Believe me, we have had conversations in depth on other boards how that Jesus has been made an idol of. But even if he has, I am persuaded that that water of child-like consciousness, can easily be made into the wine of my mature Christ reality....I know that by experience. We have discussed that he absolutely was a man.....he had no power whatsoever unless God anointed him. He always pointed out that it was the Father in him that did the works. He was tempted in all points like unto us. The word tells us that no man can be tempted unless he is drawn away of his own lusts and enticed. Jesus was enticed and tempted by his humanity the same as any other man, but overcame. Jesus forfeited his celestial glory and privilege to be made flesh like unto ours. He had to grow in grace and wisdom. He had to be MADE a priest and king....there was a making process involved.
BUT what Jesus came to show us was that man or mankind can make a quantum leap, a complete metamorphosis from being the hu-man or from being a hued down version of the MAN that God said He was making.
Adam was a hued down version of God's full intention, he was never in God's full image. Isn't red the lowest of vibrations in the color wheel. Doesn't Adam's name mean "red". God was just getting started with the making of his MAN when he finished with Adam.
Adam was the federal head of the hu-man race...the hued down man. All who have been born in his image are mortal...a condition that effected us all spiritually, mentally and physically.
Jesus, the historical Jesus, the man, was the Last Adam.
He came to bring an end to this hued down man species and to become the first of a BRAND NEW SPECIES, The New Creation Man. The resurrection was his quantum leap out of Adamkind!
That makes him the federal head of The New Creation Man. He has become the Father of a New Species just as Adam was of the old man. That's why Peter stood on the day of Pentecost and declared under the anointing of the spirit that Jesus had been made BOTH Christ and Lord.
And as a brother just pointed out you can no longer make a separation between what is Christ and what is Jesus. If we edit Jesus from the Christ, we will have to edit ourselves from the Christ as well.
I have diligently tried in every post that I have ever made concerning the glory that Jesus attained to, to point out that this is our calling as well. But we couldn't get there on our own...we laid our glory aside the same as Jesus did to take on flesh. We became entranced and enmeshed by the spell of matter....in need of a Savior.
When I first came out of the church system and God was teaching me about our inclusion in the fullness of Christ or Sonship and how great his love was that would reconcile all unto Himself, I started inching away from Jesus....I felt I was being more progressive just saying Christ and it would be less "offensive" to others. But one day the Lord broke my heart from ever doing that again. I wept before him in shame. When I say Jesus, it means Christ. When I say Christ, it means Jesus. This Jesus was made the head of this brand new Christ species body. He is not just a historical figure to me, although he was that, he has anointed me with the same spirit that glorified him and raised him from the dead.....this anointing is my downpayment installment of glory that is progressively bringing me up into the same glory that he attained. In spirit, in soul and in body.
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And I agree with the brother who says that Christ surrenders or subjects all to the Father but when does he do this?
"When he delivers over the kingdom to God the Father AFTER RENDERING INOPERATIVE AND ABOLISHING EVERY [OTHER] RULE AND EVERY AUTHORITY AND POWER.
FOR CHRIST MUST BE KING AND REIGN UNTIL HE HAS PUT ALL [HIS] ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET.
The last enemy to be subdued and abolished is death. [that is death in all its forms - spirit, soul and body]
For He the Father has put all things in subjection under His [Christ's] feet. But when it says, All things are put in subjection under Christ, it is evident that He [Himself] is excepted Who does the subjecting of all things to Him. 1 Cor. 15
Christ must be King and reign in us....self has to get off the throne.....everything that would exalt itself against the Lordship of Christ in us.
Christ in us is our hope of Father-like glory....the same kind of glory that Jesus asked to be given. We will father the new heaven and the new earth as co-creators with him. I hope these few words will serve to bless his body in some way.
Love and communion in Christ,
Karen
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