The Day of Impartation: Building on the True Foundation
Ken: You think of the five wise and the five foolish virgins, and I think that’s the purest example. The wise kept oil in their lamps. There was the anointing that prepared them to engage with the Bridegroom. Without the anointing, you’re not going to engage. You may have understanding, you may know about God, but without the oil—the anointing, the Holy Spirit—there’s no connection.
Ron: I think that it’s something that is definable, but it’s difficult to define in the sense that I think we have lived, and still live, a lot on the level of revelation. And revelation’s important—it’s not anything to be put down. The revelation is creating a hunger to reach in more to the relationship with the Lord, to know more, to have the impartation from Him.
The true living epistles aren’t revelators and they’re not expositors. They are those who speak Christ in the earth, and as they speak, things are created. They’re not human words—the words are filled with life. If a true living epistle speaks to you, you’re going to change if your heart’s open. That’s true—you are going to change. It’s a living impartation, and that’s what we’re striving for more than anything: to speak the word of the Lord.
When you say, “Speak the word of the Lord,” people can hear that differently. “Why, I speak the word, I speak the word of the Lord.” Do you? Because there’s actual proof—it’s not ambiguous. When you speak the word of the Lord, fruit should come out of that. And if you don’t see the fruit, you missed it. It’s okay—no condemnation, because we’re growing and we’re all becoming. But all of us are on that path of becoming living epistles, to speak the word of the Lord.
Do we fail it? Yeah, a lot. We fail a lot, and we come down to a level of revelation or we come down to a level of teaching. I don’t know if “coming down” is the right way to say it, because I think there are aspects of that that are important. The creative, living word of Christ is our goal.
Do you know how you get into the things that “eye has not seen, nor ear heard”? It’s going to come out of your teaching and study and everything, so you don’t leave the very foundation that was created.
Debbie: We don’t drop the foundation.
Ken: The foundation is there. It’s been laid. It’s like Paul said—be careful how you build on that foundation.
Debbie: Because of that, we have to build on it. We’re supposed to build on that foundation, not start another house.
Ken: Now we move on with that foundation and build on it by what you’re talking about, Ron—by being open to hearing what God is speaking to our hearts through our study. I think a lot of it is yes, God is speaking words that are bringing forth this next step that we’re moving into. I think that’s where the purity of the word that’s being spoken is creating something more than we’ve ever seen before.
Mike: And it’s now a leaderless movement because we’re leaning on the Spirit to lead us. And the true apostle is Christ Himself, the Head. It’s the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Lois: It is because we’re solid in that foundation that we can go higher in revelation, and it can be pure, and we can know. Right? But it’s because we’re solid.
Ron: Actually, what I think it is—we all become leaders. But it goes back and forth really, because you’re a shepherd sometimes, you’re a sheep sometimes. You’re just kind of going back and forth. God is a God of love and grace.
Ken: Right.
Ron: And He has a place for all people. Some people, you could say, they’re stuck. They may be stuck for a time—it just depends on how things go with them and the Lord. There are churches all around here that we’ve been to, and I could go, “Man,” and I have, “God, these guys, all they talk about is salvation, salvation, salvation.” And it’s like, “Come on, guys.”
But the Lord spoke to me out of that, and He said, “It’s okay.” Because there are many people who need that first initial step. And there are many out there who need a family. And so, they’ll come in and they’ll grow to a certain level, and then they’ll get tired of the salvation message, and then they’ll have a choice again. They’ll be at a crossroads and have to decide—do I want to go on? Am I hungry enough to seek out something different?
Every heart has to decide that. Even those who are what we would call “caught in Babylon,” my faith is they’re all going to come out. God’s going to find a way to shake them out of there, and they’re going to come out.
We had an apostle to help us with that—or we would have never made it. See, now we’re looking at living epistles, and we’re supposed to be doing the same thing. We’ll speak to people, and the very impartation will take them from where they’re living now—pick them up and put them on a whole new level of life, a whole new way of thinking.
Mike: And we’re in the day of impartation.
Ken: This is the day of Spirit. It is that—that’s right. The seventh year, the year of Spirit. We are there. And I’ll tell you, more is done through our spirits just standing in a place, in a room, when there’s a lot of people around. They don’t even realize they’re receiving something from God. He loves all of the people that have been born into this world. He’s concerned about all of us. He wants all of us to come to the knowledge of the Lord—but not all people will. Still, He’s going to give them an opportunity.
Ron: They’ve got a free will.
Ken: Yeah, they do.
Ron: He’ll never take that away.
