Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the positional doctrine that I go on and on about in my blogs and in my conversations is the all important truth. The most paramount truth we could know as Christians. THE TRUTH imparted to our soul and our mind in which by God's grace we will live Christ Jesus as life.
In a very real positional- objective and biblical sense it was not only us which were saved by the cross. Yes we were born again receiving salvation, but it was Jesus Christ, God's Son who was saved or directly was our salvation. He lived as the perfect Adam [in humiliation] on the earth, not us. He died on the cross, a perfect Man, not us. He was buried and was Resurrected and walked the earth as a transfigured Man, not us; and He ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God, not us. He was saved-transferred from this life here as a son of man. He became a "New Adam" a "New Man" and God's Son in a perfect salvation.
So here is the first critical point: all that happened to Jesus Christ which accomplished the salvation of the Adam man, a human man on earth; was done for God [His judicial perfections demand toward the Adam man, us] accomplished by His Son in the form of a man. Then His Son's perfect propitiation [satisfaction toward God's demand] was applied [a position, we formed in spiritual union, as a new creation] to the Adam man us, left on the earth, we still in our Adam man.
The second critical point is that all of this wonderful God applied Godly life we have in Christ is seen only in Him [Jesus] by the father, but applied to us. However this truth is ONLY RECOGNIZABLE and lived out by pure FAITH that it is true. Exercising our spirit [often a Adam man emotional response]will not provide it. Our very salvation and life must be seen as Christ as the object us positioned in Him providing a relationship with The Father. How my brothers and sisters do we gain the kind of faith to believe this truth as life. Its not by experience, training or the church life. No it is by studying the Word of God and by that I mean the specific teaching of positional doctrine taught by Paul in the Word. We must seek and single out positional studies in order, "to apprehend what we have been apprehend of by Christ Jesus".
If we respond to this truth; our applied salvation accomplished by Christ, in or by our own experience we will always do it in a natural Adamic sense and never be satisfied. This is the Adam man Christian. The bible calls this the old mans or natural mans way; "which seems right to him". That is why we must develop a deep understanding of the all sufficiency of Christ and Him as God's substitute for us, on earth and in heaven. In other words the POSITION, UNION, we hold in God's mind when He views or contemplates His Son, applied to us. This is called a objective position, another as our totality. We exists in no other way for the purposes of God's salvation toward man. The Adam man in us will not satisfy God in any way! Our whole Christian life as His Body here on earth is subject to knowing Him in this way, our position in Him apprehended and known by the FAITH of our position [we seen in God's sight in His Son] in Him only.
Now brothers and sisters the third and final all important point and where all of our positional applied salvation of and in Jesus Christ is found: the very born again life we have in us, is NOT our own, but it is the Life of Jesus Christ. Brought to us by the Holy Spirit. Him in us; to impart His life too us. It is not our life in any way. His life is ours only by our faith that He is "our life" and the reality of that life. We are alive, eternally in God, only positioned in union with Him [Christ Jesus] and He now makes that real in our soul by living in us here. All that we were as unacceptable Adam men and women has been annulled in the death of Jesus Christ for God's salvation of men. His judgement completed. But only faith in His Word will prove that is true in our life.
Our only Job, as long as we live on this planet, is to allow by faith the Holy Spirit to impart the position we hold in Christ in heaven to our mind. Transforming our souls to God's exclusive view of His Son as our own view also. This is accomplished and apprehended only by God's grace. This was what Paul was trying to get across to the saints. The big mistake all Christian make is they, just like those of of old, very naturally and even encouraged by the church and their culture attempt to attain their Christian reality by training their old Adam mans mind/soul. In a attempt to bring the church life alive long before the saint develops by the Holy Spirit, a sense of just who they really are positionally by faith in Jesus Christ as their life. They have not learned by the Word and have avoided Godly doctrine and teaching which has been made clear by Paul, that the life they live is His life. They have not given up their self yet.
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