Thursday, April 7, 2011

When That Which Is PERFECT Is Come

Perfect means Complete, or Mature
Maturity is Not Old Age

Some people grow old but never mature.
Some people become mature before they are old.

Maturity is a transformation of the mind.
Old Age is a transformation of the physical body.

Putting off the ‘old’ is not putting off your body, it is the Receiving of the Identity and person of Jesus Christ.  Read on to understand more.

Growing up in Christ isn’t about growing old in Christ.  It’s about having our mind renewed by the Holy Spirit washing and cleansing us by Jesus Christ, which is the Water and Blood… justifying and sanctifying us.   It is Receiving Him, His Mind and being changed, born again in His character & divine nature which means our behavior will change.  We start to walk and begin producing the Lord’s full character in all that we do. 

1 Corinthians 13:10-13 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.  13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity , these three; but the greatest of these is charity .

All of 1 Corinthians 13 reveals true Fruit of the Mature One.  So when that Perfect One, or could say Complete One, or Mature One is Come… Revealed IN Your SOUL, then the old nature will fall away.  Hear the word of the Lord.  A change in identity… the second man, the quickening spirit, the Lord from heaven, Eternal Life begins to Appear in this World    through HIS BODY …  To those that have ears to hear, hear what the Lord is saying….

It is time to let the Mature One, the Perfect One Appear…

Ephesians 4:11-16
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:  13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:  14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;  15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:  16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Galatians 5:19-26 
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,  21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,  23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.  24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.  25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Gal 6:1-2  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Grace and Mercy abounding in Faith and Hope as we all continue this journey – out of the mind of death/sin (the old law) and into the mind of Eternal Life and Righteousness (Jesus Christ – the New Law).  A transformation of character due to the Appearing of the Mature & Complete & Perfect One In Your Soul. 

Let the FRUIT of that One Come Forth.

Amen.
RPJ


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