14 Jun '16 18:53>
In how many ways does Jesus speak of God's plan to have Christ come INTO a man's being ?
In John -
chapter 3 - a new birth
chapter 4 - a gushing up fountain within
chapter 6 - living bread to be eaten
chapter 7 - rivers of living water flowing out of the innermost being
chapter 14 - coming as the divine "We" to make an abode with the lovers of Christ.
chapter 14 - the Another Comforter, the Spirit of reality as Jesus coming to them
chapter 15 - the life flow of the true vine going out to the abiding branches.
chapter 16 - the Spirit coming
Finally all these promises John is sure to show the fulfillment of in chapter 20 when Jesus breathed into the disciples the Holy Spirit and said "Receive the Holy Spirit".
In First John, speaking on the other side of the event of the Christians' regeneration, John says that the SEED which is of God, is in the Christians.
And Peter says that the saints have become partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)
The Divine Seed, the Divine Nature, the Eternal Life, God Himself dispensed into His saved people.
In John -
chapter 3 - a new birth
chapter 4 - a gushing up fountain within
chapter 6 - living bread to be eaten
chapter 7 - rivers of living water flowing out of the innermost being
chapter 14 - coming as the divine "We" to make an abode with the lovers of Christ.
chapter 14 - the Another Comforter, the Spirit of reality as Jesus coming to them
chapter 15 - the life flow of the true vine going out to the abiding branches.
chapter 16 - the Spirit coming
Finally all these promises John is sure to show the fulfillment of in chapter 20 when Jesus breathed into the disciples the Holy Spirit and said "Receive the Holy Spirit".
In First John, speaking on the other side of the event of the Christians' regeneration, John says that the SEED which is of God, is in the Christians.
And Peter says that the saints have become partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)
"Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust."
The Divine Seed, the Divine Nature, the Eternal Life, God Himself dispensed into His saved people.