6424	Forums / Main Forum / Re: Hidden in Him..new identity and First Love..	on: April 29, 2008, 11:35:22 AM
The message is what determines the doing. The focus is what determines the message. God is absolutely sovereign over every thing in the universe. So that He revealed Himself as God and man. Fully God and fully man. He was the only real man. So that all of our view of life is determined by Him. We cannot trust in our own way. So that we not only know Him as an example, but we know Him as our all in all. He determines the beginning of our lives and the end of our lives. Our reality begins the moment we know Him. There is no other reality of beginning. We not only began in Him when we were saved, but we began in Him before the foundation of the world in the sense that He determined to know us, even when we were His enemies. So that our lives in the past are complete in Him, when we look back at were we come from. Thats why the apostle could say that he was guilty of no mans blood. We are not a product of our parents for having the purpose in our lives. The only thing we received in our past from our parents was the sin nature. So that we look at our identity in His eternal reason for our existence. When we look back at the reason we were born we look back before the first man was born. So that we are no longer in Adam as our identity. We are in the second Adam. Even tho we suffered from our being in bondage to sin, we no longer look back as having a reason for sinning. We are not identified in that life. Our identity was revealed to us when we were saved as from eternity. Any other view is man rebelling against the sufficiency of Christ. When men put themselves in that position , they make themselves a god. Their view of themselves as being a product of this earthly authority is what defines their view of Christ. Our view of ourselves being in Christ is not only what transpires in our growth in faith, but our view of what we were in salvation from eternity.