Continuing on now with Christ being restored to man's spirit, in His Salvation, which is our now living in the New Covenant of Grace. In which we learn this Truth as brought to man by way of a death and marriage of two who come into agreement. I want to look at our Unity with Christ as hidden in the ancient scriptures and now revealed more so in the New Testament of witness to this life giving reality and fact, for those who have become one with Him, who Is. I have found two or more areas of related and of interest that if the LORD allows I will cover as they reinforce what we are currently learning of Him. I have by the LORD stood on the ground that HE laid for man to receive of Him, His revelation as promised man eons ago, this being hid from ages and generations, but now made manifest.......which is Christ in you; I have said nothing but by the Bible way as nothing can be simpler. Because we were created to live like that, as receivers, as seen in the simples exercise of human functions. It is this faculty of reception, called in the Bible.....faith. "To as many as receive Him, to them gave HE power to become the sons of GOD, even to them that believe on His name;" for believing is receiving.
"Received you the Spirit by the words of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?"
Our Unity with Christ:
Romans 7:4-6, 1Corinthians 6:15, 2Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 5:30 and 1John 2:24 "Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to Him Who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the Law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit (spirit) and not in the old way of the written code."
1Corinthians 6:12-20 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the LORD, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." But he who is joined to the LORD (Christ) becomes one spirit with Him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, Whom you have from GOD? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify GOD in your body."
2Corinthians 11:1-6 "I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband (this is hidden within one title and name "LORD"), to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. (here comes our warning) But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts (this is done in religion and religious actives) will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things."
Ephesians 5:25-33 "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loves (His family) the church and gave Himself up for her (the family), that He might sanctify (the family) her, having cleansed (the family) her by the washing of water with the word, so that He might present the (family) church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she (the family) might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the (family) church, because we are members of His body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the (family) church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."
1John 2:18-25 "Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists (mans religions, governments, economies and religious institutions are all in the mix because they all foster darkness and maintain separation from God) have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. For you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge (the meaning of the Hebrew name Messiah or Christ). I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son (Christ) has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide (as a son) in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that HE made to us—eternal life ( this is our fellowship hidden from view)."
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