For me and those who have been reading this blog know and understand the effects of our death, burial, descent into the abyss, the resurrection and ascension of our joint being as Christ ones in the humanity of our LORD Jesus. The veil (Matthew 27:51) of the secret things of GOD and mysteries of Christ having been torn into two separate pieces by GOD'S hand. This veil symbolic of the old and the beginning of a new and living way eliminating the old void of false (religious) separation between GOD and His humanity. The true reason that the Temple of David was torn down by the Romans some 65 years later and the stones scattered about.
For some time now I have been pondering what to write and say about those who have no earthly idea of their true status of life after death as a resurrected born again Christ one this being humanity's true identity redeemed by the actions of the Cross and all that Christ Jesus went through on our behalf, from child birthing through His mission and ministry. First as the son of man (our humanity) and second as the Son of GOD (the second Adam), both of these are who we are and have been since before time or the earth become spoken into being. The disciple (a student of Christ) John in 1John 5:7 clarifies the little known trinity nature of GOD (this vehemently denied by the Hebrews), as being Father, Son..Christ, and Spirit most Holy and True. This first introduced in Genesis 1:1 where the ancients changed the ancient name or letter reference of GOD as Elohiym this made up of three parts H430, H433 and H410. John identifies the H433 as being Christ, this is also hidden in Genesis 1:26-28 by the words image and likeness in....While Leviticus 17:11 tells us that Life is in the blood with an altar, this repeated in Hebrews 13:10 and explained by John in 1John 5:1-4 the operation of Love, and 5-12 the operation of the Spirit of Truth, 13-15, 16-17, 18-20 this written that we may know.
Okay, so now for the areas of my intention this being within the context of Romans 8, for that I shall do a copy and paste first with the subheadings and then either a word study or a verse study or maybe both.
Life in the Spirit:
Romans 8:1-8, 9-11, 12-17, 18-25, 26-27, 28-30, 31-9:5 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit is life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law's condemnation of sin and death. For what this law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of (the divine) law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (having experiences rebirth). For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; For they that are after the Spirit mind the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; For to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9-11 For we are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; For the Spirit is Life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead has also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you.
Heirs with Christ:
Rom 8:12-17 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if we live after the flesh, we shall die: but if we through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body (this the taking up of our cross daily as a living sacrifice), we shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God (you must be born from above, born again, John 1:13, 3:3, 6), they are the sons of God. For we have not received the spirit of (religious) bondage again to fear; But have received the Spirit of adoption (John 1:13), whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; Heirs of God, and joint-heirs within Christ; If so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.
Future, no, present Glory:
Rom 8:18-25 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (this is not at some future date or time, but rather NOW). For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God (the after effects of our joint resurrection). For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him Who has subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body (this being salvation not our redemption). For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for? For if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Rom 8:26-27 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities (lack of vision, lack of insight, lack of inspiritation): for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. And He that searches the heart knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the Will (Word, law) of God.
Rom 8:28-30 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestinated, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justifies: and whom He justifies, them He also glorifies.
God's Everlasting Love:
Rom 8:31-39, 9:1-5 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is He that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? I think not! As it is written, "For your sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." (Ps. 44:22) For, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loves us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.
God's Sovereign Choice:
Rom 9:1-5 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelis; To whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the comments, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen."
Don't know at this point which way I may be led.
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