Love Fulfilled Ministry

we know because all work for good the ones loved by God, the ones existing called according to his purpose because those he foreknew also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son (Romans 28-29) In this worm of a body exists the Spirit of God, the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. Oh that we may have a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowing Jesus, that the eyes of our hearts would be enlightened to the power that is available to us as believers (Ephesians 1:17-19). That we may have ruling power through the Spirit in our inner man (Ephesians 3:13-20). That the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead and lives in us may bring life to this mortal body (Romans 8:11). so then brethren we exist indebted not to the flesh to live according to the flesh, for if you live according to the flesh certainly death but if the Spirit puts to death the deeds of the body you will certainly live. For those led by the Spirit exist the sons of God (Romans 8:12-14) I live in this worm

it is not the spirit of the world we have received but the Spirit from God, so we know the gifts of grace to us from God (1 Corinthians 2:12) Grace (charis) has effects or gifts (charisma). *  Grace is not freestanding from its gifts. We know the gifts of grace because we have received the Spirit from God. Thus grace and its gifts come through the power and wisdom of God. Christ is our wisdom, so through the experiential knowing of Jesus, whose words are Truth and Spirit, we receive wisdom as needed. These truths are expressed spiritually, as the Spirit guides us into the truth. The mind of the carnal man can not receive such spiritual wisdom, because knowing comes through a spiritual discernment (1 Corinthians 2:14-16). So this is the purpose that God planned in Christ, that we become a new creation, a spiritual being, and thus can discern the spiritual things of God and know the gifts of grace from God.  existing in the world that was created by him, but the world discerns him not, n

but the spiritual discerns all, now, at the same time influenced by no ones examination, 'for has any known the mind of the Lord, to prove him?' Now, we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:15-16) We hear this often 'we have the mind of Christ' but I've never seen it used in context. Paul is partly defending his teachings, that it did not come from man, himself, but from God thus it was spiritual truth and could only be discerned by spiritual or right-minded people, and that the carnal mind can not comprehend it. Now, men added chapters and verses to Paul's letters and unfortunately, this verse ends without giving us important information related to this verse in the next chapter. This is why we always read scripture in context. In the following verses of the next chapter, we connect them, "... now, we have the mind of Christ. But I brothers could not speak to you as spiritual, but rather as fleshly, infants in Christ " (1 Corinthians 2:16; 1 Cori

now, you exist from him [God], in Christ Jesus, who became our wisdom from God, and these righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30) Christ is our righteousness. *  Christ is our redeemer. *  Now, we see in the same verse Christ is our sanctification. The word sanctification ἁγιασμός (hagiasmos) is from  hagias  meaning holy (translated also as sacred, pure, and set apart) and with the suffix -mos added it denotes an idea, quality, or state. The act of making or declaring something holy is sanctification and also a state of being. Christ is from God our sanctification.  To understand more the suffix -mos added to a word (to form an abstract noun) we look at another use which is the word purification, ἁγνισμός ( ἁγνίζω , hagnízō, “to purify, cleanse”) +‎ ( -μός  -mós) which gives us the meaning purification which is the act of purifying, cleansing. Purification is the rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.  Another use is  ἀφορίζω   ( apho

according to his plan, he brought us forth from the word of truth, so that we exist kind of first fruits of that he created (James 1:18) Every good gift that comes down from above has the purpose of maturing or conforming us to the image of Christ, so we exist a kind of first fruit of all he created (James 1:17). I used to think that first-fruit only referred to a new creation, Jesus the Son of Man being the first then the apostles, early church, and so on. But it occurred to me, that Paul a Pharisee, a teacher of the Law, also speaks of the first fruit offering in the Old Testament. And we know in some way the old was a shadow of what was to come, not the real thing. The Hebrew word for first fruit is bikkurim  which speaks of the first of the crops but also to make first born and relates to the promise to come. blessed be the God of our Father, the one blessing us in all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3) The purpose of the offering or first crops in

though we were dead in our trespasses and sin, he made us alive together in Christ, by grace you have been saved, and raised and seated in the heavenlies with Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:5-6) By the grace of God Jesus could take on sin and taste death on our behalf (Hebrews 2:9). Grace doesn't stand alone, it has many effects. *  To me this is the greatest effect of God's grace, that Jesus tasted death, by grace the Son of Man was saved and raised, so that by grace we would be saved and raised. The law of sin brought condemnation and death but the Spirit brought freedom and life. Though I was dead God being rich in mercy through his great love, made me alive together in Christ. Together in Christ, Jesus having died and risen again, I am together in Christ, united in both his death and life (Romans 6:4). Dying with and Raised with Christ. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on t

now, you exist from him [God], in Christ Jesus, who became our wisdom from God, and these righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30) To those called, Jesus is wisdom from God. * The wisdom that we speak in the new covenant was hidden in a mystery until the appointed time when God would make it known through Christ, it is to the extent of our glory (1 Corinthians 2:7). In that we are being conformed to the image of Christ. For us to be glorified, to be reconciled, to be chosen and adopted as a child of God, the issue of righteousness has to be dealt with. God made Jesus sin on our behalf so we become the righteousness of God. He [God] made the one [Jesus] knowing no sin, sin on our behalf so that in him we become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). We know from other scriptures that Jesus did not become sin, he came to take, bear sin and there was no sin in him (1 John 3:5), he committed no sin (1 Peter 2:22), he was holy, blameless, and pure (Mark 1