Participating in His divine life

Here’s a real good ending to a sermon, in this case one from 2015 entitled, “Accessing the Godhead." I found it while looking and looking for a different sermon message that I want to find and post, something I will now go back to because it's making me a little crazy. I always think I'm going to remember . . . 

In the godhead, every member of the godhead—the "life of the godhead" is that everybody lives for the benefit of the other.

Everybody lives with a confident expectation of what the wisdom plan is, and they all live in faith in the Word, in the plan and in the work of the Son; they all work together, says Richard Jordan.

That’s why Paul starts Ephesians 3:12, “In whom,” meaning in this eternal purpose that the Father has in His Son, secured by the Spirit: [12] In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

You see, it’s IN whom and it’s the faith of HIM. For you and me it all focuses on the Word, the Son, the one who is the bridge for you and me. The one by whom we have ACCESS through the Spirit unto the Father.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the mediator. He’s the one who brings all of that life to you and me. Romans 8:38 is a strangely wonderful verse. Paul says: [38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come.

He goes on: [39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Where’s the love of God? It’s in a person! It’s in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and when you got saved, where did God put you? He put you in Christ and you participate in His divine life; His relationships and all of the relationships that Jesus Christ has with the Father and the Spirit, we share.

Colossians 1:27: [27] To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Galatians 2: [20] I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

“Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” You see that? He’s our life. He’s the one who gives us the boldness, the access, the confidence. Don’t spend your life trying to become something God’s already made you.

Spend your life living in the reality of who He’s made you and walk by faith in the details of your life—in EVERY detail of your life—because in every detail and in every decision you make, and every choice you face, and every obstacle you have to overcome, and every blessing you can enjoy, in all of those He is our life and we carry Him into life as we walk by faith in the reality of His grace.

That’s what the Christian life is about. It’s not tithing, it’s not religious ordinances etc., etc. We’re not doing things to get something from God. That’s why people do those things. We’re simply being who we are and we get to be that because of our faith in Him.