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Our Union With Christ - We Become One Flesh
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Those who don’t believe they have the Spirit of Christ
in them either aren’t born again or are ignorant (Romans 8:9). The
implications of all of this are enormous. See my notes at 2 Corinthians
5:17-21. There is no difference. As He is, so are we (1 John
4:17). This is the same Greek word used to describe the Oneness of Jesus
with His Father in John 10:30. “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus.” We don’t have multiple gods. There is just one
God. Likewise, when we are born again (see note 2 at John 3:3), our new
spirits become one with God’s Spirit.
Ephesians 5:1
We imitate our Father God Note OT
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Note 1
Paul used a different reason for serving God than most people would use. He
encouraged the Ephesians to walk in love (Ephesians 5:2-4),
because they were God’s children and it was their nature to act like their
heavenly Father. He wasn’t using the motivation of fear that is so commonly used
today.
When fear is the motivation for serving God, it brings torment (1 John 4:18). If
Christians had a true revelation of who they are and what they have in Christ,
they would live holy lives out of love without the negative side effect of fear
(Ephesians 5:8).
Note 2
Paul had just spoken in the previous verses that we should put off (Ephesians
4:24) the “old man” and put on the “new man” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
He detailed some of the ways we are supposed to do that and culminated by saying
we should love others by walking in forgiveness even as God
for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:32). In other words, we should
imitate God.
How can we imitate God? We can do it because we are God’s children. Children of
God act like God because of who they are. Children imitate their fathers.
If we are dear or good children, we will imitate God. As much-loved children
seek to please their father, so also the children of God should seek to please
their heavenly Father.
The Living Bible renders this verse as “Follow God’s example in everything you
do just as a much loved child imitates his father.”
Believers should do and exhibit the likeness of their Father.
Ephesians 5:30
Because we are members of His body. Note
OT
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.
Note
OT
Our oneness with God is in the spirit. We
have a new spirit who is from God and identical to Christ (1 John 4:17),
for He is the Spirit of God’s Son who has been sent into our hearts crying
Abba, Father (Galatians 4:6).
The Greek word translated “one” in this verse is HEIS, and this Greek word
means “a single (‘one’), to the exclusion of others” (Vine’s Expository
Dictionary). We are identical in our born-again spirits (see my note at
John 3:3) with Jesus.
Note 13
Similar to the way that sexual relationships produce a physical union, our
relationship with the Lord creates a spiritual union. This union is not
just in purpose. Our spirits become one with God’s.
The Greek word that was translated “one” here is HEIS, and it means “a
single (‘one’), to the exclusion of others” (Vine’s Expository
Dictionary). It is the same word that was used twice in 1 Timothy 2:5 to
say,
1 John 4:13
By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of
His Spirit. We possess Holy Spirit
OT
1 John 3:24
Whoever keeps His commandments abides in God, and God in Him.
Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and to
love one another. That’s it.
And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
OT
2 Timothy 1:14
By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you
Guard everything God gives us
OT
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who
lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
We crucify the flesh when we
call on Jesus name
OT
Colossians 1:27
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles
are the
riches of
the glory of this mystery,
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
OT
Colossians 3:3
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Forget the desires of the flesh, Die daily so Christ can be seen
OT
Colossians 2:12
Having been buried with Him/Jesus in baptism, in which you were also raised with
Him/Jesus
through faith in the powerful working of God,
who raised Him/Jesus from the dead. Died with Jesus, risen
with Jesus
OT
Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Like
a garment
Romans 13:14
OT
1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or
free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. Absolute
oneness with each other and God OT
Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that just as
Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,
we too might walk in
newness of life. Bury the
flesh
OT
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the
image of its creator. Which is everything God
OT
John 15:1-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that
does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit He
prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word
that I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide
in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him,
he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ...
We can do nothing without Jesus
Colossians 3:4
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in
glory. Oneness
OT
Romans 8:9
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of
God dwells in you.
Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong
to Him. We are one with Holy Spirit/God
OT
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Christians are not condemned but set free
OT
John 15:4
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it
abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
We cannot do anything without Jesus
OT
Colossians 2:10
And you are complete in Him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
A finished product
OT
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed
away; behold, the new has come. The past is gone forever
OT
1 Corinthians 1:30
And because of Him you are in
Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God,
righteousness and sanctification and
redemption
Jesus who became wisdom is found in the book of
Proverbs
OT
Romans 8:17
And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,
Everything that is God's belongs to His children
provided
we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. As
Jesus was on the earth so are we spiritually
1 John 4:17
OT
| The things of Christ are above and the things of the devil
are below. They are in opposite directions. We can’t be occupied with both
at the same time. We don’t have eyes on both sides of our heads. We have to
choose and focus on one or the other.
And the fact that Paul commanded us to
seek those things that are above shows that this is something that we have
control over. He wouldn’t have instructed us to do something if it was
beyond our ability. We can choose (see my note at Deuteronomy 30:19). . He wanted them to know the total
completeness of their new life in Jesus so that they would never be drawn
away (see note 10 at Colossians 2:10). He went on to explain that we are
dead to all the laws dealing with externals (Colossians 2:20-23). If we focus on who we are in Christ and what He has given
us, holiness will follow. Preoccupation with our earthly position (i.e., our
actions of holiness) is a sure sign that we are not focused on our heavenly
position (Colossians 2:22). We are to meditate in the Word of God day and night
(Joshua 1:8). Certainly, part of the heavenly things we are to think on is
our position in Christ and all that entails. |
Colossians 1:18
And He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in everything He might be preeminent
First place in everything.
OT
Philippians 2:5
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus
mind of Christ
1 Corinthians 2:16
OT
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
We live
OT
Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ,
so that you may belong to another,
to Him who has been raised from the dead, in
order that we may bear fruit for God. Our marriage to Christ
is intended to bring forth fruit
John 15:2
OT
Romans 6:11
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ
Jesus. Must click on this scripture
OT
John 17:21
That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that
they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.
There is a joining
OT
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on
their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
It's a given
OT
Ephesians 5:18
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the
Spirit Let Holy Spirit take charge
OT
Ephesians 1:22
And He put all things under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the
church Jesus is our boss
OT
Ephesians 1:23
Which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
If your full of Jesus satan cannot enter you
OT
Ephesians 1:22
And He put all things under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the
church
OT
Ephesians 1:11
In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the
purpose of Him
who works all things according to the counsel of His will God
had it all planed out for us
OT
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might
become the righteousness of God. He did it for us
OT
1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord. God actually wants us
OT
Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
For we do not know what to pray
for as we ought,
but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too
deep for words. Where we can't do it Holy Spirit steps in
OT
Romans 6:5
For if we have been united with Him in a death like His we shall certainly be
united with Him in a resurrection like His.
Ephesians
2:5
OT
Romans 6:6
We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin
might be brought to nothing
so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. If we are
dead to sin we have no business reaching for it
OT
Romans 5:19
For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one
Man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
OT
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches.
Whoever abides in Me and I in him,
he it is
that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
Jesus always intended for us to prosper
OT
1 John 1:3
That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may
have fellowship with us;
and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
OT
2 Peter 1:3
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and
godliness,
through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and excellence
Knowledge and power of God comes from reading His word
Links
OT
2 Timothy 1:9
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling
not because of our works but
because of His own purpose and grace
which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages
began
OT
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its
practices We cannot have a relationship with the Lord if we
are doing evil
OT
Colossians 3:1-25
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where
Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are
above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is
hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also
will appear with Him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:
sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is
idolatry. ...
Colossians 2:6
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him
Put on Jesus
Rom 13:14, imitate God
Ep 5:1
OT
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by
grace you have been saved—
OT
Ephesians 2:1-22
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following
the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once
lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But
God,
being rich in mercy, because of the
great love with which he loved us, even when
we were dead in our trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ—by grace you
have been saved— ...
Ephesians 1:13-14
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation,
and believed in Him,
were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
who is the
guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of
His glory.
Ephesians 1:4
Just as He chose us in
Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be
holy and blameless before Him. In love
OT
Ephesians 1:1-23
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in
Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places, even as
He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love
He predestined us for
adoption to Himself as sons/children through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of
his will, ...
Ephesians 1:1-3:21
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in
Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places, even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for
adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of
His will, ...
Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to
seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.
OT
1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that
one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
OT
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you,
whom you have from God? You are not your own
OT
Romans 15:5
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony
with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus
OT
Romans 8:29
For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of/to
be like His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
OT
Romans 8:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of
God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong
to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the
Spirit is life because of righteousness.
If the Spirit of
Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
He who raised
Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through
His
Spirit who dwells in you.
OT
Romans 8:7
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit
to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Romans 12:2
OT
Romans 6:1-4
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no
means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of
us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We
were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as
Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in
newness of life.
Romans 5:21
So that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness
leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
OT
Romans 5:12-21
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through
sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in
the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no
law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not
like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. But
the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's
trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that
one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result
of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought
condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
...
Romans 5:5
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our
hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
OT
Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ.
OT
John 17:21-23
That they may all be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that
they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. The
glory that you have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as
We are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one, so that
the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You loved Me.