The 49th Mystic

by Ted Dekker

  Book of Matthew 4:17

  Do not conform to the pattern of this world (polarity), but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

  Paulus to Rome 12:2 NIV

  3) Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited, does not act improperly, is not selfish, is not provoked. (Some translators have inserted the word easily before provoked, though Paulus didn’t write it.)

  [Love] does not keep a record of wrongs. (Does not keep a record or keeps no record is a legal term meaning “does not take into account” or “makes no accounting of.” Paulus’s word for wrong is singular, the same word he and Yeshua used for evil, and so was translated as “takes no account of evil” by many scribes. Other scribes have felt compelled to insert extra words of their own, such as deeds or thoughts following the word evil, but again, these words are not in Paulus’s writings, penned in Greek.)

  Paulus’s First Letter to Corinth 13:4–5 HCSB

  4) If I . . . know all mysteries and all knowledge (doctrine and confessions); and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned (service and loyalty to beliefs), but do not have love (true love, which does not take into account wrong), it profits me nothing.

  Paulus’s First Letter to Corinth 13:2–3

  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. (Love that holds no record of wrong is the true evidence of Christ. Good doctrine or confession in itself is not the evidence of Christ but the evidence of intelligence alone.)

  Book of Johnin 13:35 NIV

  5) I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit (love), for apart from Me you can do nothing (all is vanity in the earthen vessel alone) . . . My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. (True love is the greatest of all fruit, the evidence of Christ.)

  Book of Johnin 15:5, 8–9

  6) No one pours new wine into old wineskins (old identity in polarity, law). Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins (new identity beyond polarity, law).

  Book of Luke 5:37–38 NIV

  Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come (Inchristi), we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

  Paulus to Galatia 3:24–25 KJV

  The former regulation (the law of Moses) is set aside because it was weak and useless . . . and a better hope is introduced (the law of grace), by which we draw near to God (know him intimately).

  Paulus to Hebrews 7:18–19 NIV

  The Law came in so that the transgression would increase (the more you try to fulfill the demands of polarity/law, the more failure it brings); but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness (state of our being) to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (who we are, right now).

  Paulus to Rome 5:20–21

  Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world (polarity), why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use (the law), are based on merely human commands and teachings. (The law is weak and useless—old wineskin—yet still embraced by man.)

  Paulus to Colossae 2:20–22 NIV

  For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did . . . so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us. (The requirement of the law is to bring wholeness, but it cannot, and is fulfilled only by a grace that holds no record of wrong, which is also God’s love.)

  Paulus to Rome 8:3–4

  Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. (The law is fulfilled in us as it fails and thus leads us to the love of Christ in us.)

  Book of Matthew 5:17 NIV

  7) Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life (true love) has set you free from the law of sin and death. (Condemnation and fear. Sin is a state of blindness. Whatever is not done in faith is sin or darkness. Most live in sin or darkness most of the time.)

  Paulus to Rome 8:1–2 NIV

  The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son . . . Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. (Neither does the Son accuse us.) There is one who accuses you: Moses (the law, polarity), on whom you have set your hope.

  Talya’s note: If one puts their trust in law—polarity—they are condemned by it, not by the Father or the Christ. In any given moment, one reaps the effects of whatever system they put their faith in. Most live in blindness to grace and true love, clinging to the law of polarity, holding record of wrong, and thus are mastered by polarity.

  Book of Johnin 5:22, 45 ESV

  8) Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (The old mind will always resist the truth, which is like a sword of true love, holding no record of wrong. Thus those clinging to the old mind will feel deeply divided by that sword and will cry “heresy” to protect their investment in ideologies dependent on fear and control.)

  Book of Matthew 10:34 NIV

  9) Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look (change your perception, metanoia) on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (The kingdom is beyond time and cause and effect. This is the basis for all that is miraculous, seen in spirit.)

  Book of Johnin 4:35 KJV

  The harvest is plentiful (already ripe) but the workers are few. (Few see this.) Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. (Yeshua’s invitation to be one who sees the harvest now, the kingdom that is now present.)

  Book of Matthew 9:37–38 NIV

  Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed (it is now, not later); nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ (It is beyond our dimension of space, neither above nor below, not seen with earthly eyes.) For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst” (already within your very being).

  Book of Luke 17:20–21

  10) The eye (singular, perception) is the lamp (shows you) of the body (our earthly experience); so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. (Proper perception sees light and beauty.) But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. (The state of most, most of the time.) If then the light that is in you (the light is already in us) is darkness, how great is the darkness (suffering in this life)!

  Book of Matthew 6:22–23

  How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,” when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? (Judgment of others.) You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Unless you see clearly, you will walk in judgment rather than love.)

  Book of Luke 6:42 NIV

  If your right eye causes you to stumble (stumbling is spiritual blindness), pluck it out and cast it from you (after all, it is only part of the earthen vessel). For it is better for you that one of your members should perish and not that your whole body (experience in this life) should be cast into Gehenna. (Gehenna: the place of suffering.)

  Book of Matthew 5:29 BLB

  11) This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing (with earthly eyes), they do not see (with spi
ritual eyes); though hearing (with the natural mind), they do not hear or understand” (its true meaning, because true meaning comes from beyond the logical mind—this is revelation).

  Book of Matthew 13:13 NIV

  12) The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. (Only as we are willing to part with all that we think defines us are we able to possess the hidden treasure that truly defines us.)

  Book of Matthew 13:44 NIV

  13) And this is eternal life: to know you (present tense: to know is to have intimate experience with), the only true God, and the one whom you sent—Jesus the Messiah. (The only direct definition of Eternal Life, spoken by Yeshua.)

  Book of Johnin 17:3 ISV

  The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as (in the same way) We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as (in the same way) You have loved Me. (The power of knowing that glory is a staggering love that holds no record of wrong. Only then will the world know they are loved.)

  Book of Johnin 17:22–23

  Relating to Chapter 17

  1) Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (To enter is to experience that dimension now in our midst. Childlike—full of wonder and belief. Childish—selfish clinging.)

  Book of Matthew 18:3 NIV

  At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent (human logic and systematic theology based on reason in the human construct) and have revealed them to infants.”

  Talya’s note: Intelligence is not required, and this always frustrates the intelligent mind. Infants trust without human logic. Metanoia is a return to this spiritual state, the process of becoming or being re-born like an infant. As also said by Yeshua: unless one is born again (becoming like an infant) they cannot see (perceive) the kingdom (which is already here and everywhere). This re-birthing process is the process also called transformation, awakening, alignment, purification, and sanctification.

  Book of Matthew 11:25

  Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (God is beyond space and time, as is our identity in him. Miraculous manifestation in space and time is possible in that identity.)

  Book of Matthew 19:26 NIV

  2) Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me (to believe in is to identify with), the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do (most who claim to follow him do not ask in his identity but in their own, separate from him), so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

  Book of Johnin 14:12–13

  3) For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (We are that light Inchristi.) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels (dust to dust), so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves (the earthen vessel self).

  Paulus’s Second Letter to Corinth 4:6–7

  So we fix our eyes (perception) not on what is seen (earthen vessel self and all polarity), but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary (dust to dust), but what is unseen is eternal (true spiritual self—eternal, beyond time and space).

  Paulus’s Second Letter to Corinth 4:18 NIV

  Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. (Not knew about you, but knew you. To know is to have intimate relationship with. Even so, a thought of the infinite is no less real than its manifestation in form.)

  Prophet Jeremiah 1:5 NIV

  For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home (earthen vessel) is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (The heavens—that “building from God”—is a dimension here and now and within, beyond polarity.)

  Paulus’s Second Letter to Corinth 5:1 ESV

  Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh (earthen vessel, including our own body); even though we have known Christ according to the flesh (when he was in an earthen vessel like ours), yet now we know Him in this way no longer. (We re-cognize ourselves in spirit and truth, not according to the flesh.)

  Talya’s note: The Gnostics erroneously claim that the body is evil or of no consequence, and so claim Christ could not have come in the flesh or rise in body. In truth, Christ did rise in body—yet one very different from our current bodies limited by physics. Paulus called this the glorified body, one that is not subject to the laws of physics nor the physical limitations we have in earthen vessels.

  Paulus’s Second Letter to Corinth 5:16

  4) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. (One cannot love God and fear him at the same time. Fear of punishment is only a failure to grasp God’s love.)

  First Book of Johnin 4:18

  This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. (Love that holds no record of wrong is light. Most walk in darkness most of the time not because they are not the light, but because they are blind to that light.)

  First Book of Johnin 1:5–6

  When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit (transcended his body).

  Talya’s note: On that cross Yeshua quotes both the first and last line of Psalm 22, the great lament of all humanity, beginning with David’s fear of being forsaken: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The psalmist then corrects this fallacy in writing: “For he has not . . . hidden his face from [the afflicted one].” God wouldn’t, couldn’t, turn his face from his Son, nor us. David ends as Yeshua did: “He has done it!” or “It is finished.” Death is no more. It is only then that David writes the next Psalm: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death (the world of polarity), I fear no evil.” Why? Because death is only a shadow in that valley. It is finished! Selah.

  Book of Johnin 19:30 NIV; Psalm 22:1, 24, 31 NIV; Psalm 23:4

  5) Since, then, you have been raised with Christ (already), set your hearts on things above (the spiritual dimension in our very being), where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God (with you, established in union). Set your minds on things above (dimension of the kingdom within), not on earthly things (world of polarity—two kingdoms: things above and earthly things). For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God (in union with: our true state of being right now).

  Paulus to Colossae 3:1–3 NIV

  But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions (before we knew we were in darkness), made us alive together with Christ . . . and raised us up with Him (already), and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus (established in union with Christ).

  Paulus to Ephesus 2:4–6

  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things (polarity) are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (Perception of the world changes in that awareness.)

  Paulus’s Second Letter to Corinth 5:17 KJV

  See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men (including religious tradition), according to the elementary principles of the world (the world of polarity), rather than according to Christ (who is beyond polarity). For in Him (in our union with him) all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form (he dwells in our earthen vessels), and in Hi
m you have been made complete (already perfect), and He is the head over all rule and authority. (We are who he, as the final authority, says we are: complete, not who we think we are as earthen vessels. The old self identifies as an earthen vessel flesh self and thus denies who we truly are, one with the divine.)

  Talya’s note: Paulus, writing to the Philippians, explained that his earthly experience of his true identity was not yet perfected, thus he continued to press on. As do we all.

  Paulus to Colossae 2:8–10

  No one can serve two masters (two systems), for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve (align yourself with) both God and Mammon. (Mammon: the system of the world, polarity, symbolized by money. Christ is not subject to polarity. Neither are we as we align to our union with him.)

  Book of Matthew 6:24 NHEB

  6) [You] have put on the new self (a new way of being in the world) who is being renewed (metanoia, transforming of the mind) to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him—a renewal (awakening) in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian (seen as the worst of the worst in his day), slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all. (We are one with Christ, and that One, our true identity, lives in our earthen vessel. Inchristi is all; Inchristi is in all.)

  Paulus to Colossae 3:10–11

  7) He (Yeshua) said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm. (Yeshua was asleep, undisturbed by the storms of life. We are afraid when we do not see as he sees, beyond the storms of this life. His sight is seeing the unseen, the kingdom of heaven now present in our midst.)

  Book of Matthew 8:26

  8) And immediately something like scales fell from his [Paulus’s] eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized. (Symbolizing his new sight in Spirit, followed by baptism, which signified his drowning to find new life. Paulus was then sent by Christ “to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light.”)