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Originally Posted by mfblume
We need revelation of what degree His Spirit is in us. Brother, Paul told us to KNOW, RECKON and then YIELD. God's people get destroyed for lack of knowledge.
And I think we do NOT ABIDE IN HIM without conscious reliance on the Spirit. I believe that when Jesus said, "Abide in me and I in you," he was showing how that OUR reliance upon Him will in turn cause Him to flow through us like sap (His Spirit) in a branch from a vine. I know people who do not bear fruit, although they have been saved. Why? They do not abide in Christ. "Abide in me" is a command.
We do not abide in Him simply because we have His Spirit, otherwise all the saints would ever manifest fruit. Paul taught Romans 6 to people who were not manifesting.
When we "get" Romans 6's teachings, we experience revelation. And revelation changes us.
2Co 3:18 KJV But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. |
I agree that we can be in Christ and not abide in Him .. my point is that "little children"/new believer .. can abide in Him too.
Futhermore, little children, was a term of endearment not to show position.
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