Originally posted by vishvahetu
God has done everything God could ever do, and now it is up to us.
God is already indwelling in everyones heart, and when you stop sinning and call to God, then the relationship starts.
But your biggest problem is that you are calling to Jesus as Lord and Creator, but Lord and Creator is not Jesus.
Jesus was a teacher of God.
God is God, and h ...[text shortened]... ation, for how could a loving exchange take place in your heart with God if you sin against him.
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God has done everything God could ever do, and now it is up to us.
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The Triune God is
operating still in those who receive Christ.
Our brother Paul wisely wrote out of his extensive and pioneering experience:
"For it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13)
He did not stop working at the resurrection of Christ. He continues to
operate in His redeemed people.
Christ is the Executor of His will and the living High Priest ever living tp intercede for those recipients of His will. He is able to save us the the uttermost because of His powerful intercession:
"But He, because He abides forever, hass His priesthood unalterable. Hence also He is able to save to the uttermost those who come forward to God through Him, since He lives always to intercede for them." (Hebrews 7:25)
God's servants and apostles plant the seed of divine life and water the seed of divine life. It is God who causes the divine life to grow. So the Apostle Paul tells the troublesome church in Corinth:
"I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth" (1 Cor. 3:6)
God is bound by His righteousnesss to complete the new testament sanctification. And in the time transcendent eyes of God it has already been completed. I say again that when the Apostle John saw the final outcome, the New Jerusalem, he saw all the redeemed ones there.
John saw in this symbolic vision, the names of the twelve apostles of Christ inscribed on the twelve foundations of the city. These were men like you and I. Peter's name in written on the foundation of the city.
"And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb." (Rev. 21:13)
Peter was a good example. He made many mistakes in the Bible. He made many blunders and backsliddings. He was even rebuked to his face by a younger man apostle, Paul. He was a kind of opinionated blunderer.
Yet John saw Peter's name written on the foundation of the New Jerusalem. This means that Peter is there. And every other blundering saint of God is there in that perfected city. In the eternal eyes of God it has already been completed. So we have assurance that the Triune God cannot BUT complete the full salvation to the uttermost.
We did not believe in Him without His mercy. Neither can we be transformed without His operation of grace and His mercy. We need to get into the proper environment of the prevailing new testament church life that we may become
"more than conquerors". The new testament church should be a kind of farm upon which God is growing Christ within men and women:
"For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's farm [cultivated land], God's building" (1 Cor. 3:9) If He died for us and rose again for us and dispensed His life and nature into us, we may be assured that He will build us up and grow in us to the full.
We may cause Him a little trouble. But God will complete His full salvation. Of that we need have no fear.
Should I drop these exceedingly great and precious promises and go after some antichrist who fights against every aspect of the Bible ? No indeed.
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God is already indwelling in everyones heart, and when you stop sinning and call to God, then the relationship starts.
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Every man and woman is made in the image of God. This is something like a glove is made in the image of a hand. Though the hand may not yet be in the glove, the image of a hand is certainly in the glove.
This is a great truth. For on one hand when we look at an empty glove we may say "There is a hand in that glove". Well, a hand may not be in the glove yet. But because of the design of the glove we see an image of a hand in the glove. So in that sense it is not altogether wrong to say "There is a hand in the glove." What we really see is the image of a hand in the glove.
But then a living hand actually does enter into the glove. Now the hand really is in the glove. But man is made in the image and likeness of God
(Genesis 1:26,27) [/b]
The Bible says
"But as many as RECEIVED Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name ..." (John 1:12)
This receiving of Jesus Christ is receiving the hand into the glove. This is the receiving of God in Christ as the Holy Spirit into the human vessel. The authority to become children of God is granted to those who receive Christ.
John did not say "to those who reject Him or receive Him." John did not say to those who believe into His name and to those who diasbelieve and fight against His name". But to those who receive Him, these believe into His name which means to believe into HIM.
He grants the authority to be in the divine family by life, by birth the second:
" ... to those who believe into His name [into Him] who were begotten [born], not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:13)
This new birth is not because of being blood related to any man. It is not of blood. It is not of the will of the flesh, which means it is not of the will of the fallen Satanified man. Nor is it of the will of MAN. This means the birth is not even of the will of the unfallen man who was made
"very good" (Gen. 1:31) before the fall of Adam.
The second birth is
"of God" It is a Re-birth of God - supernatural. It is not of the natural life. It is not of the natural birth ( " ie. everyone has God in them " ).
It is a
RE-generation. It is a re-
GENE- eration. New divine GENES, as it were, are impregnated into the innermost being of a person's spiritual being. They are born of God. Now they can know their dear and heavenly Daddy, their Abba Father.
Paul said he and his partners had
"this treasure in earthen vessels". Rather then an empty vessel, Paul received Christ, believing into His name - into His living availability, and then he could say:
"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out of us." (2 Cor. 4:7)
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But your biggest problem is that you are calling to Jesus as Lord and Creator, but Lord and Creator is not Jesus.
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This is the incorrect teaching of an antichrist. You'll never believe into His name with this error. At least you must call
"Lord Jesus". No man can say Jesus is Lord except in the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus was a teacher of God.
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Yes Jesus Christ is a Teacher come from God. That is not untrue. But it is superfiscial. Christ is God become man.
He not only had a teaching about God. He speaks God Himself into His followers. He Himself as
"a life giving Spirit" comes to make an abode in His followers. There was NEVER NEVER EVER a Teacher like this.
"Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him." (John 14:23)
No teacher from God ever promised this. Christ as the Son of God, with His Father, and AS the life giving Spirit will come to the earthen vessel of our humanity and make an abode within us. Then we have this treasure in earthen vessels. Then we have
"RECIEVED Him" to be born again as children of God.
This Teacher then teaching not from without only by objective teaching. He teaches from within His abode within our hearts. This is not sentimental. This is Christ bringing the Triune God into man to dispense God into man to mingle God and man together.
Redemption Through the Blood of Jesus
23 Jan '11 04:50
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