by Ted Dekker
(In that garden, Yeshua’s will was not in alignment with his Father’s, thus two wills: his will and his Father’s will. Yeshua made the final surrender and became perfect there in that garden, and became the way for us if we follow by aligning to our risen, eternal selves. Otherwise we are mastered by the storms that rise against us, and we live in suffering.)
Letter to Hebrews 5:7–9 NIV
Relating to Chapter 36
1) I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake (as a matter of God’s character he does not see darkness), and remembers your sins no more. (God does not hold our blindness against us, nor does he hold it in mind.)
Prophet Isaiah 43:25 NIV
As far as the east is from the west (infinitely far), so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
David’s Psalm 103:12 NIV
2) But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. (Only in a love that holds no record of wrong is this possible. In such love is our salvation in this life and in no other way. This is Inchristi.)
Book of Matthew 5:44 KJV
3) Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. (Those who do not know what they do in any wrongful act are innocent by reason of insanity in the court.)
Book of Luke 23:34 KJV
Of note to all who read the letters of Paulus
Paulus’s letters written later in his life (Colossians, Ephesians, and so on) were more mystical than earlier letters and focused on our true identity as one with Christ while we yet live in these earthen vessels, which return to dust. He called our being one with Christ “the great mystery” (letter to Ephesus 5:32).
Thus, we call ourselves Mystics.
This is the essence of our mysticism: aligning to our union with the infinite One who cannot be fathomed by intellect alone. By doing so, we find ourselves in the world but not of it, flowing with peace, power, and above all, a love that holds no record of wrong, the truest evidence of our awakening, without which all other evidence is nothing. Only this kind of love will awaken the world to the glory of Christ made manifest on earth.
