Intellectually Stimulating and Rewarding Spiritual Rebirth
Led by the Spirit, we understand that we are now sons of God.
This is our new identity when we are in communion with Jesus the Christ.
We know He became one of us and did not count equality with
God something to hold on and grasp to, but He emptied Himself
of His divine privileges and prerogatives. This is known as Kenosis.
He came to identify with humanity as a human, as a servant and
experienced the death on the cross by being identified as a criminal.
When we embrace Him as our Lord and Savior we take on His identity
and are in union with Him. We then have His thought pattern and become like
minded with Jesus Christ:
“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
who. though He was in the form of God, did not regard
equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied
Himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form, He humbled Himself and became
obedient to the point of death- even death on a cross.
Therefore God has also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name
that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God
the Father.
(Philippians 2;5-11).
His mind is present in the born-again Spirit-filled Christians.
This is the identity of the reborn sons of God. Because Christ
in you is the only hope of glory. Jesus Christ gives you His life,
so the life you live should be lived to glorify Him and serve Him.
He has redeemed us from sin and death and given us eternal life.
As St. Paul declares: I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live,
but the life that I live is the life of Christ Jesus the Eternal Son of God
Who gave His life for me. Since the Holy Spirit Who raised Jesus Christ
dwells in you, the same Spirit will quicken your mortal body.
The Holy Spirit gives you life and freedom. Where the Spirit of the Lord
is there is freedom. The Holy Spirit is the Helper, the Advocate, the
Comforter and the Spirit of adoption of wisdom and revelation.
You can have freedom from fear.
“You have not received the Spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you
have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
This is because the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the
Holy Spirit and we know He is our Daddy. God is love and He is perfect.
Perfect love casts out fear. Fear has torment, but God’s divine love
dispels fear. This has tremendous implications of immense potential.
The vanity and futility of thought, worry, anxiety simply vanish.
The emptiness and desperation of dissatisfaction disappear.
The bondage to the mere physical with its impotence is now gone.
Gone are the limitations of time, space, physicality with the preoccupations
of mortality and transitory, frustrating experience, illusory existence
of unregenerate material life.
Because Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine and we are recreated
in His Spiritual image we now are full-fledged sons of God. No longer
strangers or aliens, no longer subjects or slaves, no longer clinging to
the fanaticism of yesteryear, the dogmas of modernism, the crutch of
postmodernism. You are truly free. As the son or daughter of God you
receive the fullness of the blessedness and favor of God to His glory.
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but the Spirit of power, love and a
sound mind.
This is the Spirit of Sonship freely given through our Lord and Savior
Jesus the Christ. The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are
children of God.
” Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether
they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus
has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess
Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which
you have heard that is coming; and now it is already in the world.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the
One Who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are
from the world; and therefore what they say is from the world, and the world
listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and
whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the
spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”
(I.John 4;1-6).
“Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not
confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is
the deceiver and the antichrist! Be on your guard, so that you do
not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.
Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes
beyond it, does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching has
both the Father and the Son. Do not receive into the house or
welcome anyone who comes to you and does not bring this teaching;
for to welcome is to participate in the evil deeds of such a person.”
(II. John 7-11).
POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE
1) Our freedom from spiritual and intellectual error is totally dependent
on abiding in Jesus the Christ Who as our Lord and Savior is the Way, the
Truth and the Life. He backs up all His assertions with the Holy Spirit, the
spirit of wisdom and revelation.
2) The Holy Spirit leads you into all truth. He guides us in the new creation.
He transforms us from glory to glory. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard,
neither has entered into the human mind the things God has prepared for us.
God reveals these to us by His Spirit.
Prepare for the adventure of eternity. The most intellectually and
spiritually rewarding new life, the Life! Life in the Light!
HALLELUJAH! WE THANK YOU AND PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS FOREVER!