Part II—
2 Peter 3:14, Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Spotless One, we are known by the Father, because we believe in Christ and abide in Him as our daily bread….. Our food, our dwelling, our daily strength, our daily wisdom and Guide…As He becomes our all, we then will be found spotless and mature in the growth and knowledge of Him. Soooo, God has provided a way for us to be found holy, without spot, and mature- perfected by our Lord and our obedience to Him…….Every day the Incorruptible Seed is overtaking us in everlasting life and truth…. Do you see?
There is no command from the Lord that is burdensome or grievous….. but in the wisdom of God is the instruction of God. Now by our obedience to His word, His wisdom is found in us. So having understanding, we know it is wise to set our mind as flint toward hitting the target…Strength to obey. Let us not be found just standing out on the target range idly with no direction and found lacking spiritual fruit…
Jesus Christ is the Door, and also He is the Way— In the Way, He is the Truth and Life….He is the Light in the world, for us to live by. Once we go through the Door, we learn to follow His Ways…. He leads us by and in Truth and Life for He is our journey. He is our Food, our Bread from Heaven…. As we eat ( abide) in His Word, Him, we grow in Him as He grows in us…..It is our journey….to be consumed with the fire of God, but not burn!
All things are possible to those that believe…. There is nothing impossible to achieve in the Spirit and by the Spirit of God regarding the promises and exhortations of the Lord. He is our inheritance as well as He has given us all things that pertain to godliness to live a supernatural life from His divine nature. The Spirit dwelling within is our way of power or strength to achieve the impossible made possible life in this adventure of God, becoming or transforming us into the image of His Son, and living as His bride.
All we have to do is believe and obey His word daily that He gives us… Each child is different and each child is a different member in the body with a different task…. So we each need to diligently hear the word of God for our daily Bread. Someone else eating their bread, will not feed you…. So we each need to seek His Word and Wisdom daily…. and get our Food of Life and our daily instructions from our CO, ( Commanding Officer).
He has been given to us for this purpose… that we may become a blameless generation that seek the Lord’s face…. So we have a single vision of the Lord Jesus.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved, ( Ephesians 1:4-6).
It is written in Romans that Abraham was righteous before His sight because He believed God. He, ( Abraham) did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness,( Romans 4:20-22).
So if God tells us to be holy as He is holy….. He has provided everything necessary for us to walk that out in the faith of His word, in His Son, in the power of the command….
Since He wants to see us walk blameless before Him all our days, He has already provided the way to do that —– by His Spirit within us, the hope of our glory, Christ within. It is also by knowing how the Lord walked on this earth that we also can follow in accord with the Spirit. It is not by any of our works, but the work through His Spirit within and coming through us by faith, as we abide in the Son and as the Son is abiding in us, Christ, our only hope of glory!
It is all about Him and by our faith in what He died to give us in His resurrected life…. We live now because He lives in us. We are now living an incredible supernatural life by the Spirit of God and our King is in our midst…. By all things we have been crucified with Christ, and the life we now live is by faith in the Son of God, who died for us because He loved us and gave Himself for us, ( my paraphrase of Galatians 2:20).
And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ sake for when I am weak, then I am strong, ( 2 Corinthians 12:9-10).
Everyone applies grace to the forgiveness of sins….. That is great, but the grace of God is not limited to the crucifixion of Christ as the Sacrificial Lamb of God to the forgiveness of our sins. The redemption from Christ is ever expanding as we learn more of the revelation of Christ. There is always room for growth in our knowledge and grace about our Lord and His redeemed.
The grace of God and His mercy are never ending, so to limit the grace of God is limiting the Spirit of God….. We do not want to do that…. We want to give Him free reign over us and complete the work that He has to do in preparing the bride of Christ. Let us have the eyes to see His vision and know that He has given us everything to obtain that vision within our hearts then it shall manifest outward.
He wants to reinstate our fallen state, not just wipe away our sin against Him….. He wants us back to worship Him in Spirit and Truth….. He wants us as His family ….A family made in His image, not Adam’s. He wants a people that are weak in the flesh but strong in His Spirit, that live a life supernaturally dependent on this great God, so all will see and many will be made righteous.
I know that there is nothing good in my flesh, that is why I am happy to go to the cross daily, no matter how it hurts from reproach and persecution…… because…. what cannot die or be destroyed in me is what Christ has done for me and is doing in me…. restoring His life within me to His image…..that is His work and it is eternal.
But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world, ( Galatians 6:14).
I guess when we realize all we do that obtains any good or heavenly results are from His Spirit, there won’t be any jealously or hate because we finally learn, it is all about Jesus Christ and His work in the Spirit, not ours….. The Spirit of Grace has brought the glory to Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father! We all are ministers of the Spirit of grace, because He speaks through us….. Not us doing the brilliant works and words, we are not magnificent, only the Godhead soooooo…. all is Christ now and forever and God Almighty be the glory!….
The grace of God is also applied to living a holy separated life unto Him. We live by faith and are totally dead to the world…. Remember we are crucified to the world and made alive to Christ. Or we live dead to Christ and alive to the world! Choose life…. Yes, and AMEN!
We are living a life of faith in His Word, no matter what it looks like in the flesh….. We take His grace upon us and refuse to back down on what God said, God will do…. I will walk before Him in faith and trust in His faithfulness that what He has called me to be He will finish. So I may be found in Him blameless, not having my own righteousness, but magnifying His righteousness all over my days in Him on this earth. You too, right?
Grace be upon us as we live in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus today, that we know He is in our midst every second that we breath in this life on this earth. That we are with Him where He is now…. He is our Healer, Redeemer, Provider, Protector and our High Priest for us. As it is written, as He is so are we in this world in 1 John. Do we believe that and then live it????? Do we?
I have a question for us all, are we willing to drink of the same cup that He drinks for His behalf?
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who saved us and called with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, (2 Timothy 1:8-9).
If we aren’t, His Spirit will strengthen us to drink the cup of suffering. The same cup of His resurrected life will grow in us in greater measure. God’s ways always increase Him and decrease us ….. Are we willing?…. If we are found willing, then …..
He is faithful to complete what He has started in us….Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He who calls you is faithful , who will also do it, (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).
We do not cease to pray and ask that we may be filled with all knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light,( Colossians 1:9-12).
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, blameless, and above reproach in His sight- if you indeed continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul became a minister, ( Colossians 1:21-23).
What do you think Jesus Christ meant when He said to pick up your cross and follow Him? Does that include the cup of suffering? What does Paul mean that if you desire to live a godly life, you will suffer persecution….. Are we ready in the west to suffer for the Name that is above all names? Will we obey when we are really under fire? Will our faith make it through the lion’s den?
Let the Holy Spirit search our hearts and prepare us to be strengthened by His might to drink the cup of the Lord. Holy Spirit help us also go through the winepress………We can by abiding in the Son of God…. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, ( Philippians 4:13).
Selah! We will continue to meditate on the Best Food Ever Available, The Word Of God!
Part III Next week, if it be His pleasure!
