “I remembered the dream, but it seemed ages ago. Was it last night? This dream seemed so long, so long ago. And I remembered “that man,” that man Neville, who kept on talking, and he kept on and on and on about the Father and the Son. I remembered that I did not understand him. Then I also remembered, but when I do not know, I do remember that I fell asleep. But I do not remember when I fell asleep, but I fell asleep. But now I am so alerted, so completely awake, I feel as though I were a puzzle and this night a piece of me has been put back into its original place. Now, although it’s night, I am sure the morning cannot be afar off.”949 ¶9

Now here is her story as she gave it to me last Friday. I tell her, no, the morning isn’t far off. God is in us. There is nothing but God. God became us that we might become God. There is nothing but God.949 ¶10

So when this morning, a little after four, the arm was revealed, what is the arm?—the power of God and the might of God. The sower…it is called the sower who sows the seed, the sower who returns to reap his harvest. The sower on reaping his harvest sows again. Because who could ever come but Christ? There’s nothing but. So here, buried into here, a peg…I felt every impact. May I tell you, it didn’t hurt. I only felt the blow, I felt the impulse. Every blow that he gave me I felt it, but it didn’t hurt. So when the whole thing was completely embedded, right here, in this shoulder, then he circled, a quick circle, a peculiar motion. Then he took the end of it and made a few little jerks and discarded what he’d pulled off, exposing completely my right arm. When the arm was completely exposed, he went and kissed me here, and I kissed him on his right. Then it dissolved while I’m looking at this lovely pale blue sleeve that was torn from my robe.949 ¶11

And all these were here. When he entered, we were all seated, but he was so important that all of us stood, stood at attention and looked straight ahead, as you would in the army. Not supposed to turn your head from left to right, you simply look straight ahead; you are at attention. That’s what we did as he came, marched this way, marched that way, this way, and then, like this, revealing the arm of the Lord.949 ¶12

I say, you are God. To quote the 82nd Psalm, “I say ye are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall as one man, O princes”. As she, in her letter to me, she felt as though she were a puzzle that’s broken into the multiple parts, and they’re all being gathered back together and put back in their place. Well, when you put them back, it’s a more luminous being than it was before it fell and broke into these wonderful parts. All fell and scattered, the stone that was shattered, and then each one is found and put back. When it’s put back, the whole drama of Jesus Christ unfolds in you.949 ¶13

Now with the 12th of John, this scene that happened this morning, [...] end of the ministry of Jesus…the 12th of John. And he quotes that 53rd chapter of Isaiah, he said, “While the light is with you, accept it, for the night is coming”. The interval…there are intervals and intervals and intervals. Take the light while you are with the light, for the night of doubt and complete ignorance of the principle of life will descend, always does, and there is night and day, night and day…and take it while it is with you and live by it. And that’s the end of the ministry of Jesus Christ, as told in the gospel of John, the most profound book in the Bible, 12th of John. Then he quotes…he doesn’t quote it, the evangelist telling the story quotes it of him, and he quotes the first and second verses of the 53rd chapter of the Book of Isaiah, “Who has believed our report?” Who has believed what we have heard? “And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”949 ¶14

So I tell you, believe it, it is true. I am speaking from experience. I am not speculating, I am not theorizing. The story of the Bible is true. It unfolds in us: “Scripture must be fulfilled in me.” Everyone can use the same statement and say, “Scripture must be fulfilled in me.” And this is the end of his journey…the last of his ministry is on this note. And when he departs, who knows? So the plea is urgent, “While the light is with you, accept it”; for he identifies himself, and all the titles of God are given to him in this chapter in irony.949 ¶15

The Son of man, the light of the world, all these are given to him in this chapter; but they’re all given to him in irony, for he’s an ordinary man. For the 53rd chapter tells you, he has no form or comeliness that we should look upon him . He’s not anything that you really would admire. There’s nothing about him that you would think is beautiful, that you should desire…an ordinary man. And how could this ordinary man be what we expected Messiah to be, such an ordinary man? Read it carefully, the 53rd of Isaiah. He doesn’t come through the door like some giant, some fantastic thing, just an ordinary man. And it happens in him. And when he tells this story, who will believe what they have heard?949 ¶16

But in this drama, there was one present and the minute that something was said, I knew exactly as he rose and left he was going to report what he had heard. And then, having reported it, in came this tall, handsome, wonderful looking man, not more than forty, in an ancient robe. But he was the embodiment of majesty, he was the nth degree of thought, and walked rapidly, like a soldier would walk, but straight as an arrow. Then turned at right angles and walked to the end, and turned at right angles and walked to the middle, then turned and came and stood before me. Then hammered into my shoulder this peg, a blunted peg, and I felt every impact as he put it in; and then that circular motion which severed my robe. Then he took the end and just pulled it a little bit and it came off, exposing my entire right arm, then he threw it aside. Then he raised his arms out, embraced me, kissed me, I kissed him, both on the right side of each other’s neck. And then, as the scene was dissolving, I was looking at that lovely pale blue that he had taken from me and unveiled my arm.949 ¶17

So we can say, “Who has believed it?” You would think, well, then no one has seen him. But, no, they saw him. Those who were standing when he did it, they saw it. “To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” Well, they saw it. It goes on…that same play goes on and on and on. So I tell you, believe it. Every word of scripture is true.949 ¶18

While we’re here, we are not asked not to apply the law. In fact, we are encouraged to apply the law to cushion all the blows that come our way. Apply it every moment of time and be comfortable in this world by assuming that you are already the one that you want to be. Assume it. I do. I have obligations in the world of Caesar and I’ve got to live in this world. Rent is due and all the utilities are due and everything is due…and then the unexpected things are due too. They come every month. Not things you can budget, not things that you know about, they simply come. This month an extra $500 is due. Why? Something is needed, out of the nowhere. You didn’t budget it. So I have to live in a state of affluence, I have to. I am forced to do it in order to meet the emergencies of life. You can’t budget. You’re always going to dwell in some fabulous world beyond what life will tell you will be the normal flow towards your direction. So I tell you, live in that state, live in it.949 ¶19

Don’t let anyone tell you that that is un-Christian. Forget it! What are they talking about? We need today more than ever an entirely new concept of Christology. Scrape all the barnacles from that ship…they’re all false, they’re all phony. All this palaver of genuflecting before crosses built by man on a wall, and all this ceremony about marriage, and the ceremony about death, and all this junk about being buried in holy ground. When it suits them to plow the whole thing up at a profit, they plow it all up, and then bless the land, so that all the little bones are now blessed because it now suits that purpose to do it. And who is kidding whom? And yet we go blindly on, believing in all this palaver.949 ¶20

The time has come for a new concept, a completely new concept of who Jesus really is, who that real being is who is God himself who became man. He became me, he became you…the same God. This cosmic Christ became humanity. And so the bloodshed spoken of in scripture is humiliation. “Being in the form of God…he emptied himself, and took upon himself the form of a slave and was born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, humbled himself and became obedient unto death, yes, even death upon a cross.” “And Jesus Christ, who was rich, for your sakes became poor, that by his poverty you might become rich”…and inherit the same form, the same glory that is his.949 ¶21

He isn’t pretending that he’s man, he became man. He’s not in disguise; he had to completely forget. As this lady who wrote me forgot. She had to completely forget the story. But who was hearing it? It was the same God in her that now is waking. And the one who spoke to her wasn’t better, it’s the same God. God is one. And yet she goes back and she says, “It’s so far, far away…so far into the past…I heard that man, that man Neville, who kept on and on and on about a father and the son. And I remembered I did not understand it.”949 ¶22

Well, may I tell her, I wasn’t talking to another, I was talking to myself. Who else can I address? I can’t address another, it’s all one. We are one. So what I’m telling you today, I tell you because I’m talking to myself. And there is no real freedom for the one who is completely released until all are released…not really. I’ll be released in the not distant future; but not really, not until everyone is released, for I am buried in every being that is born of woman. I cannot completely be released until every child born of woman has heard it and has experienced Christ completely unfolding in him, even to the exposure of the power, called the hand. “Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” So I tell you it is literally true, every word of scripture.949 ¶23

So you are warned in the very end of Revelation, the last chapter, “Do not add to or take from the words of the prophecy of this book”. Leave it just as it is. It will prove itself in your life supernaturally and you will prove it to be literally true. Oh, you may give an interpretation to it. The word does mean power; it does mean “Almighty God’s power” when the arm is unveiled. The things you can do after it’s unveiled! But even if you did the most miraculous things, as you’re told, neither the character nor the number of the miracles that he did evoked faith. He departed possibly wondering to what extent was he heard.949 ¶24

And then he returns to reap the harvest, and to plant again; for the word also means “the sower who sows the seed,” and the seed is the Word of God. He comes and he sows the word, returns and reaps the harvest, and then he sows again, one being. Because no matter who comes, his name tomorrow may be by some other name, but he will be simply the same being, for he can’t be another. I’m individualized, I know. I will never in eternity be absorbed to the point of loss of individuality, loss of my identity; yet, I am one with anyone who knows that his Son is my Son. There’s no one in this world who would look into the face of my Son and know himself to be the father of my Son and not be me. How can he be? He and I are one. It’s the only way you would ever know the unity that is God.949 ¶25

So here, bloodshed…I take it this night in the form of humiliation. The word is formed of two words; it forms Adam. Adam is Aleph, Daleth, Mem—and the word is Daleth, Mem, taking Aleph away, and that is bloodshed. So out of him came his two sons; and the first blood to be shed was when Cain slew Abel. So it came out of Adam. So the name for bloodshed is Daleth, Mem, [...]. Here we find this unfolding within us, the shedding of the blood.949 ¶26

But the real shedding of the blood you will experience when that body of yours is torn from top to bottom; and you will see the blood that was in the beginning shed, and it’s yourself. For God died for man. But he became man, so when man sees the blood he is so much God it’s himself he sees now, it’s not another. He doesn’t know the sacrifice that was made, because he is so much God. When he sees that living pool, that living water, the blood of God, he knows it is himself. He also knows it is his creator, his redeemer, and himself. He feels himself self-redeemed, which he is, because God became him. If God did not become him he could not be self-redeemed. He’d be another and still two. There can’t be two, God and him; there can only be one. He breaks down that wall of partition between and they become one, instead of two. So he becomes one. And I see it. I am it; then up I go into that heavenly state, which is the throne of God.949 ¶27

So when it happens, it’s such a simple thing. This normal, natural room, a bare room, there wasn’t a thing in it. And men sitting on the floor…and I’m seated on the floor, and we are dressed in robes, casual things, all of us, ordinary, ordinary men, of no repute whatsoever. But I am telling them what I know from experience: I’m explaining the mystery of God. As I spoke one word, one quickly jumped up and left the room. The minute he left the room I knew he had to report what had been said. Then came this authority of authorities—tall, handsome, wonderful looking man, I would say not more than forty, unusually handsome. And he walked briskly to the end, turned, walked to the end, turned, walked to the middle, and then hammered into my shoulder this blunted peg. And really hammered it…every impulse I felt. Then that quick circle, and then he took off the thing that hung upon me and exposed my entire right arm, from here down. Not just here…just where he made the circle. Just where he hammered it he made the circle with a sharp instrument, one sweeping motion, and pulled it off. A lovely beautiful pale blue…and the cloth was a lovely, lovely cloth. I mean, it was altogether lovely. It seemed like an expensive cloth. To me, looking at it, it seemed so altogether lovely. And there it was. I wondered where had he cast it…just simply threw it away. I was looking at it when the whole scene dissolved…with the arm exposed.949 ¶28

So those that I addressed—minus the one who left, he did not see the arm exposed— the others that I talked to who were still standing, they saw the arm exposed. So when the question is asked, “To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” Revealed to those, and then they would know, and then start their journey, asleep for awhile. For when you come into the world, you have to enter a tremendous depth of sleep, and you only begin to remember. It’s all a matter of remembering and remembering and remembering.949 ¶29

So this lady who wrote me, “I remembered, I remembered the dream…and as I came out, the one thought that filled my mind was Neville. Well, I was thinking of Neville, and then the dream returned. The dream was ‘That man, that man Neville’ in the depths that seemed so far, far away and so long in time. And he was talking over and over again, on and on, about a father and a son. And I remembered I did not understand. I also remembered that I went to sleep. When I went to sleep that I do not remember, but I do remember I did go to sleep. Now that I am completely alert and awake, it all feels as though I were a puzzle, and now this night a piece of it has been found and put into its original place. And now it’s still night, she said, but the morning cannot be far.” But it isn’t far off…it isn’t.949 ¶30

But may I tell you, you can be anything you want to be. You want to be rich? You can be rich. You want to be famous? You can be famous. You can be anything you want to be in this world of Caesar if you apply the principle. The principle is simple: act as if it were true. Just imagine that things are as they would be were it true, and dare to walk the world just as though it were true. And if you do, it will be true. Wouldn’t make any difference what the world thinks, because God is in you. The arm has not yet been revealed as mighty power. doesn’t matter. Still assume the power is there, and by this mere assumption that things are as you desire them to be they’ll become a fact. They’ll all become fact, every one of them. Doesn’t really matter what the world will tell you. Don’t ask anyone anything. Just dare to assume, I am the lady, the gentleman that I would like to be, with the comforts, the securities that I would desire in this world. Dare to assume it. And may I tell you, in a way that you will not consciously know you will become it.949 ¶31

As you live by God’s law, then in God’s own time—he’s doing the work within you, which is simply molding you into his own likeness, so that you two become one, not two but one—when it’s a perfect likeness they fuse. Not until the likeness is perfect it cannot be. So he tries me in the furnaces of affliction for his own sake, for his own sake he does it. For how should my glory be given to another? Can’t give it to another; he has to give it to himself. So he fuses into the perfect likeness; for, I must be perfect as my Father in heaven is perfect, and when it’s a perfect image of himself, we aren’t two anymore. He’s cleaved to me and now we’re one. And then all that is told unfolds within us.949 ¶32

Here, if you go back to the beginning of Isaiah, as we took Isaiah tonight, the very first verse, “The vision of Isaiah”…a vision. These sixty-odd chapters, he tells you, it’s a vision and the book, next to the Book of Psalms, is the most quoted in the New Testament. They go back and quote and quote and quote Isaiah, which is a vision. Can’t you see it’s a vision? The whole thing is completely and wholly supernatural. And so he quotes Isaiah in this end of the ministry of Jesus…he quotes the 53rd, but he begins the Book that it’s a vision, “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz.” It’s not spelled like the prophet Amos with an S, it’s spelled with a Z, something entirely different.949 ¶33

Here is the great…and the word Isaiah means…there are two definitions, “Jehovah is salvation” or “Jehovah will give salvation.” Scholars prefer the second one. I have no preference, both [...]. “Jehovah is salvation” and “Jehovah will give deliverance.” Yes, he will. But he gives it only to himself; therefore, he has to become you completely and unfold himself in you as expressed in that New Testament. When the whole thing is unfolded completely in you, well, then you and he are one. Then you depart.949 ¶34

But though you depart, don’t think for one second, although you reach into your glory and it’s a strength beyond the wildest dream of earth, you’re not really free until all depart, because you’re still buried in the world of sin and death. So let no one think that because he has simply departed, because the whole drama unfolded within him, that he has escaped. No, not until the whole of you has; he’s still buried in all. That’s why it’s so eager on the part of one who has been sent to tell you that not to turn your back on the light while the light is with you. While he is with you, accept it; he’s telling you what he knows from experience. Believe him, and then let it unfold within you. Challenge it and delay, and your delay is really his delay because we are one.949 ¶35

Now, in the practical sense, this night we simply dare to assume that you are the man, the woman that you want to be. Don’t ask anyone if they think it is possible. You dare to assume that you are what you want to be. Believe in the reality of that invisible state and just sleep in it just as though it were true. You will enjoy that assumption externalized in this world [...]. And while we do that, the work is taking place in you of which you are totally unaware, and that work is the unfolding of Christ in you. Everything said of Christ you will experience, and then, and only then, will you really know who Jesus Christ really is. Jesus Christ is God the Father. Whether the world believes it or not, he is God the Father, who became man that man might become God.949 ¶36

Now let us go into the Silence.949 ¶37

* * * [...] my father’s birthday, Bill’s father’s birthday and the day that my arm was unveiled. So, [...], I can always remember your birthday.949 ¶38

Now, are there any questions, please? We have ten minutes.949 ¶39

Well, this week we are here on Friday. Next week, I think it’s on a Tuesday, but next week there’s only one. But look at the card, just [...] because I’m not familiar with it. I have to look every week to know when I’m talking. But I do know that this coming Friday I am here, and then next week I know we only have one, and I think it is on Tuesday. But we’re still here one more lecture this week and it’s on Friday.949 ¶40