The third aspect of the way the new covenant operates is the willingness of our fallen nature to lay hold on the grace of God in order that we may obey the commandments given to us by the Lord and His Apostles.

The fourth aspect has to do with the grace of God. Just what is the grace of God?

We will start with the goal. The writing of the Law of God in our mind and heart is the same as Christ being formed in us. Christ is the Word of God, the Law of God, made flesh. Our transformed inner man is destined to become the eternal habitation of the Father through the Son.

When we are in the complete image of Christ and in union with the Person and will of the Father we shall behave righteously by nature and shall be eligible and competent for all the relationships, privileges, and responsibilities God has planned for us from the beginning of the world.

When we are baptized in water our adamic nature is assigned to the cross with Christ. We are born again, meaning Christ is born in us as a firstfruits of the salvation of our entire personality—spirit, soul, and, at the Lord's coming, our body.

There are two aspects of the dwelling of Christ in us. The first aspect is that of the actual conception and development of the Divine Nature of Christ in us.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, (Galatians 4:19)

The second aspect is the coming of the Father and the Son to dwell in that which has been formed in us.

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:23)

The forming of Christ in us is the construction of the eternal Temple of God, especially the throne of God. As that temple is formed in us the Father and the Son come and inhabit Their temple.

The mystery of the Gospel is Christ in us.

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Colossians 1:27)

In the days of the seventh angel, the period of time in which we are living, this mystery will be finished, or accomplished.

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10:7)

In the next chapter (Chapter Eleven) of the Book of Revelation we find the two lampstands and the two olive trees. The reference is to the fourth chapter of the Book of Zechariah. The prophecy in Zechariah refers to the completing of the restored Temple in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah.

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. (Zechariah 4:6,7)

To be continued.