Originally posted by josephw
Isn't it a righteous thing jaywill, to know we have the indwelling Godhead?
I think I call on the name of the Lord before I even take my first breath each day, and He is the last thing on my mind when I fall asleep.
Some will say I'm delusional, or any number of other things. That's their problem.
Hebrews 12:29 - [b]For our God is a consuming fire with faith in The Lord Jesus Christ.
Good thread jaywill. I'm having fun with this one.
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Isn't it a righteous thing jaywill, to know we have the indwelling Godhead?
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Amen. It is our salvation. There has been ONE life lived on this earth that is made available to us. He not only died for us. He lived for us. And He lives for us.
It is not an exhanged life. But it is a grafted life, like a poor branch being grafted into a healthy tree. The health of the healthy tree flows into the weak branch and heals all of its weaknesses.
The inwdwelling Godhead is man's salvation.
The one matter that we can take from this age into the world that is coming - is the Jesus Christ that we learn to LIVE. Living in and by Christ is certainly practical preparation for the world that is coming.
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I think I call on the name of the Lord before I even take my first breath each day, and He is the last thing on my mind when I fall asleep.
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This is so very helpful. Just as Paul said that we often do not know how to pray as we ought. And that the Spirit interceds for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. The principle is the same with calling on the name of Jesus. It is all in Him. All that we need is in His Person. And His Person is in the name.
If I often cannot articulate what exactly I feel is my need. iIt does not matter that much. Because when I call
"O Lord Jesus! Lord Jesus!" I touch the Spirit. And in the Spirit are all the "vitamens" and all the "minerals" of this rich, rich feast to sustain me.
And to shepherd new believers, one of the best things we can do, is to teach them how to call on the name of the Lord to touch the Lord deep within.
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Some will say I'm delusional, or any number of other things. That's their problem.
Hebrews 12:29 - For our God is a consuming fire.
Ain't it the truth! Only those who have been baptized into Christ can comprehend it. Baptism into Christ means having the very life of God within. One cannot know that life without Christ.
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Baptized into Christ is to have the very life of Christ within.
"For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink of one Spirit." (1 Cor. 12:13)
We were plunged into the Spirit to drink of the Spirit. We were put into Christ to drink Christ in. We were immersed into Christ in order to drink Christ into us.
We Christians were all given to drink of one Spirit.
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The Lord Jesus Christ is the central focus of all God's truth.
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Amen. This Life - this available Person, is the truth. Amen.
"If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him the reality is in Jesus." (Eph. 4:21)
The reality is in Jesus. The truth is in Jesus.
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True spiritual liberation begins with faith in The Lord Jesus Christ.
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This is surely the truth. Christ lived the life for me.
God simply wants this Man - Jesus Christ, to live on the earth again. But this time God wants Jesus Christ to live in me.
God wants Christ to live again on the earth, in the school student, in the office worker, in the business woman, in the house wife, in the teenager, in the elderly man, in this and that and all kinds of various situations.
God wants His Son to live again on the earth. But this time mingled and united with so many believers from so many different walks of life. He enters into them as the life giving Spirit.
"the last Adam became a life giving Spirit" .
It is not that hard to be saved with eternal life. It is not hard to believe that Christ is the Son of God and receive Him as Lord. But this is not the end. God wants us to live Christ. That is to have Christ live again MINGLED into our lives whatever they are.
We lived in the first man Adam. Once we receive this Lord Jesus, we must receive the transfer to now live in the
"second man", that is the last Adam. This resurrected Lord Jesus is at the right hand of God but also became the life giving Spirit.
So Romans locates Christ in two places. He is at the right hand of God
(Rom. 8:34) on one hand. And on the other hand He is Christ IN the believers -
(Rom. 8:10)
Paul so emphatically wanted the Corinthians to know that Jesus Christ LIVED in them:
"Test yourselves whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or do you not realize about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disapproved?" (2 Cor. 13:5)
Lord, open my eyes !!! Jesus Christ is IN me. Jesus Christ is IN me !
I can confirm this wonderful reality by calling on the name of the Lord -
O Lord Jesus!! O Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus You live in me!
What power this yields in the moment of trial and temptation. Just to call
"O Lord Jesus. O Lord Jesus" stirs up our spirit and brings us into the enjoyment that Jesus Christ lives in the believer in Christ.
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Good thread jaywill. I'm having fun with this one.
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Amen. Thankyou and please share more.
To call on the Lord is to draw water from the wells of salvation!
"Therefore you will draw water with rejoicing from the springs of salvation, and you will say in that day Give thanks to Jehovah, CALL UPON HIS NAME !
Make Hus deeds known among the peoples; Remind them that His name is exalted .." (Isaiah 12:3,4)
"O Lord Jesus ! I can draw waters from the wells of salvation. O Lord Jesus! Lord Jesus Your name is EXALTED."