By way of reminder we are looking into the "revelation" of verse 3 of Ephesians 3's mystery and the workings of GOD restored to the human heart as the anointing. Paul makes reference of this in his letters to Timothy as a means of telling Timothy to allow GOD by His anointing to capitalize on the Messiah in him. For anywhere we find the reference to the anointing it is always a reference to the Messiah-Christ. This understood our next subject is the dwelling of Christ within all who will receive Him, that is to say receive the Spirit of GOD as Jesus Himself did at His baptism by John. And simultaneously the heaven opened and John with Jesus heard the Father bear witness of this transformation of Jesus to being the anointed Spirit or Messiah-Christ now in man's flesh again. Now it do well to understand that where we find law used it makes reference to the universal of Genesis 3 in the knowledge of the tree of good and evil, this law being sin and death. While the Jew (who lives among the Hebrews) is under both this law and the curse of the Law of Moses.
Christ's Indwelling:
Revealed in the Coming of the Holy Spirit,
John 14:20 of 18-24 (Jesus is speaking) "'I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. Whoever has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.' Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered him, 'If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and WE (Elohim) will come to him and make Our home with him. Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. And the word that you hear is not Mine but the Father's Who sent Me.'" (Deuteronomy 16:18-20 of 15-22)
Demonstrates to the World Christ's Mission,
John 17:23 of 20-24 and Romans 8:10 (Jesus is speaking) "'I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word, that they may all be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. The glory that You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as We are One, I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You love Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory that You have given Me because You loved Me (in them) before the foundation of the world.'"
Romans 8:10 of 8, 9-11, 12-17 "Those who are in the flesh cannot please GOD.
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of GOD dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. For if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit (signifying mans spirit now) is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him (GOD) Who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, HE Who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds (of the universal law and for the Jew the Mosaic Law) of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by Whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of GOD and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him (as He) in order that we may also be glorified with Him."
The old life dies that the New may Live,
Galatians 2:20 of 15-21 "We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the Law (in mortal man) no one will be justified. For if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. For through the law I died to the Law, (Paul here makes use of both laws that separate all from GOD) so that I might live to GOD. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ Who lives in me. And the Life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of GOD, for if righteousness were through the law (this being both laws), then Christ died for no purpose."
Obtained by Faith,
Ephesians 3:17-19 of 14-19, 20-21 "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named (Christ), that according to the riches of His glory HE may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of GOD.
Now to Him Who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. The Amen."
A Glorious Mystery,
Colossians 1:27 of 2, 3-8, 9-15, 16-20, 21-23, 24-29 "To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from GOD our Father.
We always thank GOD, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of GOD in truth, just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of GOD's will (plan and purpose) in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the LORD, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of GOD. May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, by Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible GOD, the firstborn (Genesis 2 restored) of all creation.
For by Him (the unknown Christ of Genesis 2) all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him. And HE is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And HE is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the (separated) dead, that in everything HE might be preeminent. For in Him (Christ in Jesus) all the fullness of GOD was pleased to dwell, and through Him to reconcile to (GOD) Himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, HE has now reconciled in His body of flesh (in which the universal law dwells) by His death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before Him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body, that is, the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from GOD that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to His saints. To them GOD chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature (perfect) in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all His energy that HE powerfully works within me."
Obedience is Essential,
1John 3:24 of 4-10, 11-12, 13-22, 23-24 "Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that He appeared in order to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen Him or known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as He is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the (universal of sin and death under the influence of) devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works (universal law) of the devil. No one born of GOD makes a practice of sinning, for GOD's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of (the universal law of sin and) death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before Him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and HE knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before GOD; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.
And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus, the Christ and love one another, just as HE has commanded us. Whoever keeps His commandments abides in GOD, and GOD in him. And by this we know that HE abides in us, by the Spirit Whom HE has given us."
Possible to All,
Revelation 3:20 of 14, 15-22 (Jesus is speaking) "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of GOD's creation.
I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm (Strong's 1828 Bible Dictionary states this for G5513: "metaphorically of the condition of the soul wretchedly [to bring a state of ruin, one in disabled state] fluctuating between a torpor and a fervor of love"), and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with Me. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also conquered and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"
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