Now that we have but aside the elementary explanation of our duel identity [see last blog, in the name of Jesus] which is vital for us to understand if we are to grow in Christianity! We must go on to the results of God putting away the first man of our nature Adam, via the Cross, and bring to life the last Man, Jesus Christ in our consciousness as a defining awareness. But first some additional clarity regarding this first Adam: God views man as a single entity; yes He knows each of us individually, but in His perfect judgement He is singular, in other words all of mankind is wrapped up, for His Judaical purpose, in the nature of the sinful Adamic man. And like wise He has the same view of the redeemed man, in His Son Jesus Christ the second Adam; in other words all Christians are interpreted or seen by God in a singular view, as too judgement, and in the case of being seen in Christ are judged not guilty. Therefore there is for us, the Christian, absolutely no separation or condemnation [Romans 8:1] between us and God, just as between He and His Son. The big hurdle for me was, in light of that as fact: How then shall I live? How can I experience the perfect peace this true concept designed by God will bring, if I count it as true?
By the death of our Saviour Jesus Christ we have become partakers of the divine nature, we are now a new race of people and Christ is the federal head of that. He is in heaven, and as the bible declares Jesus is a heavenly Man, so then we must be also, if in fact The Father sees us as accepted by the presence of His Son there; this is the essence of Christianity; not how we perform or our accomplishments or feelings and experiences we simply are not of a earthly nature any longer in The Fathers view of us! Again the question arises: How do we live that in faith? Well my friends there is only one way. We must develop a self concept of ourselves as new creatures, with new minds, new natures which are contained in The Fathers mind, as to our being perfect men and women before Him, seen in The Man Jesus Christ. In order for that to happen we must entirely be on board with the death of our first Adam nature on the Cross; of course that will never happen by our physical behavior, we sin and we can't kill him by good works. So it must take place mentally. The Father expects nothing less, that's why He inspired the Bible, a road map to that peace of mind only a conscious individual private oneness with Christ can bring, by faith.
In order for me to live in oneness with Christ in faith I had to learn to see my life as something other than the man I woke to each morning. I was regularly exposed to the concept of Christ death being the substitute, the propitiation for my sin's, and that gave me hope; but where was victory in my own person? I then came to realize that in order to live the life described in the Word, I would have to cast off the bonds of the world, adopting a mindset that all I am in this flesh [my natural human nature] is of no value to God for the purpose of relationship, and take His Word as true, that when Jesus died on the cross, it was to all that I am here and now as a natural man; and that by faith in that as true of me I can mentally take a self analytical position; that in the appearance of the Glorified Man in heaven Jesus Christ, God has also glorified me. I had to see my old nature as truly dead. I has to learn that by His Word, and in faith, in order to appear before God with the eyes of my heart wide open. Yes I am conscience of my sins as a earthly man, but by the blood of Jesus I can now boldly appear before God in faith with out any consciousness of guilt or sin. This my friends is not a impossible feat; Paul knew that he was a man who sinned, yet he wrote of the believers heavenly nature and his life displayed a life lived in Christ as the object of his self defined being, not merely living for Christ, his victory was not in his physical behavior or attitude, but in faith of his position in Jesus Christ in the very presence of God; a heavenly perspective.
When we imagine our Christian life it is hard to not be influenced by all that is around. That's why a change of mind in required. Think of it like this: When Adam appeared on the earth he, in the eyes of God, and for the purpose of relationship was a singular representative of all of mankind; but he sinned so it was necessary to facilitate a relationship with man that would be on going, to bring in another representative for mankind and of course we know that was Jesus. When Jesus died as a man in the flesh, a physical being, He was also representative to God for all mankind, and especially for those who would come to believe. Since the punishment for sin is death it was necessary for Him to die as a man for us in Representative form; and so on in all that followed; His Burial, Resurrection and Ascension also applied to us. When Jesus appeared before God as a Ascended physical Man in His Resurrection power, He again represented us, just as if we were there. We the Christian however have retained the original Adam nature, a sinner. So we could not appear or even be accepted, until Christ in the mind and economy of the Father stood in our place, a perfect Man, a second Adam. Now we are seen by The Father in the very same position as Jesus by our faith in Him. The possibility of us realizing that and living it in power and truth, just as Christ does, is given by revelation in the daily moment by moment application of the mind of Christ, via the Holy Spirit. Living this new mind power out is done by faith in those facts, not a moral high ground or life of duty, but a resting in the Spirit reveled fact, and that fact then becoming our life, by the purposeful application of God's Word. A needful realization, that we must become aware of God's purpose for us as individuals which can be described as; ".........advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity" Heb. 6:1, Amp. We must come to see that we as sinners, for the purpose of identification, were displaced in the death, burial and Resurrection and the old system of things, which belonged to the first Adams position is now gone for us, and that we are now in perfect identification with the Lord Jesus Christ! By that as our self determined mindset we will then experience no separation!
As a final note let me say something that I hope is unnecessary: We Christians are basically trapped in a human sinful body. We are not ordinary people however. By Jesus presences in our place [position] in heaven we are in fact of a heavenly nature; this is a biblical clear fact. It is up to us my friends to take on that role, the only other choice is to remain in a worldly self conceptual first Adam nature. We do something like that [take on new role's] in many aspects of our life i.e. when we become married, or have children, or get promoted to a place of authority etc.; these are all mentally subscribed to by a self purposed mindset, and we then become the person we have been self assigned to be by our new mental attitude. The bible says our bodies are occupied by immortality; that is a concept we may hold in our mind, and that we will be conformed into the image of Christ; a mental/spiritual attitude in this here and now, as well as in heaven, and that we are hidden in Christ; in His person in heaven as the Representative second Adam. This is who we are here and now [not by physical behavior], not just after we leave these bodies. We can only become that new person we are meant to be by a mental adjustment, which is ready and waiting to be given to our new natures, by the Holy Spirit. It is my prayer in the Name of and the power of Jesus for all of my blog friends, that by a restlessness of your natural Adam nature you will be brought to a point of a desperate need to take on Jesus Christ as life, the defining object of your mind, and thereby experience no separation from God's new nature mental application to your being/personality while you dwell here on earth in the physical.
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