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All believers have faith, and God through it matures the life of Christ within by His Spirit through the new nature and His Word. Maturity involves traversing past the beginning stage of salvation and “going on to completion” (Heb 6:1), through “being conformed (not conforming) to the image of His Son.” We are progressively being “changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (Rom 8:29; 2 Cor 3:18).
One key phrase is “being conformed,” and the instruction here is differentiating between conforming and being conformed, which is the difference between self-conformation and Spirit-conformation. Self can only conform to the Adamic nature, same result that a fountain cannot “send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter.”
All godly conformation is “by His Spirit in the inner man” (Eph 3:16), e.g. in the “new man” or new nature, which is “after the image of Him (Jesus) that created him (it—the new nature). It encourages the Christian when these particulars are learned, and regardless of our knowledge, the Spirit continues to conform each believer.
For every child of God, there is an ongoing maturity process resulting from His use of “all things” (Rom 8:28) that occurs in our lives, which results in collating our faith to His Word. All victory has been accomplished in the believers life, thus it is always a matter of our faith in this accomplishment of Christ. This produces rest and security which will increase the strength of our faith and His use of our lives—“while it is called ‘Today’” (Heb 3:13) for, “the night cometh when no man can work.”
One key phrase is “being conformed,” and the instruction here is differentiating between conforming and being conformed, which is the difference between self-conformation and Spirit-conformation. Self can only conform to the Adamic nature, same result that a fountain cannot “send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter.”
All godly conformation is “by His Spirit in the inner man” (Eph 3:16), e.g. in the “new man” or new nature, which is “after the image of Him (Jesus) that created him (it—the new nature). It encourages the Christian when these particulars are learned, and regardless of our knowledge, the Spirit continues to conform each believer.
For every child of God, there is an ongoing maturity process resulting from His use of “all things” (Rom 8:28) that occurs in our lives, which results in collating our faith to His Word. All victory has been accomplished in the believers life, thus it is always a matter of our faith in this accomplishment of Christ. This produces rest and security which will increase the strength of our faith and His use of our lives—“while it is called ‘Today’” (Heb 3:13) for, “the night cometh when no man can work.”