We will reach his fullness and project the image of God

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We will reach his fullness and project the image of God.

“And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man has ever seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.” (John1:16-18)

If there is someone who, after hearing only Jesus' work on earth, says," I believe in Jesus and am forgiven of my sins. I believe in the gospel of the cross and will go to heaven and enjoy eternal life. Amen, Jesus, please come again".  unfortunately,  if you die now, you will end up in a lake of fire. I am hated for saying that.

How loud is the Corinthian church? It is probably more childish and flashy on the outside than the organizations and churches that engage in the Holy Spirit movement that are mired in emotional enthusiasm these days.

Nevertheless, Paul diagnoses them with just one line of words.

Is the faith you have real? Then you know for yourselves that Christ is in you. If not, you are rejected and you are in the lake of fire. Do you understand? (2 Corinthians 13:5)

I only said what Paul said for the salvation of people, but people hated me.

God doesn't care about our face.

If Christ, the Son of God, is in him,  he has eternal life and God seals him and he is written in the book of life; if not, He places him under wrath of God. (John 3:36)

Those who have been born again through Christ who came from heaven, belong to heaven, and call God their Father are the children of God who are connected to the Spirit of truth, his fullness.

If you are a child of God, you are an heir of God, so if Christ, the head, is fullness, his body is also fullness.

However, the faith of the paralyzed person, who moves his head and body separately, does not have the faith to cross the cross of Christ and move from the land of the law to the land of grace and truth, so the Holy Spirit does not indwell him.

Many believers now know the earthly ministry of Jesus by heart, but they put off the heavenly ministry of Christ, the Lamb who sits at the right hand of the throne, until the Lord comes again.

Therefore, they lack the blessing that overflows with grace upon grace received from his fullness.

To them, grace is just a funny word, something that sticks in their head, and something that moves them.

I think that almost all preachers are obsessed with this and prepare for their sermons, so they stand at the pulpit holding sermons that are like a bouquet of flowers gathered from here and there.

Then, I see churches where preaching is not enough, so they sing hymns loudly and for a long time instead.

In any case, the vocabulary of grace is diverging from the Bible and adapting to the tastes of people's ears.

God's grace is the basic grace by which we are saved by believing that even when we were sinners, the Lord died on the cross for us, rose again, and ascended to heaven, snatching us from in Adam, bringing us back to life in Christ, and making us sit in heaven.(Ephesians 2:8)

Nevertheless, people are so thirsty for grace that if they are moved, they say it is grace.

The current form of Christianity follows to the Lord,  the Word, came to this earth, testified the gospel of the kingdom of heaven, and the cross on which the Lord died.

However, as the Lord said, I lay down my life for the sheep and find it again, there is no message of the cross for me to lay down my life on the cross of the Lord with Jesus Christ and find it again in Christ.

They are huddled together in front of the cross, waiting for the Lord to come again.

This is because they do not have the principle, after hearing the word of Christ, the word of truth, we have already died on the cross with Christ and are alive again, and have been united to the Lord’s death, so we receive and receive that grace through the Lord, who gives us eternal life in him. (John 10:28)

In front of the cross is under the law.

If we say it is grace in front of the cross , we can only believe that the Lord died for me and rose again, thereby overcoming death, when the Lord comes again, we too will be resurrected like him, caught up in the air, become the bride of Christ and live forever.

However, the Holy Spirit dwells in those who have escaped the law and have nothing to do with sin, that is, those who have been justified by receiving baptism, which is united with Christ's death on the cross and being rose again.

Because of that, we realize what kind of grace we have received and how far we can advance.

In the Holy Spirit of truth, we become one spirit with Christ and earnestly appeal to the name of the Lord, adding grace upon grace.

So grace and truth come by Christ.

After Christ, the Word, came as Jesus, died on the cross, and lived again, he came in us. Hearing the word of Christ, knowing that the word is in the mouth and in the heart, believing with the heart leads to righteousness, and confessing with the mouth leads to salvation. (Romans 10:8)

With the grace and truth in Christ, the spiritual principle of always attending the Lord before you like David is established, and if you shout out, "Lord, you are my light, salvation, and power of life," in the closet you are moved by the Spirit of truth and receive the blessing of looking toward the throne.

It is beauty, the joy of salvation, a new song, and the unsearchable riches of Christ.

Through these people, the active Christ and the appearing Christ become expressions.

No one has seen God, but models like these show God.

Because those who know that it is a grace the commandment to become one with the Lord, and they keep it,  in them the Lord reveals himself and become the dwelling place of the Father and the Son together. (John 14:21-23)

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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