Continuing with Our Oneness with GOD

Before continuing on I want to look back by way of review at John 10 and verses 14 through 16 which states this by our Lord Jesus, "I am the good shepherd. I know My own and My own know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd." With this in our last post I began with John 17 verse 10 in which we have this statement, "All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them." From this point we are looking at who we are to become in the knowledge of the LORD of lords. Now when we take all that our Bible reveals to us be it the old standard of the KJV or another other translation out there remains one element required to bring  the hidden to life. He being the Holy Spirit the author and authority of the Bible text no matter the version being used. For without Him the words are just words like any other book. And the mystery remains just that a mystery (Det. 29:29, Mark 4:11, 22, Luke 8:17 and John 18:20) accept where Jesus reveals these things about Himself and the Father. There were men before Jesus' birth who fond Christ who never knew Jesus by this name, because all that they knew was Christ in His eternal being; Jesus is His human name. He, was not Jesus Christ before Bethlehem. He was always Christ through eternity, the anointed Son, and in God's sight always had been crucified and risen. The Bible says in that remarkable phrase in 1Peter 1:20 and Revelation 13:8, that He was "the lamb slain from the foundation of the world." So in God's eyes, where there is no time factor, He always has been the Savior, even before there was a world to be saved. It is from this stand point that we are to approach our studies of Him as asked of us all in Mat. 11:28-30 where this is fond, "Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Are you ready to) Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me (?), for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light."


Chosen by (Yehovah) Jehovah:


Deuteronomy 14:2 "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth."

Romans 12:1-3 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned." (Titus 2:14 and 1Peter 2:9 as seen in our first study on this medication)


Exalted above all nations:

Deuteronomy 26:16-19 "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in His ways, and keep His statutes and His commandments and His rules, and will obey His voice. And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for His treasured possession, as He has promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments, and that He will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that He has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as He promised." ( tied in here is 1Sam. 12:24 and Ps 29:11, and again we have 1Peter 2:5, 9 with Rev. 1:5-6)
  

Guided as a flock:


Psalm 78:40-53 and 100:1-3 "How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel. They did not remember His power or the day when He redeemed them from their foes, when He performed His signs in Egypt and His marvels in the fields of Zoan. He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams. He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them. He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost. He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts. He let loose on them His burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels. He made a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague. He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham. Then He led out His people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies."

Psalm 100:1-3 "Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into His presence with singing! Know that the LORD, He is GOD! It is He Who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture." (here we find John 17:3, 2Cor. 4:6, Gal. 4:8-9 and 1John 5:20 where we find the following)

1John 5:18-22, 21 "We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God, (it is God Who) protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him Who is true; and we are in Him Who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Little children, keep yourselves from idols."


The LORD willing tomorrow when it comes I will endeavor to conclude this study.