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... the manifestation of the rest He has caused you to rest with.
In what way? Christ bore my sins on the cross and bore my just punishment, thus, reconciled me to God, through faith in Jesus Christ.
I now worship God with the heart of a beloved daughter, and not as a hired hand.
There is no fear in love.
... the manifestation of the rest He has caused you to rest with.
I haven't entered it yet.
I was never under the Law of Moses---being a Gentile---so I never had any burden to keep that. And I'll rest from my labors in Christ when I leave this body and go home to be with God and the saints who have gone before me.
Care to go into any detail in the different ways you experience this?"The finished work of Jesus on the Cross'".
Care to go into any detail in the different ways you experience this?
The only reason I did this thread was so people could read other peoples experiences, that some would have hope this rest is more than just a word ...
The process of coming into Right Believing, for most Christians, is hindered by bad teachers.
Wrong believing produces wrong living.
To live holy, you have to believe Right. If you are living a "sinning, repenting, confessing" life, then you are believing wrong. And until you learn what you are doing wrong, which is, =what you are believing wrong, you'll continue to be a Christian Failure.
It's hard to come into agreement with One you don't know walks in you.
Being born again is not about you knowing God, its about God redeeming you.
Most born again believers spend a failed lifetime trying to FEEL accepted by God, having no knowledge that they always were accepted based on the Blood of Jesus.
Redeeming in the sense of being born again is the reality of the soul in relationship to who we are; it being the price of/for the purchased possession, even for us.
To know is as much relational as being, which are not disconnected from one another.
Jesus used the words “Born again” as a seeing, but not the entering into what you see, which the Hebrews writers words of striving to enter in leaves one in the same place, on the outside looking in.
Peter uses born again in the sense of the incorruptible seed we came out of, whereas John uses the term born of God six times to describe the truth we were birthed out of; Paul all things are new, and all things are of God (and this to those who could not bear the meat of this word he was trying to relate to them).
But nothing circumvents process, which brings us to an ever increasing experiential knowledge of who we are (which in one form is likened to rest, in another the knowing of our Father, or in another, then shall we know if we follow on to know). This no man can teach you; this no man can lead you into, or cause you to enter into, which by analogy is being born of water and spirit, which causes us to abide in Him, and this in relationship to the truth we are.
Being "born again", is to be Born INTO the Spirit of God, by the Spirit of God.
We are made "ONE" with God and Christ.
This is how we "abide".... We abide because we are in Spiritual Union with God and Christ.
Discipleship : is the "work out your salvation"........meaning, you HAVE IT, now learn how to live in it, correctly.
For it is God in you both to will and to do ...
Salvation is all of God.
He begins it and ends it with the Blood of Jesus.
Salvation is finished at the beginning. We the born again , We BEGIN as "the righteousness of God in Christ".
For some, it can be that they never understand this, and so they are in bondage all their life trying to meet some personal expectation of holiness, thru self effort, that has no effect on Redemption.
Imagine the ignorance of trying to be accepted by God, all your life, by repenting and confessing, when He already accepted you for eternity, as evidenced by your being Born Again.
The Grace of God, excludes your self effort to complete it.
=Yep and how simple/single of a truth it is; by thought you cannot add a cubit to your stature ... we are complete in him is the foundation he lays, as the delclartion of an end from the beginning, which beginning and end he is.