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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Three Steps Toward Righteousness, #6
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, (Galatians 4:19—NIV)
To be saved is to receive the authority through the blood of the cross to press through to the fullness of God.
To be baptized with the Holy Spirit is to receive the Presence of the Holy Spirit so we have the wisdom and power to press through to the fullness of God.
But now we have come to a third dimension of salvation—the forming of Christ in us.
When we are speaking of having Christ formed in us we are not referring to the coming of Christ from Heaven to dwell in us. That is another matter. Rather we are pointing toward the integration of the Substance and Virtue of Christ, His Divine Nature, into our personality in such a manner that old things pass away and our personality becomes new in Christ.
The adamic nature must die. The Christ Nature must be formed in us. Death, and life. Death, and life. Death, and life. Order on order, rule on rule. A little here, a little there, so we will go, fall backward, and be injured, snared, and captured. This is the rest of God and the Holy Spirit operates the procedure.
What comes forth in our personality is a new creation. The new creation is not us. The new creation is not Christ. It is a new person formed from us and Christ.
We have lost our individuality, our ability to be separate from God. But our unique identity has been enhanced.
How does such a new creation come into existence? Through the travail of the ministries and gifts of the Body of Christ. They labor that we might come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man, to maturity as measured by the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Christ is built up in us by that which every member of the Body supplies. The Body builds itself up in love.
The new man is built up as we keep the commandments of Christ and His Apostles, as the Spirit helps us. When we do not keep the Word of Christ, He is not formed in us. It is as simple and straightforward as that. This is why so many Evangelical Christians remain spiritual infants. And they want to be caught up into the Presence of Christ in a "rapture" in their present state? Let us hope better things than this for our brothers and sisters.
The problem to a great extent is incorrect doctrine. We need to start teaching the doctrines of Christ and His Apostles in place of the current Evangelical myths.
The Father and the Son dwell in the new creation
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." (John 14:23—NIV)
When Christ has been formed in us, that is, the Substance and Virtue of Christ have permeated our personality such that the old has gone and the new has entered, the Father and the Son will come to us and make Their eternal home with us.
To be continued.