04.11. Part 11
Getting To Grips With The Fullness Of JESUS CHRIST
Part 11
Colossians 3:17 instructs us: < 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. > To do all things in the Name of the LORD JESUS, we must be a creative construct in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST. This progressive construct is in the substance and witness of YESHUA MASHIAH [Ephesians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 a].
And, this progressive construct flows out of all that the FATHER has predestined in the fullness of YESHUA: < 16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. > [John 1:16, NASB; see also Colossians 1:17-20; John 16:15]
YESHUA’s fullness is meant to be manifested in our inward parts of spirit, heart and soul [our inward parts of spirit, soul and heart being identified in Hebrews 4:12] – the Mystery of CHRIST revealed [progressively]. As discussed previously, one of the building blocks of the construct of our inward parts, is in our new born spirit being configured in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST [1 Corinthians 15:45 + Php 1:19 c].
Another building block of the construct of our inward parts, in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST, is the construct of a circumcised, heart of flesh in us [Ezekiel 36:25; 2 Corinthians 3:3, NKJV; Deuteronomy 30:6; Romans 2:28-29; Colossians 2:11]. The construct of a heart of flesh is of the substance of YESHUA’s fullness that forms the New Covenant [Isaiah 49:8 b] in the tablets of our heart [Jeremiah 31:33-34]. This New Covenant construct makes us Epistles of CHRIST [2 Corinthians 3:3, NKJV; Exodus 32:16]. We have discussed this in earlier articles. The third building block involves the re-engineering of our soul – our mind, our will, our emotions, [in the composite expression of] our nature, our character and our personality – in the image of JESUS CHRIST [Romans 8:29]. The fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT give functional expression to the SPIRIT’s re-engineering of our soul in the image [progressively reflecting the nature, character and personality] of JESUS the MESSIAH in fulfillment of the Law [Galatians 5:22-23]. The re-engineering of our soul, which is the actualization of our new man in the image of MESSIAH, flows out of the renewal of the spirit our mind:
Proverbs 23:7 a [YLT] reads: < 7 For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he … >
Ephesians 4:20-24 [NASB] reads: < 20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of* God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. > [*I have deleted the translator inserts to give clarity to this verse.]
Romans 12:2 [NASB] reads: < 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. >
These Scriptures point to the fact that if our thinking changes, we will be changed – be actually transformed [Greek: “metamorphoo”]. We will be transformed into what the FATHER has predestined [“which in GOD has been created”] in the kind intentions of His will! Our thinking is changed as the spirit of our mind is renewed. The spirit of our mind is renewed by the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA [being energized by the HOLY SPIRIT into our soul]. Prayer by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [Romans 8:2] enables renewal and regeneration. [Note: Please understand that what is pursued in prayer must be verified in the reality of our thoughts, words, deeds and relationships.]
Titus 3:5 declares: < 5 He [YESHUA] saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit >. This washing of renewal [the old being made new] and regeneration [the dead being brought to life] is through the Rhema Word [Ephesians 5:25-27] of YESHUA’s power [Hebrews 1:3 b; Ephesians 3:20 b] energized by the SPIRIT in the Amen of YESHUA’s faithful and true Witness - of Spirit, Water and Blood - resident within us [Revelation 3:14 b + 1 John 5:10 a, 8, NKJV; Romans 8:2]. The end product of this renewal and regeneration of the mind is the mind of CHRIST [1 Corinthians 2:16]. The mind of MESSIAH is the product of the HOLY SPIRIT’s ministry [John 16:14]. The growing mind of MESSIAH gives growing expression to the fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT. The fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT expresses our soul [re-engineered] in the image of CHRIST [Ephesians 2:10].
All of our inward man is meant to be re-engineered in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST (John 1:16 + 2 Corinthians 4:16)! Amen (Revelation 3:14 b).