Christ`s Character. (The Hidden Manna. Rev.2: 17)
`To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat.` (Rev. 2: 17)
`Jesus said,
“ I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.....
I am the living bread,.....
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
(John 6: 48 -50, & 63)
Bread is bought to nourish those who are alive; but Christ, the Bread of God imparts life eternal. The physical bread we eat is from wheat or other grains, grown in the ground from whence our bodies are derived. The calcium, silicon, iodine, iron, phosphates etc in an organic form are packed into the wheat in order to build up our strength.
In like manner, if we are to become partakers of spiritual life and immortality we must eat the Bread of God, which is made up of righteousness, goodness, lovingkindness, graciousness, perfectness, holiness and such like which result in Christ likeness.
To believe Christ and receive Him is to appropriate and partake of the Bread of God , (Christ`s character) which came down from Heaven. In doing so the result is life everlasting, because these divine virtues are imperishable. Therefore the gift (reward) of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Christ Likeness and Function. (The White Stone with our New Name. Rev.2: 17)
`To him who overcomes, I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it. ` (Rev. 2: 17)
To have our own new name written on that `white stone,` is to have our specific character and function identified.
`Coming to Him as to a living stone,....precious...
...you also, as living stones,
are being built up a spiritual house,
a holy priesthood,...`
(1 Peter 2: 4 & 5)
This shows that the living likeness of Christ, the precious Stone, is imprinted on every redeemed soul. And every living stone built in the spiritual structure of this celestial house, has become a partaker of the divine nature.
We are individually set in the Body of Christ with a specific purpose and function.
`...now God has set the members, each one of them,
in the body just as He pleased.`
(1 Cor. 12: 18)
`To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat.` (Rev. 2: 17)
`Jesus said,
“ I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.....
I am the living bread,.....
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
(John 6: 48 -50, & 63)
Bread is bought to nourish those who are alive; but Christ, the Bread of God imparts life eternal. The physical bread we eat is from wheat or other grains, grown in the ground from whence our bodies are derived. The calcium, silicon, iodine, iron, phosphates etc in an organic form are packed into the wheat in order to build up our strength.
In like manner, if we are to become partakers of spiritual life and immortality we must eat the Bread of God, which is made up of righteousness, goodness, lovingkindness, graciousness, perfectness, holiness and such like which result in Christ likeness.
To believe Christ and receive Him is to appropriate and partake of the Bread of God , (Christ`s character) which came down from Heaven. In doing so the result is life everlasting, because these divine virtues are imperishable. Therefore the gift (reward) of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Christ Likeness and Function. (The White Stone with our New Name. Rev.2: 17)
`To him who overcomes, I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it. ` (Rev. 2: 17)
To have our own new name written on that `white stone,` is to have our specific character and function identified.
`Coming to Him as to a living stone,....precious...
...you also, as living stones,
are being built up a spiritual house,
a holy priesthood,...`
(1 Peter 2: 4 & 5)
This shows that the living likeness of Christ, the precious Stone, is imprinted on every redeemed soul. And every living stone built in the spiritual structure of this celestial house, has become a partaker of the divine nature.
We are individually set in the Body of Christ with a specific purpose and function.
`...now God has set the members, each one of them,
in the body just as He pleased.`
(1 Cor. 12: 18)
