02/12/2020
Being Purified as Christians
Updated January 12
2020
This history of purification that we believe as Christians today is founded upon the calling, miracles and writings of Moses about the one to come, of Israel’s departure from the bo***ge of Egypt, crossing the Red Sea on dry ground and their national spiritual and physical introduction their God at Mt. Sinai; there enlightenment is where everyone in that nation saw and heard God! In our Christian Baptism, we also cross our own Red Sea to freedom and purity found only in the flesh of Jesus - the Messiah of Israel.
Christian Pureness is Ours!
Being Purified as Christians 0
Introduction 1
The Primary Washing of the Christian 2
Christian Spiritual Growth 3
Milk 5
Israel’s Washings 7
Israel’s Red Sea 7
Our Red Sea 8
The Secondary Washings 10
A Fellowship of Four 10
Our Confession 11
The Pure in Heart 12
The Milk and Meat 12
Our New Flesh 14
Our Victory is Found 15
Purity of Our New Heart 16
Conclusion 16
Introduction
In the beginning of the Gospel, Matthew tells us that Jesus taught that only the pure in heart shall see God . The contemplation of our purity before the Father is an important factor in our attempts to throw off the sin of gluttony and its fat that rests upon us in our open lawlessness against the Father. Our consciences are purified of sin, only in the turning away of our hearts from the old foundation of the first man Adam and embracing the 2nd Adam’s foundation of our redemption found in Jesus’ sacrificial blood he shed for us on the cross.
The Primary Washing of the Christian
As New Testament Scripture tells us, that the primary washing of sins (the ‘…born again…’ baptism) is that there is only ‘one primary baptism’ putting us into the New Testament Christian Territory as children of God ; a terrain that is not seen by the unbaptized of this visible world; as Jesus has told us, that his kingdom is not of this current world order, otherwise they, the disciples of Jesus would fight to set that kingdom up .
So, we should now look at our initial Christian Baptism (Red Sea Washing/Crossing) as our primary entry point into this new kingdom for us, which is in the now, yet, not of this world – visible, but to the unseen Light which comes with our enlightenment which flows from the mind of the Messiah Jesus ; and Christian Baptism is our only exit point from this fallen kingdom with its dark base in Adam, and its fallen Prince. Moreover, in only the flesh of Jesus is found this Kingdom that we now have become part of in our baptism.
We have entered the proper and only door which leads into this new Christian individuation of ourselves. This is why Scripture teaches that there is only:
“… One Lord,
One faith,
One baptism …”
Ephesians 4:5
All the rest thereafter are secondary washings of forgiveness by the Holy Spirit; sins collected after your primary baptism you are washed ; remnants of our sin’s trashy stains which are also seen in our fallen flesh with all its imperfections from us, that we try to throw off ourselves; all the while we wait for our Lord to return or our death and so we mature in the faith as we find ourselves in Him. For only by abiding in Jesus can we throw off sin in our lives.
Christian Spiritual Growth
Your Christian individuation begins here in your primary washing of Christian Baptism. This born-again enlightenment begins at baptism, in the purging of all your sins with the blood of another, to reveal this new life source that the Father has provided, with a new human foundation in this transfer, from the fallen foundational base found in Adam’s seed in the beginning, unto the newborn again foundation found in the flesh of the risen Jesus, the last Adam . This transference from darkness to the light of true life is only found in the holy flesh and attributes of the human Jesus, the Word of God with us.
“… but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ His (the Father’s) son
cleanseth us from all sin ….”
1 John 1:7
Yahweh’s ineffable assumption of human flesh, in becoming fully man for us and in securing this new foundation of holy human existence. It is also where we will now look to mingle with, all of Jesus’ perfect holy human attributes which are ours now by nature of his pure resurrected humanity; which now is our in bonding with God through a physical and spiritual way, with the perfect human, resurrected, Jesus. Maximus the Confessor tells us:
“… The combination of these established the
constitution of His (Yahweh’s) human nature
both “above mankind”
for He (Yahweh) was divinely conceived
without the participation of a man
and “after the manner of men,” in a human way,
for He was born “accord to the law of conception,”
and thus “the One who is beyond being (Yahweh) came into being by
taking upon Himself the being of humans,”
…
but He (Yahweh) became
that which in the entirety of its essence is truly man,”
clearly by the assumption of human flesh
endowed with an intellectual soul,
United to Him according to hypostasis ….”
(Maximus p.35, 2014)
The constitution, the foundation of our union is, He in ‘us’ and ‘we’ the baptized, within Him - the risen flesh of Jesus.
Milk
Moreover, it is with the Milk of the Word you will need for your Christian Spiritual Growth to flourish in. Understanding the Meat of the Word is a victory in the coming of your later stages of development, as you begin to understanding you’re standing in His Human resurrected life giving flesh; not just your new judicial standing, as important it is to know whose realms you have been baptized into, but the participation that we can development with His holy human desires for things holy becoming in faith our holy desires.
We must therefore by all means Scripturally learn to develop a rational understanding that ‘the other side’ is where we are now standing, disengaged from man’s slavery in sin, because of our Christian baptism and are now taught by the Holy Spirit to look by way of faith to this new and fresh new life we’ve been put into.
A place above and grander, to this world’s already judged evil realities we now live in; a place with the power to change the spots of the cat, to become and to look holy by being holy, sanctified for our master’s use .
This history that we believe is founded upon the calling, miracles and writings of Moses, of their departure from Egypt and the national spiritual and physical introduction to God at Mt. Sinai, where everyone saw and heard!
Now, these cultic Tabernacle washings began their teachings after the Law was given, (when construction of the High Priesthood/priesthood and Tabernacle of Testimony and its sacrifices were constructed, and then began and rehearsed, the initial sacrificial blood of the crossing, once a year, and looked toward the final sacrifice when the messiah comes .
Thereafter, Israel did their washings and baptisms by animal sacrifices.
We, on the other hand, are now residing in his flesh in the heavenly Temple’s Holy of Holies made without hands, where God makes himself known to us, until the Messiah in the flesh’s second coming.
Herein, the concluding Earthly Temple in Jerusalem, and the devout looked for the final sacrifice; and when Jesus the Messiah arrives and provides himself as the final sacrifice for sins for both the Old and New Testament saints, Israel rejects Jesus as being their Messiah and thereafter rejected the gospel of deliverance from their spiritual blindness and bo***ge.
So, there the nation remains, to this day in national rejection of, the ‘Way’ to the Father of the cosmos, comes Jesus who is the Way, the Truth and the Life , to stand redeemed before the Father.
Israel’s Washings
Israel’s baptism (its primary washing) as a nation, and their national adoption by God if you will, where all established as they all cross over, this was at the Red Sea passage of saying –Yes – to freedom, and it is where they were disengaged from their bo***ge as slaves to the sins of Egypt and freed from their spiritual darkness, in the ‘complete crossing over’ to the other side, where their chains to sin were released;
Israel’s Red Sea
Israel as a nation were told to looked back in remembrance to the Red Sea crossing event and the sacrifice and blood on the door post (there saying Yes to Baptism), that allowed them all to break the spiritual and physical hold of Pharaoh and leave the slavery of their Egyptian bo***ge to freedom. This power to cross came from the end times Messiah, Jesus - which they all looked forward in faith to His arrival. Every year thereafter, they celebrated that release from bo***ge, symbolically when the Aaronic High Priest, only once a year, by sacrifice first for himself and then for the nation Israel. Then he entered the Holy of Holies sprinkling the sacrificial blood over the mercy seat, covering their sins in anticipation of the Final Sacrifice when the Messiah comes – that would be Jesus, who is the holy power of God himself, we have, because of our Christian Baptism. He then becomes the substance of our faith and of our new power for living holy. All his human attributes become accessible to us, in his faith.
Our Red Sea
Our Red Sea event of the initial washing away of all our sins is found in our original Christian Baptism, which is administered by the Holy Spirit through our obedience to the Gospel message. Thereafter, our conversation is not here of this world; not of this world? Yes! For the Christian, the unseen world that we have entered in our baptism, is understood and experienced as being more real than, the seen world we live in now, which is on its way to judgement.
In our entering the unspoiled life-giving human flesh of the risen Jesus, where we have now been released from all our bo***ges to sin, being now found in the final sacrifice, the only sacrifice is our sacrifice in embracing Jesus’ death in judgement in our place. It is at this entry point that the Christian individuation begins forming Christ in you. Here is the root of our renewed and transformed/ing soul and body and the beginning of our individuation in God and the ‘Way’ with holy power, that is, we have been taken into the, human incarnation of Yahweh – the historical Jesus, and to a new order of life whose foundation is not from here; into a new us, into a new me, but still me; only now adopted into his eternal life, his eternal flesh, soul, mind, emotions… that begins to flow out to us; streams of holiness, holy thoughts begin to develop, holy desires will begin to stream out to us, into our purified fallen flesh and spirit because, we are now found in very flesh of the risen Jesus and have access to all of his, holy human attributes and power to perform, since our eternal judgement was placed upon Jesus, and now we are forever, children of God. That new holy human flesh of Jesus is our: adoption root connection, to the foundation of the resurrection power to lose weight now; so the origin of our holiness; is his resurrected human flesh and our connection with it some call “mingling” and all that it is to be the human children of God; herein therefore, we having been put into, this new resurrected human life which Jesus shares with us in our baptism, with all its holy human attributes and with a consubstantial union, now, with our new incorruptible flesh to come just like his.
The human resurrection of Jesus gives us all that above and more when we say, yes! to Christian baptism and this eternal purification which has begun in us.
It is in the Temple made without hands -Heaven! Where Secondary Washings of the Christian are found in Jesus, our High Priest, in the confessions of our sins after Baptism to the Father and His ability to wash us, the Baptized white a snow .
The Secondary Washings
In hopes that I have explained the importance of the primary baptismal washing which leads (Baptizes) us permanently, by the power of God the Holy Spirit, into the Veil of the Holy of Holies, which is the very human flesh of Jesus the Messiah of Israel, who is now seated in the Holy of Holies, at the Throne of the Father, and we seated within Him, the author and finisher of our faith, the ones purified by the blood of Jesus’ sacrifice and death in place of all our sins. and to the Authority of the Christian Faith found only in Jesus.
A Fellowship of Four
Now the secondary washings are for maintaining our confession of faith. In our daily confessions to the Father for our daily, maintaining a fellowship with the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit is now developing; found in the knowledge of Christ Jesus’s sacrifice for our sins. Knowledge of human resurrection power the Holy Spirit will show us how to put off the old fallen foundation on our flesh and its sins against the Law of God by his sacrificial blood’s cleansing; promoting a deeper personal purification for our continued sinning until Christ be formed in us .
Our forming into Christ’s likeness is a process of learning how to put of the now old flesh and its sins against God’s Law and become in your spiritual development in his human risen flesh. The start of your new individuation of the heavenly man, the heavenly you in appropriating his human holiness as our own now by the power of his faith.
For we walk not here on Earth fully now, not like before, for we now have a new base of existence, a new citizenship, where we are now found in the Holy Temple in heaven itself seated with Christ.
Our Confession
Now purified and adopted as sons into the lineage of the house of David, which we received through our being found in the first born of Mary , Jesus, who is now in His human flesh, seated in heaven ; so we begin to put on this new heavenly incorruptible human existence, but we must remain pure of heart to maintain the proper growth of the children of God.
Washings in the secondary sense will keep us new, fresh, cleansed and purified from our continued sins; so that we do not continue in our spiritual ignorance we must be free of it; we must confess to the Father all to restore our fellowship which we have lost through sin against the Father and his Son and the grieving of the Holy Spirit . moving on in your Christian individuation in the flesh of Jesus our High Priest.
Subsequently we are to remain in remembrance of the base of our now Christian human existence; therefore, in our baptismal cleansing which justifies us for eternity, by the one cleansing of Jesus’ dying on the cross for our sins. This opens up the rightful passage to the one whose attributes we are free to put on, just as long as we stay pure through confession of sins and learn to manifest these holy human attributes from the flesh of Jesus in your life.
The Pure in Heart
Therefore, only the pure in heart will see God , for our one God has many ways to reveal ‘Themselves’ within the baptized Christian. One God in Three Persons will begin to reveal ‘Themselves’ to you, as you mature from the milk of the Word to the meat of the Word the way of becoming holy in Christian praxis.
The Milk and Meat
The meat of the Word I believe is in reference to the human resurrected flesh of Jesus, which we take and eat in remembrance of where we are in his flesh, in the Lords Supper - the Eucharist. Wash yourselves and be found in Him. Eating the flesh of Jesus is reference to just where, we the baptized should reside and abide – in Jesus.
“… If we confess our sins,
He (Jesus) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness …”
We must establish within ourselves that the now corruptible Adamic flesh which we walk in and human fallen spirit that we tread around with, given to us by our parent father - will be put to death.
Our body, soul and spirit, when immersed in faith into the human body of the risen sinless Jesus Christ – received by the working of the Holy Spirit enlightening us – furthermore thereafter our body and soul and spirit are fully purified eternally, so we have the holy right to stand as sons and daughters, without earthly gender and tribe, before the Father of Lights, received in our primary washing, Christian Baptism, and because of the shed blood of Jesus, we have been set free from all sinful bo***ge.
This primary washing that Jesus gives us in saying -Yes - to baptism allows us to have the power to become the sons of God;
“… But as many as receive him (Jesus),
To them gave he (Jesus) power to become the sons of God,
Even to them that believe on his name …”
John 1:12
In this power given to become sons of God, is the supremacy we need, as we confess our secondary sins of gluttony to the Father, claiming the Son of God’s blood for all secondary cleansing and moving us forward to the meat of Victory to reduce our fat and come closer to a better resurrection for yourself and a better life here is found in Jesus now, even while we wait for the second coming of our Lord.
Our New Flesh
And so now, our old flesh and its foundation is still corruptible, and awaits its death in hope of our new seed now planted in the new flesh of Jesus, we were now corruptible, is purified now in Christ in hope of our incorruptible resurrected holy flesh which will be given fully to us in the resurrection of the saints; transformed into incorruptible holy flesh, as King David hoped for ; and so now, from that point forward, being covered by the blood of Jesus and participating in the holy incorruptible holy life giving human flesh of the Savior Jesus Messiah is now changing our lives forever.
For we have tasted , in our baptism, the Christ, which is the good Word of God (the Logos), and we are now beginning to experience the powers of that unseen world to come because we are now children of God found only in the flesh of Jesus.
Also in that confession of faith, we are told by the Scriptures that our flesh, although fallen, has its full purification in Jesus, within this hope of our future physical resurrection and our flesh and spirit now are developing, individuating, maturing into a new human seed to inhabit that incorruptible human body that cannot sin in which we now live, because we are the sons of God now modeling after the human God Jesus.
Now, moreover and thereafter, our flesh can be in-powered by becoming purified in the Lord's Supper and cleansed by the Word and enabled to move us further into holiness and the power to will holy human. Being cleansed, we can now - draw power to our flesh and fallen will to his pure flesh and will. It is important to construct this spiritual understanding in your mind because it will be needed for faith to hold on to when the battle for purity begins in your thought life.
Our Victory is Found
We also have victory over our type of being overweight; power which will fit into each child of God’s condition. Sickness and physical disorder and various medical conditions come in to play and God will be our judge. However, the hope and vision of that future body is what is going to guide us to it. And, as I have been saying that, grasping that holy body of his, that pure flesh of Jesus, which is ours now by faith, we then begin to experience the substance of that holy body we are told to abide in . What was the shape of his holy and life-giving body which is our model? No signs of being a glutton were found on him.
“… Seeing ye have purified your souls
In obeying the truth through the Spirit
Unto unfeigned love of the brethren,
Seeing that ye love one another
With a pure heart fervently …”
1 Peter 1:22
Purity of Our New Heart
Conclusion
Purity of our hearts will be needed in our contemplation of this holy power given in losing our excess fat or any other sin for that matter. So, by being vigilant, our goal here is, personal purity by way of our confessions; so throwing off our sins and its darkness, forthwith standing with our High Priest Jesus - as this purity will be needed to grasp the substance and attributes of his sinless flesh as ours.
We will need faith in our High Priest, Jesus to stand before our Father, interceding for our sins we’ve committed hereafter our primary baptism; with His blood that he shed on the Roman Cross for the redeemed, so freeing us to live now, in a new purity and holy power to stand holy before our Father, now looking more like his sinless Son.
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