Welcome Back And Series Context

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All right, welcome back. I hope you are ready because I've been thinking about this episode for some time now, and we are still continuing where in the same pattern that we were. Lived, I mean, love to live. And in the last episode, we broke down details three, four, and five. And then we went in a little bit more into the water, into the wine, the nature of true transformation. So if you haven't had a chance to listen to those, I want you to go back because it really is setting up everything that we're going to be talking about here in this episode. And what are we going to be talking about in this episode? We're going to be talking about the sacred conversions. That's what I'm calling this. And I have to tell you, I don't know how else to say it. I'm calling it a sacred conversion because for many years I would have not been able to receive this, the information that I'm going to share with you, because I was living on the understanding that you had to make a choice. You can't do both. And God's post-COVID on this journey has revealed to me that all truth is from God. Every truth is from God. Notice I didn't say from a Christian. I said from God because it's important, because God can inspire any human to bring forth a truth. It's up to the receiver on how they are going to use the truth. So when I talk about sacred convergence, and you're going to hear me say, or you've heard me say sacred many times, I call PQ a sacred tool. Why? Because it's sacred, because I am using it to glorify God. I am using it to glorify the source. I'm acknowledging that God was at the source, not man. So as we go into this, and I'm going to warn you right now, I may get really excited here. So if I do, I apologize up front because this information just blows me away when I think about it. And as we go back, and if you want to go on this journey and you go back and you start looking at ancient texts from the desert fathers and mothers, they didn't have language to explain what the convergence is revealing to us today. We are living in a time that is blowing my mind, where God is allowing information to just flow. And that's what I'm saying is all part of the tsunami of agape. God's love is allowing information to come from multiple different sources. And it's allowing us as the receiver, the ground to receive this information, we are going to determine or we determine what we do with that information. It has nothing to do with denominations anymore. Forget about denominations. Forget about Anglican, Baptist, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Methodist, whatever it is. How about we just say Christ and God our Father and the Holy Spirit is providing us with information? And even outside of the church, there are scientists that have been gifted by God. They may not acknowledge it, but they've been gifted by God to bring forth information that is helping those that do believe and those that have eyes to see and ears to hear, see God, and

What Sacred Convergence Means

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comprehend God in every aspect of life. So are you ready? So let's jump in this. So I'm calling this episode, I'm going to call it the sacred convergence. It's verifiable from every direction. That's the key. It's verifiable from every direction. Confirmation is coming from every direction. So I want to say something that I believe will give many of you a quiet, internal, but significant confidence in this journey or your journey that you're on if you've been with us. I'm calling it this journey, but it's your spiritual journey. What the Holy Spirit has been doing in you through this process that we've just been talking about. The emptying, the filling, the transformation is not only spiritually real, it's verifiable from every direction that serious human inquiry has pursued. Let me say that again. It's verifiable from every direction that serious, I'm talking not like happenstance, serious human inquiry has pursued. Scholarship level information has been put out, and it's in multiple different places, but it's all starting to come together. If you have ears to hear and listen to the Holy Spirit say, go here, read this, go there, get that, read this. So let me break down just a little bit before we move in here. Neuroscience is now confirming that sustained practices of stillness and relational attunment literally reshapes the brain's architect. So let me say that. Substained practices of stillness and relational attunment literally reshape the brain's architect, or what we call it it creates new neuropathways. That's the way I understand it. It literally allows the negative one to die off, and a new pathway to be created to go to the place that's needed. So the person who regularly turns to the canonic posture, the the practice of emptying and letting go that we just talked about, that we've been talking about in all of these episodes, that Kana describes is being neurologically transformed. I want you to get that now. Not just spiritually, neurologically, you are being transformed. Your brain is being rewired at a level of neuro rewiring. Water into wine is not only a miracle, it is biologically accurate. I just want you to sit with that for a moment. We're talking about in the first century, God provided us with an understanding of how things work. Jesus provided us with a way of letting go and returning back and being intentional about being in presence, being intentional about being with the Father, being intentional about loving others, being intentional about doing things and showing us how to do it. Now, science, newer science is telling us by continuous practicing this, we are rewiring our brains. And we show up differently. I don't know about you guys, but that that's that's to me that this is mind-blowing. I just want you to really grab a hold of that. He is what is called a neuro, a neurophi, field theologist, is what it is. So he he created a discipline that brought theology into neuroscience. And he doesn't, he's not trying to pick a lane. That's what's beautiful about this. So he is he's of the Jewish faith himself, but he's not saying specifically Jewish or Christian or uh Buddhist or anything, he's basically doing the research and he's showing how the spiritual practices are doing something in the brain. And I want you to hold on to that. Or let me say it in the brain, and I'm gonna just throw out a word really quickly, soul. Now, watch this. From a psychological psychology now confirms that when a person internalizes a secure, unconditional relational bond, when agapetose belovedness is received deeply enough, the psychological structure of the protective self is genuinely loosened. The person's attachment architect actually changes. And what do I mean by that? The the our attachment, the thing that is programmed in us to hold on to things begins to lose its grip. I want you to catch that. Now, Jesus said, Peter asked Jesus, how many times should I forgive my brother? Remember, Jesus replied 77 times. And he said, 77, and then he said, in a day. So over 490 times in a day, if you choose to come back to the presence and and forgive, it's literally changing your brain, and it's changing how you show up psychologically. And here's the key: this is measurable. The love that was thought to have needed to be earned. I want you to get this now. Get it, get it. The love that was thought to have been needed to be earned begins to be received freely. And then, check this now, and then it's given out freely. Are you getting this, right? Get it, get it, get it. It's this is awesome, man. Right? And the moment you start to realize this in yourself, things are gonna change. But I'm gonna warn you on this one. You're

Stillness That Rewires The Brain

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not going to be the first person to notice it. I've told you this multiple times. Others will notice a difference in you if you stay with the practice. You are going to show up different, differently, and not even know that you are showing up in a different way. That's what transformation is, because it's not something that you are doing. It is the very presence of God working in the Imago day that was is within us. The divine presence of God that's in us is actually transforming us in the inner place, in the secret place. And it is causing us to live differently outside or in our body. Now, watch this. Here's another point. Emotional research confirms that the person who regularly returns to God in stillness develops a greater capacity to remain present in suffering, to love the difficult person without losing themselves. Exactly what we have described as agapitone. The formed vessel through whom love, through whom agape moves without obstruction or distortion. Are you starting to see this? Are you getting excited as I am? Right? Are you are you hearing what I'm saying here? God led you to this podcast because He desires to do a work internally in you like never been done before. He simply gave you an invitation to hear. And for many of you, you have kept coming back. How do I know? Because I can see it on the calendar, I can see it where you are. And here's the thing: this podcast is not just in the United States. This is a global podcast. People from around the globe are listening. Why? Because God is the God of the cosmos. And the same way you can hear from me, you can hear from someone else, and you're receiving information that's causing transformation. But it's not by might nor by power, it is by my spirit, says the Lord. Let me keep going here. So this sacred convergence is not theology borrowing credibility from science. It's not that, it's science arriving from its own methods and its own language at a territory that biblical revelation has always mapped out. The sacred convergence runs in both directions. And here's the thing: you don't have to choose or succumb to the pressure to choose. I want you to hold on to that. It is no longer dichotomy, a dualistic choose one or the other. No, it is an and because you can sanctify the information and use it to God's glory because God allowed the information to come forth. Oh, I want you to grab that. And this means, here's the key. This means that when you practice the formation journey this series has been describing, you are not engaging in a subjective spiritual experience that may or may not be real. It's never been the case. You are participating in the most documented pattern of human transformation that exists. And it's been in the Bible the whole time. Three hundred and twenty mentions of what we've been talking about: agape, agapitos, agapitan, and agape. The four movements of divine love, three hundred and twenty times is mentioned in the New Testament. And it is speaking to how God moves in and through a willing vessel. Just hold on to that now, right? So this journey from agapitos, that's from our belovedness, to agapitan, to the forming and shaping of the vessel, to agape, the vessel that has been filled to the brim and now flows outward to God, to back to the source and to others, is not merely a spiritual aspiration. It is a documented pattern of transformation that neuroscience, psychology, emotional development, and spiritual theology all arrive at independently, each from their own direction, each from their own language, and find themselves describing the same reality. I just want you to sit with that. Now, if you remember, in August or so, April or May, let me think about it. Let me just find this because I want you to know. Because we did this series, we we did the series on the new and living way. About we talked about Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 10, verses 19 to 25. And it was in July of 2025, and we went back a little bit further. So you can go back to June or July, and you can get it. So the four extraordinary blessings of the new life. We talked about a lot of this stuff. So right there, God was revealing to us, He was giving us something. Because here's the key the new and living way, Cana fulfills in Hebrews 10. So let me break this down. You ready? Let's go for this. I'm gonna give you some structure here. So I'm not gonna do too much tonight because I want you to sit with this. But here's the key: every pattern this episode is traced. The emptying, the filling, the wrist to the vessel, the ache of the six, the you know, the sixth jug sitting around finds its answer in a single passage that gathers Cana's whole architect into language of the New Testament. The writer of Hebrew had already promised that a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God. A rest we cannot manufacture ourselves. So let me read it. It's Hebrews four, nine through eleven. And it says right here, it says, There remains then a Sabbath

Belovedness That Changes Attachment

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rest for the people of God. For anyone who enters God's rest also rests from their own works, just as God did from his. Verse 11, look, look at this now. Verse 11, he said, Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will perish by following their example. Of disobedience. And here's what I want you to grab a hold of. And I part of this ability to learn to let go is letting go provides the space to be filled. So as you are transformed, you offer compassion and grace to others. So I'm saying to you, even if you were in an environment that taught about this rest, but it was from a works-based rest, a striving, a performance-based rest, you now have the choice to let it go. And to let them go. Let that go because you are stopping yourself from being filled. I know. I just heard it. Because the more you hold on to, the attachments you hold on to is occupying space that God wants to be in. Remember, the jugs were empty, completely empty. So now let me go here and I'll read a little bit more because Hebrews 10, 19 through 25, that I just talked about, shows us how to walk into this. And I want you to get this. I want to read it first, and then I'm going to go back and I will break this down from the points, all right? From the four movements of divine, the four the four movements of divine love. Hebrews 10, 19 to 25. If you did not listen to that series, you have to go back and listen to it. Because here's what it says. And it says, Therefore, brothers and sisters. Now look, I want you to catch the writer now. He's already breaking it down. There is neither male nor female. So he's acknowledging all parties. Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is his body, Jesus' body. And since we have a great high priest over the house of God, verse 22, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience, and having our bodies washed with pure water, let us hold unswervingly to the hope we possess, profess. I'm sorry, we profess. For he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur, encourage one another on towards love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another and all the more as we see the day approaching. Now, let's break this down from the four movements. You ready? Agape tos, the new and living way. Since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened to us through the curtain that is his body. Notice, here's the key. Notice what this confidence is not. It is not earned readiness. It's not a status arrived at by discipline. It is bestowed. It is given. It is a gift given to us. It is given, bestowed, imparted. And it is access is granted by another's blood, not our own qualifications. Let me read that again. You got it? It is bestowed. Access is granted by another's blood. Jesus' blood, not our own qualifications. Exactly. Identity awakened in a moment rather than achieved over a lifetime. And look at what it does. Look at what does the opening the body. I want you to catch this now. And look at what does the opening. The body. The body. You catch this now? The body. The veil that once barred entry into God's presence is now Christ's own flesh. Torn. The same curtain that split a top from top to bottom at the cross, Matthew 27, 51. Cana's jars were filled and rissed. The cross is the broken, is the jars broken outright.

No More Either Or Faith

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And that breaking becomes the doorway itself. The jars being broken, right, becomes the doorway or the invitation. So I want you to catch it now. Through Christ's flesh, what he did for us, his body and the blood provides the doorway for us to enter in or to accept the invitation. This is why I am adamant about saying this, that belovedness, our agape tos, must come before belief. And if you have been telling people that they must believe before they recognize that they are the beloved, stop. Because the world needs to know. People in the church and outside of the church needs to know that they have a heavenly father who loves them for who they are, not for what they do or what has been done to them. Agapeos comes before belief. I just want to put that in there. Now, agapeon, which is what? The shaping. Notice what it says here. Washed with pure water. Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith. Did you catch that? Draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith. Having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us of a guilty conscience, and having our bodies washed with pure water. That's Hebrews 10, 21 through 22. But now I want you to catch this now. Here's the key. This is not a general purity metaphor. Please don't think it's a purity metaphor. This is the ceremonial washing jars named directly. The same water, the same purpose, the same threshold logic, the six stone jugs carried at Cana. Only now the washing has moved inwardly. Oh, you'll get it. I know you're gonna get it. I know you're gonna get it. What the jars could only gesture towards access made possible by water has actually happened in the heart permanently through Christ. Ooh, you will get it, you will get it. Come on now. I know, I know. Stay with me because here's the key. This is the formed vessel filled to the brim, no longer waiting at the threshold, but already inside. You heard me talk about this. I do about this all the time. This is part of Paul's prayer in Ephesians chapter three. This is verse 19. And to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Are you getting this? Now let's go with agape, sparing one another towards love or towards agape. So the scripture says it this way: it says, Let us hold unswaveringly to the hope we profess, and let us consider how we may spur or encourage one another on towards love and good deeds, not deeds to earn, but deeds that flow out of compassion or a heart or a vessel that has been changed. Not giving up meeting together. Notice, I want you to understand this because many people are trying to put condemnation on believers and those that are seeking that you must come into a church building. That's not what this scripture says. This scripture says meeting together. That could be virtually meeting, that could be in a house meeting. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to go to a physical building, but it does mean that you do need to congregate. You do need to be around others of the same mindset, the those that understand that are on the journey with you. Why? Because they are going to encourage you to stay in the journey. And here's the key: if you're not ready to go inside of a church,

Hebrews And The Sabbath Rest

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that's okay. Because God is meeting you right where you are. He's using this podcast, he's using other things to encourage you to get the strength you need, and he will direct you to where you need to go and how you need to approach it. Did he not direct Elijah to the brook? Did he not, when the brook dried up, did he not tell him to go to the next place? Did he not guide and direct Abraham? Did he not direct and guide Joseph and Mary when they were coming to try to kill all the babies two years and younger? Did he not say, go to Egypt and stay there? He who has ears to hear, let them hear. Don't allow anyone to put condemnation on you. But here's what I'm saying to you. From a kenosis perspective, you got to let it go now. Because you have information that now is trying to form you. And part of that is letting it go, willingly letting it go to express your love for God and fellow man. It's not about them. This is always about you. So here's what I want to say: this is the key here. Because this is a ga pow. Spurring one another along towards love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, but encouraging one another. This is a ga pow. But notice it is communal, it's not private. That just has to be understood. We can do a lot of things as an individual, but God is the God of the we and the our, not the I and the my. He works with us in our my and our I. He works with us on an individual level to prepare us that we may become communal or connected to the body, to his body. I want you to get that. We are all connected from a global perspective, not a single form vessel quietly carrying wine to one banquet table. It's not that. But a whole gathered people sparing one another into the overflow. This is where the imperative key for this teaching art comes back around. It has to come back around. It has to come back around. The invitation to cooperate intimacy with Abba, with our Father, producing the faith and trust for the Holy Spirit to lead the congregation or to lead the people. Hebrews 10 is not describing. Right, I want you to get this. Drawing from each other's fullness, refusing to stop gathering, refusing to let each other run dry, refusing to allow the world to separate us, refusing to allow duality to make us choose. We don't have to choose. We can embrace. Cana is where the pattern is first shown. Six jars, one household, one wedding. Hebrews ten is where it is fulfilled at the scale of the whole body. The jars pointed forward. The torn veil

Hebrews 10 And The Four Movements

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is the thing they were pointing to. Now, here's what I want to get because the canonical statement here, the arc of the Christian life, everything we have covered across this series up until now, across the beloved series that preceded, can now be expressed in a single precise Holy Spirit given statement. You ready? Agapitos is awakened in a moment, and agapitan is formed over a lifetime of intimacy with God through kenosis. The voluntary emptying of self that makes space for agape to fill and transform. And agapau is released by the Holy Spirit, drawn from what has been filled and carried to where it is needed. Let me read that again. Agapitos is awakened in a moment, and agapitan is formed over a lifetime of intimacy with God. God, let me make sure you get this. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit through conosis, the voluntary emptying, the voluntary emptying. You are choosing to empty of self that makes space for agape to fill and transform. And agape is released by the Holy Spirit, drawn from what has been filled and carried to where it's needed. And here's the key here. In this process, as water becomes wine, believers are turned into Christians, bearers of the name of Christ. Not people who follow Christ, but people who carry his nature. You gotta get that. Bearers of the name. Let's read this slowly now because I want you to get this. Let it land. Let every level where you have been living. Let me read it again. I want you to catch this now because I want it to land at every level where you have been living. In this process, as water becomes wine, believers are turned into Christians. Not people who follow Christ or need a savior, but people who carry his nature or bearers of his name. Here's now, let me break this down for you because this is Genesis. We were made by love to be loved and to love others. That's the first revelation that came to me in 2021. This is the incarnation. God emptied him himself to become the vessel through whom Agape entered the world in flesh. This is the cross, the ultimate act of Agapal from the most fully formed agapitan who has ever lived. This is Pentecost, the Holy Spirit released into the community of the beloved to lead the drawing and the carrying. This is revelation. The beloved community living from its true identity, filling the earth with the wine of God's love. This is the arc of the Christian life. And you are someone in it right now. You are being filled, being formed, and being carried towards the brim.

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I want you to sit with that.

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I just want you to sit with that. I'm not going to rush this. I want you to sit in this. I want you to understand that you are being formed in this. This is the arc of the Christian

Filled Formed Carried Toward The Brim

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life. Right now, you are being filled, be informed, and being carried towards the brim. Don't stop. Stay the course. Keep returning. Keep practicing the presence. Keep allowing God to remove. Keep knowing. Keep operating in faith, knowing you may not feel God, but know that God is there with you. Keep operating from a place of faith and not a guilty conscience because it's been washed. Take time to go back and read Hebrews 10, 19 to 25.

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I want you to get it in you. Because in the next episode, what we're going to talk about is how to live the framework.

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Practically and daily.

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How do we do this thing every single moment of the day? It's called the sacred rhythm. Now, let's take a moment to breathe. A lot is going forward.

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Breathe in. Let it out.

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Breathe in. And know every time you breathe in, you're breathing in the very presence and love of God. And every time you exhale, you're exhaling the very love of God. And as you breathe in, I want you to remember these words. Breathe in.

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I am being filled, formed, and carried towards the brim. Exhale. I am being filled, formed, and being carried towards the brim.

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Rest in that. Stay the course.

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And until next time, keep living daily for Christ.