Soul man
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From the very beginning of God’s redeeming of sons for His house, we see that His intention was to put another person, Himself, in the form of His Son, Jesus in every creature He chose to be His (Eph. 1:4). In fact, Paul said it plainly, "the believer was chosen in Christ."
This simply means that God’s only intention was to have sons in Christ. Thus, throughout the Scriptures, the term “in Christ” is the most often used term in all the Word.
This shows that the whole intention of the Father is that this truth be known above all else.
Yet, without a move of the Spirit, meaning a God directed emphasis, there would not be any consciousness that the believer is in Christ in the Church today.
Perhaps the great problem in the Church today is centered in the idea of the believer’s spiritual growth. If the believer is always growing, then he never comes to a certain “utopia” of understanding. Thus, Satan intervenes to help teach and spur that growth, evading the central fact of God’s initial gift of Christ, thus making the believer dependent on doing rather than being. Spiritual growth is necessary on the believer’s part, but none of his efforts add to the Father’s purpose of choosing him in Christ.
Obviously, God put Christ in the believer as a definite act of grace because He knew that He could never depend upon the believer reaching any stage of spiritual growth that would please Him.
It was not God’s intention that Christ grow up in the believer, but rather that the believer grow up in Christ. Christ is whole in the believer.
Jesus does not come in parts or pieces, nor do we get a little of Him here and there. He is a person, a total complete person who comes into the believer when he is born again, and at that very moment, that believer stands perfect, by Christ, to the Father. It is the Father’s doing. Nothing man or Satan can do adds to this or takes away from it.
This simply means that God’s only intention was to have sons in Christ. Thus, throughout the Scriptures, the term “in Christ” is the most often used term in all the Word.
This shows that the whole intention of the Father is that this truth be known above all else.
Yet, without a move of the Spirit, meaning a God directed emphasis, there would not be any consciousness that the believer is in Christ in the Church today.
Perhaps the great problem in the Church today is centered in the idea of the believer’s spiritual growth. If the believer is always growing, then he never comes to a certain “utopia” of understanding. Thus, Satan intervenes to help teach and spur that growth, evading the central fact of God’s initial gift of Christ, thus making the believer dependent on doing rather than being. Spiritual growth is necessary on the believer’s part, but none of his efforts add to the Father’s purpose of choosing him in Christ.
Obviously, God put Christ in the believer as a definite act of grace because He knew that He could never depend upon the believer reaching any stage of spiritual growth that would please Him.
It was not God’s intention that Christ grow up in the believer, but rather that the believer grow up in Christ. Christ is whole in the believer.
Jesus does not come in parts or pieces, nor do we get a little of Him here and there. He is a person, a total complete person who comes into the believer when he is born again, and at that very moment, that believer stands perfect, by Christ, to the Father. It is the Father’s doing. Nothing man or Satan can do adds to this or takes away from it.
