My goal dear readers in this blog is to put forth the positional relationship we have with our Saviour and His death upon the Cross. But let me say first that all that we are discussing in these pages apply spiritually. Perhaps I have touched on the need for a deeper understanding of this most important and vital, to all our understanding, of identification/position with our Lord in heaven. Let us take again a brief side trip to this important place so that we might have a better view of Him as our Representative before God in the Spirit.
I remember in the beginning of my positional studies struggling with the word spirit. It is batted around much in all religions it seems, and the meaning of just what a spirit is I believe, is much misunderstood . Let us first seek a understanding of the Spirit of God. The Bible tell us He is a Spirit and "all who worship Him must worship in spirit". So there you go, God is the definition of Spirit. But what does that mean? And how do we see that in our minds eye? It helped me to see the definition of God as, "A unembodied Devine Mind." Now since we are made in His image, we to have a spirit except ours is embodied. So our spirit ,whether alive our dead depending on our faith in Christ, is found in the mind. Life being defined as knowing the true and living God and and having been accepted by the father through faith in Christ. So in this definition of spirit,we realize it [or do not] in our conscious mind.Now lets endeavour to see ourselves in what the Bible teaches,finding ourselves in a spiritual attitude of death by, applying this concept to, Jesus Christ's death on the Cross.
"We are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord". 2 Cor. 3:18. The believer is never told to overcome sin, but to reckon[count as true] on the ground of his positional Representative death with Christ. On the basis of this death, he is told to not' let' sin reign in his life. This does not mean to not sin[although that is good] it means to have a understanding of Christs death expressly UNTO sin and the flesh! In other words a spiritual attitude of our death, to sin, in our mind. "We are free from the Law of sin and death.". The believer is not to spend his whole life trying to get victory over sin, but understanding his position to it. If you can get this in your head you will be well on your way to finding life in death.
'But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ ,by whom the world is crucified UNTO me,and I UNTO the world" Gal 6:. Unless a believer receives the doctrine of the cross intelligently in his spirit{mind} and applies it to his position as represented by Christ on the cross he is still under the law and does not understand he is standing on new grounds represented by the new man in heaven, Christ. In Gal 5 Paul shows the application of the positional doctrine of the cross to the flesh and shows that they that are Christs are crucified to the flesh with its affections and lists, Here we will see our flesh is a thing I am entitled to regard as DONE WITH BEFORE GOD! No longer must we pick up our cross all; that we could be as to sin is finished. We are free by the representative blood and suffering of Jesus.
As we go into Gal 6 we will find as to the world, you are free from the Law, it is no longer our efforts of works. You by His death on the cross are free from any anxiety as to your flesh its lust and sins for we all have been judged in the Cross. Therefore by His Sons death representing us, the Father in His recking has pronounced the sentence of Adam which fell upon all flesh [humans] as carried out. Now you are entitled by faith not feelings, to know that "they that are Christs have crucified the flesh, with its affections and lusts". It does not say being done , no conditions here, it is done when we received the crucified Saviour. We have a ways to go on the foundational facts of the road to the Cross and God willing our journey to the depth of the all encompassing truth of His and our Cross will continue. Stay with me dear reader.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
TOTAL SECURITY IN OUR DESTINY
My dear blog readers, I must say taking on this blog has run me up and down the gamete of feelings,from excitement to be used by the Lord, to resentment at so little response. I really don't know what I was expecting, but for the most part I know God will use my weakness for His strength and I push onward.If any man has had many spiritual lows and highs it is me.From the place of worldly sin, for many years in my Christin experience I found myself lowered; Only to reach a place where the God of my salvation lifted me up to new heights of glory. Its as if these places of deep despair where His handy work in the result I so enjoy today, found and held firmly in the Spirit of the living God, The new man , my new nature. The Son of God , Glory be to His name forever!
Under the above conditions, I surely would have been lost and found several times. I quote J. B. Stoney here," Everything in our spiritual journey depends on the truth you have received. No on can know the liberty wherewith Christ has made him free, who does not know first that the blessed God has removed in the Cross, to the most extent of His heart, and to His endless Glory, us who were under judgment, so that He can receive the believer in the acceptance of the Beloved [in Christ]".
"For I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to Keep that which I have committed [my faith in Him] against that day[judgement]' 2 Tim 1:12 To the extent that your assurance of salvation wavers your Christian experience will be crippled. Let me interject what I believe would be at the root of any thought of loss by a believer of his salvation; A lack of spiritual understanding in identification/position. For as I have found in my new understanding, and deep contemplation, of the word we are bound up in Jesus Christ before the father and He ,Christ, represents us in His Death and Resurrection in the economy and reckoning of God in Heaven. In short we in our spirits are found only in Him, by the Father. We all know, I hope, that there is nothing in our selves that deserve salvation and the Bible teaches clearly it is by the free gift of Grace we are saved. So how could we who live to this day in our Adam nature lose something that by our own efforts could never have received?
We have by faith been born into a spiritual family in Heaven and thereby occupy a position as a son /daughter, of God. Yes our condition might change, sin, sorrow weak faith, but our father cannot! We all know, as mentioned in my last blog the loss of glow of our founding experience some even to a place of disregard for their new faith, then only to be driven back by the indwelling Holy Spirit to a place of renewal. My friends we would be the saddest of all of Gods creatures if we ever thought in any way God would desert or cast aside a true believer. It is not how you feel, or what you do, It is who you are." A Child of the living God'.
I will leave you with the words of Paul " What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation ,or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? For I am persuaded that neither death , nor life nor angles, nor principalities,nor powers, or things present , nor things past, nor things to come nor height ,nor depth, nor any other creation,shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is found in Christ Jesus, The Lord!!!! Any man that could read this and who believes in Gods Word could never think that a Christian could ever suffer loss of salvation. And if one thinks this my heart goes out to you in your profound misunderstanding of His word.
Thanks for staying with me, this one runs deep with emotion. There is much for us to learn to see our life in Christ. Next we will look at what was done on the Cross ,which is the door that leads to understanding of identification/position in Him. We will meet you on the road soon.
Under the above conditions, I surely would have been lost and found several times. I quote J. B. Stoney here," Everything in our spiritual journey depends on the truth you have received. No on can know the liberty wherewith Christ has made him free, who does not know first that the blessed God has removed in the Cross, to the most extent of His heart, and to His endless Glory, us who were under judgment, so that He can receive the believer in the acceptance of the Beloved [in Christ]".
"For I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to Keep that which I have committed [my faith in Him] against that day[judgement]' 2 Tim 1:12 To the extent that your assurance of salvation wavers your Christian experience will be crippled. Let me interject what I believe would be at the root of any thought of loss by a believer of his salvation; A lack of spiritual understanding in identification/position. For as I have found in my new understanding, and deep contemplation, of the word we are bound up in Jesus Christ before the father and He ,Christ, represents us in His Death and Resurrection in the economy and reckoning of God in Heaven. In short we in our spirits are found only in Him, by the Father. We all know, I hope, that there is nothing in our selves that deserve salvation and the Bible teaches clearly it is by the free gift of Grace we are saved. So how could we who live to this day in our Adam nature lose something that by our own efforts could never have received?
We have by faith been born into a spiritual family in Heaven and thereby occupy a position as a son /daughter, of God. Yes our condition might change, sin, sorrow weak faith, but our father cannot! We all know, as mentioned in my last blog the loss of glow of our founding experience some even to a place of disregard for their new faith, then only to be driven back by the indwelling Holy Spirit to a place of renewal. My friends we would be the saddest of all of Gods creatures if we ever thought in any way God would desert or cast aside a true believer. It is not how you feel, or what you do, It is who you are." A Child of the living God'.
I will leave you with the words of Paul " What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation ,or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? For I am persuaded that neither death , nor life nor angles, nor principalities,nor powers, or things present , nor things past, nor things to come nor height ,nor depth, nor any other creation,shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is found in Christ Jesus, The Lord!!!! Any man that could read this and who believes in Gods Word could never think that a Christian could ever suffer loss of salvation. And if one thinks this my heart goes out to you in your profound misunderstanding of His word.
Thanks for staying with me, this one runs deep with emotion. There is much for us to learn to see our life in Christ. Next we will look at what was done on the Cross ,which is the door that leads to understanding of identification/position in Him. We will meet you on the road soon.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
THE WAY UP IS DOWN
Well my friends we have traveled a little way down the road of understanding our old and new nature, and the meaning of our born again experience. Its now time to pull into a place of contemplation of just where this road is leading.
For many years after my initial founding faith I struggled along the way, and I know this has been the path many of you have taken or are now upon. We all seek acceptance in our faith commitment, and sometimes in the midst of life's difficulty's the road is not clearly seen. Put there is here a principal at work ,as God will use all our life experience to bring us into the knowledge of His Ways.
When we were children we wanted to be all grown up and sometimes we acted how we thought we could or should as adults ,only to discover we have a long ways to go. It is the same for our spiritual development. The main reason for this is ,as we have learned, our Father has allowed our old sinful Adam nature to remain within co-existent with our new righteous nature, found in our position/identification by faith in Christ. We, simply put, live a duality of being,but thank God our Adam flesh is occupied in our mind by the Spirit of Christ which conforms our new nature in our mind, to become like Him. We have a constant choice, to abide in our old nature and be Adam like or to abide in our new nature and become like Christ.
We now in these studies are learning that, in our old Adam self, there is nothing pleasing God and we now can recognize it,as totally self centered, a enemy of God. This, by knowledge ,of the two natures within us opens the door of choice to serve Him in growing maturity or remain in Adam a permanent self centered child. We may sometimes wonder ,due to our sin if we will ever grow and if we are even Christians. But you can be sure my friends that the sacrifice on the Cross was eternal, and you have received acceptance by His Grace.
"Having predestined us into adoption of sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will to the praise and glory of His Grace, through which, He has made us ACCEPTED in the Beloved[Christ]". Eph 1:5-6 There are know words that could express better the complete truth of this acceptance. And the good news is it is not dependent on your performance in your earthly Adam nature! But upon who we are to Him in His Son, our new nature.
This all leads us to consider our Position in Christ verses our condition in our Adamic self. We just cannot judge Gods attitude toward us or who we are to Him by day-to-day condition. If so when thing go well or when we are fully involved in good works we might think ,well God really loves me look what He is doing in and with me. On the other hand when we sin or fail or are going through a trial we might think we must have displease Him. But NO may it never be for with God Position and your Identification with Christ is everything!!! God is surly concerned with your present state ,good or bad. But your acceptance is grounded in His son not in you, this is a true truth, a Biblical fact, which we must learn to live our live in by accepting this gift in the knowledge of our mind by the Holy Spirit." For you Life is hidden with Christ in God". Col 3:3
God has positioned you and identified you with Christ As the Holy Spirit enveloped Christ life within you .you will be increasingly conformed to His image and nothing, your Adam self, Satan , or the world can stop that. " But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror are changed into the same image[as Christ] from glory to glory , even as by the Spirit of the Lord". Next we will look at the Biblical assurance of these things . Stay with me please.
For many years after my initial founding faith I struggled along the way, and I know this has been the path many of you have taken or are now upon. We all seek acceptance in our faith commitment, and sometimes in the midst of life's difficulty's the road is not clearly seen. Put there is here a principal at work ,as God will use all our life experience to bring us into the knowledge of His Ways.
When we were children we wanted to be all grown up and sometimes we acted how we thought we could or should as adults ,only to discover we have a long ways to go. It is the same for our spiritual development. The main reason for this is ,as we have learned, our Father has allowed our old sinful Adam nature to remain within co-existent with our new righteous nature, found in our position/identification by faith in Christ. We, simply put, live a duality of being,but thank God our Adam flesh is occupied in our mind by the Spirit of Christ which conforms our new nature in our mind, to become like Him. We have a constant choice, to abide in our old nature and be Adam like or to abide in our new nature and become like Christ.
We now in these studies are learning that, in our old Adam self, there is nothing pleasing God and we now can recognize it,as totally self centered, a enemy of God. This, by knowledge ,of the two natures within us opens the door of choice to serve Him in growing maturity or remain in Adam a permanent self centered child. We may sometimes wonder ,due to our sin if we will ever grow and if we are even Christians. But you can be sure my friends that the sacrifice on the Cross was eternal, and you have received acceptance by His Grace.
"Having predestined us into adoption of sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will to the praise and glory of His Grace, through which, He has made us ACCEPTED in the Beloved[Christ]". Eph 1:5-6 There are know words that could express better the complete truth of this acceptance. And the good news is it is not dependent on your performance in your earthly Adam nature! But upon who we are to Him in His Son, our new nature.
This all leads us to consider our Position in Christ verses our condition in our Adamic self. We just cannot judge Gods attitude toward us or who we are to Him by day-to-day condition. If so when thing go well or when we are fully involved in good works we might think ,well God really loves me look what He is doing in and with me. On the other hand when we sin or fail or are going through a trial we might think we must have displease Him. But NO may it never be for with God Position and your Identification with Christ is everything!!! God is surly concerned with your present state ,good or bad. But your acceptance is grounded in His son not in you, this is a true truth, a Biblical fact, which we must learn to live our live in by accepting this gift in the knowledge of our mind by the Holy Spirit." For you Life is hidden with Christ in God". Col 3:3
God has positioned you and identified you with Christ As the Holy Spirit enveloped Christ life within you .you will be increasingly conformed to His image and nothing, your Adam self, Satan , or the world can stop that. " But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror are changed into the same image[as Christ] from glory to glory , even as by the Spirit of the Lord". Next we will look at the Biblical assurance of these things . Stay with me please.
Monday, April 15, 2013
DO YOU SEE WHO YOU ARE ?
I would like now to offer just a few words, as way of review; We I hope by now have a pretty good idea of the condition we live in. By that I mean , the fellow we ride around in and arrive at church in, is the same person who was turned out of the Garden of Eden [the Biblical image of a perfect life with God] and sent into a world of work and pain, and sin, where we now live. As long as we are here we will be in that Adam body by our very nature. But as we have learned, we Christians, have gained access to a brand new nature by faith, by all that was done on the cross[more on this later] and now again via faith only, the Holy Spirit is teaching us in our New Birth that we have a new nature found in our mind , by faith in the new Adam, who is our New Nature , by faith identifying us as a new race, before God in Heaven in the person of the Savior of our souls, our identification, positioned as our representative there! We truly only exist as Christians, in Gods mind as His Son, but by the intention of God in His Son we have been occupied in our mortal Adam body's by His Mind and Knowledge of these things, by His Spirit, again found in our mind, and by that power we are being changed into the image of His Son, the only form we can be accepted in, in Heaven. These and many other true truths, are given to us by His Grace.
By the way let me again say , most of this teaching comes from Miles Stanford booklet on The New Birth Explained, with my stumbling rhetoric added. On to Grace! " The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord". " For by GRACE are you saved through FAITH; and not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. Rom 6:23 , Eph 2:8. Grace means unmerited favor, as in "while we were yet sinners He saved us". His reason for that Gift of salvation in to conform us to the image of His Son. His original purpose" Let us make man in our image". We the Christian as Ive said many times, are found in that image in heaven IN the person of the resurrected new Adam , Christ.
We are now as Christians given the privilege to live our life on the same principal as we received the new birth, that of Grace." As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord , so walk[live your life] in Him Col 2:6.' For it is the work of God in you to do His will" Phil 2:13. God the Fathers will for you is that you become like His Son. And we now know that can only be accomplished by finding our identification/position, in Him. Not by our performance or works."lest any man should boast", but by the Grace found in the person of Jesus Himself.
We all might remember the "pink cloud" of our new birth experience, and in time we all cooled in our new love for Jesus, and we found ourselves in our old nature in sin. We asked ourselves if this is real why did it not endure where is the victory? We struggled to find it in, bible studies, church work, fellowship and perhaps feelings. We are in good company, Paul said " When I would do good, evil is present in me....Oh retched man that I am ! Who shall save me from this body of death" Rom7:21,24. Well my friends this is how Paul and you , by this struggle, learn Grace. You now see[ I hope] we cannot live the Christian life in our own strength. Not even with Gods help. Remember this the Words of Jesus Himself "I am the vine, you are the branches, he that abides [lives] IN me, and I in him, will bring forth fruit; FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING." This really said it all, does it not? If these word and all that we have been discussing until now do not make you turn to seek with all you heart the desire to know Christ as your identification, well then my good friends, I truly hope not, but perhaps confronting your absolute failure in sorrow, to find this truth on you own will have to be your lot. Unless, the Bible is not the word of God, you will certainly find when you stand before Him this truth. Yes you will be there in heaven, as a Christian no matter how you deal with this truth! But why not experience it now? By entering into the crystal clear, Biblical knowledge, of your identification in Him.
It is by this vine 'the new nature' in Him, in dependence and fellowship with that vine that you are joined to Him as a branch, and that is the image of His life before the father flowing in you. "That the life of Jesus might be manifest in our mortal flesh" 2 Cor 4:11. You will not by your own find this , it is a gift of the Fathers, growth IN His Son.. Regeneration by Grace is the principal of the Christian life. It will be a slow and dependent walk, but God has chosen you to a walk by Grace. " for we are Gods workmenship created IN Christ Jesus unto good works[the will of god] which the Father Has ordained that we should walk in" Eph 2:10.
These word of Gods should encourage you to become active in the search for meaning in identification/position. To be a willing instrument in the will of God. As Paul said ' His Grace , which I received, was not in vain, but I labored harder than any; yet not I but the Grace of God was with me"1 Cor 15:10. We will look at our acceptance and assurance of these Bible truths in the nest blogs. Please stay with me it only gets better!
By the way let me again say , most of this teaching comes from Miles Stanford booklet on The New Birth Explained, with my stumbling rhetoric added. On to Grace! " The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord". " For by GRACE are you saved through FAITH; and not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. Rom 6:23 , Eph 2:8. Grace means unmerited favor, as in "while we were yet sinners He saved us". His reason for that Gift of salvation in to conform us to the image of His Son. His original purpose" Let us make man in our image". We the Christian as Ive said many times, are found in that image in heaven IN the person of the resurrected new Adam , Christ.
We are now as Christians given the privilege to live our life on the same principal as we received the new birth, that of Grace." As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord , so walk[live your life] in Him Col 2:6.' For it is the work of God in you to do His will" Phil 2:13. God the Fathers will for you is that you become like His Son. And we now know that can only be accomplished by finding our identification/position, in Him. Not by our performance or works."lest any man should boast", but by the Grace found in the person of Jesus Himself.
We all might remember the "pink cloud" of our new birth experience, and in time we all cooled in our new love for Jesus, and we found ourselves in our old nature in sin. We asked ourselves if this is real why did it not endure where is the victory? We struggled to find it in, bible studies, church work, fellowship and perhaps feelings. We are in good company, Paul said " When I would do good, evil is present in me....Oh retched man that I am ! Who shall save me from this body of death" Rom7:21,24. Well my friends this is how Paul and you , by this struggle, learn Grace. You now see[ I hope] we cannot live the Christian life in our own strength. Not even with Gods help. Remember this the Words of Jesus Himself "I am the vine, you are the branches, he that abides [lives] IN me, and I in him, will bring forth fruit; FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING." This really said it all, does it not? If these word and all that we have been discussing until now do not make you turn to seek with all you heart the desire to know Christ as your identification, well then my good friends, I truly hope not, but perhaps confronting your absolute failure in sorrow, to find this truth on you own will have to be your lot. Unless, the Bible is not the word of God, you will certainly find when you stand before Him this truth. Yes you will be there in heaven, as a Christian no matter how you deal with this truth! But why not experience it now? By entering into the crystal clear, Biblical knowledge, of your identification in Him.
It is by this vine 'the new nature' in Him, in dependence and fellowship with that vine that you are joined to Him as a branch, and that is the image of His life before the father flowing in you. "That the life of Jesus might be manifest in our mortal flesh" 2 Cor 4:11. You will not by your own find this , it is a gift of the Fathers, growth IN His Son.. Regeneration by Grace is the principal of the Christian life. It will be a slow and dependent walk, but God has chosen you to a walk by Grace. " for we are Gods workmenship created IN Christ Jesus unto good works[the will of god] which the Father Has ordained that we should walk in" Eph 2:10.
These word of Gods should encourage you to become active in the search for meaning in identification/position. To be a willing instrument in the will of God. As Paul said ' His Grace , which I received, was not in vain, but I labored harder than any; yet not I but the Grace of God was with me"1 Cor 15:10. We will look at our acceptance and assurance of these Bible truths in the nest blogs. Please stay with me it only gets better!
Saturday, April 13, 2013
WHO AM I NOW
A wise man once said" spiritual growth, which comes after spiritual birth, is the essential process where the Holy Spirit changes our character". When you reject the first Adam and accept the last Adam, you have become a Christian , not on the basis of what you fell or do not feel, but upon Him whom you have believed in and therefore received. "As many as received Him , to them He gave the power to become children of God, even to them who believe in His name".
A quick word, of perhaps unnecessary, clarity here. In the last blog we showed Jesus as our Mediator before the Father in Heaven. I want to make it clear that by mediator we do not mean He filters our sins out or blocks them in His Fathers site by His ,sort of official, presence , so that we will appear good in our Adam flesh. No He Jesus Christ in His person in Heaven at the Fathers right hand in in fact, by His perfect sinless life on earth and His representative death on the cross has died for, and unto all that we are, lost sinners, and in His Resurrection contains in Himself as Himself, the object of that Mediation, He is life!!
Since Adam brought death [spiritual] by your natural birth, so Jesus brings life by your spiritual birth. When you accepted Him you received what He did for you on the Cross , but you also received Him. It is by the Holy Spirit He enters and give a new life to your spirit and becomes your Christian life Col 3:4. When you have trusted Him in your new birth , God removes you from the fallen Adam family and spiritually recreates you in the new heavenly race that is found the Last Adam. " Therefore , if any man be IN Christ , he is a NEW creation 2 Cor 5:17. As you were one with Adam by nature, you now become one with The Lord Jesus Christ and enter a new nature. God has placed the very nature of His Son, the perfect man in you. By believing " we become partakers of the divine nature". You have union with Christ!. This is a scriptural fact , not a feeling.
You are not making a commitment or deciding to follow Jesus. God has given you eternal life by giving you His Son, who is life eternal, John 14:6 He has replaced, in Gods sight, the first Adam and IDENTIFIED you in God sight, as and IN Himself . In Christ we now found in a new position, in heaven before God, by your faith in that fact, even if you do not fully understand all that it means you life is held eternally in Christ,and that can NEVER change!.
What now you might say? Gods eternal purpose for you is to grow in understanding. To become like Him, remember we were made in His image Gen 1:26 and your new Identify, Jesus Christ, is' the express image of, His , Gods, person" Heb 1:3 Hence by means of the new birth you were re-created in the image of God. Quite a responsibility you may think, but remember it is not in our performance on this earth we justify that position but in faith of what He , Jesus Has done, and in the position He holds , as the New representative man in heaven and that we find only by the faith, given to us in the new birth. God now will be working out His eternal purpose for you slowly but surely, for the Bible tell us we will be" conformed to His image" Rom 8:28,29. Next time we will talk about Grace , which makes this all possible.
A quick word, of perhaps unnecessary, clarity here. In the last blog we showed Jesus as our Mediator before the Father in Heaven. I want to make it clear that by mediator we do not mean He filters our sins out or blocks them in His Fathers site by His ,sort of official, presence , so that we will appear good in our Adam flesh. No He Jesus Christ in His person in Heaven at the Fathers right hand in in fact, by His perfect sinless life on earth and His representative death on the cross has died for, and unto all that we are, lost sinners, and in His Resurrection contains in Himself as Himself, the object of that Mediation, He is life!!
Since Adam brought death [spiritual] by your natural birth, so Jesus brings life by your spiritual birth. When you accepted Him you received what He did for you on the Cross , but you also received Him. It is by the Holy Spirit He enters and give a new life to your spirit and becomes your Christian life Col 3:4. When you have trusted Him in your new birth , God removes you from the fallen Adam family and spiritually recreates you in the new heavenly race that is found the Last Adam. " Therefore , if any man be IN Christ , he is a NEW creation 2 Cor 5:17. As you were one with Adam by nature, you now become one with The Lord Jesus Christ and enter a new nature. God has placed the very nature of His Son, the perfect man in you. By believing " we become partakers of the divine nature". You have union with Christ!. This is a scriptural fact , not a feeling.
You are not making a commitment or deciding to follow Jesus. God has given you eternal life by giving you His Son, who is life eternal, John 14:6 He has replaced, in Gods sight, the first Adam and IDENTIFIED you in God sight, as and IN Himself . In Christ we now found in a new position, in heaven before God, by your faith in that fact, even if you do not fully understand all that it means you life is held eternally in Christ,and that can NEVER change!.
What now you might say? Gods eternal purpose for you is to grow in understanding. To become like Him, remember we were made in His image Gen 1:26 and your new Identify, Jesus Christ, is' the express image of, His , Gods, person" Heb 1:3 Hence by means of the new birth you were re-created in the image of God. Quite a responsibility you may think, but remember it is not in our performance on this earth we justify that position but in faith of what He , Jesus Has done, and in the position He holds , as the New representative man in heaven and that we find only by the faith, given to us in the new birth. God now will be working out His eternal purpose for you slowly but surely, for the Bible tell us we will be" conformed to His image" Rom 8:28,29. Next time we will talk about Grace , which makes this all possible.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE
We now will become better acquainted with a unique Man with two Natures[like us]. The difference He is a most unique Man fully God and fully man. But where is He now and what is He doing? The Bible declares He is, among other things , a Mediator 1 Tim.2:5"for there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man[second Adam], Christ Jesus.
A mediator must be one who is accepted and trusted by both parties. Jesus was sent as the Son of God well pleased, by the Father Matt, 17:5 God asked you to receive His Son. By entering into that trust relationship; You have found your part of the mediation.
For Jesus to be Mediator between you and God, the Lord Jesus had to partake of both Gods nature and man nature; both parties involved. This is a truth only apprehended by faith.Clearly portrayed in The Word of God!
Jesus always was God in nature from all eternity. In His birth by Mary, He took on Himself the nature of man. Hence "The Son of God and Son of Man". Just think God humbled Himself so as to become a earthly Adam for the express purpose to die for the sin of Adams, lost place in turning away by his own will, to the world and ,the god of this world Satan , the evil system we live in full time in our flesh. In short He became obedient[something the first Adam ,and us, were not] unto death, Phil, 2:6-8 Always keep in mind the Bible says Flesh [Adam nature] cannot enter.
We all know the story and I know I am going over ground most Christians have learned, but just let me say again what we all should and I hope do understand. In Gods perfect world sin must be done away with , only death can completely do away with a thing! So Christ died for Gods perfect justice in the form of a man ,flesh human, just like us in our place by the reckoning of God. A Substitute for us. He became our Mediator and that in Gods eye's by a representative volitional human death. In short by this act all Adamic flesh [sin is in the flesh] died. God can now ONLY see us , as flesh, in His view of His Son, as us dead and buried! Co-death.
Thank God for this ! For by His action on the Cross we have all received a Mediator between us and God And I hope by this study we have all learned that in our active living human flesh nature the only claim we have on God is that we are condemned.And that there is nothing we can do with our Adam nature to alter that;this is our own volitional condition! No matter how you try or how good you attempt to be,in our Adam man where we live ,we are drawing from the wrong source.One that is totally unacceptable to God. We must call out to God, I can do nothing about my spiritual condition.It is only by your Sons Mediation will my position before you be found.
My friends I know, that as Christians these conditions have been meant by our faith in these facts And shown to be available to all the world by Faith in the Resurrection of The Son. We have entered into liberty and life That life will become more vital as we accept the adoption into all that Christ is before God. And our presences in Him, by faith is understanding that we to are also of a duel nature. As the Bible says "the flesh lusts [strives] against the Spirit and the spirit against the flesh" which along with many other examples shows this to be the case. The continued effort of this blog will be to show how by faith in this Bible teaching we can get out of our old bad self, and live in the NEW. I must warn you these things, as life, only come by serious contemplation and study not merely hearing. Stay tuned as they say!
A mediator must be one who is accepted and trusted by both parties. Jesus was sent as the Son of God well pleased, by the Father Matt, 17:5 God asked you to receive His Son. By entering into that trust relationship; You have found your part of the mediation.
For Jesus to be Mediator between you and God, the Lord Jesus had to partake of both Gods nature and man nature; both parties involved. This is a truth only apprehended by faith.Clearly portrayed in The Word of God!
Jesus always was God in nature from all eternity. In His birth by Mary, He took on Himself the nature of man. Hence "The Son of God and Son of Man". Just think God humbled Himself so as to become a earthly Adam for the express purpose to die for the sin of Adams, lost place in turning away by his own will, to the world and ,the god of this world Satan , the evil system we live in full time in our flesh. In short He became obedient[something the first Adam ,and us, were not] unto death, Phil, 2:6-8 Always keep in mind the Bible says Flesh [Adam nature] cannot enter.
We all know the story and I know I am going over ground most Christians have learned, but just let me say again what we all should and I hope do understand. In Gods perfect world sin must be done away with , only death can completely do away with a thing! So Christ died for Gods perfect justice in the form of a man ,flesh human, just like us in our place by the reckoning of God. A Substitute for us. He became our Mediator and that in Gods eye's by a representative volitional human death. In short by this act all Adamic flesh [sin is in the flesh] died. God can now ONLY see us , as flesh, in His view of His Son, as us dead and buried! Co-death.
Thank God for this ! For by His action on the Cross we have all received a Mediator between us and God And I hope by this study we have all learned that in our active living human flesh nature the only claim we have on God is that we are condemned.And that there is nothing we can do with our Adam nature to alter that;this is our own volitional condition! No matter how you try or how good you attempt to be,in our Adam man where we live ,we are drawing from the wrong source.One that is totally unacceptable to God. We must call out to God, I can do nothing about my spiritual condition.It is only by your Sons Mediation will my position before you be found.
My friends I know, that as Christians these conditions have been meant by our faith in these facts And shown to be available to all the world by Faith in the Resurrection of The Son. We have entered into liberty and life That life will become more vital as we accept the adoption into all that Christ is before God. And our presences in Him, by faith is understanding that we to are also of a duel nature. As the Bible says "the flesh lusts [strives] against the Spirit and the spirit against the flesh" which along with many other examples shows this to be the case. The continued effort of this blog will be to show how by faith in this Bible teaching we can get out of our old bad self, and live in the NEW. I must warn you these things, as life, only come by serious contemplation and study not merely hearing. Stay tuned as they say!
Monday, April 8, 2013
ENTER OUR NEW NATURE
We read in Luke,16:12. And if you have not been faithful in what is another man's who will give you what is you own. And in 16:13, you cannot serve God and mammon,[the world]. These verses as part of a series of parable's which are told just after the parable of the lost son are references by Jesus on what man is to God "a lost son" welcomed and given a beautiful new robe and welcomed by all the Fathers love home. And seen in Luke 16 what it is that man does with the gift of Grace as a stewardship. I quote my brother J. Butler Stoney here, " in the Garden of Eden , man lost his place before God; man is lost. The question for us then is, where are we now? then, what have we done with this lost place we are in? Every believer seeks to be clear as to the latter[ Bible study , church experience, good works etc.]! But very few, as to clarity, in the former, where are we now, what does the Bible mean IN Christ , Heavenly citizens, Hidden IN Christ etc."
In all my Christian experience I never head a teaching as to the vitally important Doctrine of the first and last Adam. We now , I hope, have been thoroughly introduced to the last Adam . If not please go back to my blog and read forward it is of the utmost importance that you begin to understand this truth. A crystal clear Biblical teaching.
The Last Adam," the first man Adam was made a living soul; the LAST ADAM was made a life-giving spirit"1 Cor, 15:17. The first man is of the earth, the second is the Lord from Heaven. The first man[ Adam means man] brought us the earthly , natural human race. The second Adam brings us the righteous, heavenly race, by supernatural regeneration. Physical birth has brought us into a unacceptably, by God, sinful race, and in the New Birth [born again] we will find Christ and eternal life a new race which is all and only spiritual. We are now accepted!
A quick word about regeneration. This is not making us in our physical human old Adam nature better[more about works latter]. We all know flesh and blood CANNOT enter heaven. This I believe is the crux of identification/position Doctrine, Our spirits were dead in our old Adam self. Therefore it can only be that regeneration by the New Birth is effected in our spirits [oh yes our mortal body's will be used by God].. Where is our spirit found? Why the answer can only be in our mind, this does not mean we will not have a conscious presence in the by and by, Heaven. It means we can , by God's gift of the Holy Spirit speaking to our minds, grow in understanding of what has happened to us by the New Birth. My good friends our life before God, and in God, is all found in the Spiritual conscious mind as we realize we have taken on a New Nature, not any longer must we dwell in the Old earthly Adam. We now possess the very Nature of Jesus Christ Himself!. We will expand on the very difficult concepts nest time.
In all my Christian experience I never head a teaching as to the vitally important Doctrine of the first and last Adam. We now , I hope, have been thoroughly introduced to the last Adam . If not please go back to my blog and read forward it is of the utmost importance that you begin to understand this truth. A crystal clear Biblical teaching.
The Last Adam," the first man Adam was made a living soul; the LAST ADAM was made a life-giving spirit"1 Cor, 15:17. The first man is of the earth, the second is the Lord from Heaven. The first man[ Adam means man] brought us the earthly , natural human race. The second Adam brings us the righteous, heavenly race, by supernatural regeneration. Physical birth has brought us into a unacceptably, by God, sinful race, and in the New Birth [born again] we will find Christ and eternal life a new race which is all and only spiritual. We are now accepted!
A quick word about regeneration. This is not making us in our physical human old Adam nature better[more about works latter]. We all know flesh and blood CANNOT enter heaven. This I believe is the crux of identification/position Doctrine, Our spirits were dead in our old Adam self. Therefore it can only be that regeneration by the New Birth is effected in our spirits [oh yes our mortal body's will be used by God].. Where is our spirit found? Why the answer can only be in our mind, this does not mean we will not have a conscious presence in the by and by, Heaven. It means we can , by God's gift of the Holy Spirit speaking to our minds, grow in understanding of what has happened to us by the New Birth. My good friends our life before God, and in God, is all found in the Spiritual conscious mind as we realize we have taken on a New Nature, not any longer must we dwell in the Old earthly Adam. We now possess the very Nature of Jesus Christ Himself!. We will expand on the very difficult concepts nest time.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
WHY ADAM WHY ?
The question we must all ask , is why did this new creature Adam, given all the advantage of what seemed a perfect life, from the Biblical images we read, choose to go his own way? Of course we all know the story of the temptation in the garden, there is much rich imagery in the telling ,but the bottom line is if we believe the Bible is the word of God the Bibles presentation of the beginning,to the fall, is a true story inspired by God to be told to mankind and the images used by the ancient writers in the Hebrew language were pictorial for a reason. So that the readers could get a picture in there mind of the true truth, of how man came to be lost. This is how they in their time could understand the word of God. We now read in English and by our modern thought process might have a hard time with the images , but not so much the story's intent , to inform us of how we came to need a savior. If you are a Bible literalest you might not like this paragraph perhaps. And I do not want to hash out that long battle. The truth is the exact story however seen , in images by a ancient people or read by us in 2013 tell the story of mans fall and is perfectly true as only God can make it!
Well I'm glad that over! Here is the reason in my mind at least, I wrote that. Adam turned away from God and a perfect life because he was Tempted by Satan. Remember Adam was given free will, he could choose...You all know the very rich images presented to show this truth. Now as to the Tempter 1st Th, 3:5 Mat, 4:3 as he is called in the Bible Satan also known as the god of this world, 2 Cor, 4:4. Ruler of the world Jon, 12:31 and last but not least, prince of the power of the air Eph, 2:2.
Adam allowed Satan to conquer him , and the human race by deceit, thus he became the arch-usurper the god of this world. He blinded the mind of the natural man and placed man at odds with God to prevent man from knowing God in direct fellowship and finding a Saviour.
This choice, by man in representative form, by Adam, finds mankind in a difficult place and in dire need of redemption. It means we humans were born into this world possessed of a sinful nature, inherited from a fallen man. Which makes all men born spiritually dead. Separated from God forever. See Rom, 5:18
Folks I do not enjoy telling this true story, But regardless of your opinion on the Bible portrayal of the events leading to the downfall of man, we I hope can all agree it did take place and we now are in desperate need of a new Nature, The old man we ride around in all the time cannot inherent the Kingdom of Heaven. This should be well established. I know most of you are firm in the belief you are saved from this total loss and I trust you are. But I know as for myself, when I came to understand the New Nature we as Christians do now live in,[ although many are unaware of it] I began to see my life in Christ in a very much more meaningful way. Will get to the source of that new nature next time.
Well I'm glad that over! Here is the reason in my mind at least, I wrote that. Adam turned away from God and a perfect life because he was Tempted by Satan. Remember Adam was given free will, he could choose...You all know the very rich images presented to show this truth. Now as to the Tempter 1st Th, 3:5 Mat, 4:3 as he is called in the Bible Satan also known as the god of this world, 2 Cor, 4:4. Ruler of the world Jon, 12:31 and last but not least, prince of the power of the air Eph, 2:2.
Adam allowed Satan to conquer him , and the human race by deceit, thus he became the arch-usurper the god of this world. He blinded the mind of the natural man and placed man at odds with God to prevent man from knowing God in direct fellowship and finding a Saviour.
This choice, by man in representative form, by Adam, finds mankind in a difficult place and in dire need of redemption. It means we humans were born into this world possessed of a sinful nature, inherited from a fallen man. Which makes all men born spiritually dead. Separated from God forever. See Rom, 5:18
Folks I do not enjoy telling this true story, But regardless of your opinion on the Bible portrayal of the events leading to the downfall of man, we I hope can all agree it did take place and we now are in desperate need of a new Nature, The old man we ride around in all the time cannot inherent the Kingdom of Heaven. This should be well established. I know most of you are firm in the belief you are saved from this total loss and I trust you are. But I know as for myself, when I came to understand the New Nature we as Christians do now live in,[ although many are unaware of it] I began to see my life in Christ in a very much more meaningful way. Will get to the source of that new nature next time.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
BORN AGAIN "AGAIN"
Dear readers I know most of you consider yourselves " born again" and I hope and pray you are firm in your understanding of what this term means ,because none other than Jesus Christ said " Marvel not that I said you must be born again". So it must be true! I know when over 35 years ago I in deep need of rescue from the pit of my sin, prayed for relief to Jesus, I now know, He honored that cry even though the words I used we not exactly Evangelical church script. I said" Jesus if you are real I need you now". Yes those were my exact words. Needless to say He honored that plea and it was some two weeks later after experiencing what seemed an impossible change in my attitude and desires, which I had no way to explain; For I had not the benefit of any church or any real Biblical understanding. When ,Low and behold ,Ill never forget, while driving down PCH in my 68 Cougar , just near hole in the fence I realized what had happened and shouted out with great joy " I'm born again praise God".
Well enough about me, what does the Bible have to say. By the way most all of my information here is taken from a little booklet Then new Birth explained , by Miles Stanford The writer of the COMPLETE GREEN LETTERS.. Of course we must start at the beginning.........None other than our old friend the first Adam."and God said let us make man in our image and our likeness"[Gen.1:26]. So the first man was made a living soul 1st Cor. 15:45. Mans likeness to God was not Physical but of person hood, with intellect ,volition , emotion attributes of God our fathers person hood! Of course we are created beings and our Father is uncreated , Heavenly. We are finite.
The key here is the word image, as Adam was made to be the prototype, the representative man for all the human family. From this federal representative we inherited a oneness of nature common to all Adamic men. He Adam is quit simply the model for all who would ever be born on earth. The nature , how Adam would choose to exercise his volitional will reflects in a very permanent sense exactly how we would choose in the same circumstance. Adam is us we are Adam!
God purpose for Adam our representative man, was for him to grow in his Fathers moral image thereby becoming more and more like God. And by that growth could continue in direct fellow ship with The Father. God of course is sovereign .But Adam a created man had the complete liberty to develop in Gods eternal purpose for his own eternal benefit . He only had to remain in the circle of God will to continue to develop in the manner his Father intended for all mankind.
Well as we can all understand to maintain our good moral progress there must be parameters. Otherwise we could not know right from wrong. It only makes sense for a created creature. So God established one condition God said " do not partake of the knowledge of good and evil. In other words do not turn away from the only source of good to the things of the world which are evil,compared to God perfection!. And God said if you turn away you will loose you spiritual connection with me[death] , as He is perfect , Holy etc. Only makes sense see Gen.2:17-17.
You see in order for Adam [all of us] to develop as intended, a free agent, not a robot, who would nor could not, in a volitional way, return love to god , He gave Man the ability to choose. The way of eternal life or turn away making his wordily choice to eternal death[loss of spiritual intimate direct fellowship]. This became known as sin. The wages of which are death Rom. 6:23, God is so holy and pure the result of our sin nature is eternal banishment from His presence! This might seem harsh ,we all know the story, but there was no choice on Gods part He cannot even behold evil sin!
Well we've gone on long enough for now, stick with me as we continue on man kinds bumpy road and the story of how we got into the mess we are in, our Adam nature, which we still live in. However the end of this story brings the great salvation found in Jesus statement "you must be born again. In the next instalment we still must wade around in our Adamic nature some more. Please stay with me. Even though you might know much of this teaching it is paramount for us to understand the First Adam so that we can intimately know the Second One Christ Himself.
Well enough about me, what does the Bible have to say. By the way most all of my information here is taken from a little booklet Then new Birth explained , by Miles Stanford The writer of the COMPLETE GREEN LETTERS.. Of course we must start at the beginning.........None other than our old friend the first Adam."and God said let us make man in our image and our likeness"[Gen.1:26]. So the first man was made a living soul 1st Cor. 15:45. Mans likeness to God was not Physical but of person hood, with intellect ,volition , emotion attributes of God our fathers person hood! Of course we are created beings and our Father is uncreated , Heavenly. We are finite.
The key here is the word image, as Adam was made to be the prototype, the representative man for all the human family. From this federal representative we inherited a oneness of nature common to all Adamic men. He Adam is quit simply the model for all who would ever be born on earth. The nature , how Adam would choose to exercise his volitional will reflects in a very permanent sense exactly how we would choose in the same circumstance. Adam is us we are Adam!
God purpose for Adam our representative man, was for him to grow in his Fathers moral image thereby becoming more and more like God. And by that growth could continue in direct fellow ship with The Father. God of course is sovereign .But Adam a created man had the complete liberty to develop in Gods eternal purpose for his own eternal benefit . He only had to remain in the circle of God will to continue to develop in the manner his Father intended for all mankind.
Well as we can all understand to maintain our good moral progress there must be parameters. Otherwise we could not know right from wrong. It only makes sense for a created creature. So God established one condition God said " do not partake of the knowledge of good and evil. In other words do not turn away from the only source of good to the things of the world which are evil,compared to God perfection!. And God said if you turn away you will loose you spiritual connection with me[death] , as He is perfect , Holy etc. Only makes sense see Gen.2:17-17.
You see in order for Adam [all of us] to develop as intended, a free agent, not a robot, who would nor could not, in a volitional way, return love to god , He gave Man the ability to choose. The way of eternal life or turn away making his wordily choice to eternal death[loss of spiritual intimate direct fellowship]. This became known as sin. The wages of which are death Rom. 6:23, God is so holy and pure the result of our sin nature is eternal banishment from His presence! This might seem harsh ,we all know the story, but there was no choice on Gods part He cannot even behold evil sin!
Well we've gone on long enough for now, stick with me as we continue on man kinds bumpy road and the story of how we got into the mess we are in, our Adam nature, which we still live in. However the end of this story brings the great salvation found in Jesus statement "you must be born again. In the next instalment we still must wade around in our Adamic nature some more. Please stay with me. Even though you might know much of this teaching it is paramount for us to understand the First Adam so that we can intimately know the Second One Christ Himself.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
JUST A QUICK UPDATE
Hello blog readers, As I am sure you've noticed I have not written for some time. The truth is I was discouraged and my exuberant evangelical fervor was put on hold[much to some relief perhaps] and I had to step back and examine my motives.
A blog writer , and perhaps many writers really write for them selves , It not that we do not want to share our views, however, we hopefully will not take it personally when we get little or no encouragement by way of comments. But I did take it personally, I allowed my passive aggressive, resentful Adam nature to come out in my email comments when I sent link alerts. To be truthful I fill a little silly! But I take heart in the knowledge that we writers are often odd balls {Steinbeck,} so maybe there is hope for me. And I still think I have a valuable message to share.
You see friends I discovered something that changed my life and got my focus off me and my internal self and found a platform to stand on that is eternal. Oh yes along the way of my Christian life I heard many good and true teachings and even felt victory on occasion. But never did I know I could loose and find my life in another, as I was held in the place of my human nature, and that nature always found itself back in the world of sin and sadness , perhaps more so as a Christian , as I was supposed to know the difference, and be obedient to my new found hope, and was never able to for long. I was taught over and over in my Christian experience that we who know Christ are different, would find peace, hope joy. If this was so why did I do the very things I did not want to do? And how could I stop? Perhaps you my dear readers you have had on occasion similar thoughts?
Don't get me wrong I carry no allusions as to the continued struggle I face daily in the areas we all face. I have not arrived at a place of superior knowledge or have learned something that is not available to all who will study the Word of God. The door opened for me when , as I told of in my first blog , The promised Christian victorious life which was shown often by the Church failed for me. I was simply overwhelmed with the reality of my own sin nature and could not escape. You could say death emerged, I had no other choice it was either find a way or die.
As it turns out this is exactly where the Bible tells us we need to be, "life is not found in our flesh[human nature]" Enter the Biblical based simple, clear , doctrine of Identification/ Position. Life is found in another , in our new nature, as new men, in the New Man Jesus Christ. This it turns out is a concept which Paul was trying to drum into the heads of people just like us 2000 years ago , nothing has changed. This concept/mind set is taught clearly in Romans 5,6,7,8,. Please go there read it slowly ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to this truth. It it a living truth found in identifying ourselves in our newly renewed conscious mind as members in our nature of Christ Himself. Yes its hard to take into our presupposed mind as it is spiritual, and held only by Faith. But friends we have exercised this kind of faith in our belief when we first committed our lives to Christ. Why would we not be all that is offered and given by His Grace, and as the Bible says seek Him and our very existence,which the Bible tells us is hid with Christ in heaven. The price of admission to this kind of peace is the death of yourself to the world of sin and the acceptance in conscious awareness of your new life which is found for all Christians in Christ.
Sorry to have gone on for so long my next blog will be a sort of Biblical base teaching on just what Jesus meant when he said You must be born again! Hope you will join me!
A blog writer , and perhaps many writers really write for them selves , It not that we do not want to share our views, however, we hopefully will not take it personally when we get little or no encouragement by way of comments. But I did take it personally, I allowed my passive aggressive, resentful Adam nature to come out in my email comments when I sent link alerts. To be truthful I fill a little silly! But I take heart in the knowledge that we writers are often odd balls {Steinbeck,} so maybe there is hope for me. And I still think I have a valuable message to share.
You see friends I discovered something that changed my life and got my focus off me and my internal self and found a platform to stand on that is eternal. Oh yes along the way of my Christian life I heard many good and true teachings and even felt victory on occasion. But never did I know I could loose and find my life in another, as I was held in the place of my human nature, and that nature always found itself back in the world of sin and sadness , perhaps more so as a Christian , as I was supposed to know the difference, and be obedient to my new found hope, and was never able to for long. I was taught over and over in my Christian experience that we who know Christ are different, would find peace, hope joy. If this was so why did I do the very things I did not want to do? And how could I stop? Perhaps you my dear readers you have had on occasion similar thoughts?
Don't get me wrong I carry no allusions as to the continued struggle I face daily in the areas we all face. I have not arrived at a place of superior knowledge or have learned something that is not available to all who will study the Word of God. The door opened for me when , as I told of in my first blog , The promised Christian victorious life which was shown often by the Church failed for me. I was simply overwhelmed with the reality of my own sin nature and could not escape. You could say death emerged, I had no other choice it was either find a way or die.
As it turns out this is exactly where the Bible tells us we need to be, "life is not found in our flesh[human nature]" Enter the Biblical based simple, clear , doctrine of Identification/ Position. Life is found in another , in our new nature, as new men, in the New Man Jesus Christ. This it turns out is a concept which Paul was trying to drum into the heads of people just like us 2000 years ago , nothing has changed. This concept/mind set is taught clearly in Romans 5,6,7,8,. Please go there read it slowly ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to this truth. It it a living truth found in identifying ourselves in our newly renewed conscious mind as members in our nature of Christ Himself. Yes its hard to take into our presupposed mind as it is spiritual, and held only by Faith. But friends we have exercised this kind of faith in our belief when we first committed our lives to Christ. Why would we not be all that is offered and given by His Grace, and as the Bible says seek Him and our very existence,which the Bible tells us is hid with Christ in heaven. The price of admission to this kind of peace is the death of yourself to the world of sin and the acceptance in conscious awareness of your new life which is found for all Christians in Christ.
Sorry to have gone on for so long my next blog will be a sort of Biblical base teaching on just what Jesus meant when he said You must be born again! Hope you will join me!
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