Born Again As A New Spiritual Creation, Dwelling Within Us the Same Spirit As Was In the Man Jesus the Christ - Part 1198

This gospel reveals JESUS - who is the SEED of promise - and in which SEED all the nations of the earth can be blessed. This gospel became necessary when God Himself was veiled in flesh as a righteous man. For God declared that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23) In this context, there is none righteous -- no not one.

The good news is that from the very beginning, the hidden plan of God was being unveiled. Yes, God had a plan for man even though at times we cannot comprehend what God has in store for us. Indeed, we often scratch our heads endeavouring to understand what is man that the Lord God Almighty would be so mindful of him. That His desire would include a plan of salvation for His children.

The psalmist scribed, "What is man that Thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou visitest him? For Thou hast made Him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned Him with glory and honour. Thou madest Him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under His feet ..." (Psalms 8:4-6)
When man turned aside from His Word, it was here that the Lord imparted into EVE a SEED of promise. A SEED of Himself emanating from Himself. So that in the process of time, He would clothe His promised SEED in sin prone flesh, thereby initiating at the fullness of time His hidden plan of redemption.

That is, He would through His love, mercy and grace purchase us who were your yet His enemies and bring each and every one of us who believed by faith back to innocence. And this redemption plan, purchased through the sacrifice of your own blood (the blood of your holy Spirit).

In our ignorance of prophetic scripture, we indeed crucified JESUS. We were spurred along by religious zealots who in pretense professed to be God’s ministers, and in the end duped us into believing that such was the case. But the Lord is merciful, and knew our peril. Thus, He made a way when there was no way. He ripped the veil from top to bottom and rescued us from our sin.

Why? Because God’s love for His disobedient creation was much greater than our sin of beguiled disobedience. Because of God's love for us, there never can be anything that can separate us from God’s love. Indeed, God manifested His love to us whilst inside a prone to sin body, a body in which He willingly inherited all of our sins and demerits. But even death did not deter JESUS from His purposed mission, which was to redeem and restore the fallen sons of God.

This is why JESUS died and was buried in a tomb. As stated in the scriptures, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone." However, if the corn of wheat were to die, in dying the potential life within the SEED springs forth as a multitude of the same SEED.

In this example, JESUS is the SEED and we are the offspring of the SEED of JESUS. In this same SEED (as afore promised of God in prophecy), all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

To become one of the offspring, certain criteria must be willingly adhered too. First of all, one must recognize that JESUS put Himself on the cross for you and I while we were still His enemies. This is why we must repent before God for our sinful deeds, giving thanks to God with a grateful heart. If one is not willing to offer themselves on these terms, then the door of redemption will sadly remain closed.

If, on the other hand, one willing repents with a grateful heart, then their sins are remitted in full by the same JESUS who put Himself in our place. We then receive the gift of redemption. And now having received redemption, God commands us to be baptized [buried] into the likeness of JESUS death. In His precious name -- the only name given under heaven whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12; Acts 2:36-42; Romans 6:1-4)

Jesus -- declared by the apostles to be both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36)

"Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." (Romans 5:9-11)
In so doing, we shall receive the promised gift of the Holy Ghost that comes forth from the SEED of Life within the kernel of wheat - JESUS!

As such, you become the offspring of JESUS. We are now the children of God in Christ! We have been born again as a new spiritual creation, dwelling within us the same Spirit as was in the man JESUS the Christ! This Spirit is the Holy Ghost which was promised to the disciples after Jesus was taken up. (Acts 1:2-3)
When we receive the Holy Ghost -- the promised Comforter -- we ALL become members of that ONE SEED and because we are the offspring of the SEED, we now hunger for the things of God, endeavouring to walk even as He walked!

It is for this reason that we have so much to be thankful for. Praise our Lord God and Saviour for His mercy and grace. Take time to study His Word, and to be in His presence in everything that we do. Stand in the offering plate.