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eph 2 :
10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
When were the saved created in Christ Jesus ? Many would reply to this question by saying, when one is born again they are created new in Christ Jesus , and though that would in a time sense be true, I believe Paul is speaking corporately when all the elect of God were created simultaneously when Jesus Christ Himself [ Their Head] was created.
Remember when Adam was created, a type and figure of Him who was to come, He had created in Him His bride and all His natural offspring in order to populate the earth for Gods purpose. So it is likewise with the Last Adam, as the antitype and substance of the First Adam, that when He was created [ or begotten] before all worlds, He was made with His bride and spiritual seed in Him, for He was the Fathers very First workmanship, masterpiece. We [ the elect] were created in Him unto good works, God hath before prepared for us, Him [ Jesus Christ] being our head, and we as His members. For His body is a extension of what He himself began to do and teach during His earthly mission..i.e
It was prophesied that He would be a light to the gentiles isa 42:
6I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Now compare Paul's mission [ a member of the church His body] acts 26:
17Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
18To open
their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Isa 43 7 says
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the head of the church, His body, was created for the Fathers Glory, along with His seed in Him..
I know many are are thinking, what does he mean, that Christ was created ? Don't worry, I am a firm believer in the Deity of Christ as well, and a uncreated and unbegotten Deity at that..
eph 2 :
10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
When were the saved created in Christ Jesus ? Many would reply to this question by saying, when one is born again they are created new in Christ Jesus , and though that would in a time sense be true, I believe Paul is speaking corporately when all the elect of God were created simultaneously when Jesus Christ Himself [ Their Head] was created.
Remember when Adam was created, a type and figure of Him who was to come, He had created in Him His bride and all His natural offspring in order to populate the earth for Gods purpose. So it is likewise with the Last Adam, as the antitype and substance of the First Adam, that when He was created [ or begotten] before all worlds, He was made with His bride and spiritual seed in Him, for He was the Fathers very First workmanship, masterpiece. We [ the elect] were created in Him unto good works, God hath before prepared for us, Him [ Jesus Christ] being our head, and we as His members. For His body is a extension of what He himself began to do and teach during His earthly mission..i.e
It was prophesied that He would be a light to the gentiles isa 42:
6I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Now compare Paul's mission [ a member of the church His body] acts 26:
17Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
18To open
their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Isa 43 7 says
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the head of the church, His body, was created for the Fathers Glory, along with His seed in Him..
I know many are are thinking, what does he mean, that Christ was created ? Don't worry, I am a firm believer in the Deity of Christ as well, and a uncreated and unbegotten Deity at that..