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The grace of Christ is the enjoyment of Christ as our ability. The believers can be empowered in this grace when the Spirit of Christ is in them.
" You therefore, my child, be empowered in the GRACE which is in Christ Jesus ; ..." ( 2 Timothy 2:1)
The believer has to learn to STAND in this grace, linger in this realm, remain in this realm. We are not use to living this way So it requires regularity and consistency.
Tribulation and troubles (of which there are always much in human life) is a motivator to give incentive to learn to STAND in this grace.
"Therefore having been justified out of faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this GRACE in which we stand and boast because of the hope of the glory of God. And not only so, bu we also boast in our tribulations ..." (Rom. 5:1,3a)
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When we STAND in GRACE over time we will GROW in GRACE. The empowering of Jesus deepens and widens upon our soul.
"But grow in GRACE and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." ( 2 Pet. 3:18)
The empowering grows because Christ takes more residence in our life.
Peter testified of this experience and exhorted those under his care to enter into it and stand in it.
"I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying fully that this is the true GRACE of God, enter into this GRACE and stand in it." ( 1 Pet. 5:12b)
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Grace through faith Is my(Jesus) good works.
When you receive the new birth in Jesus, a formerly dormant part of your being is enlivened. It is as if another dimension has been added to your life. That part which was formerly deadened is now you regenerated human spirit.
The GRACE, the empowering GRACE is with this deepest part of your being, your spirit.
"The GRACE of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." ( Phil. 4:23)
WHERE is this empowering enabling? It is with your innermost being - your spirit. You have to tap into it by turning your heart to the Lord Jesus within.
The grace is with your spirit because the LORD Himself is with your spirit.
"The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you." (2 Tim. 4:22)
I like to call upon His name "O Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus" to connect to the spirit and allow the grace of Christ to rise up in my being.
The Grace of Jesus is with the regenerated human spirit.
"The GRACE of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen." (Gal. 6:18)
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For there is no respect of persons with God.
The operation of the GRACE of Christ is something eventually other people can see. I mean the effect of Christ empowering the way one lives can be seen.
In Acts they SAW the grace. The SAW the effect of Christ living in the believers.
"[Barnabas] Who when he arrived and saw the GRACE of God, rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain with the Lord with purpose of heart." (Acts 11:23)
When the elder apostles met the younger newcomer Paul, they SAW, the PERCEIVED also the grace that was with him. They knew what it was and they recognized much of it in Paul.
"And perceiving the GRACE given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to the Gentiles, and they, to the circumcision." (Galatians 2:9)
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Here's my new analogy of the Triune God taken from the possibility portrayed in time travel movies.
An analogy of the three-oneness of the God:
In the 1960 version of H.G. Well's The Time Machine, the time traveler travels to the distant future, has an adventure, and returns back to his own time. Then in the end he RETURNS to the far distant future to the same place to rejoin the people there.
Now let suppose his current time from which he took off in his time traveling machine was like "home base". If he returns to the future, consevably perhaps, he could arrive and there be TWO versions of himself. If he returns a third time there could be THREE versions of himself in the same time zone.
A bit crazy, I admit. But theoretically because he transcends that time by being able to visit and re-visit and re-revisit it multiple versions of the indentical same person could arrive.
God penetrates time from eternity. And doing so it APPEARS to us that there is more than one person coming into our realm. Yet actually it is the very same person whose transcendence over the limitation of time allows him to appear as more than one version of himself on the scene.
Okay, It is not a perfect analogy. I thought to try it out. When we the finite bump up against the transcendent and eternal One, the limitation of our dimension is all we can understand. Something unheard of seems to occur in this Visitor - ie. more than one simultaneous existence and presence of this One.
Whether my new analogy works well or not, the Bible reveals God as the Father - Son - Holy Spirit - each God - each co-existent, eternally, and at the same time.
And most of the talk in the New Testament about the three-oneness of God are "shop talk" and experiential, as if it is obvious that the audience understands by experience the mysterious things that are being said.
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@sonship saidI'll just say I appreciate the attempt. 😉
Here's my new analogy of the Triune God taken from the possibility portrayed in time travel movies.
An analogy of the three-oneness of the God:
In the 1960 version of H.G. Well's The Time Machine, the time traveler travels to the distant future, has an adventure, and returns back to his own time. Then in the end he RETURNS to the far distant future to the same place t ...[text shortened]... it is obvious that the audience understands by experience the mysterious things that are being said.