Jul 14, 2010
Abiding in Him Pt 1
by Pastor Kevin Vaughn
God desires for His people to walk in all that He has provided bear much fruit.
From the beginning His desire has been for man to be fruitful.
But what fruit does He want us to bear, and how do we bear this fruit?
The message of abiding in Him is the answer to bearing fruit and it has been a very misunderstood subject, that only the Holy Spirit through the Word of God can give it clarity.
Many people have said that we are in Him as soon as we are born again.
But actually the new birth has only given us access to be in Him. What we have received that makes us born again is everything that is found in Him.
God has given us a new and living way that’s a result of the new birth which gives us access to the fullness of the Godhead that is found in Him.
When we are born again we receive a new nature that is of the course of heaven that we are to live our life by.
The working of that nature is called the new and living way that brings us from death to life so we can bear fruit from that new life.
Abiding in Him introduces to know the new and living way.
The importance of Abiding in Him
The subject of abiding in Him is an end time message that prepares the body of Christ for the hour we are living in.
Ephesians 1:7-10
7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
9Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
The phrase “the dispensation of the fullness of times” means- in the completion of all the ages.
This is the age that we are living in now, and we have come to know this as the last days.
According to verse 10 in these last days, God is gathering both heaven and earth in the operation of what’s in Christ.
So our focus can be single on this one vital need. God made sure that everything that we could ever possibly need would be found in Christ.
Ephesians 1:7-10 (The Message)
7Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we're a free people--free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! 8He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, 9letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, 10a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.
We can see that abiding in Him goes beyond just being born again.
It brings us onto all things being summed up or completed.
In other words, it will be the instrument that God will complete all the ages of time through.
We will continue this teaching next week.
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