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A new creation’s Identity is found in Christ alone … rather than in our work, community standing, possessions or pleasures.
At the root of satan’s temptation to mankind in the garden was the implication that God wants to deprive us of knowledge. The Fall away from grace has gained for us the full compass of knowledge. It is now ours to refine that knowledge away from what is evil, and beyond our natural good to the better covenant.
Christ’s wilderness temptation came as temptings to identify Himself with (1) pleasure (turn stones into bread), (2) identity in position (cast Thyself down) and (3) identity in possessions (all these things I will give to Thee.
Christ and the sanctified are one. Rather than being a stiff-necked people we have the human experience of Jesus serving the purpose of fitting Him to mediate for mankind to God. We are joined to Him in the covenant of sanctification/consecration.
The second application is the principal of obedience or loss of rewards.
Hebrews 4:15 Let us embrace the holy Law of God, recognize our sinful condition before it, and come boldly before the throne of grace to obtain the grace we need to live it out.
The line is drawn to the Father rather than to the shadows as stepping stones to gain the height to see the way.
The way of the old testament approval was to be willing to sacrifice another (Abraham willing to sacrifice the promise child) while Jesus introduced self-sacrifice as the way to acceptance in the New Covenant.
Intuition is that part of the human spirit that communes with God. When all else has passed and knowledge is no longer that is what will remain.
Getting to the heart of nous: Intellect plus spiritual understanding: the art and soul of spirituality as a reliable means of interaction with God. Nous is interpretated to mean both intellect and spiritual understanding.
Ephesians 4:17 shows a darkened intellect while Ephesians 4:23 shows an enlightened intellect. Believers must have a renewed nous.
The organ (nous) with function (dianoia) needs to commune with God functionally as the way to be more and more in tune with God.
Ephesians 4:18
You should no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk in the vanity of their nous, being darkened in their dianoia.
Therein is the answer to Romans 12:1-3 the mind of Christ Philippians 2:5
.. w/o understanding there is no vehicle to move from knowledge to wisdom in action. Knowledge then remains head knowledge and not heart knowledge.
Freedom From manmade Rules
Colossians 2:16-17 “Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.”
The liberty that we have outwardly is curtailed to consciousness of His Holiness. The outer bondage that the world inflicts is liberated inwardly by being in His glorious Presence. God's chosen people previously had been under custody of the law in the covenant of the OT, that which Christ came to fulfill. God gives us His Spirit of Love and Life because we are His children, not because we are His law-keepers.
1 Corinthians 3:11–15 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ …. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
1 Timothy 1:13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent, yet I have received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief.
The mind of Christ is our link to the character of God. Philippians 4:8 & Galatians 5:22-23
God is Love and our insight into His character and the character that sanctification is bringing us to, should contain no less than love.
Integrity OT was exemplified by Job as God’s servant.Job 1:8
NT Christ calls us His friends. John 15:15
He is the friend that sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 8:24
Hebrews 13:15
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise
—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.
At the root of satan’s temptation to mankind in the garden was the implication that God wants to deprive us of knowledge. The Fall away from grace has gained for us the full compass of knowledge. It is now ours to refine that knowledge away from what is evil, and beyond our natural good to the better covenant.
Christ’s wilderness temptation came as temptings to identify Himself with (1) pleasure (turn stones into bread), (2) identity in position (cast Thyself down) and (3) identity in possessions (all these things I will give to Thee.
Christ and the sanctified are one. Rather than being a stiff-necked people we have the human experience of Jesus serving the purpose of fitting Him to mediate for mankind to God. We are joined to Him in the covenant of sanctification/consecration.
The second application is the principal of obedience or loss of rewards.
Hebrews 4:15 Let us embrace the holy Law of God, recognize our sinful condition before it, and come boldly before the throne of grace to obtain the grace we need to live it out.
The line is drawn to the Father rather than to the shadows as stepping stones to gain the height to see the way.
The way of the old testament approval was to be willing to sacrifice another (Abraham willing to sacrifice the promise child) while Jesus introduced self-sacrifice as the way to acceptance in the New Covenant.
Intuition is that part of the human spirit that communes with God. When all else has passed and knowledge is no longer that is what will remain.
Getting to the heart of nous: Intellect plus spiritual understanding: the art and soul of spirituality as a reliable means of interaction with God. Nous is interpretated to mean both intellect and spiritual understanding.
Ephesians 4:17 shows a darkened intellect while Ephesians 4:23 shows an enlightened intellect. Believers must have a renewed nous.
The organ (nous) with function (dianoia) needs to commune with God functionally as the way to be more and more in tune with God.
Ephesians 4:18
You should no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk in the vanity of their nous, being darkened in their dianoia.
Therein is the answer to Romans 12:1-3 the mind of Christ Philippians 2:5
.. w/o understanding there is no vehicle to move from knowledge to wisdom in action. Knowledge then remains head knowledge and not heart knowledge.
Freedom From manmade Rules
Colossians 2:16-17 “Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.”
The liberty that we have outwardly is curtailed to consciousness of His Holiness. The outer bondage that the world inflicts is liberated inwardly by being in His glorious Presence. God's chosen people previously had been under custody of the law in the covenant of the OT, that which Christ came to fulfill. God gives us His Spirit of Love and Life because we are His children, not because we are His law-keepers.
1 Corinthians 3:11–15 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ …. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
1 Timothy 1:13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent, yet I have received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief.
The mind of Christ is our link to the character of God. Philippians 4:8 & Galatians 5:22-23
God is Love and our insight into His character and the character that sanctification is bringing us to, should contain no less than love.
Integrity OT was exemplified by Job as God’s servant.Job 1:8
NT Christ calls us His friends. John 15:15
He is the friend that sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 8:24
Hebrews 13:15
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise
—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.