Man was created into a sustaining relationship with his Creator God. He was created to be God's humble obedient gardener/landscaper of God's incredible created Earth, continually enjoying the bounty of a loving, Gracious God. But man in the only truly free will choice any human has ever made, fell before the LIE of his own exaltation to be as God.
The whole will and purpose of God to restore a people to that relationship, is couched and very intimate terms in the book of Ephesians where we read that it's all about the Father adopting children to Himself through his beloved Son. Beyond mere gardeners and “subdoers”, the Father chose a family for himself, out of the devastation of fallenness. And Ephesians states that his will and purpose was actually accomplished in his mind and will before the foundation of the Earth. In Hebrews chapter 2, verses 12 -15 we see that the Father gives His Chosen adopted children to His Son, and that He gave His Son a specially prepared Body of flesh and blood like theirs (Heb. 10:5-20). The how of this is described from creation through fall to Jesus in Hebrews 2, verses 5-11.
You see, we don't just get saved, from hell or anything else. We rather are saved unto the Eternal Sustaining Relationship of being made the intimate adopted children of the Holy Father, our Creator God. Sustaining relationship with our Father becomes the controlling operational Bond in which we live and move and have our being, for now and eternity. It is in this operational Bond that we grow in Grace and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ which is growing up into him in all things, that we may truly be made in the Image of the Triune God. It is in this operational bond that we wrestle with our sin. It is the operant member of the triune godhead, God's spirit, who ferrets out our sins and delusions and drives us to bathe in the blood of Jesus and to trust solely in his perfect divinely prepared nail scarred body, all our days on this fallen Earth. It is in that faith that trusts alone in the perfect man made like us, that just happens to be our Creator and Sustainer through Whom we can rest in the fact that there is nothing between our soul and our Savior, and therefore our Father. And this is the continual ministration of the precious Spirit to our souls as our Comforter and Preserver.
The whole will and purpose of God to restore a people to that relationship, is couched and very intimate terms in the book of Ephesians where we read that it's all about the Father adopting children to Himself through his beloved Son. Beyond mere gardeners and “subdoers”, the Father chose a family for himself, out of the devastation of fallenness. And Ephesians states that his will and purpose was actually accomplished in his mind and will before the foundation of the Earth. In Hebrews chapter 2, verses 12 -15 we see that the Father gives His Chosen adopted children to His Son, and that He gave His Son a specially prepared Body of flesh and blood like theirs (Heb. 10:5-20). The how of this is described from creation through fall to Jesus in Hebrews 2, verses 5-11.
You see, we don't just get saved, from hell or anything else. We rather are saved unto the Eternal Sustaining Relationship of being made the intimate adopted children of the Holy Father, our Creator God. Sustaining relationship with our Father becomes the controlling operational Bond in which we live and move and have our being, for now and eternity. It is in this operational Bond that we grow in Grace and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ which is growing up into him in all things, that we may truly be made in the Image of the Triune God. It is in this operational bond that we wrestle with our sin. It is the operant member of the triune godhead, God's spirit, who ferrets out our sins and delusions and drives us to bathe in the blood of Jesus and to trust solely in his perfect divinely prepared nail scarred body, all our days on this fallen Earth. It is in that faith that trusts alone in the perfect man made like us, that just happens to be our Creator and Sustainer through Whom we can rest in the fact that there is nothing between our soul and our Savior, and therefore our Father. And this is the continual ministration of the precious Spirit to our souls as our Comforter and Preserver.
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