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God's covenants with mankind are not progressive, but One.
This is not understood from the perspective of a man of the earth, anchored in time.
John 3:31. He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly,
and speaks of the earth: He that comes from heaven is above all. [John the Baptist]
John 8:23. And He said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above.
You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Colossians 3:
1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is,
sitting at the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
When you are born from above, and apply the wisdom from above as you read Romans 4
and Galatians 3, and how Paul is teaching from Genesis 12 and 15 that he is presenting the
Gospel as the fulfillment of the promise and the oath made to Abraham.
When the Father spoke these words, the reality existed in heaven by that Word,
as it is the very power of creation.
Therefore, Peter could say:
1 Peter 1:
10 Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied
of the grace that would come to you,
11 searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ Who was in them
was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories
that would follow.
We hold this Truth as self-evident by the Holy Spirit:
"For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10
And so we have no difficulty, as did the Jews of Jerusalem in His day,
with comprehending His Words:
John 8:
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.
57 Then the Jews said to Him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.
I hope and pray that this assists you as you pursue the Truth, only by the Spirit of Truth.
1 Corinthians 2:
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10 But God has revealed to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes,
the deep things of God.
11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?
Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God,
that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which
the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
1 John 2:
24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning.
If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in
the Son and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.
This is not understood from the perspective of a man of the earth, anchored in time.
John 3:31. He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly,
and speaks of the earth: He that comes from heaven is above all. [John the Baptist]
John 8:23. And He said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above.
You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Colossians 3:
1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is,
sitting at the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
When you are born from above, and apply the wisdom from above as you read Romans 4
and Galatians 3, and how Paul is teaching from Genesis 12 and 15 that he is presenting the
Gospel as the fulfillment of the promise and the oath made to Abraham.
When the Father spoke these words, the reality existed in heaven by that Word,
as it is the very power of creation.
Therefore, Peter could say:
1 Peter 1:
10 Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied
of the grace that would come to you,
11 searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ Who was in them
was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories
that would follow.
We hold this Truth as self-evident by the Holy Spirit:
"For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10
And so we have no difficulty, as did the Jews of Jerusalem in His day,
with comprehending His Words:
John 8:
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.
57 Then the Jews said to Him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.
I hope and pray that this assists you as you pursue the Truth, only by the Spirit of Truth.
1 Corinthians 2:
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10 But God has revealed to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes,
the deep things of God.
11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?
Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God,
that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which
the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
1 John 2:
24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning.
If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in
the Son and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.