Far above all
principality and power
and might and
dominion, and every name
that is named, not
only in this age
but also in that
which is to come.
And He can put all
things under His feet,
and gave Him to be
head over all things
to the church, which
is His body,
the fullness of Him
who fills all in all.
Ephesians 1: 21 -- 23
Paul
speaking previously and this with fluency and with copiousness of expression
desire to express the exceeding greatness of God almighty power. It is this power that God exerts towards His
people, it is by this almighty power that God could raise Jesus Christ from the
dead. Now, there are those who want to
separate Jesus Christ from God the Father as being to separate individuals one
God, and the other a God, and even go so far to say that the Bible teaches that
Jesus Christ is not God, but rather a god, and this is true there ignorance of
Greek Scriptures and grammar for Paul in writing to Titus uses and it is this:
when the Greek word "καί" and in English this means "and"
in its place between two anarthrous nouns, that is nouns without the definite
article "a" making both nouns refer to one single thing and here is a
quote by Paul to Titus"
"looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and
Savior Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13).
The God does not have the article "a" in front nor in front of Jesus Christ and Greek grammar demands that when this occurs both nouns speak of one
single thing or attribute and in this case our great God and our Savior Jesus
Christ is one. There are many other
examples that could be used to put this blog does not allow for that but for
those examples but am willing if asked to do so. Let us think about redemption for the moment for this is the
time., Christmas, that we celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ as a baby into
this earth, being incarnated God.
Reality is redemption, it is not your experience of redemption; for
redemption has no meaning for anyone in it till it speaks the language of your
conscious life. What does this
mean? It is by the power of God that
anything exists in and it is by this power of God that he freely gives gifts: "Now we have received, not the spirit
of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know that things that
have been freely given to us by God" (1 Corinthians 2: 12). Redemption is the reality given to you by
the death on the cross by Jesus Christ who gave Himself for you. To be born again, and this by the Spirit of
God giving you the free gift of grace so that you can buy your will choose to
convert to Him. It is not by
experiences that this is true for God takes you right out of your self, and
then identifies you do with Jesus Christ.
You no longer pay attention to your experiences, for those experiences
are not worth anything and less than those experiences keep you identified an
associated with the source Who is Jesus Christ. To try to produce experiences, as some churches teach people to
do, is simply to produce that which is subject to a ham this will not take you
back to the historic Jesus Christ who died to give Himself for you. If you do attempt to make your experiences
of a God when in fact they are only your subjective experience for does not
have God as its source and does not have faith in God as a result and this
means that those experiences are and tight Christian, no matter what visions
you may have or had. The Father put all
things under the feet of Jesus Christ and made Jesus Christ to be that had over
all things to the church. You cannot
damn up the Holy Spirit to produce subjective experiences for only Jesus Christ
who is the head of the church can produce anything in you that is to be
produced. Jesus Christ must be the Lord
over any of your experiences or you will be trying to Lord yourself over
Him. But church, which comes from the
Greek word means to be called out or the assembly, is the body of Jesus Christ
therefore you who have converted to the Lord Jesus Christ all our the body of
Jesus Christ and all will fullness of Jesus Christ will fill you and you do not
need subjective experiences to make you feel godly. Here's what required of a person who is converted to the Lord
Jesus Christ: you must be ruthless with yourself and not spend so much time
talking about the experiences you may have had. Faith that is assured of itself is not faith for the only faith
that its crew is that your faith of God and there is no other faith than that.
Without the power of God who came to
earth to be in incarnated, that is to call himself with a human body of man so
that he could pay the debt that was owed to Himself and be able to give you the
benefit of that payment is the same power that has now made you alive and this
life is not in this temporal world but you are made alive for eternal life. Paul said under inspiration: "And
you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once
walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, a spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience among whom
also we all once conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the
desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
just as the others" (Ephesians 2: 1 -- 3). There must be a surrendering of your will and you must
deliberately commit yourself to Jesus Christ.
And this means you will transact everything on what He says.
Two days from now Christmas day will
be here and once again we have this special opportunity to be reminded of why
we celebrate Christmas and it is not for some sort of joyous experience by
receiving gifts even though it is a joy to receive gifts, and it is not just a
joy of being around friends and family, and that is very good, rather it is
because we are celebrating the coming of God incarnate to save His children. This coming of Jesus is to be celebrated. Spend time, special time, on that day to
remind yourself in all why we celebrate Christmas and the power of God that has
made to alive for eternity.
Praise the LORD!
Praise God in His sanctuary;
Praise Him in His mighty
firmament!
Praise Him for His mighty acts;
Praise Him
according to His excellent greatness!
Psalm
150: 1 -- 2
Praise the Lord who
made you alive
Richard L. Crumb
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