04.10. Part 10
Getting To Grips With The Fullness Of JESUS CHRIST
Part 10 In Part 9, we made the statement that “Operating the gift mix out of our spirit is flawed function”.
Undoubtedly, all function involves our spirit; but, our spirit must [be objectively focused to] receive and develop all function [in and] through the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST [1 Corinthians 15:45 + Php 1:19 c]:
Hence, the declaration [in Php 4:13, KJV] that we can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us Hence the declaration [in Colossians 1:26-27] that CHRIST in us is the hope of glory Hence the declaration [in Revelation 21:9-11] that the Bride of the LAMB will have the glory of GOD
Hence the declaration [in Colossians 1:28; Colossians 1:26-28] that every man is to come forth “perfect in CHRIST JESUS” [KJV] fulfilling the demand of the Law of CHRIST [in Matthew 5:48]: “be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
Given all that YESHUA declares in Matthew 7:21-23, about the failing of some frontline ministers, we need to understand the root cause of the ‘lawlessness’ that the LORD points to, in
Matthew 7:23, in declaring: ’I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ This practice of lawlessness comes about by us persistently doing ‘our own thing’, using our spirit to operate our gift-mix, to fulfill our carnal desires and agendas. The life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST stands in the fulfillment of the Law [Matthew 5:17-18; Romans 1:3-4; Colossians 1:28-29]; and, opens us to the promises [in the Prophets] that flow [in progressive fulfillment] as a consequence of the fulfillment of the Law [2 Corinthians 1:20; Colossians 3:17; John 14:12-15; John 15:7-10; John 16:23-27]. The life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST – progressively – enables us to function [to live] in accordance with the demands of the Law of CHRIST. The capacity of function [of living] – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – is in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST.
We actualize the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST by prayer; by praying in the understanding of the Word of GOD, in the context of the Testimony of JESUS [Luke 24:44-45; Matthew 5:17-18].
We pray in the SPIRIT to energize the contents of the Word of GOD, in the Spirit and Life of YESHUA [this is what the HOLY SPIRIT does with the Word – John 6:63], appropriating [actualizing] the realities of everything definitive and functional in the Word [for example: righteousness, holiness, obedience, love, faith, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, character, nature etc.] from the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST!
While pursuing the realities of the Word of GOD in prayer, we put into practice the realities of the Word in every function of our being in thought, word, deed and relationship. [Understand that the Spirit and Life of YESHUA communicate the fullness of JESUS CHRIST – into us and through us!]
Prayer energizes the (Logos) Word of GOD – by the HOLY SPIRIT - into Rhema [or, into quickened] realities that become operational [functional] in the fabric of the Witness [1 John 5:10 a] – in us, in Spirit, Water and Blood [1 John 5:8]. [By this we put on CHRIST actualizing the fulfillment of the Law in our being]. The Witness in us – as the Logos Word of the Cross [see 1 Corinthians 1:18; Ephesians 3:20 c] - is energized, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in the power that works within us. Now we are in a position to function by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in thought, word, deed and relationship - in our personal, social, work place and ministry functions.
We can now understand that every one of us who is born again has the inherent capacity to be fully functional in GOD – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS - in conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious terms. This is the Amen of YESHUA’s Witness [Revelation 3:14 b] alive and operational in our inward parts by the HOLY SPIRIT – in Spirit, Water and Blood [1 John 5:10 a+8].
We need to understand that we must move towards doing all things in MASHIAH YESHUA. For this purpose the HOLY SPIRIT indwells us. To facilitate this entire operating reality within us, YESHUA went to the Cross, to manifest the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD - in Spirit, Water and Blood, in us! This is the inward reality through which we operate our gift mix. The finished work of the Cross is not ‘history’ but, is ever present [operating] reality. The Amen of YESHUA’s Witness progressively unveils us – by the HOLY SPIRIT - as a people being perfected and completed; being made perfect as our heavenly FATHER is perfect [see Matthew 5:48; Hebrews 12:23 c; Colossians 1:28, KJV]. Amen!
It is function in the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA that destroys the poisoned waters of lawlessness that permeates the fabric of human reality, in sin, sickness, disease, iniquity, transgression, decay and death. [In functioning in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST, our inward parts are clothed with the ‘fatness’ (the inward anointing) of the Spirit of MESSIAH to fulfill the Peace Offering (see Leviticus 3:3-5; Leviticus 23:16-19; Isaiah 10:27 (NASB+NKJV). Intimacy with YESHUA through the ‘fatness’ of His Spirit is missing from those mentioned in Matthew 7:21-23!]