Roger:
Everything Jesus begins, He finishes. Remember Paul said, "I'm confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it unto the day of Christ." God brings us to completion in the sense that Christ is formed in us to maturity. Jesus Christ, the living word. The completion of Him begins to open up the heart in revelation of the Father to us.
The scriptures are very explicit. No one knows the Father except for the Son and to whoever He chooses or wills to reveal Him. The Lord Jesus Christ and His completion in us, gives way to a revelation of the Father . Christ must be completed in us. Christ in you, the hope of glory. We're on a path to the Father being fully revealed to us.
To be complete in Jesus Christ, for Him to be complete in us , is the opening of the Father's heart and who He is. Everything that's been in the Father's heart from the beginning was to be to us what He's becoming now.
Mike:
Out of John 10, My sheep hearken unto My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give unto them life, age abiding. And in no wise shall they perish unto time's age abiding, and no one shall carry them off out of my hand. What my Father has given Me is something greater than all, and no one can carry off out of the hand of My Father. I and the Father are one.
David:
Is the Father beginning to know us? His sons, not just His own Son. It says He gave His only begotten Son so that the world could be saved. Well, He was the only begotten, because He was the only one at that time. Now there's many sons coming to glory. It's expanding.
Roger:
It's Christ in us, revealing the Father to the world. It just doesn't get any more simple than that. It's Jesus Christ in us, revealing the Father to the world. He sent His Son to do what He did on the cross to enable us as a people to grow in Him to the point where the Father could begin to be revealed to our own hearts first - and then to the world.
But the end result is the Father's love, His heart being revealed. That's how simple it is. To know the love of Christ, that we may be filled up with all the fullness of God. It's something that God is bringing us into . Of Him abiding in us, and us knowing experimentally His love in us, His life in us.
Ron:
How's this unfolding? And it's unfolding in the heart. It's just His love. Nothing else matters. When you bask in His love, everything else doesn't matter. It all melts away. All the questions or all the, if you went and called doctrines or that kind of stuff, it just melts away because of the joy that's in your heart, the joy of just being in His presence, just the feel of His love and His acceptance of you.
Nothing matters. His love is that rock that's been cut out of the mountain without hands. That's his love. It's crushing all the nations, but not in the way that we thought, Oh, He's going to crush the nations. He's going to crush the governments. Yeah, He is, but not the way you thought.
It's crushing the walls, it's crushing the resistance. It's crushing, everything that they're in. It's breaking down those walls so that they can open up and be what He's supposed to be. But he's doing it through a people. He's not doing it from the heavens. He's doing it through us. We're creating His kingdom on this earth by the love of God, by His love.
Mike:
Jesus said, no man comes to the Father, but by Me. But then in John 6:44, , it says, "no one can come unto Me except the Father who sent Me, draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all the instructed of God. Everyone who has heard of the Father and learned comes unto Me.
Roger:
" The love of the Father is going to fill our hearts to the point where we just can't stand it. Every Christian talks about the love because we innately recognize how important that is. But the love is going to grow so much greater. It will continue to expand in us. That is the expression God wants to give the world.
Mike:
Now the Father's love is coming through. It's now starting to manifest itself out toward others. And the fruit of the relationship is the joy and the happiness within me. It's there because of the relationship I'm having with my Lord and my Father and the Holy Spirit. It's a byproduct and thank you, Lord, for that.
Roger:
How simple can it get? When we reach out to minister in any way we happen to be doing it, and if the source of it is love, we are already touching the Father's heart. We talk about the love of Christ, but Jesus said, if you've seen Me, you've seen the Father. If you're moving in Jesus Christ and you're expressing Him, there's those aspects of the Father that are coming through to people already because they're expressed through Christ.
It's the expression of the Lord Jesus in us. And when we move in His love, we're moving in the Father's love. We don't have to attain to anything here. All we have to do is let the Lord be who He is in us. And as it grows, it keeps turning into a greater understanding in our heart that it's the Father ministering.
Faucet:
It's just not anything that you have to strive for. You don't have to do anything. In a practical way, when He is your source and He is your everything, you don't need anything from anyone else. You don't need their acceptance, their approval, their respect, their love. And I think this really just liberates us to love others because you don't, you're not trying to get something out of them or out of the world. He's your everything. And so I think that really frees us to express His love.
