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| lockleyjohn | Jun 10 2008, 12:54 PM |
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Ok now if we are to understand our growth in the Lord we need to go back and take a look at the very beginning of said growth. So lets ask the Holy Spirit to reveal God’s truth to us. Let it be even as I ask dear Lord amen. The Beginning of our growth. It started the very moment that we believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ as our savior. When we came under the idea of yes we have sin against The God of all creation and that we had not the power to save ourselves. That we were hopeless lost in our sin. We excepted the truth of that God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son so that whosoever believed upon Him will have everlasting life with the pardon of all our sins against The God of heaven. Behold all things become new. We become as newborn babies that have been born again into the Kingdom of God. Nor knowing how or what God has planed for us. His plan was that we would grow into mature believers. 2Cr 5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 1-recently made, fresh- as newborn babies 2- of a new kind- this newborn baby was something new to the world. Of course as being newly born there is a time that was decreed that this newborn baby was to grow up in the things of God. Taking of the image of His son Christ Jesus 3- unprecedented -Well to the religious establishments of the world then and even now this was an unprecedented event that takes place in the new believers in Christ. 3- unheard of- this believing by faith in Jesus is all that it requires to inter into the Kingdom of God was unheard of in the world at that time. Some have even today have not heard of the Good News that is in The Gospel of Christ. 1- Works to inter in was the main teaching of that day and even unto this day. 2- the worship of false idols was practiced then and is still practiced today. “New creature” This gives us the word picture of God using His word once again to create something new. 2Cr 5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 1-To form, shape- in the creation of Adam He created the first man whole with a perfect body and with his mind well developed with all wisdom. Then as now God put into man the capability of freewill. 2-to completely change-in the new creation of men from darkness into His Kingdom it is our spirit and soul that has become that new born babe in Christ. Because we are created as new babies we are to start out our new life by growing in His word to us. 3- or transform now as new babies we then start on our life of being transformed Which is called growing in the Lord. As we grow we become more and more like Him until that glorious day when we meet Him Face to face our growth (transformation) will be complete. 1Jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is 1Cr 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known Our growth here on earth will be consummated (completed) when we stand before Our Lord and King Christ Jesus. Hallelujah! Come quickly LORD Jesus Will continue more on this exciding subject of growth. YBIC John |
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