THE LIFE OF GOD IN YOU
12/03/24 14:03
Gregory Boyd observes that much of what we call Christianity is a diluted version of the knowledge of good and evil. Some versions of the gospel come close to being explicit Christian versions of the knowledge of good and evil which places them in that box of theology that is no gospel at all.* The Reverend Dr Gordon Moyes many years ago stated that Christianity is not a religion but a Person – the person of Jesus Christ.
But that person, Jesus Christ is also us.
THE ABUNDANCE
In Jesus we enter that communion that Jesus enjoyed with His Father. Jesus possessed the oneness that the trinity possess themselves – being one with each other yet fully the uniqueness of their persons. This is the oneness Jesus was praying about in John 17 and the oneness He achieved for us as a result of the cross, resurrection and outpouring of the Spirit. In Jesus you are woven in to God.
We are never alone, never separated from God. Not even in our sin.
You have union with God. This is the reality that is yours in which to live – never in the separation of the ‘law busting a gut’ to get the union with God that is already yours.
AN ELEVATED LIFE
Morrison following Torrance writes, “The incarnation meant the humiliation of God to humanity, but it also meant THE EXALTATION OF HUMAN BEINGS TO THE LIFE OF GOD. This begins with Christ’s homoousion, not only with the Father in the Spirit but His oneness with us in our true humanity. (1)
AGREE WITH CHRIST
We are joined to God by Jesus Christ. We participate in this oneness by believing ‘our gospel’ and agreeing with Christ that this oneness is so. It means that we actively live in the incarnation. Our starting place is the union with God that is ours in Jesus Christ.
‘You will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you’ John 14.20. Living in this reality is living in life. Reality is Christ.
OUR LIFE SANCTIFIED
Thomas Torrance explains the raising up of humanity in Jesus Christ. “God has joined himself to us in our estranged human life in order to sanctify it, to gather it into union with his own holy life and so lift it up above and beyond all the downward drag of sin and decay, and that he already does simply by being one with man in all things.
YOUR BEING IN GOD
Thus the act of becoming incarnate is itself the sanctification of our human life in Jesus Christ, an elevating and fulfilling of it that far surpasses creation; it is a raising up of men and women to stand and have their being in the very life of God, but that raising up of man is achieved through his unutterable atoning self-humiliation and condescension.”
(1) Morrison, Stephen D.. T. F. Torrance in Plain English (Plain English Series Book 2) (p. 200). Beloved Publishing, LLC. Kindle Edition.
* If we are still in the law we are in the realm of Adamic separation – the law of sin and death.
But that person, Jesus Christ is also us.
THE ABUNDANCE
In Jesus we enter that communion that Jesus enjoyed with His Father. Jesus possessed the oneness that the trinity possess themselves – being one with each other yet fully the uniqueness of their persons. This is the oneness Jesus was praying about in John 17 and the oneness He achieved for us as a result of the cross, resurrection and outpouring of the Spirit. In Jesus you are woven in to God.
We are never alone, never separated from God. Not even in our sin.
You have union with God. This is the reality that is yours in which to live – never in the separation of the ‘law busting a gut’ to get the union with God that is already yours.
AN ELEVATED LIFE
Morrison following Torrance writes, “The incarnation meant the humiliation of God to humanity, but it also meant THE EXALTATION OF HUMAN BEINGS TO THE LIFE OF GOD. This begins with Christ’s homoousion, not only with the Father in the Spirit but His oneness with us in our true humanity. (1)
AGREE WITH CHRIST
We are joined to God by Jesus Christ. We participate in this oneness by believing ‘our gospel’ and agreeing with Christ that this oneness is so. It means that we actively live in the incarnation. Our starting place is the union with God that is ours in Jesus Christ.
‘You will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you’ John 14.20. Living in this reality is living in life. Reality is Christ.
OUR LIFE SANCTIFIED
Thomas Torrance explains the raising up of humanity in Jesus Christ. “God has joined himself to us in our estranged human life in order to sanctify it, to gather it into union with his own holy life and so lift it up above and beyond all the downward drag of sin and decay, and that he already does simply by being one with man in all things.
YOUR BEING IN GOD
Thus the act of becoming incarnate is itself the sanctification of our human life in Jesus Christ, an elevating and fulfilling of it that far surpasses creation; it is a raising up of men and women to stand and have their being in the very life of God, but that raising up of man is achieved through his unutterable atoning self-humiliation and condescension.”
(1) Morrison, Stephen D.. T. F. Torrance in Plain English (Plain English Series Book 2) (p. 200). Beloved Publishing, LLC. Kindle Edition.
* If we are still in the law we are in the realm of Adamic separation – the law of sin and death.
