Bible Study Lifted Up Towards His Fullness

[Albert Finch]

Should living in His presence as we go throughout the day be something we should attain to?

 

[Kidron]

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Is Christ in you "the hope of Glory"?
Are you the "temple of the Holy Spirit"?
Are you "in Christ"?
Are you "seated in heavenly places in Christ"?
"As Jesus is so are we in this world".
"we are bone of his bones and flesh of His flesh".
are we "sealed unto the day of redemption' BY the Holy Spirit?

So, can you really get more in His presence then to have God in you? ????
YET< we are to seek His presence.
Yep.
So we should we live in a state of "worshipful God awareness and reverence".
We should "press toward the mark of the High Calling of God".
We Should tune into God and tune out the world
I VOTE YES.

 

[Jim Parker]

Should living in His presence as we go throughout the day be something we should attain to?

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

 

[Albert Finch]

Since the moment we first came to Christ, there has been an updraft of the Holy Spirit, a constant drawing from God lifting us upward toward the fullness of His Presence. Lets surrender to this wind of God and allow Him to carry us into our holy earthly future (God's purpose for our life).

Every believer in Christ Jesus can live in the perpetual continuous flow of the Holy Spirit daily in their life, for we've all been given the blessing and authority to tap into the root of continuous oil. That root is Jesus!

"You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them become a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree." - Romans 11:17

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

 

[Kidron]

Lets surrender to this wind of God

Every believer in Christ Jesus can live in the perpetual continuous flow of the Holy Spirit daily in their life,

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AF,
i appreciate all the flowery language that you are using to indicate the wonder of it all, but if you are meaning to try to teach something specific, you are not achieving it.
And if you are not teaching something specific and practical, then all you are doing is inventing flowery wordplay that leads nowhere fast, AF.
You are showing them the water, but you never tell them how to drink, and this is because you are constantly describing a mystical experience without giving them any practical method to attain it.
So then, what good is it???
You offer nothing except a grand sounding idea of what could be, without any certain steps that are required to attain your mountaintop mystery.
You really need to add a dose of practicality to your magical mystery tour trip to the fatness of the olive tree.
C'mon.

 

[for_his_glory]

Not only attain to, but run to so we know His fullness in all things of our everyday life as our focus has to be on the Lord who is seated at the right hand of God as we are no longer of this world even though we have to live in it for a time.

Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

 

[Jim Parker]

Since the moment we first came to Christ, there has been an updraft of the Holy Spirit, a constant drawing from God lifting us upward toward the fullness of His Presence.

Man was created in the image and likeness of God. (Gen 1:26)
The exact demonstration of that likeness was provided by Jesus on the mount of transfiguration.

Mat 17:2 Jesus "... was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as light."
While many do not respond to the call, that verse describes what all of mankind is called to be.

Peter described our goal as to "..become partakers of the divine nature." (2Pe 1:4)

And Paul taught that the purpose of the ministries of the church is to guide believers to the goal of attaining the "fullness"** of Christ.

Eph 4:11-13 (RSV) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness** of Christ;

** Scripture provides a clarification of the word, "fullness.: (Greek: "Pleroma", πλήρωμα)
Col 1:19 (RSV) For in (Jesus) all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
Col 2:9 (RSV) For in (Jesus) the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

Of course we cannot become gods by nature, that is, having the same divine essence as God, because our nature/essence is that of a creature. It is impossible for creation to change its essence from creature to divinity. But it is God's will that we fully participate in His uncreated "energies." (As in the power of his grace by which He created heaven and earth; by which He spoke through the prophets; by which the Son of God was conceived in the Virgin's womb without seed; by which the Son of Man rose from the grave on the third day....) It is His will that we become perfect images (icons), exact replicas of Jesus in every aspect except having a divine nature/essence.

Paul said that we, the church, "...are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." (Eph 5:30 NKJV) He said that, as a husband and wife become one flesh, so the church, in a profound mystery, becomes one flesh with Christ. (Eph 5:31-32)

No, we are not called into relationship with God through Christ ONLY to become better morally or ONLY so that we can "go to heaven instead of hell". We are called to be the exact image and likeness of God, of which Jesus is the prototype. That was God's original purpose in creating mankind in His image and likeness and God will bring His will and purpose to fruition in the saints when Jesus comes to rule forever. He's already begun the process; it starts at the moment one is born again.

that's how I see it.


iakov the fool

 

[Albert Finch]

Kidron said:
i appreciate all the flowery language that you are using

Thank you.