“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” (Romans 8:9)
Jesus said, "[Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." (John 14:17)
Jesus said, "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (John 14:26)
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)
Then Peter said unto them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38)
The Lord speaking through Isaiah said, "The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon Me; because the LORD hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound ..." (Isaiah 61:1)
"Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, [that] shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come." (John 16:13)
"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father." (Galatians 4:6)
The same Spirit of God which moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning is the same Spirit which lives within us today, those who believe in the Name of Jesus by faith, and have become clothed in His righteousness through water baptism in the precious Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Genesis 1:1-2; Acts 2:36-38; Acts 10:44-48)
The same Spirit who asked, "Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or [being] His counsellor hath taught Him? With whom took He counsel and [who] instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge and shewed to Him the way of understanding?" (Isaiah 40:13-14) Through Isaiah, the Lord asks, "Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth" who then asks, "To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal," sayeth the Holy One." (Isaiah 40:21-25)
The first commandment -- Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is ONE LORD -- does not change in the new testament. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:29-31) In the beginning, God. (Genesis 1:1) In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God ... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." (John 1:1-18)
Peter, in his first epistle to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia -- the elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father (through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ) -- clarifies this point further,writing about the "mystery that was hid in the bosom of the Father" from the very beginning of the world -- wherein God gave Himself as the perfect sacrifice so that He could redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Indeed, the Lord came forth as a mighty man. (Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 9:6; Titus 3:4-7) God manifest in the flesh in the form of sin-prone man (likened to us and yet without sin) -- so that we might have abundant life in Him. (I Timothy 3:16; Titus 2:11-14)
God Himself willingly becoming our Saviour. (Titus 3:4-7)
In the epistle to the strangers, Peter writes about this mystery, and how His abundant mercy for His beloved creation, the same God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has begotten us into a lively hope -- leads us to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and one that fades not away. According as He hath chosen us in Him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Ephesians 1:4-5)
"For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren ... them He also called, and whom He called, them He also justified, and whom He justified, them He also glorified!" (Romans 8:29-30)
Our calling therefore is not an accident. It is not a fluke that the Lord God Almighty reached out to those "strangers" -- you and I -- to offer His free (but very costly to Him) gift of salvation. We see this evidenced when the Lord told the Israelites that these would never enter His rest for their preference for idolatry that turned them away from the Lord their God, and the many blessings which He bestowed upon them. One example is when the Israelites were under the cloud and all passed through the Red Sea, having drank of that spiritual Rock -- the spiritual Rock which was Christ. (I Corinthians 10:1-5; Exodus 13:21-22; Exodus 14:21, 27, 29; Exodus 16:4, 15; Numbers 14:29, 37; Numbers 26:65)
You see, the Spirit of the Lord God is the Holy Ghost - the Comforter which Jesus sends in His Name. The same Holy Ghost which overshadowed Mary is "renewed" after Jesus is taken up -- after the cross. (Titus 3:4-7) Thus, when we ask Jesus into our hearts by faith, we receive the "resurrected gospel" wherein, we recognize that until the day in which He [Jesus] was taken up, after that He [Jesus] THROUGH the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen. (Acts 1:2-3)
Jesus said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you!"
His Spirit -- the Spirit of Christ which the Israelites drank from in the wilderness is the same Spirit of Christ who leads and guides us into all truth in this day and age. Not another Spirit (as false religion professes) but the One and Same Spirit who was Christ throughout the ages. "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost. (II Peter 1:21; II Timothy 3:16)
"Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into." (I Peter 1:10-12)
In this current dispensation of grace, His Name is Jesus, because only His Name can forgive His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21-23; Acts 4:12; Philippians 2:9) This explains why the apostles only preached the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, because He is the King of kings, and Lord of lords, Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending.
"Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that abides in the doctrine of Christ -- he hath both the Father and the Son." (II John 1:9)
Study the scriptures today, so that you too can rightly discern the mystery that was held in the bosom of the Father from the beginning. That is, that when He could find no other to become the perfect sacrifice, He came Himself. Praise and glory forever to our Lord God and Saviour Jesus the Christ.
And to finish the point, wherein there is laid up for us a crown of righteousness, I have copied and pasted below the remainder of I Peter 1 for your edification. Rejoice and be glad for this is the day that the Lord hath made. Watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist and make full proof of thy ministry. Stand in the offering plate.
"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, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, "Be ye holy; for I am holy."
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you." (I Peter 1:1-25)
Jesus said, "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (John 14:26)
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)
Then Peter said unto them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38)
The Lord speaking through Isaiah said, "The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon Me; because the LORD hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound ..." (Isaiah 61:1)
"Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, [that] shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come." (John 16:13)
"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father." (Galatians 4:6)
The same Spirit of God which moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning is the same Spirit which lives within us today, those who believe in the Name of Jesus by faith, and have become clothed in His righteousness through water baptism in the precious Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Genesis 1:1-2; Acts 2:36-38; Acts 10:44-48)
The same Spirit who asked, "Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or [being] His counsellor hath taught Him? With whom took He counsel and [who] instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge and shewed to Him the way of understanding?" (Isaiah 40:13-14) Through Isaiah, the Lord asks, "Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth" who then asks, "To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal," sayeth the Holy One." (Isaiah 40:21-25)
The first commandment -- Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is ONE LORD -- does not change in the new testament. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:29-31) In the beginning, God. (Genesis 1:1) In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God ... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." (John 1:1-18)
Peter, in his first epistle to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia -- the elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father (through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ) -- clarifies this point further,writing about the "mystery that was hid in the bosom of the Father" from the very beginning of the world -- wherein God gave Himself as the perfect sacrifice so that He could redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Indeed, the Lord came forth as a mighty man. (Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 9:6; Titus 3:4-7) God manifest in the flesh in the form of sin-prone man (likened to us and yet without sin) -- so that we might have abundant life in Him. (I Timothy 3:16; Titus 2:11-14)
God Himself willingly becoming our Saviour. (Titus 3:4-7)
In the epistle to the strangers, Peter writes about this mystery, and how His abundant mercy for His beloved creation, the same God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has begotten us into a lively hope -- leads us to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and one that fades not away. According as He hath chosen us in Him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Ephesians 1:4-5)
"For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren ... them He also called, and whom He called, them He also justified, and whom He justified, them He also glorified!" (Romans 8:29-30)
Our calling therefore is not an accident. It is not a fluke that the Lord God Almighty reached out to those "strangers" -- you and I -- to offer His free (but very costly to Him) gift of salvation. We see this evidenced when the Lord told the Israelites that these would never enter His rest for their preference for idolatry that turned them away from the Lord their God, and the many blessings which He bestowed upon them. One example is when the Israelites were under the cloud and all passed through the Red Sea, having drank of that spiritual Rock -- the spiritual Rock which was Christ. (I Corinthians 10:1-5; Exodus 13:21-22; Exodus 14:21, 27, 29; Exodus 16:4, 15; Numbers 14:29, 37; Numbers 26:65)
You see, the Spirit of the Lord God is the Holy Ghost - the Comforter which Jesus sends in His Name. The same Holy Ghost which overshadowed Mary is "renewed" after Jesus is taken up -- after the cross. (Titus 3:4-7) Thus, when we ask Jesus into our hearts by faith, we receive the "resurrected gospel" wherein, we recognize that until the day in which He [Jesus] was taken up, after that He [Jesus] THROUGH the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen. (Acts 1:2-3)
Jesus said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you!"
His Spirit -- the Spirit of Christ which the Israelites drank from in the wilderness is the same Spirit of Christ who leads and guides us into all truth in this day and age. Not another Spirit (as false religion professes) but the One and Same Spirit who was Christ throughout the ages. "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost. (II Peter 1:21; II Timothy 3:16)
"Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into." (I Peter 1:10-12)
In this current dispensation of grace, His Name is Jesus, because only His Name can forgive His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21-23; Acts 4:12; Philippians 2:9) This explains why the apostles only preached the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, because He is the King of kings, and Lord of lords, Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending.
"Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that abides in the doctrine of Christ -- he hath both the Father and the Son." (II John 1:9)
Study the scriptures today, so that you too can rightly discern the mystery that was held in the bosom of the Father from the beginning. That is, that when He could find no other to become the perfect sacrifice, He came Himself. Praise and glory forever to our Lord God and Saviour Jesus the Christ.
And to finish the point, wherein there is laid up for us a crown of righteousness, I have copied and pasted below the remainder of I Peter 1 for your edification. Rejoice and be glad for this is the day that the Lord hath made. Watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist and make full proof of thy ministry. Stand in the offering plate.
"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, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, "Be ye holy; for I am holy."
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you." (I Peter 1:1-25)
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