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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Three Steps Toward Righteousness, #7
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)
Notice carefully in the above verse that the coming of the Father and the Son into us in this manner is based on our obeying the teachings of Christ. "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching." If we do not obey the teachings of Christ, then the program that leads to Divine righteousness is aborted.
The Father loves us when we obey the teachings of Christ and His Apostles.
Our initial salvation made Christ real to us.
The baptism with the Holy Spirit made the Spirit of God real to us.
Obeying the teachings of Jesus Christ makes the Father real to us.
Up to this point we Evangelicals have accepted the ancient Athanasian Creed as an explanation of the Trinity, the Godhead. This was the clearest understanding we had and it has served us to the present hour. However, the Athanasian Creed was not the product of the Spirit of wisdom and revelation but of human reasoning.
Now, as we are moving past the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Pentecost and are entering the feast of Tabernacles, the Father and the Son are becoming more real to us, as Jesus prophesied in the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of John.
"In that day," in the day when the Lord alone is exalted in our personality, in that day, the Day of the Lord, we will know we are in the Father and the Son. Our Father will become much more real to us than He is now. We will know the Lord Jesus as our elder Brother and together with Him will sing praises to our Father.
No one knows the Father except the Son and the person to whom the Son will reveal the Father. Jesus came to bring us to the Father. Our Lord is the First Begotten from the dead, although having existed from eternity. We also are part of the new creation and have become the brothers of Christ. The Lord and we have the same Father.
Pentecost is the rain from Heaven. Tabernacles is the forming of the Throne of God in the human personality so the Spirit comes as from a well within us. In that day God will be our Strength, our Joy, our Peace, our Song. He will not just give us these things as we have need, He Himself will become all this and more to us.
No longer will we be playing volleyball with God. "I do this and God does that." Now we are on the same side of the net with God.
This is the fullness of God.
Christ has been formed in us. The Father and the Son have come and made Their eternal mansion in the new man that has been formed in us. Only one aspect of the fullness of God remains to be experienced.
To be continued.