IT IS A LIFE LIVED ON GOD’S APPOINTED PLANE As God has never had but one plan for the life of man, and that is a spiritual one, He has never had but one plane on which He means man to live, and that is the plane of the spiritual. Life lived on the…
IT IS A LIFE FASHIONED ON GOD’s ORIGINAL PLAN (3) The human body becomes the habitation of the triune God on earth. The spiritual man apprehends the spiritual significance and sacredness of his body. Under the Holy Spirit’s illumination, he learns what it becomes through the new birth. 2 Corinthians 6:16“And what agreement hath…
IT IS A LIFE FULFILLING GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE Before the world was created or man was made to inhabit it, God had a purpose that He intended to carry out through His Son. Ephesians 3:11 “According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 2 Timothy 1:9 “Who hath saved…
IT IS A LIFE PERFECTED BY GOD’S HOLY PRESENCE I hasten to this point because I would not have anyone think even for an instant that conformity to the image of Christ is affected by imitation of a pattern, no matter how perfect. Such conformity as the Bible speaks of is not wrought in…
IT IS A LIFE CONFORMED TO GOD’S PERFECT PATTERN (CON’T) But the perfection of His character did not consist so much in the negative quality of sinlessness as in the positive one of holiness—a holiness so rare, so wondrous, so unearthly that it compelled His Father to break the silence of heaven three times…