GOD IN US
05/03/24 09:57
The incarnation, which is the embodiment of Christ in Believers, both transforms the lives of Believers and reveals to Believers what Jesus knows – knows about God and the oneness of the trinity. Courtesy of Jesus Christ this becomes our relationship of oneness with God.
MADE WHOLE
The incarnation delivers us from a barren Biblicism, a skeletal fundamentalism and a lop-sided view of Holy Spirit and the anointing. The product of the atonement - the incarnation is more than our being with God. It is our oneness with God in a closeness that exists in the intimacy of our relationship with God before the fall. Our union with God is mediated by Jesus Christ. He includes us in His communion with Father and Holy Spirit. In Jesus we are in God and the separation Adam began is undone.
CHRIST IN YOU
God is not somewhere else. Not contained in churches or concentrated at the front of the church with the praise and worship folks. He is not even in your prayer chair. God is in you. The Lord’s Table is the celebration of what is – not a means of becoming one with God. We already are one. Just as bread and wine become the one who ingests it, so we are one with Christ by believing we are made one in Him. The fact is that we are one with God in Christ even if we do not believe. Believing is saying yes to the inclusion in God that is our in Jesus.
The incarnation makes irrelevant, deviant, law-based gospels and versions of the knowledge of good and evil and its implied separation. Informed praise and worship does not give us more of God. It celebrates Christ and the oneness we already possess in Him.
LIVING GOD’S JOY
The Lord’s Table is a sign and a reminder that the joy that God had always intended: union with God by the One Spirit is ours as a way of life.
Our relationship with God according to God and made by God was well described by the Church Fathers, particularly Athanasius of Alexandria. Jesus had said, ‘Eternal life is knowing God and Jesus Christ whom God has sent.
TO KNOW WHAT JESUS KNOWS
It is by knowing Jesus as Jesus was and is that we come to know God. Thomas Torrance puts it this way. “This relation of the Son to the Father revealed in Jesus Christ provided Nicene theology with its central focus and basis, for the incarnation of the Son opened the way to knowing God in himself, as nothing else could have done.
In Jesus Christ the Son of God took our human nature upon himself and made it his own so completely that he came among us as man; and by what he was as man, he revealed to us what he was and is as God.
That is to say, without giving up his divine nature, he united himself to us in our human nature so completely, that by living out his divine life within our human life as a real human life he revealed something of the innermost secret of his own divine life as Son of the Father.” (1)
YOU HAVE AN INCARNATED LIFE
It is this divine life as the son of His Father than we are now able to share as a result of the incarnated life of the trinity in our being and by the Revelation of Holy Spirit.
Divine rest for human restless is never found in days or times or religious stances. It is found in you in your union with God. Since the cross Adamic separation has finished and the union of ourselves with God in Christ has begun. To live in this is life itself. To live in religion and its derivations like the law and moralism is to miss most of the living water because we have attempted to drink the jug instead of the water itself.
(1) Torrance, Thomas F.. The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church (T&T Clark Cornerstones) (p. 55). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
