NOT IN ADAM/MOSES BUT IN JESUS
12/01/25 09:39
Not a few Christians are unaware of the new covenant and what it means. They have been raised in the view that the Bible is a continuous whole even though it is divided into the new and the old testaments (covenant). But it is not. Our life in Adam ended when Jesus cried ‘It is finished!’ and our life in Jesus began when Jesus rose from the dead. In the post cross age Jesus is our life. Separation is over and we and our Father are one. Since the cross our life is in Jesus and not in Moses, the law or the knowledge of good and evil.
UNION WITH GOD IS POST CROSS
There were anointings. But people did not live in the Spirit before the cross. They could not because there had been no incarnation. The incarnation of Jesus among us and then Jesus in us by the Spirit is the dynamic of new creation life, aka Kingdom Life. Don’t live religion when you can be living kingdom.
EXPONENTIALLY BETTER
If we have been socialised into an old covenant gospel we are likely to think that the anointing of the Spirit in the post cross age is simply a better manifestation of the Spirit than occurred before the cross. It is better by far but better because the law has been removed and christ has replaced the law with Himself - INCARNATED IN OUR BEING AND EXPRESSED AS OUR PERSON. We are now one with God, which we were not before the cross – well not in the intimacy that is ours now. Thus, in the New Testament you as a son/daughter of God are a manifestation of the trinity. This is what it really means to be sons and daughters of God in fullness.
“Paul of Samosata emphasized the impersonal essence of the Spirit of God, which had been breathed into Jesus at his baptism; as a bearer of the Spirit Jesus was different from Moses and the prophets only by degree.” (1) Not so. Jesus was different because He was fully God manifest as a man.
Jesus was different because He was fully God. And different because He was fully human. Different too because He was one with our Father. It is this oneness that we now enjoy. Two lies of the post cross age are that Jesus came to mediate Himself to us by religion. The other is that we are separated from Christ and that we must live the kind of life that earns union with God. Not so. We are one with Christ and one with Father by and in Jesus. This is where we are positioned and this is the launching pad that propels us from glory to glory.
(1) Habets, Myk. The Anointed Son: A Trinitarian Spirit Christology (Princeton Theological Monograph Series Book 129) (pp. 66-67). Pickwick Publications, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition.