From the Inside Out
By John Gavazzoni

Whatever is, is, because God is within it. If God is not in it, it isn't. There is no existence apart from God being its Source, and not merely in the sense that all things have come to exist BY or FROM God; I mean that all that exists has come OUT FROM WITHIN God. Having come out from within God, God continues within all as the inner Source of the continued existence of all things/the whole. From Jonathan Mitchell's careful translation of Paul's wrap-around-statement regarding all existence, it is not merely, as conventionally translated, "for of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things," but literally that all things have come out from within the midst of God, continue through the midst of God, and into the midst of God.

From our brother Jonathan's translation: "Because, forth from out of the midst of Him, then through the midst of Him (or: through means of Him), and [finally] into the midst of Him [[is] the whole (everything) [are] all things." (Rom. 11: 36) [Visit greater-emmanuel.org for information on that translation available on Amazon] All things having come into existence, quite specifically in the Greek, out from within the midst of God, but it should not be inferred that all things are God. Rather, that whatever is, is what it is, because of Spirit-substance of God within makes it what it is, and makes it to continue to be what it is.

It was out from within the midst of Him that all things were created, so the creation of all things was from the inside out of God while remaining in God. So, it is with all things, their own existence and the continuation of their existence is a matter of from the inside out. Everything has essence. Everything is the out-forming of essence. God's essence gives everything its essence with wondrous variety. Things are different: A tree is not an elephant. A human is not a rock. But the innerness of God makes each to be what it is.

Most important to the truth of all things having their Source out from within God, is that divine sonship is also, but not first as created, but first as birthed. Out from within the Spirit-substance of the only/uniquely/single-begottenness of the Son of God have come His many brethren, the sons of God, who "were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." As out from within Abraham came Isaac, out from within Isaac came all the children of Abraham, so we have that Old Testament picture of out from within the Father has come the Son, and out from within the Son have come the sons, and when the sons are unveiled, all creation, beholding the liberty of their glory, shall be delivered from its bondage to decay.

This is all....from the inside out. That which is first birthed becomes the substance of that which is created. Our created form is the out-forming of Godness. Such must be in order that it can be said that "your body is temple of Holy Spirit," and "the temple of God is holy, which temple you are." The application I want to make from this most fundamental of truths, regards the certainty of "the manifestation/unveiling/uncovering of the sons of God." Dear child of God, what you are, as born of God, will be unveiled first to your own creaturehood, and from you to all creation, out from within the God-essence of your being.

While the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom, that is, from above, what is important to know is that, with God, that which is above comes from within, and that which comes from within comes from above. The power that rent the veil in two came from above while operating from within. While mankind has been given entrance INTO the holy of holies, it is equally so that He, whose Presence is the essence of the holy of holies, has stepped OUT FROM WITHIN the holiest into the world.

Nothing can stop what is in us from coming out. Essence always finally prevails. There is a SEED within God, which came out from within God, and, as the sons of God, that Seed is in us. It's a mighty Seed that breaks out from within rising victorious over death and hades. It's as sure as the Father was sure that He would raise His Son from the tomb. The surety of our faith traces to that very surety. As certain as the resurrection of Christ was, so just that certain is the unveiling of our sonship. Peter declared of Christ, that it was not possible for Him to be holden of death, likewise, what Paul called "this body of death," cannot hold who we are from within, coming forth for all the world to see.