THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 403

Chorus: He came to me - He came to Me - I could not go to where He was so He came to me - That’s why He died at Calvary - I could not go to where He was so He came to me.

We have been born from above. We have become a new creation fashioned in the image of the Second Adam who is JESUS the Christ. The Lord Himself out of Heaven who was veiled in flesh even as the first Adam was accomplishing God’s purposed redemption for sinful man. He did this so that man through the sacrifice of God’s veil of flesh body (His prone to sin Adamic body) we the fallen race - who were because of sinful disobedience were alienated from God - could be saved. Now through the sacrificial death of JESUS the child of the Holy Spirit has provided for us - the Adamic race - a way to be partakers of free redemption from all guilt of sin. JESUS the only just sinless person died for us therefore bringing the scales of justice for those of us who have sinned to equilibrium!

This is why we believe that JESUS (God manifest in the flesh) laid down His life for us. It is also why we respond by being baptized in water (buried in the likeness of JESUS' death) arising out of the water after the fashion of JESUS' resurrection and therefore fully justifying us from all sin.

You may ask why? JESUS was the corn of wheat that came from Heaven to earth and died, and because the corn of wheat died, it brought forth a great multitude of offspring. We are the offspring for we have been planted into the likeness of His death. Therefore, we who are JESUS'offspring are similarly resurrected with Him becoming the children of God in JESUS.

We have just said that we are JESUS' offspring. Formerly we were Adam's offspring tainted with sin, having souls that were dead to the things of God. As it is written in the scriptures, the natural man receives not the things that be of God. The things of God are spiritual and natural man as we are well aware is not spiritual.

The Second Adam was spiritual. Inside the body of JESUS did dwell the Holy Spirit which is a quickening spirit. We being the offspring of JESUS are quickened by His Holy Spirit, therefore becoming a new creation created in the image of JESUS who is Our Father. JESUS having fathered us in His death. We are His offspring bearing the image of JESUS. This makes all of us together are the Christ. The Holy Spirit who indwelt the man JESUS the Christ now indwells us and thus we are now members of JESUS' bones and JESUS' flesh.

Please note that we are not all the "same" members within JESUS' body. Within this one body, each member is placed within the body of JESUS as it pleases the Holy Spirit. After all, we are now the body which the Holy Spirit has redeemed to Himself. We the redeemed of God having been born again of blood, water and Spirit are not just a body of flesh. Rather we have through salvation in JESUS the Christ become ‘the Temple of God.' In this temple, the Spirit of God is pleased to dwell.

Therefore, there is only one body, and one Spirit.. We are the one body and the Spirit of Christ within us is the Holy Spirit. Praise the Lord!

In the next post, we will proceed into the ‘Ministry of the Spirit" where we expand upon His redeemed body purchased to Himself by His own blood.