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At rebirth believers are complete in salvation (we will never be more saved in our spirit than we are now), and in our spirit being we have been fully “conformed to the image of His Son” (Rom 8:29) via being “partakers of His divine nature” (2Pet 1:4), which in my understanding exists via the “new nature”; which new nature (“new man”) is created by the Spirit and in Whose image is Christ (Rom 8:29; Col 3:10).

Completely conformed in our spirit, but progressively conforming in our walk. The walk alters not the conformation but the comprehension of our conformation alters our walk!

This of course does not design the intention that the creature (man) becomes divine, but only as it is written—taking our part in being recipients of the provisions from the divine nature and not becoming divine, i.e. being holy, righteous, justified and sanctified—but never “divine.”

Being divine is reserved solely to the Trinity (Father, Son and Spirit), for possessing divinity requires never having had a beginning but has existed “from everlasting (eternity past) to everlasting” (eternity future).

The longer believers live in this life, the more they manifest this completeness—by their walk, which is unceasingly progressive in learning and appropriation (applying). The sole relation which the walk of the believer has with salvation is that of “justifying,” which in this sense means to manifest or display, and this parallels “by works a man is justified” (Jam 2:25), e.g. works show (manifest or display) one has been made righteous.

The other sense of “justify” is that which only the Lord Jesus effects (produces—Rom 3:24; 5:9; 8:30; 1Cor 6:11; Tit 3:7), which believers can only manifest but never produce (same as the branch only “bears” - Jhn 15:8, for only the vine produces). The manor of our walk will always be commensurate with the level at which is our understanding concerning our faith in Christ’s expiation, and of our comprehension concerning the completeness of our Father’s acceptance in Him!

Therefore, everyone born-again has been perfected in their spirit being, which will be fully manifested at the “Resurrection of the just” (Luk 14:14), due to the absence of the corruptible body and the sinful nature (“old man”). All that remains for believers here is to continue to mature in our “walk in the Spirit” (Gal 5:25), which God uses to glorify Himself and His Son, via strengthening the saved and drawing the lost!
 
hi. I often enjoy your posts. This one really hit home with me. It kinda reminds me of The Great Divorce, you know...how believers go to Heaven and are made "real," where things are "real" and perfect? Just kinda crossed my mind.

Your signature line also struck a chord...lately, I've been praying that God will make me a bit less me and a bit more Jesus, as time goes on. At the same time, its dawned on me that Christ in me looks different (to a point...) than Christ in anybody else, so there's an element of becoming who I really am, in Christ Jesus, as I continue walking with The Lord.

Anyway...yet another good post, thanks. :)
 
hi. I often enjoy your posts. This one really hit home with me. It kinda reminds me of The Great Divorce, you know...how believers go to Heaven and are made "real," where things are "real" and perfect? Just kinda crossed my mind.

Your signature line also struck a chord...lately, I've been praying that God will make me a bit less me and a bit more Jesus, as time goes on. At the same time, its dawned on me that Christ in me looks different (to a point...) than Christ in anybody else, so there's an element of becoming who I really am, in Christ Jesus, as I continue walking with The Lord.

Anyway...yet another good post, thanks. :)
Hi CE, and nice to hear from you and that you're doing good! Who we are in Jesus becomes more understandable to us all the time! It's very encouraging to know this and see it in our lives.

Blessings!
 
The more we conform to His image the more we shed our own as we are no longer of this world, but that of Christ and to know the mind of Christ as we walk in Gods will and not our own.
 
The more we conform to His image the more we shed our own as we are no longer of this world, but that of Christ and to know the mind of Christ as we walk in Gods will and not our own.
Hi FHG, and thanks for your reply! Yes, and this concerns the ever-progressive maturity in our walk, but the conformity the article addresses concerns the full conformity of Christ's image in our spirit via the new nature at rebirth. This is a conformation that doesn't change, unlike the conformation of our walk, which continually changes "from glory to glory."

Blessings to you!
 
we can talk the talk but can we walk the walk?
Hi EZ, thanks for the reply and hope all is well! In my opinion, everyone born again will eventually learn to "walk in the Spirit," because every believer has God "working" in them (Phil 2:13).

Blessings!
 
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