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Thank you. I do not mean to be rude in not answering but I find I remove the personal element or else there is a dangerr I might assume I could know anything at all without Him, and it is not false humility because I know I am nothing without Him.


"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

micah7:9

I believe or at least hope we all here embrace that thought :HeartThrob: :dsunny:

rosered

Quote from: micah7:9 on May 08, 2015, 08:44:23 PM
I believe or at least hope we all here embrace that thought :HeartThrob: :dsunny:
:thumbsup:

  It is a truth ! :flowerred:
Jesus is the reward  !!

eaglesway

Absolutely! Encouraging the saints, and stirring one another up by way of reminder :o)
The Logos is complete, but it is not completely understood. http://www.hell-is-a-myth.webs.com/

sheila


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"I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou may be rich, and white garments that thou may be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou may see" Rev.3:18

When God speaks, earthly language is transformed into spiritual language that is everlasting...

"The spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life" John 6:63

The Spirit of God uses different conduits to spill out bounteous riches of His Wisdom - one Spirit in manifold manners...

"God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us" 1 Corinthians 12:6

The sacred records tell of God with words infused with Spirit Power...

"Which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, using the Spirit's words to explain spiritual truths" 1 Corinthians 2:13

The Bible has been given the highest place by tens of millions and increases in Spirit Power by the law of transmutation, a key blessing to progress.

This same purifying law of the Spirit lifts one to a state free from sin when every thought, word and deed is lifted to the most highest place, thus the whole race is lifted...

"Ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who in the heavens is perfect" Matthew 5:48

The Sacred Record reveals the richest truths with deepest meanings for all time.

"It was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets" 1 Corinthians 2:10

Further unfolding of the heart of Divine life shall being given...

"Purify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do great wonders among you" Joshua 3

Great things are coming to pass...

"Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father" John 14:12

The scarcity of open vision is coming to an end...

"Now in those days messages from the Lord were very rare, and visions were quite uncommon" 1 Samuel 3

There will be rejoicing in new revelation and fresh hope will arise...

"I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit" Romans 15:13

What was old shall be revealed afresh, fear not, doubt not, be positive in all things, think the best of and raise others to the highest, and cast out into the depths of GOD, He is within already in Christ...

"When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, 'Now go out where it is deeper, and let down your nets to catch some fish' " Luke 5:4

Buy purified Divine gold, one does not need money for Divine gifts...

"Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost" Isa.55

Peace ✞






"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

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God, in Christ, has been in Creation from the beginning, and His Life is the light of man...

"...In him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created" Colossians 1:16

"He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind" John 1:2-4

The journey to God and the destination are really the same; God is always in ones midst...

"The time is complete, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent and believe the glad tidings" Mark 1:15

"But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the royal power of God is already come to you" Matthew 12:28

Occasionally, people realise God is always present just where they are, and it bodes well with their souls, even in misfortune...

"Everything is all right" 2 Kings 4:26

"Even though the fig trees have no blossoms,
And there are no grapes on the vines;
Even though the olive crop fails,
And the fields lie empty and barren;
Even though the flocks die in the fields,
And the cattle barns are empty,
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord!
I will be joyful in the God of my salvation
" Habakkuk 3:17-18

The one who awakens to consciousness of the Christ within and in ones midst, knows unity, and realises there will never be parting...

"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death" Rev.1:18

"Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you" John 14:19-20

God has lifted one to consciousness of His Presence through the Spirit - nothing can ever separate Spirit and Spirit...

"To be of the mind of the body is death, but to be of the mind of the spirit is life and peace" Romans 8:6

Life and Peace ✞


"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

lomarah


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Gratitude to God for the hidden Spirit Power throughout Creation, like secret manna which nourishes every part...

"His glory shall cover the heavens, and the earth shall be full of his praising. His shining shall be like the light; with rays coming from his hands. That is where his power is hidden" Habakkuk 3:3-4

The hidden power of Spirit is manifesting a sublime freedom which appears all around the children of God...

"That also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God" Romans 8:21

Prisoners are released from dogmas, shackles shattered from creeds, minds of the body replaced with minds of the spirit...

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to the blind the receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance" Luke 4:18

Do not feel beaten, the battle is won, let the chains of the mind drop to the floor...

"And all this assembly do know that not by sword and by spear doth the Lord save, that the battle is the Lord's, and He hath given you into our hand" 1 Samuel 17:47

One submits to the highest within, becoming one with the Supreme...

"...not my will, but thine, be done" Luke 22:42

God provides healing for sinners and blessings flow abundantly, thus the race is lifted...

"Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security" Jeremiah 33

Angels are grateful when repentance comes for they know it begins the freedom of the child of God...

"There is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents" Luke 15:10

To be consciously in union with God, is complete salvation of body, soul and spirit. Complete freedom comes with knowledge, experience and understanding of oneness with the Divine...   

"And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life" 1 John 5:20

Peace in Christ
"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

eaglesway

The beauty of reality is that...... It is what it is. The word "manna" means, "what is it". Give us this day our daily bread. I am the  bread of life. Today if you hear His voice. We are discovering "what it is" every day as we eat the manna from heaven- man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. He says, "I AM THAT I AM" and we must learn, through the wilderness of life, the lessons of futility, that we did not know as we thought we knew and there is more to see, always.

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.Heb 1:1-3


Thank God we have this assurance that Jesus is the revelation of God, the I AM as He is, for us and all, a savior. As our transformation occurs from mixture to purity, becoming "rooted and grounded in love" it is from "glory to glory"- so we can be assured, we are not traveling backwards if we remain humble and in fellowship with Him

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all the generations of the age of the ages! (Eph 3:18-21)

Far above and beyond our ability to "figure it all out"- God is revealing it in Jesus Christ, as we like clay in the Potter's hands are conformed to His image- not by what we know,tho our knowledge is very valuable- but by His fatherly intrusions into our lives to bring us "face to face" with Him.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. (2 Cor 3)
The Logos is complete, but it is not completely understood. http://www.hell-is-a-myth.webs.com/

rosered



    Was a blessing to read   this Lastpost and John

  :HeartThrob:

Just wanted to say that!!    , and  was reading 1cor13   in the quiet  one day  , and just like  these , I noticed  how    ,bright   the message was  and easier to  see and read  ,   and just how much those words of Life change your mind   and thoughts   towards Him and  everyone else .
  And how much we do ''miss out '' when we do not pay attention .

  God bless  everyone  gathered here today    in His holy name  :HeartThrob:
Jesus is the reward  !!

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Each has a hypersensitive spiritual apparatus, a sensing faculty, that should receive truth and power from the one and only Spirit within...

"Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart" Psalms 51:6

"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being" Ephesians 3:16

...but which has shared in the falsehood of the outer being... 

"But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and making me captive in the law of sin, that is in my members" Romans 7:23

..and which has been loaded with deceptive thinking and desires from the outer being, instead of only receiving food and drink from the sacred inner source, Christ...

"Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye eat not the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink not his blood, ye have no life in yourselves" John 6:53

This living apparatus of the Spirit has the ability to conquer every sense impression, every deceitful reasoning which lives in any part of the outer being, quietening it under Christ...

"Overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ" 2 Corinthians 10:5

The extent of control is over each molecule of the body including the nervous system, else sovereignty belongs to the outer being, thus confusion reigns...

"For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say: 'Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body'; is it therefore not of the body?" 1 Cor.12

Feeling severance and unconnectedness is the foe. The Mind of Christ is Wisdom, Love and Harmony, and should reign supreme through and over the outer being as Lord...

"In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus" Philippians 2:5

With the Christ Mind dominating, each breath revitalises and refreshes, and reconciles that which was hopelessly finished...

"Then He said unto me: 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.'...

... And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken, and performed it, saith the LORD" Ezekiel 37:11,14

Feeling disconnected and separated are forever over. Through the Love of Christ and His Self-Sacrifice, one is dead and buried to sin...

"For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death" Romans 7:11

...and is now living unto Christ, being conscious that He is properly returned to His rightful place and seated within...

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" Galatians 2:20





"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

rosered





         :icon_flower: Amen !
Jesus is the reward  !!

marie glen

But we mustn't forget, "the heart is deceitful above all things" - our own (inner) reasoning can still lead us astray.. thank the Lord for His word, within which is safety for it is all truth and all discernment.. by abiding in it, and it abiding in us (after all He iS the Word) :smile:

"inner and outer" I agree with, but also is there the born again and the lower nature, the not born again nature, Adamic nature, called "the flesh"/unregenerated psyche.. which is also inner.. "out of the heart proceed..". paul battled with this lower nature/body of death.. not the glorious creation, the body God made ("I am wondrously and awesomely made").. but the body now subjected to the law of sin and death.. error and dissolution/falling-apart-ness... entropy.. wrong-doing..
     :2c: :smile:
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Man hinders complete reconciliation when focussing on the deceptive material. Only the coming of Divine Spirit Power to material conditions creates everlasting work...

"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon" Matthew 6:24

A body unconquered is not a reconciled life. The perfecting must be concluded by the Divine Spirit working from within...

"The LORD will perfect that which concerns me. Thy mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: abandon not the works of thine own hands" Psalms 138:8

Increasing in understanding of spiritual realties brings a clearer perception of Christ...

"For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" 2 Peter 1:8

...first growing in the vision of Christ as the ideal, then becoming that vision of Christ...

"Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me" John 17:24

...and being revived in His likeness...

"As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awaken with thy likeness" Psalms 17

"...we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall transform the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body" Philippians 3:20-21

As the battle against the unreal comes to completion, so the child joins the mighty throng awaiting the transformation of all earthly realms into heavenly realms...

"...You are my son; today I have begotten you. Ask it of me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, and, as your possession, the ends of the earth" Psalm 2:7,8

"I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.

And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion is a dominion age-during, that passes not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed
" Dan 7:13,14

Reconciliation of all to the Glory of Christ is the Highest Hope

"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

rosered

Quote from: lastpost on May 08, 2015, 08:32:44 PM
Thank you. I do not mean to be rude in not answering but I find I remove the personal element or else there is a dangerr I might assume I could know anything at all without Him, and it is not false humility because I know I am nothing without Him.

This is every last one of us    bro . :HeartThrob:

  We all communicate  according to How the Holy Spirit teaches us ,  every Gift of God , though Jesus Christ   , one of a kind Son, who  by His death and more so His Life    ...will bring  many   sons of glory   to the Father   , poured out  on our flesh is His ''gift of Life  '' to   humanity .
Jesus is the reward  !!

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Ah, I have seen and heard the subtle deception of spirits unseen and unheard by many others so I am told, and so I am very acutely aware of the need to always remember to renew the death of the lesser self lest I should permit access to one attempting to imitate words from the Spirit. This is my own pathway of experience and so it shall be right up to the end.
"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

rosered

Quote from: lastpost on May 13, 2015, 03:46:50 PM
Ah, I have seen and heard the subtle deception of spirits unseen and unheard by many others so I am told, and so I am very acutely aware of the need to always remember to renew the death of the lesser self lest I should permit access to one attempting to imitate words from the Spirit. This is my own pathway of experience and so it shall be right up to the end.


  :icon_flower:

:thumbsup: 

1 Peter 4   
For {it is} time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if {it} {begins} with us first, what {will be} the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

Jesus is the reward  !!

lomarah

Quote from: lastpost on May 12, 2015, 06:47:39 AM
Each has a hypersensitive spiritual apparatus, a sensing faculty, that should receive truth and power from the one and only Spirit within...

"Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart" Psalms 51:6

"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being" Ephesians 3:16

...but which has shared in the falsehood of the outer being... 

"But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and making me captive in the law of sin, that is in my members" Romans 7:23

..and which has been loaded with deceptive thinking and desires from the outer being, instead of only receiving food and drink from the sacred inner source, Christ...

"Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye eat not the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink not his blood, ye have no life in yourselves" John 6:53

This living apparatus of the Spirit has the ability to conquer every sense impression, every deceitful reasoning which lives in any part of the outer being, quietening it under Christ...

"Overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ" 2 Corinthians 10:5

The extent of control is over each molecule of the body including the nervous system, else sovereignty belongs to the outer being, thus confusion reigns...

"For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say: 'Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body'; is it therefore not of the body?" 1 Cor.12

Feeling severance and unconnectedness is the foe. The Mind of Christ is Wisdom, Love and Harmony, and should reign supreme through and over the outer being as Lord...

"In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus" Philippians 2:5

With the Christ Mind dominating, each breath revitalises and refreshes, and reconciles that which was hopelessly finished...

"Then He said unto me: 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.'...

... And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken, and performed it, saith the LORD" Ezekiel 37:11,14

Feeling disconnected and separated are forever over. Through the Love of Christ and His Self-Sacrifice, one is dead and buried to sin...

"For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death" Romans 7:11

...and is now living unto Christ, being conscious that He is properly returned to His rightful place and seated within...

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" Galatians 2:20

Oh, YES.

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The heart can be poisoned by the way of the world...

"But the things that come out of a person's mouth come from the heart, and these defile them" Matthew 15:18

Yet the heart is meant to be the seat of Divine understanding...

"The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a chattering fool shall fall" Proverbs 10:8

The heart is the setting for Divine revelation where God is perceived...

"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" Matthew 5:8

The deep things of God are known by the heart and not the mind...

"Attend with your ear to wisdom; and stretch out your heart to understanding" Proverbs 2:2

Sacred and Divine wisdom is received by the heart, and ones very being is blessed...

"For wisdom shall come into your heart. And knowledge shall be pleasant to your soul" Proverbs 2:10

Not the mind of man but the Heart of Love alone unfolds Divine knowledge and revelation... 

"Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, and thy heart set to my knowledge. For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, they are prepared together for thy lips" Proverbs 22:17,18

God is so near, the heart should be kept beating in harmony with His Great Heart...

"More than any sentry-post, preserve your heart, for from it spring the outflowings of life" Proverbs 4:23


Precious beyond comprehension is the Light which shines from fathoming something of the GLORY of GOD in His Sacred CHRIST JESUS.
"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

marie glen

AMeN! to all these listed verses.. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :dsunny:

.."He who is able to do abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us"..

Ehp 3:16-19 - "according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that..." (we:) "may be filled with all the fullness of God."

..."how much more will He grant the Holy spirit to those that ask Him.."

"same power which raised Jesus from the grave.." (and parted the red sea!) .."us.. unto the fulness of Christ"

.."now to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set [you] in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness, to the only wise God our Saviour, [is] glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen." - Jude 24-25 (Young's Lit)

.."24 Now to Him Who is able to guard you from tripping, and to stand you flawless in sight of His glory, in exultation, 25 to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might and authority before the entire eon, now, as well as for all the eons. Amen!" Concordant Version

..i think it's good to be yield, yield, yielding.. unto Him.. and when we think we've gotten to the very floor of our being, is when we need to start tearing up floorboards.. (I like to remind myself of that, often .."the power at work in us..") :smile:
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Simply by following Christ, we draw closer to God...

"Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you refreshing rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me..." Matthew 11:28-29


Yet man's understanding of Christ is limited: His love surpasses knowledge; He can do more than we can imagine...

"...and to know this love that surpasses knowledge...Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine..." Ephesians 3:16-21


His Cross ruptured chains, and our little earth was changed forever. Captives were set free, and the separation between man and God ended...

"...also having gone to the spirits in prison he did preach" 1 Peter 3:19

"Everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" John 8:34-36


The Cross of Christ embraced all of humanity and raised it up to Divinity...

"And I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself" John 12:32


Every incident of the Cross has an inner meaning. When the water flowed from the side of Christ, it anointed the earth which received its holy besprinkling...

"...one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water" John 19:34


The extent of Sacrifice in its fullness will be better understood when the material mists of the earth are lifted and selflessness is entered...

"For now we see through a glass, darkly..." 1 Corinthians 13:12

"But our citizenship is in heaven..." Philippians 3:20


The unthinkable union of the Son of Man and the Son of God was found in Jesus...an earth-body able to die even as in Adam, yet containing the fullness of the Godhead within...

"The first man is out of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord out of heaven" 1 Corinthians 15:47

"...in Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily" Col.2:9

"The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact impression of his being" Heb.1:3


Jesus Christ the Divine-Man, established the wondrous relationship between God and humanity - He was the Man for man, He loved God and He loved humanity - He is the fullness of life, the vine and the vitality that runs through it...

"For one is God, one also is mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus" 1 Timothy 2:5


Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life - He is All-Beauty, All-Power, All-Love, All-Selflessness, All-Sacrifice. He is Life Himself.

"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

eaglesway

Eph 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
The Logos is complete, but it is not completely understood. http://www.hell-is-a-myth.webs.com/

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Thank you ew for expanding the above quote. My apologies. Perhaps trying to aid continuity and flow by minimising and avoiding the use of UPPERCASE, underlining, italics and bolding  is a little too adventurous!
"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu

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Drawing closer to GOD includes disciplined preparation.

To receive purer Divine truths, one must retreat from the material world and the worldly-minded people and environments...

"...Israel encamped there before the mount. And Moses hath gone up unto God, and Jehovah called unto him out of the mount..." Exodus 19:2,3

"In repentance and rest is your salvation; in quietness and trust is your strength" Isaiah 30:15

"There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him" 1 Kings 19:9

"...he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying" Luke 5:16

"Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light" Matthew 17:1-2


Complete balance of spirit must be kept when seeking purer Divine truths...

"You will keep in perfect peace
Those whose minds are steadfast,
Because they trust in you
" Isaiah 26:3

"They will have no fear of bad news; Their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord" Psalm 112:7

"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control" 2 Timothy 1:7


Each one in Christ should bear responsibility for opening the door of communication with Divine Spirit...

"...Therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers" 1 Peter 4:7

"A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls" Proverbs 25:28

"The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied" Proverbs 13:4

Peace ✞


"A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and become for all men that which rennet is for milk, uniting and drawing us into one". "Christ is like leaven for the entire mass, and having made that which was damned one with himself, frees the whole from damnation".

Gregory of Nazianzu