The Way of Words

(This is chapter 3 of the book The Way of Sonship: Anointed to Overcome)

Words are a form of communication. Natural words are spoken by the natural breath of natural life. Natural breath generates the sound of the spoken words that are carried to the natural ears of the listener. The ear catches the sound of the breath of the words and converts it into something that can be understood. However, for the ancient Hebrews, words were far more than just spoken words. For the Hebrews, a word was something both said and also done by the breath of one’s life. The Hebrews were very practical people. They saw that God spoke just as people do. However, just as words are spoken by the breath of natural life, God speaks by the supernatural breath of the eternal life that dwells within Him. When God wants to do something, he says it. God says what he does and does what he says, both by the supernatural breath of His eternal life. That is why in Psalm 33:6 (KJV) it says: “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and by the breath of his mouth all their host“. The most important aspect of life is breath. Without the breath of life, people die. For the Hebrews, the breath of their lives enabled them to say and do things. The things that they said and did were their “words“. It says in Proverbs 14:8-9 (KJV) “The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour“. As the Hebrews walked through life they breathed, and as they breathed they spoke and accomplished words. The collection of their words or works as they habitually walked on the pathway of life were their ways, and the totality of their words and ways (or character, behaviour, and accomplishments) and everything else about them constituted their name. That is why it says in Proverbs 3:5-7 “Trust in Yehovah with all thy heart, and in thine own understanding lean not. In all thy ways know thou Him, and He does make straight thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Yehovah, and turn aside from evil“. Within ancient Hebrew culture to know meant to be thoroughly acquainted with something. To know death was to die, to know life was to live. To know Yehovah meant the breath or Holy Spirit of Yehovah filling the heart and inspiring people to walk through life on the straight paths of Yehovah by not being wise in one’s own eyes, turning away from evil and lovingly and naturally doing what is right from the heart. In ancient Hebrew culture, this was the definition of true righteousness. It meant living a life of mercy, kindness and love that responded to and reflected the image of the mercy, kindness, and love of God in every aspect of life. That is why it says in Ezekiel 36:26-27 (KJV) “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit [life’s breath] will I put within you: and I will take away the stony [loveless] heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an [loving] heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit [life’s breath] within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them“. This is the blessing of God’s fatherhood that Abraham received. This same blessing was poured out upon all flesh on the Day of Pentecost. After the Day of Pentecost, Peter was released from prison by an angel or messenger of the Lord who said in Acts 5:20 (KJV) “Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life“.

It says in Genesis 1:1-3 (KJV) “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit [“ruach” or breath] of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light’: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day“. God fathers the words that He speaks by the supernatural breath of His life. God’s word is actually the carrier that contains the very essence of God. When God speaks it is called light, or “day“, when God is not speaking it is called darkness or “night“. God is light, in Him is no darkness at all. God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. It says in Genesis 2:7 “And the LORD [Yehovah] God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul“. In Hebrew, the word translated soul meant a “breathing being“. Adam’s heart was originally filled with the paradise of the life’s breath and light of the love of the personality of God. Adam was originally called the Son of God because he was a reflection or mirror image of the life’s breath of the word “Son” that God had spoken into his heart. God did not create animal life in the same way. Adam and Eve were originally created to be mirror images or reflections of the light of God’s love which shone from within their hearts out into creation. Unfortunately, they descended or fell into the darkness of the absence of the light and love of God. Adam and Eve listened to the words of darkness spoken by the lying breath of the serpent and father of lies. They became “I am as god” within themselves by disobeying God and eating forbidden fruit. They exchanged the light of the truth of God’s love for them with the lies of the darkness of their own love for themselves. Their eyes were opened to the pride of self-exaltation and they said within their hearts “I am the beginning and the end, I am the first and the last, I am IT, so I will decide for myself what was good and evil or right and wrong“. They died to God by gasping out the breath of God’s life. They were no longer the Sons of God. Instead, they founded the world of self-worshipping fallen living dust. The world lives in the darkness of natural breath divorced from the supernatural life’s breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood.

For the Hebrews, the strength of life was in their breath. When Abraham the Hebrew grew old, he became weak and eventually he became so weak that he “breathed out” the breath of life and he died. Within ancient Hebrew culture, when Abraham died his so called “spirit” did not descend into Hades, the underworld or realm of the conscious dead ruled by the gods of the underworld. For the Hebrews there was no such place nor was there any such thing as “spirit“. These pagan cultural beliefs belong to the realm of religion. When Abraham died, he was still Abraham but no longer had the strength of the breath of life. In the weakness of death, Abraham slept and was buried in the cave of Machpelah within the promised land. In Hebrew, the word tomb literally meant, the “final house of a man“. Eventually, both Isaac and Jacob also slept in death and so were also buried in the tomb with Abraham their father, waiting for resurrection. It says in John 1:14 (KJV) “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth.” Hebraically, how the Word became flesh is described in Luke Chapter 1. An angel appeared to Mary saying that she would conceive and bring for a son who would be called Jesus, the Son of the Most High, and that Lord God would give Him the throne of his father David. Mary naturally asked, “how can this be?“. The angel answered in Luke 1:35 (KJV) “The Holy Spirit [the supernatural eternal life’s breath of God’s fatherhood] shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy one which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God“. And so, from Abraham’s perspective, Jesus is called the “Son of God” because he is the perfect incarnation, reflection, image, or embodiment of the living word of the supernatural and eternal life’s breath or Holy Spirit of God’s word “Son“. That is why Jesus said to Philip in John 14:10-11 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.” From Abraham’s perspective, Jesus (or Yehoshua) is in the Father because He is Yehovah God made flesh. The Father is in Jesus because as a man, Jesus is perfectly filled with the supernatural breath of Yehovah God’s eternal life. That is why Isaiah 9:6 (KJV) says “To us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace“. God is One within ancient Hebrew culture. Jesus came as Yehovah’s Anointed One (or Christ). Unlike spoken words that die in the ears of the listener, the fragrance of the anointing oil represents the authority of the continual presence and overcoming power of the sovereign word of the personality or almighty breath or Holy Spirit of Yehovah spoken over the anointed one that continually entered into their personality to enable them to be continually filled with the life’s breath of the living word of God. Yehovah God said to Jesus when he was baptised in Mark 1:11 “Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” and Yehovah God anointed Jesus or Yehoshua with Himself bodily like a dove because Jesus is actually God. That is why it says in John 1:1-5 (KJV) “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended [lay hold of] it not.” Yehovah God came to his own people in the person of Jesus of Nazareth in love. However, in the darkness of their pride poisoned “I am as god” hearts they did not receive him. Instead, in accordance with the will and foreknowledge of God, Jesus was crucified by the darkness of the self-worshipping pride of fallen humanity. That is why Peter said to the men of Israel in Acts 3:14-15 “Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain“.

It says in Matthew 27:50-53 (KJV) “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the spirit. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many“. Hebraically, when Jesus died, he expired (see Luke 23:46) (from the Latin “exspiravit“, in the actual Greek “ekpneo” or out-puffed, which mean the same thing). He commended his life’s breath into the hands of His Father, not a spirit because within ancient Hebrew culture there was no such thing. This was a direct parallel of the Fall of Adam and Eve. In his great love, Jesus came as the Son of Adam or man, and on the cross, although he never sinned, he became like fallen humanity in both his and their death. Jesus redeemed the effects of the Fall by reaping in his own body and personality the sins and bad behaviour that fallen humanity had sown into their hearts and the hearts of others. The life’s breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood then revived his body, and he rose from the dead. The word “revive” is from the Latin “re-viv-air” and means, “to live again“. This is the meaning of redemption, something brought back around full circle. It is likely that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were part of this mysterious group of saints of old who were asleep in their graves rose from the dead by being filled with the Holy Spirit or life’s breath of God’s fatherhood and appeared to many after Jesus’ resurrection. This resurrection is what the saints of old were waiting in hope for because their behaviour in life became their inheritance in resurrection. They wanted revival, they wanted to live again. The breath of natural life eventually dies because it is already dead, but those like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who partake of the living inbreathed word of God by breathing the supernatural breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood, will never die.

In John 20, on the day that Jesus rose from the dead, Jesus appeared to his disciples. Jesus said in John 20:21 (KJV) “Peace be to you: as my Father sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit [or the supernatural breath of God’s life]“. Jesus had said to Nicodemus in John 3:3,5-6 “If anyone may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God…If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God; that which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit“. This actually makes perfect sense. Jesus’ disciples had repented from their sins and died to their “I am as god” pride in the waters of baptism into Jesus death so that they could live again by Jesus breathing His life’s breath or the Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood into their life. Having once been born of flesh and living in the darkness of death, they were now able to live again. They were born again, breathing the superabundant life’s breath or Holy Spirit of Jesus’ life. The saints of old experienced actual resurrection. This very same resurrection power of Jesus’ superabundant life’s breath or Holy Spirit entered into the hearts and personalities of Jesus’ disciples when Jesus breathed on them. Their redeemed hearts were then enabled to see or experience the reign or Kingdom of God. Jesus said to Mary in John 20:17 “go to my brothers and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God“. Jesus’ disciples were now the Sons of God together with Jesus because they shared in Jesus’ life’s breath or Holy Spirit which came from His Father. Once they had been darkness but now, they were light in and the light of the Lord. They were now born of God. Just like Jesus, they now breathed the breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood. This same breath or Holy Spirit was the sovereign blessing of Abraham which was poured out on the Day of Pentecost. That is why Peter said in Acts 3:25-26 (KJV) “Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having raised up [resurrected] his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities“. Within ancient Hebrew culture the way people behaved were the words that were both said and done both by the breath of their life, and the collection of their life’s breath and the way that their words were done and everything else about them constituted their name. Behaviour in life will become inheritance in resurrection. Those who breathe the life’s breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood bear the name the “Sons of God“. They behave like God because God dwells within the breathings of their personality. Those that behave like God in life will one day inherit God in resurrection.

However, Paul said to the Corinthians regarding false apostles in 2 Corinthians 11:2-4 “I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ, and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ; for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept—well were ye bearing it.“. Within ancient Hebrew culture, the word “bride” meant a pure virgin who was “complete” or “perfect” for her husband. Jesus said in Matthew 5:44-48 “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; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect“. Paul was concerned that, just as the serpent deceived Eve, the Corinthians were being deceived by another gospel or lying breath or spirit that excused bad behaviour on the basis of religious beliefs. Their behaviour revealed that by embracing religion they had fallen out of a relationship with God and this had in effect reversed their repentance. They were no longer filled with the life’s breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood. They were no longer the “perfect” or “complete” Bride of Christ. The simplicity of Jesus being their first love had been corrupted by the pride of self-worship and the religion of tradition. Behaviour in life will become inheritance in resurrection. There is no repentance in resurrection. Paul was concerned that the Corinthians were being robbed of their inheritance in God. Those who are deceived into not being inspired to behave like the word of God “You are indeed my Son” will not inherit the paradise of God’s fatherhood. They will inherit their “self” instead. This is the way of words.

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