Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost: Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:5-7
Look at what we are shown here in Titus: our Father has shed His Spirit on us abundantly, praise God, abundantly! We didn’t get just some little smidgen of our Father’s Spirit. No, He has shed Himself on us abundantly!
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. A-men." Ephesians 3:16-21
Everywhere we turn in the Word of our Father, Old Testament or New Testament, He writes to us that He has given us all of His completeness and fullness through Christ. And He doesn’t say that He has just given us them, but that we are actually one with them, just as Jesus is One with them! We never read that we are limited and we never read that our Father asked us to go it alone. When God talks about us, He uses Words like abundance, completeness, perfection, glory, preservation, pure, justification, and perfection! According to our Father we are all of these things, because Jesus came and He came so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. The Truth for us is that we now have life as Jesus has life and as He has life abundantly!
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