......the Apostle Paul who formerly was known as Saul of Tarsus, in his beginning days of Christ ASSOCIATIONS did not even believe that Jesus was neither Christ or the Son of God. He thought in his mind Jesus was a false prophet and a blasphemer because he being a man claimed to have come down from heaven and was sent by God for He was His Son. These words drove Saul to mad acts and madness against the saints who believed and had already put their trust in Christ. For many months and years he strove his violence and hate against Jesus and against those who called on Jesus as Lord and Christ. Then one day on another road of his madness to destroy believers, Jesus in His grace and glorious mercy manifested Himself in undeniable power in the glory of His resurrection to Saul. Saul at the brightness of Jesus' appearance fell to the ground and heard Jesus say, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? Friends then said Saul back unto the Lord. He said, Who are you?
I said all that to say this. Saul who later was renamed Paul by Christ did not know nor believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God nor Messiah. He was way in the dark about that truth. He had blind spots all in his so called Torah theology about the things that were written of the one called Christ that all of Israel prayed for years after years in their manifold afflictions. His image and carnal fantasy idea about what Christ was to be was far off the proper mark. So much so he caused and consented to the persecution and the death of many Christians.
But on that one monumental day of amazing grace Jesus appeared to Saul in His mercy. Saul was headed to bring into pain many believers of THE WAY, when in that mind set in darkness Jesus appeared to him to OPEN HIS EYES and to, in time, remove all those blind spots that he had in his thinking and that were in his thoughts about the Christ and about heavenly or spiritual things.
Eventually after being given and being taught an abundance of light and revelations of Jesus Christ and the meaning, purposes, benefits and blessings to men from His Cross, blood, death and resurrection and Christ Ascension back up unto the Father, Paul, in the process of progressive learning, learned from the Lord the revelation that we, in the inward man, in our spirits, in the heavenly man within us, that in the new birth we, with Jesus, by the operation of God Himself, and not by us, or by our works, efforts, or doings, but by grace thru faith and as a freely given to us gift from God, were made alive together with Christ (Ephesians 2) and were raised up together with Jesus and that we were made to sit down with Jesus in Gods heavenly places in His far above all regions where His throne resides.
Have you yet learned also John 5:24 that Paul learned of and eventually preached in Ephesians 2). Has your eyes been opened yet to that revelation as Paul's eventually were, that you are passed from death unto life everlasting in your spirit and are risen with Christ and that you are raised up together with Jesus and made to sit with him in God's heavenly places NOW?.....Do you see your spirit man there yet?????
Did you know, in the spirit man, that you who are born of God are RISEN WITH CHRIST and are seated with Jesus in His heavenly places? Once you come unto that knowledge, once your eyes are opened to the degree that you really see and understand it, and you take your place and sit down in the seats of that revelation that you are risen with Christ and that you are seated with Jesus NOW in the Spirit in God's heavenly places, then and only then will you find the greater peace and assurance your soul is craving. For those who have come unto the revelation that Paul in time came unto, it is hard for Satan to toss them about with legalism rules of old laws or religious lies. For those who eventually see themselves rightly in Christ, see themselves RISEN WITH CHRIST, PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE EVERLASTING WITH CHRIST IN THEIR SPIRITS. We, though we look unto Jesus, he wants His people to look down from above as citizens and not as strangers or as hope to be one day some day people. But let it dawn on them that even now in their spiritual attachment and relationship to God that they now call Him their Father and that salvation is already come to and is inside their living house. He wants them to know the redemption glory and benefits since he raised us up together in the glory of his resurrection, ascension and our great adoption benefits and glory for the preaching of the gospel.
Jesus, more than once said, I came down from heaven, I'm from above. God is my Father and I am His Son. He so longs for us also to soon see ourselves the same IN HIM, not of this world but from above (John 17:14-17)(Colossians 3:1-4) and that we are the children of God Now. Once this truth dawns on us and we become ROCK SOLID in that light, Satan cannot bring us down into religious bondages and into the deceiving soul saving rules and laws like physical circumcision sermons that people preached in Pauls day was of necessity if a man was to be saved.....so much more to say on this matter but this will do for now. God bless you in Jesus Name ......deno......please share freely.
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