The concepts of freewill and Yahweh's Sovereignty are not as irreconcilable as you might think. Nor are they answered by such flimsy explanations as, "Yahweh chose to limit Himself." Oh, it's that and so much more!
Yahweh wanted someone who could share in all facets of Him, someone who would know what it is to be a Creator and with whom He could share His Lordship. This is why He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. We are His lords and kings that He created. We are His Created Creators, and we are still creating even now with Him.
In fact, we even partnered with Him to create ourselves.
In order to understand this, we must first understand that time is not a line, at least not just a line. In fact, there are seven different views of time that I have right now, though I know that's only a fraction of all that is out there. I will not speak to all of them here, but just know that in one view of time, everything is happening simultaneously. This is how we are currently creating with Yahweh even though we've also already been created.
Thus that Reality—the
original Covenant-writing process, the Finished Work (completion of all), and
the process of walking out the Covenant/expression—is both fluid based upon our
choices and firm as it is and always will be finished.
Yahweh wanted someone who could share in all facets of Him, someone who would know what it is to be a Creator and with whom He could share His Lordship. This is why He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. We are His lords and kings that He created. We are His Created Creators, and we are still creating even now with Him.
In fact, we even partnered with Him to create ourselves.
In order to understand this, we must first understand that time is not a line, at least not just a line. In fact, there are seven different views of time that I have right now, though I know that's only a fraction of all that is out there. I will not speak to all of them here, but just know that in one view of time, everything is happening simultaneously. This is how we are currently creating with Yahweh even though we've also already been created.
Before time, in the Finished Work, in the
Fullness of Yahweh, we wrote and completed a Covenant by faith. This Covenant
was finished as soon as Yahweh and we said “yes and amen” together. It happened
that Yahweh opened His whole being to us, every possible nuance and point of
existence in all of our lives and experience and He gave it to us to choose.
We could choose anything we wanted, for
all of it was good and permissible to us. As we chose, advised and cared for by
Yahweh, He wrote it into the contract, the Covenant, of our lives. Then, once
we had made all of our choices, we said “yes and amen” and the total completion
of the Finished Covenant spread out from that point to reach all points in
Infinite-Eternity, including the points in space-time.
In space-time, which is a part of
Infinite-Eternity, we walk out this Covenant, rediscovering and agreeing to it
by faith so that that which as written in the contract and drawn on the
blueprints can be manifest in expression and built as a great sign for all to
see. Thus the completion of the Covenant is made by faith so that that which is
seen reflects that which is not seen.
Yet, because all of infinite-eternity
exists simultaneously, the Finished Work exists always, even in the process,
and both sides of the process also exist always. Thus that we are even now
resting in the finished work and writing the original Covenant and walking out
the building and completion of the expression of the original Covenant at
the same time.
Due to the fluidity of the workings, all
affect each other. That Yahweh’s sovereignty in the Finished Work affects our
expression in space-time and our faith in space-time affects our ability to
choose from all possibilities what will be in the Covenant, and the Covenant
itself affects what righteous decisions can be made in space-time. In other
words, by the faith that we choose today, we either limit or remove the
limitations surrounding the Realm of Possibility. By our choices in the writing
of the Covenant, we decide—with Yahweh—what righteousness looks like in the
expression of our individual lives (with key foundational points that are
common to all). By the faith that completed the Finished Work, we tap into the
sovereignty of Yahweh and ensure the immutability of the Promise in our lives.
Yahweh, the Ultimate Sovereign Creator, gave us much power in these three
realms.
The simultaneous nature of these three
parts of Infinite-Eternity ensure that:
But oh what is! The finished work
The firmness of Reality
That what is fluid can be sure
All at once what is shall be
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