God has a plan for us in this life of the Spirit, this abundant life. Jesus came so that we might have life
(John 10:10). Satan comes to kill, steal and destroy (v10), but God has abundance for us --full measure, pressed down, shaken together, overflowing, abundant measure (Luke6:38). This abundance is God filling us with His own personality and presence, making us salt and light and giving us a revelation of Himself. It is God with us in all circumstances, afflictions, persecutions, and trials, girding us with truth. Christ the Initiative, the Triune God, is in control, and our every thought, word, and action must be in line with Him, with no weakness or failure. Our God is a God of might, light, and revelation, preparing us for heaven. Our lives are "hidden with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3). When He "who is our life" is manifested, we will also
"appear with Him in glory" (v.4).
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens....For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that the mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. (2Cor. 5:1, 4-5)
God's Word is a tremendous word, a productive word, a productive word. It produces what it is ---Power. It produces Godlikeness. We get to heaven through Christ, the word of God; we have peace through the blood of His cross. Redemption is ours through the knowledge of the Word. We are saved because God's Word says so: "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Rom. 10:9).
If we are baptized with the Holy Spirit, it is because Jesus said, "You shall recieve powerwhen the Holy Spirit has come upon you" (Acts 1:8). We must all have one thought----to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to be filled with God.
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