I don’t know the day, week, mouth, or year Jesus came in the Manger,
But I do know He Quickened My Soul and will Keep it Saved Eternally,
After Providing It with a New Glorified Body at the First Resurrection.
I was Born with a Corrupted Body and Soul from the living soul Adam
But the Last Adam Quickening Spirit Jesus Eternally Birthed My Soul
This was the Plan for man based on God’s redemption Foreknowledge
That 1st Adam would eat of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil
So God was to be found as the Immanuel babe in a Bethlehem Manger
God saves man by drawing individuals to a Resurrected glorified Seed
In Whom All the fullness of the Godhead Dwells as One God Eternally
Part 4
December 9, 2014
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1 Peter 1:23 – Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Those born again by an Incorruptible Seed Do Escape Corruption, and are Set Free from Condemnation by Jesus. They are Set Free to Serve God in Spirit and in Truth. Those with a Corruptible Seed have not been Set Free and are Still in Bondage!
John 8:36 – If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
I Peter 1:3-5 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [4] To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, [5] Who are KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
We are saved and then eternally kept by the power of God through the faith in his Son that saved us.
Ephesians 2:8-10 – For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: [9] Not of works, lest any man should boast. [10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Having been eternally saved by grace through faith, we are a spiritual workmanship of God by the new birth from above, set free to walk in good works by the power of his Son in us. Spiritual growth is measured by God in the degree of what we allow him to ADD to the faith whereby he saved us. We have, by the grace and mercy of God in Christ Jesus, escaped the corruption that is in the work through the lust of our sinful natures and are set free from his condemnation for sin, in order to be able to spiritually add to our saving faith. We have an incorruptible seed living in us that set us free from our bondage to grow in grace.
Philippians 2:13 – For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
II Peter 1:4 – Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, HAVING ESCAPED the CORRUPTION that is in the world through lust. [5] And beside this, giving all diligence, ADD TO your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; [6] And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; [7] And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. [8] For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are a “workmanship” of the Spirit of God, and God “works in us” to manifest his presence to the world. We are not to use our new found freedom, our new liberty in Christ, as a covering, an excuse, to not follow his leadership because we have been eternally set free from condemnation to Hell for our sins. His grace is so great that he allows us to grieve him, but still does not cast us out of Christ. We are not to take advantage of his great grace to sell out to the world of lust from which we have escaped by his grace.
I Peter 2:15,16 – For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: [16] As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Ephesians 4:30-32 – And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. [31] Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: [32] And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
The saved are sealed unto the day of redemption. At that time the process of redemption of the corruptible part of them will be completed. At present the saved soul is sealed with, and alongside, an incorruptible seed, surrounded by the corruptible seed in our flesh. At the sounding of the last trump the corruptible seeded flesh will put on incorruption to complete our redemption.
I Corinthians 15:50-58 – Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. [51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. [53] For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. [54] So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. [55] O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [56] The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. [57] But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. [58] Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Ephesians 2:22 – In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Ephesians 3:21 – Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
We shall be judged for rewards in heaven for our labor, and the degree of those rewards will be in proportion to the degree of our labor for him in this life.
Revelation 11:18 – And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 22:11-14 – He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. [12] And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. [13] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. [14] Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Galatians 6:7 – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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