Table of Contents

Preface

The Inner Room

Your Inner Room

Go In

The God Who Waits

Rejection of God

God’s Painting

First Temple Picture of The Way

The Outer Court The Holy Spirit

The Holy Place The Messiah, Jesus Christ

The Golden Lampstand

The Table of Showbread (Exodus 25:23-30)

The Altar of Incense

The Holy of Holies

The Golden Ark of the Testimony

Three-Part Humanity

Drawn to the Father

House of Prayer

The Well of Change

The Temple is Christ!

We are the Temple

Christ is ALL

Abba Waits

Worship in Spirit

The Fallen Soul

All Solved in Christ!

The Dilemma

Meeting the Deadly Soul

Free from Sin and Death

The Comforter

The Sword That Divides

The New Law

A New Contract

You Are

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Preface

As Ministry Director of Shulamite Ministries, I have the special privilege of partaking of spiritual delicacies before they are released into the wild. The Inner Room has been one such morsel, a booklet I have waited for with anticipation for some time.

This booklet is a manifesto that could be nailed to the door of many a nominal church and soulish Christian ministry. I believe this message is as radical as in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses against the use and abuse of indulgences, a soulish method of buying favor with God and filling the coffers of priests.

The words contained in these 32 pages call out the error so touted as truth: that you can serve and worship God with your degenerate soul. And more importantly, it is an invitation to enter into your rightful place, in the very Presence of our Abba Father.

Martha has undertaken the masterful task of hearing the Spirit who has laid out so skillfully in these pages the plan of God to bring us to a greater intimacy than was known in Eden. She reveals succinctly His design from the temple in Jerusalem to Jesus’ announcement that a greater Temple was imminent.

God doesn’t just tell us; He shows us! He built on earth a picture of substance, the first temple. Painstakingly, He revealed the spiritual reality of His plans and Martha capsulizes His design in an easy to understand road map. I stand in awe of His wondrous intention worked out for thousands of years, all culminating in a purpose we can live now.

Those who are His and called to abide in such intimacy will leave these pages with a clear understanding of what is required and to Whom it is given. You will be in no doubt of the passionate pursuit our Father has laid out so that we might enter in.

John Enslow, April 2012

The Inner Room

Matthew 6:6

But you, when you pray,

go into your inner room,

close your door and pray to

your Father who is in secret,

and your Father who sees

what is done in secret

will reward you.

Your Inner Room

The Greek meaning is “Any private room where you cannot be easily seen.” Yes, how wonderful it is when we have our private prayer room.

But there is another room to which this verse points, a room deep inside the born again believer. A room always with you, a hidden world overflowing with God.

Inner Room,

the place of your

fresh born spirit.

The Holy Spirit meets you in your spirit, infuses you with the Life of Christ and the Will of the Father. A most precious hidden place to which no one has access; its entrance has a closed door to admit no one but you.

No other person can come in and no one else can see or hear you there… only ‘your Father who sees what is done in secret.‘

Your spirit is

your Inner Room.

Go In

The tense of Go is ‘imperative’… it is a command. Go in. ‘Go in to your inner room,’ the invitation to meet with God.

Oh, and by the way, the ‘you’ of this verse is singular! In verse 5, the ‘you’ is plural:

Jesus speaks to all

His command but it is to

the individual.

Most of us do not go in, even when we do pray. We are called to go to the Inner Room before we even begin to pray. Go in? How? Where?

The God Who Waits

We are not familiar enough with our own Inner Room! In your spirit’s Prayer Room, your Father in heaven is waiting for you to join Him there in all His wondrous Presence.

Most believers pray in one form or another... together, alone. We know brief moments in the room of the spirit but we pray mostly by the emotion of the soul or the thoughts of the mind.

Rejection of God

In Eden we shut the door in God’s face! He Who planted Paradise, He Who was walking on this speck of earth, willing to meet Face-to-face with His creation!

We preferred

Satan’s vile lie to

God’s glorious reality.

In His expansive Love, by inexplicable cost, our God opened the door again to us. And now His sacred presence is more intimate, more permanent, and more lovely than Eden!

God’s Painting

I once met a lovely woman, a docent at the Washington National Gallery of Art, who offered to take me on a private tour of religious paintings. She explained the reason for so many paintings of biblical scenes. In the early centuries the people couldn’t read so they were taught the Bible stories through pictures, paintings full of symbols that unveiled truths of God.

I want to walk you through the gallery of the Bible where God builds a masterpiece of such beauty that can barely be glimpsed, of magnificence surpassing all glory. And when we have understood the painting and its symbols, we will see the One beyond the scene for whom it all was drawn.

And we will begin to see

God as the Artist,

Christ as the Subject

and ourselves as the Object.

First Temple: Picture of The Way

The Way into God’s nearness is told and painted. The first glory-filled Temple, built by God’s specific blueprint, is a picture of the Way to the Inner Room.

The Temple had three parts: the number of Divine Perfection.

The Outer Court: The Holy Spirit

The Outer Court is the realm of the Holy Spirit, He who pursues us in the natural world on behalf of the Father. The Spirit searches for the ones God ‘seeks to be His worshipers’ (Jn. 4:24), and moves them to the first step of the Way: repentance.

The wide open entrance to the Temple area had no covering; all was visible in the light of day. Light shines on sin and you can see what you never saw.

Bronze, the metal of judgment, was forged into two elements that stood to block the entrance to the Holy Place.

First, the Spirit brings you to Bronze Laver, filled with water, to see God’s judgment of your sin by the Word of God.

Repentance is seeing ourselves in the shocking light of GOD. The scripture, read to you by the Spirit, is a mirror in which you suddenly see what you are not, by God’s knowledge of your true condition.

The Holy Spirit is the Water of the Word, washing us with the cleansing power of His light in the scriptures (Ephesians 5:26).

And you drink the

Living Water of the Spirit.

John 16:8

He (the Holy Spirit) will

convict the world concerning

sin and righteousness

and judgment.

The judgment of your sin forbids you to meet with God. Repentance makes you aware of the breach and desperate for forgiveness when you see that you are not reconciled, not in fellowship with God.

The second picture of judgment on sin is the Bronze Altar where animals were sacrificed and the whole scene, altar and priest, were soaked with blood. You see the bloody drama of the Cross, where the fiery judgment of God on your sin was placed on Christ. The Spirit reveals ‘the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world‘ (John 1:29). And you accept that Another died for you, instead of you!

The cost... the bloody

slaughter of the Lamb.

Andrew Murray:

“In the power of the Holy Spirit, the blood effects a mighty, divine cleansing, full of heavenly life and energy. The Spirit that was in Christ when He shed the Blood makes us partakers of its power. His victory over sin, His perfect obedience, His access to the Father… “ (The Holiest of All, p 314).

The Spirit is the agent of revealing and applying the Life-Blood to your conscience and your heart.

And you drink Christ’s Blood.

The Holy Place: The Messiah, Jesus Christ

By His Word you have been washed. Through His Blood you have been forgiven and now you can enter the Holy Place of fellowship and intimacy with Christ Jesus!

Again… three elements, in Divine Perfection.

- The Lampstand: I am the Light of the world (Jn. 9:5).

- The Showbread: I am the Bread of Life (Jn. 6:48).

- The Altar of Incense: He lives to make intercession (Heb. 7:25).

The Golden Lampstand

The only brightness in the Holy Place is the golden lampstand. For the believer in fellowship with the Lord, that one 7-branched Light is the brilliance of Christ whose wisdom and beauty are more fascinating than all the world combined.

He becomes the

Only Light of life.

No more does the raw darkness

of the world hold any delight.

The Outer Court is behind.

All Christ knows, all He is, can be seen in the Light of the Holy Place.

John 14:21 Amplified

I will let Myself be clearly

seen by him and make

Myself real to him.

And you live in

the Light of the Son.

The Table of Showbread: Exodus 25:23-30

Exodus 25:30 Amplified

And you shall set the showbread

(the bread of the Presence)

on the table before Me always.

Christ, the Word of God, is the bread of our life’s sustenance.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that

came down out of heaven;

if anyone eats of this bread

he will live forever.

For our heart’s agonizing hunger and gnawing dissatisfaction, His presence is available always as Unleavened Bread, with no filthy pride in Him.

And you eat

the Bread for life.

Christ is my daily feast. I take Him in as my very essence: His being, His holy nature, instead of my empty life. I chew His Word. I absorb His Spirit.

I taste His goodness.

And so I live my union

with Him.

The Altar of Incense

The altar of Christ’s worship is the burning altar of His own existence. He is the incense of His own intercession, and His outpouring for our sake is fragrance of the Father’s pleasure. The Father longed for His lost children-of-the-garden and Jesus bought them back.

Romans 8:34

Christ Jesus . . . is at the right

hand of God, who also

intercedes for us.

And you are the living answer

to His prayers.

The Holy of Holies

The most hidden and hallowed place, lit with the Glory of Almighty God. In the Holy of Holies, there was no light of the sun, no glow of the lampstand.

All lay in darkness except

for the Glory of God.

Here was the very Presence of the Creator, descending down to His own creation.

The Golden Ark of the Testimony

The Golden Ark lay behind a separating curtain. The Mercy Seat above the Ark, sprinkled with Blood, securing God’s mercy to the whole human race that rejected their Maker.

Three elements again, all rested within the Ark.

- Stone tablets of the Law: the standard and the testimony, the requirement that we meet God’s perfect holiness.

- Aaron’s rod that budded: a branch cut off from the life of the almond tree, bearing fruit with a resurrected and indestructible Life, rising impossibly from utter death.

- Jar of manna: Sweet Bread, given from heaven, without labor or payment, simply there for the gathering in the early morn.

The Temple painted Christ as the Way, the Alpha. The Ark displayed Christ as the Finale, the Omega!

- Christ is the Blood that made Mercy available.

- Christ is the Gold of divinity, covering the wood of humanity.

- Christ is the Fulfillment of the Law, fit to commune with God.

- Christ is Resurrection Life, conquering death’s finality.

- Christ is the Bread of Life, the only Source for human sustenance.

Christ is the

Temple of God.

Christ is the

Testimony of God.

The veil separating the Ark was rent from heaven to earth, top to bottom, when Christ died. The Holy of Holies was opened to all God’s children, torn open through His flesh.

Three-Part Humanity

The Temple has rich levels of meaning. It draws a clear picture of our humanity. We also are three-part beings! The Outer Court is our body, the vessel of Christ, living in all visibility.

Hebrews 10:22

Let us draw near . . .

our bodies washed with

pure water .

In redemption, the body is made ‘a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God,’ as the vessel of the Son (Romans 12:1).

The Holy Place is our soul. The soul is made a new creation in Christ, able to see by revelation, the Light of Christ.

The Holy of Holies is our newborn spirit. The Inner Room is our spirit where we meet alone with the Heavenly Father in His glory.

Having experienced repentance, the Cross, the Blood, and the fellowship of Jesus, we may go into the Inner Room of the spirit, the only place where God Himself communes with His creation.

We ‘worship Him in spirit’ (Jn. 4:24).

Drawn to the Father

The Holy Place is open to those the Father calls by the Holy Spirit.

John 6:44

No one can come to Me

unless the Father

who sent Me draws him.

The Spirit seeks you in the Outer Court of the physical world and prepares you to be washed by the water of the Word, to see yourself in the laver of repentance, and take the sacrifice... the Blood of the Lamb.

Only through the Blood which comes by ‘drinking’ its forgiving power into your deepest being can you hope to find and experience the Inner Room of your spirit.

Few are so humble as to

settle their score with God

on His terms: the Blood of

His Son, the Lamb.

Let that which satisfies God, satisfy you about that hopeless sin nature. God our Father is accessible only through Christ’s Blood.

Only through Christ can we

live in the new creation,

and enter the Inner Room

of our spirit, the Holy of Holies,

open and waiting with the

glory of God Himself.

House of Prayer

In the beginning of His public ministry, Jesus walked through the temple and saw the marketplace it had become.

John 2:15

And He made a scourge

of cords, and drove them

all out of the temple with the

sheep and the oxen; and He

poured out the coins of the

money-changers . . .

This was Christ’s only act of violence and He repeated it again at the end of His life, going the second time to cleanse the temple of the “robbers’ den” (Matt. 21:13).

The disciples could see this was Psalm 69:9:

Zeal for Your house

will consume me.

What is zeal? It is the fire of intense love. The word means “to be hot, to seethe... boil of liquids, glow of solids.” Here is the greatest passion of Christ’s life: for the Father’s purpose and that is to have a place so holy that He can come down to earth and dwell with His created humanity.

This startling picture is Christ’s violence against the soul using God for profit, Christ’s passion for a House of worship for His Father.

His whole life, from beginning

to end, was to build a House for

the pure and true worship of

His Heavenly Father.

The ‘old man’ has no place in Christ. No welcome, no resting place. The fallen soul in its self-worship will be cast out and repudiated.

Flesh is the enemy of God under sentence of death… and we need to see it.

By the power of the Cross

in your life, Christ casts out of

His temple, the selfish flesh

in me. And you.

Still today the temple is desecrated by God business and still to this day, a little of God, a lot of self and the Lord will drive you out.

Matthew 7:23

“I never knew you . . .

depart from Me.”

Mark 11:17

And He began to teach and

say to them, “Is it not written,

‘My house shall be called a

house of prayer for all

the nations?’”

The Jews, outraged, demanded that He prove His authority.

John 2:19, 21

“Jesus answered them,

‘Destroy this temple and in

three days I will raise it up.’

But He was speaking of the

temple of His body.”

The New Temple stood before the religious world of Jerusalem, wearing human normality!

Jesus began a radical and astonishing claim. He was taking His place of authority over that temple in Jerusalem, which had been the sacred place of God’s presence and the seat of His worship. Jesus began to dismantle it by teaching and by proclamation…

This was a command,

not a comment:

“Destroy this temple.”

Jesus was bringing in an entirely new Place of Worship: Himself!

T. Austin-Sparks:

Here, then, Jesus dismisses the temple in Jerusalem, with all its history, its tradition, its ritual, its priesthood, its material glory, and, so dismissing it, puts Himself in its place for ever. What an immense “Significance” is embodied in this change! His body was destroyed by men, religious men, representing the destruction of that earthly temple, in which destroying of His body the doom of the earthly was sealed, and the historic system shattered and scattered.

In its place a resurrection body, Christ risen, becomes the Temple forevermore. All that was typified by the temple in Jerusalem is taken up in the risen Person - Jesus Christ; a spiritual House of God; a spiritual “My Father’s House” (The Transcendent “Sign,” Witness and Testimony Magazine, Jan-Feb 1966, Vol 44-1).

The Well of Change

To one sinner, and a woman at that, Jesus revealed the radical change His life and death would accomplish. He told the Samaritan woman that the time was near when worship would leave the mountain of her worship and even depart from Jerusalem. The hour was coming, and by His presence had already come, when…

John 4:23-24

The true worshipers will

worship the Father

in spirit and in truth;

for such people the Father seeks

to be His worshipers.

God is spirit and those who

worship Him must worship

in spirit and truth.

Worship in spirit… and reality.

In a word, Jesus swept away all known and exalted earth-places of worship. In that age (and in ours) the place of worship is our focus: the church, the building, the mountain, the temple.

But worship in both Samaria and Jerusalem was obliterated in that moment. The new place of worship was ‘in spirit’ - how baffling!

The Son of God negated a ‘building’ as the scene of God’s presence and of our adoration! Christ was moving deliberately to ‘build’ His Father another temple, one that would pray in pure worship at last, free of human contamination: idolatry and worldliness!

God would have His

‘house of prayer for all nations’

and the zeal of the Son

would lay the foundation of it

through His torn body and

by His spilled blood.

The Temple is Christ!

Acts 27:24

The God who made the world

and all things in it,

since He is Lord of heaven

and earth, does not dwell in

temples made with hands;

nor is He served by

human hands.

Matthew 16:18

I will build My church…

We, His disciples, members of Christ’s Body, are the vessels of His indwelling, the expression of His being.

We are now the Temple.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you

are a temple of God and

that the Spirit of God

dwells in you?

The ‘you’ is plural. The temple is Christ’s Body, made up of all the followers who let Him reign over all, who receive Him as Head.

What is church? Church is wherever, in whomever, Christ is truly Head.

He is the Mastermind Whose thoughts rule, the Creator who originates and orchestrates, and we sheep merely follow.

Ephesians 2:21-22 NIV

In (Christ) the whole building

is joined together and rises

to become a holy temple

in the Lord.

And in Him you too are

being built together to

become a dwelling in which

God lives by his Spirit.

We are the Temple

Imagine! We are mysteriously the Temple in which God lives now to meet with His Creation!

Hebrews 3:6 Amplified

Christ (the Messiah) was

faithful over His [own Father’s]

house as a Son [and Master of it].

And it is we who are

[now members] of this house,

if we hold fast and firm to

the end our joyful and

exultant confidence and sense of

triumph in our hope [in Christ].

We are the Temple of God and the Temple is within us! How can we take it in? Your body is part of the redemption, made holy to contain the Godhead!

The Holy Place of revelation,

prayer, and fullness exists

in your new creation.

The Lampstand is IN the Church!

The Bread IS fresh daily,

always present.

The Holy of Holies, God’s very Presence dwells within your spirit in all splendor, light and glory.

Christ is ALL

John 14:6 ESV

Jesus said to him,

“I am the way, and the truth,

and the life. No one comes

to the Father except

through Me.”

Christ is the way and the only Way to God. Jesus is Truth and the only Truth! Living existence is in Christ, the only Life there is.

The veil is open but the way

in is Christ alone.

Abba Waits

The Holy Spirit takes you to Jesus. Jesus is the way to the Father.

Galatians 4:6

Because you are sons,

God has sent forth the Spirit

of His Son into our hearts,

crying, “Abba! Father!”

In your spirit is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit and He is the agent of God’s desire that you be with Him in spirit and in truth.

Amazing! The Father seeks such as us to come into the inner room of our spirit to adore and experience the love of our God. So intense is His quest that He sends the Holy Spirit and even His only begotten Son, to find you and bring you into His Holiest Presence where His glory dwells.

Worship in Spirit

John 4:24

God is spirit, and those who

worship Him must worship

in spirit and truth.

So there is an Inner Room in your deepest new self. You are a living spirit and in that spirit dwells the whole Trinity and the glory of God.

Colossians 2:10 Amplified

And you are in Him, made full

and having come to fullness

of life [in Christ you too are

filled with the Godhead -

Father, Son and Holy Spirit -

and reach full spiritual stature].

In this place you come to the intimacy of God Himself. His glory is there waiting for you to enter.

In fact, the born anew believer lives there, from there, always there… though we are mostly unaware and unbelieving.

The Fallen Soul

The soul is the seat of

personality, of will and thought,

of emotion and individual identity.

In Eden the spirit of humanity died ‘on the day they ate of the tree of knowledge’ (Genesis 2:17). The soul did not die, it rose by satanic ambition to ascendency, to take the place of God and judge Him.

The soul goes by several names: flesh, old self, sinful nature. The mutiny of the soul is to live in independence, to know apart from God.

The most insidious

delusion buried in

every sinful soul:

the old self believes

it IS god.

The flesh, the ‘old man’ became the pawn of Satan. Adam and Eve gave the enemy access to the thought life of the human soul. Now through suggestions to the mind of the fallen-soul, the enemy prods the emotions of the flesh so that he can overtake the body with sin… and death.

The flesh soul is a sin nature, not merely acts or deeds. Flesh is the corrupted nature of humanity. And it is not salvageable, not redeemable.

Romans 8:7-8

The mind set on the flesh

is hostile toward God;

for it does not subject itself

to the law of God, for it is

not even able to do so,

and those who are in the

flesh cannot please God.

The fallen soul, being the ground of Satan’s influence, cannot meet with God, cannot access or please Him. This unsolvable soul has been solved.

The entire soul-sin nature

was destroyed on

the Cross.

All Solved in Christ!

Romans 8:3-4

God… sending His own Son

in the likeness of sinful flesh

and as an offering for sin,

He condemned sin in the flesh,

so that the requirement of

the Law might be

fulfilled in us.

The soul went into the grave with Christ and what rose with Him in resurrection was a new creation: a living spirit and a newly made soul. And that new creation is YOU!

The soul has been created new, capable of surrender to serve the spirit. Before the new birth, the flesh was in opposition to all that is God, spiritually dead, unwilling and incapable of serving God, no matter how hard it tried. Now a soft, moldable heart of flesh has replaced your numb and rigid heart of stone (Ezekiel 36:26).

We have a newly born spirit

and in that spirit dwells the

entire fullness of God.

The old self is still available in all its sinful resistance. We know this is so because of:

Ephesians 4:22-24

Lay aside the old self, which

is being corrupted in

accordance with the lusts

of deceit, and that you be

renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and put on the new self, which

in the likeness of God has

been created in righteousness

and holiness of the truth.

Imagine the wonder of this reality! You have a new self and you can simply lay aside the old self. In Christ, by the Cross, you have been created all new within!

You are who you never were. You are a fascinating stranger you have not met. You are a new you, yet to be discovered.

And the New You is like God.

The Dilemma

We have a bewildering quandary about our soul and spirit. Often we cannot see the difference between the spirit and the soul.

The old self is so strong that its ambition rises whenever we are tempted to be inferior or superior. Soul thinks it knows right and wrong. If you have ever been deceived, it was your soul that fell for the lie. Your spirit knows.

The fallen soul believes

it is spiritual, but it is

only… religious!

We believe it… and we listen to it, dead though it is. Is this of me? Or is this the Lord?

Most of Christendom lives in the flesh of the old soul. The soul is the entrance and ground of the enemy, linked irrevocably to the darkness that parades as light.

God sentenced the soul to death and Christ took all the blind delusion and pride of the old soulish man onto the Cross with Him to die and into the grave to remain gone.

Romans 6:6

Knowing this, that our old self

was crucified with Him,

in order that our body of sin

might be done away with,

so that we would no longer

be slaves to sin; for he who

has died is freed from sin.

So, the finished fact is this: the soul is dead but we have to be convinced that it needs to be dead! I have to agree with God that this ‘thing in me’ that rules me, tyrannizes and makes me stumble, deserves death. Life and the Cross expose the soul and the futility of trying to change it or master it. Soul thinks it is god, remember?

The word ‘life’ is actually psuche, which means ‘soul’, so I insert the correct word just for our clarity:

John 12:25

Whoever loves his (soul) life

loses it, and whoever hates

his (soul) life in this world

will keep it to life eternal.

(parenthesis mine)

This last word ‘life’ is a different word, it means ‘human life and existence as opposed to death.’ It means eternal existence! To know real spiritual life, we have to come to hate (meaning to detest, abhor and persecute) the soul life and lose it… by the faith that it was crucified with Christ.

The call to ‘hate my life’

is the call to hate my soulish

self-serving, self-exalting SELF,

not my creation, existence,

or circumstance.

Meeting the Deadly Soul

We don’t comprehend how corrupt and hopeless the ‘old man’ is. After all, we thought the soul was our true and best self. We don’t see what the flesh is. This is what the Cross comes to attack: the enemy you believe in and welcome INTO you.

This dilemma crashes into the life experience of the believer... do you understand? The believer, not the unsaved.

Paul was a genuine born again believer, in love with God’s will. His every desire was to be godly. But he met the power of his old soul to oppose his spirit’s holy desire and direction.

Paul’s pure spirit was bound in prison to his corrupt flesh.

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good

dwells in me, that is, in my flesh;

for the willing is present in me

but the doing of the

good is not.

Paul set out in life to obey God’s law and he collided with his opponent who thwarted his intention at every turn. He discovered that his enemy was his own flesh!

Only obedience

motivated by love leads you

to the frustration of

this dilemma.

In a valid spiritual crisis, Paul began to hear the call of Jesus to ‘hate’ his soul life. And he cried out to be set free from the tyranny of the flesh-soul that defeated his best effort!

Free from Sin and Death

The perfect answer was revealed to Paul as it will also come to you and me.

Romans 8:1-3

Therefore there is now no

condemnation for those who

are in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the Spirit

of life in Christ Jesus has set

you free from the law of sin

and of death.

Oh, we must understand the wonder of this! Romans 8 is one of the most important passages in the Bible. Paul’s personal discovery of the tyrannical soul within, led him to this divine revelation of the solution in the Holy Spirit.

(God) condemned sin in

the flesh by sending His own

Son in flesh like ours

under sin’s domain and as

a sin offering (HCSB).

Our flesh is incurably opposed to God. We have to come by the path of obedience to see the old self as utterly corrupt. We cannot agree with the Cross and liberate our spirit until we come as Paul did, to identify our failure as the FLESH, which all of life till now, we have admired and used!

The flesh-soul expresses itself in the mind and in the emotion. And so we are captured to believe our logic and feeling. To find out over and over that we cannot trust our intellect or our emotion, is to begin to ‘hate the flesh.’

Paul is exuberant once he sees the way out:

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through

Jesus Christ our Lord!

Jesus took on flesh to

kill it by His own death.

So simple and so perfect. Jesus crucified the flesh! Let’s read it again and again until we can believe that we are free of the flesh forever! Thanks be to God!

The law of the Spirit of life

in Christ Jesus has set you

free from the law of sin

and death (v 2).

The simple solution is: First, to see that you are born again INTO Christ Jesus. The Law of the Spirit is IN Christ so the freedom from condemnation only applies as we are IN Christ.

Second, there is one mandate of God:

Romans 8:14-15

For all who are led by the

Spirit of God, these are

sons of God.

For you have not received

a spirit of slavery leading to

fear again, but you have

received a spirit of adoption

as sons by which we

cry out, “Abba! Father!”

God’s joy is to dwell always in your spirit as your personal… perfect Abba Father!

You are invited to this adventure,

here is the Way:

The Holy Spirit leads and you

merely follow Him.

In Christ, the essence of you is your spirit, the place where God dwells within you. Your new soul: your mind, will, and emotion, is to be a quiet servant of your spirit. In your new self, your new soul is under, no longer over.

The Comforter

The Holy Spirit is called:

John 14:26 Amplified

… the Comforter, (Counselor,

Helper, Intercessor, Advocate,

Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit,

Whom the Father will send in

My name [in my place, to

represent Me and act on My behalf],

He will teach you all things.”

He is the brilliant, perfect Helper who will guide you to find and live by your new spirit. He is sent for this purpose. Then you will live in and from your own Inner Room where God is in you and you are in Him.

All that I have written about the Temple and the soul are for understanding soul and spirit, to know what true worship is. It is for vision, to see what God is building and how He forms the living stones we are.

Enjoy the scene.

To study or memorize it

as your solution really

isn’t necessary.

1 Peter 2:5 Amplified

[Come] and, like living stones,

be yourselves built [into] a

spiritual house, for a holy

(dedicated, consecrated) priesthood,

to offer up [those] spiritual sacrifices

[that are] acceptable and pleasing

to God through Jesus Christ.

The whole thing is too much for me. I won’t remember it all. I can’t make it happen. I can’t see the flesh so I can’t get rid of the flesh. I don’t always know if I am in my spirit. Sometimes I realize it only later, that I was in God’s glory.

I don’t have to fear.

I only have to follow.

I don’t have to know.

I only have to listen.

To be led of the Spirit,

THAT is necessary.

He is not only your personal Helper,

He is your Guarantee!

Ephesians 1:14 NLT

The Spirit is God’s guarantee

that he will give us the

inheritance he promised and

that he has purchased us to

be his own people.

He will see to it that you and I make it to the end, to the fulfillment of God’s desire and promise. God guarantees it!

The Holy Spirit comes directly from God for me. He knows me far more than I can imagine and He has my destiny in His all-knowing Hands. He keeps me, He corrects me, He watches me.

And even more wonderful, through the Spirit Christ enables me because He dwells in me.

The Father so longs for children to whom He can give His love and bliss, His great store of blessing. The powerful passion of the Son and of the Spirit is for their Lovely Father to have His worshipers.

So the Son and the Spirit come with the most incredible zeal to search for, to find and seek such to “worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

He seeks you. He pursues me!

He wants us…

How blessed we are

to be sought!

The Holy Spirit is our only hope. There is no other provision for you because He is the perfect solution.

The Sword That Divides

Come to know the Holy Spirit, His voice, His ways, His nudging! Refuse or neglect the Holy Spirit at the peril of your eternal life, at the peril of your forever.

All life with God is about hearing! The failure of Israel to continue with God was simply their failure to listen to His voice.

By listening to the Lord and knowing the scripture, His voice cuts through our confusion and trust in our own thoughts. We are split by the power of the word He speaks and see fully the soul versus the spirit.

Hebrews 4:12-13

The word of God is living and

active and sharper than any

two-edged sword, and piercing

as far as the division of

soul and spirit, of both joints

and marrow, and able to judge

the thoughts and intentions

of the heart.

And there is no creature

hidden from His sight, but all

things are open and laid bare

to the eyes of Him with whom

we have to do.

The spiritual person is the one who gains all his thoughts and insights from the Holy Spirit, not from logic, mere knowledge, or human speculation (Manna, Jan. 5, 2006).

The New Law

There is still a law. We live in a Kingdom of heaven and His government is orderly because the King is holy.

Romans 8:2

The Law of the Spirit of life

in Christ Jesus has set you

free from the law of sin

and death.

The new law is alive because it is of the Spirit, a higher law than the Old Testament laws. It is a law of moral ethics... of heart purity, not merely good behavior. It is a law only the Spirit knows, for the Father’s will is individually defined.

His will requires the power

of the Spirit and the

knowledge of the Spirit.

Our following the Holy Spirit

explicitly ensures that we will

by His power, in Christ’s character,

fulfill God’s standard.

A New Contract

Christ bought an entirely new system: the New Covenant. Here is the contract in His Blood:

He gives all and you receive all.

No earning. No effort.

Just believe.

He gives you His entire full and perfect solution to… you! Our Abba covers every human need in four simple offerings, spelled out in Hebrews 8:10-12:

1. “I will put my laws into their minds

and write them on their hearts” (v 10).

Martin Luther wrote:

“He writes the Law of God with living fire in our hearts,

not doctrine but Life, not word but Existence,

not a sign but very Fullness.”

2. “I will be their God, and they shall

be My people” (v 10).

Belonging, the quest

of every person.

God is my home.

Now, this moment,

and into Forever.

The curtain is open and I rush to His throne!

3. “For all will know Me, from the least

to the greatest of them” (v 11).

Remember, Abba’s joy is to dwell always in your spirit as your personal… perfect Father.

To know your God,

there is no greater

intimacy than this:

He is within you.

You are within Him.

4. “I will be merciful to their iniquities,

and I will remember their sins

no more” (v 12).

That God forgives all with compassion, we barely trust. That the God of the universe will ‘forget’? Oh, that is too breathtaking.

Father, my Abba, I am overwhelmed with Your Masterpiece in Christ, and marvel that I should be included in Your story and to live in your Temple, Christ. How I long to understand it all and to live it fully.

I ask my Good Father for the gift of the Holy Spirit to take me over, take me in, and take me TO… worship You ‘in spirit and in truth’ (Luke 11:13).

How I thank You for seeking after me! For Jesus’ sake, I receive all You give, which is ALL there is! Amen. So be it!

You Are

You Are

the me I never was

nor ever could be.

You Are

my identity,

the Nucleus of my primal being,

my very Personality...

novel and wildly mine.

You Are

my Victory, the Win I never won,

my Existence, my Essence,

my every Breath and only Virtue.

I am Who You are and yet…

not at all, only You are Yourself,

and I, a vessel in the wonder of You,

a mouth, an ear, a thumb, a foot,

a most-small being.

A common human cup You fill

with the Uncommon Splendor…

of You.

Yet I am not a cup for me to sip.

I am a pitcher... poured on You

from You… as You.

We Are . . . one!

John 17:22

“that they may be one

even as we are one.”

Martha Kilpatrick © 2011

Table of Contents

Preface

The Inner Room

Your Inner Room

Go In

The God Who Waits

Rejection of God

God’s Painting

First Temple Picture of The Way

The Outer Court The Holy Spirit

The Holy Place The Messiah, Jesus Christ

The Golden Lampstand

The Table of Showbread (Exodus 25:23-30)

The Altar of Incense

The Holy of Holies

The Golden Ark of the Testimony

Three-Part Humanity

Drawn to the Father

House of Prayer

The Well of Change

The Temple is Christ!

We are the Temple

Christ is ALL

Abba Waits

Worship in Spirit

The Fallen Soul

All Solved in Christ!

The Dilemma

Meeting the Deadly Soul

Free from Sin and Death

The Comforter

The Sword That Divides

The New Law

A New Contract

You Are