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I was going to respond to @Not me ’s thread Believing into the New Creation... but the post got so long that it seemed to need a new thread to contain it. Believing into the new creation is the only thing that removes us up and beyond the reach of satan, so therefore is the great lesson of the Bible.

Amen, If there is any one thing that needs to be learnt it is surely that.

From A-Z of the bible that is the work completed and destined for those who accept it. Adam and Eve in the garden (and how that temptation extends to us) to the Bride and Bridegroom in the New Jerusalem returning to the Father’s home and finding the rest for the soul forever. Yes, so be it Lord.

Satan's main objective, after enticing the emotion with lust of the eye, and provoking the intellect with lust of the flesh to step outside of God's protection, to obtain the human will.

Satan’s belief that they adopted was that God's restriction was not an act of love and that they were better off without Him. What they found as satan’s gain was loss of the ability to act in the way they were designed to.

Our bodies house an intellect beyond that of any other creature and is able to comprehend the things of God. Satan said they would become gods but without the divine fellowship and cooperation they had passed into a region where the essential powers of their being could find no field of operation.

The consequences? Their abiding was no longer with God. Angel's were put in place to block the way. God, as Emanuel, came in incarnation as our tree of life, and the only stipulation in place to gain a proper character and conduct was to abide in Him. Without Him we can do nothing.

Intelligence determines the action of emotion and the final attitude of the will. When our essential being is operating in the wrong sphere the emotions are dwarfed, (having lost the perfect object), the intellect is bound, (being severed from infinite knowledge), and the will, (in attempting mastership), has lost it's true spring of action.

Emotions are set on love of material things.
Intellect looks to material things in semi-blindness,
the will, always attempting authority, is beaten and overcome.
By our own will we dethrone God and enthrone self in separation from God.

As at the garden, as at Shiloh, and for many today, the covenant is violated and mankind is put outside of His protection. God is rejected and a king of one’s own making is set in place. Genesis 3, 1 Samuel 8:7, John 5:19 Praise to the Father that He has sent His Son to fulfill our desires by joining to His desire to have none other before Him.

So satan's main objective is to gain the will to use the emotions and intellect, thereby causing independent actions, ungoverned activity, by being outside the sphere of God, and away from the tree of life.

We need that perfect fitness between the work to be done and the workman prepared.

We're limited and we need to be complimented with the unlimited. Un-limited yet held by the constraints of love. Abiding in our proper sphere which is confidence in God's love) the emotion, intellect and will are united with God. These three areas of self in being contained can be a constant due to our will set on Him. Jesus, as God, was the exact image while we are just the shadow. We must never doubt God's love.

Dear ones, created to be One with Him, don't fall into satan's food-chain by double-mindedness in doubting God's love.

Satan is a roaring lion looking for whom he can devour.

Bring yourself to the throne of grace by living and abiding in Him, where you are guaranteed grace and mercy by His sacrifice for you. And keep yourself there as is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1-3

In doing so He will find the work that He has for you to further His work in bring others to Him, in perfect obedience to His way. As members of one body, the Father has bestowed gifts to all for the purpose of edifying one another.

But first one must be born of incorruptable seed or else there is no life to grow because of being dead in sin. 1 Peter 1:23, 1 Corinthians 15:53, 1 Peter 1:4 Human life alone isn't qualified to be One in God, that organic union depends upon the divine life mingled with our human life in faith and in baptism into His death which is the beginning, the elemental, that needs to grow with the divine life. Not that the divine life in itself needs growth but that we need to grow into it by the gradual (from glory to glory) reckoning of death to all that is revealed of the old self. Colossians 2:22-23 He must increase and we must decrease. As His body we can do this because after all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church Ephesians 5:29

However even this growth needs regulation. Our growth is to grow with God Himself increasing in us. What revelation reveals about the natural flesh and soul needs recognizing as being restricted by bringing the natural under the control of the divine. The Christ in us is King. We're in a priestly kingdom, a citizen of the kingdom. Royal families train for it their whole lives. So, for that, obedience is needed. There's a great experience that follows obedience that's an increase in light and love that is meant to increase further obedience that still furthers growth and developement in grace. The results are in perpetual progress of bringing the natural under the control of the divine. Yeilding to God light falls on the pathway and creates love. Love suggests obedience. The will, impulsed by love yeilds to the light and on it goes. It's not a work at all but only growth. Unbelief and disobedience impedes growth.

We have so many different character traits that all need regulating in every aspect of life. To be useful to God we have to allow the light to shine upon us to bring us to the Lord's judgement and according to His standards that reveal our true selves and helps us to become true to our new selves.

Without growth, even if you have the divine life, there is no maturity. The life plus the growth gives one maturity. Maturity comes out of growth, which is what the book of Hebrews is all about.

Matthew 25:4 shows the wise virgins as having oil both in in their lamps and in their vessels. The lamp signifies our spirit Proverbs 20:27 and the vessel signifies our soul, our being Romans 9:21-23 Both in our spirit and in our entire being we should be full of the (indwelling) oil, which signifies the Holy Spirit Isaiah 61:1; Hebrews 1:9 The more growth the more infilling of the Holy Spirit which is the growth in God.

Matthew 25 also speaks of the slaves talents and their diligence, because functionality depends on diligence. That comes from proper conduct thru co-operation with God.

Fellowship and prayer with the Lord co-operates to recieve His enlightenment, and to be dealt with by Him. Slothful people will never contact the Lord regularly, seemingly because they are content in their own dirty diapers that they have deemed comfortably (luke)warm to stay in. In order to grow and reach maturity one needs to be diligent.

Growth to maturity demands being filled with the Spirit and to be diligent with yourself to use the ability in maturity to serve the Lord. These two can be seen as the infilling of the Spirit and the outpouring of the Spirit for service.

To live a life in the Spirit is to reach maturity in Christ by the submission of the whole being and allowing the Holy Spirit into every part, to be able to function as a mature person that Jesus can use.

What that would look like: Maturity, the good ground:
- obedient behavior (flesh under control and submissive to the Holy Spirit)
- sorting gospel from tradition ( mind under the Holy Spirit)
- seeking above all else to please Him and serve others ( human spirit submissive

Personal fellowship, holiness of character:
-intellegence- able to understand things of God
( soul needs to overcome greed)
- emotion- love God and all He loves
(flesh needs to overcome lust)
- will- choosing things in harmony with His will
( human spirit needs to overcome pride)

Righteous conduct, co-operative activity:
-intellegence- moving in harmony with God
(again soul needs to overcome greed)
-emotions- in action
(again flesh needs to overcome lust)
-will- choosing things of God
(again the human spirit needs to overcome pride)

Find peace and joy in in the heavenly Father’s arms thru the finished work for His children everywhere. Thank you Lord
 

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I was going to respond to @Not me ’s thread Believing into the New Creation... but the post got so long that it seemed to need a new thread to contain it. Believing into the new creation is the only thing that removes us up and beyond the reach of satan, so therefore is the great lesson of the Bible.

Amen, If there is any one thing that needs to be learnt it is surely that.

From A-Z of the bible that is the work completed and destined for those who accept it. Adam and Eve in the garden (and how that temptation extends to us) to the Bride and Bridegroom in the New Jerusalem returning to the Father’s home and finding the rest for the soul forever. Yes, so be it Lord.

Satan's main objective, after enticing the emotion with lust of the eye, and provoking the intellect with lust of the flesh to step outside of God's protection, to obtain the human will.

Satan’s belief that they adopted was that God's restriction was not an act of love and that they were better off without Him. What they found as satan’s gain was loss of the ability to act in the way they were designed to.

Our bodies house an intellect beyond that of any other creature and is able to comprehend the things of God. Satan said they would become gods but without the divine fellowship and cooperation they had passed into a region where the essential powers of their being could find no field of operation.

The consequences? Their abiding was no longer with God. Angel's were put in place to block the way. God, as Emanuel, came in incarnation as our tree of life, and the only stipulation in place to gain a proper character and conduct was to abide in Him. Without Him we can do nothing.

Intelligence determines the action of emotion and the final attitude of the will. When our essential being is operating in the wrong sphere the emotions are dwarfed, (having lost the perfect object), the intellect is bound, (being severed from infinite knowledge), and the will, (in attempting mastership), has lost it's true spring of action.

Emotions are set on love of material things.
Intellect looks to material things in semi-blindness,
the will, always attempting authority, is beaten and overcome.
By our own will we dethrone God and enthrone self in separation from God.

As at the garden, as at Shiloh, and for many today, the covenant is violated and mankind is put outside of His protection. God is rejected and a king of one’s own making is set in place. Genesis 3, 1 Samuel 8:7, John 5:19 Praise to the Father that He has sent His Son to fulfill our desires by joining to His desire to have none other before Him.

So satan's main objective is to gain the will to use the emotions and intellect, thereby causing independent actions, ungoverned activity, by being outside the sphere of God, and away from the tree of life.

We need that perfect fitness between the work to be done and the workman prepared.

We're limited and we need to be complimented with the unlimited. Un-limited yet held by the constraints of love. Abiding in our proper sphere which is confidence in God's love) the emotion, intellect and will are united with God. These three areas of self in being contained can be a constant due to our will set on Him. Jesus, as God, was the exact image while we are just the shadow. We must never doubt God's love.

Dear ones, created to be One with Him, don't fall into satan's food-chain by double-mindedness in doubting God's love.

Satan is a roaring lion looking for whom he can devour.

Bring yourself to the throne of grace by living and abiding in Him, where you are guaranteed grace and mercy by His sacrifice for you. And keep yourself there as is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1-3

In doing so He will find the work that He has for you to further His work in bring others to Him, in perfect obedience to His way. As members of one body, the Father has bestowed gifts to all for the purpose of edifying one another.

But first one must be born of incorruptable seed or else there is no life to grow because of being dead in sin. 1 Peter 1:23, 1 Corinthians 15:53, 1 Peter 1:4 Human life alone isn't qualified to be One in God, that organic union depends upon the divine life mingled with our human life in faith and in baptism into His death which is the beginning, the elemental, that needs to grow with the divine life. Not that the divine life in itself needs growth but that we need to grow into it by the gradual (from glory to glory) reckoning of death to all that is revealed of the old self. Colossians 2:22-23 He must increase and we must decrease. As His body we can do this because after all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church Ephesians 5:29

However even this growth needs regulation. Our growth is to grow with God Himself increasing in us. What revelation reveals about the natural flesh and soul needs recognizing as being restricted by bringing the natural under the control of the divine. The Christ in us is King. We're in a priestly kingdom, a citizen of the kingdom. Royal families train for it their whole lives. So, for that, obedience is needed. There's a great experience that follows obedience that's an increase in light and love that is meant to increase further obedience that still furthers growth and developement in grace. The results are in perpetual progress of bringing the natural under the control of the divine. Yeilding to God light falls on the pathway and creates love. Love suggests obedience. The will, impulsed by love yeilds to the light and on it goes. It's not a work at all but only growth. Unbelief and disobedience impedes growth.

We have so many different character traits that all need regulating in every aspect of life. To be useful to God we have to allow the light to shine upon us to bring us to the Lord's judgement and according to His standards that reveal our true selves and helps us to become true to our new selves.

Without growth, even if you have the divine life, there is no maturity. The life plus the growth gives one maturity. Maturity comes out of growth, which is what the book of Hebrews is all about.

Matthew 25:4 shows the wise virgins as having oil both in in their lamps and in their vessels. The lamp signifies our spirit Proverbs 20:27 and the vessel signifies our soul, our being Romans 9:21-23 Both in our spirit and in our entire being we should be full of the (indwelling) oil, which signifies the Holy Spirit Isaiah 61:1; Hebrews 1:9 The more growth the more infilling of the Holy Spirit which is the growth in God.

Matthew 25 also speaks of the slaves talents and their diligence, because functionality depends on diligence. That comes from proper conduct thru co-operation with God.

Fellowship and prayer with the Lord co-operates to recieve His enlightenment, and to be dealt with by Him. Slothful people will never contact the Lord regularly, seemingly because they are content in their own dirty diapers that they have deemed comfortably (luke)warm to stay in. In order to grow and reach maturity one needs to be diligent.

Growth to maturity demands being filled with the Spirit and to be diligent with yourself to use the ability in maturity to serve the Lord. These two can be seen as the infilling of the Spirit and the outpouring of the Spirit for service.

To live a life in the Spirit is to reach maturity in Christ by the submission of the whole being and allowing the Holy Spirit into every part, to be able to function as a mature person that Jesus can use.

What that would look like: Maturity, the good ground:
- obedient behavior (flesh under control and submissive to the Holy Spirit)
- sorting gospel from tradition ( mind under the Holy Spirit)
- seeking above all else to please Him and serve others ( human spirit submissive

Personal fellowship, holiness of character:
-intellegence- able to understand things of God
( soul needs to overcome greed)
- emotion- love God and all He loves
(flesh needs to overcome lust)
- will- choosing things in harmony with His will
( human spirit needs to overcome pride)

Righteous conduct, co-operative activity:
-intellegence- moving in harmony with God
(again soul needs to overcome greed)
-emotions- in action
(again flesh needs to overcome lust)
-will- choosing things of God
(again the human spirit needs to overcome pride)

Find peace and joy in in the heavenly Father’s arms thru the finished work for His children everywhere. Thank you Lord

It is kinda long, but a good read. Done with about 3/4 of it. Had to go to work, check back later.

Be blessed in Him, Not me
 
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It is kinda long, but a good read. Done with about 3/4 of it. Had to go to work, check back later.

Be blessed in Him, Not me
Thanks for taking the time to read it. All glory to God. Have a great day and stay safe in Him. :prayer:s
 
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Another long post and I apologize for that ahead of time also, but these are not easy subjects to gain understanding. I posted this elsewhere yesterday but it bears repeating for those who are struggling with concepts. Or follow the link to Where To Find The Basic Doctrine From The Bible | Christian Forums for further basics.

The free gift of salvation is just that .. a free gift, given to everyone who believes.

Isaiah 55:1 An Invitation to Abundant Life
Ho, everyone who thirsts,(sinner)
come to the waters;(God’s salvation)
and you that have no money, (works or righteous deeds)
come, buy and eat! (all sinners may believe and be saved)
Come, buy wine and milk (the joy of salvation)
without money and without price. (w/o need of good deeds since it doesn’t depends on one’s goodness)

That’s God’s grace and doesn’t depend on merits. John 4:10, Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Revelation 22:17 The work of salvation is wholly done for us by Christ Jesus. His death on the cross has accomplished our salvation. All that’s necessary is belief. Just as soon as we believe, we receive .. we’re saved, receive eternal life and are justified. End of story. 1 John 5:11-12, John 3:36

Then comes sanctification. Rewards of good works is what is being judged at the judgment seat of Christ. Rewards are not freely given, they must be obtained. Revelation 22:12, Revelation 22:16, 1 Corinthians 3:8, Colossians 3:23-25, Romans 4:4

As insignificant as a cup of water Matthew 10:42, as hidden as the council of the heart 1 Corinthians 4:5 as humble as one’s service Mark 10:43 or as unknown as suffering for the Lord’s sake Luke 6:22 those deeds and attitudes have the opportunity of being rewarded. Luke 6:23

When we’re sinners the goal is salvation but as believers the goal is rewards. Salvation is provided as a one time gift from the Father but rewards are provided for believers from the Lord Jesus Christ during the age of the church. Some believers fail to ever obtain rewards 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, Philippians 3:12-14 but the goal should be to pursue.

For myself that means acting on what I have learned is pleasing to the Lord. Because His rewards are for those things that He delights in and fulfills His desire for the church. De-light (what He has shone light on ) de-sire (what has come from Him)

Salvation gets you into the university of God, excellency of learning gets your degree of rewards. If a saint doesn’t reach that excellency the Father has already paid the tuition nonetheless. Still saved, have received eternal life and will be judged no more John 3:18, Romans 8:1

Altho believers will not be judged on sins, the bible does indicate that they will be judged 2 Corinthians 5:10, Romans 14:10-12, Matthew 25:14-30, 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 etc. That’s not the judgement of whether one is saved or perishes 1 Corinthians 3:15 but the judgement of one’s works.

From the day we first believed onward sins that have been confessed will not be brought up. Faithful service to the Lord will be. Works of wood, hay and stubble, things that sought the approval of man, working from a double motive, those won’t be rewarded at all, but will suffer tremendous loss. Or saved but continue to sin against the knowledge the Lord has given them, who have worked hard at dulling their conscience, unrepentant, will receive sever discipline from the Lord. Revelation 1-3 discloses the attitude of the Lord as a preclude to the judgement seat of Christ.

It all boils down to the believer’s response-abilty to the Lord Jesus.
 
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And one more to read at your leisure :) :sorry:

The experiences of today’s world tend to increase the longing of the saints for the coming of the Lord’s return. How blessed would we be to experience that! To see the triumph of truth and righteousness!

The Lord Jesus is the centre of God’s word to us Luke 24:27, John 5:39 therefore He is the key to the word of God. Remove Him from it and no one can understand it Hebrews 10:7. The person of Christ is the subject and the glory of Christ is the object. In not seeing Christ then all that remains is vanity.

As members of one body, the Father has bestowed gifts to all for the purpose of edifying one another .. and .. all are to bring their gifts to the table. 1 Corinthians 14:26, Romans 12:5-18

Being confident in His care and His love, growing from infancy to maturity in moral character, 1 Corinthians 14:20 we're at the same time being fitted together as living stones building up His temple, knowing that our own care for each other spiritually establishes the other great commandment of one heart toward each other Jeremiah 32:38-40, Ezekiel 11:19-2, Acts of the Apostles 4:32-35, Matthew 6:21 in all heart, soul, mind and strength. Romans 15:1, 1 John 2

So vertically and horizontally the cross is doing it's work. Peace becomes established when we don't take on His Name in vain. Exodus 20:7, Isaiah 29, Matthew 15:7-9. In deed that is vanity.

Be aware that the battle is not against flesh and blood, BUT flesh and blood needs also be aware that the alternative is fighting against God. John 3:17-19, Jeremiah 7:17-19, Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:15

As people separated to the Lord we reach the unity of faith and knowledge of God’s Son together in making ourselves ready for His return Ephesians 4:13-14, Revelation 19:7, Matthew 5:14-16 while the Saviour fights the battle against the world/satan and self for us. 2 Corinthians 2:15-17, John 8:12

In always keeping His return in sight we can't slack off but be vigilant as keepers of the house that awaits in faith. Luke 18:8, Matthew 5:13, 2 Peter 1:10 “He spoke a parable to them that men ought always to pray and not to faint.” Matthew 25:29, Titus 2:11-14

1 Peter 1:17-21 Let’s never forget our purpose.

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The seven Spirits of God, Revelation 1:4, Revelation 5:6

One lamp-stand but seven functions. The Spirit of God, intensified sevenfold to accomplish God's work on earth.

Christ's eyes are the expression of love in Song of Songs but in this prophesy they are like a flame of fire that observes and searches to exercise enlightened judgements. As He first came to set the captives free here He is seen as Him who completes the reading of the scroll set before Him at Luke 4:18

Seven lamps show the enlightenment of the Spirit of God for God's building, Exodus 25:37, Zechariah 4:2 (building and rebuilding of the temple) but the Revelation prophesy reveals the seven lamps of judgment will also issue in God's building; for the building of the New Jerusalem.

Zechariah 3:9
For here is the stone that I have set before Joshua - upon one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave its engraving, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Zechariah 4:7
Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain, and he will bring forth the top-stone with shouts of Grace, grace to it.
Zechariah 4:10
For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice when they see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; they are the eyes of Jehovah running to and fro on the whole earth.​

The seven Spirits of God are the manifold operations of the one Divine Spirit. The reference as to the Holy Spirit can be considered with respect to his manifold operations, and are regarded as connected with the work of the Redeemer. All the operations of the Spirit are a part of the work of redemption. The expression "sent forth into all the earth," refers to the fact that the Spirit pervades all things. The Spirit of God sent out to survey all things and to operate everywhere.

The seven spirits are also described as being the eyes of the lamb, so the lamb and the light are included in one.

Zachariah 3:9. For this is the stone which I lay before Joshua; there are in the same stone seven eyes: I will engrave it with its engravings, saith the Lord​

The seven eyes upon this stone may be seen as the eyes upon the wheels in Ezekiel’s vision, signifying the perfection and plenitude of knowledge and wisdom in Christ Jesus for the good of His church, and His ever watchful care of His people: or the various gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit, with which He was endued: for He hath the seven spirits of God, as well as the seven stars, and His eyes are as a flame of fire, piercing through all disguises, and searching the reins and the heart of every human creature, and especially of every one that professes to be his disciple.

The eye of the Father was upon him, to take care of him and protect him, especially in his sufferings. The eyes of all the prophets and Old Testament saints were upon this one stone: Abraham rejoiced to see Christ’s day, and he saw it and was glad. The eyes of all believers are upon him, as the eyes of the stung Israelites were upon the brazen serpent. They look unto him and are saved.

Christ is not only the rod of the stem of Jesse, the branch that grew out of his roots, the fruit of which is excellent and edifying for the remnant of Israel that escape the corruption which is in the world, but the foundation of the spiritual temple laid in Zion.

Proverbs 24:3-4
Through Wisdom is a house builded; and by Understanding it is established: But by Knowledge shall all the chambers be filled.
Psalms 119:27
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of Thy wondrous works.​
 
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Through belief in Christ and His finished work, a return, in the form of the new creation, to the image of God is re-established. The idea of the image then highlights not the nature reflecting the prototype, but the act of the making, or in this case the impartation of life. Which is regeneration. In doing so the new creation is reverting to the original status of Gen 1:27

Colossians 1:15
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
Hebrews 1:3
He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains[a] all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Genesis 1:27
So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.​

Ephesians 3:10 shows the church as responsible for unfolding the mysteries of God. And the purpose of the revealing of the Son of God was to destroy the works of the devil 1 John 3:8, Hebrews 2:14

Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil. And having rescued us from the power of darkness God then transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son.

As both sexes equally share the image of God, as long as both have the new creation life, which is what Paul also affirms in Galatians 3:28, as long as both are regenerated, then as with the Galatians, a return to law would be a return to the bondage of sexual discrimination.(and exploitation)
 
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Update, I’ve read two of your posts, I see I’ve got two more to read, so I’ve got some homework to do.. Just letting you know I’m working on them..I do see a heart after God in them, so they do bless, work on them tomorrow..

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Through belief in Christ and His finished work, a return, in the form of the new creation, to the image of God is re-established. The idea of the image then highlights not the nature reflecting the prototype, but the act of the making, or in this case the impartation of life. Which is regeneration. In doing so the new creation is reverting to the original status of Gen 1:27

Colossians 1:15
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
Hebrews 1:3
He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains[a] all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Genesis 1:27
So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.​

Ephesians 3:10 shows the church as responsible for unfolding the mysteries of God. And the purpose of the revealing of the Son of God was to destroy the works of the devil 1 John 3:8, Hebrews 2:14

Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil. And having rescued us from the power of darkness God then transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son.

As both sexes equally share the image of God, as long as both have the new creation life, which is what Paul also affirms in Galatians 3:28, as long as both are regenerated, then as with the Galatians, a return to law would be a return to the bondage of sexual discrimination.(and exploitation)

My heart leaped a bit when I read;
“The idea of the image then highlights not the nature reflecting the prototype, but the act of the making, or in this case the impartation of life.”

For this is absolutely true we are done with the images and shadows of the thing..We are to really and truly be be in possession of those things promised in the OT.. Such a blessing you are to the heart of a God, keep pressing in for great is your reward that waits..

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It all boils down to the believer’s response-abilty to the Lord Jesus.

That it might be;

“All of Him and nothing of us“

Be blessed in your relationship with Him, Not me
 
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My heart leaped a bit when I read;
“The idea of the image then highlights not the nature reflecting the prototype, but the act of the making, or in this case the impartation of life.”

For this is absolutely true we are done with the images and shadows of the thing..We are to really and truly be be in possession of those things promised in the OT.. Such a blessing you are to the heart of a God, keep pressing in for great is your reward that waits..

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I agree, the substance and not the shadow is what we’re to be looking at. He is the One that holds the key to all things.

All we can do is keep pressing on to follow after Him, hoping somehow to embrace it just as we have been embraced by the Christ Jesus. Keeping’ on keeping’ on, for where else can we go ? ! ? He has the words of eternal life!
 
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I agree, the substance and not the shadow is what we’re to be looking at. He is the One that holds the key to all things.

All we can do is keep pressing on to follow after Him, hoping somehow to embrace it just as we have been embraced by the Christ Jesus. Keeping’ on keeping’ on, for where else can we go ? ! ? He has the words of eternal life!

Amen and amen, thanks for being such an encouragement in Christ!

To Him be our all..

A fellow laborer in Christ, Not me
 
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2 Corinthians 5:16-20 the new creation's ministry in a nutshell, get reconciled to God and with others.

2 Corinthians 5:16-20
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making His appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
 
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Ezekiel 36:26-27
A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.​

A new heart I will give you, a new spirit I will put within you removing the heart of stone and giving you a heart of flesh.
From regeneration of the human spirit we have become a vessel for the purpose of God to become the habitat of God where He has dominion.
I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.
In the first the Holy Spirit’s work is to convince one of the unfitness of the one’s old nature’s sin life and the need for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Then the temple has become washed clean for the indwelling Spirit of the Son and Father with the prospect of holiness and blessedness.

From God’s perspective we already are complete in Christ, but from our perspective there is the need to know the different aspects of Jesus’ character to mend our soul’s flaws from the wear and tear that had been our old life. What we see of His refection is what is being wrought into our own. Therein is faith made real thru faithfulness in remembering who we are in Him.
 
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God has been building His Habitat since the beginning. Wisdom has built the house, understanding has established that house, but knowledge is what fills it. Seemingly mankind was left without tools to work out the means to live in a fallen world. But God has been working to engrain obedience to Him and trust as the only way back to the reality of the image of Him that we were first made.

Thousands of years was spent on developing the outward image of what was to be His inner abode. What is seen outwardly as the shadow of the substance is established in the reality of the inner working.

The image, male and female. Made from dust and built from a rib. Then a body prepared for Christ and His church built from wisdom, understanding and the knowledge of all that pertains to it. From the old creation to the new creation.

“Upon Whom you see the Spirit descending and abiding upon (outwardly) the same is He that baptizes with the Holy Spirit (inwardly)” Jesus first received and worked out Himself (to form the tools) of what was to be His gift to us (inwardly) Faith is that gift obtainable from the knowledge and acceptance of His finished work to restore us. A blessing to be received on the day we believe. The tool needed to live the Christian life.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the crown and glory of Jesus’ work. A personal relationship that no longer is from the outside inward but is worked from the inner and shows expression in the outer being.

Jesus baptizes His own in faithful abiding and obedience to the inner working. The rivers of living water flowing as it washes the conscience, bathed in the blood of Whom we have to do. Faith is the key to the knowledge that unlocks the door, the new nature’s instinct that recognizes and receives the Divine guidance of all that the Holy Spirit supplies as our food and drink.

The Holy Spirit is the inflowing, the seal of His love, and the power for our reasonable service as the children of the heavenly Father. Holy is His Name.
 
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Psalms 116
Question:
12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me?
Answer:
13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the Name of the Lord.​

Thankful acceptance for the deliverance that the Lord has wrought within me, I glorify His name as the immutable One that never fails to redeem His promises.

I celebrate Him as known in His works and ways, I celebrate Him as a symbol of order impressed by a governing Mind, and I celebrate being devoted entirely to praise of Him.

Psalms 111
3 Full of honour and majesty is His work,
and His righteousness endures forever.
4 He has gained renown by His wonderful deeds;
the Lord is gracious and merciful.
5 He provides food for those who fear him;
He is ever mindful of his covenant.​

His character’s essence is righteousness and tender mercies. The New Testament renders it light and love.

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you;
therefore He will rise up to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Titus 2:11-14
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,
training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,
while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
He it is who gave Himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people of His own who are zealous for good deed​

His work is honourable and majestic in an enduring, everlasting righteousness on the one hand, while on the other hand His work is also a tender care for His creatures that they may have joy and fruitful consequences from such knowledge.

In grace, God is with mankind, and in humility, mankind is with God.

On mankind’s part holy fear is the beginning of wisdom, which is the secret of good understanding from which the knowledge of Holy is established.

The praise of it will be eternal!
 
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Philippians 3:3, Hebrews 3:1-3, Hebrews 12:18-24

The old covenant can only be realized thru the view of the new covenant, reinterpreted in the light of the events of Christ’s life that has ushered in the church age in the last days where God has spoken thru His Son who currently sits on the right hand of God in the heavenly Mount Zion.

The pilgrimage from Mount Sinai reaches Mount Zion in Christ and finds it’s fulfilment for humanity in entering into the Sabbath rest Hebrews 4:4, Hebrews 4:11 identified with Christ’s ministry as High Priest that has been set up as the true tabernacle Hebrews 8:2, Hebrews 9:1 and ultimately as the city to come, Hebrews 11:10; Hebrews 13:14 the New Jerusalem, the city of the living God, Mount Zion Hebrews 12:22 of which Mount Sinai was a shadow or a sketch of the substance Hebrews 8:5 and a symbol [παραβολὴ] of the new age that is realized in Jesus Christ Hebrews 9:9

Christ inaugurated with His coming a new worship. All of the old is to make way for the new worship in Spirit and in truth. That was the worship inaugurated in with the coming of the Holy Spirit and is the great object of the Holy Spirit being within us, that we would worship in our own spirit the truth as we yield to His guidance.

For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh … pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you. Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.

The soul has to decide if it will yield itself to the spirit, but it won’t as long as it is ruled by the flesh. Colossians 2:18, Colossians 2:23
 
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Isaiah 42:6
I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness,
I have taken you by the hand and kept you;
I have given you as a covenant to the people,
a light to the nations,​

Christ became a covenant for the children of Zion

Thus says the Lord:
In a time of favor I have answered you,
on a day of salvation I have helped you;
I have kept you and given you
as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land,
to apportion the desolate heritages; Isaiah 49:8​

For Zion’s children are to be brought home in white robes.

Hebrews 7:22
accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.​

God Himself is our inheritance.

Ephesians 1:13-14
In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit;
this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.​

The Holy Spirit within is the seal that we belong to God. The new nature takes on the divine attributes that were covenantal in Christ. Those attributes are the unsearchable riches of Christ that we inherit, first the down payment, and then from glory to glory as the image becomes clearer, seeing the reflection in the mirror that is Christ.
Saints we have become that were once the sinners.
That’s the righteous legal standing that justifies our qualification and Christ as the surety that we will inherit everything of God embodied in Christ.

The gospel is the power of God unto salvation and where the righteousness of God is revealed. Romans 1:16-17
Romans 5:8 says that by His one act justification was given. Justification is that covenant for which God gave us Christ.
His light is for our life, an opening of the blind eyes to see the spiritual things of God.

Isaiah 42:7
to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
from the prison those who sit in darkness.
Acts of the Apostles 26:18
to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.​
His mission:
To bring the prisoners out of the prisons.
So to give justification to receive the light of life that sets one free.
 
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The rendered veil which is His flesh

Luke 2:35
As a result, the deepest thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your very soul.

John 19:34
However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood ... Jesus said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

God bless ya’ll. It’s been a slice.
 
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