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Bring Christ, the Word, into you
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we behold his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, ‘This was he of whom I speak, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.” (John 1:14-15)
If you want to receive Jesus Christ as Lord, you must not reject that Christ, the Word (Ho Logos), is in your flesh.
Because if he does not acknowledge that Christ dwells in his flesh, he becomes the spirit of the antichrist (1 John 4:2-3).
In the Korean Bible, the word ‘by the flesh’ means in the flesh.
Remember what Calvin said, quoting Augustine, that the church is the second incarnation.
We call the Christ, the Word, who came in the flesh in history, Jesus.
His name is Immanuel, which means that God is with us after Jesus died on the cross and rose again to clear our sins in Adam. (Matthew 1:21,23)
If we know that Jesus, the Word who came in the flesh, is the only incarnation, and we do not receive that Christ, the Word, dwells in us, we will end up like the church in Laodicea.
He believed in Jesus, but after the revelation opened, he saw that Christ was outside.
So, the church is filled with everything and lacks nothing except salvation.
This church in Laodicea eventually become a prostitute and although they can not communicate with each other, they unite and become Babylon.
Even though Babylon has different languages, it is a union that is united as one, right?
In the Bible, a prostitute is a synonym for a woman who abandoned her childhood partner.
Dying with Christ and living with Christ to become one partner with another, that is, Christ, is God's predestined purpose for pairing (Romans 7:4), but this is rejected.
Dying with Christ and living with Christ to become married with another, that is, Christ, is God's predestined purpose for pairing (Romans 7:4), but this is rejected.
He would believe it if he just believed in Jesus, but he find it uncomfortable to think that he have to die on the cross with Christ and live again in order to become united with his resurrection and life and receive eternal life.
So the fact that Paul cries out is that many people are enemies of the cross of Christ. (Philippians 3:18)
Even though the devil is now bound and imprisoned in the abyss and only false prophets are speaking, if we ignore the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which unites us with the cross of Christ, when the period of salvation ends and the devil is released and the war between Gog and Magog begins, no one will be saved.
Therefore, in order to avoid being deceived, you must receive the love of the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10) to be saved.
As the last prophet of the law, John the Baptist knew that Jesus was the Word who had been speaking from the beginning, but the Lord's disciples knew that the new covenant with Christ present within them in the Holy Spirit had been fulfilled.
So John the Baptist is a small person in heaven.
For example, it means that he did pull-ups to enter heaven.
The forefathers of faith and the prophets of the Old Testament saw and believed in the sufferings of the Lord and the glory of the Lord following His suffering through the Spirit of Christ (1 Peter 1:11), but they received testimony but did not receive the promise (Hebrews 11:39).
This is because they did not know as much as we which receive eternal life through the anointing of the Holy Spirit after Pentecost and know God and the Lord Jesus Christ whom He sent.
How can we say that we know God (yada, ginosko, sleep with him) unless we become one spirit and one body with Christ in the Holy Spirit?
Since Christ is not in them, this is the picture of churches all over the world that, like the Corinthian church, are only following signs that appear on the outside and are being manipulated by false prophets (2 Thessalonians 2:9).
That is the result of putting a veil over Christ, the Spirit of truth.
This veil is taken off at any time in Christ through repentance back to him.
For where the Spirit of the Lord is, we are set free from sin and death, and when we take off the veil and see the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image from glory to glory.
This is through the Spirit of the Lord, that is, Christ (2 Corinthians 3:14-18)
Therefore, repentance must be for righteousness, not just for the forgiveness of sins.
We gain spiritual freedom through repentance by following the cross of Christ from the place of the flesh under sin and death to the place of righteousness in Christ.
Those who repent in this way are justified and serve Christ, the Word, without any discomfort and joyfully receive unity with him.
Therefore, we are filled with grace and truth through the new covenant in which the Lord dwells within us and reveals his glory.
We count the total amount of love God has given us through grace and the truth is the principle that makes the grace mine..
Therefore, the praise of Alleluia in the Book of Revelation is sung because the words of after salvation, glory, honor, and power are fulfilled (Revelation 19:1).
Hallelujah is a song to the God of heaven, and Alleluia is the fulfillment of His words on earth, so we sing Alleluia.
Christ, who came in us, is the fullness itself as the Lord of all things, ruling over all things in a close relationship with the Father in the beginning, and is salvation, glory, honor, and power for us.
Salvation is the beginning, glory is the flower, and honor is the fruit.
And the power gives us the power to bring dead and rotten things back to life.
Because Christ, the Word, dwells within us, salvation, glory, honor, and power work within us, so we say Alleluia and praise.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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