Phillippians 3:14,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I have made the statement before that there is no miracle for the mind at the cross. Miracle is in spirit, the spirit of man is joined unto the Spirit of Christ. But there is a miracle for the mind, that comes by the renewing of the mind to catch up with the facts. The facts that has happened to you and for you at the cross. The cross is the most powerful place of your deliverance, both before you were born again, as well as after.
You may have some kind of affinity toward what happened to you but you really don't know the moment you believed what all consists in the cross and what it means to be a Christian. So a miracle in mind will need to happen with you through time. What happens with time, we learn, we grow in grace and knowledge. You come to some conclusions of where you may fit in to the body of Christ as a productive Christian.
Lets take it a little higher as Paul calls it in our text.
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
What is the high calling you are called to; I'll give the simplest answer I know! It is sonship. As simple as you learning to be a son. Sonship is what you get in (Galations 4:1-2),
4 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
If you read close enough you can even see that it is your Father that declares sonship "until the time appointed of the Father." At an appointed time you are declared a son, the child not just a recipient of all the father has but now declared a son the heir to recieve from the Father all he has. Just as Jesus would receive of the father now you are a son by the father's decoration of sonship. You were always a child if born again and a son, but by your new birth knew nothing of the declared sonship of the Father. The scripture says;
4 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
So we are viewed no different than a servant until we can handle the things of our father. He is not a santa clause as some suppose and will not give the child their inheritance until they can handle it. Does that mean your on your own until then absolutely not, our father always takes care of his children, but you will not be receive all the father has until you grow up and can handle it. When we talk about inheritance we are not talking about material things, though it may include that. We are talking about a deep spiritual matter of sonship, that has to do with the mind being compatible with the new life in you. That life expressed is sonship, that is your inheritance, Christ alive in you doing the doing. Nolonger you but Christ as Paul said in Galatians 2:20,
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I have made the statement before that there is no miracle for the mind at the cross. Miracle is in spirit, the spirit of man is joined unto the Spirit of Christ. But there is a miracle for the mind, that comes by the renewing of the mind to catch up with the facts. The facts that has happened to you and for you at the cross. The cross is the most powerful place of your deliverance, both before you were born again, as well as after.
You may have some kind of affinity toward what happened to you but you really don't know the moment you believed what all consists in the cross and what it means to be a Christian. So a miracle in mind will need to happen with you through time. What happens with time, we learn, we grow in grace and knowledge. You come to some conclusions of where you may fit in to the body of Christ as a productive Christian.
Lets take it a little higher as Paul calls it in our text.
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
What is the high calling you are called to; I'll give the simplest answer I know! It is sonship. As simple as you learning to be a son. Sonship is what you get in (Galations 4:1-2),
4 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
If you read close enough you can even see that it is your Father that declares sonship "until the time appointed of the Father." At an appointed time you are declared a son, the child not just a recipient of all the father has but now declared a son the heir to recieve from the Father all he has. Just as Jesus would receive of the father now you are a son by the father's decoration of sonship. You were always a child if born again and a son, but by your new birth knew nothing of the declared sonship of the Father. The scripture says;
4 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
So we are viewed no different than a servant until we can handle the things of our father. He is not a santa clause as some suppose and will not give the child their inheritance until they can handle it. Does that mean your on your own until then absolutely not, our father always takes care of his children, but you will not be receive all the father has until you grow up and can handle it. When we talk about inheritance we are not talking about material things, though it may include that. We are talking about a deep spiritual matter of sonship, that has to do with the mind being compatible with the new life in you. That life expressed is sonship, that is your inheritance, Christ alive in you doing the doing. Nolonger you but Christ as Paul said in Galatians 2:20,
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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