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Discovering the Expected End
The Son of God came and became the brightness of God's glory and the express image of His person; to show man his destiny and expected end. (Rom. 8:29)
The Day of God has always been all about the full essence of God; it is just dawning on Mankind. Man is predestined to dwell in the Day of God. God is light, and His original intention for man was for man to be like Him; it was the enemy that subverted this intention.
The dream of God for man is that man will be made into His image, having the fullness of God; however, we all have fallen short of this.
Our focus and passion should be to come to the expected end of God for us, as this is the essence of our New Birth. The world is set up to distract and prevent us from coming into the hope of God for man.
There is a path set for all men to walk in - a path that shines brighter and brighter unto the perfect day (of God).
We cannot receive the light of God at New Birth; God has to feed us His light little by little, beginning with the milk of the Word until we can handle the strong meat of the Word.
Even though the milk of the word of God is powerful, it cannot make a man spiritual. Milk begins to teach us repentance from dead works.
But our introduction to meat (the knowledge of Christ) comes with a responsibility; meat shows us what to do. The giving of knowledge is the giving of holy commandments we are to obey; this makes us holy. (1 Cor. 3:2-3, 2 Pet. 2:21)
We are sanctified by the knowledge of Christ; the meat of the word. It takes a sanctified/purified eye (heart) to see the dawning of God's Day.
Being spiritual is being able to overcome strife, envy and divisions, and such things. The meat of the word; the truth in Christ removes carnality from us. (Jhn.17:17, Matt. 5:8, 1 Cor. 3:2-3)
Feeding is essential for growth. As we feed on meat which is the revelation of the knowledge of Christ, we are cleansed through obedience.
The revelation of Christ prepares us for the taking of God. If we see God before we are purified, we will despise Him because He is meek and lowly. (Eph. 4:21, 1 Pet. 1:22, Ezek. 36:26)
The knowledge of Christ is given for us to escape pollution; it opens up the way of righteousness for us to walk in. Our cleansing determines our growth/raising, without this, we can never attain to true holiness, which is our destiny. (2 Pet. 2:21, Eph. 5:25-27)
Justification in Christ precedes glory. The revelation of Christ is what justifies us, and qualifies us to see God. The revelation of Christ is what trains us to love God.
We do not love God if we cannot obey and keep His commandments because loving God is painful, as it causes us to go against our natural arrangement. (Rom. 8: 28-30)
The way the Day of God dawns on us is that God's thoughts come to us; which cannot be received by a carnal man. God's thoughts bring His laws, these laws make us little.
The revelation of Christ is meant to remove competition and reputation, thus making us humble like Christ. (1 Cor. 2:14, Phil. 2:3-5)
Until our reputation is taken away, we will not know how to take the way of lowliness. There is an inbuilt spontaneous response we give to situations that is a product of the laws of sin and death in us.
But, Jesus displayed meekness and lowliness, which He learned from the Father, through obedience to the Laws the Father revealed to Him.
Everlasting Life is the revelation of the laws that configured the Son of God. The image of God in us is what commends the glory of God. After we are justified, the stature that can operate in the realm of the Everlasting Life is raised in us.
We can never obey the commandments of God without being 'little'. The revelation of Christ conquers the conversation of sin and death in us.
The revelation of the Day of God is the revelation of the 'beginning light and conversation'; this is the conversation that expresses the attributes/nature in God. (Matt. 18:3, Phil. 3:20, 2:5-8)
The city of the New Jerusalem is a people that walked in the conversation of God and inherited His meek and lowly nature. These people received and kept the commandments of the Everlasting light into the Day of God. (Rev. 21:10-11, 22:4-5)
There are commandments of love in every level of feeding; milk, meat, and strong meat of the word. In the realm of everlasting life, we are taught to love our enemies. The unveilings of God bring us to realms of love.
The revelations being showed us must become understandings in us that form our conversations. We must be committed to commandments that are brought by the revelations of Christ for our conversations to be converted, to align us with the dawning of the Day of God. (Phil. 3:20)