02.05. CHAPTER 05: SALVATION DEVELOPS FROM THE SEED OF CHRIST

CHAPTER 5: SALVATION DEVELOPS FROM THE SEED OF CHRIST The Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is given to those who are born again (see John 3:3; John 3:5) through the implanted Seed of CHRIST (see Galatians 3:16; James 1:21 b). What is given through the Seed of CHRIST is the “first fruits” or, the “beginnings” of new life for actual development in the Testimony of JESUS. The Seed of CHRIST (the Anointed One) is the Seed of GOD the WORD (see Psalms 45:6-7; John 1:1-4; Psalms 97:11) called the Seed of the WORD (see 1 Peter 1:23; John 1:14; John 1:16-17, KJV+NKJV+NASB; Revelation 19:13 b) implanted in us (see James 1:21 b) and brought to life – or, spiritually ‘germinated’ - in our inward parts, through the work and ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT (see John 16:14; John 1:16-17, KJV+NKJV+NASB). The Seed of CHRIST is the Seed of the WORD (see 1 Peter 1:23) that is to become flesh in us - in a growing heart of flesh (see John 1:14; John 1:16-17, KJV/NKJV/NASB; Ezekiel 36:26; 2 Corinthians 3:3, NKJV; John 6:51). In this heart of flesh we become epistles of CHRIST (see 2 Corinthians 3:3, NKJV; Ezekiel 36:26) and ministers of the New Covenant (see 2 Corinthians 3:6, NKJV). The implanted Seed of the WORD communicates the essential blueprint (or, the first fruits) of the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST into our dead spirit and, our dead spirit is genetically re-born a new spirit. The “image” of JESUS CHRIST is genetically manifested into us for the beginning of all things in GOD for us - personally.

We are born again when the Seed of CHRIST is first implanted in us as GOD responds (see Hebrews 11:6 c) to our faith in JESUS CHRIST - as we declare JESUS CHRIST to be our LORD and Saviour (see Romans 10:8-13) under the inspiration of the HOLY SPIRIT (see John 16:7-9; John 16:13-15).

[A simple spoken prayer spoken with sincerity and expectancy from our heart – expressing actual hope in HIM - along the following lines, will open the doors of salvation to our inward parts: LORD JESUS, I acknowledge that I am a sinner, having inherited the sin nature of Adam. I have sinned in thought, word and deed – in character and nature - in the wrong that I have done and in the right that I have failed to do. I understand LORD JESUS CHRIST that YOU are the Savior of the world. I thank YOU LORD for choosing to save me by washing my sins in YOUR Blood. I receive YOUR atoning sacrifice on my behalf. And, I receive YOU as my LORD and Savior. Please come and reign in my heart and bring me into the actualities of YOUR salvation. LORD, give me a new spirit and create in me a new heart. Remove my heart of stone and give me a pure heart. Manifest THY Nature and Character into my soul that I may be transformed in truth to become an actual child of GOD. Amen. ]

Through our faith in JESUS CHRIST – ignited and enabled by GOD HIMSELF - GOD releases the potentials of HIS economy of salvation into us (see Ephesians 2:8). GOD develops this economy of grace – in the faith and love of JESUS CHRIST (see 1 Timothy 1:14) for us – in and from our inward parts. This economy of grace operating in us is the operating system of Biblical Spirituality. The new birth expresses the germination of the Seed of CHRIST in our dead spirit – bringing it to life through actual communication of the contents of the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST into us. The quickening of the Spirit and Life of JESUS CHRIST into our dead spirit is the exclusive work of the HOLY SPIRIT. In this quickening, the contents of the Seed of CHRIST are manifested in us or germinated in us as the first fruits of a new beginning.

We are actually re-born or, born again. New spiritual realities from GOD open in us! Being born again is a complex spiritual reality. The complexity is ‘genetically’ configured in the Seed of CHRIST, specifically designed for our inward parts according to GOD’s purpose / design for our life in eternity. This (spiritual) ‘genetic’ complexity is described in the Bible as the Mystery of CHRIST (see Colossians 1:26-29; Ephesians 3:3-4; Ephesians 3:8 c-12). The simplified schematic of the Mystery of CHRIST is depicted in Figure 7.

FIGURE 7: Schematic Of The Mystery Of CHRIST

An example of the contents of this Mystery would be that the Seed of CHRIST ‘contains’ the blueprint to actualizing the astonishing realities of the faith of JESUS CHRIST – expressed for a lost humanity in HIS life, HIS ministry, HIS sacrifice through the cross, HIS resurrection and in HIS position at the right-hand of the power on high.

[When seen from the perspective of HIS Faith, the Seed of CHRIST is in one sense therefore, the Seed of MASHIAH YESHUA’s faith (see Galatians 2:16, KJV and 3:22, KJV). The Seed of CHRIST that stands in HIS faith is designed by GOD – from the foundations of the earth - for our unique realization in a new man to be built and developed in the image (see Romans 8:29-30) and fullness (see John 1:16-17) of JESUS CHRIST (see John 14:12-14) through HIS faith revealed and developed in us.]

Similarly, the Seed of CHRIST also contains the spiritual reality of HIS Love, HIS Nature, HIS Character, HIS attributes of Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Strength, Courage, Truth, etc. Each of these realities – and the many more realities not mentioned - have the potential of being developed and established in us creatively.

And, with the planting and germination of the Seed of CHRIST in our inward parts, a new spiritual universe of reality - configured in the Testimony of YESHUA (see Revelation 19:10 c) - opens into us as a blueprint of creative potentials, capacities and possibilities, in MASHIAH YESHUA (see Ephesians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17; 2 Peter 1:19). With the germination of the Seed of CHRIST, all the potentials of YESHUA are available to us through the actual communication of HIS Testimony into us. This is the Testimony of HIS Words that Scripture records (see John 6:63; Luke 21:33; Revelation 19:13 b). So for example, the faith of JESUS CHRIST – coming alive in us - has the potential of being perfected and completed into us, so as to increase our faith levels for all things available to us in the Righteousness of GOD! And so, we are reminded of the LORD’s declaration to us that nothing – consistent with the will and plan of GOD (see Php 2:13; Ephesians 1:9-11) - will be impossible to us (see Matthew 17:20).

Understand that the dynamics of Biblical Spirituality are based on propositions like this – made in the Word - that nothing in the will and purpose of GOD will be impossible to us because they are configured in us through CHRIST WHO strengthens us (see Php 4:13)! The configuration comes about as CHRIST is formed in us (see Galatians 4:19). The configuration of CHRIST in us is the actual revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST in us! As CHRIST is formed in us, the Mystery of CHRIST specific to our state of being, and its specific functionality in GOD, is expounded into our state of being! The Seed of CHRIST implanted in us, germinates and grows in us even as we hear (and receive) more and more of the Rhema (or, “quickened”) Word of GOD (see Romans 10:17, KJV+NKJV; Matthew 13:23; Mark 4:20). Being born again is the ‘first fruits’ of the evidence of our faith in YESHUA MASHIAH as LORD (YHWH ADONAI), being rewarded (see Hebrews 11:6) with the first fruits of the faith and love of JESUS CHRIST towards us (see 1 Timothy 1:14) opening us to new realities in GOD and of GOD! These new realities in GOD and of GOD come out of the faith and love of JESUS CHRIST for us. The evidence of our faith in JESUS CHRIST, and the release of HIS faith (and HIS love, Nature, Character etc) for us – into us - is the basis of the actual birth of our spirit man. And, this foreshadows our continued growth and development in CHRIST JESUS! As 2 Corinthians 5:17 declares: … Behold new things have come. These new things have come in the contents of the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST.

Understand that the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST communicates an astonishing array of attributes described in the Testimony of JESUS such as character, nature, power, obedience, wisdom, authority, knowledge, understanding, counsel, truth, strength, faith, love, righteousness, holiness, courage, spiritual insight and, spiritual functions developed in the HOLY SPIRIT etc.! Our spirit man is birthed through the release of the contents of the Seed of the WORD - through the Spirit and Life of MASHIAH YESHUA (see John 6:63) - into our spirit man, by the HOLY SPIRIT. This is why the Christian faith must be exclusively founded on, and be exclusively developed in, the Testimony of JESUS. This is why the Testimony of JESUS is called the Spirit of Prophecy (see Revelation 19:10 c)! The Seed Of The WORD is the Seed Of MASHIAH YESHUA’s faith (the seed faith of HIS Testimony) that will enable all things consistent with the FATHER’s Will to come alive in our state of being – in a potential that stretches into eternity! The Seed of MASHIAH YESHUA’s faith gives birth to a new spirit within us. This new birth comes from the contents of the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST (see Php 1:19 c, NKJV+NASB). And, we are supernaturally opened to GOD and HIS Kingdom realities (see John 3:3; John 3:5) from our inward parts.

We also become – by spiritual birth - citizens of the Kingdom of GOD! From this spiritual birth an access into the operating realities of the Kingdom of GOD can be developed in our inward parts (see John 3:5; Hebrews 6:19; Hebrews 12:22-24). Our new spirit is designed to actualize MASHIAH YESHUA’s Spirit and Life so that the supernatural realities of GOD and HIS Kingdom will open – and be developed - in the functioning of our inward parts.

Biblical Spirituality is the exercise of our citizenship of the Kingdom of GOD by actually expressing the Spirit and Life of JESUS CHRIST from our inward parts into the operations of the Kingdom of GOD.

[Our soul is able to discern - through our new and empowered spirit man - the realities of GOD and HIS Kingdom. Hence, the realities of GOD and the dynamics of HIS Kingdom also open and develop in the realities of our mind, will and emotions - as we choose to respond to what our spirit actualizes!] This is the actualization of HIS life-giving Spirit so that we will be increasingly transformed and enabled to do all things through CHRIST WHO strengthens us (see Php 4:13, KJV)! The potential to be enabled to do all things – in line with GOD’s will - is an exciting aspect of Biblical Spirituality that we can possess in CHRIST JESUS.

[We are born again when the Rhema Word of the LOGOS (WORD) Of GOD is opened into our spirit as the Seed ‘germinated’. What happens is that, the Rhema – or Spirit and Life (see John 6:63) communication - of the Logos Word of CHRIST, crystallizes in us as the implanted Seed of CHRIST germinates (or, comes to life) in us. When the Seed of CHRIST germinates genetically in our inward parts we are born again and, our spirit man is configured in the will of GOD in accordance to HIS purpose for us! Sometimes this spiritual germination of our spirit is instantaneous and sometimes it is gradual. The Seed of CHRIST is the Logos Word (see Luke 21:33) of the LOGOS WORD HIMSELF (see John 1:1-4) implanted into us, by Rhema Word communication (see John 6:63) made through the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT (see John 16:14; John 16:13-15). When the Seed germinates and the new birth has taken place, we are in a position to continue to receive of the Spirit and Life communication, by the hearing of the Rhema Word of GOD (see Romans 10:17; John 6:63). The hearing of the Rhema Word opens a growth continuum in eternity to our inward parts! That’s exciting!

Consequently, through the hearing of the Rhema Word, the capacity of our spirit man is increased! The potentials of the Word of GOD being released into us in the Spirit and Life of YESHUA MASHIAH are actually limitless (see 2 Peter 1:19) because its contents are limitless in GOD and, also because the growth process develops in eternity!]

Through JESUS CHRIST, by the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT, through the new birth, GOD has given us a functional spirit man. And this spirit man is to function entirely by the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST that GOD has given us.

Please be reminded that Php 1:19 c (NASB), tells us that GOD gives us “the provision of the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST”. The NKJV speaks of “the supply of the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST”. This provision and supply of (and in) the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST enables us to grow and develop in eternity – in the grace and love of GOD our FATHER! The provision and supply are in the actual contents of the life-giving Spirit of MASHIAH YESHUA, that is given actual expression, through HIS Words (see John 6:63; Luke 21:33; Revelation 19:13) and, which give true expression to the Word of GOD (see Revelation 19:13)! Truth and all that is true being an actual expression of the Spirit and Life of MASHIAH YESHUA (see John 14:6)!

AMEN (see Revelation 3:14 b)!