Sunday, August 16, 2015

100% God 100% man.  When the Word became flesh and dwelt among us He was 100% God and 100% man.  When we are born-again, we are 100% humanity and 100% divinity.  We are complete in Christ, immature to be sure, nevertheless, complete, full and perfected.  
When a child is born, they are 100% human.  They can never be less.  As the child grows, it will continue to be 100% human.  They will grow physically, morally and spiritually.
As born again Christians we are also complete in Christ. Immature Christian’s babes to be sure, nevertheless, we also have dual identities. Col 2:9-10 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. We will always know us as ourselves and at the same time, we grow in the Spirit of the knowledge Ephesians 1:5 ourselves as the adopted sons of God. 
We also have a dual nature.   We are who we are as God made us.  (Ask the evolutionist why we all have different fingerprints?) We will never lose our personal sense of self.   The seed of Abraham was planted in us from Heaven by the will of God. As the seed grows and matures as it is transformed and conformed in His Sons image in obedience to the Spirit from Heaven.  We are created in the image and likeness of the Seed.  Every seed reproduces after its own kind (Genesis 1:11)
We never lose our human identity as individuals when we ‘put on’ Christ Jesus we have another identity as Sons of God.  As children of God we participate with the divine nature on earth in the flesh, the Word bearing fruit through the vine. The fruit of the Spirit is evidence that the Seed of Abraham is in us. All from, to and for the glory of God. 
The Word became flesh and the flesh puts on the Word, as we are born-again. The sons of Adam made of dust became the image of the ‘heavenly man’ as we receive the ‘life giving Sprit’ (1 Corinthians 15:45).
 Adam from the dust puts on Christ the Spirit from Heaven, thus a new creation, a new humanity, and flesh clothed with divinity, walks the earth. 2Co 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  The image and likeness of God, the church, the Word made flesh in every generation. Mortal man puts on immortality.
 (James 1:21b) …receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
 Adam the vessel of wrath becomes a vessel of honor. 
These vessels of honor are the Church who in fellowship with one another gather for a celebration of life. A wedding feast, filled with the new wine, worshipping and glorifying in the presence of God.
Making know the goodness of God  Publicly revealing His kindness and mercy, for sending His son as a lamb, the perfect sacrifice taking away our sins, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves, bringing us into His presence in heaven and He coming down from heaven, Eternal life on earth, the Father, the overflowing fountain. All freely given, poured into His children on earth in a celebration of life in His Presence without end. 
Our lives on earth as new creations are a work in progress. We are not our own. 1Corinthian 6:20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.  Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very thing that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;



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