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The Christian Life (God’s Plan) Heavenlies Eternity Death/ Rapture

The Christian Life (typical) Eternity Heaven Death/ Rapture

The Christian Life (God’s Plan) Heavenlies Eternity Death/ Rapture

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“Our Father's ultimate purpose in saving us is that we might be conformed to the image of His Son, not simply to keep us out of hell and get us into heaven. We have been born into Christ that He may be our life, not just our Savior” … ‘My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you’ (Galatians 4:19).” Part Four: The Realization of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 44, Service and Reckoning, p 200

“…the Spirit’s object is something far greater—to form Christ in us through the working of the cross. His goal is to see Christ inwrought in believers. So it is not merely that a man does certain things or speaks certain words, but that he is a certain kind of man. He himself is what he preaches.” Part One: Principles of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 17, Cultivation, p 69

“Our position, the source of our Christian life, is perfect “Our position, the source of our Christian life, is perfect. It is eternally established in the Father’s presence. When we received the Lord Jesus as our personal Savior, the Holy Spirit caused us to be born into Him. He created us in the position that was established through His work at Calvary. ‘Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature [creation]’ (2 Cor. 5:17). This is the eternal position in which every believer has been placed, whether he is aware of it or not. The Christian who comes to see his position in the Lord Jesus begins to experience the benefit of all that he is in Him. His daily state is developed from the source of his eternal standing. “Our condition is what we are in our Christian walk, in which we develop from infancy to maturity. Although our position remains immutable, our condition is variable. Through the exercise of faith, our eternal position (source) affects our daily condition, but in no way does our condition affect that heavenly position.” Part Two: Foundations of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 19, Position Defined and Illustrated, pp 77-78

The Christian Life (God’s Plan) Position Heavenlies Eternity Death/ Rapture Condition

The Christian Life (typical) Position Eternity Heaven Ground-Level Vantage Point Death/ Rapture Condition A Fallen World “Under the Sun”

The Christian Life (God’s Plan) Position Heavenlies Eternity Integrated with God Heavenly Vantage Point Death/ Rapture Condition A Fallen World “Under the Sun”

“When we say that Christ’s life has come into us to displace ours, what do we mean? We do not mean that this life of the Lord Jesus has come in to displace our personality. When I speak of our fallen life, I do not mean the human personality as such. I mean the poison which permeates our personality, the poison of sin which has degraded and defiled and distorted our humanity. “It is not that this new life of the Lord Jesus comes in to take the place of our personality, to take the place of our faculties created by God, but it comes in to take the place of the sinful life which is operating in our personality and employing our faculties. The vessel is the same, but the contents are different—the same vessel, the same person, the same faculties, but the contents different. No longer this sinful element, but the very holy nature of the Lord Jesus Christ filling, interpenetrating, permeating.” Part Three: The Ground of Growth, Chapter 39, Summation, p 180