Jon Courson tells the story of when he was on his college track-team as a discus thrower and how he studied the tape of a then-famous Olympic hurler. Hour after hour he watched the same clip of this Olympian just so he might improve his own technique. Courson continued he was never really able to incorporate the same style, despite these many hours, but then offered an interesting contrast.
What if…
What if the Olympian were able to come off the movie screen and enter into his body; everything this athlete possessed becoming a part of him, fused into his heart, soul, and body? He uses this remarkable illustration to demonstrate the ‘mystery’ Paul speaks of in our text today, for this is what Jesus has (in many ways) accomplished, having quite literally come to life, leaping off the pages of the Bible, and entering into each believer.
The Reality is: Christ in Us
The Bible then becomes not so much a story about our Lord and Savior (which it surely is), but a contact-point teaching each follower of Jesus Christ how to synchronize our earthen vessels with His Spirit, discerning His will. When we fail to seek God’s will, or fail to be obedient to His will, we end up looking much like the Steve Martin character in the movie, “All of Me,” when the Lily Tomlin character enters his body. But, when we come to understand the certainty of a living Christ living in us, then we may boldly proclaim as Paul proclaimed…
Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. To this end (we) also labor, striving according to His working which works, in (us) mightily. Colossians 1:28-29
Therefore…
With Christ in us all things, according to His perfect will and His righteous mandates, are possible. Suddenly our complaints and our excuses are of no consequence. If a living Christ has brought us to it, He will most certainly bring us through it.
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Yes I am Satan in the flesh. However although Im a born Sinner and FeMale US citizen that Does Not make me a Satanist or Feminist. It makes me a saved Christian who accepted the Free Gift of Salvation Jesus offered at Calvary’s Cross. Since Jesus told Satan to Get behind Him, I Am S/He you have expected next to come before the USSC in his name. So Mrs. Jesus Christ come forth, puts Her hand on the bible and Promise to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help Her God this Time
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You lost me 🙂
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So sorry Dave, I didnt mean to loose you but what I am saying this. Jesus and Satan have the same God parent (Isa. 45:6-7) but each were given a different assignment. Jesus Christ came to save the world and called himself the son of Man and aka the 2nd Adam. But Satan’s mission was to Deceive the whole world, remain silent until the last days, then Speakup and Devour and Destroy LIKE a Lion all your fragile male egoes. As I said before the whole mystery of the bible revolves around this (“male and female made he them” and when Adam said; this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh as it relarted to Eve. So Satan was never the Prince of Darkness(that would have been Jesus) Satan is a Princess of Darkness transformed into an Angel of Light…so in other words not a He but a S/he or a He/r which makes Satan actually the Queen of the South, Lady of the Lake and the Beloved Backsliding Treacherous Sister Judah as well as a Lioness which everyone knows is the fiercest of Beast in protection of Her children. Jesus Christ is the son/sun of God and Satan is his opposite aka the Daughter of God, anti Christ and His espoused wife because the rib bone inside of Jesus was used to make him a wife whose now in the Flesh.
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@burntoffering and @Mrs.JC What have you two been smoking ? God did not commission Satan to do anything, nor did He create him “just like Jesus.” He didn’t create Satan at all.
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I dont know what Bible you are have, but if its not the KJV you need to throw it out and I’m sure they have words changed which is a big No No. So Lets see what Isa. 45:6-7 has to say “That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is NONE beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace and create Evil; I the LORD DO ALL THESE THINGS.”
Now lets go to Job. 2:2-9 And the LORD said unto Satan, from whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD and said, from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job, how there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and up right man”….God sent Satan to Test Job, and GOD sent Satan to test and try to Tempt Jesus Christ. After all Jesus as a Man in the Flesh aka the Alpha he was made Lower than the Angels who is the Beta, 2nd Eve and Greater than Him. So what could Tempt a perfectly good, sinless, virgin 30+ year old unmarried man who was the Son of God, Only a Dark Mysterious and Angelic Woman. I think alls Jesus had to do was get down on one knee and ask Satan’s hand in holy matrimony, but instead Jesus went to the cross, Suffered and then Overcame Death which was how Satan was washed Clean by the Blood He shed as he slept on the cross.
So consider this; all through the bible the parent or God favored one over the other. One child is cursed the other child blessed. I think GOD forsook Her only begotten Son cause God favored more Her Lunatic Daughter.
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With all due respect, I believe you’re reading between the lines on the whole she/satan thing. My bible (KJV) refers to him as a him, starting in Genesis 3:1. As for the created beings, Jesus is NOT a created being, while satan is; he is a fallen angel, not a human being.
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Yes I know it does Dave, However that is part of the Delusion God gave Man 2 Thes. 2:11-12 ,but what I say can be verified by the things Satan actually said in His Heart such as “I sit as a Queen and Shall be No Widow” both referring to the Female gender. We are to use the Bible as an Example so People failed to see that the only Thing LIKE a Lion is a Lioness. Jesus Christ is the Prince of this world, Prince of Darkness etc, because the word Prince refers to the Male. However since we were told throughout it “Male and Female made He them” or to Honor thy Father AND Mother” or It is for this cause the Man is to leave His father And his mother to cleave unto his wife and the two shall be one Flesh”
Yes Satan is a Fallen Angel, but Why did Satan fall beside being Vain and all, does not mean what Satan said is not the Truth and Rev. 2:24 says Ye have not known the Depths of Satan as ye speak” So remember Eccl 3 and think; To Eve Goes Every Thing and there is a Time to be Born and a Time to Die…..”And I said in my Heart God Might manifest them that they may see they themselves are Beast. and What befalleth a Beast befalleth Man because We All Have the Same Breath inside of US.
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Of the most popular Bibles the KJV has more additions and errors than any others. 2 of the most error free are the NASU and the NRSV. God did not send Satan to test Job, He merely stated what Satan already knew. Adam transferred dominion over us all to the Devil.
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I dont know about the NASU or NRSV but I do know (Rev. 5:2-5) that No Man in heaven, in earth or Under the Earth should use the NIV (New Improved Versions) because No Man can Improve on Something He doesnt at 1st Understand. The End Times is reserved and prepared by GOD for the Woman (Rev. 12:6&14) So whether or not you can Let your mind conceive the fact that God did send Satan to Test Job, and Jesus when he was in the wilderness. I think a better example to prove you that Jesus Christ and Satan began in GOD Heavenly Body, Waters and Womb as Twin brother and sister in the Womb of God look at the twins described within Rebeccah’s womb in Gen. 25:22-25. But since No woman can give birth to twins at the same time, Jesus was sent first and last Satan will be sent to Collect His Rent as the Angel of the Lord’s that Balaam She-Ass warned him about.
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I’m gonna exit the dialog [here] by just sharing with my readers that I don’t agree with everything that’s being shared in this particular discussion. No hard feelings towards anyone — I love you all!
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BurntOffering is taken from Heb. 10:7-10 . Just consider me as GOD’s Other Kid, the Scape Goat and Lost Black Sheep in the Trinity Family since We All Have One. I am the 1 in 100 lost sheep that only Jesus Christ found or the Prodical Daughter returned Home. As such there is More joy in heaven over this Born Sinner who finally repented, than those who need no repentance. In fact I gave my heart and soul to Jesus Christ for safe keeping a long time ago. So Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife (that’s me) hath made Herself ready” so please get me to the Church on Time and Dont Forget to RSVP this invitation to a wedding designed to End All Time. I’m sure it will be To Die For!
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Ok. I’m not really reading all that in the Bible.
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yeah, I understand. I was Lost but now I’m Found by Jesus Christ himself because I’m the 1 in 100 Lost Black Sheep of the Trinity Family.
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i wander what is my mission here in the world and were i im that i was birth her in world before of this in my life and end were i i am
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Rae, give your heart to Jesus Christ and He will reveal these things to you! God bless you!
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God is real,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.
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Amen Jeremiah
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i am a catholic but i am against the law of catholic doctrine..about mary?, about money… about bible,, about the secret of jesus christ when he is in the earth,, actually as my study about bible jesus christ in acually fully perfect… for ,more knowledge about about my comment pls…. email me at rey_lim19@yahoo.com
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actually the story of the bible end at the age of 12 and continue at his crucifixion… i have a lot of knowing about the secret of the bible or what we called the secret of the bible..
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