GOD'S
CHARACTER, NATURE AND PERSONALITY
by George Kirkpatrick
Vital Words to the Body of Christ
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As the
age of Grace comes to a close and the New Day begins to appear on the horizon,
we wonder, as we look at the church system with all its schisms, divisions
and its denominational separations, what happened to the "oneness" idea that
was so prevalent in all of Jesus' teachings.
John, the beloved disciple who
leaned on Jesus' breast at the Last Supper, recorded these words of Jesus:
"That they all may be one;
as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in
Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.
And the glory which Thou gavest
Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one:
I in them, and Thou in Me, that
they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou
hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me." *** John
17:21-23
It was Jesus' desire that His
people be one, as He and the Father are one. When His Body comes into
this oneness, the glory that the Father gave to Jesus will be ours.
But at this time in history, the oneness idea is totally foreign to the church
because their agreement or disagreement is based on the precepts and doctrines
of men. Jesus stated:
"This people draweth nigh unto
Me with their mouth, and honoureth Me with their lips; but their heart
is far from Me.
But in vain they do worship Me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." *** Matt. 15:8-9
Many talk about oneness and even
try to come together for the glory of God. But inevitably their precepts
of God and their doctrines of men will separate and divide, and another
experiment in oneness fails. Most overlook the writings of Peter whom
Jesus gave the keys to the kingdom. Peter stated,
"For even hereunto were ye
called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow His steps." *** I Peter 2:21
Jesus is our example of oneness
and Jesus is our example of the Father. As John recorded,
"Beloved, now are we the sons
of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that,
when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as
He is." *** 1 John 3:2
If we are to see Him as He is,
then we must be like Him. Jesus is our example of what we are to be
like.
In the beginning, man was made
in the image and likeness of God. Sin separated God and man.
If we are to, again, be joined unto Christ, it necessitates that we become
as our example, or we will never see Him.
Many believe that heaven is their
hope in glory. Nowhere in the Word does it state that heaven is our
hope in God. The Word states that Christ in us is our hope of Glory,
*** Colossians 1:27. If we are to understand our position and our calling
in Christ, we must look closely at our example, Jesus.
To understand our example completely,
we must begin at His birth and look at His life.
The angel of the Lord appeared
unto Mary:
"And the angel said unto her,
Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive
in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call His name JESUS.
He shall be great, and shall be
called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto Him
the throne of His father David:
And He shall reign over the house
of Jacob for ever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end.
Then said Mary unto the angel,
How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And the angel answered and said
unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest
shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be
born of thee shall be called the Son of God." *** Luke 1:30-35
It was the Holy Ghost that
overshadowed Mary and conceived Jesus in Mary's womb. Mary became pregnant
by the Holy Ghost; the Holy Ghost fathered Jesus.
In the fertilization process,
as God designed it, the mother has her part and the father has his part.
From the mother comes the body. The mother's body is used to carry
and produce the body of the child. The writer of Hebrews
proclaimed,
"Wherefore when He cometh into
the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body
hast thou prepared Me." *** Hebrews 10:5
God prepared Jesus a body to dwell
in while He walked upon the earth. Paul clarified this point in His
letter to the Galatians.
"But when the fulness of the time
was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law." ***
Galatians 4:4
Although the woman carries the
child and the child develops in her womb, not one drop of the mother's blood
enters the child. The blood comes from the father. All lineage
of the child is determined by the father, not the mother. The Word
relates that the "life is in the blood".
#1 The Blood Line
From the time of conception, the
fertilized egg produces its own blood supply. Pictures of the fertilized
egg show that, at conception, the fertilized egg begins to pulsate.
This is the beginning of life for the child. In a very short time,
the heart and the blood system are visible. This fertilized seed produces
its own blood supply. At the moment of conception, the fertilized egg
becomes an individual.
To further prove that the bloodline comes from the
father and not the mother, we find that, when babies are mixed up in the
hospital, it is not possible to take a sample of the blood from the child
and identify the mother. But you can sample the blood and find the
father. The mother produces the body and the father gives the child
its blood line.
What else comes from the father
in the fertilization process?
#2 Nationality
Nationality is always established
by the father. Since Jesus was conceived by the Heavenly Father, Jesus
had no earthly nationality. Jesus was not a Jew, although many thought
He was because they considered Joseph to be His father.
#3 Character,
Personality
and Nature
As we consider the birth of Jesus,
we understand He had the same flesh as we have. Paul wrote:
"For what the law could not do,
in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh." *** Romans
8:3
Jesus was born with the same sinful,
Adamic flesh as we have. Does this mean there was sin in Jesus'
life? NO! But He was born into sinful flesh. He overcame
His sinful nature as an example to us that we, too, can live sinless in this
sinful flesh. Mary gave Jesus His body and the Holy Spirit gave Jesus
His blood, nationality, character, nature and personality. John
records:
"And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father,) full of grace and truth." *** John 1:14
The Word was made flesh.
The Word pre-existed the flesh. John further recorded:
"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." *** John 1:1
The Word was in the beginning
and the Word was God. God is Spirit, therefore the Word is Spirit.
The psalmist reveals:
"For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is
settled in heaven." *** Psalm 119:89
God's Word is our road map to
get us through this life. It is sure and unchangeable because God is
the Word and He states, "I change not." Luke records,
"Heaven and earth shall pass
away: but My words shall not pass away." *** Luke 21:33
John reveals that the Word was
from the beginning and is part of the Godhead:
"For there are three that bear
record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these
three are one." *** I John 5:7
The Word appears where the Son
appears in all other references to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Jesus pre-existed as the Word before the foundation of the world. He
was Spirit. So He existed in the Spiritual realm before being born
in a body to become Saviour of the world. Before the flesh existed,
there was the Spiritual existence of all things. Paul spoke of Jesus
when he stated,
"In whom we have redemption through
His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Who is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn of every creature." *** Colossians 1:14-15
Jesus was the image of the invisible
God. Are we then to believe that Jesus looked like God?
NO! Jesus was the personification of the Father. He was our example
of the Father's character, nature and personality.
When the writer of Hebrews spoke
on this subject, he explained it this way:
"Who being the brightness of His
glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the
Word of His power..." *** Hebrews 1:3
Jesus was the expressed image
of His person in the brightness of His glory. When we study our example
to discover what God intends us to be, "we know that, when He shall appear,
we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." *** I John
3:2
Are we to strive to look like
Jesus? Or are we to strive to be like Jesus? God's beauty
is spoken of throughout His Word. The question then arises, "Was Jesus
beautiful?" Isaiah records:
"For He shall grow up before Him
as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form
nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that
we should desire Him." *** Isaiah 53:2
He had no form, nor comeliness
and no beauty that we should desire Him. There was nothing in Jesus'
flesh that we would want to follow. As Jesus, there should be
nothing in our flesh that would attract man to desire to follow
us.
Jesus had the same Adamic, sinful
flesh as we have. So what should we desire to follow in the life of
Jesus? It is the character, nature and personality of the Father that
comes through the Spirit.
John recorded that the Greeks
came to see Jesus.
"The same came therefore to Philip,
which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired Him, saying, Sir, we would
see Jesus." *** John 12:21
And what was Jesus' answer?
"And Jesus answered them, saying,
The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone:
but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." *** John 12:23-24
The Greeks wanted to see Jesus.
Instead of Jesus simply walking out and saying, "Here am I, take a look,"
He spoke of a corn of wheat, or a grain of wheat falling into the ground.
The word for ground is GE and means "earth". Jesus stated, "A grain
of wheat must fall in the earth and die. If it dies it will bring forth
much fruit."
In the creation God explained,
"Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth." *** Genesis 1:11
The seed is within itself.
The seed can only reproduce after its kind. If you plant carrots, you
get carrots. If you plant peas you get peas. Whatever is planted
is what is produced. In nature, nothing planted will reproduce until
the seed planted is totally consumed by the earth.
As we begin to understand the
laws of nature God instituted in His creation, we begin to understand what
Jesus was saying when He made the statement, "The corn of wheat must fall
into the earth and die before it can bring forth fruit." Jesus was
our example and Jesus' flesh had to die to bring forth much fruit.
Jesus revealed unto His followers,
"Nevertheless I tell you the
truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not
away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will
send Him unto you." *** John 16:7
The word expedient means "good,
profitable and to advantage". Jesus was stating it was to our good
and to our advantage that He go away, or go to the cross, because the Comforter
(Holy Spirit) could not come until He came to the end of His flesh.
As we read the Word, it is revealed
that Jesus was slain before the foundation of the earth.
"And all that dwell upon the earth
shall worship Him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the
Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." *** Revelation 13:8
What God ordained in the Spirit
for Jesus' life was manifested in the flesh at the crucifixion. Jesus
was foreordained in the Spirit to die in the flesh at the Feast of
Passover. The Word says the same of us. We were foreknown and
predestined in God before the foundation of the earth. In His writings
to the Romans and Ephesians, Paul spoke of this foreknowing and
predestination.
"For whom He did foreknow, He
also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might
be the firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover whom He did predestinate,
them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified:
and whom He justified, them He also glorified." *** Romans 8:29-30
"According as He hath chosen us
in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before Him in love." *** Ephesians 1:4
Before God ever laid the foundation
of the earth we were known in Him in the spirit, and what He foreknew in
the spirit He manifest in the flesh. It is by the blood of Jesus that
we have forgiveness of sin. As Jesus was the personification of the
Father, we are to be the personification of the Son. It is by the blood
that we are reconciled back to the Father. But it is by His Spirit
that we are to have the character, nature and personality of the
Father.
The seed that fell into the earth
that will bring forth much fruit is Christ, the Holy Spirit. When the
earth has totally consumed that seed, we will be changed in a moment, in
a twinkling of an eye. *** I Corinthians 15:52
Just as Mary was overshadowed
by the Holy Spirit to bring forth the body of Jesus, we also have been
overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and are impregnated with the Christ.
The overshadowing of the Holy Spirit will produce the Christ in us.
When that impregnated seed is given a chance, it will sprout and bring forth
much fruit. The fruit that is brought forth is the fruit of the Spirit;
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and
temperance. *** Galatians 5:22-23
These fruits are the character,
nature and personality of the Father. This list of fruit was not given
completely in Galatians. There was one missing. Paul added this
fruit in his letter to the Ephesians:
"For the fruit of the Spirit is
in all goodness and righteousness and truth." *** Ephesians 5:9
All the fruit of the Spirit are
brought forth in righteousness, and without Christ there is no
righteousness.
There are ten fruits of the
Spirit. Ten is the number of divine perfection. If we want to
see Jesus, all ten of these fruit must be manifest in our lives. As
we yield to the Spirit, these traits of God begin to be revealed in our
lives. All these fruits of the Spirit were resident in the flesh of
Jesus. When Jesus was addressing the multitude, He revealed Himself:
"Come unto Me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you, and learn
of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto
your souls." *** Matthew 11:28-29
Jesus said we were to learn
of Him. What are we to learn of Jesus? "I am meek and lowly in
heart." Meekness is a fruit of the Spirit. Meekness and lowliness
were character traits of Jesus and the nature of the Father.
The heart of man is the mind.
Solomon proclaimed in Proverbs:
"For as he thinketh in his heart,
so is he." *** Proverbs 23:7
Where a man thinks is his heart
and that is his mind. The physical heart is a blood pump and has no
ability to think or have any other function except pump blood. The
mind and the soul are the heart of man. Jesus was meek and lowly.
He did not lift Himself up in any situation. Jesus glorified the Father
in everything He did. When we manifest this fruit of the Spirit in
our lives, then we will understand Paul's words to the Romans.
"For I say, through the grace
given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more
highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God
hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." *** Romans 12:3
We are warned not to think more
highly of ourselves than we ought to think. Many who are called by
the name of Christ are high and lifted up in pride, self-esteem and are walking
in sin. Many in leadership are walking in sin because they have not
esteemed others better than themselves. They act as if what they have
is resident in themselves and God has nothing to do with it.
In Paul's letter to the Corinthians,
he asked a question:
"For who maketh thee to differ
from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received
it?" *** I Corinthians 4:7
Many have set themselves on a
plane far above those they are supposed to serve. They demonstrate
a self assurance that, without them, God could never accomplish His purpose
in the earth. These have overlooked the fact that God has predestined
them to do the job He has designed them to do and has endowed them with the
ability to accomplish it.
Many believe they are special
and God could not get the job done without them. They have set themselves
on a plane above all their other brothers and sisters, esteeming themselves
better in the sight of God.
Paul understood the principle
of the seed, Christ, growing and consuming the flesh. He wrote to all
the churches in Galatia:
"My little children, of whom I
travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you." *** Galatians
4:19
Paul travailed for the churches
in Galatia until Christ was formed in them. As a child is formed in
the womb of the mother, the seed, Christ, is to be formed in us until it
comes to full maturity and consumes the flesh, replacing the old, Adamic
nature. Paul proclaimed that we will be changed. The corruptible
will put on incorruption and the mortal will put on immortality, *** I
Corinthians 15:53. John informs us that we will be as He is and will
see Him as He is. We, too, will be the image of the invisible God that
is within us.
Jesus said we were to learn of
Him. He was meek and lowly in heart and mind. If we are to be
like Him, we, too, must be meek and lowly.
"The meek will He guide in judgment:
and the meek will He teach His way." *** Psalm 25:9
God will guide the meek in judgment
and teach them in His way. God cannot work with the haughty and the
proud. They do not need God. The meek and lowly know who they
are in God:
"But the meek shall inherit the
earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."
*** Psalm 37:11
Jesus quoted this in His sermon
on the mount in *** Matthew 5:5. The book of Proverbs speaks of the
lowly:
"Surely He scorneth the
scorners: but He giveth grace unto the lowly." *** Proverbs
3:34
"When pride cometh, then cometh
shame: but with the lowly is wisdom." *** Proverbs 11:2
God will give the lowly grace
and wisdom. How are we to become lowly? James informs us:
"Humble yourselves in the sight
of the Lord, and He shall lift you up." *** James 4:10
If we want God's grace and wisdom
in our lives, we are to humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord.
We are also to be humble in the sight of man. God has made many promises
to those who have humbled themselves in His sight.
"For thus saith the high and lofty
One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high
and holy place, with Him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite
ones." *** Isaiah 57:15
If our desire is to dwell in the
high and holy place with the One who inhabits eternity, then we must be those
who have a humble spirit, the contrite ones in God. The word contrite
means "to be crushed or broken"; those who have fallen under the mighty
hand of God to bring them into a position that they are accepted in the
Beloved.
The Holy Spirit inspired Paul
to write to the church at Ephesus:
"And hath raised us up together,
and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." *** Ephesians
2:6
We are seated in those heavenly
places in Christ Jesus because we have a humble and contrite spirit.
The word contrite also means "spiritual and emotional suffering". If
we refuse to humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord, God will bring
chastisement which will produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness in our
lives. *** Hebrews 12:11
Meekness and righteousness are
fruit of the Spirit. They are the nature of the Father. Meekness,
lowliness and a contrite spirit is the message throughout the Word.
"Whosoever therefore shall humble
himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of
heaven." *** Matthew 18:4
"And whosoever shall exalt himself
shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted."
*** Matthew 23:12
God promises that if we humble
ourselves, He will exalt us. The change that we desire will come and
we will be clothed upon with the house that is from above.
"For we know that if our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." *** II Corinthians 5:1
What Paul wrote has nothing to
do with dying in the flesh, but a change in our relationship to God
after we die to the flesh. "If the tabernacle (temporary dwelling
place) be dissolved..." The word dissolved is KATALUO. KATA means
"put down". LUO means "to loose, sever, break". When we put down
and are loosed and severed from the temporary dwelling place, we have overcome
the flesh.
When the Holy Spirit inspired
Paul to write this, he certainly was not ignorant of the dying process common
to all man. When we go to a funeral, we do not say this poor person
is dissolved. We are enlightened by the Word that when a person goes
by the way of the grave, they have not overcome, but have been overcome by
the last enemy, death. Paul goes on to say:
"For in this we groan, earnestly
desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven." ***
II Corinthians 5:2
We are going to be clothed with
our house from Heaven. Heaven is a spiritual realm. It is not
saying that we are going to heaven to get this house. He is speaking
of the here and now. Paul states that this house we desire is not made
with hands. The house he is speaking of was not formed and fashioned
by the hand of God from the dust of the earth, but is a house (or Body) from
another realm.
"For we that are in this tabernacle
do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed
upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life." *** II Corinthians
5:4
The Body of Christ is groaning
today, not desiring to be unclothed (to die and shed this body) but to be
clothed upon with the Body not made with hands, the spiritual flesh that
comes from the spiritual realm of God. That mortality (a body that
will die) may be swallowed up of life (eternal life in God). This comes
not by the way of the grave, but by the way of the anointing. Paul
spoke of this change as a mystery:
"Behold, I shew you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." *** I Corinthians
15:51-52
There is a change coming in a
moment, a twinkling of an eye. This will happen when the seed, Christ,
is formed in us and we are changed, and that which is flesh becomes
Spirit. We have the promise of Jesus:
"Verily I say unto you, This
generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." ***
Matthew 24:34
We are groaning in this tabernacle,
desiring the Word to be fulfilled in our lives.
"Therefore we are always confident,
knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the
Lord." *** II Corinthians 5:6
While we reside in this body,
we can only enter into the presence of God by the anointing which we have
received. Paul relates that the anointing we now have is only the earnest
of the Spirit, *** II Corinthians 5:5. The earnest is only the
down-payment. We are not walking in the fulness and we are not able
to enter in, because no flesh will enter in. We can only enter in when
we are clothed with our house from above.
"We are confident, I say, and
willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the
Lord." *** II Corinthians 5:8
Paul earnestly desired this change
that is coming. But Paul went by the way of the grave as has all
mankind. God spoke of a generation that would not pass away.
A generation that would be swallowed up of life. There is a line of
demarcation between the flesh and the spirit that no man can pass over until
this change comes. Jesus stated,
"That which is born of the flesh
is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."
*** John 3:6
As long as we are in this body
we will be absent from the presence of the Lord. God is with us, but
we will not become one in Him until this change takes place.
Paul gave us comfort when he
wrote:
"Wherefore we labour, that, whether
present or absent, we may be accepted of Him." *** II Corinthians 5:9
When the Spirit consumes and changes
the flesh, we will be present in the presence of the Lord. Jesus
stated,
"Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some
other way, the same is a thief and a robber." *** John 10:1
The sheepfold is the true
church. If we try to come any other way than by the door, we are thieves
and robbers. Yet, many try to come by knowledge, religion, or they
are trying in the flesh to be good enough or humble enough, trying to enter
in by formulas, programs and the precepts and doctrines of men. If
we do not let the seed that has fallen into the earth grow up and consume
the flesh, we will never see Jesus.
The Greeks said, "We would see
Jesus." The church is desiring to see Jesus. The world is desiring
to see Jesus. The only way any of us will see Jesus is if we follow
the direction of John, the beloved disciple, when he stated,
"...We know that, when He shall
appear, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; for we shall see Him as
He is." *** I John 3:2
We will only see Jesus if we are
like He is. The seed, Christ, must be formed in us and bring forth
fruit. These fruit are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance and righteousness, against such
there is no law. If we want to be free from the law, only the fruit
of the Spirit can free us from the law for there is no law where these are
concerned. When these fruit are manifested, we will be the Sons of
God. We will be the express image of the Father, having His character, nature
and personality, as did Jesus. Many will say, "I could never be like
Jesus." The Word is very clear. If we are not like Him, we will
never see Him.
"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." *** II Corinthians
3:18
We are being changed from glory
to glory by the Spirit into the image of the Father. Many speak about
the finished work of the cross in their lives. The work of the cross
was to bring forgiveness of sin. What God desires in our lives is the
finished work of Pentecost, the cloven tongues of fire cleansing the flesh
and bringing it into the glory of the Father.
"He that loveth his life shall
lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto
life eternal." *** John 12:25
Those who are not willing to put
off this life and the desire of the flesh, will lose their eternal inheritance
in God. There will be no eternal life if they hang on to this life.
So many are hoodwinked into thinking that eternal life is in heaven.
Those who walk in the Spirit have eternal life dwelling in them. When
they allow that eternal life (Spirit) to consume the flesh, then that which
is temporal will be eternal and that which is tabernacle will become
temple.
It is taught that we are the temple
of the Holy Spirit at this time. The house we are now in, that is made
with hands, is covered with skin and will be destroyed and die. We
are still tabernacle desiring to be changed into that which is eternal (temple)
where the Spirit of the living God will dwell eternally.
"Who delivered us from so great
a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver
us." *** II Corinthians 1:10
We were delivered from the curse
of sin at the cross. We are yet to be delivered from the last enemy,
death, that we may live to rule and reign with Christ for the 1000 year
millennium.
"For the kingdom of God is not
meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."
*** Romans 14:17
The kingdom of God is coming without
observation. It is growing within us. The fruit of the Spirit
are developing in our lives. The character, nature and personality
of God are replacing the old, carnal nature and the finished work of Pentecost
is being manifested in our inner-most being. God must change us from
the inside out. Most try to look good on the outside but God looks
on the heart.
"For which cause we faint not;
but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by
day.
For our light affliction, which
is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight
of glory." *** II Corinthians 4:16-17
Our inward man is being renewed
day by day. That inward man is where God will bring forth His character,
nature and personality so that the whole earth may see Jesus when He shall
come to be glorified in His saints to be admired in all them that believe
in that day. *** II Thessalonians 1:10
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