GROW IN GRACE part 2

GROW IN GRACE,

We continue this series on growing in  grace make sure you must have read the previous part. Keep winning keep growing

See the beautiful promises of Jesus to the believers he bought with his precious blood

Luke 10:19
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Mark 16:17-18
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

But he that believes must grow up in what he believes in to manifest the "SHALLS". Not after rapture, they are signs, signs of maturity in the mystery of the Gospel of Christ.

Romans 8:19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

He didn't say manifestations of the believers, he also didn't say Children, He says Sons... Sons here is what the greek language calls 'Huios' it means a matured son, it means a Grown up child. A Child that can be an ambassador on the behalf of His father, A son that thinks like God, talks like God, Knows what the father knows, feels what the father feels, is driven by what drives the father, and He perfectly sees Himself the way the father sees Him...

I don't believe that manifestation is referring to sometimes after Rapture... No No No, it is referring to when your handkerchiefs and aprons begins to heal the sick like paul's, when your shadows like peter's begins to make sick people healed... The word of God talks about all this so that we can see stuffs to mature into...

Romans 8:18
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Now someone will say, He is talking about after rapture... After what? Does he mention rapture there? Does the believer have to die to have the Glory of God revealed in Him? (The bible says the believer is called to Glory 2pet.1:3) You better Grow to show forth God's Glory Now... God said He has Glorified you... Grow to manifest it... Grow UP... Stop sitting around church pews listening to stories on how you cannot loose salvation... Grow... After salvation, what next is not Rapture or death or making heaven, What Next is GROWTH... Paul grew, peter grew, John grew, Even Jesus Grew, Not only physically but spiritually.

How dare you not grow?

The Glory will be revealed in you... Not only when we are raptured, But Even NOW... That's if we grow....

See Jesus' prayer...

John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

And we as believers can pray in this manner today... He says "And NOW o father... Glorify me Now... Not after sometimes... Not after rapture, not after death, But NOW

The desire of the righteous shall be granted, but that's if he has a desire, that's if like apostle paul, he has something he passionately looks forward to in His spiritual walk as he matures...

Philippians 3:10-14
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Can you see a desire to Grow in the knowledge of Christ Jesus in paul?

Paul wanted to Know Christ... Can you imagine? the person that has appeared to Him several times, and this was after he could see death as an option, he could now be choosing between whether to depart from this world or not to... He was bit on his wrist by a viper, he didn't die, the viper died instead, and you think his physical body was still mortal?

He want to Know Christ so much that he would literally attain the resurrection of the dead... Let me help you understand that... Paul wanted to literally live like a person who once died and is now resurrected, Never to die again... Not by dyeing and resurrecting but through attainment by any means... Can you feel this?

2 Corinthians 4:10
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Always bearing the consciousness of Jesus' vicarious death in my emotions and consciousness so that my physical bodies can manifest divine Life...

Paul wanted to, before he left the earth be able to attain and apprehend all that Christ has apprehended for him, He wants to literally become what the word of God reveals by the spirit in him...

He knew that immortality has been brought to Light through the gospel 2tim.1:10, He knew that death has been destroyed and abolished but now he wants this truth be made literally real through Knowing Christ...

This Knowledge is not talking about having an idea in your head...
It is the kind of Knowledge that makes you that which you know or that which the knowledge talks about...
You literally become one with what you know, that's the knowledge we are talking about here...
It is only by a consistent fellowship with the spirit of reality that this can be done...

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

He says we are Changed as we behold(grow)...
To be continued.........

Grace and glory team......