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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Attaining the Inheritance, #14
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (I Corinthians 15:50)
It is not flesh and blood that will rule the world to come. Rather, it is those who are both human and Divine, being in the image and of the Nature of Christ, who will rule the world to come.
In stating that true man is human and Divine we are not asserting that man is God or a god. There is only one God, the Father of our Lord Jesus. "The Lord our God is One." This is the foundation of Judaism and it is truth. We have been born of the one God and He dwells in us. This is the clear teaching of the Scriptures and the consequences are clear.
The Divine Nature is in us. Those who are concerned that such a conclusion is sacrilegious, being fearful of what the Scriptures state, are ready to employ theological reasonings until the Scriptures no longer mean what they state.
Concerning man endeavoring to make himself God, this is the perennial problem of mankind. It is Antichrist. The last days will be characterized by the fruition of this concept. Man will openly declare himself to be God, and then the end shall come.
The individual who has received Christ into his personality has received Divinity. He is the offspring of God. Each saved person will grow in the image of the Father throughout the endless eons of eternity.
There is a gulf between the race of Adam, and God. The race of Adam cannot enter the Kingdom of God. It is only as Adam is born again of God that the gulf is crossed. It is not that Adam becomes good enough to call himself God, it is that Adam is crucified and the new life into which he enters is of God. God is neither reforming nor saving Adam. God is crucifying Adam and issuing in Adam's place a new race born of the eternal Life that is in Christ and is Christ.
Such knowledge received correctly does not lift us up in arrogance or sacrilege, but it does cause us to cry, "Father."
The eternal form of the Kingdom of God is, with some modifications, that which God already has created, as described in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. The eternal Life of the Kingdom of God is Christ. The human being who has been born of woman has the form of God and the potential for becoming a member of the Kingdom of God. But in order to become a member of the Kingdom of God he must be born again of Christ. Otherwise he has the form of the Kingdom but not the Life of the Kingdom.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the first "Man" in that He is the first Person to be born of a woman and yet be of the Substance and Nature of God.
The Lord Jesus is the brightness of God's Glory and the image of God's Person. Every son of God is called to be human in form, to be filled with the Substance and Nature of God, to be the brightness of God's Glory, and to be the image of God's Person. It is to this we have been predestined (Romans 8:29; John 17:21-23).
To be continued.