The greatest miracle is that God would indeed live in man. The greatest innovation of the existence of universe is the image and likeness of God.
When God had created man, he said that he is very Good. He saw his very likeness in him. There is therefore no problem with man because there is no problem with his image and likeness.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
Eph 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
Eph 3:16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
Eph 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph 3:18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Eph 3:19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Eph 3:20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Eph 3:21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
Eph 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
Eph 3:16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
Eph 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph 3:18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Eph 3:19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Eph 3:20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Eph 3:21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
In the sublime of Paul’s heart lay this passion, that all may come to the knowledge of God. The saints together may come to full knowledge that surpasses all knowledge. This knowledge is the fullness of God employed in us. This knowledge is ingrained in your new(Kainos) spirit. In your spirit is a perfect knowledge.
There is a super human reservoir employed in our fabric and the psalmist knew it well when he said that surely we have been wonderfully and fearfully created. Paul prays again for the Ephesians that they may know the hope of their calling, their inheritance among the saints.
We inherit God, He is our portion. He is our lot an indeed we are fallen in pleasant places. God would rather employ everything in us; he chose to be God with us, he is not God without us.
What was lost in Adam is therefore restored to us in Christ. We can never compare what we lost in Adam with what we have gained in Christ. It cannot fit our measuring stick. In Christ is much more, he made us alive and then he lived in us. There is a new (Kainos)existence when we calculate ourselves in God’s eyes; God lives in us, the old is gone and behold all has become new.
Paul again reveals the mystery to the church at Colossae whose reputation of the supremacy of Christ was being tested. .
Rom 5:15But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
How much will we who have received the abundance of the free gift by grace reign in this life? We therefore calculate that we who once were lost we who had fallen short of the glory of God now stand justified. The glory is restored to us. This glory is the image and likeness of God. It’s the life of God in us, His spirit which dwells in us and by this abundance we reign in this life.
We are the recipients of the fullness of God we are filled of Christ who is the fullness of God.
Colossians 2:9-10For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, 10 and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority, YLT
this is the dealings of Christ that of his fullness we are complete. His completeness finds its right address in us. We are complete in him who is the head of the body.
We now engage in the word of God realizing that it’s a mirror reflecting who we are. The word is the perfect law of liberty engaging our faculties to plug in the reality of God as expressed in the person of Christ in us..
James says that he who is the doer of the word looks intently at the perfect law of liberty ad upon hearing, does what he has heard(James 1:25)
Christ lives pours out of us effortlessly when we engage in the perfect law that gives liberty. This law that lives liberty is the law of spirit of life in operation in us(Rom 8:2)
We therefore consider that the life of God is in us working in us to will and to act according to the good purpose God has for us.
Man’s destiny is therefore found in God and God is found in man having made his place of abode in him; John 14:21-23, Rev 21:3
The fellowship we have is with God our father and the son, 1st John 1:3, its an assimilation into the fullness of God, That which the father and the son enjoy is also ours.
The wonderful price for us to pay now is attention. Attention to the glad announcement of the gospel and as Paul puts it, that we may grasp, grab attentively and make it ours the manner of width, height breadth and depth of the love of God. These measurements are known as being filled with all the fullness of God.
These wonderful truths are not learnt , carefully calculated but they are revealed . Christ in us the hope of glory.
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