17 May '07 11:33>4 edits
What are the commandments that Jesus wanted observed?
or again
What did Jesus say he wanted man to do?
There is a tendency here to expect Jesus to be just another Moses. We have ten commandments from Moses. Now we expect commandment 11, 12, 13 ... from Jesus.
"Tell us what to do like Moses did, Jesus" What now are the dos and don'ts from Jesus?
So once again I point to John 15:4 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itslf unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
I am the vine, you are the branches ..."
Christ is resurrected and alive and living. He is in a form, a pneumatic form in which He can live in man's innermost being. He is in the form of the life giving Spirit - the PNEUMATIC Christ. That is the Christ who is enterable and who can enter into us.
"The last Adam ... [Jesus Christ] BECAME ... a life giving Spirit." (1 Cor. 15:45 my emphasis).
As the life giving Spirit Christ can come into man. Then we are commanded to abide in Him. That is to remain in Him. That is to linger and dwell in the sphere of His living and real indwelling.
He is the true vine with all the life flow from God. We are to be the branches grafted into this true vine. Then His life flows into us through this grafting.
To believe into Him is to do the work which He commanded.
You are asking what the Jews asked in John chapter 6:
"Then they said to Him, What shall we do that we may work the works of God? Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in HIm whom He has sent." (John 6:28,29)
This is another way of saying "Abide in Me and I in you."
The chief commandment of Jesus is that we allow Him to come into our being and live in us. That is that we abide in His resurrected and pneumatic state as "life giving Spirit".
Then we can say with the Apostle Paul "For me to live is Christ ..."
The word abode in John 14:23 is the noun form of the word for "abide" in John 15: John 14:23 shows also that the Father and the Son desire to come to the believer in Christ and make a living abode in their personality:
"Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, And My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him." (John 14:23)
Then in the next chapter He teaches His disciples - "Abide in Me and I in you"
The chief commandment of Jesus is that we have a MUTUAL abiding in Him and He in us in His resurrected state. All the other teachings and instructions are absolutely based first upon the believer in Christ being a living abode of the Father and the Son and remaining in a mutual abiding in God.
or again
What did Jesus say he wanted man to do?
There is a tendency here to expect Jesus to be just another Moses. We have ten commandments from Moses. Now we expect commandment 11, 12, 13 ... from Jesus.
"Tell us what to do like Moses did, Jesus" What now are the dos and don'ts from Jesus?
So once again I point to John 15:4 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itslf unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
I am the vine, you are the branches ..."
Christ is resurrected and alive and living. He is in a form, a pneumatic form in which He can live in man's innermost being. He is in the form of the life giving Spirit - the PNEUMATIC Christ. That is the Christ who is enterable and who can enter into us.
"The last Adam ... [Jesus Christ] BECAME ... a life giving Spirit." (1 Cor. 15:45 my emphasis).
As the life giving Spirit Christ can come into man. Then we are commanded to abide in Him. That is to remain in Him. That is to linger and dwell in the sphere of His living and real indwelling.
He is the true vine with all the life flow from God. We are to be the branches grafted into this true vine. Then His life flows into us through this grafting.
To believe into Him is to do the work which He commanded.
You are asking what the Jews asked in John chapter 6:
"Then they said to Him, What shall we do that we may work the works of God? Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in HIm whom He has sent." (John 6:28,29)
This is another way of saying "Abide in Me and I in you."
The chief commandment of Jesus is that we allow Him to come into our being and live in us. That is that we abide in His resurrected and pneumatic state as "life giving Spirit".
Then we can say with the Apostle Paul "For me to live is Christ ..."
The word abode in John 14:23 is the noun form of the word for "abide" in John 15: John 14:23 shows also that the Father and the Son desire to come to the believer in Christ and make a living abode in their personality:
"Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, And My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him." (John 14:23)
Then in the next chapter He teaches His disciples - "Abide in Me and I in you"
The chief commandment of Jesus is that we have a MUTUAL abiding in Him and He in us in His resurrected state. All the other teachings and instructions are absolutely based first upon the believer in Christ being a living abode of the Father and the Son and remaining in a mutual abiding in God.