Nothing in your Bible needs to change. Your hearing does.
Get the Book — $19.95It is early, and the house is quiet. A man opens his Bible. He isn’t a skeptic or a backslider. He has given his life to Christ and means it, and he has come to the Word hungry to be closer to God than he was yesterday.
He is reading Colossians, and he comes to a verse that seems too big for the page:
He stops. He reads it again. Something in him rises toward it, the way a plant leans toward a window. For a moment he lets himself believe the sentence might be about him.
Then he keeps reading, because that’s what a faithful man does. A few verses later he comes to this:
Mortify. Put to death. And here is the list of what he’s supposed to put to death, and he can put a face on every word in it, because he has met them all in himself, some of them this week.
So he bows his head, asks God to help him do better, and closes the Bible.
And he stands up from the table heavier than he sat down.
If you asked him why, he’d say the problem was him. He just needs more discipline. He has a long way to go.
Maybe you know that man. Maybe you shaved his face this morning.
Crossing Over: The Awakening of the Soul to a Perfection It Already Has is about him, and about why the same Bible that promises him everything keeps sending him away with less.
Every minister knows what a word out of season is: a true word given at the wrong time. It lands like a stone because the person couldn’t receive it yet.
But there is something worse, and it’s hard to see because it doesn’t look like a mistake. It looks like faithfulness. It’s a word out of covenant.
Here is what that means. A covenant is a binding agreement between two parties. God made one with Israel at Mount Sinai: the law, written on stone, with blessing for keeping it and a curse for breaking it. That’s the old covenant. Then He made a new one, sealed in the blood of His Son, where Christ kept the terms for us and every promise is given as a gift to those who believe. That’s the new covenant.
The same letter can be handed to a man as a bill or as a receipt.
A word out of covenant is the new covenant’s gift, handed over as if it were the old covenant’s bill. It’s “be ye holy” preached to people God has already made holy. It’s “mortify your members” delivered to people who have already died with Christ. It’s the finished work of Christ handed back to the very people it was finished for, as an assignment.
It’s what happened to Israel in Egypt, when Pharaoh took away the straw and demanded the same number of bricks. The quota never moves. The supply is gone. And a man is left trying to produce out of himself what he was never given.
A man can sit under that kind of word for forty years, sincere and faithful, and it will leave him more aware of his failure every year. He’ll call it conviction. He’ll call it humility. And he’ll die in the wilderness with the promise in front of him, because no one ever told him the veil was torn.
Lloyd Krein didn’t learn this from a book. He learned it the hard way.
He sat under this kind of preaching for years, from good men who loved grace and never knew they were preaching law. Then he preached it himself. He handed the finished work to broken men as a to-do list and wondered why they didn’t get better.
Then came a season when everything he had built came down. In the wreckage, he asked God why. The answer came from one line in the Psalms:
He had never said it with his mouth. But he had been saying it with his life, living as though the finished work weren’t really finished, as though the verdict on his life were still undecided and it was up to him to earn a good one.
This book is what he found on the other side.
There are two reports about you.
The first is filed in heaven. It says the work is finished, and you are complete in Christ.
The second is filed in your own soul by an accuser who never rests. It says: not yet, not you, not until you do more.
Most believers have spent years believing the second report while reading the first one in their Bibles every morning.
So this book holds a trial. Scripture after Scripture takes the stand, witness after witness, until the accuser’s report has no room left to stand. There are 83 witnesses in the study behind this book, and every one of them is listed in the back so you can check them yourself.
As Lloyd writes: “If you find yourself, partway through, saying ‘I know all this,’ I would ask you to notice that knowing it has not yet made you light, and keep reading.”
Where the book stands, and why a word out of covenant does more damage than any other kind.
The witnesses take the stand, and the accuser cross-examines every one of them.
The shortest part, and the most practical thing in the book: how to read your Bible from now on.
A verdict isn’t the same as a crossing. A man can be declared free and still live in the brickyard. That’s why the Bible is full of rivers.
What a soul does once it has crossed.
Epilogue: The Seventh Day. The day in Genesis that has no evening, and the horizon all of this is heading toward.
Also included: The Exhibit List (all 83 witnesses), notes and sources for the book’s claims, and a full Scripture index.
This book was written for three people:
Lloyd was all three.
Jesus told of a merchant who found one pearl of great price, then sold everything he had to buy it (Matthew 13:45–46). He wasn’t losing anything. He was trading up.
For most of his life, Lloyd looked at the promises of God like a man looking through a store window. He could see them, but they always seemed to belong to someone further along.
The promises aren’t behind glass. “All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen” (2 Corinthians 1:20, KJV). What had to change wasn’t the promises. It was how he heard them.
This book is that pearl.
424 pages • Instant digital delivery
Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible, with the King James Version where noted.
Get the Book — $19.95
All three books that the A Living Soul teaching is built on.
— 1 John 3:2 (KJV)
There is a far side to every river in this book. The promises of God are there. They were always there, and they are yours.
You don’t cross by becoming worthy of the far shore. You cross by believing the report, and reading the Book the way it was written to be read: from the finished side.
Get the Book — $19.95
Not ready to invest yet? Get a free copy of The Soul You Never Knew You Had — a powerful introduction to the revelation. Enter your email and we will send you a confirmation message. Open it and click the confirm button, and your free library opens.
We have sent you a confirmation message. Open it and click the confirm button to unlock your free books and study guides.